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🎃cedar cedar pumpkin eater🎃 @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

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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 was waiting for someone to catch that

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Rand Clayton @randvclayton.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Outside of drum corps it's not uncommon here to have British brass band ensembles where everyone reads in treble (which I hate).

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Rand Clayton @randvclayton.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Unless I'm missing something, tubas in drum corps across the board use bass clef and read in concert pitch. Bb tubas.

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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 · 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

At least in my part of Canada where it's humid in the crotch of Lake Ontario

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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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Rand Clayton @randvclayton.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I did not think it was! We can find people that are qualified but it's also nice to have people who are funny sometimes.

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TubaPeter Sez Send More Paramedics @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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Rand Clayton @randvclayton.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Yeah. We didn't want to just delete our presence entirely in case we have old material up that could be helpful to someone who doesn't otherwise know where to find us. Twitter was where we used to have our biggest follower base.

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Rand Clayton @randvclayton.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Speaking to MAASIN, we opted to stop using the platform but leave our account up so people can look at old material and learn where to find us now.

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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

A decent chunk of that $66 is shipping but that is the price of being a Canadian scholar

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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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