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Christine

@klaxoncomms.com

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Posts a lot of cat pictures. Former scholar of medieval Islamic history who now writes and podcasts about SciFi and Fantasy at Hugo History: https://klaxoncomms.com/hugo-history/ Queer/Ace/ADHD. #Vancouver 🇨🇦

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Christine @klaxoncomms.com · 20m

Awwwww!

Christine @klaxoncomms.com · 19h

It was great as jam, but it was so tasty that we also used it as an ice-cream topping.

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Christine @klaxoncomms.com · 19h

I made this years ago and it was so good: www.seriouseats.com/strawberry-b...

Preserved: Strawberry Balsamic Thyme Jam

The idea for this jam came about for three reasons. One, last Saturday was the first time this spring that strawberries appeared at my local farmers' market. Two, I recently invested in a really nice ...

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Christine @klaxoncomms.com · 19h

We do about 65. I boil when I go to other people's houses.

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Christine @klaxoncomms.com · 20h

Well, you've gotta tell us WHICH near future scifi!

Christine @klaxoncomms.com · 20h

Ha -- that's definitely going to make you more dizzy. But you can then tell your brain that all of your symptoms are lake related and you're not dying!

Christine @klaxoncomms.com · 20h

Whatcha gonna do with your chestnuts?

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jdavey_2 @jdavey.bsky.social · 20h

Only G7 country without high speed says what?

Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 20h

We're doing what? www.cbc.ca/news/science...

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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Christine @klaxoncomms.com · 20h

I'm so sorry, Thomas.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 1d

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

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Christine @klaxoncomms.com · 2d

How dare you!

Christine @klaxoncomms.com · 2d

I thought fet (as in a party?).

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

he also said that 80% of antifa's members are landlords and if you lower the cost of housing, you basically starve the network of its financing

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

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Christine @klaxoncomms.com · 2d

I was feeling a bit unsatisifed with the other fiction I was reading last night so I ended up starting it. Really enjoying the vibe so far -- I definitely see the Becky Chambers comparison.

Christine @klaxoncomms.com · 3d

I love this. Good work, Portland!

Christine @klaxoncomms.com · 3d

I’m not even done listening to the episode and I’ve already gone and bought Sunward. It sounds really lovely.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 3d

Our plane to Spain is in the air!

🙌🙌

Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 3d

it really has been amazing how much one person in a frog suit destroyed their fantasy visuals over the past week. this wouldn't work everywhere but Portland, you are doing amazing sweetie

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3d

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Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Christine @klaxoncomms.com · 3d

I didn’t even notice that it didn’t say swerve. :)

Christine @klaxoncomms.com · 3d

The move of a Legend. Well done.

Christine @klaxoncomms.com · 3d

Okay. I have made it through my teaching. Well, they're not done. They're doing an in class assignment. But I'm done for the week!

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Christine @klaxoncomms.com · 3d

Ha. Totally. (Not really. I just bike normal but somehow think 'maybe I'll avoid the rain!')

Christine @klaxoncomms.com · 3d

For some reason, when I bike to work in the rain, my brain wants me to think it's possible to somehow bike between the raindrops and not actually get wet. (This is not possible. Also, I do not think this is possible when walking. Wtf brain?)

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Christine @klaxoncomms.com · 3d

Are we a little nervous that they might give him one?