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Gary Devore / Janto7 🏛️📚🏳️‍🌈 @gmdevore.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Reached a milestone! 💣 Woohoo! 2026 doesn’t suck after all! #overwatch

Gary Devore / Janto7 🏛️📚🏳️‍🌈 @gmdevore.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

One of the Big Five, a multinational publishing conglomerate- Penguin Ranom House… Every sixth page of this new book I just bought looks like this: 🙄

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Gary Devore / Janto7 🏛️📚🏳️‍🌈 @gmdevore.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I dislike saying “it’s a cult” because it takes away agency. Republicans *love* the cruelty and the racism and the hatred and the anger. They are as despicable as he is. By choice.

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Gary Devore / Janto7 🏛️📚🏳️‍🌈 @gmdevore.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

What’s your favorite Bible verse? Wrong answers only.

I wouldn't suck your lousy dick if i was suffocating and there was oxygen in your balls

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Gary Devore / Janto7 🏛️📚🏳️‍🌈 @gmdevore.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Happy International Cat Day! My handsome three 🐱🐱🐱

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Gary Devore / Janto7 🏛️📚🏳️‍🌈 @gmdevore.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Yesterday I finished the 2nd full draft of my queer historical fiction novel series about the Roman emperor Hadrian. Vol2 is 77k words and done ahead of schedule this year! (Yay! Aiming to finish a volume a year.) Now it's editing, polishing, & prepping for the next volume (of 4). #amwriting

Renaissance image of the Roman emperor hadrian from Castel Sant Angelo in Rome

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Gary Devore / Janto7 🏛️📚🏳️‍🌈 @gmdevore.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Happy fall of fascism day in Italy 🇮🇹 (July 25)!

See the world through the eyes of Mussolini gag from the simpsons

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Gary Devore / Janto7 🏛️📚🏳️‍🌈 @gmdevore.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Happy Father’s Day only to the ones that didn’t vote for the ra*ist

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Gary Devore / Janto7 🏛️📚🏳️‍🌈 @gmdevore.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Big push got the first major section of my ancient Roman #historicalfiction novel written last night. (It’s an adventure story based on the conventions of Ancient Greek novels like pirates, shipwrecks, and star-crossed lovers- but queer! 🏳️‍🌈) Now launching into section 2! Happy Pride! #amwriting

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Gary Devore / Janto7 🏛️📚🏳️‍🌈 @gmdevore.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Today in writing my ancient Roman #historicalfiction novel, I have to create an action scene in prose. The thwarting of an assassination attempt against an emperor. Hopefully I can pull it off. 🤞 #amwriting

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Gary Devore / Janto7 🏛️📚🏳️‍🌈 @gmdevore.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Last night in my ancient Roman historical fiction novel, I had to write a 🏳️‍🌈 sex scene that was 1) historically accurate 2) emotionally powerful and 3) hot. Hopefully I succeeded on at least some of those. The next editing pass will tell… Happy Pride! #amwriting #historicalfiction

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Gary Devore / Janto7 🏛️📚🏳️‍🌈 @gmdevore.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Hackers out here disrupting classes rather than Republicans. What are we even doing?

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Gary Devore / Janto7 🏛️📚🏳️‍🌈 @gmdevore.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Brad loved the racism. Not so much the consequences of voting for a rapist. I wish Brad a very F all the way off into the sun.

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Gary Devore / Janto7 🏛️📚🏳️‍🌈 @gmdevore.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

A peek behind the scenes at my slides as I prep to teach my first online Pompeii class of the quarter for Stanford Continuing Studies (including my subtle reminders to hit the Zoom record button) Anyone can join in from anywhere in the world: Details: continuingstudies.stanford.edu/courses/deta...

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Gary Devore / Janto7 🏛️📚🏳️‍🌈 @gmdevore.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Happy Confederate Surrender Day! In another, better timeline we disarmed and fined every Reb, hung every officer for treason, and dismantled every plantation.

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Gary Devore / Janto7 🏛️📚🏳️‍🌈 @gmdevore.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Confederate Surrender Day is the only April holiday I celebrate (9 April)

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Gary Devore / Janto7 🏛️📚🏳️‍🌈 @gmdevore.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Concord NH No Kings day. Very fun, well attended, and well organized! Only saw one single despicable republican counter protester.

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Gary Devore / Janto7 🏛️📚🏳️‍🌈 @gmdevore.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Interested in Roman archaeology?⛏️ I'm teaching again my popular online class on Pompeii next month with Stanford Continuing Studies. It's open to anyone anywhere in the world & you can attend live or watch lectures at your own pace. Details & sign-up: continuingstudies.stanford.edu/courses/libe...

A street in Pompeii under a clear blue sky

A street in Pompeii near where I've excavated

Victorian painting of the eruption of Mt Vesuvius

Plaster cast of some of the victims of the Pompeii eruption

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Gary Devore / Janto7 🏛️📚🏳️‍🌈 @gmdevore.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Interested in Roman archaeology? I'm teaching again my popular online class on Pompeii next month with Stanford Continuing Studies. It's open to anyone anywhere in the world & you can attend live or watch lectures at your own pace. Details & sign-up: continuingstudies.stanford.edu/courses/libe...

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Gary Devore / Janto7 🏛️📚🏳️‍🌈 @gmdevore.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

When I meet people out in the wild, I’ve been training myself to use “Good to see you” as an opener instead of my usual automatic “How are you?” Because the answer to that innocent question is *gestures wildly around at everything*

Religious painting of a saint having a moment

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Gary Devore / Janto7 🏛️📚🏳️‍🌈 @gmdevore.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

I wish all Republicans a very “die mad” en Español

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Gary Devore / Janto7 🏛️📚🏳️‍🌈 @gmdevore.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

The only way they can get anyone to watch “Melania.”

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Gary Devore / Janto7 🏛️📚🏳️‍🌈 @gmdevore.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

I’m writing a novel about the ancient Roman emperor Hadrian. This is a peek at a few sources on my research shelf. (And thank goodness for access to Greek and Latin primary texts online!) #amwriting #historicalfiction

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Gary Devore / Janto7 🏛️📚🏳️‍🌈 @gmdevore.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

On the writing side, this year I got a short story published (www.oysterriverpages.com/on-the-high-...), wrote a few other short stories, and finished writing a 69,000 (nice!) word historical novel about the Roman emperor Hadrian.

Hadrian at the potters painting, Alma-Tadema

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