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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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Bo Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 3h

you know what rules? film cameras

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 3h

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 · 1h

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 · 1h

he's distracted by his delightful devilishness

Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 2h

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 · 2h

...Karantee

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 2h

not even god knows what their deal is

Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 2h

why else would we even *want* fusion drives

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 2h

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 · 4h

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

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

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 · 4h

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 · 4h

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 · 4h

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 · 5h

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 · 5h

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 · 5h

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

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 11h

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 · 11h

"The chancellor approved it"

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 18h

D:

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

Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 19h

"you can't eat awards" is true but fortunately I have a day job for my eating needs. awards are valuable in that they tell you that someone, *anyone*, out there gives a fuck

Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 19h

technically I'm not even *in* publishing yet because all but 2.5 of everything I've written has been firmly on spec, and I'm already coming to terms with I won't be able to do as much as I might want to or make it in at all

that being said, I will die before giving up the keyboard

Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · 1d

You should be concerned about the rate of authors leaving publishing. Especially from marginalized communities. This year I have seen so many authors just pack it up and go. And it's only getting worse.