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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 · 4d

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 · 1h

i wrote a SINGULAR piece for a women’s website years ago and got pitched as though i was a staff writer for half a decade, and frequently flaks would GET MAD AT ME that i didn’t work there “anymore” and they’d wasted their time pitching me

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

she’s not smart enough for it to be an ambition thing. she’s a dumbass pick me of the worst order.

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

honestly, i know this sounds base, but she was definitely someone’s affair partner and got dumped. don’t know whose, but it has to be something like that.

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

that little son of a bitch will fly from the 100 foot tall palm tree next door to the garage roof a foot above my head screaming like an irish folk monster and then look at me like a four ounce velociraptor and honestly, great approach, no notes

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

and then he CACHES IT in one of my TREES and goes BACK FOR IT

because scrub jays can remember where they’ve hidden food for DAYS and are known to triangulate locations of their hiding spots 😭😭😭

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

why on earth did we allow this 😂😂😂

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

you jest but i have a scrub jay who watches me take out the recycling and then asks for a peanut by landing on my path and screaming and it is routinely the highlight of my week

Midge @midge.bsky.social · 14h

People over 40 watching birds at the bird feeder

Picture of a crowd going wild with enthusiasm

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

for a while we were allowed to be ninjas to

anything but, you know, well paid and respected professional marketing people

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

lolololol

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

i’m glad gen z social media managers are allowed to be weird. us old guard millennials always had to be “professional” and it was so freaking boring.

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

i’ve rented many a place with a 40 year old dishwasher but i still ran glasses and silverware through it!!

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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

this commercial just began with “do you have a dishwasher but only use it for storage or a drying rack?”

new sociopath just dropped??? who the hell just uses their dishwasher for storage???

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 4h

i said that to my husband and he just said, “or hillary clinton!”

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 4h

if i was the Nobel committee, the way I would be voting to give another Peace Prize to Obama

Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 6h

The Guardian- The US president may impose tariffs, demand higher NATO contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says, if on Friday he is not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. www.theguardian.com/world/202...

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

www.theguardian.com

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 5h

It literally never once occurred to me to ask a professor for help or an extension. I was like, "no, no, it'll be better if you just died of exhaustion and untreated bronchitis."

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 5h

"Yeah but Johnny Cash didn't get a RACHEL in the early 2000s."

Bob dylan with a gray beanie and alarmingly blonde fringe.

Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 5h

I guess it does need oxygen and my entire born-in-the-80s heart believes that those things are hermetically sealed.

Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 5h

Oh, I bet that would be some EXCELLENT* hooch if you left that pouch in the sun for a while

*i mean, paint stripper-levels of painful

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 5h

i mean, for someone my age he was always OLD but in no way, shape, or form would i have ever thought johnny cash was UNCOOL.

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 5h

if by "deeply uncool" you meant once your dad realized cash & others were deeply anti-war, screaming hippies in cowboy boots you weren't allowed to listen to him anymore then... maybe?

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 7h

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.

Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.

on.wsj.com

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 5h

there may have been a few years where they were neck and neck but it's been a very, very long time

Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 5h

She's going to hide out for a summer in the Catskills doing a li'l gay summer camp:

a man and a woman in safari outfits are clapping and laughing

Alt: Peter Macnicoll and Christine Baranski from ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES, in their camp fatigues and rather tasteless hats indicating that he is a Pilgrim and she is a Native American.

media.tenor.com

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 5h

My next Silver Screen Sleuth newsletter will be about THE NAME OF THE ROSE, but I have to finish the book first and I still have 400 pages to go.

Sign up to get the email... probably Tuesday but maybe LATE Tuesday: msemilyedwards.com/newsletter/

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 5h

I mean, Billy Joel's ex-wife will also work but Baranski is welcome anytime, any place.