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Michael M. Jones
@oneminutemonkey.bsky.social
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writer. book reviewer. anthologist. owned by cats. very sleepy. often stressed. mostly harmless. cryptically queer. he/him. SFWA. Codex. MFA in Childrens' Literature from Hollins University. I support diversity, inclusion, representation.
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oneminutemonkey.bsky.social
Publishers Weekly let me interview another author.
I spoke to Jessie Sylva, who has a delightful cozy romantasy coming out soon...
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
November 26, 2025 at 6:32 PM
oneminutemonkey.bsky.social
If you pirate my work instead of buying it— fuck you.
kristadb1.bsky.social Krista D. Ball: Canada's Snarky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 3d
I posted a buy link here to "A Magical Inheritance" a few days ago, and 24 of you immediately went to Anna's Archives and fucking stole it from me.

Yes, stole it.

I do not get paid for your download there because YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME.

🖕
November 25, 2025 at 12:17 AM
oneminutemonkey.bsky.social
Master list of my publications this year:
“Due to Unforeseen Circumstances, The Apocalypse May Be Postponed” - @metastellar.bsky.social
www.metastellar.com/fiction/flas...

“Training Day in the Blackdeep Dungeon” - @dreamtheorymedia.bsky.social
www.dreamtheory.media/training-day...

1/3
Due to Unforeseen Circumstances, The Apocalypse May Be Postponed
When the Four Riders of the Apocalypse wake up in Las Vegas after one last blowout before the end of the world, they pause for reflection…
www.metastellar.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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thedeadlands.com
bit overwhelmed by the influx of patrons

🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

PATRONS

support us and get access to our ePub/print issues

YOU CAN DO THAT, really.

also support tiers increasing in new year 😿

but if you sign up this year NO INCREASE,

really.
psychopomp.com Psychopomp @psychopomp.com · 4d
thanks for all the kind words 🖤🥲

thank you to everyone that showed up to support @thedeadlands.com via Patreon

this is how we keep publishing that zine, with your support

🙏🏻🖤💀

if you want to support us + read great death fiction/poetry/nonfic, here is the link:

psychopomp.com/deadlands/pa...
Get more from The Deadlands on Patreon
a zine containing fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about Death
psychopomp.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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maxberger.bsky.social
Just to review, in the last week the President of the United States:

- Refused to condemn the rise of Neo-Nazis in his party
- Tried to block the release of further evidence he sexually abused children
- Encouraged the execution of Congressional Democrats

Those are just factual statements.
November 20, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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acyn.bsky.social
AOC to @pabloreports.bsky.social : A swastika is one of the clearest symbols of hatred in all of humanity… to remove that designation… indicates a possible collaboration with those very elements, which I think is genuinely frightening to any American.
November 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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smotus.bsky.social
It's always hard to pick a worst day politically, but today the president called for the death of members of the opposition party, and the administration decided that people were being too hard on the swastika
November 21, 2025 at 4:15 AM
oneminutemonkey.bsky.social
It's a hard choice but I'm going with:
“The Regrettable Loneliness of the Great Wizard Graveblossom’s Door” -
Worlds of Possibility, April 2025
--cozy fantasy comedy with knock-knock jokes--
It's a funny, silly, intimate little piece and I love it.
www.patreon.com/juliarios/sh...
November 8, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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acyn.bsky.social
Mamdani: So Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up.
November 5, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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trans.bsky.social
TRANS RIGHTS ARE A WINNING POLITICAL ISSUE

Every single centrist claiming we must all compromise our bodily autonomy for their personal comfort is a traitor to American democracy & rational human decency.

They have no place in a modern Democratic Party, toss them out. Total liberation for all.
estibass.com esti @estibass.com · Jun 25
Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.
Zohran standing amidst a crowd in winter clothing
November 5, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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seananmcguire.bsky.social
Any unsolicited email that includes something like "I’m part of a private readers community about 2000+ active readers and social media reviewers. We’re not some forced review for hire thing. We just spotlight books that actually deserve to be seen, and yours hit that nerve." is a scam. I'm sorry.
November 4, 2025 at 5:39 PM
oneminutemonkey.bsky.social
Mark Harmon, star of the criminally underrated movie Summer School (1987)
NCIS what?
November 3, 2025 at 6:55 AM
oneminutemonkey.bsky.social
For the Sunday audience
November 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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oneminutemonkey.bsky.social
The latest issue of @bafflingmag.bsky.social is live with my queer fantasy romance, "The Bureaucromancer's Duel" and I couldn't be more thrilled.

www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...
The Bureaucromancers’ Duel — Baffling Magazine
by Michael M. Jones “One fine afternoon in early autumn, Clive of the Endless Sentence challenged Grimelda of the Precise Paragraph to a sorcerous duel…”
www.bafflingmag.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:35 PM
oneminutemonkey.bsky.social
The latest issue of @bafflingmag.bsky.social is live with my queer fantasy romance, "The Bureaucromancer's Duel" and I couldn't be more thrilled.

