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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 · 1h
of all the comments I thought I might find for a video about how the flags on Luna have been bleached white by now, I didn't expect to find one denying that space exists
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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 2h
topless bottomless vixens: a part of our heritage 📷 Pentax KM 🎞️ Lucky C200
A photograph of one of the last remnants of the old Yonge Street, Toronto's Club Zanzibar. It's a three-storey building in the shadow of a much larger glassy structure, with its front done up in golden bricks. Multiple neon signs stars are attached to the frontage, as well as one of a bikini-clad dancing woman with a top hat. The building's sign reads "Club Zanzibar - The Girls Never Stop - 75 Topless Bottomless Vixens 5PM to 2AM - X!X! - Jays Back In It Come Score A Run - X!X"

There's no sign of damage from the fire a few months ago, because that all happened on the roof and in the back.
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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
when I took this photo I didn't expect the lion to look so plaintive #filmphotography 📷 Pentax KM 🎞️ Lucky C200
A film photograph of the face of a lion dance costume on Toronto's Spadina Avenue. The lion is mostly white with flairs of red, particularly in the eyes. It looks somehow sad. Taken on Lucky C200 film.
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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 7h
oh my gosh check out my new hat
A white-and-green baseball cap with BEER written on it.
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 10h
September 30 is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, also known as Orange Shirt Day. Today is a time to raise awareness of the ongoing impacts of residential schools and remember the children who never came home. How are you honouring the day?
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Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social · 11h
I wrote this poem about Orange Shirt Day last year. We demand truth & reconciliation & get this instead. wordflowerpoetry.com/2026/02/08/i...
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I Am Pretty Sure Those are the Same Cops I Saw Dragging a Disabled Woman Across the Pavement By Her Dislocated Arm A Few Years Ago
Armed cops are basking in orange glory on Truth and Reconciliation Day. Squad cars are looking demure in their festive “Every Child Matters” vinyl wraps, and officers are smiling while I’m whisperi…
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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 11h
for hell's sake. my life has enough stress already. i don't need extra stress in my fucking dreams
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Leaf~ @leaftilde.bsky.social · 20h
Ya I got invited but the phrenology hat took like 30 minutes with me and then said I was "Irish" and I was politely but firmly asked to leave school property 😔
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Uncut Femmes @juliagiantrat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
cat holding 1 monster thinking of cat holding 2 monsters
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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
the Trojan Tuna? but he's wearing a Roman helmet! i'm starting to suspect Heathcliff doesn't care about historical accuracy at all
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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
as in so many other situations, i propose flogging. corporate bosses might hesitate if going through with the evil meant a hundred lashes. and if they don't, that's a hundred lashes.
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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
doing this Vote Compass thing and Ejaz Butt thinks the Hamilton LRT should be scrapped? go fuck yourself, Butt
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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
when I took this photo I didn't expect the lion to look so plaintive #filmphotography 📷 Pentax KM 🎞️ Lucky C200
A film photograph of the face of a lion dance costume on Toronto's Spadina Avenue. The lion is mostly white with flairs of red, particularly in the eyes. It looks somehow sad. Taken on Lucky C200 film.
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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
countdown until an executive order renames it "Super America"
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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i am completely and mentally stable 📷 Canon PowerShot SX130 IS 🗓️ July 2, 2011
A Phalanx CIWS (Close-In Weapons System) emplacement aboard HMCS Algonquin (DDG 283), against the calm water of Burrard Inlet. The gun itself is covered, which should help it suppress its intrusive thoughts of shooting down a civilian airliner... but for how long?????
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Thoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 20/09/2026
meta Muse perfec t size for put private d\ata in! inside very Secure and Private data very safe put data in Muse. No problems ever in Muse because very trustworthy and Mark super protective. AMeta muse yes a place for data put data in muse trust meta for givening good safety to data. Friend meta.
An image of a pelican with its gigantic mouth open, commonly associated with the "put baby in pelican mouth" post.
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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hamilton: a city of factories but also trees #filmphotography 📷 Pentax KM 🎞️ Kodak Ultramax 400
A film photograph of the lower city of Hamilton, taken from Sam Lawrence Park on the edge of the Mountain. The apartment buildings and detached houses surrounded by trees eventually give way to the treeless waste of the lakeshore industrial sectors dominated by smokestacks. Taken on Kodak Ultramax 400 film.
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Ela Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ (alleged transsexual) @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
the tarot reader across from me: "and... a third penis explosion. Inverted." me: "is that good?"
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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
in a space habitat, you wouldn't need to worry about the sun getting in your eyes but you might need to worry about stuff falling on your head. this is the perfect opportunity for the practical and fashionable reemergence of the bowler hat
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Dave "Just the Facts" Amiott @damiott.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Can any of these books tell me who killed the chauffeur?"
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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
one of the sensible chuckles of the English language is that the most formal version of a military uniform can be called "mess dress"
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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i am completely and mentally stable 📷 Canon PowerShot SX130 IS 🗓️ July 2, 2011
A Phalanx CIWS (Close-In Weapons System) emplacement aboard HMCS Algonquin (DDG 283), against the calm water of Burrard Inlet. The gun itself is covered, which should help it suppress its intrusive thoughts of shooting down a civilian airliner... but for how long?????
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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hamilton: a city of factories but also trees #filmphotography 📷 Pentax KM 🎞️ Kodak Ultramax 400
A film photograph of the lower city of Hamilton, taken from Sam Lawrence Park on the edge of the Mountain. The apartment buildings and detached houses surrounded by trees eventually give way to the treeless waste of the lakeshore industrial sectors dominated by smokestacks. Taken on Kodak Ultramax 400 film.
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charlie deeds done kirk cheap @gizmouse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
(misreading) thats right!! put engineers back in video games!!
