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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳

@phoebebarton.bsky.social

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Giant queer trans sf/game writer who is NOT AMERICAN, typewriter guardian, mind poisoner. Nebula winner, Aurora winner! Assistant Editor at Escape Pod, CW '19. Hamilton, Ontario. Header by @shargrave.bsky.social. She/her. www.phoebebartonsf.com

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · Nov 15

To all who're new to following and who've been here for a while, hi! I write about the future because I refuse to give up hope, and because giant queer ladies deserve to have their stories told. Check out details of my stories, typewriters, and games at phoebebartonsf.com - thanks for being around!

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 34m

🎸 YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHH 🎸

Canada eyes putting nuclear reactors on the moon | CBC News

In order to maintain a presence on the moon, there’s going to be a need for energy. How do you maintain a colony of people in a place that has roughly 14 days of sunlight followed by 14 days of darkne...

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 56m

lol. lmao

Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 1h

gotta pump those numbers up. those are rookie numbers

Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 5h

85% drop of American liquor sales to Canada.
We were their biggest market.
Now we're done.
Bye bye mon cowboy.

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American spirit exports to Canada 'plummeted' 85%, says U.S. trade group | CBC News

American spirit exports to Canada "plummeted" 85 per cent in the second quarter of 2025, with the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States calling the situation "very troubling" as consumers in ...

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 1h

in this idiom, are ultra-relativistic electron beams orcs

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Doc Vivi Leandra - Real-Life Scientist VTuber 🧬🖥️ @docvivileandra.bsky.social · 5h

saw someone say plasma weapons are "more realistic" than laser weapons and I want to scream, people who assess "realism" based entirely on vibes are a plague

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 5h

Did you know the first thanksgiving celebrated by Europeans in North America happened in Canada?
Or that the Indigenous celebrated autumn harvests long before Europeans arrived?
Why do we celebrate Thanksgiving a month earlier than the United States?
This is the story.

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A festive Thanksgiving dinner table featuring a roasted turkey as the centerpiece, surrounded by an array of dishes including green beans, stuffing, sliced ham, and a pumpkin pie. The table is decorated with pumpkins, sunflowers, candles, and autumnal flowers, with wine glasses and plates set for a meal.

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Kathryn Salamander @transsalamander.bsky.social · 2h

Adam: Was it good for you, baby?
Eve: It was not.

[later]

Adam: Anyway she came like a thousand times, I literally invented sex

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 1h

I mean at least there's still the "being thought about" part

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Bo Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 5h

you know what rules? film cameras

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 5h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 3h

My favorite part of the Steamed Hams bit is Skinner never thinks to turn off the oven

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 3h

he's distracted by his delightful devilishness

Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 4h

but yeah this is why, where I write, an acceleration of 0.1 g is utterly blazing and bleeding-edge

Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 4h

...Karantee

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 4h

not even god knows what their deal is

Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 4h

why else would we even *want* fusion drives

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 4h

Mary Shelley: sup fuckers
Poe: we just learned that howard had 3 girlfriends
Barker: and they were all so normal!
Barker: he never even fucked one on a parent's grave
Mary Shelley: what was that
Barker: i said
Shelley:
Barker: never mind
Shelley: yeah that's what i thought

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 6h

I should reread my copy of "The Anglo Guide to Survival in Québec" from 1983, clearly

Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 6h

oh, right, along with "L'ananas ne parlent pas"

honestly I remember as much from Téléfrancais as the entire rest of my French education

Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 6h

all this means that I speak much better Japanese than French, and my Japanese is still pretty bad

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 6h

Probably highly dependent on place and time; my education was in 1990s Barrie, which was whiter than mayonnaise (not exaggerating; in 2001 it was 94% white)

Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 6h

from five years of mandatory French, I retain exactly two (2) things:

1. "Est-ce que tu danse dans la toilette?"
2. The French teacher shouting "stupid, shut up" at a student

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 6h

one big hint that the Anglo Canadian French education system doesn't give a shit about actual functional understanding is that it teaches Metropolitan French rather than Québecois French

you know, the primary version of French that's *actually spoken* in Canada

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 7h

the idea that a lot of Japanese people can't speak English well despite years of mandatory English education makes total sense to me. I went through years of mandatory French education and my French is absolute shit because they didn't teach us to actually understand it

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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 7h

I like all of these but I think mine might be (and only 3 words): DROP & RUN

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 13h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 13h

"The chancellor approved it"

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 20h

D:

the government should be giving you money! for your contributions to culture!