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S.A. Barton

@sabarton.bsky.social
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Struggling to revive a writing life after several huge life changes. Late dx autistic ADHDer. Patreon.com/sabarton

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Doubling back because I'm genuinely mad about this. This isn't even an antiblack Welfare Queen dog whistle. It's a damn bullhorn. "Do you really want student loan forgiveness if THESE GREEDY DARKIES are also helped?!"
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S.A. Barton @sabarton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Even the damn whales know it's the megabillionaire hoarder dragons wrecking the biosphere
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S.A. Barton @sabarton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
There's been some popular speculation about links between karenish aggro behavior in Gen X and older people, and all the lead we breathed as kids... www.patreon.com/posts/112611...
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Generation Lead | S.A. Barton
I was watching this newsy-documentary thing about lead in the US water supply and it was pointing out hotspots around the country for lead
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S.A. Barton @sabarton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
New poetry: www.patreon.com/posts/171445...
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Poetry: Disagree | S.A. Barton
When words and events disagree, unpopularly, I believe the events are the weft and warp; words dye
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S.A. Barton @sabarton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Is Donald discovering that stealing Venezuelan oil to make up the shortfall isn't simple and requires time and infrastructure investment first, aside from said theft being cowardly, rank bandritry that only a sick Epsteinian dog like a Trump could call right 🤷‍♂️
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S.A. Barton @sabarton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
There's been some popular speculation about links between karenish aggro behavior in Gen X and older people, and all the lead we breathed as kids... www.patreon.com/posts/112611...
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Generation Lead | S.A. Barton
I was watching this newsy-documentary thing about lead in the US water supply and it was pointing out hotspots around the country for lead
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S.A. Barton @sabarton.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Gee who knew it was a poor choice to give power to a bellowing poser who thinks raw brutality is the truth and the way
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S.A. Barton @sabarton.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Oh cool now GPT can stalk victims faster than an official criminally abusing the Flock network 🤷‍♂️
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
thys nys no partye! thys nys no disco! thys nys no jestinge arounde! thys nys no taverne! nor roade-syde playhous! Ich ne have tyme for that nowe!
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S.A. Barton @sabarton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I can't remember the last time I posted an intuitive pastel on Patreon. Has it been a year? Longer? www.patreon.com/posts/169266...
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Afoot. | S.A. Barton
I haven't done an intuitive pastel thingiee in months. Any creative work has had enormous inertia; I can hardly begin; I'm busy waiting on t
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S.A. Barton @sabarton.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Ten thousand years from now, this is all going to look incredibly silly www.patreon.com/posts/162113...
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Future Opinion: 12,126 | S.A. Barton
The Ancients had a particular ethic, difficult to understand with a modern mind and upbringing. Nearly every bit of media, language, and ima
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S.A. Barton @sabarton.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
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S.A. Barton: See if you can spot the sunflower blossom. Or the little orange nasturtium flowers. The cucumber should be easy
See if you can spot the sunflower blossom. Or the little orange nasturtium flowers. The cucumber should be easy
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saphroneth.bsky.social @saphroneth.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
So... the Cargo Cult of the Badass, then. Doing things that they associate with being awesome, and yet the victories don't come.
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S.A. Barton @sabarton.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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S.A. Barton: On a bus from Newport News to Norfolk (VA) during morning rush, had a good view of drivers passing the slower bus. 173 counted, of whic
On a bus from Newport News to Norfolk (VA) during morning rush, had a good view of drivers passing the slower bus. 173 counted, of whic
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 18/08/2026
Anyone telling an author not to mention their books here can go fuck themselves Also anyone telling anyone else how to run their own social media accounts can go fuck themselves too If the way someone does their thing here bothers you, unfollow/mute/block them, but you don't get a vote otherwise
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old fruit pictures @pomological.xor.blue · 18/08/2026
kurokuma persimmons, painted by royal charles steadman, 1925
kurokuma persimmons, painted by royal charles steadman, 1925
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S.A. Barton @sabarton.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This sucker is ten years old--and what a weird, harrowing decade it has been. Gimme a break today and treat yourself to some reading if you haven't already books.google.com/books?id=ud2...
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Closer Than You Think
A short story collection: 21 stories and about 64,000 words.Closer Than You Think is a journey from the near future -- self-driving cars, automation, 3D printing -- to the far future where, who knows?...
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S.A. Barton @sabarton.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
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S.A. Barton: I struggle with the idea that making something new is somehow too little, too late--like a sunflower growing up the shady center of a tulip
I struggle with the idea that making something new is somehow too little, too late--like a sunflower growing up the shady center of a tulip
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S.A. Barton @sabarton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
In which I say mean things about Dale Carnegie: www.patreon.com/posts/166066...
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Dimly Remembering A Book for Hungry Ghosts | S.A. Barton
Some thirty years ago, while in the hospital recovering from one of too many crisis points in my life, my father gave me a book in the hopes
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S.A. Barton @sabarton.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
But every funeral needs to be a commercial and every good USAmerican's legacy should be the brands they're loyal to 🤢
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S.A. Barton @sabarton.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Population density dictates that we vaccinate or live with needless disease, suffering, and death. Can't live like it's 1726, or there are simple and obvious consequences
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S.A. Barton @sabarton.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
And we're left wondering if Trump and his court of scheming power-hoarders actually intend to divide the union or if they're just following the standard fashy tyrant-bully playbook, thinking that obedience must follow unconstitutional abuse
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S.A. Barton @sabarton.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
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A Dream Sent by the Factory | S.A. Barton
Working in a huge, half-empty factory complex laid out chaotically on dirt, enormous battered buildings overshadowing uneven fields, occasio
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S.A. Barton @sabarton.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The birdsong in the neighborhood is distinctly sunset. It's still 2 and 1/4 hours from sunset. There's a faint pink band around the lower third of the horizon, vaguely in the direction of Canada. Not keeping your home in good condition has long range consequences. Like uncontrolled climate change.
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S.A. Barton @sabarton.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Eating nuts with nuts on nuts
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John @johnlk.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
They have decided that success for any movie that includes characters who are not white men and that doesn't explicitly parrot their own increasingly bizarre and off-putting hobby horses is a victory for the Cultural Marxists
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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Also funny comments expressing disbelief that children could read 300 page books (as if Harry Potter, Hunger Games, and so on hadn't come out in recent history...)
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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
To be clear, I just thought this was funny. I won't extrapolate from dumb tweets to "society is collapsing!" But for the curious it started with some tech bro saying he was reading The Hobbit to his kids, who liked it, and it inspired a lot of comments like this:
Have you ever read it??? It’s 100% not a children’s book and whoever says that is lying to you. Not only is the vernacular dated and elaborate but the sentence structure and lengthy writing is often hard to get your head around as an adult. Love that book! but it’s not for kids

