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Chris McKitterick

@mckitterick.bsky.social

Writer, educator, Ad Astra SF Institute director, intersectional feminist, astro-guy, rescuer of baby animals, & new papa. https://adastra-sf.com/

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I'm so excited we're offering a new workshop for young people!

Starts Sunday - please help spread the word.

14.02.2026 05:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Very much looking forward to this!

14.02.2026 05:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I grew up in a conservative Christian church in MN that held fundraisers to support Hmong immigrants. Most Mnpls residents valued everyone no matter skin color or immigrant status & only progressed since. Yet regime thought they'd be on the side of federal agents attacking, kidnapping, & murdering?

25.01.2026 00:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This thread is amazing and inspiring.

Here's the source article:
margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/from-minne...

24.01.2026 16:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you're a writer, wondering why you should bother writing with the world on fire. It feels like it's not important, I need you to understand that it is.

Even if it is just because it keeps you moving forward? Even if it only brings YOU joy, that gives you energy to fight & survive.

16.01.2026 15:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1286    πŸ” 515    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 30
Letter from a Birmingham Jail [King, Jr.]

"An unjust law is a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself. This is difference made legal."

It is a good day to read Dr. King's Letter from a Birmingham Jail. It is a good day to do something.

19.01.2026 13:41 β€” πŸ‘ 91    πŸ” 33    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3

Imagine other horrors that could befall people uploading their consciousness / digitized minds in a capitalist society:

Weapons guidance, slave labor, anywhere "AI" fails. When your digital mind dies, they just reload a copy and carry on

Hello updated backstory of "I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream"

23.01.2026 20:13 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Hubble photo of the Centaurus A supermassive black hole, with the text: Empire Ship is HERE

Hubble photo of the Centaurus A supermassive black hole, with the text: Empire Ship is HERE

I’m excited to announce the launch of a fiction series over on my Patreon: My novel, Empire Ship, begins dropping in weekly installments starting now!

www.patreon.com/c/mckitteric...

16.12.2025 02:32 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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She Won. They Changed the Machines & Rewired the Election.
We know the R's interfered in the '24 elections (voter interference, voter-roll manipulation). Now we know those occupying the White House lost the election.

And they did it with Musk's help:
thiswillhold.substack.com/p/she-won-th...

21.06.2025 21:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Immigrants make America Great.

NO KINGS

15.06.2025 18:56 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#cyberpunk-dystopia

09.05.2025 23:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In these trying times, writerly solidarity and human connection is more important than ever. These workshops don't just help you master SF/F/H writing, they're an invitation to the large & dynamic Ad Astra writing community.

SF Summer has been the core of my year since 1992!

24.04.2025 22:01 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I like showing this map to "Gulf of Amerika" fans...

16.02.2025 22:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Gaslighting: the core Republican strategy DEI has become the new N-word; the new rightwing abstraction deployed byΒ RepublicansΒ to conceal their anti-Black racism DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion [aka DEIA, to include accessibility]) is…

Don't know if y'all are staying away from news, but here's my most recent rant about how the right wingnuts are weaponizing DEIA to attack women and minorities:

www.tumblr.com/mckitterick/...

13.02.2025 21:39 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks, I'd love some advice! Especially for the Ad Astra Institute blog.

13.02.2025 21:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

He mispronounced "bigotry."

30.01.2025 19:47 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Eyeball Surgery#1 complete, in bed cuddling Harvey.
During was like end of 2001 A Space Odyssey, psychedelic visions & felt going to die.
Saw ok after, now only laser afterimages, diffuse special effects. Disturbing but normal? Wearing cyberpunk eyegear for week then do again in 2 weeks, other eye.

09.01.2025 04:02 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Big winter storm about to hit what appears (on the radar map) to be most of the USA, thanks to a polar vortex driving south. Here in LFK we're expecting 8-12" of snow and a quarter inch of ice, plus 45mph winds. Prep for power outages, folks!

04.01.2025 00:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Once upon a time, not the entire internet was 4chan. Only 4chan was 4chan, because everywhere else would kick you out for Doing 4chan in their spaces.

It sounds utopian, but it is true.

14.12.2024 16:31 β€” πŸ‘ 15664    πŸ” 4355    πŸ’¬ 144    πŸ“Œ 112

Listening to our brand-new baby's little sing-song sleeping chatter with my beloved partner's breathing fills my heart with joy.

12.12.2024 08:49 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm now a poppa!

Harvey arrived into the world at 7 pounds 10 ounces, 21" long, beautiful, and healthy. I'm the luckiest man alive ❀

12.12.2024 08:09 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Let's do the USA next (though wait for mid-January), where change will do the most good.

04.12.2024 21:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Well-said. This has been driving me mad.

from Tumblr:
www.tumblr.com/mckitterick/...

04.12.2024 21:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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If you no longer need your EIN | Internal Revenue Service If you receive an EIN but decide you don’t need it, we can deactivate your EIN.

And here's how to formally shut down an inactive business:
www.irs.gov/businesses/s...

04.12.2024 19:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Huh, had no idea about this. Here's the website with more info:
boiefiling.fincen.gov

04.12.2024 19:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Had to search up some news, and still can't find a good reason for the declaration - apparently he just doesn't like opposition?
How cool would it be if the USA Democrats in office fought drumpf like this? But alas.

03.12.2024 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What the heck is going on? Why was martial law declared? Why would the North Korean leader be worried?

03.12.2024 16:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Our birdies have the same palette as the world outside today.

30.11.2024 23:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Peepers is the cutest little creature ever to creature.

30.11.2024 23:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0