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Emma Bolden

@emmabolden.bsky.social

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Just trying to put words together. The Tiger and the Cage: A Memoir of a Body in Crisis (Soft Skull 22), House Is an Enigma (Bull City Press), medi(t)ations (Noctuary Press, 16), Maleficae (Gen Pop Books, 13).

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 5h

Friday night massacre at the CDC per the New York Times.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg • @SherylNYT
X.com
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at
CDC. Dozens 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:
I regret to inform you that you are being affected by a reduction in force (RIF) action. Please find attached a notice memorandum explaining the RIF and next steps. This RIF action does not reflect directly on your service, performance, or conduct. It is being taken solely for the reasons stated in the memorandum.
After you receive this notice, you will be placed on administrative leave and will no longer have building access beginning Friday, October 10, unless directed otherwise by your leadership. Additionally, please save this email and its attachments, or forward them to a personal email address, for your records.
Leadership at HHS appreciates your service.

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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 5h

tiiiime to go to bed until i wake up at 3 am to my cat doing something ungodly like the demon summoner that he is

Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 11h

me to my coworker during the meeting: do you have games on your phone

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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 19h

i mean i feel like if anything the undead would be slow adopters

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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 20h

the singer of “monster mash” is an unreliable narrator, we have no evidence to accept his assertion that it was indeed a “graveyard smash”

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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 1d

mine is like … 60 or 600 tbh

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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 1d

just blood and books forever

Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 1d

omg also developing an immorality spell just for funsies

Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 2d

working on an immortality spell just to get through my to-be-read pile

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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 2d

damn my nobel prize brackets are totally busted already

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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 3d

of course i would have a third eye in the wrong place

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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 3d

a third eye in the center of my cheek bc i couldn’t see where i needed to put my eyeliner

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 4d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 4d

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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 3d

all dolled up: i put on makeup

all Dalí’ed up: i put on makeup without my contacts in

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donni saphire @donni.bsky.social · May 3

You basically just have to babysit yourself for your entire life

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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 4d

completely forgetting that notifications exist is both my greatest weakness and my greatest strength

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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 5d

that is a really good point actually

Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 5d

listen i really don’t have any opinions about taylor swift one way or another except that i really did not need to hear so much about her bf’s spheejinx on the internet this weekend

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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 7d

WHAT IF THEY FIGURED OUT HOW TO SING IN HARMONY ANNA

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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 7d

OH MY GOD THIS IS SUCH GOOD NEWS

Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 7d

mom come pick me up, they’re using the word “deontological” in bluesky fights

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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 7d

me at 10:30 pm: i am going to get so much sleep, no weird thoughts tonight

me at 3:30 am: what if dinosaurs chirped like birds, how would we ever know

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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 8d

“want to watch that kdrama? that will be five hundred dollars.”

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ACLU @aclu.org · 8d

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 8d

netflix is like “this documentary is so weird and boring, we think you’ll love it” and they are ALWAYS RIGHT

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