Joanne Rixon
@joannerixon.bsky.social
They/them. Speculative fiction writer, organizer of the North Seattle Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Meetup, bicyclist
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wayfarerwriting.wordpress.com
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My feet were cold (and crafting garments is keeping me above water this winter) so I decided to learn how to knit wool socks. This is the best instructional on the internet for top-down socks, I made a pair in just a couple of days and I think I'll make another one next week
youtu.be/IjJUEUYzWLg?...
youtu.be/IjJUEUYzWLg?...
Learn to Knit Sock for Beginners || Easy Vanilla Sock Knitting Tutorial Step-by-Step
YouTube video by The Blue Mouse Knits
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December 6, 2025 at 5:14 AM
My feet were cold (and crafting garments is keeping me above water this winter) so I decided to learn how to knit wool socks. This is the best instructional on the internet for top-down socks, I made a pair in just a couple of days and I think I'll make another one next week
youtu.be/IjJUEUYzWLg?...
youtu.be/IjJUEUYzWLg?...
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The only legal scholars I want to hear from in the years to come are the ones seriously thinking about how to fully disempower the Supreme Court. What would that take? THINK OUTSIDE OF THE BOX. Offer practical suggestions that could become political campaigns led by the public.
December 5, 2025 at 8:10 PM
The only legal scholars I want to hear from in the years to come are the ones seriously thinking about how to fully disempower the Supreme Court. What would that take? THINK OUTSIDE OF THE BOX. Offer practical suggestions that could become political campaigns led by the public.
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tapping the sign
December 4, 2025 at 4:35 PM
tapping the sign
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Every so often I'm struck anew by just how much of a racist, sexist, Islamophobic piece of shit Donald Trump is. What a rotten-souled person.
Congresswoman Omar calls Trump's comments about her 'creepy' after the US president launches into an anti-Somali tirade.
Ilhan Omar denounces Donald Trump for calling Somali immigrants ‘garbage’
Congresswoman Omar calls Trump's comments about her 'creepy' after the US president launches into an anti-Somali tirade.
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December 3, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Every so often I'm struck anew by just how much of a racist, sexist, Islamophobic piece of shit Donald Trump is. What a rotten-souled person.
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She shouldn't have to keep doing this by herself. She is supposedly a member of a political party and every single one of her *colleagues* should be BLASTING the fascist in chief. ALL OF THEM. Where is the solidarity???
Congresswoman Omar calls Trump's comments about her 'creepy' after the US president launches into an anti-Somali tirade.
Ilhan Omar denounces Donald Trump for calling Somali immigrants ‘garbage’
Congresswoman Omar calls Trump's comments about her 'creepy' after the US president launches into an anti-Somali tirade.
bit.ly
December 3, 2025 at 12:34 AM
She shouldn't have to keep doing this by herself. She is supposedly a member of a political party and every single one of her *colleagues* should be BLASTING the fascist in chief. ALL OF THEM. Where is the solidarity???
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Very similar to the trans-kids panic, where the prestige media narrative is that it's far too easy but you talk to any trans person, expert or parent and it's obvious that it's way too hard.
Once again, no one making these claims seems to understand the enormous hurdles in the way of getting a kid the help they need - in this case - I dare anyone suggesting this to go through an IEP process.
December 2, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Very similar to the trans-kids panic, where the prestige media narrative is that it's far too easy but you talk to any trans person, expert or parent and it's obvious that it's way too hard.
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Yet another reminder, we are the majority
Parental restrictions on library access continues to remain incredibly unpopular for a fourth year in a row.
The vast majority of public school parents are not looking to limit their children’s access in the library.
www.fftrp.org/library_acce...
The vast majority of public school parents are not looking to limit their children’s access in the library.
www.fftrp.org/library_acce...
November 26, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Yet another reminder, we are the majority
I'd get together all the people who made The Green Knight (2021) and just have them make whatever movie they wanted to make next, you know?
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 26, 2025 at 3:13 AM
I'd get together all the people who made The Green Knight (2021) and just have them make whatever movie they wanted to make next, you know?
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I want people to displace the imaginary depictions of *revolutions* that they have come to create in their heads with the actual small revolutionary acts that happen daily. We might get closer to revolution that way.
November 20, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I want people to displace the imaginary depictions of *revolutions* that they have come to create in their heads with the actual small revolutionary acts that happen daily. We might get closer to revolution that way.
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thanklessness absolutely grinds people down. If you're part of organizing efforts, do not forget to incorporate appreciation into the work. It really does matter.
doing community organizing can be such a brutal task sometimes. you volunteer your time freely and people still demand more and more without ever giving thanks for what you've done. it doesn't matter that you get nothing out of it, for some people your best is never enough
November 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
thanklessness absolutely grinds people down. If you're part of organizing efforts, do not forget to incorporate appreciation into the work. It really does matter.
