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matthewclaxton.bsky.social
Semi-failed science fiction and fantasy writer, semi-successful local newspaper reporter. Deeply confused most of the time. Only here now for occasional updates. He/him
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Wrote this the other day, thought it was all right:

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

Tonight, Trump will be haunted by the ghost of Gord Downie, filling his restless sleep with incomprehensible songs about hockey players and wrongfully convicted Saskatchewanians. We'll know this is true when Trump starts making up stories about his friend, Bob Cajun.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Congrats on the sale! 🚀 That's amazing! Remember what Arthur C. Clarke said: "The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them." Can't wait to read it! 🪐📚 #SciFi #

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Looks like I've sold a science fiction story, for the first time in, uh, a while. But still! A sale! I'll be back with details in a few weeks when the contracts are signed so you can all go subscribe to [MAGAZINE NAME REDACTED] in time to read it!

submitted 29 days ago • 4 comments

Buffalo goring, 56-hour weeks alleged as Surrey-Langley facility faces shutdown www.surreynowleader.com/local-news/b... @matthewclaxton.bsky.social

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

When your story involves the words "gored by a water buffalo" that goes in the lede, the hed, everywhere.

submitted 32 days ago • 3 comments

From one of my talented colleagues: Canada geese are fucking tough, guys!

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

Wrote a column last week that suggested the U.S. annexing Canada would be like trying to swallow a very large pinecone, pointy end first. Seemed appropriate for the day.

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Hello! I've been gone for most of the last month, after I decided to take a break from Bluesky/social media. Anyway, I'm not coming back. At least, not regularly. You guys are cool, but I felt less anxious and my attention span got longer after a couple weeks not using this site.

submitted 55 days ago • 3 comments

Making a brief seasonal return to post John M. Ford's Arthurian-steam-engine poem, "Winter Solstice, Camelot Station." thegreenbelt.blogspot.com/2006/12/wint...

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

Going to try to take a significant break from social media (and possibly from much of the internet in general) over December, so I'll see you after the New Year! Have a good mid-winter season, everyone!

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment

Jeholopterus Copic Marker and colored pencil on Fabriano paper 11.8″ x 8.3″ (30 x 21 cm) Original sold #paleoart #SciArt #paleoillustration #paleontology #animalart

submitted 89 days ago • 9 comments

What an emotional roller coaster #vanpoli

submitted 90 days ago • 5 comments

Looking a little 🌈 today

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

We're thankful to hear that Wisdom, the world's oldest banded bird, has returned to Midway Atoll for the breeding season AND has already laid an egg! At 74+ years old, Wisdom is changing our understanding of #seabird biology. Welcome back & congrats! #ornithology friendsofmidway.org/wisdom-was-s...

submitted 89 days ago • 5 comments

Feels like William Gibson and Bruce Sterling got drunk in a bar together and wrote the last dozen years of history before they sobered up.

submitted 89 days ago • 5 comments

A new publisher of Tutis-level awfulness: Revelation Press! Here are some highlights from their catalogue: The Call of the Wild, with added derp

submitted 89 days ago • 9 comments

Graphic novel/collected edition recommendations – looking for a recent title for someone who has really enjoyed Saga and Paper Girls, and also Mouse Guard – sci-fi and fantasy stuff, not superheroes. Anyone got any recommendations so I can pick something up before Christmas delivery deadlines?

submitted 89 days ago • 2 comments

Work in progress! I'll post it when It's done 👍🏾

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment