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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
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 · 17d
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 · 12d
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 · 19d
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 · 26d
“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
oneminutemonkey.bsky.social
I’d commission the world’s largest cat scratching post. Fully 250 feet tall.
docseuss.bsky.social docvember @docseuss.bsky.social · 28d
lets say a wizard has cursed you with a lot of money. you are going to become permanently brain damaged simply by being in possession of so much money. the only way out of it is to spend a lot of money on something ridiculous and not at all useful

what would you buy to break the curse?
October 15, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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originalsp.in
A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR.

When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.
Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents
‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said
www.independent.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 3:54 AM
oneminutemonkey.bsky.social
Reskeet with a frog to scare ICE
The Moat Monster from the episode of Scooby-Doo where they meet Davy Jones of the Monkees. It's a giant frog with red eyes.
October 11, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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costasamaras.com
Here's the TOTAL budgets of some other agencies that are being cut so the Admin can send $20B your tax dollars to their ideological friends:

- EPA (clean air and water): $9.1B

- NOAA (weather forecasts, warn if hurricane coming): $6.8B

- DOE EERE (energy efficiency & renewable energy): $3.4B
October 10, 2025 at 3:22 AM
oneminutemonkey.bsky.social
SHUT UP AND DANCE WITH ME
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JCL...
October 4, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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chadgayle.bsky.social
I come from a family with a military tradition. This beer drinking wife-beater doesn't know shit about the military or what it stands for.

Honor. Valor. Courage.

SERVICE.

Those are the values of the US Armed Forces.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 30
Hegseth: "A few months ago I was at the White House when President Trump announced his liberation day for America's trade policy. It was a landmark day. Well, today is another liberation day. The liberation of America's warriors ... you kill people and break things for a living."
September 30, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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jamellebouie.net
pete hegseth, who you will recall has been accused of domestic abuse and sexual assault, has announced a new policy by which you cannot file anonymous complaints of mistreatment. sex criminal solidarity.
September 30, 2025 at 12:55 PM