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(he/him) * Published writer of the weird, dark, and lovely * human services utility man* MFA Arcadia University * Ghoul of Upstate Connecticut * High Church Lutheran (RIC) * Totally Not a Furry * Married to a badass ER resident

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Latest posts by abastedo-writing.bsky.social on Bluesky

Take them in remembrance that Christ died for you, and feed on him in your hearts by faith, with thanksgiving.

19.10.2025 21:45 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Republicans using AI to generate videos of them doing bad things to Americans to hurt their feelings reminds me of when I was ten and mean kids would show me pictures they drew of me dying. They're basically the same people but the mean kids put in more effort.

19.10.2025 16:33 — 👍 22    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
WHEN YOU SPEND $61M ON YOUR OWN BIRTHDAY MILITARY PARADE

(photo of a sparsely occupied field)

WHEN A DAY IS DEDICATED SOLELY TO TELL YOU WHAT A DICK YOU ARE

(SO SO SO many people)

WHEN YOU SPEND $61M ON YOUR OWN BIRTHDAY MILITARY PARADE (photo of a sparsely occupied field) WHEN A DAY IS DEDICATED SOLELY TO TELL YOU WHAT A DICK YOU ARE (SO SO SO many people)

19.10.2025 08:41 — 👍 8401    🔁 2942    💬 90    📌 116
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a close up of a woman 's face with red hair Alt: a close up of Kate Bush, looking around for something off camera in a music video that my brain can’t bother to place at the moment

Local writer sits down to write only to find himself nearly an hour later 97% of the way through Kate Bush’s Wikipedia page.

Now to find some more time for more words.
#amwriting

19.10.2025 03:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Y’all pumped about joining in trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored?!

19.10.2025 02:11 — 👍 118    🔁 23    💬 7    📌 0

If you measure your success and faithfulness as a Christian by your ability/power to force cultural change ... your faith is based on Caesar, not Christ.

Christ commands us to point to what is better and will be in Christ's kingdom via sacrificial example, not cultural control.

19.10.2025 02:11 — 👍 99    🔁 19    💬 3    📌 0

Marie? Marie is that you? After all these years?

#nokings

18.10.2025 20:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Try and frame this as “hating America,” you fascist pootyheads

18.10.2025 18:48 — 👍 110    🔁 20    💬 4    📌 0
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🇺🇸 #TODAY #NoKings #Washington #DC 🇺🇸

#NoKingsDayOct18th #WeThePeople

Chanting “USA! USA!” at what Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson called a “hate America” protest. 14th St, Washington DC

18.10.2025 17:19 — 👍 133    🔁 37    💬 3    📌 0
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The Declaration of Independence:

18.10.2025 16:20 — 👍 620    🔁 280    💬 29    📌 15
The Obama Hope poster, but it's a frog and it says "Hop"

The Obama Hope poster, but it's a frog and it says "Hop"

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

18.10.2025 16:00 — 👍 20022    🔁 5529    💬 144    📌 133

"Who is this king of glory? The LORD of Hosts, He is the King of Glory" (Psalm 24) is the principle by which I understand and support the No Kings protests

18.10.2025 16:32 — 👍 22    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 0

Head to a protest today. I can almost promise you will feel less hopeless. That's exactly what they don't want. There are more of us than there are of them.

18.10.2025 15:26 — 👍 9546    🔁 1820    💬 121    📌 90
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a man in a tuxedo and bow tie is sitting in an auditorium and giving a thumbs up . Alt: Mr. Le Bour in a tuxedo and bow tie is sitting in an auditorium and applauding with a straight face
18.10.2025 16:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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For Tolkien fans, a timely passage for No Kings Eve, from WH Auden’s review of Lord of the Rings.

18.10.2025 04:13 — 👍 2737    🔁 783    💬 15    📌 26

I am bigly winning

18.10.2025 14:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

btw: the point of the trump admin joining bluesky is to make you afraid, worried, and anxious

all this data was already public. nothing is actually different in that regard. keep having fun. don't be dumb. block & move on.

cis folks, raise your vigilance level for trans people as assholes show up.

17.10.2025 22:25 — 👍 1398    🔁 651    💬 8    📌 5

It’s just utterly mind-blowing to me that you could let THIS get between you and your faith. What kind of faith even is it that point?