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I am going to say this only once but fuck these white racists. Fuck them to hell.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said that Muslims are a “threat to our freedom” on Tuesday as he targeted the largest Muslim civil rights organization in the U.S. with a foreign terrorist organization label in an escalation of a movement of anti-Muslim hate in the state.
Abbott Says Muslims Are “Threat to Our Freedom” as He Targets Civil Rights Group With Terrorist Designation
Governors do not have the authority to designate groups as a foreign terrorist organization.
truthout.org
November 18, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I am going to say this only once but fuck these white racists. Fuck them to hell.
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if you canceled disney ai slop plus, a small fraction of that sub can keep you in the know about some of the latest greatest sff short fic. you'll be talking about short stories at the water cooler instead of a marvel, and people will be like wow, this is one hip well-read person. what a cool cat.
In light of the astronomical increases for my health insurance next year, I thought it would be a good time to encourage people to subscribe. (A few hundred should cover it. Sigh.)
clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
November 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
if you canceled disney ai slop plus, a small fraction of that sub can keep you in the know about some of the latest greatest sff short fic. you'll be talking about short stories at the water cooler instead of a marvel, and people will be like wow, this is one hip well-read person. what a cool cat.
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I looked at the twenty-nine mentions of LOLITA in the Epstein emails released this week, and what they say about America today.
Lolita and Epstein's emails
A good reminder that there are monsters among us.
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November 15, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I looked at the twenty-nine mentions of LOLITA in the Epstein emails released this week, and what they say about America today.
We should abolish the inheritance of money and land. When you die, your assets return to the people. Your kids can have the quilt you made by hand and your favorite painting, but the people get the rest.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
We should abolish the inheritance of money and land. When you die, your assets return to the people. Your kids can have the quilt you made by hand and your favorite painting, but the people get the rest.
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I attended a meeting yesterday and it reminded me that every single organizer needs to get training on how to facilitate meetings. Truly. You lose more people through terrible meeting facilitation than I can express.
November 13, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I attended a meeting yesterday and it reminded me that every single organizer needs to get training on how to facilitate meetings. Truly. You lose more people through terrible meeting facilitation than I can express.
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Join Auburn Indivisible and La Resistencia THIS Saturday November 15th for a solidarity day, show support for those who are detained inside the infamous Northwest Detention Center!
November 12, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Join Auburn Indivisible and La Resistencia THIS Saturday November 15th for a solidarity day, show support for those who are detained inside the infamous Northwest Detention Center!
I've told everyone I know in my local up-and-coming-writer scene not to submit to these magazines anymore. Hopefully it saves a few of us from getting screwed by these private equity assholes
November 13, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I've told everyone I know in my local up-and-coming-writer scene not to submit to these magazines anymore. Hopefully it saves a few of us from getting screwed by these private equity assholes
I'm sorry, do I spot "schumer, ranieri" as in our beloved Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer there in a list of Dudes Epstein Remembers Hanging Out With RIGHT NEXT TO SEX CULT LEADER KEITH RANIERE?
November 13, 2025 at 12:10 AM
I'm sorry, do I spot "schumer, ranieri" as in our beloved Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer there in a list of Dudes Epstein Remembers Hanging Out With RIGHT NEXT TO SEX CULT LEADER KEITH RANIERE?
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The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.
lots of candidates for an answer to this question, but here's one that's more obscure: ARMOR, by John Steakley
it both inspired me to join the military at 17, and helped me cope with the betrayal I felt actually being in the military
it both inspired me to join the military at 17, and helped me cope with the betrayal I felt actually being in the military
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 7:33 PM
lots of candidates for an answer to this question, but here's one that's more obscure: ARMOR, by John Steakley
it both inspired me to join the military at 17, and helped me cope with the betrayal I felt actually being in the military
it both inspired me to join the military at 17, and helped me cope with the betrayal I felt actually being in the military
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Appreciate your boosting/sharing of this episode in particular. Action items at the end include a petition for Leqaa
This week’s episode is an interview with two lawyers who represent Leqaa Kordia, a young Palestinian woman who is in ICE detention for protesting genocide.
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open.spotify.com/episode/7gid...?
“What’s at Stake is Everything”: The Last Columbia Protester in ICE Detention
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November 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Kelly Barnhill's THE CRANE HUSBAND has such a gorgeous cover, I can't get over it
(the book is also very, very good)
(the book is also very, very good)
November 7, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Kelly Barnhill's THE CRANE HUSBAND has such a gorgeous cover, I can't get over it
(the book is also very, very good)
(the book is also very, very good)
Recently finished @strawburriez.bsky.social 's WE WERE ONCE A FAMILY, and I'm still thinking about a few weeks later. I feel like we're in a cultural moment where we're struggling to know how to protect kids. Not just how but whether, how much, which kids, against whom...
November 6, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Recently finished @strawburriez.bsky.social 's WE WERE ONCE A FAMILY, and I'm still thinking about a few weeks later. I feel like we're in a cultural moment where we're struggling to know how to protect kids. Not just how but whether, how much, which kids, against whom...