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Matt Rowan

@veryrealbatman.bsky.social
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Dad, teacher, editor, student of the history of autocracy, anti-fascist, “Nazis ain’t got no humanity,” and author of HOW THE MOON WORKS. Stories in @bulbregion.bsky.social, @xraylitmag.bsky.social, @barrelhouse.bsky.social, @hexliterary.bsky.social, etc.

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Matt Rowan @veryrealbatman.bsky.social · 17h
Sometimes I’m amazed by how much fight I still have in me after these last ten years, especially. But I hate these fascist mother fuckers so much and I’m sustained by my rage. Just constantly hulking out.
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Matt Rowan @veryrealbatman.bsky.social · 17h
Yeah because he’s a fucking pos and a loser. God, fuck him
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Matt Rowan @veryrealbatman.bsky.social · 17h
More dead children. As a teacher, a part of me dies every time this happens. Amazing there’s anything left.
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Matt Rowan @veryrealbatman.bsky.social · 20h
My favorite Founding Father.
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Matt Rowan @veryrealbatman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Who you crapping?
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Matt Rowan @veryrealbatman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I don't give a F*******************uck
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Matt Rowan @veryrealbatman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
That’s a really good point regarding debt.
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Matt Rowan @veryrealbatman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It's a great comfort to me in these trying times. Lol.
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Matt Rowan @veryrealbatman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I think if the Republican Party doesn't radically change within the next 5-10 years (or cease to exist entirely), you will hear many more calls for a Calexit.
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Matt Rowan @veryrealbatman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Time will get him eventually. I was less bullish when he was in his 70s. I knew science could keep him going if they had a good enough team around him. But your 80s with his behaviors are a completely different matter.
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Matt Rowan @veryrealbatman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
He is part of the reason I think he dies before then. He doesn't take any medical advice and just keeps doing all the things that have been pushing him toward death for some time. His family's history of longevity is working over time, but it won't be enough.
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Matt Rowan @veryrealbatman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It's possible he somehow lives that long, but I just don't see it. He's in incredibly terrible shape. Clearly incontinent, regularly getting IVs, and almost tripped over his own two feet the other day, among many other health problems.
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Matt Rowan @veryrealbatman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
California is in a silent divorce. People here increasingly spend as little time thinking about the Federal government under that abomination as is humanly possible.
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Matt Rowan @veryrealbatman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
AI could help, but again, Trump's a guy who likes to be out there in person, smelling badly and looking disgusting for all the eyes to see. When he's finally, mercifully dead, we'll have a pretty good sense of it fairly early on. Trump's impending death keeps me going, fuels me, even.
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Matt Rowan @veryrealbatman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
They will definitely Weekend at Bernie's his corpse, but to little avail after a point. Trump is a guy whose presence is felt and noticed when he is talking (sadly). Mitch McConnell's ability to shut up made him the particularly damaging foe he's proven to be, even now in catatonia.
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Matt Rowan @veryrealbatman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Hitler thought the German people deserved to be wiped from the planet when it was clear that they were going to lose World War II. Do with that what you will, but I tend to think things are going to get uglier before they get better.
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Matt Rowan @veryrealbatman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Dude is running on fumes. He will not make it to 2028. He's on borrowed time already.
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Matt Rowan @veryrealbatman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Any opportunity I get to give billionaires the metaphorical middle finger, I take.
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Matt Rowan @veryrealbatman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why is every egg roll in LA actually a spring roll?
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Matt Rowan @veryrealbatman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Yeah, I hate it.
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Matt Rowan @veryrealbatman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Man, I am wildly bored by a huge percentage of award-winning fiction out there. Why are you people so deeply unimaginative, and why do you keep rewarding each other for it?
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Matt Rowan @veryrealbatman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I have a new thing! It's about clowns showing up. It's called "Clowns Showed Up." It's in Ghost Harmonics! Thanks to Mike and William for masterminding this issue: www.ghostharmonics.com/magazine/iss...
ghostharmonics.com
Matt Rowan in Issue 02
Works by Matt Rowan in Oscillations
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Matt Rowan @veryrealbatman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I have a new thing! It's about clowns showing up. It's called "Clowns Showed Up." It's in Ghost Harmonics! Thanks to Mike and William for masterminding this issue: www.ghostharmonics.com/magazine/iss...
ghostharmonics.com
Matt Rowan in Issue 02
Works by Matt Rowan in Oscillations
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Matt Rowan @veryrealbatman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Anyway, you deserve to be dragged for this, Kai, and I'm actually a fan of yours, so I hope you'll take the criticism seriously.
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Matt Rowan @veryrealbatman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I really don't see what the big deal is. The ceremony we pretend to stand on when we have a convicted felon and adjudicated rapist in the highest office in the land.
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Matt Rowan @veryrealbatman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is literally all ChatGPT is good for:
A ChatGPT Prompt reads: Do scholars agree on what Matt Rowan's greatest work is or is that still being decided? 

