Christine
@klaxoncomms.com
Posts a lot of cat pictures. Former scholar of medieval Islamic history who now writes and podcasts about SciFi and Fantasy at Hugo History: https://klaxoncomms.com/hugo-history/
Queer/Ace/ADHD. #Vancouver 🇨🇦
Queer/Ace/ADHD. #Vancouver 🇨🇦
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If you leave a Waymo’s door partially open the company has to pay a human $20 to come close it, please use this information responsibly.
December 31, 2025 at 7:32 AM
If you leave a Waymo’s door partially open the company has to pay a human $20 to come close it, please use this information responsibly.
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"The Human's world ends soon," said the cat.
"Again?" said the dog.
"They are fond of endings and beginnings. Even if nothing changes."
The dog whined.
"Same procedure as last year?" said the cat.
"Please."
The cat lay on the dog's head and purred, muffling the fireworks.
#CrossRepost
"Again?" said the dog.
"They are fond of endings and beginnings. Even if nothing changes."
The dog whined.
"Same procedure as last year?" said the cat.
"Please."
The cat lay on the dog's head and purred, muffling the fireworks.
#CrossRepost
December 31, 2025 at 7:15 PM
"The Human's world ends soon," said the cat.
"Again?" said the dog.
"They are fond of endings and beginnings. Even if nothing changes."
The dog whined.
"Same procedure as last year?" said the cat.
"Please."
The cat lay on the dog's head and purred, muffling the fireworks.
#CrossRepost
"Again?" said the dog.
"They are fond of endings and beginnings. Even if nothing changes."
The dog whined.
"Same procedure as last year?" said the cat.
"Please."
The cat lay on the dog's head and purred, muffling the fireworks.
#CrossRepost
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i have very rapidly become incapable of thinking about anything that isn’t this video
December 29, 2025 at 9:14 PM
i have very rapidly become incapable of thinking about anything that isn’t this video
I knew I was an outlier, but I didn't realize I was THIS MUCH of an outlier.
NEW: How many books did you read this year? If it was more than 2, congrats: you read more than the median American.
Read on for way more @today.yougov.com polling from me on America's book-reading habits in 2025. 1/
Read on for way more @today.yougov.com polling from me on America's book-reading habits in 2025. 1/
December 31, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I knew I was an outlier, but I didn't realize I was THIS MUCH of an outlier.
I wrote about @oliviawaite.com's lovely space detective series. This is the second book in the series, which is coming out later this Spring. You can go grab Book 1, Murder by Memory, while you wait!
Book Review: Nobody’s Baby by Olivia Waite
Cozy noir-style space mystery featuring a gender-bending detective and lots of queer characters
@klaxoncomms.com finishes out our year at NOAF with her review
www.nerds-feather.com/2025/12/book...
Cozy noir-style space mystery featuring a gender-bending detective and lots of queer characters
@klaxoncomms.com finishes out our year at NOAF with her review
www.nerds-feather.com/2025/12/book...
Book Review: Nobody’s Baby by Olivia Waite
Cozy noir-style space mystery featuring a gender-bending detective and lots of queer characters You are aboard the HMS Fairweather , a space...
www.nerds-feather.com
December 31, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I wrote about @oliviawaite.com's lovely space detective series. This is the second book in the series, which is coming out later this Spring. You can go grab Book 1, Murder by Memory, while you wait!
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Years and years ago at an AHA, a reporter at the Chronicle asked me what I'd like to see from them in the coming year and I said "Try to go a week without quoting a professor from an Ivy league school."
I am re-upping that request but I'd like to broaden the publications it applies to.
I am re-upping that request but I'd like to broaden the publications it applies to.
December 31, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Years and years ago at an AHA, a reporter at the Chronicle asked me what I'd like to see from them in the coming year and I said "Try to go a week without quoting a professor from an Ivy league school."
I am re-upping that request but I'd like to broaden the publications it applies to.
I am re-upping that request but I'd like to broaden the publications it applies to.
Finally finished The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (2024) by Bettany Hughes. It was a good book; it did not deserve to sit on my 'still reading' shelf for over a year.
My one big end of year book tradition is that I try to spend the week between Xmas and NYE finishing the books that I started during the year but never got around to finishing. If I really don't want to finish them, I let myself abandon them. It's my little Book Jubilee.
December 31, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Finally finished The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (2024) by Bettany Hughes. It was a good book; it did not deserve to sit on my 'still reading' shelf for over a year.
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Service journalism at its finest subscribe to @coyotemedia.org
because sometimes it's fun digging into our weird little cultural habits... I've been wondering why I kept running into dogs named Mochi in the Bay Area, so I asked about a dozen local pet owners why they chose that name! click thru for so many pet pix!! www.coyotemedia.org/why-we-cant-...
