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Robin LeBlanc, from work

@robinfromwork.bsky.social

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Perpetually tired award winning writer. Queer. Disabled. Always asks for the aux. Horror, humour, craft beer, fragrance and photography. America's sweetheart 1984-1992. She/Her

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Robin LeBlanc, from work @robinfromwork.bsky.social · Nov 23

Oh, uh, hello new followers!

I don't quite have anything to plug right now, but I'm a writer and film photographer and I mostly talk about music, craft beer, culture, queer stuff, disability stuff, and other such things, sometimes with a PR person lens.

Also I have a cat named Leopold. He's cool.

A long haired woman in glasses wearing a sunhat, patterned dress, and green shirt.

An outdoor bus station with circular lights going down it

Neon lights of Club Zanzibar. The photo looks bright and blurry on the top and bottom of the photo

A grey fluffy cat laying down on a turntable

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Robin LeBlanc, from work @robinfromwork.bsky.social · 10m

Kimchi Day 3 of fermenting and WE'RE GETTING BUBBLES!

Tasted a bit and the salt is there as well as the funk and it's coming in very nicely. Going to leave it in one more day and then send it to the fridge for every day eating.

Robin LeBlanc, from work @robinfromwork.bsky.social · 38m

Wait, JD Vance is only 4 months older than me???

The eyeliner makes a little more sense now, but the constantly having bees stinging his face to look like that is still a mystery.

Robin LeBlanc, from work @robinfromwork.bsky.social · 40m

Sorta felt like it didn't matter considering, you know, the atrocities!

Robin LeBlanc, from work @robinfromwork.bsky.social · 42m

Gonna level with you, Jules, I never really thought about Hitler's sex life because I sort of felt there were other things to learn from!

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Robin LeBlanc, from work @robinfromwork.bsky.social · 45m

Last i checked, there were one or two things about Hitler that could be focused on more.

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Robin LeBlanc, from work @robinfromwork.bsky.social · 2h

I remain completely convinced that there's something up with their brains that creates a disconnect between real life and just saying horrible things and they completely believe that what they're talking about is so trivial and theoretical that they're surprised they get yelled at.

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 5h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

defector.com

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Robin LeBlanc, from work @robinfromwork.bsky.social · 7h

I don't really know what that was, but uh, sure thing

Robin LeBlanc, from work @robinfromwork.bsky.social · 18h

Gonna get ahead of questions here and say yes, I did figure out a plausible way a ghost could kill a person and no, I was not okay when I wrote this.

Robin LeBlanc, from work @robinfromwork.bsky.social · 18h

We don't need ChatGPT doing erotica when we have a perfectly good Ao3 already.

Now seems like a good time to remind you that I have the start of a CSI/Real Ghostbusters fic with some interesting chemistry going on between Egon and Grissom that AI just wouldn't be able to capture.

Be Not Afraid: A Real Ghostbusters/CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Mystery - Chapter 1 - Cozymishap - The Real Ghostbusters [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

archiveofourown.org

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Robin LeBlanc, from work @robinfromwork.bsky.social · 19h

Oh, that's right

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 19h

WHEN THERE’S TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Oh wow. Yes, very clever! Waterfall treasure! No one’s ever done that before. Lazy jackass

WHEN THERE’S NO TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Wow. Too stuck-up to put treasure there huh? Too much of a fucking ICONOCLAST for that? Piece of shit. FUCK you

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Robin LeBlanc, from work @robinfromwork.bsky.social · 19h

*throws file on desk* Hey Scully, you ever hear about the Chicago Rat Hole?

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 19h

A team of researchers analyzed the anatomical dimensions of an infamous imprint on a Chicago sidewalk, sifting through photos and measuring mammal specimens in museum collections to put what they were seeing in context.

Their conclusion? The Chicago Rat Hole was not made by a rat.

The Chicago Rat Hole Was Not Made by a Rat

A statistical analysis of an infamous indentation in a sidewalk suggested a 99 percent likelihood that another rodent made the mark.

nyti.ms

Robin LeBlanc, from work @robinfromwork.bsky.social · 19h

Even then, I wasn't a morning person

Robin LeBlanc, from work @robinfromwork.bsky.social · 19h

In slightly better news, I bought my cat some Hawaiian shirts on Amazon, so stay tuned

Robin LeBlanc, from work @robinfromwork.bsky.social · 20h

I'm in a lot of physical pain right now. I'm supposed to host a potluck at my place and if I'm anything close to what I am now, I might have to do the shitty thing and cancel it

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Robin LeBlanc, from work @robinfromwork.bsky.social · 19h

My first word was apparently "hello" because everyone kept saying that to me, but there's a story of me as a baby being woken up by birds outside and my parents heard me over the baby monitor saying "Fucking birds..."

Mattslew Batberg-Mothfit (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · 20h

According to my baby book, my first full sentence was “I want chicky pie.”

Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 21h

I now know someone whose first words were "I want cheese"

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Robin LeBlanc, from work @robinfromwork.bsky.social · 20h

I'm in a lot of physical pain right now. I'm supposed to host a potluck at my place and if I'm anything close to what I am now, I might have to do the shitty thing and cancel it

Robin LeBlanc, from work @robinfromwork.bsky.social · 1d

wow I can't believe having himself filmed following ICE around didn't work out in his favour

Robin LeBlanc, from work @robinfromwork.bsky.social · 1d

I prefer the girlfriend who is all three

Robin LeBlanc, from work @robinfromwork.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, I think another two days and I'll try it

Robin LeBlanc, from work @robinfromwork.bsky.social · 1d

Kimchi out at 2 days and so far no active bubbling, but there are bubbles and the gas has sort of tilted the lid a bit, so I guess that's something. I tried a little bit and got a slightly licorice flavour and a nice burn to it.

Will leave for another day or three and see where we're at

Robin LeBlanc, from work @robinfromwork.bsky.social · 1d

We clearly want the same thing here, but I think telling a group, any group, not just men, to just suck it up and know they aren't special for having fee fees because we're all sad, doesn't make things better.

And yeah, it's flippant, but the discourse seems to be all flippant not just your comment

Robin LeBlanc, from work @robinfromwork.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, equity for all, but you seem to be talking about equality, which doesn't acknowledge the differences of groups. Like yeah, we're all fucking lonely! But as a woman I feel that both women and men are victims of patriarchy in ways both similar and different, and dismissing that is bad.

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Robin LeBlanc, from work @robinfromwork.bsky.social · 1d

I disagree with the prioritizing over male loneliness, and this current discourse feels a little too much like the dichotomous "There's a discussion on this one thing, so fuck that thing" way of thinking that's very of the Internet. If we can acknowledge societal nuances in other groups why not men?

Robin LeBlanc, from work @robinfromwork.bsky.social · 1d

And in addition, when you've been sad, on average, how helpful was it when someone told you that you weren't special and everyone has it bad? Did it make your sadness go away?

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Robin LeBlanc, from work @robinfromwork.bsky.social · 1d

No, not capitalism, patriarchy.

Patriarchy tells men they can't be vulnerable or express themselves when they need connection. It also doesn't give them the resources to help themselves in that, insisting that only women should be emotionally fluent.

Patriarchy is killing all of us.

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