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Brin

@brinstead.bsky.social
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Spouse. Parent. Queer. Cat cat and pupper enthusiast. Enjoyer of combat robotics and sometimes I write a bit. Not all that and a bag of chips, more like some of that and a bag of slightly stale pretzels. She/They

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Audrey, Final Girl 🏳️‍⚧️🏴‍☠️🛼 @spaceauddity.northsky.social · 05/10/2026
Well, we finally hit the point where we can't keep up with bills, so here we go. gofund.me/ff58e4e80 #mutualaid
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Donate to Help Us Afford Groceries, Gas, and Ivy’s Care, organized by Audrey Scott
Thanks to the current economic climate, my partner and I are having troub… Audrey Scott needs your support for Help Us Afford Groceries, Gas, and Ivy’s Care
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Brin @brinstead.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I got hassled at airport security because I looked too young and the wrong gender for my passport. Biggest compliment I’ve gotten all week!
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Brin @brinstead.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Very very early morning - 2am equivalent home time - to catch a flight home. I foresee a nap in my future.
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Brin @brinstead.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@djangowexler.bsky.social finished Only Way Out Is Up. More Star! More meat creatures!
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Elliott Kay @elliottkaybooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Book hype! Once upon a time, I joined the military. It sucked. I liked sci-fi and I realized most military sci-fi is about leaders and hotshots. It's rarely about the guy at the bottom who never accepts the military life. So I wrote it. It's punchy, it's real, and it's fun. tinyurl.com/35cwwasu
Cover for Poor Man's Fight by Elliott Kay.
Art by Lee Moyer.
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Brin @brinstead.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Chicken piccata with noodles and roasted squashes
Chicken piccata, noodles, and roasted squashes on a white plate.
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Brin @brinstead.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My fantasy football team got spanked so hard I’m jealous.
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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
DID YOU KNOW that I have a Royal Road? And that I've been posting preview chapters of THE ONLY WAY OUT IS UP there? It's true! Click on over and you can read the first nine chapters! (You can also check out my RR fiction THE THIRTEENTH GOD. Of which more anon!) www.royalroad.com/fiction/1472...
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Brin @brinstead.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Feeling very auxiliary to existence tonight.
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Brin @brinstead.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I can’t get the damn Binface some out of my brain.
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Brin @brinstead.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Welp. Made it 5 months of daily wear!
Pride colored rubber bracelet that has torn apart between the yellow and green
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
In my opinion Democrats get nothing nothing NOTHING by betraying trans people. They hurt themselves with a good deal of their committed voter base, and still don’t get the Republican votes they are so fucking obsessed with winning over. Lose-lose! People hate voting for squishy moral cowards!!
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Hell-a Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ (alleged transsexual)(spooky) @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Posting my little three-page comic before the trend completely dies down. Here’s my Petra Parker, Ultimate Spider-Mom. Pls be gentle I haven’t really done the comic book art style before and I’m not very good at shading/coloring
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Dun Jun @clustertuck.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
RIP Dolly Parton ❤️ Here's a lovely Dolly story: We worked together on "Transamerica." She told me that the bible passage that used to puzzle her the most was, "the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men." She said, "How the heck do you sin against the Holy Ghost, and-
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Brin @brinstead.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Made myself a burger and fries for lunch because reasons. @skyeactual.bsky.social @lesbiancarabiner.bsky.social
Very juicy burger with pickles, heirloom tomato, ketchup, and mustard accompanied by fries with MSG and seasoned salt.
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Brin @brinstead.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The leather on my magback wallet broke yesterday and the replacement thing from Amazon is all hard plastic and I hate it 😭
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Brin @brinstead.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Might actually get the chance to robot today, redo the internals in this frame and possibly get a second one prepped!
A beater bar 3 pound combat robot with the top off and the battery removed. The electronics are exposed and the whole thing looks rather disheveled
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Brin @brinstead.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Penny is very much looking like a proper, actual dog this morning.
Older black and white dog posing for the camera with a bone between her front paws
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I don't think we should mince words. Transphobia and hatred killed May Pollard. The Idaho legislature killed her as surely as if they'd pointed a gun at her head and pulled the trigger. Anti-trans laws were the gun. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Idaho pushed anti-trans laws for years. Then a teen died.
The life and death of May Pollard, 16, provides a window into the tragic effect that legislation and political rhetoric have had on trans people in America.
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Brin @brinstead.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
God damnit, now I can’t get that Binface song out of my head.
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Spookiest Welsh Canadian (Glynn Stewart) @glynnstewart.com · 15/07/2026
This has no right to be this good. youtu.be/iNp16EPj1Us?... I am... 90% sure this is a political ad, but it's also a surprisingly entertaining song.
