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Mike Jung @mikejungwroteabook.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Three years ago Felix was an abandoned kitten living in the bushes behind Nina's house. She decided to rescue him, and when Nina and I started dating, Felix adopted me as his human dad. I love him so, so much.

Close up of the face and front paws of a sleeping tuxedo cat who's so cute

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Katie Mazeika @kdmaz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hello #kidlitartpostcard Day!!! ⭐️If you are an art director I am an available for new kidlit projects!⭐️ ✨if you are an agent I am seeking representation ✨ www.katiemazeika.com

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Mike Jung @mikejungwroteabook.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes, the floor of our living room is sloppy and crowded, but the important thing to note is that my plan to make this robot-monster's hair out of acorns is working out

An unfinished robot-monster with a cylindrical head, gaping mouth near the top of the head, hair made of glued-on acorns, curved neck, small round body made of a wooden disc, and three legs made of clumps of multiucolored wire,n with a bowl of acorns next to it, a red swivel chair behind it, a black bag of art supplies also next to it, all sitting on top of a beige Persian rug

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Mike Jung @mikejungwroteabook.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A shitty MAGA dude on the socials said expecting men at frat parties to not rape women is like expecting drunk drivers to drive safely, and he has a point, frat parties should be as illegal as drunk driving #Cornell7

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Opinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"what do you expect to happen? have every rapist fired from their job and ruin their life?" uh yeah that'd be a good start

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Mike Jung @mikejungwroteabook.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Why am I posting a pic of three brown paper shopping bags and nothing else, you ask? I don't know, I just have the feeling there's something else going on here

Loki the brownish Maine Coon in the midst of three brown paper bags that are roughly the same color as him

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Mike Jung @mikejungwroteabook.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Getting fun email from @gracekendallbooks.bsky.social is a welcome antidote for enduring yet another day in our current national hellscape

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Mike Jung @mikejungwroteabook.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Anyone who says "she went to a frat house, what did she expect" is openly admitting that every woman who walks into a frat house should expect to be raped, which sounds accurate to me. Shut them all down #Cornell7 #RapeCulture

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Mike Jung @mikejungwroteabook.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If you're thinking "Mike, why are you making these @#$%ing robot monsters instead of writing your book?" Welp, I'm making gifts for my kids. I'm ashamed to say I've never made anything this elaborate for them, and making stuff without any career-fueled pressure is doing wonders for my nervous system

A pair of unfinished, gap-mouthed, big-headed, long-necked robot monsters made out of wire, metal tubes, foam, carboard, wood, beans, paper, duct tape, Gorilla glue, and white glue, with an unfinished abstract tree sculpture and assorted other crap in the background

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 23/09/2026

look, you can't just punish trump when dems are in power. that might make republicans do something crazy, like stage a coup, illegally shred the federal bureaucracy, or even vstart abducting people off the street and extraditing them to torture sites all over the world

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Mike Jung @mikejungwroteabook.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Look at this fuzzy boy, he’s learning to be such a good lapcat and also giving me an excuse for not working on my book

Felix the tuxedo cat lying in a very tightly wrapped ball on my lap, with me wearing stripey socks and red Snoopy pajamas

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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The horror has come to our city: ICE has shot a person in Austin this morning. As the facts emerge, I am demanding a full, independent investigation, immediate release of the body camera footage, and accountability for any ICE officer who broke the law.

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 31/08/2026

We lost Steve Silberman on this day, 2 years ago. His death hit our entire community hard, because Steve showed autistic people as fully formed humans with rights and delights and happiness and love, with people who loved them, and whom they loved right back. thinkingautismguide.com/2026/01/abou...

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About That Mensch, Steve Silberman, and How Much We Miss Him — THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM

Steve Silberman was such a well of bottomless compassion. I still can't believe he's gone. And I'm so sorry.

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Mike Jung @mikejungwroteabook.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

That Converse ad is horrifically racist, and far beyond a dog whistle. It feels like nothing less than a murderous call to action

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Mike Jung @mikejungwroteabook.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

BREAKING: Trash Panda Boy Band has dropped out of the Ed Sheeran tour

Three raccoons on our back porch, two of whom are eyeballing me through the window

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Mike Jung @mikejungwroteabook.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Felix says meow, free Palestine, meow meow

Felix the tuxedo cat sitting on his cat tree in front of the bedroom window and staring forbiddingly into the camera

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Bathtime for Snow Monkeys officially goes on sale 10.13, and that means you still have time to preorder it from Mrs. Dalloways in Berkeley, or Green Bean in Portland, to have it signed by both @yasimamura.bsky.social and I AND get a print from the book!

Bathtime for Snowmonkeys cover, preorder to get a signed book and art print, on sale Oct 13!

The print is a gorgeous guache illustraytoon of 5 monkeys chillin in the hot springs from the interior of the book

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Mike Jung @mikejungwroteabook.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

BREAKING: Wyld Stallyns will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran

Screenshot of Bill and Ted, aka Wyld Stallyns, from the movie BILL AND TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE

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Mike Jung @mikejungwroteabook.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I miss those halcyon days of yore when I had no idea what Hyrox is

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other
stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in …

What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

40 year old died from measles

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Mike Jung @mikejungwroteabook.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

When I moved out Bandit stayed with my ex, so I haven't seem him in 3 months. Tonight he ate a piece of nylon string, however, and the 20.16 year old had to bring him to the ER vet alone. I got here as soon as I could to be with them. Hopefully they can get the string out during the endoscopy

Bandit the American shorthair with brown and white fur looking into the camera as I pet him on the head

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Mike Jung @mikejungwroteabook.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I recently completed my first year at my current job and they haven't fired me yet, wooooo

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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We are legally obligated to post this message announcing the recall of InfoWars Cats For Men™ Cat Food For Men™.

