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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric

Claire Rousseau @clairerousseau.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Day two of #Eastercon started with a very insightful panel on Anne McCaffrey and her works. A lot of fondness for all the best bits that kept us coming back, some fascinating contextualisation of the time & atmosphere she wrote in, as well as her influence on current writing, fandom etc... 1/?

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Claire Rousseau @clairerousseau.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Nine Worlds used to have panels of mini talks on a given topic. One I remember loving had a bunch of speakers each get 10 minutes to monologue about why they love their favourite tropes & convince the audience it's the best. They're were powerpoints and puppets involved.

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Claire Rousseau @clairerousseau.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Alanis Morisette: "It's a no smoking sign on your cigareeeeette break" Ilya Rozanov: Yes.

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Claire Rousseau @clairerousseau.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

"You'll be back" out of context is one hundred per cent a song from a cat to its human.

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Claire Rousseau @clairerousseau.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Eastercon friends, come find me and my shiny fish!! #Eastercon

Photo of Claire Rousseau, wearing a maroon shirt, convention lanyard and shiny fish necklace.

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Claire Rousseau @clairerousseau.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Turns out Rail Replacement Buses are much more pleasant when it's a train replacement service on a quiet day than when it's a tube replacement on a weekday in London. Still wish I didn't to take 3 different train/buses instead of a direct service but it honestly wasn't that bad.

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Claire Rousseau @clairerousseau.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Whelp, I'm trying to buy train tickets to get to Birmingham for Eastercon & apparently there's often a ton of planned engineering works on Easter weekend... Send good vibes to me, I DO NOT WANT to get stuck with taking a damn Rail Replacement Bus.

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Claire Rousseau @clairerousseau.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Trans people are just people who just want to go use the loo in peace and not get murdered. I promise when you don't spend every day turning over every rock to find problems caused by teams people, you will not find any problems caused by trans people.

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Claire Rousseau @clairerousseau.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Also, from what little I know about that book I haven't read, I don't think Jesus would be thrilled about all this oppressing a marginalised group you TERF assholes are doing.

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Claire Rousseau @clairerousseau.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

As usual, TERFs out there saying the quiet part out loud. Here's a reminder that not everybody takes their stance on everything from Jesus Christ. There are other religions and ideologies in the world.

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Nick Bryan @nickbryan.com · 14/03/2026

Courier Z v1-2 available on Kickstarter now, and you can also buy my previous comics from the same campaign. Separately or all together! Digital or PDF! Necromancers opening shops! Kids turning into grim reapers! Many genres, but the same fun-yet-sad vibe. www.kickstarter.com/projects/nic...

The two Courier Z covers by Lender Shell - first one showing her smugly flying towards the camera with the caption "How it started".

Second one showing her drowning in crime junk with the caption "How it's going".

Grid of square cover image of all my comic projects -
SoulD / Courier Z / Death of a Necromancer
FairyFare / StoneCop / Moonframe
The Little Deaths of Watson Tower / And It Snowed / The Catalyst

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Claire Rousseau @clairerousseau.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I got sparkly space nails for Eastercon!!

Sparkly space-themed nails: a blue-purple cat eye nail polish with some white stars on three accent nails, and a glitter top coat.

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Claire Rousseau @clairerousseau.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Tangent re: "ADHD is present from childhood" Of course the brain chemistry of ADHD is there from childhood, but recent research suggest symptoms may appear later because structures put in place by parents/family can help mask symptoms, until we start to have to create the structure ourselves. (1/?)

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Lucas @phoenixfire.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I feel like a lot of people who aren't tuned in think J.K. Rowling's transphobia is the typical celebrity case of "oh, they just made some off-color comments one time several years ago", and not a single-minded genocidal obsession which has utterly consumed her entire goddamn life.

