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Lee Brontide @leebrontide.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Oh you posted it here, to! Look, everyone!

Lee Brontide @leebrontide.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

youtu.be/rnp2uFOyrBE?... IT'S DONE! After SIX YEARS I've finished my fully hand-animated trailer for my first book, Secondhand Origin Stories. I learned to animate to make this! It's got voice actors and and music and it's only like 2 minutes long so please give it a watch! #books #animation

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Secondhand Origin Stories trailer

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Lee Brontide @leebrontide.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Fellow #Minnesotans, local shitstain Rep Mike Wiener has decided to try to shove through an attempted impeachment against Walz for the already prosecuted and investigated supposed Somali "fraud". That is what he thinks MN government should be doing right now. His phone number is 651-296-4293

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Lee Brontide @leebrontide.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Heads up from Twin Cities ICE watch group! Please help spread! #minnesota #minneapolis #stpaul

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 06/10/2025

While we were sleeping: A federal judge in Oregon has blocked the Trump administration from deploying any federalized National Guard—Texas, California, the state’s own—in Oregon. That’s big news. Even bigger: She’s decided to hold a trial on the merits. That is: She’s putting people under oath.

Screenshot of court order, which reads in part:

“A combined hearing on the preliminary injunction motion land a trial on the meries
under Rule 65(al(2) is set for October 29, 2025l before the Honorable Judge Karin J. Immergut, in Courtroom 13A, beginning at 9:00 a.m.”

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Lee Brontide @leebrontide.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

I wish pillowfort would take off. It's the only site where I feel like the owner wants me there and is willing to step in to protect people who actually need it.

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Lee Brontide @leebrontide.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

#MINNESOTA Please consider submitting a comment on a potential bill that would essentially destroy our carbon-neutral goals by declaring electricity generation methods that factually emit MORE carbon than coal/natural gas as "carbon neutral". I wrote about how here: www.tumblr.com/leebrontide/...

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💬 0 🔁 187 ❤️ 104 · HEY YOU HAVE TILL 5PM WEDS TO DO THIS. And if you have/will do so, I can suggest a simple way to super-boost your words even further? Take the comment you already wrote- edit…

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Lee Brontide @leebrontide.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

I GOT FANART! AN IN-CHARACTER COMIC!!!! I'm gonna print it and put it up in my office!!!

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Lee Brontide @leebrontide.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

@naomikritzer.bsky.social Well, I just found out TODAY, despite reading the book years ago, that you thanked me in the acknowledgments of Chaos on Catnet. I have no memory of the conversation you're referencing but thank you very much :)

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Lee Brontide @leebrontide.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

@sjwhitby.bsky.social I finally got myself a copy of Cute Mutants! At last!

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Lee Brontide @leebrontide.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

@naomikritzer.bsky.social Do you ever do any of the local book festivals? Like TCBF or the Book Fair for Grown Ups? I keep thinking of getting into them because I loved comic cons but I'm not sure if they're worth it.

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Lee Brontide @leebrontide.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Happy pride month! Instead of trying to get you all to buy my books, I'm asking you to help me get these stealth queer books into the hands of the people they were made for: teenagers! shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params... shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params... #PrideMonth

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Lee Brontide @leebrontide.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

ATTN #Minnesota residents! Please contact your rep in the MN senate to tell them to vote AGAINST the MN Senta's Omnibus Climate and Energy Bill- it walks back a LOT of the clean energy goals we worked hard to get passed, and pretends things like biodiesel is carbon neutral which is factually wrong.

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Al Hess @al-distortion.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

🚨Calling all indie trans SFF authors!🚨 I'm putting together a co-op bundle on itch.io for Trans Day of Visibility (to run 3/28-3/31) and I would love to have you join. Have a sci-fi, fantasy, horror, paranormal, or other spec book on itch? Drop your link 👇 and I'll invite you to the sale!

a retro clipart graphic of a silhouetted city at night in purples and blues with a full moon and winking stars. the text says: itch.io SFF TRANS BOOK bundle!