Lucca from Chrono TriggerKohran Li from Sakura Wars, art by @Tedbob84
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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the moral of The End of Oak Street is that the Assiti had it coming
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mayonnaise rudeboy @paintedsky.ca · 28/09/2026
Spongebob spreading his hands apart creating a sparkling rainbow that says “Linux”
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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
reminder: carry a small ice scraper in case you encounter white supremacist propaganda. i lucked out in that the sticker i found was loose enough that i could safely remove it with my bike key. i'd forgotten my scraper at home.
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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the setup of Metal Marines only makes sense if you believe that continents are mere rocky rafts floating on the ocean, and also that water is indestructible
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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
maybe it's a meditation on the loss of innocence. maybe it's garbage. either way it's a photograph #filmphotography 📷 Pentax KM 🎞️ Lucky C400
A film photograph of an abandoned Squishmallow on a metal railing. Specifically, it is the Waverly McDonald's Happy Meal FIFA World Cup 2026 Squishmallow. Waverly is a blue butterfly wearing a yellow jersey with the number 5. It looks dirty and has been wet recently. In the background, a field of small white flowers are out of focus. Taken on Lucky C400 film.
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Frances Danger *Deadly SoverAuntie* @francesdanger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There are so many that never made it home from the reeducation camps (federal Indian boarding "schools") but if we're being honest even those that survived had so much stolen from them they didn't make it home whole either.
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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
bits like this reinforce how unnatural it feels to me for the Simpsons to now have smartphones and a flat-screen TV
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Dr. Quinn
YouTube video by Jesse Wood
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Oh wow Blue Sky is on bluesky @rs-glide08.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
lauren faustian abomination. feed him cesium-137-laced oats until he develops the hard skull-crushing hooves, long protruding snout, and other nightmarish characteristics of a real horse.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"indoor cats are miserable and they long for the outdoors and you are depriving them of their true nature by trapping them inside" okay here's my cat when he was outdoors vs now that's he's indoors
orange cat all beat up and bloody in the snow :( orange cat asleep splayed out on his side on his blanket
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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
maybe it's a meditation on the loss of innocence. maybe it's garbage. either way it's a photograph #filmphotography 📷 Pentax KM 🎞️ Lucky C400
A film photograph of an abandoned Squishmallow on a metal railing. Specifically, it is the Waverly McDonald's Happy Meal FIFA World Cup 2026 Squishmallow. Waverly is a blue butterfly wearing a yellow jersey with the number 5. It looks dirty and has been wet recently. In the background, a field of small white flowers are out of focus. Taken on Lucky C400 film.
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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
here's hoping those photos I took of the wrestlemen today turn out
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 27/09/2026
They were convinced that the judge would have no choice but to rule in our favor upon reading Marx. The judge did not, in fact, rule in our favor. The judge also refused to read the excerpts from Marx, and my client was utterly baffled as to how that was possible.
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Vyria Durav, Dragon Princess of the Night @vyriadurav.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Domino meme but it's hiring consultant companies designing an ideal male programmer archetype about being antisocial and being easy to push into crunch as a calculated move to take programming from women and then us arriving here (there's other factors too but I think about this a lot)
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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
disappointed to learn that "Santa Fe" does not, in fact, mean "St. Iron"
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🦉 @smallmutuals.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ea-Nasears used to be a major retailer but they went out of business after they began selling low quality copper
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curio (#8092D1) @codecurio.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
like, i also need people to know Peter Thiel thinks Luffy is a Christ figure, but we can start with harry potter fanfic
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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
need to think about writing up my will but right now the only thing I'm sure of putting that at my funeral, I want this song to be played last
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Credits Theme From Mystery Science Theater 3000
YouTube video by JH
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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
you could make one of those "Doesn't Change Facial Expressions" YTMNDs out of this
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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Planetes is such a good series that it's the only reason I ever set out to write a story by barely filing the serial numbers off of anything
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026
if Eliezer Yudkowsky was born into a somewhat poorer family and missed a couple lucky breaks, he’d have ended up as an archetypal specimen of your friend’s older cousin who keeps boa constrictors and makes you listen to him talk about quantum physics in his parent’s basement in exchange for weed
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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
i thought one roll of black and white film would be sufficient for today. i ended up shooting the last exposure right next to the local camera shop. so i went in and bought another roll of film and shot more than half of that. and there's still tomorrow.
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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
there's something powerful about a sunrise. it probably has to do with me rarely seeing them outside the context of "i don't want to go to work, i want to go back to bed" 📷 Canon PowerShot SX130 IS 🗓️ November 6, 2011
A photograph of the Toronto skyline at 6:30 AM, as captured from an aircraft descending into Toronto Pearson International Airport. Lake Ontario is dark enough to look almost purple, while the sky is layered in red, orange, and yellow with wispy clouds atop. The CN Tower pierces the sky, while the rest of the city is dark but for artificial lights.
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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We have the Svalbard Seed Vault to protect plants during a global apocalypse, but what about my video game items? My skins, gun decals, magic armor, virtual pets, digital furniture, etc, could all be deleted during an extinction event without backup servers. I propose a Svalbard Gamers Vault
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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
we must dismantle these companies and salt the earth where they stood
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TriCon @tricon-hfx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
WE HAVE DATES! We are delighted to confirm that TriCon Halifax will be returning in 2027! May 21-23 2027 at the NSCAD Port Campus. And TODAY ONLY we are taking EARLY-Early bird weekend pass registrations at the @halconscificon.bsky.social Stories from the Stars book fair!
A red and yellow card reads "We're Back!" with TriCon brand and dates.
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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
quoth the crow, "eef freef" 📷 Canon PowerShot SX130 IS 🗓️ January 15, 2012
On snowy ground in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada, a crow pokes around discarded food wrappers looking for food.
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