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Michael A. Stackpole 🇺🇦

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Award-winning writer and game designer. Author of the New York Times bestselling Rogue Squadron and I, Jedi (among 60+ others). https://ko-fi.com/michaelastackpole and https://linktr.ee/michaelastackpole

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Michael A. Stackpole 🇺🇦 @michaelastackpole.bsky.social · Jul 19

I don't often plug stuff here, but...

1) I do have to eat
2) I'm really proud of a set of stories and characters I started with *brand new* at the beginning of the year.

This is the first story: ko-fi.com/s/ef5a7b7880

The Mad King - Michael A Stackpole's Ko-fi Shop

The Mad King is a sword & sorcery fantasy novella featuring Neryon, a warlock whose life is governed by the whims of fate. In this first story he enco...

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Michael A. Stackpole 🇺🇦 @michaelastackpole.bsky.social · 1h

I believe it is

Apoca...

I'll be over here being invisible...

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Michael A. Stackpole 🇺🇦 @michaelastackpole.bsky.social · 5h

I had to buy Peanut Butter M&Ms… I don’t make the rules.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 9h

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AlTheColorsOfTheDark💀🦇🪦 @afizgig.bsky.social · 10h

#DailyBat 🖤🦇🖤

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Kat Alderson 🎉 @klaybourne.bsky.social · 18h

Dirty deeds done dirt cheap in THIS economy?

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BIG_RED_40TECH @bigred40tech.bsky.social · 13h

Less than 30 followers away from 1,000.

Remember, when we hit 1,000. I do intend on doing an AMA on Bluesky. I don't forget my promises XD

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Stefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 10h

This could work.

Due to the rising costs of medical
tests, all you can do is pee under a
tree and wait a bit:

If ants gather = diabetes.

If grass dries up = high salts.

If it smells like BBQ = high
cholesterol.

If you forget to pull up your pants,
you got Alzheimer's.

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Beau Johnson 🇨🇦 🪓 @beaujohnson44.bsky.social · 1d

Do not buy my books from Amazon or Down and Out Books directly. I will not get paid. I should get paid, as per my contract, but in an email from D&O I’ve been told ‘no further payments will be issued.’
It absolutely blows it is ending this way, but man, pay your authors what they are owed.

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Triad of the Force @triadoftheforce.bsky.social · 1d

This is a STACKED lineup to talk about the LUCAS MUSEUM! Add to that moderated by Martin Scorsese?! Very jealous/happy for everyone who can attend this one at NYCC!

Photo shared by Lucas Museum of Narrative Art on October 07, 2025 tagging @jr, @martinscorsese_, @nycomiccon, @juliebellartist, and @borisvallejoartist. May be a graphic of 4 people, magazine, poster and text that says 'This Sunday A sneak peek of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art with a panel of incredible artists.. .. JR Artist Boris Vallejo FantasyArtist Fantasy Artist and Pop- andPop-Culture Cult Culture Illustrator Julie Bell Fantasy Artist FantasyArtistand and Wildlife WildlifePainter Painter Moderated by Filmmaker Martin Scorsese New York Comic Con Room 406.3 October 12, 11:00 a.m. IM LucasMuseum Lucas Museum of fNarrativeArt Art'.

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · 12h

The fall of civilization is going surprisingly well.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Kat Alderson 🎉 @klaybourne.bsky.social · 1d

Another blast from the past:
(from the 2012 exhd)

stick figure character sitting a desk, typing madly on a keyboard.

offscreen: ARE YOU COMING TO BED?

figure: I CAN'T. THIS IS IMPORTANT

offscreen: WHAT?

figure: SOMEONE IS WRONG ON THE INTERNET.

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Michael A. Stackpole 🇺🇦 @michaelastackpole.bsky.social · 1d

Ere came the sun, were you to spoil their fun,
Widows and orphans would loudly lament.

On such a night, of the monsters delight,
Slink away lest life ebb and be no more.

(Like, share, quote post with your own. We can make this a thing. 😜😱 )

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Michael A. Stackpole 🇺🇦 @michaelastackpole.bsky.social · 1d

I thought once as thee, and as you can see,
Charged into battle on a like night.

Oh how hard we fought, but twas all for naught,
For this night is their night, so we did fall.

Flee from this place, away swiftly do race,
Lest your bones moulder with mine deep beneath.

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Michael A. Stackpole 🇺🇦 @michaelastackpole.bsky.social · 1d

Out in the dark, to their revels men hark,
Blades sharp, axes keen, scarlet blood boiling hot

But to that foul host, there came a pale ghost,
Armor askew, wounds horrid and gaping.

Centuries lost clearly, regretted most dearly.
Countenance fierce dark, and warning most dire.

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Michael A. Stackpole 🇺🇦 @michaelastackpole.bsky.social · 1d

Halloween Season Poetry:

Advice From One Who Knows

Full moon revels of mean little devils,
Goblins with pitchforks, ogres blasé.

Trolls all opining, warlocks divining,
Imps delighted, their quaint laughter quite gay.

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Albert Ching @albertching.bsky.social · 1d

Hiring on my team! Looking for someone passionate about comic books and graphic novels, marketing, and the book and library markets. Happy to answer any questions about the role!

careers.wbd.com/global/en/jo...

Representative, Marketing (DC) in Burbank, California, United States of America | Marketing & Communications at

Apply for Representative, Marketing (DC) job in Burbank, California, United States of America. Marketing & Communications at Warner Bros. Discovery

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Kereminde @kereminde.bsky.social · 1d

I can find a tank. Yea though he walks through the valley of the shadow of death, he shall fear no aggro...

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

Cartoon by @ivan-ehlers.bsky.social.

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Michael A. Stackpole 🇺🇦 @michaelastackpole.bsky.social · 1d

Right up there with my fav: "Sure, novels are fine, but wouldn't you really like to write something IMPORTANT?"

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 1d

So the American taxpayer eats it twice, once on tariffs and again on a second farm bailout. I’m glad farmers are getting help, no one should lose their farm, but it’s remarkable how fast “socialism” stops being a dirty word when the checks clear in red counties.

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Michael A. Stackpole 🇺🇦 @michaelastackpole.bsky.social · 1d

I have a healer incoming... bonus is what he can do with water when we need wine.

Kat Alderson 🎉 @klaybourne.bsky.social · 1d

Wait, are we playing Rapture Remix today?

[some excuse 13 days blah blah blah calendar mix up blahblahblah]

Anyway, gonna need two more DPS, a tank, and a healer if we're gonna run this Rapture Remix dungeon.

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HeidiHo🆘🇺🇸🇺🇦 @heidiho521.bsky.social · 2d

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 1d

Feel free to attribute the following to a former OMB General Counsel: The supposed "new legal analysis" is, to use a technical legal term, horseshit. What the law actually says is that when Congress enacts a law ending a lapse, furloughed employees get paid at the earliest date possible. Period.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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Grem, of 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐏 🔜 MCAtlanta! @gremlin.world · 3d

I will never not repost this

(Sound on for maximum effect)

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Starhawk @luthurian.bsky.social · 1d

There once was a banker named Jones
Who caught werewolves in high-interest loans
The pack was mad when
He foreclosed on their den
Now all that remains are his bones

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