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Lee Brontide @leebrontide.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Oh, I don't think I ever posted these here. leebrontide.wixsite.com/leebrontide/... #books #yabooks #scifi #queerbooks

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Lee Brontide @leebrontide.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Another little bit of animation I've stitched together for the Secondhand Origin Stories book "trailer".

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No longer using this account. @turnedtofire.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Love this book so much! Very good storytelling, with queer and trans teen characters, on the various and imperfect ways a (superhero!) family adjusts to acquired disability and its impact on identity, in a not-so-far-future America still in thrall to media spin and the prison industrial complex.

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 19/01/2025

Ask them to slide the warrant under the door for you to look at it. It MUST be signed by a judge. An administrative warrant - which is what many ICE warrants are - does *NOT* allow them to enter your home.

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

They fired her because they were pressured by the right. Everyone (everyone!) needs to know that they will get just as many headaches caving to the right as they will standing up to them.

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Here's the "contact us" page for the station FYI www.cbs58.com/contact/

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Lee Brontide @leebrontide.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Woke up to warm fresh blueberry muffins and a cup of tea on the first day of my snowy winter vacation ❤️

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Lee Brontide @leebrontide.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Just to be perfectly clear I do not and will not use AI for my covers. These are hand drawn, down to every shard of glass and leaf, by me. I love these goobers & want the best for them. I mean I am going to put them through the torments. But they do deserve covers made with love and care. #books

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Lee Brontide @leebrontide.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

350.org/stop-dapl-us... Look, whether you like Biden or not he's done a fuckton about climate change, and he could do one last huge right thing on his way out the door. I know this org, and they don't waste time on these things if they have no chance of passing. Please sign and spread. #climate

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Demand Biden Shut Down DAPL Before January 20

The Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) is an affront to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s sovereignty.We must urge President Biden to shut down DAPL before leaving office on January 20. This is our final opp...

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Lee Brontide @leebrontide.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I stg someday I'm gonna get to post about something other than politics. Really looking forward to that.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

"Though many politicians believe that halting existing or new fossil fuel production is politically unpopular, there is surprisingly limited data to back this claim...we conducted a nationally representative survey." guess what @cplusc.bsky.social found? climateandcommunity.org/research/vot...

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Voters Support Phasing Out Fossil Fuel Extraction - Climate & Community Institute

Preventing catastrophic climate change impacts requires ending the extraction of fossil fuels, but the United States is on track to do the opposite. The US is …

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Lee Brontide @leebrontide.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

#Minnesota did you know that YOUR senator- Amy Klobuchar- has co-sponsored a bill that will let the federal government force social media sites to cut and suppress anything they think is bad for kids? CALL Amy and tell her to stop doing republican's anti-free-speech mission for them! 202-224-3244

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Lee Brontide @leebrontide.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Early #caturday offering because Scribble was posing in a sunbeam when I woke up this morning.

Tortie cat sitting in loaf pose on a cat tree.

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Lee Brontide @leebrontide.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I'm gonna leave these free till US Thanksgiving, put a queer book out there for y'all to read while ignoring bad relatives. After that, proceeds go to climate orgs.

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Lee Brontide @leebrontide.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Signed up for volunteering with MN350 again. The climate fight is back to the state level, but I KNOW this org (which is the local chapter of the national 350.org) gets shit done. It feels really good to be with other people doing the work.

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Lee Brontide @leebrontide.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Well this is not the cat we were trying to trap, but they're greasy and very hungry and out after midnight in the snow so...guess we'll coordinate a vet trip for a chip scan and warm place to stay while we figure out where they need to go.

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Lee Brontide @leebrontide.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

What the hell I don't post for a few weeks and there are twice as many of you...? Not sure what message to take from that. But hello!

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Lee Brontide @leebrontide.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I'm gonna leave these free till US Thanksgiving, put a queer book out there for y'all to read while ignoring bad relatives. After that, proceeds go to climate orgs.