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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

She's not just a creator who happens to be a bigoted arsehole. She's a really proactive participant in Scottish and UK political debates, who uses her private wealth to muster forces enacting actual real world political change for the worse. She is not just a rich writer, she is an oligarch

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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I think a key problem with the whole Harry Potter thing is that some people, especially Americans, underestimate severely the degree to which Joanne K Rowling is an actual political actor.

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Claire Rousseau @clairerousseau.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

This is obviously the main reason to never ever direct another penny to that woman's pocket but also, to me personally, the joy had been extinguished. To see something that once meant so much to me, that was so hopeful, turn into a beacon for hate and bigotry, I can never unsee that. She ruined it.

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

This. TBC, the reason my family won't support anything HP-related is NOT because I have some grand moral view that it's only acceptable to support work created by good people. It's because she is literally, publicly using the $ from her books/show/games/etc to do bad things that hurt people I love.

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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 25/03/2026

Did I get a pin at the stitch festival? I got a pin at the stitch festival

Pin of a cat with the text "crochet because murder is wrong"

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Claire Rousseau @clairerousseau.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I guess when my dad said everyone gets more conservative as they get older, he really meant "Someday, you'll be so stressed & overwhelmed by All Of The Things that you'll have to stop focusing on the state of the world for too long just so you can get through your day in a not wholly feral manner."

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Claire Rousseau @clairerousseau.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

If I ever have to come up with a solo conference panel extremely last minute, I'm pretty confident I could come up with a solid hour on the Problematic Feminism of Pern. From Not Like The Other Girls Menolly, to Strong Female Character Lessa, via Brekke & Kylara, ie. the madonna vs whore dichotomy

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a man standing in front of a bulletin board with the name pepe silvia written on it

Alt: The murder board gif: a man standing in front of a bulletin board with the name pepe silvia written on it.

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Claire Rousseau @clairerousseau.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Oh I definitely got all the good bits of Pern, there's a reason I read all the books many times over & they shaped me deeply as a person! It's also why my mum thought her 11yo should read them, it's just that now I know there were things in there I was to young to pick up on and she was not.

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Claire Rousseau @clairerousseau.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Fascinating! All the Pern books were on the same sff shelf and from the same imprint when I was buying them as a kid. This was in France in the 90s.

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Andrea @starlady38.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

My memory is that they were even shelved in a different section of Borders in the 90s than the rest of Pern, which were in Sci-fi/Fantasy. The Alanna books were there too.

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Claire Rousseau @clairerousseau.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

I'm sure McCaffrey's intentions were good, but more than one thing can be going on at once. Lessa is an awesome character - smart, fierce & complex - but her life partner keeps *physically shaking her* when they disagree & it's presented as Just A Thing F'lar Does, no big deal.

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Claire Rousseau @clairerousseau.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

The Harper Hall books definitely have more of a YA feel to them (though that marketing category didn't quite exist yet when I was its target demo) and Menolly's books do read as a triumph over sexism, albeit due in great part to Menolly's exceptional talent. She's Not Like The Other Girls.

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Claire Rousseau @clairerousseau.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

I don't even think those books are inappropriate for an 11yo because they include sex scenes, it's just the power/gender dynamics are so fucked up, you really need to be better equipped to go "well that's not cool or romantic" than any middle-schooler should be.

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Claire Rousseau @clairerousseau.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Dragonriders of Pern had to be the most formative but I was also definitely too young when I read Clan of the Cave Bear. Both were handed to me by my mum who borrowed them from the library and thought I'd enjoy them *after she was done reading them* when I was like 11 or 12.

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 21/03/2025

It's live on Instagram so I think we're allowed to yell about it here too -- I am SO HONOURED to have been invited to participate in this @ursulakleguin.com -inspired anthology with @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social and @titanbooks.bsky.social ! Out this October! LOOKIT THOSE NAMES!!!

the cover of REVOLUTION IN THE HEART: STORIES INSPIRED BY URSULA K. LE GUIN. Feat Alaya Dawn Johnson, Charlie Jane Anders, Ai Jiang, Ann Leckie, Molly Gloss, & Many More. Edited by Jonathan Strahan.

