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Kat-Scratch-Fever 🎃

@katmoore.bsky.social

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PhD. Writer. Dweller at Cat Palace. Essays in: Brevity, Image, Creative Nonfiction, Diagram, Passages North, Salt Hill and more. Bread Loaf Scholar ‘21. Tin House Winter Workshop ‘22. she/her katmoorewriter.com

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Kat-Scratch-Fever 🎃 @katmoore.bsky.social · 9h

I completely checked out of reality today. I explored a pumpkin patch and corn maze. And yes, I did re-enact scenes from Children of the Corn while in the corn maze. Bought a pumpkin. Played glow in the dark Halloween deco mini-golf. Went on a silly Bigfoot tour. And watched Halloween 4.

A path in a corn maze under billowing gray clouds

Kat-Scratch-Fever 🎃 @katmoore.bsky.social · 11h

Look at those beautiful faces! I was sitting here thinking about Lanie.

Kat-Scratch-Fever 🎃 @katmoore.bsky.social · 2d

Really looking forward to AWP.

a woman in a polka dot dress is dancing in front of a wooden fence .

Alt: Divine strutting on the streets of Baltimore

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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 4d

Hi, CNN. Please stop framing it like he’s NOT outright breaking the law

CNN @cnn.com · 4d

President Trump doesn't commit to back pay for furloughed federal workers when the government shutdown ends. Follow live updates: https://cnn.it/46DIVEI

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Kat-Scratch-Fever 🎃 @katmoore.bsky.social · 4d

Putting this in my calendar!

Kat-Scratch-Fever 🎃 @katmoore.bsky.social · 5d

Which I know you know but I just wanted to hate on Calvin!

Kat-Scratch-Fever 🎃 @katmoore.bsky.social · 5d

The predestination is from Calvin. A total asshole who burned and beheaded people. And banished a priest (an old friend)for tending to the sick and hungry—said if he returned, he would kill him.

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 6d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Kat-Scratch-Fever 🎃 @katmoore.bsky.social · 6d

Oh yes, it’s always in our heads or we are just too fat. Contemporary hysteria.

Kat-Scratch-Fever 🎃 @katmoore.bsky.social · 6d

Reading about HRT/perimenopause on the Mayo Clinic’s site—it says that if HRT isn’t possible for whatever reasons then other options are clinical hypnosis, cognitive behavioral therapy, and weight loss. Like just in case, here is the default treatment for when modern science fails women.

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Kat-Scratch-Fever 🎃 @katmoore.bsky.social · 6d

Also, Trump has consolidated power at lightning speed. Like WTF? He is in control of all branches of the federal government.

Kat-Scratch-Fever 🎃 @katmoore.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you.

Kat-Scratch-Fever 🎃 @katmoore.bsky.social · 9d

20 federal agents beat a man at my old elementary school. How horrible for the children. How horrible for the man. Memphis needs resources of care and community, not brutality. And I say this as someone who lost her mother and sister to crime in Memphis.

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Kristen Renee Miller @kristenmiller.bsky.social · 11d

All I know to do when things are Very Bad is make art with more artists. I hope my little lit mag @zinemachine.bsky.social (launched today!), brings you what it’s brought me—an insistence that there’s so much brilliance, cleverness, humor, & beauty. That it’s never far away.🩷
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Read — Zine Machine

Our launch issue is LIVE!! Read zines made by real (paid!) human artists in Zine Machine's Summer '25 Edit, out now.

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Kat-Scratch-Fever 🎃 @katmoore.bsky.social · 11d

Yup.

Kat-Scratch-Fever 🎃 @katmoore.bsky.social · 15d

I’ve been to three readings this month. Met many lovely writers. Community is survival.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 17d

I assume that we won't get Surgeon General reports about the epidemic of white men shooting people and sociological studies about where their fathers are?

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Kat-Scratch-Fever 🎃 @katmoore.bsky.social · 18d

Apparently—according to that one guy’s vision—, it could happen today or tomorrow.

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Kat-Scratch-Fever 🎃 @katmoore.bsky.social · 19d

Here is another article: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

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Kat-Scratch-Fever 🎃 @katmoore.bsky.social · 19d

This is bullshit. This is harm and can be fatal for trans students. conchoobserver.com/2025/09/19/a...

ASU to Put New Transgender Policies in Place

Transgender discussions, language to be hounded off college campuses in Texas, following orders from Trump, Abbott.

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Kat-Scratch-Fever 🎃 @katmoore.bsky.social · 23d

If only

Kat-Scratch-Fever 🎃 @katmoore.bsky.social · 23d

Yes. Here we all are.

Kat-Scratch-Fever 🎃 @katmoore.bsky.social · 23d

I wonder if we would all be screaming in the streets if we didn’t constantly post our screams online.

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Kat-Scratch-Fever 🎃 @katmoore.bsky.social · 26d

The Aurora Borealis last night from my yard. Not a full viewing. But my first time seeing it all.

A house with a swath of deep blue and green on the sky above it.

Shadow of trees against a horizon of green and dark purple giving way to a dark sky.

Kat-Scratch-Fever 🎃 @katmoore.bsky.social · 27d

I can see the Northern Lights from my yard tonight. There’s still beauty left in this world.

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