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Patients with Power @ptswithpower.com · 14/11/2024

Have you seen or created art (any form) depicting #MedicalGaslighting, other types of patient neglect and abuse, or #MedicalPTSD? Art helps people understand concepts and experiences they haven't been through, especially on an emotional level. Post it below ⬇️, we can create a galley. #NEISvoid

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Lee Brontide @leebrontide.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Well fuck it I tried to quit writing and it turned out not writing is AGONY and my wife can't handle the amount of home improvement projects not writing causes me to take on, so I drafted act 1 of Brittle Idols this month. Roughly 30k words. I have always been much better at starting that quitting.

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Lee Brontide @leebrontide.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

STILL FREE BECAUSE FUCK IT. PLEASE SHOW ME WHETHER OR NOT THERE IS STILL A CALL FOR STORIES ABOUT THE FUTURE Also, they’re queer. Like trans folks and girls kissing and nonbinary MCs and stuff.

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Lee Brontide @leebrontide.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Turns out that if I'm not going to write anymore, which means not animating anymore because my animation project was about my writing project... Then I do not now how to rest.

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Lee Brontide @leebrontide.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Just want to say that if I vanish from here, I'm not dead. But Lee Brontide is a name I made for writing my near future science fiction books. And I don't know if I want to write about the future anymore. And I Really don't know that anyone wants to read about it. So dunno how around Lee will be.

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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

This is the most clear-eyed and concise argument for voting for the Dem ticket in spite of grave disagreement with the Biden admin’s stance on Israel I’ve seen from a major Dem this entire campaign and I wish it had come out back in July

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Lee Brontide @leebrontide.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

New Shed Letters newsletter is up! buttondown.com/LeeBrontide/... this month it's about how your brain tracks the size, shape and location of your body, the many ways that system can glitch, and why I wish scifi and fantasy stories would make more use of those glitches. #books #scifi #fantasy

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The Homunculus Among Us

Happy Halloween, everyone! This month I’m excited to talk about a subject that I wanted to include in August’s letter about Carapace and Chrysalis and...

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Lee Brontide @leebrontide.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

Taking a break today. Carved pumpkins. Put up the grape trellis. Harvested more ground cherries for jam. Now we have roasted pumpkin seeds and ground cherry jam and a lovely fall day.

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Lee Brontide @leebrontide.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

Hey if you tried to download Names in Their Blood and couldn't- try again! I fixed stuff on the back and so you should be good to go for free books! #freebooks #books #scifibooks #yabooks

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Lee Brontide @leebrontide.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

Fuck it, I am stressed about the US election so- both my late YA books are free till we get election results! Do what you can, then come and enjoy a distraction with themes of hope and struggling with systemic injustice- but with nanites, superheroes, and explosions etc. leebrontide.gumroad.com

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Lee Brontide @leebrontide.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

I can't believe I had to grow up in the cold war only for a big swath of boomers to decide in old age that voting for the guy who loves Putin and is willing to sell out the US for Russia is fine and good actually and totally worth having their social security slashed.

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Sunnieskye @sunnieskye.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

Want to get the heck scared out of you? Go to calculator, multiply what your check is now x 33%, then subtract that amount from your check. Can you live on that? Every senior MAGA needs to do this, then give the answer a little thought! He also wants to totally crush Medicare.

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Lee Brontide @leebrontide.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

I just want to find some reasonably priced secondhand fencing equipment in my size! Is that so much to ask?

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Sarah "Neila" Elkins @neilak20.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

Live book reading TODAY!

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Lee Brontide @leebrontide.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

Still needs a bit of detail work; some color tweaks, highlights in her eyes, etc, but I am really, really happy with this. Gonna change up the timing of the audio a bit but I gotta remember what the hell program I use to do that. #animation #animating #CSP

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Lee Brontide @leebrontide.bsky.social · 14/10/2024

Anyways, now to eat wild rice soup from the crock pot and watch Over the Garden Wall after a day of autumnal activity in an apple orchard/pumpkin patch/corn maze.

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Lee Brontide @leebrontide.bsky.social · 14/10/2024

Not especially pretty jam, but our first ever batch of jam from this garden TASTES amazing. It's just ground cherries and sugar boiled down, with the skin providing all the pectin needed. The seeds are soft and not noticeable when you're eating. Tastes like citrus, pear & honey and we added spices.

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