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JP Behrens
@jpbehrens.bsky.social
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Writer, Reader, Tai Chi Practitioner. Occasionally, I sleep. Find me on Patreon, SubStack, Goodreads, and YouTube.
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JP Behrens @jpbehrens.bsky.social · Nov 4
#Dems want to destroy the ballroom. Why waste the opportunity? Convert it into a massive library of #bannedbooks instead. Call it the Donald Trump Memorial Banned Book Library and open it to the public. He’ll hate it. #Resist

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Google, Facebook, Amazon, Tesla/Twitter, and other mega CEOs have blood on their hands. They made #Trump president and we all need to ask ourselves what do we NEED? Next day shipping? FB or insta feeds? Switch to DuckDuckGo for searches. Delete accounts. Destroy their revenue streams. #RESIST #RISE
January 8, 2026 at 10:07 PM
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Has anyone asked Dean Cain how he responds to his #ICE brothers in arms committing #murder? How would Superman respond? Maybe he should do a little soul searching on if he’s backing the right people. Even Red Son Superman wouldn’t have stood for this kind of criminality.
January 8, 2026 at 9:57 PM
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We are living under a dictatorship with its own secret police(#ICE). We have a military that is sworn to protect our nation from all enemies, foreign and domestic. These two things should not co-exist. The larger machine of the government must abandon #Trump before he sets off WW3. #RESIST #RISE
January 8, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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Been having issues with my website’s shop. I THINK I got it fixed. Now just need someone to buy something and see if I’m right.
January 8, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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I know everyone is loving on “Golden” from “KPop Demon Hunters”, but “What It Sounds Like” is the better song. #Huntrx #KPOP
January 8, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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@cwtycho.penny-arcade.com I’ll be at PAX East for Saturday. If you want the sequel to Missing in Miskatonic, DM me. I’ll slap one right into your hand. If you’re interested.
Cover of Murder in the Monashee Mountains by JP Behrens
January 5, 2026 at 9:46 PM
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Duel by Richard Matheson

4 Stars

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33554
Cover of Duel by Richard Matheson
December 31, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Absolute Superman, Vol. 1: Last Dust of Krypton by Jason Aaron

4 Stars

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/227445953
Cover of Absolute Superman Vol 1
December 28, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates

5 Stars

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/210943364
Cover of The Message by Ta-Nevis Coates
December 27, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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New Podcast featuring Portrait!

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Portrait of a Nuclear Family: Holiday Horror Unwrapped - S01E20
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December 27, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Marvel Tales by J. Michael Straczynski

4 Stars

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/230025677
Cover of Marvel Tales by J. Michael Straczynski
December 25, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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Burn to Shine by Jonathan Maberry

5 stars

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/211004164
Cover of Burn to Shine by Jonathan Maberry
December 25, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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a young boy wearing a hat is standing in front of a door with a sign that says `` escape '' .
ALT: a young boy wearing a hat is standing in front of a door with a sign that says `` escape '' .
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December 24, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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@cwtycho.penny-arcade.com @cwgabriel.bsky.social I want it known, I am making a serious sacrifice to be at #PAXEAST this year. One so monumental, I can’t speak of it in public. My kids better appreciate this…
December 20, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Absolute Batman, Vol. 1: The Zoo by Scott Snyder

4 Stars

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/223329645
Cover of Absolute Batman, Vol. 1: The Zoo by Scott Snyder
December 14, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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The Complete Robot by Isaac Asimov

5 Stars

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50091
The cover of The Complete Robot by Isaac Asimov
December 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann

5 Stars

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6443394

This completes my Goodreads Reading challenge for 2025.
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann 5 Stars
December 13, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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Not gonna lie. With streaming services and major studios bowing to/ investing in #AI, I’ll be cutting my subscriptions and reading more books. I will not support the death of #creativity. Let’s make #readingcoolagain.
December 12, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Set up and ready to sell #books, #boardgames, and #enamelpins at #FandomFleaMarket in #Hartford, #CT.

I’ll be here both days, but some vendors are one day only. Swing by and do some last minute Xmas shopping for unique, one of a kind items.
Set up and ready to sell #books, #boardgames, and #enamelpins at #FandomFleaMarket in #Hartford, #CT. I’ll be here both days, but some vendors are one day only. Swing by and do some last minute Xmas shopping for unique, one of a kind items.
December 6, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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An excerpt from “Galley Slave,” by Issac Asimov. Substitute #AI for robots.

Human-centric Creativity Matters.

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He was breathing hard and there was no hesitation in his speech, no searching for precision. It was as though he had no further use for precision. He said, 'For two hundred and fifty years, the machine has been replacing Man and destroying the handcraftsman. Pottery is spewed out of molds and presses. Works of art have been replaced by identical gimcracks stamped out on a die. Call it progress, if you wish! The artist is restricted to abstractions, confined to the world of ideas. He must design something in mind - and then the machine does the rest. 'Do you suppose the potter is content with mental creation? Do you suppose the idea is enough? That there is nothing in the feel of the clay itself, in watching the thing actual growth doesn't act as a feedback to modify and improve the idea?' 'You are not a potter,' said Dr Calvin. I am a creative artist! I design and build articles and books. There is more to it than the mere thinking of words would be no pleasure in it, no return. and of putting them in the right order. If that were all, there Sours 0Д * A book should take shape in the hands of the writer. One - che muscu must actually see the chapters grow and develop. One must work and re-work and watch the changes take place beyond the original concept even. There is taking the galleys in hand and seeing how the sentences look in print and molding them again. There are a hundred contacts between a man and his work at every stage of the game - and the contact itself is pleasurable and repays a man for the work he puts into his creation more than anything else could. Your robot would take all that away' •So does a typewriter. So does a printing press. Do you propose to return to the hand illumination of manuscripts? 'Typewriters and printing presses take away some, but Mecha your robot would deprive us of all. Your robot takes over the galleys. Soon it, or other robots, would take over the original writing, the searching of the sources, the checking 120 and cross-checking of passages, perhaps even the deduction of conclusions. What would that leave the scholar? One thing only - the barren decisions concerning what orders t0 give the robot next! I want to save the future generations of the world of scholarship from such a final hell. That meant more to me than even my own reputation and so I set out to
December 5, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Justice League: Darkseid War – Power of the Gods by Francis Manapul

3 Stars

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25810151
Cover of Darkseid War: Power of the Gods
December 4, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Rage by Richard Bachman aka Stephen King

4 Stars

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66370
Cover of Rage by Stephen King
December 4, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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New #Substack! Don’t miss out on #announcements and sign up!

#newsletter #conventions #ct #hartford #FandomFleaMarket #TerrifiCon
Fandom Flea Market
Hartford, CT Convention Center Dec 3-4
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December 2, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Justice League: The Darkseid War Saga Omnibus by Geoff Johns

4 Stars

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34690728
Cover of DC’s Darkseid War Omnibus.
December 2, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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Walden and Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

4 Stars

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/214226
The cover of Walden by Henry David Thoreau
December 1, 2025 at 4:08 AM