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Erin Fitzgerald
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Hedge wizard

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Watching football, and by watching football I mean heavily relating to Patrick Mahomes popping his Invisalign looking mouthpiece out all the time and watching the new BoA ad and then looking up when Jeff Conaway died and you guys it’s been over 15 years
November 28, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Printing out the book, ran out of paper, felt like a boss. Then I realized : janky printer.

Instead of revision in the new year, might find the most extroverted person who can tolerate me and then we’ll pitch Janky Printers for Novel Writers on Shark Tank
November 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Contemplating the great American novel that could emerge from replying to the text I got asking my long-unemployed self for campaign money in late November
November 26, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I need to take a shower but I don’t really need the shower thinking
November 22, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I enjoyed Wicked very much but this is my favorite novel that concerns itself with the Land of Oz. bookshop.org/p/books/was-...
Was
Check out Was - Dotty, old and maybe crazy, sees <i>The Wizard of Oz</i> on TV, and recognizes it as her own story. by Geoff Ryman on Bookshop.org US!
bookshop.org
November 22, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Just spent 10 minutes looking for the full set of the Pope rave. Unsuccessfully. But have to admit: it was almost luxurious to focus on something, anything, else.
November 22, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.

If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
November 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
There are far more important things about which to have thoughts and feelings, but
November 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Over the last week or so, I've been exploring how those silly LinkedInfluencer posts can look and act like poetry.

And — in true Andy fashion — I'm turning it into a zine idea!

Read more about it:

asterisms.lol/posts/corpor...
Corporate Memphis, but for poetry - asterisms
You know what Corporate Memphis is&nbsp; —&nbsp;it's the official-unofficial name for that particular illustration style of cartoony figures, maybe with disproportionately sized hands and legs, often ...
asterisms.lol
November 7, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.

Here's how to turn it off.

First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Romance novels, except they’re about patients in search of physicians who will listen to them
November 6, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Live your life so people aren't toggling between laughing at your death and laughing at the sandwich guy's trial.
November 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Hey area grocery stores, a very good way to get all of my business right now is to have food/$ collections like you often do at other times
November 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
One reason to switch to doing your work with a fountain pen is when you use up a full cartridge in one day, it feels like such a flex
October 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Reminder: My sketchy-looking house gives out full candy bars, with an additional full candy bar bounty for each Chick tract
October 28, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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I joined CT AG William Tong to announce a lawsuit filed by 25 states & DC over the Trump administration‘s refusal to release almost $6B in emergency funds so families won’t see SNAP benefits interrupted starting Nov. 1st. I am grateful to live in a state that fights for our residents at every level.
October 28, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Congratulations, sickos. We're 15 submissions away from hitting our cap on The Dirty Issue. After that, you'll have to whisper your impure thoughts to God, and hope for forgiveness.

barrelhouse.submittable.com/submit
Barrelhouse Submission Manager
Thanks for submitting your work to Barrelhouse!  Before you proceed, a note about open and closed categories. If you don't see the category that fits your work, we're not open for that thing. We keep ...
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October 27, 2025 at 10:30 PM
“Some of you medical offices need to change the default date your Salesforce product uses to remind your patients of things,” said the woman who just got six texts at the same time
October 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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We've opened submissions for a special online issue of @barrelhouse.bsky.social. The Dirty Issue will be edited and produced by my students at Temple University. Send us your fiction, poems, art. More details on what we're looking for here, on Submittable:
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Thanks for submitting your work to Barrelhouse!  Before you proceed, a note about open and closed categories. If you don't see the category that fits your work, we're not open for that thing. We keep ...
barrelhouse.submittable.com
October 15, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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dude show up for work
October 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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If you're taking to the streets to protest today, know your rights.
October 18, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Hot take on the recipe webpage thing: identifying the differences between irritation and anger can sometimes be interesting
October 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Moved my computer screen to a different place on my desk, now feels like I'm housesitting for someone who can take their work much more seriously
October 15, 2025 at 2:47 PM
One of the best and worst things about writer brain is the automatic inclination to step into many points of view. Great for stories, not so great when someone in your neighborhood has a big corporate event for their underlings in their yard and didn’t bother to give anyone nearby a heads up
October 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM