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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 · 10h

How dare you!

Christine @klaxoncomms.com · 11h

I thought fet (as in a party?).

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13h

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 · 13h

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 · 18h

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 · 1d

I love this. Good work, Portland!

Christine @klaxoncomms.com · 1d

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 · 1d

Our plane to Spain is in the air!

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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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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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 · 1d

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

Christine @klaxoncomms.com · 1d

The move of a Legend. Well done.

Christine @klaxoncomms.com · 1d

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 · 1d

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

Christine @klaxoncomms.com · 1d

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?)