M.J. Beasi

M.J. Beasi

@mjbeasi.com

YA author, educator, gamer in denial, nonbinary disaster. 👻 I WAS A TEENAGE DEATH GOD (2026) 👻 http://mjbeasi.com 🍃 It sounds like “MJBZ.” 🍃 Rep: Lee O’Brien at LGLM 🍃 pn: any/all 🎶 ghosts, opera, cartoons, books 📚 I play a cat on twitch dot tv

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Asawin Suebsaeng
@swin24.bsky.social

From: zeteo.com/p/trumps-whi...

zeteo.comFirst Draft: 📺 Trump’s White House Agrees His ‘Midterm Ads’ Are Illegal. They’re Doing It AnywayDonald Trump is demanding the propagandistic TV ads, even as some of his aides fret they ‘obviously’ break federal law. Missouri MAGA Senator Eric Schmitt, meanwhile, makes a fool of himself.
Andrew Perez@andrewperez.bsky.social

We heard at @zeteo.com that LMO placed Trump's propaganda ads. When we heard LMD was contracted, I thought it was too coincidental. My bad! LMO told us: "We are not at liberty to discuss the details of specific client engagements or contractual matters." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...

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Mike Bithell
@mikebithell.bsky.social

Replying to @mikebithell.bsky.social

Folks are clearly using this stuff as part of pipelines (I happen to think that’s legally and fiscally imprudent) but these ‘I made a whole finished thing from this single prompt’ posts are earth shattering bullshit

M.J. Beasi
@mjbeasi.com

🐈 Formally posting my stream schedule for fall! 🍂 Continuing my HADES playthrough as a first-time player and controller newbie! 🎮 Regular writing sprints & co-working streams! And my current comfort games, REVERSE: 1999 and cooperative MINECRAFT!

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jaci skellington 👻
@wickedjaws.bsky.social

It's ready to tag in Libby too. Let's get those library orders going!

M.J. Beasi@mjbeasi.com

Hey, friends! I'm so excited to announce the title and release date for the sequel to I WAS A TEENAGE DEATH GOD, in stores April 6th, 2027 and available for preorder now! 👻 Links & details here: mjbeasi.com/my-hot-death...

M.J. Beasi
@mjbeasi.com

I loved exploring more about Charlie & Sam's abilities, the inner workings of the DaRosa family, Ravi's theatrical hopes & dreams, & Charlie's tenuous relationship to the physical world. This book ended up being more personal than I imagined when I started, & I can't wait to share it with you all. 💜

M.J. Beasi
@mjbeasi.com

Oh, hi, here’s a funny story about how yesterday morning on stream, I spent, like, fifteen minutes trying to remember a particular Annie Dillard quote, and I was so frustrated that I couldn’t put together the exact words. If only I’d just… swiveled my chair slightly to the left. 😅😭🙃💀

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M.J. Beasi
@mjbeasi.com

Though she & I had such different childhoods in most ways, this quote & everything about the way she wrote herself as a child was my first experience reading something & feeling that it could have been written in my own childhood mind. I felt understood in some way I hadn't ever imagined I could be.

M.J. Beasi
@mjbeasi.com

Oh, hi, here’s a funny story about how yesterday morning on stream, I spent, like, fifteen minutes trying to remember a particular Annie Dillard quote, and I was so frustrated that I couldn’t put together the exact words. If only I’d just… swiveled my chair slightly to the left. 😅😭🙃💀

M.J. Beasi
@mjbeasi.com

Oh my goodness... this happened and I posted about it, all without having heard that she died two days ago. She is one of the reasons I ever became a writer. Despite how different our work is in nearly every way, her books were a huge influence on me and my voice as an author. I'm devastated. 💔

M.J. Beasi
@mjbeasi.com

Hey, friends! I recently contributed backing vocals and audio mixing to this cosplay music video for the Reverse: 1999 fandom! What’s especially cool, is the collaboration continues on! Check out the video for links to downloadable audio files & lyrics sheets to join in the lip-sync fun yourself! 🎉

