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Amber Sparks

@ambersparks.bsky.social

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Your garbage mom; writer; she/her; I ♥️ unions; essayist on film, books, fairy tales, and horror; wrote AND I DO NOT FORGIVE YOU; HAPPY PEOPLE DON’T LIVE HERE in October; rep’d by Kent Wolf; I just want you to be happy, honey linktr.ee/ambernoellesparks

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 19d

ICYMI: I wrote a story about nostalgia and parties and the gorgeous wild unseriousness of this life and how sad and good it all is, and it has (almost) nothing to do with politics at all and I do really hope you read it because I wrote it for you ashortstorylong.substack.com/p/your-life-...

The further back you go, the people are less people and more ghosts, just smudges of smoke in the corners. This is what it's like to be haunted, you think. This is what it's like: everyone you loved a long time ago, gathered in your childhood basement forever.

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 7h

Omg 🥹

Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 9h

Exactly

Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 9h

A haunted house but it’s so nice inside, let’s just stay in here

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 18h

Oh I’m so glad! And agreed - she was absolutely INCREDIBLE

Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 21h

You are brilliant and I cannot wait!

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 21h

ONE WEEK! DC! Come to the launch party in Adams Morgan! @rvoronacote.bsky.social and me at Lost City Books and a few fun surprises, and a very spooky party www.eventbrite.com/e/happy-peop...

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 1d

Fair!

Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 1d

I want this for me

Carolyn Kellogg @paperhaus.bsky.social · 1d

All hail a true hero. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid

Fred Ramsdell was among those honoured with a 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine but might not know because he is somewhere in Idaho and uncontactable

www.theguardian.com

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 3d

I know :(

Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 3d

They’re the Christmas Adventurers of the world, they’re scary but they’re still fucking dorks, their power lies in pretending people take them seriously

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 3d

Exactly!

Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 3d

The thing is though they’re still fucking losers and we should keep saying so, we should never stop saying so

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 3d

God that’s true

Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 3d

Yep - the just following orders people :/ I guess every fascist movement needs them too

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 3d

Ughhhhhh like how - how can you care about more money when you’ve seen the videos, you know what you’ll be doing? At the absolute best, you’re indifferent to human suffering

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 3d

I needed to see this today. Perhaps you do as well. ❤️

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 3d

Like these people literally cannot be shamed, they’re wearing masks because they don’t want to be doxxed, not because they’re embarrassed, they do not see immigrants as human and at this point the club is full is on brutes and thugs. Next step is the SS

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 3d

What’s absolutely terrifying about what’s happening right now, and is always true at the beginning of fascist regime: ICE has always been awful, but now they’re so abhorrent that *only* evil people want to be ICE agents, it’s a Brownshirts spiral of who wants to zip tie a baby

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 3d

Oh my god

Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 3d

My husband is short (5’6”) and I’ve dated a lot of guys in that average range and this is VERY accurate

Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 3d

Same re furloughed partner 😭 hang in there! And that sounds INCREDIBLE

Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 3d

Exactly

Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 3d

Exactly!

Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 3d

Like please recognize the difference between spooky fun and the deadening horror of a fascist state ty

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 3d

“I’m not doing spooky season this year life is spooky enough” SHUT UP

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