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Mike Jung
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Merge two films Strangers on a Train to Busan
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Mike Jung@mikejungwroteabook.bsky.social |
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OH FFS, do I have to Okay fine, FINE, I'm a children's writer and artistttnnnggghhhh that still feels so weird to say, I'm also Korean American and autistic and a messy emotional glob who constantly gets sentimental on main, you've been warned
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Mike Jung
@mikejungwroteabook.bsky.social
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Merge two films Strangers on a Train to Busan
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Mo Ryan
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I was just saying to a friend, someone who was horrified by a prominent person’s wretched behavior (but this individual was fine/good to my friend)—I said, “never forget, these people choose the targets of their generosity & goodwill & appreciation as carefully as they choose their abuse targets.”
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Kelly Barnhill
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Sexual predation is clearly not limited to the arts, and so-called "whisper networks" exist in every profession. And ultimately these networks always, always fail. They don't reach the most vulnerable and they don't ever remove the offender or prevent future harm.
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Mike Jung
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Saw a thing on one of the other socials about leftists deciding to vote for Trump and if that's actually happening, welp. Those people aren't leftists. At best, they're performative nihilists
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Mike Jung
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Terrible lighting, absurdly placed laptop screen reflection, and artlessly off-center composition, but on the plus side, my head looks somewhat less peanut-shaped than it did in my youth
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Mike Jung
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From the Boston Review's breakdown of Project 2025:
"Project 2025 is candid about its ultimate goal: to reprogram the U.S. administrative state to support and sustain archconservative rule for decades to come."
tinyurl.com/4sa2swdx
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Melissa Gira Grant
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We need more, but credit where due: both The Nation (June 2024 issue) and Boston Review have run a breakdown of the Project 2025 “Mandate for Leadership” document. Media Matters, too. Lots of good work going on digesting this.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/ins...
www.mediamatters.org/project-2025
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Mike Jung
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Progressives and centrists uniting against fascism is deeply upsetting and limited, because that unity always happens on centrist terms, never on progressive terms. It is a deeply compromised dynamic. But we're on the edge of a precipice, and if we're pushed off, we will fall a very, very long way.
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Mike Jung
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There is so much more in Project 2025, and all of it would lay the groundwork for an expansion of oppression and atrocity many of us have never directly experienced. THAT is the clearest and most dangerous threat we're facing.
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Mike Jung
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Drastic cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. Federal prosecution of "anti-white racism." Infusing Christian nationalism into every aspect of American government, and by extension, American society.
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Mike Jung
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An enormous increase in border patrols, anti-immigration legislation, and internment camps. Reclassifying tens of thousands of federal employees as political appointees, whose jobs would be given to loyalists.
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Mike Jung
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It calls for unitary executive theory, which would give Trump direct control over all federal agencies. Eliminating the Department of Education. A ban on "pornography," which we can be 100% sure would include a vast swath of children's books for all ages. Creation of a pro-life federal task force.
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Mike Jung
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I understand why people are unwilling to vote for Biden. Truly. But Project 2025 is horrific, it's clearly part of the decades-long American fascist strategy, and a second Trump administration will force it upon us with every lever of destruction at their disposal.
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Anna Meier
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My favorite tried-and-true resistance tactic: Being Extremely Fucking Annoying.
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Mike Jung
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I'm kidding, of course. Kind of. I mean, I'm entirely capable of doing this, but I wouldn't do it for real, haha, HAHAHAHAHAHA *hysterical shrieking*
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Mike Jung
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I've decided that if/when I go on a first date with someone, whenever that might be, I'll just spend the whole time talking about Star Wars in exhaustive detail, which I know will qualify as a worst first date for a lot of people, but also might qualify as someone's best first date, right? RIGHT?
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Mike Jung
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😂
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Mike Jung
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Got an email from a young reader who asked me for info about my childhood and I'm battling the impulse to respond with "YOUR MOM ALREADY TRIED AND FAILED, KID, I'M ON TO YOU"
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Mike Jung
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NCTE is 4.5 months away and I know not everyone plans things months in advance like I do, which is why I'm not yet pestering everyone to hang out with me in Boston, but yesterday I got a text from a friend asking if I'll be there and I said "YES I WILL, HOORAY, LET'S MAKE PLANZZZZZZZZZ" #NCTE2024
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Peter Huestis
@peterhuestis.bsky.social
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Definitely the funniest and most confusing thing I've seen today:
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Jose Molina
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In case you think Project 2025 doesn't affect you or anyone you know, the plan calls for doing away with Social Security and Medicare as we know them. This will 100% hit you eventually, and it will instantly take money out of your parents' and/or grandparents' pockets.
