@robrenzetti.bsky.social
Creator of Mina & the Count, My Life as a Teenage Robot, and the Horrible Bag Series. Lover of cartoons, books, movies, and rabbits. Visit me at robrenzetti.com
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In the Horrible Bag series, Zenith Maelstrom must rescue his sister Apogee from GrahBhag, the bizarre world inside the bag. He encounters a gargoyle who dines on earwax, an eight-foot-tall living rag doll with a deadly definition of friendship, and many other creepy creatures.
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"ICE is arresting the worst of the worst."
Everything this administration tells us is a lie.
Everything this administration tells us is a lie.
December 4, 2025 at 10:41 PM
"ICE is arresting the worst of the worst."
Everything this administration tells us is a lie.
Everything this administration tells us is a lie.
Congratulations to my talented wife for her Pushcart nomination!
Overwhelmed and grateful to @whiptailjournal.bsky.social co-editors @komadorihaiku.bsky.social and @songsofkat.bsky.social for the Pushcart nomination! Thank you, thank you, and congrats to all the other nominees!
December 3, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Congratulations to my talented wife for her Pushcart nomination!
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Behold! My book was just named a @KirkusReviews Best Graphic MG Book of 2025! See the whole list at tiny.cc/KirkusBOYMGGN25
@SimonKIDS
@TheTobiasAgency
@SimonKIDS
@TheTobiasAgency
December 1, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Behold! My book was just named a @KirkusReviews Best Graphic MG Book of 2025! See the whole list at tiny.cc/KirkusBOYMGGN25
@SimonKIDS
@TheTobiasAgency
@SimonKIDS
@TheTobiasAgency
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An easy way to explain luddites:
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
December 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
An easy way to explain luddites:
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
My wife is racking up the publications and earning a well-deserved literary award nomination. Check it out!
Thankful to EIC @lorettec.bsky.social for featuring my six prose poems in The Mackinaw this week and for nominating "Hard Stick" for Best Small Fictions:
www.themackinaw.net
www.themackinaw.net
The Mackinaw: a journal of prose poetry
Weekly selections of prose poetry.
www.themackinaw.net
November 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
My wife is racking up the publications and earning a well-deserved literary award nomination. Check it out!
This happens relatively early in the film. Her singing is definitely unconventional, but by the time this song was over I was in love with Ida Lupino.
#NoirvemberChallenge
Favorite musical performance in a #FilmNoir ~ IDA LUPINO has a very unique style playing piano and singing One for My Baby (And One More for the Road) in ROAD HOUSE (1948)
After Ida sings, Celeste Holm says
"She does more without a voice than anybody I've ever heard"
Favorite musical performance in a #FilmNoir ~ IDA LUPINO has a very unique style playing piano and singing One for My Baby (And One More for the Road) in ROAD HOUSE (1948)
After Ida sings, Celeste Holm says
"She does more without a voice than anybody I've ever heard"
November 22, 2025 at 7:51 PM
This happens relatively early in the film. Her singing is definitely unconventional, but by the time this song was over I was in love with Ida Lupino.
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This movie is BAM right out of the gate with a dynamite sequence featuring Cloris Leachman. But the bonkers ending defies words. ALSO: Special features on the disk are interesting. Apparently screenwriter A.I. Bezzerides and source material author Mickey Spillane weren't fond of one another.
#filmnoir #Noirvember #moviesky #filmsky
#NoirNeckties #BOTD
Ralph Meeker
as Mickey Spillane‘s Mike Hammer in
Kiss Me Deadly, 1955
#NoirNeckties #BOTD
Ralph Meeker
as Mickey Spillane‘s Mike Hammer in
Kiss Me Deadly, 1955
November 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
This movie is BAM right out of the gate with a dynamite sequence featuring Cloris Leachman. But the bonkers ending defies words. ALSO: Special features on the disk are interesting. Apparently screenwriter A.I. Bezzerides and source material author Mickey Spillane weren't fond of one another.
A well-deserved nomination for my smart, talented partner! Congrats, honey!!!
Humbled and grateful to have been nominated for Best Small Fictions at The Mackinaw: A Journal of Prose Poetry. Congrats to the other nominees and warm thanks to EIC
@lorettec.bsky.social
www.themackinaw.net
@lorettec.bsky.social
www.themackinaw.net
The Mackinaw: a journal of prose poetry
Weekly selections of prose poetry.
www.themackinaw.net
November 21, 2025 at 7:03 PM
A well-deserved nomination for my smart, talented partner! Congrats, honey!!!
Do something you’ll enjoy - read 100 wonderful words from my wondrous wife.
Big, big thanks to the folks at
@100wordstory.bsky.social for featuring my story, "What She Wore," out today:
100wordstory.org/what-she-wore/
@100wordstory.bsky.social for featuring my story, "What She Wore," out today:
100wordstory.org/what-she-wore/
What She Wore - 100Words
Diapers. A bunny onesie and a smile displaying two front teeth. Rain boots. Mud. A vampire cape and fangs. Braces. Itchy gym shorts, a sports bra. Band-Aids, then scabs. Sunscreen and a one-piece swim...
100wordstory.org
November 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Do something you’ll enjoy - read 100 wonderful words from my wondrous wife.
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Hey Megyn Kelly,
14-year-old Eloise would like a word:
“If my voice makes you uncomfortable, good…
because the minute adults start defending predators by defending the age of a child, you’re not protecting the truth, you’re protecting the predator.”
Sound up! 🔥🔊
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14-year-old Eloise would like a word:
“If my voice makes you uncomfortable, good…
because the minute adults start defending predators by defending the age of a child, you’re not protecting the truth, you’re protecting the predator.”
Sound up! 🔥🔊
1/2
November 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Hey Megyn Kelly,
14-year-old Eloise would like a word:
“If my voice makes you uncomfortable, good…
because the minute adults start defending predators by defending the age of a child, you’re not protecting the truth, you’re protecting the predator.”
Sound up! 🔥🔊
1/2
14-year-old Eloise would like a word:
“If my voice makes you uncomfortable, good…
because the minute adults start defending predators by defending the age of a child, you’re not protecting the truth, you’re protecting the predator.”
Sound up! 🔥🔊
1/2
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Wearing a mask is pretty much the single most effective action any individual person can take, in regards to disability allyship.
It communicates both active, and visual support.
It communicates both active, and visual support.
ALSO.
If you're just coming across this news now, and thinking about what you can do to support disabled people like Alice in your community.
WEAR A MASK.
If you're just coming across this news now, and thinking about what you can do to support disabled people like Alice in your community.
WEAR A MASK.
November 15, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Wearing a mask is pretty much the single most effective action any individual person can take, in regards to disability allyship.
It communicates both active, and visual support.
It communicates both active, and visual support.
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The Ministry of Fear will forever change your relationship with cake.
Day 9 of the #NoirvemberChallenge 2025 - Favourite Dan Duryea #FilmNoir...
The Ministry of Fear (1944) dir. Fritz Lang 🎬
#Noirvember #filmsky #moviesky
The Ministry of Fear (1944) dir. Fritz Lang 🎬
#Noirvember #filmsky #moviesky
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 AM
The Ministry of Fear will forever change your relationship with cake.
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Are you a hot sleeper?
November 12, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Are you a hot sleeper?
A fourth publication for my talented wife on our favorite holiday!!
Overwhelmed and thrilled to have my flash fiction, "Adaptation" appear today in the new issue of Flash Frontier. Much gratitude to the editors! flashfrontier.com/october-2025...
October 2025: FISH | NGĀ IKA | Flash Frontier
flashfrontier.com
November 1, 2025 at 12:51 AM
A fourth publication for my talented wife on our favorite holiday!!
Happy Best Day of the Year, everyone! 🧛♂️🧙♀️👻
October 31, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Happy Best Day of the Year, everyone! 🧛♂️🧙♀️👻
Many thanks to @outsfl.bsky.social and Reading Rainbow for this special Halloween interview about THE CURSED CLOAK OF THE WRETCHED WRAITH. I'm extra insightful in this one so check it out 😁
outsfl.com
October 31, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Many thanks to @outsfl.bsky.social and Reading Rainbow for this special Halloween interview about THE CURSED CLOAK OF THE WRETCHED WRAITH. I'm extra insightful in this one so check it out 😁
My wife has multiple Halloween treats for readers this year.
fiftywordstories.com/2025/10/31/t...
fiftywordstories.com/2025/10/31/t...
TRACY ROYCE: October Thirty-First
Tomorrow morning, the spiderwebs will sag. I’ll clasp my trash-grabber, snapping up candy wrappers, empty sugar-shrouds nestled among fallen leaves. But tonight, the wind whistles through the trees…
fiftywordstories.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:59 PM
My wife has multiple Halloween treats for readers this year.
fiftywordstories.com/2025/10/31/t...
fiftywordstories.com/2025/10/31/t...
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Another one I wish I'd written! @horrorsenryu.bsky.social
those waifs were eating
me out of house and home
more soup?
— David C. Kopaska-Merkel
me out of house and home
more soup?
— David C. Kopaska-Merkel
October 30, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Another one I wish I'd written! @horrorsenryu.bsky.social
This is slander. I deny everything.
Big thanks to @ricklupert.bsky.social for publishing my Halloween haiku (click to "9 of 25") at @haikuniverse.bsky.social !
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a haiku a day | brought to you by Poetry Super Highway
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October 31, 2025 at 3:47 PM
This is slander. I deny everything.
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Pritzker: "Imagine it. Children who woke up that morning, expectant with joy & excitement to put on their costumes & celebrate with their neighbors in what they thought was a safe place at their homes. Armed, masked agents, terrorizing innocent people, especially children, is unconscionable."
October 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Pritzker: "Imagine it. Children who woke up that morning, expectant with joy & excitement to put on their costumes & celebrate with their neighbors in what they thought was a safe place at their homes. Armed, masked agents, terrorizing innocent people, especially children, is unconscionable."
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Top 10 Dog Halloween Costumes!
October 30, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Top 10 Dog Halloween Costumes!
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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👻 6 Diverse Middle Grade Books for the Halloween Season
October 29, 2025 at 2:30 PM
👻 6 Diverse Middle Grade Books for the Halloween Season
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I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
October 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.