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Abraham Schroeder 🎩🦇 @thegentlemanbat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

What we’re reading: 13th Street- Battle of the Bad-Breath Bats 🦇 The Fire-Breathing Ferret Fiasco Clash of the Cackling Cougars The Shocking Shark Showdown Tussle with the Tooting Tarantulas Fight with the Freeze-Ray Fowls by @davidbowles.us, Shane Clester #kidlit #chapterbooks #bats

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David Bowles @davidbowles.us · 18/09/2026

RESIDENT EVIL is really fucking great. Such a good time.

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John Picacio @johnpicacio.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Less than 24 hours remain to score THE MATRON by @davidbowles.us! ✊🏽⚔️

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/09/2026

We are not going to get out of the fascism problem by accepting just enough fascism to turn the heads of the fascism-curious.

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Marlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

‘The Matrix’ creator Lilly Wachowski on J.K. Rowling and the new ‘Harry Potter’ series: “She is funding trans genocide. J.K. Rowling funds trans genocide, full stop. So, if you support ‘Harry Potter,’ you’re supporting trans genocide.” variety.com/2026/tv/feat...

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Lilly Wachowski on Her New Studio Anarchists United, the Black Power Origins of ‘The Matrix’ and How ‘Harry Potter’ Fans Are ‘Supporting Trans Genocide’

‘The Matrix’ filmmaker Lilly Wachowski opens up about her new studio for marginalized voices Anarchists United, J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk.

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Jason Franks @jasonfranks.com · 06/09/2026

Horror fiends, please check out this excellent feminist cannibal-slasher comic. The complete first arc is now up on Kickstarter and I hope you'll check it out. IT has been my immense pleasure to edit writers @davidbowles.us and Drew Edwards on this: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ipi...

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THE MATRON Volumes 1, 2 & 3 - Slavic folk slasher in Texas

Volume 3 is the epic conclusion to the Matron's icy rampage!

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David Bowles @davidbowles.us · 25/08/2026

ACAB. 1-3-1-motherfucking-2.

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David Bowles @davidbowles.us · 24/08/2026

Looking into the future at November 4 like ...

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Justice Jackson: This "violates well-established precedents concerning this Court's equitable discretion and needlessly injects chaos and uncertainty into the upcoming midterm elections. It also lets another shoe drop in the Kafkaesque nightmare that our precedents have been steadily creating."

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Jason Franks @jasonfranks.com · 23/08/2026

Blueskyfriends, the next Matron instalment is now available for your support and I hope you'll check it out. Feminist cannibal slasher with real heart. An all star creative team: @davidbowles.us, Drew Edwards, Monica Gallagher and Harry Saxon. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ipi...

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Malaclypse the Middle @malaclypse.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Ever think about how, when planning for Nuremberg, Churchill said holding trials was better than Nazis deserved, and there was a quicker way to reach justice?

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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

BREAKING: Trump: “I'm going to be impeached. They're going to impeach me”… Well, he finally got something right, huh?! Now. Go. VOTE. 😎✨

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Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The question to ask of capitalism is simple: does the right of business to exploit consumers and workers trump the right of consumers and workers to be protected from exploitation? And overwhelmingly, the AI industry's answer is YES - hence hatred of AI becoming an anticapitalist inflection point.

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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Dr. El-Sayed puts it plainly: “ICE has nothing to do with immigration.” I agree completely.

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David Bowles @davidbowles.us · 08/08/2026

Writing a libretto for an opera ... Challenging, but very fun!

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David Bowles @davidbowles.us · 03/08/2026

Fuck Harry Potter. Go read THE PRINCE & THE COYOTE.

The cover of THE PRINCE & THE COYOTE, a novel of historical fiction about the prince who helped found the Aztec Empire, featuring his xochihuah (trans / non-binary) advisor and lover.

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David Bowles @davidbowles.us · 24/07/2026

In San Diego, plotting linguistic, cultural, and literary revolution with @s.qiouyi.lu ...

Chicano author and translator David Bowles, wearing black glasses and a black guayabera, poses with Chinese American author and translator Seraphina Qiouyi Lu, who bears a red huadian (花钿) on their forehead.

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David Bowles @davidbowles.us · 02/06/2026

This election season, a new candidate has tossed her ha— her MASK into the ring. Her platform is pretty straightforward. T-shirts, stickers and buttons forthcoming through our Kickstarter (and beyond).

A political poster reads "In Texas November 2026, Vote the Matron for governor. Eat the rich." In the middle is an image of the woman ax murderer and cannibal from THE MATRON comic series, wearing a red-streaked white mask, a hooded burgundy cloak, and a bearded ax. She's standing in front of the Texas flag.

