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emily moonlight

@threnody.bsky.social

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fiction writer • roommate to 3 cats with rich interior lives • parmesan enthusiast • interrobang evangelist stories: prairie schooner 98.4 • hopkins review 15.4 • south carolina review 55.2 • post road 40 • 2023 clmp pride reading list

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 25d

yeah, but my vigilante name is bitchbones, so

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 4m

i’ve gone numb to some stories i really wish i hadn’t gone numb to but this is inventively hurtful and hope whatever she bought at the supermarket is full of e-coli.

emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 12m

also, and this seems implausible, i am currently in the chair now waiting to get my luxury bones fixed.

no word yet if there will be a sexual element here. a girl can dream, tho.

emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 27d

🚨BREAKING🚨

temporary crown: achievement unlocked!

old tooth that was under a gold(?) crown & filling: still healthy!

dental insurance: lol. lmao.

prognosis: come back in 2 weeks & spend more. then 2 weeks after that & spend again.

assholes who caused all this: second divorces, i assume!

🎉🎉🎉

emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 14m

yeah, if the bit is funny enough, i’m into men. it’s important to embrace the full range of available comedies, you lunkhead.

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 16m

see, i objected because it’s not a 1956 and katie isn’t actually an old man chasing children off her lawn with a broom. but i haven’t seen steven universe. even though i really really seem like someone who has seen steven universe.

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 57m

i think you have just cause to launch a full scale attack on hq. i’m not sure a jury would convict here.

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race scientist jack skellington @jazzpomegranate.com · 59m

if you’re just coming over from twitter, i think you’ll find my content relatable

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 2h

One day y'all gon learn that trying to split hairs between aesthetic/ironic bigotry and bigotry-bigotry is a fool's errand.

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Anne 🩵🩷🤍 [נעמי יעל] @tranniehathaway.bsky.social · 2h

A cool thing about the trans lesbian thing is you'll have done so much work for the whole trans aspect that you'll forget when you're walking down the street hand in hand with your girlfriend that for a lot of people the lesbian part is still a big deal.

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 2h

it’s so weird!

emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 2h

so we moved from “grab em by the pussy” to “they go in the gas chambers, i love hitler” as boys-will-be-boys locker room talk in 9 years & by “moved” i mean they were always like this, but “i love hitler” is now the front page story & they’re trying to force debate on how seriously to take it.

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 2h

ily ripp 💜

emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 2h

lmaoooo

shhhh.

1) i didn’t see that
2) mel and i are several posts deep
in a bit now

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 2h

[emily, in bluesky corporate talking head clip; upbeat jangly guitar plays]

“what we learn from ripp is that showing up lets people know you’re serious. consistency. *constancy.* for your constituency. if you’re always there, the people you represent will know you grind—you know, the feet people.”

emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 2h

[emily has entered the chat to do nothing but raise an eyebrow at ripp for the time they chided her saying, “i don’t show up under *every* post like this”]

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 3h

oh thank god. and no. you can’t make me.

bluesky alerts me: “There was an issue fetching posts. Tap here to try again.”

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JD Shadel @jdshadel.com · 6h

complaining about paywalls on independent media is literally an endorsement for billionaire controlled media — *and* vocal opposition to the future we need if we want to build something outside their monopolies on public discourse, periodddd

The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 22h

We do have a paywall, and that's because journalism has a cost. We pay all our contributors 0.50c a word & the founders haven't been compensated for the year, so we do ask for people to pay for our content. We still haven't made a profit this year, so we are unapologetic about that.

Gibbety🎃Flibbet @thecorrection.bsky.social · 22h

paywalled

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 5h

very cute!

emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 6h

yep. and plenty of folks left of center are like, “but i’m in the circle of trust. you don’t need it around meeee” and yeah that’s not how viruses work, becky.

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Sara Luterman @slooterman.bsky.social · 9h

“Keisha and Sean became determined to fill this resource gap. They’re among a growing group of Black parents who are building a support network.”

No one was helping Black transgender youth. So these parents stepped in.

A new nonprofit provides resources to Black families of transgender and nonbinary youth at a moment of heightened political hostility.

19thnews.org

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 6h

can’t tell you the last time i saw someone irl in a mask who wasn’t me, my wife, or wheeling around their own oxygen.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 7h

All I can add to the “we reject universal masking” discourse is that it’s not about masks. You aren’t rejecting universal masking, which never happened; you’re rejecting having to think about wearing a mask, and maybe feeling badly about thinking about masks. Can’t help you there.

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 15h

"see the woman against the wall over there? the one who stood up really quick?"

"the one who's quickly losing confidence in herself and is actually starting to look confused about why she's even standing?"

"yeah"

"we got another one, huh?"

"wanna fuck with her? quick—yell 'hey, faith!'"

emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 15h

yeah, that's actually fine. i truly don't care. i have friends in porn. watch porn. forming a bloodpact with your child over your porn consumption is the thing that i have an issue with and think is weird.

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 15h

pia doesn’t want avocado, she wants service. i have placed a whole avocado in her dish before and she couldn’t have cared less. but she loves *nothing* more than slowly eating a slice of avocado from a spoon i hold in front of her mouth for ten full minutes.

this is why i made her my lawyer.

emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 15h

it’s hidden inside an unspeakably stiff gym sock in a hollowed out copy of atlas shrugged.

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