www.bafflingmag.com/issue-twenty...
The Bureaucromancers’ Duel — Baffling Magazine
by Michael M. Jones “One fine afternoon in early autumn, Clive of the Endless Sentence challenged Grimelda of the Precise Paragraph to a sorcerous duel…”
www.bafflingmag.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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drsubini.blacksky.app
A reminder-there are really great books about magic that center Black & Brown & queer characters where profits don't go to tearing down trans community=The Marvellers @dhonielle.bsky.social; Nic Blake @angiethomas.bsky.social ; The Vanquishers-Kaylynn Bayron; Amari & The Night Brothers-B.B. Alston
elierlick.bsky.social Eli Erlick @elierlick.bsky.social · Oct 25
A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.
October 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
oneminutemonkey.bsky.social
These cruel, inhumane fuckers just won’t stop.
npr.org NPR @npr.org · 27d
The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too. n.pr/4qFa1mY
Trump pushes an end to medical care for transgender youth nationally
The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too.
n.pr
October 30, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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seananmcguire.bsky.social
Please, please, don't. If a convention wants you to sign a contract, get someone to read it over for you, and watch for red flags. No single show is worth courting a lawsuit, or your career. You're worth more than that, and you have a long time to prove it.
October 24, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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fiztig.bsky.social
All this beautiful artisanship destroyed. Historical societies everywhere will be devastated 😞
East Wing lobby looking towards the external entrance before it was destroyed. Part of the East Wing colonnade overlooking the Kennedy Garden with amazing herringbone tiling and gorgeous oversized windows. All destroyed, including the garden. East Wing colonnade with its traditional white walls and herringbone tiling. Destroyed. East Wing lobby with quarter-sawn hardwood detailing and panelling. Destroyed.
October 24, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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mikechenwriter.bsky.social
I found a really good summary of why the White House's demolition process is illegal. It's in the comments of this architect trade journal/forum archinect.com/forum/thread...
1. Initial Proposal: The White House is managed by the National Park Service (NPS) but used by the Executive Office of the President (EOP). Any proposed change, even by a sitting president, begins internally through the Office of the Curator and the White House Facilities Management Division. 2. Historic Review: The NPS, as custodian of the White House under the Presidential Residence Act and National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), must review all alterations for compliance with Section 106 of the NHPA. This requires assessing potential impacts on historic and cultural resources in consultation with the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) and the D.C. State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO). 3. Planning & Environmental Oversight: The National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) evaluates all major federal projects in the National Capital Region, including work on the White House grounds, for design, planning, and environmental impacts under NEPA (the National Environmental Policy Act). Public comment and design reviews are part of that process. 4. Aesthetic Review: The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts (CFA) reviews and advises on the design and appearance of any exterior modifications to the White House or its grounds. 5. Final Authorization: After approvals from NPS, NCPC, and CFA, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the White House Chief Usher / Facilities Management Office finalize funding, scheduling, and logistics. Only after completing this full process could any major construction or demolition legally begin. Section 107, let’s talk about it. The above process has always been the process taken, and here’s why. Section 107 of the National Historic Preservation Act exempts the White House, the U.S. Capitol, and the Supreme Court from being legally required to go through the Act’s formal Section 106 review. In other words, the law doesn’t automatically force those branches to follow the same procedures as other federal buildings. That exemption exists only because each branch of government controls its own seat of power, it was never intended as a free pass to ignore preservation, planning, or environmental rules altogether. In practice, every administration since the 1960s has followed the same review structure out of duty, accountability, and executive-branch policy. The White House is still federal property, managed by the National Park Service under the Presidential Residence Act and subject to Executive Order 11593, which requires federal agencies to protect and consult on historic resources. Major exterior or site work still triggers National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) and U.S. Commission of Fine Arts (CFA) design reviews, along with NEPA environmental assessments. Any project involving government resources must also comply with the Anti-Deficiency Act and federal ethics rules on funding and gifts. Section 107 means the NHPA can’t force compliance, but presidents are still bound by a network of executive orders, planning statutes, environmental laws, and constitutional duties. That’s why the process described isn’t optional, it’s the framework that has always protected the people’s house from unilateral or politically motivated alteration.
October 23, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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luciaromano.bsky.social
This is the clearest way to explain it.
October 22, 2025 at 8:44 PM
oneminutemonkey.bsky.social
Oh no, it won't touch the East Wing, he said.
He'll respect the White House, he said.

Trump is a disrespectful, destructive, lying sack of rancid weasel shit who ignored all of the proper procedures, permissions, protocols and permits to demolish first, fuck about afterwards.
celestepewter.bsky.social Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · Oct 22
Not surprised, Trump lied.

The entirety of the East Wing will be torn down. And yes, we should be disgusted about this.
Trump Administration Live Updates: White House Changes Course and Will Demolish Entire East Wing
www.nytimes.com
October 22, 2025 at 10:18 PM
oneminutemonkey.bsky.social
Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only
October 19, 2025 at 5:48 PM
oneminutemonkey.bsky.social
What’s the best one liner in movie history?
October 17, 2025 at 2:04 AM
oneminutemonkey.bsky.social
We live in dark fucking times for freedom of speech and the freedom of the press.
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Oct 15
“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said
Oct. 15, 2025 PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION STATEMENT Today, the Defense Department confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. It did this because reporters would not sign onto a new media policy over its implicit threat of criminalizing national security reporting and exposing those who sign it to potential prosecution. The Pentagon Press Association's members are still committed to reporting on the U.S. military. But make no mistake, today, Oct. 15, 2025 is a dark day for press freedom that raises concerns about a weakening U.S. commitment to transparency in governance, to public accountability at the Pentagon and to free speech for all. PPA
October 15, 2025 at 10:13 PM