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Claire Rousseau @clairerousseau.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

I can never get over the incredible mix of affection & pure *dragging* his arse in Diamonds & Rust. So much tenderness, but also calling your ex an "unwashed phenomenon". It's just perfect.

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Eugenia Triantafyllou @foxesandroses.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

So I will say this as gently as I can: given the current state of the world, cons (especially held in the US) should really keep or enhance their online programming instead of eliminating it. I understand it takes resources to run a hybrid con but the alternative is to exclude the rest of the world

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James Corcoran @jamescorcoran78.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Someone clever did this to a lamppost on Coverdale road and now I am disappointed that every lamppost doesn’t have one

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 23/05/2024

“Don’t trust everything you read on the internet.” AI search results: what if I did tho

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Claire Rousseau @clairerousseau.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Genius bit of Valentine's Day marketing for a great cause! I did a full witch cackle 🤣 Rescue will neuter a cat and name it after your ex www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Whitby rescue will neuter feral cat and name it after your ex

The initiative at Whitby Wildlife Sanctuary is to mark Valentine's Day.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Hugo nominations are open and I have only two requests: 1. Commit to picking 2 non-Tordotcom novellas for your ballot 2. For the love of all that is holy in this world, do not nominate adult/crossovers or middle grade books for the Lodestar - officially categorized YA only!

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Claire Rousseau @clairerousseau.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Lol don't worry, the balance of the universe has righted itself, I'd forgotten to check in online and had to queue for 20 minutes for an overworked easyjet employee to print me one.

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Claire Rousseau @clairerousseau.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Repost with your apocalypse skill: - Veggie gardening, preserving & cooking. - Community organising, will volunteer to help run stuff. - Woodworking & general handiness, incurable i-bet-i-could-fix-that-edness - To Jacob's most excellent point, will fight anyone who argues for not saving everyone.

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Claire Rousseau @clairerousseau.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

In a turn of events never before exposure by moi, I have made it onto the train I actually planned to take to the airport, not just the backup train that would get me there an hour and a half before my flight, not the full two. And that's without the train running late? I was just... on time?

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Claire Rousseau @clairerousseau.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I'm off to France today to hang out with family for a few days, so obvi, I've got to have a lot of books lined up. I prefer audiobooks for the plane: a few hours left of The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley, plus The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty out from the library.

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Claire Rousseau @clairerousseau.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

@portalbookshop.bsky.social Could you hook me up with a pre-order, pretty please? DM me for payment + shipping details? xxx

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Runalong Womble @runalongwomble.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Good morning Blue Sky! Hope you’re all ok? Today I’m currently reading Grave Empire by Richard Swan for some epic fantasy. What are you reading at the moment?

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Claire Rousseau @clairerousseau.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Can't wait for @stephanieburgis.bsky.social's latest! Look at this gorgeous UK edition, I'm so excited to have it on my shelves!

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 31/01/2025

classic Loony Tunes have much to teach us about class solidarity

Bugs and Daffy standing by a tree, sign reads DUCK SEASON, then RABBIT SEASON then ELMER SEASON, and they both glare ominously off camera

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Claire Rousseau @clairerousseau.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Okay but Gwendoline Christie as Lady Sybil Ramkin. That's it, that's the skeet.

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Para 🌵 @paracactus.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

YIKES 🤮 (There's some debate in the replies if he's still an active editor or no, but either way, between this and Tor having been caught using generated images on some of their covers? Ew.)

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Claire Rousseau @clairerousseau.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Okay but Gwendoline Christie as Lady Sybil Ramkin. That's it, that's the skeet.

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Claire Rousseau @clairerousseau.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

If you see this, post 10 of your favourite video games (in no particular order): Dorfromantik Tiny Glade Backpack Hero God of Weapons Terrascape Islanders FTL: Faster Than Light The Sims Crusader Kings 3 Little Kitty Big City

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