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Mike Jung
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Oh shit, at some point in the near-to-intermediate future I'm sure I'll get tired of being alone and start putting myself out there in a real way, which means starring in someone's worst first date story is very much on the table. God help me
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Mike Jung
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We have a very small worm composting bin on our balcony, and when I go out there with the day's batch of banana peels and apple cores and whatnot, I quietly tell the worms "you're doing such a great job, I'm really proud of you" #worms
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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast)
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It’s hard to overstate what a victory for democracy it is that in France the far right lost to both the center and the left. working together to reject these fascists is key if America does the right thing we can, and will dismantle the worldwide fascist movement and destroy any chance they have had
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Mike Jung
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In happier news, I'm almost done writing a chapter that includes one of the most important emotional turning points in the book, and it's damned good, like, readers are going to weep, I am the puppetmaster, etc, so on and so forth #TheKidsInMrsZsClass
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Seth Cotlar
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And the fact that the piece didn't even mention that northern Idaho has been regarded as a haven for neo-Nazis and white supremacists since the Aryan Nations set up shop there in the 1970s is just a gobsmacking omission.
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Mike Jung
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Yeah, it's a whole thing. I haven't received one in a while, but it's not the first time
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Mike Jung
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*sigh* I just got one of those "can you send me a summary and character descriptions of your book and biographical info about yourself for my kid's school project" emails, and no, lady, I'm not doing your kid's book report for her. Only one of us is her parent, and it's not me
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Claire Willett
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genuinely hopeful sign that every big name GOP garbage monster is frantically trying to distance themselves from Project Say The Quiet Part Loud In an Easily-Digestible Bullet Point Format About Which There Can Be No Confusion. this means we should all absolutely continue never shutting up about it
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Saeed Jones
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If they’re comfortable killing other people, they will eventually be comfortable killing you. You can learn that lesson the easy way or the hard way.
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Mike Jung
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New life goal: avoid starring in anyone's worst first date story for any reason other than being a massive nerd
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Claire Willett
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and then somehow for whatever surely unrelated reason she was absolutely pilloried in a million different articles for being mean to poor dear sweet innocent Sarah Huckabee Sanders and forced to apologize even though nothing she said about her was untrue or even THAT harsh
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Mike Jung
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Hot take: blocking a troll may give them the satisfaction of knowing they've irritated you enough to get blocked, but that's ok. Saying "Mike Jung blocked me, haha, what a snowflake" to their three followers is not a victory of consequence
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Mike Jung
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Preemptive troll blocking is truly its own reward
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Mike Jung
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The great thing about blocking a troll without engaging is the 0% contribution I've made to amplifying their bullshit, highly recommended
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Mike Jung
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Writing like a badass over here this morning, BADASS WRITER, RARGH #TheKidsInMrsZsClass
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Zamira Rahim
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'Sometimes things don't go, after all, from bad to worse' Thinking a lot about this poem today.
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Mike Jung
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Sorry I Haven't Answered Your Email A six-word memoir by Mike Jung
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Mike Jung
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I saw a lot of old and new friends at ALA and I'm not doing the shoutout thing for *reasons* but please understand that I adore you and am so happy to claim even the tiniest sliver of real estate in your life. THAT IS ALL
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Mike Jung
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I'm reading a book and it's very soothing, you should give it a try #books
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Mike Jung
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In a SERIES of blog posts
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Mike Jung
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A librarian who tested positive for Covid the Monday before ALA went to ALA anyway and fucking blogged about it, which at least provides some info for potential exposure. She went to opening session, the Printz awards, and the Morris awards. The audacity
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Mike Jung
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Congratulating myself on yet again deciding not to hurl all my possessions into the street, light them on fire, and run screaming into the nearest forest, vanishing from the eyes of humankind forevermore
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Mike Jung
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In other news, today's time trial pretty much confirms that Jonas Vingegaard is way below his form from last year's Tour and Tadej Pogacar is way above his #TourdeFrance
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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉
@scumbelievable.bsky.social
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A lot of rotten people are seizing on the Gaiman allegations in order to score points against the groups and politics he publicly supported. Please do not let this trick your animal brain into thinking he isn't guilty. The publishing world has horror stories about this guy going back decades.
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Mike Jung
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He's apparently been a known quantity for years and years, smdh
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Mike Jung
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I have to at least consider working on books on holidays, aka days we don't have to work, so I did some writing this morning, but I also gave myself the length of a RUROUNI KENSHIN movie to work on the chassis for Steven's new tree because I deserve happiness, damn it #MonsterPictureBook
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Mike Jung
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And that's before considering allegations of sexual assault, which ramps it up to a whole other level
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Mike Jung
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An internationally famous writer and pop culture icon in his 60s who enters a physically intimate relationship with his child's 20-year-old nanny, especially RIGHT AFTER MEETING HER, has already demonstrated an inability or unwillingness to respect boundaries and manage power dynamics
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Mike Jung
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Remember that fireworks are war simulations
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