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Rand Clayton

@randvclayton.bsky.social
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Getting a PhD in Canadian all-girl drum corps | social worker | labour activist | tubist | they/she

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🌿🌲cedar 🫒🍉 @antlerlad.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Thinking a lot about the Cornell Jane Doe today and especially about how Every Single University is like that. You either know someone who was raped/SA'd and nothing was done about it, or you are the person who that was done to
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Rand Clayton @randvclayton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's very nice that the families of some people who started scholarships a long time ago are still carrying on that legacy but $100 is not a scholarship anymore. That's a single grocery trip. I am begging you to increase it.
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🔫🎃Scott Martian Invaders 🎃🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 10/09/2026
I hate the overfocus on online figures as representatives of the left. Politics has become disconnected from your community and shifted to an individual identity. Instead of listening to local neighbours and activists, we listen to some rich hot guy say things you agree with. Actually do shit.
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Rand Clayton @randvclayton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I don't think anyone follows me for my video game hot takes but Baldur's Gate 3 is ultimately about breaking cycles of violence and what it means to be a tool, even a beloved one, compared to a person. That being said, Gale should have been a woman for the ultimate toxic yuri storyline.
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Katie Tiedrich @katietiedrich.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I’m not the first person to make this observation but the prevalence of nauseating ai-generated business logos means stuff like this hits CRAZY for me now
photo of a white truck with the logo for Bob’s BBQ Emporium, which is written in comic sans and has a charming rudimentary illustration of a pig
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Rand Clayton @randvclayton.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Every time someone running for city council speaks to me I ask how they feel about encampments as a vibe check. I feel good about people in wards 1, 2, and 6 so far. Ward 10 was a disappointment today.
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Rand Clayton @randvclayton.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I love spending labour day with my wife
A femme appearing non-binary person holding a silver brass sousaphone. They are wearing a Hamilton & District CUPE Council shirt, doing a peace sign with their hand, and smiling.
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Rand Clayton @randvclayton.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I entered a contest at my university where grad students have 60 seconds to explain their research in a video. I got disqualified for not getting copyright permission for the old drum corps footage but whatever. Thanks @tubapeter.bsky.social for your contribution to my little soundtrack.
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Rand Clayton @randvclayton.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
One of my favourite bits which is probably only funny to me is asking people on video calls if they want to meet my wife then showing them my tuba
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Rand Clayton @randvclayton.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Once again resolving to actually be active on here because I want to be updating more about my research as I head into my dissertation phase
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Rand Clayton @randvclayton.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
God I wish they would
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Rand Clayton @randvclayton.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
The pain of your favourite sandwich being from a coffeeshop that closed years ago. Blue Cloud Cafe, you got a thank you in my MSW thesis and I crave your avocado egg bagels like a baby craves their mother's touch.
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Rand Clayton @randvclayton.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
It doesn't seem like my family will be doing Easter anymore now that baba is gone so I guess this weekend I have to go to an Orthodox church and look sad until someone's grandmother gives me baked goods
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Decorative Jord @jnatc.im · 04/04/2026
How funny would it be if we had gone to space and turns out the continents weren’t shaped like that at all. Like we completely beefed it
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Rand Clayton @randvclayton.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I know it's about the AI but for a second I'm always like damn don't talk about my buddy Claude from band that way he's very lovely.
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StarBITE 🧛‍♂️🌟 @starite.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
DON'T LET THE BASTARDS GET YOU DOWN 🏳️‍⚧️ #art #tdov #transart
a digital illustration in the style of a relief print depicting a black cat in a defensive pose holding a torn and tattered transgender pride flag in its mouth as it looks directly towards the viewer. the background is purple with some specks of blue and pink showing through, and behind the cat is a black midground resembling grass or flames. the top right corner features a box with a caption reading "T.D.O.V."
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Rand Clayton @randvclayton.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Sorry, I can't hang out today. I have to go like every pro-trans comment in the TDoV posts from cool drum corps and then like all the comments dunking on anti-trans losers.
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Rand Clayton @randvclayton.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
We need to invent a corps jacket that's not too cold in Canadian winter yet too warm in Canadian spring.
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Rand Clayton @randvclayton.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I should be more active on here. Are more drum corps & marching arts people here yet? I miss talking shit with everyone on Twitter but I am not going back there.
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TubaPeter dot com @tubapeter.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Y'all wanna see some art? Here's some art.
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Rand Clayton @randvclayton.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
If you have an idea you should come on!
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Rand Clayton @randvclayton.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
As a tubist I love when composers ask me to pretend to be a pipe organ but I hate when they ask me to pretend to be a string bass.
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Rand Clayton @randvclayton.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Just watched a guy on my city bus cross himself. What does he know that I don't?