Decaf [Invidia]@decaf-invidia.bsky.social

We covered Spiral of Ants by Lemon Demon~ With musicians and cosplayers all collaborating~ Check them out in the description. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP33... #reverse1999 #onanotherssorrow #music #lemondemon #reverse1999anniversary #R1999Vibe

youtube.comManus #Cosplay Collab | [Spiral of Ants] #cover #reverse1999 #reverse1999anniversary #R1999VibeYouTube video by Decaf [Invidia]

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kelly jensen
@heykellyjensen.bsky.social

Librarians Suing Over Wrongful Termination for Defending Books Are Winning. A look at the librarians who've settled lawsuits for defending the right to read and where that stands in contrast to lawsuits about the right to read more broadly. bookriot.com/librarians-s...

bookriot.comLibrarians Suing Over Wrongful Termination for Defending Books Are Winning: Book Censorship News, September 11, 2026Librarians who've been fired for not banning books and sued are winning settlements in their cases.

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Gillian Brockell
@gillianbrockell.com

AN URGENT EXCLUSIVE: Ahmed Soliman, the 30-year-old gay man ICE expelled in April to Equatorial Guinea, a country he has no ties to, was arrested this morning and cannot be located, his attorneys say. They fear he may be in one of EG's torture prisons. prospect.org/2026/09/11/i...

prospect.orgImmigrant Trump Sent to African Hotel Prison Arrested After Speaking With Media, Lawyers Say - The American ProspectAhmed Soliman’s attorneys fear he may have been sent to one of Equatorial Guinea’s notorious torture prisons.

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Mike Bithell
@mikebithell.bsky.social

What you need to understand is when workers want financial security, that’s entitlement. When bosses want financial security, that’s a god given right. If you think there’s hypocrisy there, then buddy, you just don’t get business, and its inevitable natural laws.

M.J. Beasi
@mjbeasi.com

Libraries are great for authors! Libraries pay more for our books, high circulation wears them out so they have to buy them again—AND they’re more likely to buy our next book. Plus, publishers consider library sales when weighing our future contracts. Please check our books out from the library! 📚💜

Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social

Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.

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Tom Cox
@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social

Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.

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Ben Collins
@bencollins.bsky.social

You actually can fight it. That is absolutely something you can do.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump on data centers: "You have to convince your communities how great these things are. You can't fight it. You have to go with it."

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Mike Bithell
@mikebithell.bsky.social

I need every single person who’s trying to fill a hole in their soul via the pursuit of money to see how utterly useless it is as a salve. You’ll still be this unhappy as a billionaire. Be a normal person and fill that void by mildly entertaining teenagers with weird games.

Oliver Willis@owillis.bsky.social

Musk seethes as ‘The Odyssey’ conquers at the box office www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

dailykos.comMusk seethes as ‘The Odyssey’ conquers at the box officeThe film opened at No. 1 at the box office, and Elon Musk can’t stop pouting about it.
M.J. Beasi
@mjbeasi.com

Hey R1999 fans, check it out!! I will also be contributing backup vocals to this video!

Decaf [Invidia]@decaf-invidia.bsky.social

Calling for Reverse 1999 Cosplayers to help with the visual for the anniversary music video: youtube.com/shorts/vuYnE... www.tiktok.com/@decafinvidi... Apply via discord: discordapp.com/channels/928... #reverse1999 #cosplay #lemondemon #music #r1999 #x #mesmerjr #tuesday #medicinepocket #getian

youtube.comHelp Wanted! #reverse1999 #cosplayer #thereversecircle1999 #anniversary #music #voiceactingYouTube video by Decaf [Invidia]
M.J. Beasi
@mjbeasi.com

I think I have successfully shrunk a t-shirt just about the right amount I wanted to, and as a person who struggles to succeed at most domestic tasks, I feel unreasonably proud. 🎉🎂🍾

M.J. Beasi
@mjbeasi.com

One irony of being a YA author is most interactions we have about our books end up being with adults. I wasn't prepared for how inspiring & HEALING it would feel to talk about I WAS A TEENAGE DEATH GOD with the teens I actually wrote it for. 💜 Thalia Kids Book Club Camp, it was my honor to meet you.

