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

the squirrel really stands out when there's no colour to worry about #filmphotography 📷 Pentax KM 🎞️ Reflx Lab Zarya 400

A black and white photograph of a shadowed tree in Hamilton's Gage Park, against a background of well-lit trees. In the centre of the image, silhouetted against the illuminated trees, a squirrel is perched on a branch.

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 3h

3.8 gs of acceleration? my goodness. gotta wonder where it's keeping all the reaction mass.

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 3h

tired: Roddenberry declaring the Animated Series non-canon wired: fans declaring future MAGA Trek non-canon

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 4h

or when it takes me a week to realize that something has screwed up with the phone's mic and it's not registering anything I say

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 4h

is Texas hogging the beams? they better not be hogging the fucking beams

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 6h

*to me*, this broader pattern feels like people are giving up on Earth, and fuck that

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 6h

even the fantasy I actually wrote is a portal fantasy, which critically is directly connected to what's supposed to be this world, rather than existing apart from it

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 6h

thinking about how fantasy is so much more prominent than science fiction these days in part because of escapism, and how it makes me absolutely not want to write fantasy because some part of me is offended at the idea that we have to discard what's supposed to be this world for escapism

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 14h

like, I have to wonder which is more heretical: "Jesus survived the crucifixion" or "Jesus was never crucified"

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 14h

what I love most here is the casual turboheresy like, I'm no Christian, but I figured that "Jesus Christ died on the cross for the sins of humanity" is kind of, you know, the nucleus to its atom

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

it's like the opposite of a square dance. because it's a circle dance, and because modern square dancing was promoted by infamous racist Henry Ford for white supremacist reasons. seriously, look it up. #filmphotography 📷 Pentax KM 🎞️ Reflx Lab Zarya 400

A black-and-white photograph of an Indigenous circle dance being held in front of Gage Park's bandshell in Hamilton, Ontario. A man in Indigenous regalia is leading a group of people, some of whom are dressed far less impressively, in a steady circle with a metal refuse drum in the centre. Taken on Reflx Lab Zarya 400 film.

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

speaking as someone who would not be able to identify modern fashion, that is a useful data point!

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

directed plasma weapons of terror, made to intimidate the enemy

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

dang, what set is that? I don't recognize the marker

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

clearly I know nothing about Québec provincial politics

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

yersinia pestis? more like yersinia furcifer, amirite

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

No - this is the first time in nineteen years I'll have been there, and I've never been able to go around on my own before

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

mood. anyone who thinks my talent as a writer is innate is invited to read the shit I wrote in 1997

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

i mean, i didn't even know about this when i had my header commissioned by @shargrave.bsky.social

A drawing of the poster as a several-hundred-foot-tall woman wearing a black and white support suit, carrying a keyboard and putting what appears to be a Soyuz-2 rocket in half-shadow.

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

can you believe it's been seventy-three years since they made Marilyn Monroe a thousand feet tall and had her pose on top of Niagara Falls for a movie poster

A theatrical release poster for the 1953 film Niagara. It depicts Marilyn Monroe in a sheer blue dress, reclining at the edge of Niagara Falls (Horseshoe Falls, specifically) with one arm extended over her head. It kind of looks like my own banner, really. The tagline: "Marilyn Monroe and 'Niagara' - a raging torrent of emotion that even nature can't control!"

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

also I'm interested in seeing how Niagara Falls hits now that I actually live on the Niagara Isthmus

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

also it gives them the opportunity to make "DeeS nuts" jokes

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

going that road, I think "digital sapience" would be even better. because "digital" is not a word that can be easily twisted to mean "not real"

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

that's good, because I will not be crossing the border because as a trans woman it's fucking dangerous for me to cross the border I will be taking my zoom lens and probably at least once showing the US my middle finger

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

personally I think "synthetic sapience" is a much better term for what science fiction has traditionally called AI but I am skeptical of any abbreviation that works out to "SS"

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

also I got two three-packs of Ultramax for cheap because they expire in December and I want to gauge how well they shoot so that I can decide if I should take the rest to Japan in December

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

when I was in university I went to a nightclub exactly once and I was falling asleep on my feet because it was so fucking boring

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

planning to go to Niagara Falls because it's been years since I've been there, it's closer than Toronto, and it's turning out to be pretty relevant character-wise for multiple stories I've written and one that I've published

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

there has to be one who never hit the town in their actual youth and so is completely unable to tell any difference (me. it's me)

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

do you have PayPal? I don't have either of those :/

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

incidentally, this film is sold as "Soviet film," which implies a lot, but I think the quality of the film itself is good for film that would have to be at least 35 years old for that claim to be accurate; what do yinz think?

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

i am happy to report that my photos of the wrestlemen at Open Streets Hamilton turned out #filmphotography 📷 Pentax KM 🎞️ Lomography Berlin Kino

A black and white photograph of a temporary square wrestling ring set up by Hamilton Pro Wrestling. A referee in the leftmost corner watches the wrestlers go at it. The face, Robbie Hollywood, is leaping from one of the posts toward the bearded heel, Scott Free, who is taking a step back in what might be surprise.

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

knockoff inferior king's hand, even. where is the Greek salad? the M&M fingernails?

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

i am infuriated that I can't tell whether buddy is doing a bit or genuinely believes it

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

feels like an unfiltered insight into the fascist mind, especially since one could just as easily say "Words don't have meaning, they're just sounds or squiggles. They're not connected to the real world."

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

this is why it's a shame that film is as expensive as it is, for one. imagine if more people could affordably take up film photography as a hobby, being outside, paying attention, having to be careful and having to consider

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kevo @kevinpnw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

it seems extremely reductive but I think one of my takes regarding this is that a not insignificant amount of people just need to find a hobby that does not revolve around scrolling on their phones may be a bad take but I just keep circling back to this

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026

You know. I don’t think that there is any more crucial component to contextualizing & meeting our current set of problems than understanding this.

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

especially because "Yearn-us" is a perfectly valid pronunciation

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm reminded of the extremely bright and colourful uniforms that the French went to war with in 1914

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

i am happy to report that my photos of the wrestlemen at Open Streets Hamilton turned out #filmphotography 📷 Pentax KM 🎞️ Lomography Berlin Kino

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