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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 · 6d

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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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 21m

i saw a tumblr post the other day that said “i’m super depressed & my friend told me if i ever killed myself he’d blast kid rock’s ’american badass’ at my funeral and tell everyone it was my favorite song and that has kept me alive”

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 26m

the good news is i don’t have COVID, the bad news is it’s probably just allergies and won’t get better inn5 days 😑

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 52m

How long will it be before we learn that ICE is murdering some of these people the minute they’re off camera? When we learn the kidnapping squads are death squads, will that be enough to grind everything to a halt? To stop showing up to work normally, to stop throwing parties, until this ends?

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Matt McDaniel @themattmcd.bsky.social · 47m

Saluting the legendary novelist Elmore Leonard, born on this day in 1925, with an all-day marathon of movies based on his crime stories, including Quentin Tarantino's JACKIE BROWN, now playing on Pluto TV Staff Picks: pluto.tv/us/live-tv/5...

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 43m

three predominantly black towns’ homecoming festivities were shot up, on the same night, in the era of trump and the authorities are going to hold to the idea that the shootings weren’t related

Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 54m

Six people are confirmed dead and at least 12 others injured in three separate shootings in Mississippi on the night of Friday, Oct. 10.

Six Dead, At Least 12 Injured in Three Mississippi Shootings

Six people are confirmed dead and at least 12 others injured in three separate shootings in Mississippi on the night of Friday, Oct. 10.

buff.ly

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 1h

unsolicited triptych pic

an image of hieronymous bosch’s “garden of earthly delights” triptych

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 1h

i mean, that added fascination of having the AI cop be black and the AI journalist more conventionally pretty is also QUITE something

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 1h

you have raised such a cool little person

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 2h

They are building a Propaganda State.

They are cooking the books on job creation.

Now they are rigging death numbers so no one knows how many people die because of their attacks on vaccines and science.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 14h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 2h

Usually presidents don't have much of a direct impact on the economy. But in 2025, the downturn is ALL Trump. It's his tariffs, his shutdown, his ICE raids, his health care cuts.

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

i think so. the other guys are obviously, maliciously evil. he still has the air of a game show host who wants to give away cash and prizes. the other guys look like they want to host squid game.

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

i know! i felt kinda awful for her, her friends were absolute ghouls to her

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 12h

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 18h

every time you post a photo of some new soulless ghoul billionaire into my feed i just wonder why they’re all so UGLY

every single one of ‘em! not a single
one of them even pretty enough to be in a basic cable Christmas movie as the barista in the background of the meet cute in Act 1!!!

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

so did the dumbest man alive, theo von. imagine that.

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile in #Portland

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 14h

he charges them $1.25 to get on the expressway

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 14h

Wolfman traveling through Salinas tears a woman apart but don’t worry, she’s a bitch

Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 23h

Your Spooky Season reminder that John Steinbeck has a shunned werewolf novel

www.theguardian.com/books/2021/m...

John Steinbeck’s estate urged to let the world read his shunned werewolf novel

Rejected and hidden away since 1930, an early murder mystery by the Nobel-winning author is ‘an incredible find’

www.theguardian.com

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Jess-Icabod Zellers @stellagarp.bsky.social · 15h

Beast of Eden

Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 23h

Your Spooky Season reminder that John Steinbeck has a shunned werewolf novel

www.theguardian.com/books/2021/m...

John Steinbeck’s estate urged to let the world read his shunned werewolf novel

Rejected and hidden away since 1930, an early murder mystery by the Nobel-winning author is ‘an incredible find’

www.theguardian.com

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 14h

without fail, my brain reads it as “duck TROLLING retriever” and then my brain spends another few minutes pretending to be a dog making fun of ducks on the internet and it makes me laugh *every time*

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

listen, with that laser background they are not *not* baiting women of a certain age

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

you're both so GOOD LOOKING! and LUMINOUS!

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

they took a vow of chastity but they didnt promise not to INSPIRE LUST

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

my dorm in boston had steam radiators and we couldn’t control the temperature per room. i LOVED it and the CLANGCLANGCLANG of them turning on! we called them the radiator gnomes going to work.

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

OH MY GOD THATS SO GOOD. put your socks & mittens in for a few minutes before going out in the cold, too

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