The image is a recall notice for "Cats For Men™ Cat Food For Men™" products, showing a can and a bag of the cat food. The notice states that the FDA found the packaging misleading, suggesting human consumption, and announces the product's recall and removal from the InfoWars Store.

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e.k. weaver @bigbigtruck.com · 10/09/2026

Front cover reveal!! Huge shout out to Sunny Lee for her masterful design work on the titling and layout

Front cover of SHOT AND CHASER, showing Tre and Olly in front of a storm cell

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Mary Grace @emgeekay.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

These may be unpopular opinions in some cases, but I'd like to see golf courses converted to arable farmland, meadow, wetlands, and forests. I'd like to see the end of SUVs. I'd like to see manufacturers eliminate plastic in their packaging and in clothing and footwear. #ClimateCrisis

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Did you know if you preorder Bathtime for Snow Monkeys by me and @yasimamura.bsky.social from The link below it will be signed by both of us AND you'll get the gorgeous print, shown below? It's true. And did you know that it'll make me feel good in my stupid little heart? That's also true.

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 06/09/2026

make bad art

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JoCat is not fast @jocat.net · 07/09/2026

Shout-out to Travis Knight, who's father is the CEO of Nike (yes THAT Nike, the shoe brand) using his immense inherited wealth to fund stop motion animation at a financial loss purely for the love of the art. Laika Studios my beloved <3

A compilation image of Laika movies: Coraline, Paranorman, The Boxtrolls, Kubo and the Two Strings, Missing Link, and Wildwood

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Mike Jung @mikejungwroteabook.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

For my birthday last month I treated myself to this print by the one and only Nidhi Chanani and I think you should do the same. Come on, you're gonna have a birthday SOMETIME in the next 12 months www.inprnt.com/gallery/nidh...

Framed print of an illustration showing a brown-skinned girl in a unicorn costume giving an apple to an actual unicorn in a forest setting

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May-lee Chai (she/her) @mayleechai.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Signed a limited number of special early copies of MY HUNGRY GHOSTS at On Waverly Bookstore in honor of the Hungry Ghost Festival in San Francisco’s Chinatown today! (Will be having an event with a reading and conversation with @gracehwanglynch.bsky.social on Oct 18 at 2 pm at On Waverly.)

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Mike Jung @mikejungwroteabook.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Ok, just hear me out: what if instead of writing my book I keep adding to my series of unfinished monster sculptures? That’ll also land me a book deal, right? Even the ones that aren’t for a picture book? RIGHT?? *weeping*

A length-wise view of my extremely messy desk that’s covered with assorted art materials and three unfinished sculptures, including a tree for my monster picture book, a monster with a square head and wire-and-metal limbs, and the bottom half of a monster that’s propped up by a bottle of glue because it has no feet

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Mike Jung @mikejungwroteabook.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

There is, of course, the great @kellybarnhill.bsky.social herself. All-time great writer and all-time great human.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I didn’t want to see helpless humans. I’d rather see smart ones rescuing each other.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Every. Single. Problem. In this entire story can be easily remedied by one simple solution, which is don’t fucking let your cat wander around outside completely unsupervised! You can’t be outraged and furious about what your cat gets up to when you don’t even know where it is!

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Mike Jung @mikejungwroteabook.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Welp, Scholastic is claiming 100% of my Anthropic money. I'm pissed off as hell, if not surprised

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Mike Jung @mikejungwroteabook.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I've been making progress on my book, but it's been sputtery, and today I'm feeling a bit discouraged about my writing career as a whole, which is unusual for me. I could use a word of encouragement if you have one to spare. If you don't, videos of fascists being punched in the face are equally good

Legendary star of internet memes Grump Cat sitting on a red cushion

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

i love that this has had literally no impact on my day lol

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Mike Jung @mikejungwroteabook.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

FACELESS DEMON GHOST RACCOON, AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH

Close up of a raccoon on a stone ledge with its face blurred against a background of foliage

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Mike Jung @mikejungwroteabook.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Felix says it’s ok that I haven’t worked on my book all week because like all cats, he’s an enabler #AmNotWriting

Selfie of me in my Frog and Toad shirt petting Felix under the chin as he looks up at me and I smile down at him

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 02/09/2026

I guess it's not a secret anymore! <3 A magical social worker and a time-traveling vampire have to team up to protect the timeline from reckless time travelers.

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Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston @portersqbooks.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Hey #kidlitchat (and maybe also our friends @thehornbook.bsky.social) We'd love to get a few more applicants for the 2027 Writer in Residence for Young Readers so we'll leave the form open for another week. All the info: portersquarebooks.com/porter-squar...

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Please be vocal about not using AI. We have to normalize it. No "I'm not going to say that because it should be assumed. I'm not going to give them this". We don't have time for that shit ideological shit right now. NOW is the time to capitalize on waning favorability. Ppl want human made

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Mike Jung @mikejungwroteabook.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Nina took this pic of the trash panda boy band that hangs out in our backyard. The skunk’s the drummer, obviously

Three raccoons and one skunk on top of the retaining wall outside our kitchen window, with raccoons looking right into the camera and the skunk lurking in the background

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Upside Downie @adownie.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Flu season is almost upon us. Stay safe, folks

An image depicting handshake alternatives and the resulting germ
Transfer reductions:

High Five: 50% less bacteria transferred

Fist Bump: 78% less transferred

Sweep the Leg (martial arts takedown move): 100% less transferred.

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Dashka Slater @dashkaslater.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I’ll be heading back out on tour in September and there will be some public events in addition to lots of school visits. Come see me!

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