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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy)

@msemilyedwards.bsky.social

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She/Her. Author based in beautiful Los Angeles. Staunch woman. Links to podcasts, projects, and books: linktr.ee/msemilyedwards

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 7d

If Bluesky is on the express train to TERFtown and all the other platforms are owned by even worse human beings....

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 3h

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 9h

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 2h

oh noooo! we gradually weaned him out of a kennel and now he can do okay in my husband’s relatively soundproofed studio. be he definitely needs quiet or he goes bonkers if we aren’t home

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 2h

but NO ONE can explain why most of the cultivars are delicious and kale is meant to be consumed by dinosaurs and dinosaurs alone. absolutely the worst cousin of the brassica family. the one we should never invite to a party.

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 3h

grade A perfect creature.

Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 3h

ok. cats have been separated for easier diagnostics. boy cat is confused, and needing a lot of soothing. girl cat, on the other hand, has the entire second floor to herself and has lodged no complaints.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 4h

remember when

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 3h

i just spat out a drink

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 3h

they think the government forces total adherence to an extreme set of beliefs on a population that would otherwise be radically different because they all grew up in churches that operate exactly that way

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 16h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 4h

truly one of the greatest signs i’ve seen recently

a traffic cone with a red and white sign on top that says “reserved parking SOCAL POOLBOYS”

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 5h

I like that there’s a pope who has absolutely punched a guy before. This is a guy who has absolutely made a nose bleed.

D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 8h

📌“The fact that I am American means, among other things, people can’t say, like they did about Francis, ‘he doesn’t understand the United States, he just doesn’t see what’s going on.’
“Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?”

-Pope Leo in a direct rebuke of the hideous Trump

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Emily "Babe" St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 8h

If we really put our heads together and keep the evening of December 24 clear, I am convinced we can Christmas Carol this man.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 9h

I love a comedy of manners

Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 9h

Walked by a guy, hunky, in gym clothes, with his bro, hunky, also in gym clothes, who said, in the most SoCal accent possible, “It’s not a kind of sitch where you normally RSVP but I don’t want to be rude so I’m going to fucking RSVP” & I hope this is a new Jane Austen project.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 11h

Absolutely horrible news - Saleh was killed today

www.middleeasteye.net/news/saleh-a...

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 10h

Interesting! Did you go and see the other movies Reznor scored this year? (Just asking for context)

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 10h

Real question about TRON: Ares

Did anyone really give a damn that Trent Reznor was doing the sountrack? That is just... 100% not the same thing as Wendy Carlos or having Daft Punk show up

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 11h

okay. question. i am 5’10” and my husband is 6’1”. for our previous 20 years in LA, we were always among the tallest people in a crowd. today at the Rose Bowl, i counted AT LEAST two dozen people who were approaching 7’.

Are college basketball teams now 30 deep or is something weird afoot?

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 12h

Both my husband and I walked farther down the aisle and then immediately gasped, I NEED TO KNOW ABOUT WINNIPEG!!

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 12h

today’s best OH At The Rose Bowl Flea is definitely, “But little did I know… about Winnipeg”

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 15h

i mean. it wouldn’t take much to convince me.

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 16h

one cat has high blood calcium levels (there’s a fancier term for it that i am not going to remember right now) that is idiopathic, so, hooray! at least she doesn’t have cancer. i suspect it’s the other cat with today’s issue, but hopefully i can get him looked at today or tomorrow

Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 16h

i long for an opiate at this point

Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 16h

oddly, the cat that almost died in the house fire AND the one i suspect is peeing blood is the chilliest pet i have this morning. he is my goofy buddy and i hope he’s just got a weird UTI or something

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 16h

i got ~4 hours’ sleep, got pulled out of bed in the dark by a bad smoke detector i thought we’d fixed yesterday, soothed a traumatized dog who survived a house fire & is now triggered by detector beeps, am now facing a new multi-hundred+ vet bill & autocorrect continues to make me sound dumb as shit

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 16h

i just down $3,000 on cat blood tests to find out nothing is causing o e cat’s weird blood levels and now one of them is pissing blood

guys, i can’t keep doing this

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 17h

normal 9ft ceiling in the bedroom?

perfect! fine & dandy

vaulted ceiling at the top of the stairs?

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