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M.J. Beasi
@mjbeasi.com

In 2019, I wrote a book about what growing up nonbinary before I knew what "nonbinary" was felt like to me. On the surface, it was a fast-paced, snarky supernatural adventure, but the real story was about feeling like you’re an aberration that shouldn’t exist & learning to care for yourself anyway.🧵

M.J. Beasi
@mjbeasi.com

In 2019, I wrote a book about what growing up nonbinary before I knew what "nonbinary" was felt like to me. On the surface, it was a fast-paced, snarky supernatural adventure, but the real story was about feeling like you’re an aberration that shouldn’t exist & learning to care for yourself anyway.🧵

M.J. Beasi
@mjbeasi.com

Its road to publication was long & painful, much like my journey to that understanding I suppose, & though I've since written more mature work, no MC will probably ever be as personal to me as Charlie, whose flaws & idiosyncrasies are so much mine. They're an AuDHD nonbinary disaster in my own mold.

M.J. Beasi
@mjbeasi.com

I WAS A TEENAGE DEATH GOD is available now (w/a sequel due out next April!) & as Pride month nears its end, consider picking it up from your favorite bookstore or local library. I have buy links on my website if you prefer to shop online, plus locations of signed copies. mjbeasi.com/i-was-a-teen...

mjbeasi.comI WAS A TEENAGE DEATH GODEvery time seventeen-year-old Charlie Ford touches someone, they absorb seconds of their life . . . which adds up when Charlie has no way of giving that time back. It feels like enough of a curse with...

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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️
@ashleylynch.bsky.social

This is an element that most people who weren't the direct target of this coverage don't understand is that we've now had a decade of the largest paper of record in the US "just asking questions" about the validity of a class of a people. How can that lead to anything other than discrimination?

Michael Schulman@michaelschulman.bsky.social

A data-driven analysis of how the New York Times's treatment of transgender subjects shifted "from rights-based framing toward more skeptical, conflict-driven coverage" since 2014, centering trans-rights opponents over trans people themselves. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

advocate.comThe New York Times helped turn trans rights into political controversy, analysis findsA new data investigation says the paper of record increasingly framed transgender rights as a debate instead of a lived reality.

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Spooky eBoy 🎃
@mandoqueer.itch.io

A thing about JD Vance Is that extremism researchers can tell he hangs out in Nazi forums because he repeats popular Nazi talking points from those forums pretty much verbatim. Like Jesus he doesn't even dress it up or change it around to sound original he's just a channer

Snitty 🎃@clofsnitville.bsky.social

And that's Vance in a nutshell: even his racism and misogyny are utterly unoriginal. He's a person who wholly lacks curiosity about the world he lives in. He's clearly made no effort to gain a better understanding of public policy during his time in the Senate and as VPOTUS.

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MJ @MJBeasi
@mjgsc.bsky.social

For anyone still following this account, all my socials, INCLUDING Twitch, are now rebranded with my author name, M.J. Beasi. twitch.tv/mjbeasi is my new Twitch channel name. I also no longer use this bsky account! Please follow me instead @mjbeasi.com!

twitch.tvMJBeasi - Twitch2d cat, small "g" gamer, YA author. Mobile gameplay/writing sprints MON, WED, FRI, Minecraft SAT, Productivity SUN from 6-9 AM Eastern in North America (GMT - 4). Reverse: 1999, Minecraft, Genshin Imp...

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Mike Bithell
@mikebithell.bsky.social

I feel like, midway through writing that second sentence, one must surely realise the dissonance. The nagging, aching knowledge that they are participating in an act that they’ll one day awkwardly avoid talking about.

Sarah Owen MP@sarahowen.org.uk

Organisations which also want to remain trans-inclusive need to receive support on how to do so within the law. In a similar way, those that wish to exclude trans men and women from their spaces also need to know how to do so without breaching individual rights to privacy. (6/7)