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jmdonowriter

@jmdonovan.bsky.social
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Writer. Reader. Composer. Midwesterner. Progressive. Humanist. Newest books: Ripples in the Catfish Pond, a mystery with more sex and murder than all my other books combined. Bob Smith, a comic literary fantasy 40 years in the making

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jmdonowriter @jmdonovan.bsky.social · 12h
Well, rats. Looks like I used the word "denounce" when "renounce" would have done the job much more accurately. The proofreader has been sacked.
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jmdonowriter @jmdonovan.bsky.social · 13h
Ashley is not the sharpest bulb in the taco platter.
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jmdonowriter @jmdonovan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Fuck this spoiled amoral embryo-faced motherfucker.
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jmdonowriter @jmdonovan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I’m with you. Until one of them shows enough character to denounce the rest of the criminal family, they can all go to hell. Mary Trump has already done her denouncing, so she’s good to go.
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jmdonowriter @jmdonovan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Has anyone ever seen Megyn Kelly and Matt Walsh in the same room? They’re both insufferable assholes but I can’t swear they’re different people.
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jmdonowriter @jmdonovan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
He looks like a great friend.
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jmdonowriter @jmdonovan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
You won’t regret it!
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jmdonowriter @jmdonovan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Picture of a demented pedophile with a string of dental floss going in one ear and out the other, unhindered by anything resembling a brain.
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jmdonowriter @jmdonovan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
That might have been me—it should arrive Monday!
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jmdonowriter @jmdonovan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Fortunately, intelligent people know that JD Vance is a sentient turd.
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jmdonowriter @jmdonovan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hey, Don, take my 90 bucks and shove them right up your ass. If you can find room in there with Mike Johnson.
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jmdonowriter @jmdonovan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
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jmdonowriter @jmdonovan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
He’s a scumbag like the rest of the family. If he had an ounce of character he’d denounce them and do something positive with his life.
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jmdonowriter @jmdonovan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I assume you've read Jackson Benson's biography of Steinbeck. Amazingly thorough and fascinating. And here's the thing: I knew John Steinbeck had died two decades before I read that biography, but when I got to that page tears came to my eyes anyway.
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jmdonowriter @jmdonovan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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jmdonowriter @jmdonovan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#booksky #writingcommunity #poetry Well, I'm going to do it. I'm releasing a book of poems sometime in mid-October, right on top of the two new novels because wotthehell, wotthehell. The title is Meditations on Death and here's the blurb:
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jmdonowriter @jmdonovan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Holy smokes.
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jmdonowriter @jmdonovan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Why didn't President Rape-O warn against succubi, Ostrogoths, and Martians too? As threats go, they're all on a par with Communists. I noticed he also said he was going to get the fascists out of government. Should be interesting to see how he purges himself. Hope it's bloody.
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jmdonowriter @jmdonovan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
*tapping the tip of my nose, charades-style*
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jmdonowriter @jmdonovan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Well said!
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jmdonowriter @jmdonovan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Along the same lines, the Family Size package of Oreos is only family size if I’m the only person in the family who likes Oreos.
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jmdonowriter @jmdonovan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In case anyone wants to join me in reminding Schmitt of what an asswipe he is: www.schmitt.senate.gov/contact/
schmitt.senate.gov
Contact - Senator Schmitt
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jmdonowriter @jmdonovan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just in case anyone else wants to remind Schmitt what an asswipe he is: www.schmitt.senate.gov/contact/
schmitt.senate.gov
Contact - Senator Schmitt
SHARE YOUR OPINION scheduling request sign up for updates
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jmdonowriter @jmdonovan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I guarantee somebody on Tuberville’s staff—someone who secretly hates him—is feeding him this bullshit just to see how gullible he is.
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jmdonowriter @jmdonovan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#booksky #writingcommunity
Cover of the comic literary novel Bob Smith, plus a nice review.
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jmdonowriter @jmdonovan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I will reword every time.
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jmdonowriter @jmdonovan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ah, counting me there’s at least two in that club!
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jmdonowriter @jmdonovan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Grassley is the ultimate party-over-country piece of shit. And I’m not the only Iowan who thinks this.
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jmdonowriter @jmdonovan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Jeez Louise, no, oregano is that river that Enya sings about.
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jmdonowriter @jmdonovan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#icedcoffee At this stage in my life I doubt if I’ll ever be in a position to interview job applicants. But I can assure you an iced coffee wouldn’t disqualify you.
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jmdonowriter @jmdonovan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“You’re hired!” —HR manager, Butterball
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jmdonowriter @jmdonovan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Not you.
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jmdonowriter @jmdonovan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This captures the true nature of this amoral family of shitstains.
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jmdonowriter @jmdonovan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#caturday Four-week-old flufferbutt. That’s not his actual name.
Fluffy white kitten lying with his front paws together
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jmdonowriter @jmdonovan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Hey, Loomer, I don’t put my hand over my heart for the national anthem either. You want to make something of it?
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jmdonowriter @jmdonovan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Can't think of two people who deserve each other more.
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jmdonowriter @jmdonovan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Faces of evil.
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jmdonowriter @jmdonovan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We got some pretty dumb mofos around these parts.
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jmdonowriter @jmdonovan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
She’s complicit in all of it.
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jmdonowriter @jmdonovan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What the hell. I thought that link would show the cover of the book. The cover looks like this:
Cover of the mainstream novel The Smalltown Way, which shows a fork falling off a plate of banana cream pie.
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jmdonowriter @jmdonovan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#booksky #writingcommunity If we're kindred spirits politically (and I think we are), you might enjoy this novel, which covers life in a small Midwestern town from the invasion of Iraq to the Great Septic Tank Explosion of 2016. a.co/d/00ik573M
a.co
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jmdonowriter @jmdonovan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Niiiiice.
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jmdonowriter @jmdonovan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hey, the General Ass. let a general ass speak there.
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jmdonowriter @jmdonovan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
No one in his family likes him enough to get him help.
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jmdonowriter @jmdonovan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Cute?!?
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jmdonowriter @jmdonovan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Couldn't happen to some nicer thugs.
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jmdonowriter @jmdonovan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It was right after “Workers of the world, unite and vote for a fascist who doesn’t give two shits about anyone but his fellow capitalist pigs.”
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jmdonowriter @jmdonovan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
For me, it was my eighth grade English teacher writing a note on one of my essays that said “if you miss being a writer, you’ve missed your calling.”
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jmdonowriter @jmdonovan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Yeah! Why aren't they using their free time making stockholders richer?!
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jmdonowriter @jmdonovan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Fantastic! Saturday night was steak and baked potato night when I was growing up. One night my younger brother took the foil off his potato, wadded it up, and for whatever reason tossed it straight up--where the ceiling fan knocked it right into the wastebasket.
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