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Abraham Schroeder 🎩🦇 @thegentlemanbat.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

What I’m reading: The Matron Number 1 - creepy and dark, enticing story and backstory, looking forward to reading more. David Bowles Drew Edwards Monica Gallagher Harry Saxon @davidbowles.us #comics #graphicnovel

The Matron Number 1 -
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David Bowles @davidbowles.us · 18/07/2026

You can get THE WITCH OWL PARLIAMENT—Eisner-nominated volume 1 of the CLOCKWORK CURANDERA Mexican steampunk duology by @raulthethird.bsky.social and me—for 50% off over at the @leeandlow.bsky.social website! Volume 2 (ROBOTS OF THE REPUBLIC) is coming next fall!

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The Witch Owl Parliament

Discover a graphic novel unlike any other--a brilliant steampunk reimagining of Frankenstein set in colonial Mexico.

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David Bowles @davidbowles.us · 18/07/2026

I started writing a joke about the human incarnation of Quetzalcoatl, but then I took a good look in the mirror and abandoned it ...

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David Bowles @davidbowles.us · 17/07/2026

“A new dawn will break over the darkened world, and our mistakes will once again be forgotten.” Nolan's take on the ODYSSEY is ... so much better than I could have ever anticipated. Definitely had me riveted for 3 hours.

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David Bowles @davidbowles.us · 16/07/2026

Most Hobbits are brown, fuckface. Tolkien said so himself.

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David Bowles @davidbowles.us · 15/07/2026

I'm writing a gay romance about two Basque shepherds from competing sheepherding families in 19th-century New Mexico. It's called Bleated Rivalry.

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David Bowles @davidbowles.us · 14/07/2026

Trent Reznor's brand of field-to-kitchen game birds: Nine Inch Quails.

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Three things: 1. ICE shouldn’t be out here killing people. 2. We’re still waiting for these cowards to tackle gangs instead grandmas, nuns, folks on their way to work, and people on the streets. 3. (Art by Jesse Duquette.)

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David Bowles @davidbowles.us · 12/07/2026

Mictecacihuatl, Santísima Muerte, Mother Death—we really appreciate your efforts here, but you keep missing the main target ... Let us know if you need help sharpening your scythe or whatever!

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David Bowles @davidbowles.us · 11/07/2026

I'm a professor of literature. All books, across all centuries of writing, have at LEAST one typo. There's literally thousands of scholarly books, ranging from critical editions to variorum editions (text comparisons), that take a look at errors / variants in books and their different printings.

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David Bowles @davidbowles.us · 11/07/2026

My personal ranking of the EVIL DEAD franchise, from best to "least good" (as I agree that there isn't a single bad entry in the franchise): EVIL DEAD 2 EVIL DEAD RISE EVIL DEAD (2013) EVIL DEAD BURN ASH VS EVIL DEAD ARMY OF DARKNESS THE EVIL DEAD (1981)

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David Bowles @davidbowles.us · 11/07/2026

Many supposed EVIL DEAD fans are losing their minds over the post-credits scene of EVIL DEAD BURN, whining that it violates lore. Did y'all not watch ASH VS EVIL DEAD? Ash's sister Cheryl returned (in demon form) through a photo (after being reduced to sludge 30 years earlier). Freaking posers.

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Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I am so, so happy to share this link for the Eat the Rich anthology! First of all, this was the project of the late Eirik Gumeny, who was such a kind soul who loved horror. And I get to share with you my dark, twisted tale of a wealthy CEO whose trees have... plans for him. Preorders are open!

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Eat the Rich: Stories of Carnivorous Anti-Capitalism

Stories of Carnivorous Anti-Capitalism

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David Bowles @davidbowles.us · 11/07/2026

Five living writers by whom you’ve read [at least] five books each: Guadalupe García McCall N.K. Jemisin J.J. Arias Nnedi Okorafor Ellen Oh [and many more]

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David Bowles @davidbowles.us · 10/07/2026

My 13TH STREET series is one of the recommendations in THE NEW YORK TIMES for fans of the MAGIC TREE HOUSE. Pick up the first book, BATTLE OF THE BAD-BREATH BATS, for that young reader of creepy adventure in your life.

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10 Kids’ Books for Fans of the Magic Tree House Series (Gift Article)

Ten recommendations for fans of Mary Pope Osborne’s time-travel chapter book series.

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David Bowles @davidbowles.us · 10/07/2026

EVIL DEAD BURN is brutal, mean-spirited, darkly funny, and totally worth watching! CW: beyond horrific gore and violence, if you are from a dysfunctional, abusive family, it's a HARD watch. And stay for a hilarious mid-credits scene and unexpected after-credits scene. Franchise is doing well!

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David Bowles @davidbowles.us · 09/07/2026

If you're going to be at #SDCC in a couple of weeks, join Drew Edwards & me for a great panel with the team at @ipicomics.bsky.social, discussing many amazing projects, including our Texas slasher comic THE MATRON and other great projects. #mexican #czech #texan #czexan #supernatural #horror

Come meet the Matron. Australian Comic Creators Collaborating with the World. Featuring Drew Edwards & David Bowles, co-creators of THE MATRON comic series. 4-5 PM Friday July 24. Room: Grand 10 & 11. Marriott Marquis San Diego. San Diego COMICCON International.