Community note notes that it was indeed for children.
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42 Seconds of Zen and Neurodivergence: 1 | S.A. Barton
For me, quietly being in a place like this by myself and just listening, feeling, and watching is an act of regulation. My understanding* it
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42 Seconds of Zen and Neurodivergence: 1 | S.A. Barton
For me, quietly being in a place like this by myself and just listening, feeling, and watching is an act of regulation. My understanding* it
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S.A. Barton @sabarton.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
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S.A. Barton: Egg in a basket but bread cut thick enough to drop the egg, put some salt and half a clove of shivered garlic on top, then put the lid (halv
Egg in a basket but bread cut thick enough to drop the egg, put some salt and half a clove of shivered garlic on top, then put the lid (halv
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S.A. Barton: Egg in a basket but bread cut thick enough to drop the egg, put some salt and half a clove of shivered garlic on top, then put the lid (halv
Egg in a basket but bread cut thick enough to drop the egg, put some salt and half a clove of shivered garlic on top, then put the lid (halv
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S.A. Barton @sabarton.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
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It Is Impossible To Cook Well Without Tasting | S.A. Barton
The fruits of Venzer are heavy. They're so rich and dense and fruitful that no carnivorous traditions arose among the Venzran clade of sen
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S.A. Barton @sabarton.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
You're not wrong. And even to have halfway decent insulation, it's going to take major changes, and a shift in thinking about business and politics from a predatory basis to a basis that places value on human life
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S.A. Barton @sabarton.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
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It Is Impossible To Cook Well Without Tasting | S.A. Barton
The fruits of Venzer are heavy. They're so rich and dense and fruitful that no carnivorous traditions arose among the Venzran clade of sen
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S.A. Barton @sabarton.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Jimmy Carter divested from his peanut farm because it was the right thing to do. I'm starting to think a new constitutional amendment wall between business and politics is no less important than the wall between church and state
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S.A. Barton @sabarton.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
__ *if it was a human, but it's not. Nobody freak out about nonexistent voter fraud 😁
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S.A. Barton @sabarton.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Yeah, I'm still over there irregularly, being more grrr about politics than, I hope, here. But my main account is old enough to vote* this year, and my 2ndary writing, autism, random, Patreon.com/sabarton -shilling account turns 10. They'll have to ban me for wokeness 🤷‍♂️ It's all very exciting
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S.A. Barton @sabarton.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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The New Bezoviet Man | S.A. Barton
The New Bezoviet* Man Corporate Bezostan (of which I'll disclose I'm a paying non-citizen resident, or 'Primeate') has a pseudo-AI chatbot c
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S.A. Barton @sabarton.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
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Future Opinion: 12,126 | S.A. Barton
The Ancients had a particular ethic, difficult to understand with a modern mind and upbringing. Nearly every bit of media, language, and ima
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S.A. Barton @sabarton.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I mean, I was tweeting in 2015 that a man like Donald Trump would love nothing more to be a complete and total dictator, and here we are. But I need to calm down, and not be so extreme, and stop seeing what I see, and stop saying what I see. Or maybe I shouldn't indulge cowards who love fascism
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S.A. Barton @sabarton.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
And you read this and say, wow such vitriol. Yes, it is unfortunate that the United States is led by a government full of people who live their lives for the purpose of feeling and creating more of exactly that vitriol. Sorry I see what they're doing, but I'm not sorry
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S.A. Barton @sabarton.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Trumpites too fragile to accept the reality of 400 years of primary documents and eyewitness accounts cry because the dictatorship isn't allowed to establish an official fake lie history so they can hide in their special 20th century degenerate snowflake klan fantasy
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Dax, sapphic fantasy author @daxaeterna.ink · 10/06/2026
I hate genAI. I do not use it. I've already dropped *so many* tools from my workflow because they added AI features. But my writing process is private. It's influenced by my disabilities. And I don't like sharing that information.
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Dax, sapphic fantasy author @daxaeterna.ink · 10/06/2026
And that can be used to determine whether or not someone believes me when I say I don't use AI. And it shows a history of writing with time stamps. Which seems great but uh oh. I stopped writing mid sentence on June 3rd, but don't write again until July 5th? What was I doing during that time?
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Dax, sapphic fantasy author @daxaeterna.ink · 10/06/2026
But who defines what is "natural"? If I stop mid-sentence because I'm really, really trying to white knuckle it through a migraine but UH OH FUCK I need to puke.... Are puke breaks "natural"? Or too long and hinting that maybe I was in another tab asking ChatGPT something? It also assesses typing
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