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Aubrey Jones

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Genderqueer, anarchist, autistic author of pulp fantasy; a deserter from the trenches of tech; addicted to making. (they/any) STORY COMMISSIONS OPEN: Starting at $10. DM for info! For more info about my books, check out https://readaubreyjones.com

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Aubrey Jones @aubreyjones.bsky.social · Aug 16

Hi! I'm Aubrey!

I write literate, pulpy fantasy novels with queer, neurodivergent characters and anarchist vibes.

IDLE HANDS is neo-noir about rage, pride, and the Devil in Philadelphia.

THE LIVING SEA is a hopepunk serial about adventure, love, and stealing polar ice from towering demons.

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 10h

They have to have a backup plan to the "dangerous immigrants" narrative. They have one. They've literally created a "terrorist group" out of thin air. I mean, you can't be having free and fair elections with "enemies from within," like the "Antifa Terrorist" group running around. It's a pretext.

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Aubrey Jones @aubreyjones.bsky.social · 7h

I really want to do HEMA again, but I just asked the club here what their process was to keep out nazis (very common in HEMA).

They were like "everybody in the community is a good person". Which just reads like they're a nazi-friendly org.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 8h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 11h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · 14h

i want the Magica Riot series to be a hit, even beyond what it's done so far, both because I want to have money to live and also because I want to show that trans characters deserve to be heroes and treated like equals 💜

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

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Shadow Spark Publishing @shadowsparkpub.bsky.social · 10h

🧚 PRE ORDER ALERT 🧚

We're excited to announce that The Cursed of Atharia, Ameila Grime's (@amygrimes.bsky.social debut novel is now on pre-order. Check out the blurb below and follow the link for more info.

Preorder here: books2read.com/u/bQvrXv

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Aubrey Jones @aubreyjones.bsky.social · 10h

BREAKING: Americans across the political spectrum today united to say: cutting off part of your baby's genitals because the corn flake guy hated gooners is pretty much the same as taking Tylenol.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 11h

"don't worry, we'll vote them out in November"

the voting in November:

Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 1d

I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News.

Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios.

www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

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Aubrey Jones @aubreyjones.bsky.social · 10h

Would be a shame if China backed Venezuela and tried to take Taiwan at the same time as US invasion of Venezuela... and then the US lost WW3 and got chopped up into demilitarized pieces administered by like China, Chile, and the Republic of Chad.

A damn shame.

Aubrey Jones @aubreyjones.bsky.social · 11h

It's so disorienting! I'm glad you had your phone!

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Aubrey Jones @aubreyjones.bsky.social · 11h

Just learning today that TRON is not a beloved old movie that people fondly and widely recall.

We had it on VHS and it was my brother's favorite movie for a lot of our childhood. I've seen TRON easily 200 times. I love that shit.

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Dgar @dgar.bsky.social · 1d

I threw a ball for my dog.

It’s a bit extravagant, I know, but it was her birthday and she looks great in a frock.

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Aubrey Jones @aubreyjones.bsky.social · 11h

Eh... turns out this is more like they're building a dedicated barracks on a US airbase that already has barracks for foreign fighter pilots exchanged here for training.

Not an autonomous base like the US puts in other countries.

Aubrey Jones @aubreyjones.bsky.social · 11h

It's me. I'm the dirty sub cuck.

But I've also got an auditory disorder, so we're gonna have the captions on too.

And I'll turn off the whole fucking thing if it the only captions they have are subtitles for the Japanese that don't match the English audio.

glow moss @tolecrien.bsky.social · 14h

Imagine meeting the love of your life and you find out they watch dubbed anime

Aubrey Jones @aubreyjones.bsky.social · 11h

I'm mad at them, but I also haven't found a better place to flog my shit yet. I'm too pathologically burnt out on tech to even configure a self-hosted storefront for myself, and any solution is beholden to the fucking paypros anyway.

I do have my split set to 0% because fuck 'em.

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A Spooky Goose @anarchygoose.bsky.social · 14h

I know people have moved on from being mad at Itch but I will always be mad.

Until Itch gives every LGBTQ creator on their platform a million dollars to make up for the stress of their maliciousness and incompetenceI will hold that grudge so tight it makes my hand bleed.

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Aubrey Jones @aubreyjones.bsky.social · 11h

Hey nazis, frog is ours again! All forms and representations.

Fuck it, all amphibians are transgender antifa.

Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · 12h

I don’t think we’re talking enough about the fact that we successfully took back the frog. Like it has been a meme for the alt right for years now, and thanks to these Portland inflatable costumes, we’re taking it back

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Robert Gravemound 👻🦇🎃 @robpertray.bsky.social · 13h

they gave the nobel peace prize to the most loyal and militaristic face of imperialism—a far-right coup-plotter funded by the US. this is nothing more than a push to manufacture consent for a war of regime change against the democratically elected socialist government of Venezuela

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Aubrey Jones @aubreyjones.bsky.social · 11h

Okay, look... I'm an anti-imperialist anarchist. I know we have bases around the world. I know we're the bad guys.

But as a citizen of the Empire, why in the actual fuck is the Imperial Regime allowing foreign bases on territorial soil? Aren't we the boss? This is some vassal state shit.

Axios @axios.com · 11h

NEW: Qatar will build an air force facility at Idaho's Mountain Home Airbase, the U.S. and Qatar jointly announced today.

Qatar to build air force facility on U.S. base in Idaho

Laura Loomer and other MAGA figures expressed shock and outrage, but the deal was long in the making.

www.axios.com

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Aubrey Jones @aubreyjones.bsky.social · 11h

"How dare they link our favorite unnecessary nonconsensual mutilation to a neurotype we infantalize and devalue!" --Americans

Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 1d

Kamala Harris just said “it’s fucked up,” what RFK Jr. is doing at HHS with linking circumcision to autism today.

Aubrey Jones @aubreyjones.bsky.social · 11h

Yeah, those are good points.

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 13h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Aubrey Jones @aubreyjones.bsky.social · 12h

Undocumented immigrants aren't granted 2nd amendment rights, so I doubt the non-criminals being targeted by ICE are commonly strapped.

The rest of us aren't trying to be the asshole who gets blamed for starting the bugaloo.

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 13h

Seeing pictures of an abandoned tamale cart in Pilsen where ICE took a tamale street vendor. Those photos of left behind carts are so haunting. Community members disappeared. Not just vendors but people who have long standing relationships with the community and people.

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Aubrey Jones @aubreyjones.bsky.social · 12h

The fuck is a clinic sister?