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Bin, Bin, Binface! - Basic Craig | Satirical Music Video
YouTube video by James Cunliffe
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Brin @brinstead.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Did my roughly annual rewatch of the Clear Skies machinima trilogy. I’m weirdly nostalgic for EVE despite being terrible at it and it being a terrible game.
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Brin @brinstead.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
@impossiblephd.bsky.social is once again a confirmed cognitohazard. Just added ‘performing Burlesque’ to my bucket list.
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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
The very people who claim any whiff of neurodiversity is fake or a pharma conspiracy are, in fact, using sadistic bigotry, oppression, pushing fascism to dismantle of liberal democracy to stim and we’re all stuck being their fidget toys
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Brin @brinstead.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
If you’re setting off fireworks at this time of night you’re an asshole. Unless it happened when I was brushing my teeth.
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Brin @brinstead.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
“The beach was wrong.”
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Brin @brinstead.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
That’s the closest I’ve ever been to having a post or reply escape containment and I had no idea people were so passionate about either democratic socialists or choco tacos 🤣
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Zoe Storm @zoestorm.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
On the fourth of July, 1980, about fifteen trans women went to one of the most upscale public swimming pools in Milan, took off their tops, and started lounging around. It was a Friday, and the height of the summer vacation, so there were plenty of families with young children around. 1/
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Brin @brinstead.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
It feels like Deadloch Season 2 is kind of a rug pull and that the formerly intelligent characters have all been struck with the stupid stick - does it get better? Season one was phenomenal…
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Brin @brinstead.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
This is fantastic and horrifying at the same time.
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Dr. Jane, Luciferian Scientist, @janeluciferian.northsky.social @janeluciferian.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The Bank for International Settlement, the bank central banks bank with, in this year's annual report are warning that AI debt is now a global economic risk. AI company shadow borrowing and circular financing is now a risk to economic policy for central banks. There is no organization above BIS.
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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 29/06/2026
When the selkie returned to the beach, a man was holding her sealskin. "Is this yours?" he asked. "May I borrow it?" "You want to be a seal?" "No, but when I take it off, I'll be a woman, right?" "My heart, you already are," the selkie said. "That skin is mine, but I can help you find yours."
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Brin @brinstead.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
This entire video is oof. youtu.be/4FZy1lBNykA?
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The Richest Country Is Pretty Mid Now
YouTube video by Benn Jordan
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Everyone is talking about Trump’s mock up arch at the Great American State Fair, so I filmed it from top to bottom and front to back for everyone who can’t see it in person.
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Brin @brinstead.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
First Pride on the books. Definitely need to go with people next year, felt kinda lonely by myself.
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Brin @brinstead.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Wife and I watched the first episode of Deadloch tonight and both laughed out loud several times. Promising portent!
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Brin @brinstead.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
@elliottkaybooks.bsky.social finished Life After Hell. Loved it. In the face of evil, find your herd..
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Brin @brinstead.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Feeling quite extra /something/ today..
Trans woman sitting in a minivan giving a peace sign
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 21/06/2026
Algae are prolific producers of oxygen (and consumers of carbon dioxide), en masse producing a huge proportion of the oxygen we breathe, which means that the greening of the Reflecting Pool might be the most pro-climate thing Trump has ever done.
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Brin @brinstead.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
So it’s the Lincoln Memorial and Bioreactor now, right?
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Buttons (Ashley) 🏴‍☠️#OFMDForLife🏴‍☠️ 🏳️‍🌈🤡 @sevensugars.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19
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Brin @brinstead.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Bah. Wife and kiddo are off camping for the night and it figures I end up not feeling well enough to do any of the things I was looking forward to.
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Brin @brinstead.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
As much as For All Mankind is really, really my jam… I don’t think Star City is going to be. Too much tension of the variety I don’t enjoy.
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Tamsin the Sword ⚔️ Monster 🧌 @tamsin.reimaginedgirl.com · 02/06/2026
Yeah, I’m a single-issue voter. Here’s my single issue: I won’t vote for any politician who believes I’m not a woman. Oh, does that seem simplistic to you, even childish and petty? Here, let me explain.
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Brin @brinstead.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
@glynnstewart.com can’t wait for more himbo paladin bartender stories!
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Brin @brinstead.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Chocolate wrapper here trying to crack eggs.
Dove chocolate square wrapper. Printed on it is “You’re never too late to begin your journey”
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Brin @brinstead.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Since it’s just kiddo and I around today I showed her how to make buttermilk pancakes I’d say they turned out okay - this picture was pre-syrup 😁
Buttermilk pancake, cut up to show an exceptionally fluffy cross section.
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Brin @brinstead.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I have managed to remember my home assistant login. Please clap.
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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
today is the last day to comment! fill up their inbox! 👇
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Ken Burnside @kenburnside.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The purpose of Russia is to keep the Finns from meeting the Gurkhas, finding common ground, falling in love, and breeding the most cherubically murderous alcoholic knife users the world has ever seen. Change my mind.
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