Trick question. It isn’t.

17.10.2025 18:43 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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homer simpson is sitting in a chair with his mouth wide open Alt: homer simpson in a nightshirt, shrieking like a small child

Local author checks his weekly progress

#writingcommunity #SFF

17.10.2025 17:28 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Folks, Apex is one of the best magazines in the game these days. We need them. I've pitched in, let's get them fully funded.

16.10.2025 16:57 — 👍 9    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0
Prime coziness: a black cat, almost chocolate covered in the rays of sun, curls up in a sunbeam divided up into narrow bands by the blinds, his head rolled to the side, green eyes brilliant.

Prime coziness: a black cat, almost chocolate covered in the rays of sun, curls up in a sunbeam divided up into narrow bands by the blinds, his head rolled to the side, green eyes brilliant.

Coziness prime

#catsofbluesky #cats

16.10.2025 16:51 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You haven’t spent enough time today thinking about how cute Cheetahs are.

16.10.2025 15:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wife still pregnant. Book still unfinished.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

#writingcommunity

16.10.2025 15:32 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Especially if you're a weird/cosmic horror author, but actually if you're any kind of author, ignore any accusations or criticisms that your work is guilty of purple prose. For one thing, stylistic maximalism is awesome. For another, "too much" is a matter of taste and sensibility—and whatever counts as mainstream stylistic sensibility among readers these days can be problematic. 
This sensibility is a descendant of the latter twentieth century's unfortunate war on literary style in favor of the anemic, streamlined "styleless" prose of much mass market pop fiction. Additionally, the ongoing, epochal shift away from a literary, book-centric culture to a visual culture dominated by screens has blunted not only many people's readerly expectations but their actual readerly ability. In other words, if your prose seems purple, it's not your problem, it's theirs.
The upshot is that you should write how you want. Say it exactly how you want to say it. If you're accused of reaching for every adjective or adverb in the dictionary and beating your ideas to death in ten words when five would be enough, take that as a badge of honor. Maybe your version of eschewing surplusage and identifying just the right word that makes the difference between lightning and a lightning bug is simply out of phase with the current culture—and that's fine.

Especially if you're a weird/cosmic horror author, but actually if you're any kind of author, ignore any accusations or criticisms that your work is guilty of purple prose. For one thing, stylistic maximalism is awesome. For another, "too much" is a matter of taste and sensibility—and whatever counts as mainstream stylistic sensibility among readers these days can be problematic. This sensibility is a descendant of the latter twentieth century's unfortunate war on literary style in favor of the anemic, streamlined "styleless" prose of much mass market pop fiction. Additionally, the ongoing, epochal shift away from a literary, book-centric culture to a visual culture dominated by screens has blunted not only many people's readerly expectations but their actual readerly ability. In other words, if your prose seems purple, it's not your problem, it's theirs. The upshot is that you should write how you want. Say it exactly how you want to say it. If you're accused of reaching for every adjective or adverb in the dictionary and beating your ideas to death in ten words when five would be enough, take that as a badge of honor. Maybe your version of eschewing surplusage and identifying just the right word that makes the difference between lightning and a lightning bug is simply out of phase with the current culture—and that's fine.

From writer Matt Cardin (via facebook).

16.10.2025 14:40 — 👍 47    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 0
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Actions speak louder than words

14.10.2025 17:05 — 👍 398    🔁 142    💬 8    📌 5
A little black cat curled up in a cat bed beneath a cradle

A little black cat curled up in a cat bed beneath a cradle

The paw that rocks the cradle

#catsofbluesky

15.10.2025 13:13 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My wife has entered the wandering around the house eating cold garlic mashed potatoes with a soup spoon stage of pregnancy.

14.10.2025 22:15 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Haven’t been on social media too much for updates. More or less, work and life have been too much to work consistently towards finishing the project and baby keeps giving us false alarms. We’re gonna need to see where we’re at in a few weeks.

#writingcommunity #furrywriting

14.10.2025 11:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Quite the bonding experience. Weirdly enough, I learned of the movie through the board game Balderdash before watching it or attempting to with my wife. She didn’t make it.

10.10.2025 17:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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