Moira
@moirathat.bsky.social
DC/MD. Freelancer doing English review/copyediting for academic papers. Dance/art/language/bike life.
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"You make a cup once, you wash it a thousand times" is gonna stick with me
October 29, 2025 at 1:05 PM
"You make a cup once, you wash it a thousand times" is gonna stick with me
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Real pomological perverts know that if the apples look like this they're going to be mindblowing
October 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Real pomological perverts know that if the apples look like this they're going to be mindblowing
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Help us hire Christina and Martin Full-Time!
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August 8, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Support the best local journalists I know AND your money goes toward a worker-led nonprofit instead of Bezos!
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do yall take the lingerie off your garlic fast or slow
February 8, 2024 at 7:56 AM
do yall take the lingerie off your garlic fast or slow
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Obligatory plug to move your money from Bezos to local, worker-led coverage—
Some very welcome good news! There's never been a better time to support our worker-led local newsroom! 51st.news/we-received-...
We received our 501c3 Status!
A welcome piece of good news and an important time to support our work
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June 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Obligatory plug to move your money from Bezos to local, worker-led coverage—
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I'm so scared of cities. All those buildings so close to each other. You can go to the movie theater and a restaurant and the park while walking, in defiance of God. There are people you haven't met before. Sometimes there's a dog in a jacket
June 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I'm so scared of cities. All those buildings so close to each other. You can go to the movie theater and a restaurant and the park while walking, in defiance of God. There are people you haven't met before. Sometimes there's a dog in a jacket
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Whenever someone says they’re afraid of downtown in American cities, I’m always like, brother, that’s where the Fogos de Chão are.
June 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Whenever someone says they’re afraid of downtown in American cities, I’m always like, brother, that’s where the Fogos de Chão are.
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We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.
June 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.
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Mandalay restaurant in Silver Spring, Md has great Burmese food, but purple line construction on Bonifant has been discouraging customers from going there. See their Facebook post below. They are asking for support despite that construction which makes it harder to get there .
June 9, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Mandalay restaurant in Silver Spring, Md has great Burmese food, but purple line construction on Bonifant has been discouraging customers from going there. See their Facebook post below. They are asking for support despite that construction which makes it harder to get there .
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a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon
June 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM
a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon
Portobello Beach: two goths in love, slinging an arm around each other and searching the clear blue sky for the best selfie angle. He in a grey kilt and she in a black skirt, but everything else the same.
May 14, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Portobello Beach: two goths in love, slinging an arm around each other and searching the clear blue sky for the best selfie angle. He in a grey kilt and she in a black skirt, but everything else the same.
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I was thinking about this Joe and Tracy anecdote from the supply chain crisis on gummy bears. Things are probably going to get really weird in a few weeks in unexpected ways:
April 12, 2025 at 11:17 AM
I was thinking about this Joe and Tracy anecdote from the supply chain crisis on gummy bears. Things are probably going to get really weird in a few weeks in unexpected ways:
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Antique bakelite pencil sharpener. #WhettingEngines
April 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Antique bakelite pencil sharpener. #WhettingEngines
It’s a Prince Buster kind of morning
Prince Buster - Hard Man Fe Dead
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April 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
It’s a Prince Buster kind of morning
I love learning how other people think about or employ color
“Three years ago, my eyesight began to change. The precision of a royal blue pen, the decisive moment on the page, now just lines and shapes.” Read Cig Harvey’s introduction to her photo portfolio “Beauty is the Only Language Worth Speaking,” from our Winter issue: www.vqronline.org/winter-2024/...
April 2, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I love learning how other people think about or employ color
May we all eat as delightful a meal as Jeremy today!
Today in Jeremy's salad romaine, collard greens, pansy, and strawberry
March 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
May we all eat as delightful a meal as Jeremy today!
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One of the really special things about Sesame Street was always these little art films that were less about teaching a specific thing than they were about instilling a sort of meditative sense of wonder at how the world works.
Really enjoying this classic Sesame Street segment, two minutes of freestyle jazz riffing on saxophone factory footage
March 14, 2025 at 3:50 AM
One of the really special things about Sesame Street was always these little art films that were less about teaching a specific thing than they were about instilling a sort of meditative sense of wonder at how the world works.
Direct your calls accordingly, folks!
Don't take this as gospel. It's not official. It's a very knowledgable source's best understanding of the situation. This persons likely Yeses on cloture are. Schumer, Hassan, Peters, Durbin, Schatz, King, Shaheen, Fetterman, Cortez Masto and Gillibrand.
March 13, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Direct your calls accordingly, folks!
On the grammar of “trump take egg”
the techincal term for this is "disfluency" - a hitch in the normal way your brain expects some writing to go that makes it more memorable by forcing you to stop and pay attention it.
The dubious grammar exhibited here makes the message more impactful in the same way that misspellings and other incongruities make the message of the fascists more impactful. "Stop the steal" is another example of this phenomenon.
March 12, 2025 at 3:43 PM
On the grammar of “trump take egg”
Doodles I find in the trash
February 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Doodles I find in the trash
Loved this little Québécois film I watched on a flight from Montréal. Great bit where the vampire’s parents take her in for psychiatric help because she doesn’t want to kill.
February 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Loved this little Québécois film I watched on a flight from Montréal. Great bit where the vampire’s parents take her in for psychiatric help because she doesn’t want to kill.
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January 29, 2025 at 6:48 PM