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Jackie Barbosa 📚 ⚾ 🍺 🌮🇲🇽

@jackiebarbosa.bsky.social

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Romance writer/reader. Trained Classicist. Lefty (both kinds). HEAs forever. Semi-colon fan. I block randos. Find my books at https://jackiebarbosa.com

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Jackie Barbosa 📚 ⚾ 🍺 🌮🇲🇽 @jackiebarbosa.bsky.social · Dec 6

Ok, ok, twist my arm! @suburbanbeatnik.bsky.social, I guess you can consider this "out in the wild" and shareable now.

I don't know when this book will be released, but I'm working on it (and I might work harder/faster if y'all get excited, lol).

Cover of Ariadne and the Minotaur by J Barbosa. Image is a painting of a handsome man with bull's horns and ears in a clinch with a beautiful woman wearing a classic Minoan dress. They are in a dark room lit by a torch. Colors are primarily red and gold with some blue. Art is by Joanne Renaud (aka suburbanbeatnik).

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Jackie Barbosa 📚 ⚾ 🍺 🌮🇲🇽 @jackiebarbosa.bsky.social · 17m

Yes, the genre is "Snooty-sounding books about nothing that no one wants to read."

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Jackie Barbosa 📚 ⚾ 🍺 🌮🇲🇽 @jackiebarbosa.bsky.social · 31m

Literary fiction is not a genre.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 2d

As Democrats contemplate a 2026 or 2028 run and wonder what message will most motivate voters, they need to understand that the minimum opening bid is vengeance.

Justice for All - Truthdig

To restore the rule of law, Democrats must enforce the constitution with brass knuckles like there’s nothing to lose. Because there isn’t.

www.truthdig.com

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Jackie Barbosa 📚 ⚾ 🍺 🌮🇲🇽 @jackiebarbosa.bsky.social · 1h

I've coined a new word for those gory depictions of Jesus on the cross: a Grue-cifix(ion). They seem popular in Germany...

Jackie Barbosa 📚 ⚾ 🍺 🌮🇲🇽 @jackiebarbosa.bsky.social · 2h

We just crossed the Iller river and I immediately wanted to know if one of its tributaries is the A Little Under the Weather.

Jackie Barbosa 📚 ⚾ 🍺 🌮🇲🇽 @jackiebarbosa.bsky.social · 2h

I can also absolute see the "Disney" roots. The facade was designed by a stage set artist. There's a literal man-made cave inside the castle. I felt like I was walking through the original version of Fantasyland.

Jackie Barbosa 📚 ⚾ 🍺 🌮🇲🇽 @jackiebarbosa.bsky.social · 2h

We went to Neuschwanstein Castle today and it is both stunningly beautiful and a paean to the excessive personal wealth of a ruler I suspect was deeply insecure about his hold on power. And since he drowned in suspicious circs at 40, he was probably right.

Back elevation of Neuschwanstein from the path below.

View from the rear terrace of Alpsee lake and mountains beyond.

Front tower looking toward a rock outcropping.

Castle from the road below with green fields and tree covered hills in the foreground. The trees are showing fall colors

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Jackie Barbosa 📚 ⚾ 🍺 🌮🇲🇽 @jackiebarbosa.bsky.social · 6h

One of the best gifts my mom gave us was prepaying all her funeral expenses.

Jackie Barbosa 📚 ⚾ 🍺 🌮🇲🇽 @jackiebarbosa.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, yes, but also...as a parent of a child with learning disabilities, you cannot even get decent support even with everything you are currently entitled to. The current system grinds parents and kids.

Jackie Barbosa 📚 ⚾ 🍺 🌮🇲🇽 @jackiebarbosa.bsky.social · 1d

It's super weird that we are always on the brink of fascism but no one will actually admit that Rubicon has long since been crossed.

Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 1d

I just don't know what bad thing folks are waiting for to call this situation for what it is: Trump is systematically destroying institutions, business and political leaders, and entire communities he deems a threat to his permanent power.

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 2d

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Jackie Barbosa 📚 ⚾ 🍺 🌮🇲🇽 @jackiebarbosa.bsky.social · 2d

Dinglfing? Englschalking? You're punking me, German.

Jackie Barbosa 📚 ⚾ 🍺 🌮🇲🇽 @jackiebarbosa.bsky.social · 2d

German as a language really loves consonants...

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Jackie Barbosa 📚 ⚾ 🍺 🌮🇲🇽 @jackiebarbosa.bsky.social · 2d

Unsolicited Munich pics.

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Jackie Barbosa 📚 ⚾ 🍺 🌮🇲🇽 @jackiebarbosa.bsky.social · 2d

Munich is really making me doubt the supposed greatness of the U S of A. Every sidewalk here is perfect (aside from near construction sites, where they erect barricades to protect pedestrians instead of biasing everything to cars).

Jackie Barbosa 📚 ⚾ 🍺 🌮🇲🇽 @jackiebarbosa.bsky.social · 3d

Thought you meant Colorado's gov!

Jackie Barbosa 📚 ⚾ 🍺 🌮🇲🇽 @jackiebarbosa.bsky.social · 4d

California's governor is also a turncoat. He just turns it whenever the wind shifts.

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Jackie Barbosa 📚 ⚾ 🍺 🌮🇲🇽 @jackiebarbosa.bsky.social · 5d

Looks like a set from Severance.

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 5d

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all these data centers are going into communities that have been historically targeted for exploitation and have the least amount of civic power wielded by the people living there.

wordinblack.com/2025/09/alab...

Why Are Plans for This Alabama Data Center So Hush-Hush?

Officials in Bessemer, Alabama, are mum on Project Marvel, a proposed data center the size of 18 Walmart Supercenters.

wordinblack.com

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Jackie Barbosa 📚 ⚾ 🍺 🌮🇲🇽 @jackiebarbosa.bsky.social · 5d

On the plane to Munich. It's a little surreal.

Jackie Barbosa 📚 ⚾ 🍺 🌮🇲🇽 @jackiebarbosa.bsky.social · 5d

How can I take away their money? How can I bleed them dry?

Jackie Barbosa 📚 ⚾ 🍺 🌮🇲🇽 @jackiebarbosa.bsky.social · 5d

Just got a text asking for support for Newsom and honestly, can they not read a fucking room. I will cut a bitch.

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Jackie Barbosa 📚 ⚾ 🍺 🌮🇲🇽 @jackiebarbosa.bsky.social · 5d

Bite. Your. Tongue.

Jackie Barbosa 📚 ⚾ 🍺 🌮🇲🇽 @jackiebarbosa.bsky.social · 5d

I'm not sure it would substantially differ from the present situation, either.

Jackie Barbosa 📚 ⚾ 🍺 🌮🇲🇽 @jackiebarbosa.bsky.social · 5d

Oh, absolutely. He doesn't have a single principle in his body other than "what's good for me today". He's the worst California governor of my lifetime except Reagan.

Jackie Barbosa 📚 ⚾ 🍺 🌮🇲🇽 @jackiebarbosa.bsky.social · 5d

But even assuming the federal government could override California's Constitution, I doubt the GOP would do it on Newsom's behalf. He's terrible, but not terrible enough for them.

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