ChatGPT's Response: There isn't currently a scholarly consensus that one Matt Rowan story is definitively his “greatest.” More importantly, I found very little evidence of a sustained academic criticism of Rowan's fiction yet. What exists is primarily literary-magazine criticism, book reviews, blurbs from other writers, and reader reception.

That distinction matters because the available evidence points to recognition without a settled canon.
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Matt Rowan @veryrealbatman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Too much goddamn evil in this country.
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Matt Rowan @veryrealbatman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Like, I feel like I'm just out of my mind, insane, because this is so stubbornly in defiance of all reason. We really are just ruled by the powerful, and they dictate all we see and hear.
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Matt Rowan @veryrealbatman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It's insane how Trump just constantly falls asleep now in almost every situation, and we talked about Biden's mental fitness nearly nonstop for four years.
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Matt Rowan @veryrealbatman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The movie is hilariously bad. To this day I think it’s the only Koontz novel I ever read?
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Matt Rowan @veryrealbatman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Does anyone actually believe that Trump has skipped taking his salary? He obviously has taken it. He was once a subject of an experiment to see how cheap certain powerful people in the world are and was given a check for like literal pennies, and he still endorsed and deposited it.
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Matt Rowan @veryrealbatman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It's crazy how little the noise makers of the establishment care about anything anyone says unless they're viewed as far left by the establishment.
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Matt Rowan @veryrealbatman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
So, uh, what is everyone prepared to do if (when) Trump tries to cancel our elections? Just want to do a temperature check.
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Matt Rowan @veryrealbatman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It's all so insane. My only consolation is that at least some of the people saying this mean we need to be so visibly and overwhelmingly opposed to this regime that they'll follow through with the elections or else...
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Matt Rowan @veryrealbatman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I'm so tired. I'd love to get the ADL's opinion on whether this is antisemitic, though. Obviously, I already know they'll say that it isn't.
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Matt Rowan @veryrealbatman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I aspire to have nails that are clean and kempt. For the most part, they are, usually.
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Matt Rowan @veryrealbatman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I have to admit, I just now noticed Karl Sadtrombone is gonezo.
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Matt Rowan @veryrealbatman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
They're taking the Alien franchise in a strange new direction.
Text from an email, pared down to include two discrete facts, reads: Ridley Scott Confirms Alien Movie & Rupert Grint Returns As Ron Weasley
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Matt Rowan @veryrealbatman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Evil
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Matt Rowan @veryrealbatman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
We need to permanently abolish ICE and prosecute everyone who was a part of that agency.
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Matt Rowan @veryrealbatman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
All I want is for them to share the massive windfall they made off of this film with the many people who helped make it.
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Matt Rowan @veryrealbatman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Not that I'm surprised, but Amazon is just letting people self-publish obviously AI-generated garbage without any requirements. Here's an example of what I'm talking about: www.amazon.com/THIS-REALLY-...
amazon.com
Amazon.com
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Matt Rowan @veryrealbatman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I know so many older people who were or remain undiagnosed. Hell, technically, I myself am, though I check virtually every box.
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Matt Rowan @veryrealbatman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Those are donuts
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Matt Rowan @veryrealbatman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
SpaghettiOs: Oops! All Meatballs
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Matt Rowan @veryrealbatman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Big Woke One.
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Matt Rowan @veryrealbatman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This is the kind of gutter racism Trump genuinely believes in, by the way. He cosplays at caring about all of the culture war issues but when you see him smiling it up and just so proud of himself it's always denigrating language about Black people or other people of color.
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Matt Rowan @veryrealbatman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Yeah, I think people on the left should pay just as much attention to this as anyone on the right did to disavowing Charlie Kirk or any of their much worse people than Piker.
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Matt Rowan @veryrealbatman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Look, no president is close to perfect, but wasn't it amazing when we had one who read multiple books a year? So frequently, in fact, that he had a reading list that he shared annually? He still does it. I miss it. I hate the sludge we have now.
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Matt Rowan @veryrealbatman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
"And those jobs are the shittiest jobs imaginable with the worst bosses imaginable, and we're trying to find ways to give them to AI, regardless."
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