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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Bake-off going balls to the wall this season.

Danni saying “Flavours are inspired by cyanide.”

Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Looking for the perfect gift to put in your beloved’s Bela Lugosi stocking this Halloween? I got you! What could be better than my new book, How to die (and other stories)? It’s spine-curdling! www.mulebooks.com/store/how-to...

A very stupid diorama containing my book, a giant green chocolate Frankenstein head, and a green Jimothy. All laying on pink peanut hearts.

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This just showed up in the mail. My friend @aniking.bsky.social wrote it. It’s filled with stories about queer joy and werewolf sex and it’s so very worth getting yourself a copy. masonjarpress.com/chapbooks-1/...

My fat hand holding a copy of Family Night by Ani King.

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Picturing me and my two idiot brothers on the living room floor, surrounding the new fall season TV Guide, as we debated which Saturday morning cartoons to watch is one of the few happy memories of my childhood. And probably something I'll mention at both their eulogies.

TV Guide full page ad for new season of Saturday morning cartoons including Jabberjaw, Wonderbug, Electa Woman & Dynagirl, and Dynomutt

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We recently declared our neighborhood an autonomous zone. (And by “declared” I mean we made stickers.) But the neighbors seem to love it and enjoy putting stickers up.

Pile of round pink stickers that say DUBOCE TRIANGLE AUTONOMOUS ZONE.

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Me, when the printer dialogue box says “looking for printer.”

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In case any of my fellow Gen-Xers are feeling spry today, we just missed the 49th birthday of this album, which means we are less than a year away from celebrating its’ 50th. Enjoy your Monday.

Cover of Talking Heads: 77 album. Tomato soup red, with brat green type.

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My only note here is that I wish they’d also mentioned Ed Sheeran.

CBS News screen cap saying "Strait of Hormuz will be closed until Trump and Netanyahu removed from power, adviser to Iranian leader says"

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Make some zines! It’s a lotta fun. You get to use a guillotine!

Stack of zines in my hand, showing the staples.

Me holding up two zines. Both English and Spanish. HOW TO VOTE and CÓMO VOTAR

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Best Labor Day movies. I’ll start:

Screencap of Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, and Jane Fonda arm in arm, walking through the office in 9 to 5.

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

17th Anniversary of finding this little idiot on the corner.

Rupert. Little black dog. Still a puppy.

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A reminder that licking the boots of a sociopathic narcissist never works. They will still demean you. They will still punish you. And now they can also remind you that you stupidly thought you could get out of it by licking their boots.

Oval Office. Tim Cook looking defeated as Donald Trump speaks at a podium, while a lucite award, the only thing in focus, sits in the foreground of the photo.

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Little painting from yesterday that will probably become a panel in a much larger painting.

Ernie Bushmiller Nancy panel where Sluggo, who is holding a can of worms, tells Nancy THEY PAY ME IN WOIMS

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

No, there can’t be too many Dolly photos on here. Please more.

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Spending the weekend with my parents.

Newly discovered Cramps album GRAVEST GRAVY, with glow in the dark vinyl sitting on my turntable.

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Look at all this amazing pink shit you get when you order How to die (& other stories). It’s a lot, because YOU’re a lot. www.mulebooks.com/store/how-to...

I pink box with a book wrapped in pink tissue paper and a pink tombstone, pink anti-ICE whistles, and pink packing peanuts shaped like hearts.

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Here’s Venom being filmed right outside our old office:

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Nothing finer than knowing your book is in your local library.

Back cover of my book How to die (& other stories) with a library tag on the back from the Eureka Valley Branch.

Front cover of my book How to die (& other stories) with a library tag on the spine.

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

During the pandemic my brain broke. At least the part of my brain that could write. Which is a problem for someone who considers himself a writer. So I spent a lot of time doing writing adjacent things like laying out books and zines. Which is fun.

A stack of zines and books that I've written and laid out.

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

People of the Bay Area! Wanna see some art this weekend? You do! And I’m showing it. Come to the SF Art Book Fair. I’m having a show. Come see sick difficult shit.