Why We Can't Stop Naming Our Pets After Japanese Rice Cakes
What's behind the Bay Area's collective interest in naming pets after Japanese food?
www.coyotemedia.org
December 31, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Service journalism at its finest subscribe to @coyotemedia.org
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Just texted a friend "can you remind me when you're around tomorrow/overmorrow" and I just think if a few of us really gave it a try suuuper casually we could bring back this word for day after tomorrow next year
December 31, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Just texted a friend "can you remind me when you're around tomorrow/overmorrow" and I just think if a few of us really gave it a try suuuper casually we could bring back this word for day after tomorrow next year
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I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.
September 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.
Okay. You have all convinced my to read Sour Cherry.
December 30, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Okay. You have all convinced my to read Sour Cherry.
My one big end of year book tradition is that I try to spend the week between Xmas and NYE finishing the books that I started during the year but never got around to finishing. If I really don't want to finish them, I let myself abandon them. It's my little Book Jubilee.
December 30, 2025 at 7:06 PM
My one big end of year book tradition is that I try to spend the week between Xmas and NYE finishing the books that I started during the year but never got around to finishing. If I really don't want to finish them, I let myself abandon them. It's my little Book Jubilee.
This started as a hippo, became a cow, and now might be a cat? I’m not very good at faces.
December 30, 2025 at 3:50 AM
This started as a hippo, became a cow, and now might be a cat? I’m not very good at faces.
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Friends, it's that time: I need a list of slang and pop culture references the kids are using. Stuff relevant to HS-age students
December 29, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Friends, it's that time: I need a list of slang and pop culture references the kids are using. Stuff relevant to HS-age students
I was at a museum (I think a Smithsonian) when Tea Leoni and Tim Daly were there. I passed them a couple of times.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 29, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I was at a museum (I think a Smithsonian) when Tea Leoni and Tim Daly were there. I passed them a couple of times.
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If you think of "hiring in entry level positions" as "procuring labor to do the tasks entry level people do" then you probably do think AI is a magical headcount reduction machine.
But the point of hiring in entry level positions is to produce mid-career employees.
But the point of hiring in entry level positions is to produce mid-career employees.
December 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
If you think of "hiring in entry level positions" as "procuring labor to do the tasks entry level people do" then you probably do think AI is a magical headcount reduction machine.
But the point of hiring in entry level positions is to produce mid-career employees.
But the point of hiring in entry level positions is to produce mid-career employees.
This cat is 100% waiting for me to get up so she can steal my chair.
December 29, 2025 at 7:27 PM
This cat is 100% waiting for me to get up so she can steal my chair.
Okay. I looked at the syllabus template we're required to use now. Does that count as my work for the day?
December 29, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Okay. I looked at the syllabus template we're required to use now. Does that count as my work for the day?
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Every post from @sffreview.bsky.social - which I’ve now blocked - reads like genAI, and based on their posts, is an outlet no one should support in any way.
December 28, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Every post from @sffreview.bsky.social - which I’ve now blocked - reads like genAI, and based on their posts, is an outlet no one should support in any way.
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Haunting festive presence.
December 27, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Haunting festive presence.
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Has anyone done the longform investigation into why the hug emoji looks like a projector because I really feel like that would be a fascinating series of interviews.
December 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Has anyone done the longform investigation into why the hug emoji looks like a projector because I really feel like that would be a fascinating series of interviews.
I follow a fair number of people, so I have made a smaller feed to make sure that I don't miss my friends and favorite posters. That's the feed I look at most. After that, I mostly just use following. I follow some special interest feeds (like one for History; Vancouver; Reading; medievalists).+
What feed do you look at most on here?
For all that people talk about wanting to avoid algorithmically-curated feeds, the (pareto) pattern of engagement I see seems to bely that.
My hunch is that most people spend most of their time on feeds like Popular With Friends or Discover.
Y/N?
For all that people talk about wanting to avoid algorithmically-curated feeds, the (pareto) pattern of engagement I see seems to bely that.
My hunch is that most people spend most of their time on feeds like Popular With Friends or Discover.
Y/N?
December 29, 2025 at 4:42 AM
I follow a fair number of people, so I have made a smaller feed to make sure that I don't miss my friends and favorite posters. That's the feed I look at most. After that, I mostly just use following. I follow some special interest feeds (like one for History; Vancouver; Reading; medievalists).+
I am trying to learn some things about anatomy. It’s hard (for me).
December 28, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I am trying to learn some things about anatomy. It’s hard (for me).
I wonder how the computer chooses what books to put in the 'year in review' image. I am amused at the prominent placement of both "Copagnda" and "Floored: A Woman's Guide to Pelvic Floor Health." Also, of the 14 books in the image, FOUR are by @drewhayesnovels.bsky.social.
December 28, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I wonder how the computer chooses what books to put in the 'year in review' image. I am amused at the prominent placement of both "Copagnda" and "Floored: A Woman's Guide to Pelvic Floor Health." Also, of the 14 books in the image, FOUR are by @drewhayesnovels.bsky.social.
For the Neko Atsume fans: two cow cat butts in a cow tube!
December 28, 2025 at 5:57 AM
For the Neko Atsume fans: two cow cat butts in a cow tube!