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Rand Clayton @randvclayton.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
It would be very cool and sexy of my jaw to stop hurting every day
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Rand Clayton @randvclayton.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
The RHLI band has FIVE (5) goddamn tubas right now. Us not playing the Beetlejuice theme is a crime.
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Mia Mingus @miamingus.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
[image of an old tweet that reads "corporations when nukes drop during women's history month: nuclear wintHER" From @MarisaKabas 1am, 3/4/22]
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Rand Clayton @randvclayton.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
I have to have trigger discipline while playing Resident Evil games or I waste bullets by accident
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Rand Clayton @randvclayton.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
The primary function of the 8 bus is to deliver me from my house to Durand Coffee
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
It is literally false that the Jews being hunted by Nazis were citizens, because the first step toward genocide was stripping them of citizenship and making them stateless. As Arendt reminds us, citizenship is a legal category created to facilitate a machinery of exclusion of the out-group.
Tweet from Batya Ungar-Sargon: "Beyond disgusting. Gov. Walz is comparing the innocent Jews that the Gestapo were hunting for extermination—who were citizens—to the illegal migrant murderers, rapists, sex offenders, and child abusers that ICE is seeking to deport because they broke our laws again and again."
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Rand Clayton @randvclayton.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Do water mains break in other cities very often or is this a Hamilton problem because I feel like it happens here a lot
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Rand Clayton @randvclayton.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
I feel like MAASIN should re-release the navigating ICE encounters guide but I don't know how useful it is anymore if they're murdering people in the streets. I'm going to have to consult the org who contributed to that again for updates.
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Marching Arts Access, Safety, & Inclusion Network (MAASIN) @maasin.net · 12/01/2026
If you participated in the 2025 college marching band season, MAASIN wants to hear from you! Head to the link at forms.gle/ogJeK1pajN9m... and share your experience by February 15!
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Paul @pfournier33.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
If you are visibly queer you are "antifa", and they declared "antifa" a terrorist organization. I'm not sure what the fuck else you thought would result from this.
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Rand Clayton @randvclayton.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
I live in ward 1 now but spiritually, Cameron is still my city councilor
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Rand Clayton @randvclayton.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Riding the high of finding three books I need for sale secondhand in decent condition on thriftbooks and getting them all for $66 total after shipping. One was not available in my campus or city's library system so I've solved a problem and got a nice bonus.
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Rand Clayton @randvclayton.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
I not only want socialized healthcare, I want socialized veterinary care. Every living thing should have access to healthcare. It is unethical for a society to have laws against animal cruelty yet not provide assistance with getting animals veterinary care.
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Sarah Z @sarahz.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
The shift from "sir this is a Wendy's" to "just put the fries in the bag" indicates a cultural rightward shift; whereas the former is making fun of someone by implying they're a customer doing too much, the latter is making fun of someone by implying they're a *worker* & should know their place
The "pepe Silvia" meme screenshot from It's Always Sunny. A guy standing in front of a bunch of newspapers connected by red string, looking unhinged
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Rand Clayton @randvclayton.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
The people's princess on the Lakeshore West GO train
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Mia Mingus @miamingus.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
When you feel yourself becoming complacent or surrendering to hopelessness or apathy, remember that everything that exists today exists because someone(s) dreamt it up and decided to put in the work to make it a reality. We can create new ways of doing things, new ways of being, new worlds.
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Rand Clayton @randvclayton.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
I hope that I have been queer in every lifetime. I hope I was getting with all the other nuns at the convent in 1174.
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Senator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
I do kinda think it's important to know, like, anything about the thing you're critiquing. In this particular case "AI" just means "mathematical model". ChatGPT is not diagnosing fucking cancer
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Rand Clayton @randvclayton.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Cat update: she has started sitting on the top level of her cat tree for direct heat vent access during the winter.
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JER (They/Them) @skatunenetwork.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Yeah, I got ADHD Ahhhhhh Dis Head Dontwork
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Rand Clayton @randvclayton.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
My lifehack for undergrads is that if you're using ChatGPT to do all your schoolwork you can save tens of thousands of dollars by simply not going to university since you don't seem to actually give a shit about learning the material at all.
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the kat from HOUSE (1977) @dogunderwater.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
this is why actually doing your jury duty is so important lol
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kay (nick suzuki enjoyer) @linecomposition.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
hey guys. I just wanted to put a call out and ask folks to please let me know if they know of any marketing/communications or graphic design jobs open right now. I think I do great work and could really use some leads ❤️
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Rand Clayton @randvclayton.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
"You're doing community-engaged research just partner with one of the corps you're researching and you can get some grants!" Great idea let me just get in my time machine to 2004 [AMERICAN IDIOT BY GREEN DAY STARTS PLAYING]
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alpha @omarsbigsister.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
dark woke begins NOW
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Rand Clayton @randvclayton.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
WHAT DID I SAY
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