Show Flier. Painting of a Waymo on fire. Says: Art Show and Book Reading. In a safe! Mike Monteiro, Sat & Sun, July 25 & 26, 2-4pm, 1405 Indiana Street. Not officially part of the ART BOOK FAIR

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Come see the show this weekend, during the SF Art Book Fair!

Show flier. Painting of a Waymo on fire that says FUCK ICE! on a neon green background. With the text overlaid: ART SHOW & Book Reading. IN A SAFE! Mike Monteiro, Sat & Sun, July 25–26, 2–4pm, 1405 Indiana St. (Not officially part of the ART BOOK FAIR)

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

🚨 People of the Bay! 🚨 If you are headed to the SF Art Book Fair this weekend, I will be doing a pop-up art show and book reading RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET! Inside a walk-in safe! (Yeah, I know it’s weird.) If enough people gather I will read stories from my book. Sat & Sun, 2–4pm, 1405 Indiana St.

Really stupid show announcement, with all the info from the post overlaid on a painting of a Waymo on fire, which is nice.

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

This last one is for scale. It’s big.

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

This is for you, refusing to see what is happening, because to see it would tear you apart. This is for seeing. This is for remembering. And this is also for vengeance.

Detail of painting in previous post. Two screaming ducks. Two bombs. One says ISR, the other says USA. White on black outline.

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

This is for all the AIPAC checks that make all the votes that continue to enable those deaths. This is for everything those children could have become. This is for all the parents who have buried a child, or the parts of a child.

Center detail of the painting in the previous post centered on the father carrying the injured girl in his arms.

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

This is _I hope shards of my heart embed themselves into your heart and you feel what I feel_. It is painted with wax and razor blades. 2026. 80”x72”. 56 separate panels. This is for all the children we have killed and continue to kill in Gaza.

Very large painting with a black border made up of screaming ducks and falling bombs with USA and ISR written on them. In the center there is a full color image of the aftermath of a bomb blast in Gaza with running children and a father(?) carrying an injured little girl.

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Congrats to whoever made this.

Statue of Lionel Messi, crouching, with a world cup trophy between his legs.

Same statue, but from behind, so the statue looks like a hog.

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Mind you, the little payments add up.

Track AIPAC graphic showing that Hakeem Jeffries has received $1,495,709 from Pro-Israel PACS.

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

🚨 NEW MERCH ALERT 🚨 Order my new book, How to die (& other stories)—awesome all on its own, and get this FREE wee hot pink tombstone. Perfect for your desk or home. Fiercely positive! www.mulebooks.com/store/how-to...

A stack of books, some packing peanuts shaped like hearts, and a hot pink tombstone, with a skull and crossbones, inscribed with DIE ONCE AT THE END.

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Started doing 1-on-1’s again. People seem to get something out of them. We talk about the job market, shit you need to do to keep a job, where to find joy. How to make books! One person just talked about records! I listen. I give advice where I can. I don’t gaslight. calendly.com/realmikemont...

Stupid image of a big 3D printed bust of me in hot pink talking to a wee Gary Baseman fella. says ADVICE real big at the top and ONE-ON-ONE. REAL TRUTH. REAL LOVE. at the bottom.

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Fuck Amazon. Ingram does a much better job. For the record, most small trade publishers use Ingram. Here's the tell: open the book to the last page and look in the bottom corner. If you see one of these, the publisher is using Ingram-on-demand, which you can too:

Last page on an on-demand book with a QR code and a lot of gibberish words and numbers.

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

You do not need AI to make movies. Back when we were free, and drank from garden hoses all we needed was this:

Sales photo the the Fischer-Price PXL 2000, which made movies with cassette tapes.

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Just finished reading this. And the common thread throughout the book was that rent was cheap. I moved to Austin in 89, right as everything in this book was coming to a close. I paid $100/mo for a little house in S. Austin, with 1 roommate. 3 dishwasher shifts a week and I was good.

My stupid hand holding a book titles Someday All the Adults Will Day by Pat Blashill.

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

By the one on the right here:

Henry Kissinger and Hillary Clinton, just hanging out. Buds.

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