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David Bowles @davidbowles.us · 09/07/2026

The way language works in my brain vs. many other's brains: an ongoing thread (as I notice). 1st example: To say "next" rather than "this coming," I need to be in the midst of the repeating thing. For example, the winter beginning in December 2026 is "this coming winter," not "next winter." 1/

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

A truly new voice, like a new cuisine, might not immediately hit your palate like Kraft Mac and Cheese. It might make you uncomfortable. It might not resolve as you hope. It might be abrasive. It might star characters you don't relate to. All these can turn into brilliant writers getting rejected.

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David Bowles @davidbowles.us · 08/07/2026

I talked to Mitch McConnell for exactly 90 seconds, though he's desperately looking for someone to hold his hand longer ...

A blurry Mitch McConnell is smirking in the darkness behind the hand from the movie TALK TO ME.

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David Bowles @davidbowles.us · 08/07/2026

Lee Lik-chi's THE MUMMY ...

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

BREAKING: Eleventh Circuit, on a 2-1 vote, upholds injunction blocking Florida from enforcing its 2022 Stop WOKE Act in the university context. The majority opinion is from Judge Britt Grant, a Trump appointee: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Before GRANT, LAGOA, and WILSON, Circuit Judges.
GRANT, Circuit Judge:
"Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech." U.S. Const. amend I. The First Amendment, incorporated against the States in 1868, is this country's written commitment to the idea that freedom of speech is essential to freedom of thought, and that both are essential to maintaining our liberty. The Supreme Court has long been clear that teaching and scholarship are due some measure of protection under the Amendment. But how much? And in what contexts? That Court has not had to say, but this one is now put to the test. The State of Florida legislated a broad set of speech restrictions banning certain viewpoints relating to race, color, sex, and national origin in various settings. The provision at issue here bars Florida's educators from promoting or endorsing those distavored ideas when instructing students. Its prohibition applies not only in primary and secondary education, where states traditionally exercise a great deal of control, but also in public colleges and universities, where the state government's role has been far more limited.
When several groups of professors challenged Florida's new restrictions, the State cast about for an existing case or doctrine that could support its speech ban in the university setting. Finding none, it tried to marry public-employee speech cases with government speech doctrine, resulting in a new rule: if the

government pays a professor's salary, it has total control over her classroom speech.
That is not a blessed union. Florida's salary-for-speech rule is a breathtaking assertion of power to ban unpopular ideas from public discourse in the very places the State's own statutes recognize as centers of inquiry-classrooms where students are trusted to puzzle through ideas that are good and bad, easy and hard, ideally getting ever closer to the truth. This new rule also runs headlong into the Supreme Court's repeated, if imprecise, endorsements of academic freedom. If the First Amendment offers any boundary of protection at all for public university classrooms, this statute crosses it.
Nor does this Court's leading academic speech precedent,
Bishop v. Aronov, demand the outcome Florida seeks. 926 F.2d 1066 (11th Cir. 1991). In fact, it counsels the opposite. The restriction in that case was imposed by one university, against one professor, relating to speech about one thing— personal religious views that got in the way of the course's well-understood parameters.

That precedent makes clear that universities and even other government entities have crucial authority to shape curricular content, discipline teachers, and take other steps to guide and govern postsecondary education. But the speech ban Florida's political leaders seek to impose here is different in both nature and degree from these ordinary concerns. The rule Florida developed for this case does not withstand scrutiny.
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The ideas Florida targets may well be noxious. Or maybe
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Either way, in this context the First Amendment trusts students to figure it out for themselves. We affirm the district court's preliminary injunction.

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David Bowles @davidbowles.us · 04/07/2026

I'm working on more stories in my "Toltec Wuxia" cycle. Both Western & Eastern sword & sorcery tropes fit nicely in the chaotic period after Quetzalcoatl's incarnation was forced off the imperial throne by dark mages and went into exile. The 1st, "Whispering Shards," was in a recent anthology. 1/

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Latin American Shared Stories - Flame Tree Publishing

This vibrant anthology presents a curated selection of speculative stories and fascinating essays highlighting the many voices, mythologies, folklore,

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David Bowles @davidbowles.us · 03/07/2026

RE: The Aztec division of the day. In Chapter II of PRIMEROS MEMORIALES (a sort of first draft of the Florentine Codex), we are told of multiple times throughout the daytime and night when priest would light incense, clearly marking divisions of the day. I'm going to walk you through them. 1/

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

"All persons born or naturalized in the United States...are citizens of the United States." That's the 14th amendment. And four MAGA activists in robes said, "nah." They barely lost while demonstrating how illigitimate this court is. Term limits and expansion or bust.

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