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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 · 7m

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 · 3h

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 · 19h

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 · 19h

paywalled

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 2h

very cute!

emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 3h

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 · 6h

“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 · 3h

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 · 4h

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 · 12h

"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 · 12h

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 · 12h

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 · 12h

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

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 13h

i find the porn app thing so disturbing because i assume the son is still taking himself to town & doing something weird like swapping his sim card or using a porn burner phone & i can’t imagine making that much of my masturbatory life about my dad. a real gross “don’t think about elephants” sitch.

Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 13h

Trump 1.0 had a vice president who couldn’t be alone with a woman who wasn’t his wife
Trump 2.0 has a house speaker who monitors his porn intake with his son via an app

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 13h

Let's help them rebuild their lives.

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 13h

we’re both a little suspicious of the other. we might be doing each other a favor. or be too kind to let the other one down. you can never know for sure.

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 13h

she also moved in the night *before* our first date and, before i came out, all our lesbian friends who heard the story wete like “oh, like lesbians” and we laughed and our trans friends were like, “oh, so you’re lesbians” and we laughed and i sighed.

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 13h

i believe this is the correct short list:

5) 10 hour bus to nine inch nails club show

4) flip genitals inside out

3) girl blood

2) less suicide; more kitten

1) ask out smart hot girl

emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 13h

my favorite holidays are fully inaccessible to outsiders & today i celebrate Askiversary, the day 13 years ago that i made the smartest decision i’ve ever made & asked my wife out…several months after she asked me “why haven’t you asked me out?”…by which point i’d started to wonder if she liked me.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 14h

Making flash cards with beard insults to pass my Hegseth quiz

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16h

NEW: Pentagon officials are forcing staff to watch Pete Hegseth's "Warrior" speech he forced generals to listen to.

Officials are even "testing" staff to see if they watched — and are threatening consequences if they lie about watching it or if they mock it, sources tell @swin24.bsky.social and I.

The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else

Defense Department sources tell Zeteo that staff have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.

zeteo.com

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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 15h

DYK: if healthcare facilities and/or providers in massachusetts discriminate against you in contravention of state law and/or licensing requirements you can file complaints with their licensing boards and you can do this even if you think they're otherwise nice people
www.mass.gov/info-details...

www.mass.gov

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 15h

“i was sent into exile with nothing but my independent wealth, the property i own, my network of powerful & influential friends, & i pulled myself up by the bootstraps by doing nothing at all in my wilderness to end up the editor of one of america’s six remaining magazines. gumption. i have it.”

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 15h

7.5 miles into a 15 mile bike ride & i’d burn down my city block if it meant i was done. the smell of rice is making me weepy because i missed lunch. i’m searching what it costs to live in france—not because of The Circumstances™️, but because work can’t email me after 5 there.

it is tuesday night.

emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 1d

fell asleep within 35 seconds of eating dinner again and i feel like i don’t even have muscle tension. i just had to beg my wife to rip the blanket off me on the couch so i’d be too miserable to stay there and would get up to floss and brush and take my makeup off.

it’s monday night.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Yes, you should be surprised and horrified by secret federal police running around our city kidnapping immigrants, crashing cars, launching chemical weapons and shooting and killing people. This is a thing you should be *perpetually* shocked by. We lose when we become numb to it.

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 15h

woooooo congratulations!!!

emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 16h

whimsical planner!

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 17h

duh, lilah.