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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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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 1h

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

Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 1h

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 · 1h

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 · 1h

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 · 1h

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 · 2h

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 · 2h

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 · 2h

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

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 8h

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 · 9h

"The chancellor approved it"

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 15h

D:

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

Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 16h

"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 · 16h

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.

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 16h

hwaet the fuck

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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · 1d

It’s Saturday, and that means it’s my distinct pleasure to bring you that food you know from anime and manga!

Happy Stroganoff Saturday!

Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · Mar 10

alright, now that the one minute limit is gone...

UNLEASH THE STROGANOFF

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 17h

realizing this was perilously close to ending at 0:29 with a flour explosion

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Jason Tremblay @jasontremblay.bsky.social · 20h

I took the wrong ausfahrt one time and ended up in Butt City 😢

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 21h

this bit about "total skeletal liquefaction" in my eight-year-old novel draft hits differently now that Moopsy exists

Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 21h

Sure, but I was talking about Buttstadt

Buttstädt - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 21h

we don't talk enough about how there's a place in Germany called Butt City

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 21h

Two images of Darth Maul holding his lightsaber in front of him. In the first, one blade is ignited, along with the caption "I'm Not Racist." In the second, the second blade is ignited, along with the caption "But."

Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 21h

...do people think purple = YA?

because the sheer amount of purple is absolutely triumphant

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 22h

a hundred pushups, a hundred situps, a hundred squats, and a ten-kilometre run every day, clearly

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Kathryn Salamander @transsalamander.bsky.social · 23h

Jenny Nicholson tweet continues to not miss

@JennyENicholson

How come major film studios keep being like Jared Leto may have allegations, but at least he looks weird, stars in box office bombs, and is not a good actor

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John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · 1d

“I call upon the prime minister to make this right and stop victimizing me and other #Inuit who were treated as lab rats for the benefit of an unexplained biological program. I am not a monkey.”
www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...

Former premier of Nunavut calls on Carney to stop victimizing Inuit

Paul Quassa is among the Plaintiffs in a class action filed almost six years ago over biological experiments.

www.aptnnews.ca

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 1d

see this is exactly why I confine my intrepid space freighter characters to the moons of Saturn, because there the equivalent of one space shuttle main engine is sufficient

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actual heathcliff comics @realheathcliffs.bsky.social · 1d

10 Oct 2025

Heathcliff and his convict dad, Pops, are hiding in a tree as multiple cops search for him on the ground below. Two birds watch from a nearby wire, and one of them says "I should do more things with my dad."

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