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Rebecca Mahoney

@cafecliche.bsky.social

520 followers 290 following 560 posts

Author of THE VALLEY AND THE FLOOD, THE MEMORY EATER, and the forthcoming THRALL (spring 2026), co-creator of The Bridge Podcast, and #1 cheese popcorn enjoyer. She/her

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Rebecca Mahoney @cafecliche.bsky.social · 1d

Whenever I’m in an Uber with one of those cycling iPad quizzes and they do a colorblindness test, I’m always quietly like “you guys are really running the risk of a Paul Dano Little Miss Sunshine situation in here”

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Rebecca Mahoney @cafecliche.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t think I was as helpful as I hoped to be there

Rebecca Mahoney @cafecliche.bsky.social · 2d

Me, at work, seeing the delivery guy I was expecting: Oh, are you looking for [x]? His office is next to the stairwell.
Him: … so it’s not 211?
Me: No, it is 211. It’s just in that little alcove next to the stairs to the third floor.
Him: … so it’s not on this floor?
Me: No,

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Rebecca Mahoney @cafecliche.bsky.social · 2d

It’s been way too long since I went to an author event. That was such a delight

Rebecca Mahoney @cafecliche.bsky.social · 2d

AMAZING book launch from @marthawells.com at the Somerville Armory tonight! And @hollyblack.bsky.social was such a fun, thoughtful moderator!

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Rebecca Mahoney @cafecliche.bsky.social · 3d

He is indeed!! I have a friend whose younger sibling was in school plays with him

Rebecca Mahoney @cafecliche.bsky.social · 3d

I feel like this is SO likely

Rebecca Mahoney @cafecliche.bsky.social · 3d

I wonder if Joe Keery would appreciate me referring to him exclusively as “Newburyport’s own Joe Keery”

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Rebecca Mahoney @cafecliche.bsky.social · 3d

So frustrating!!

Rebecca Mahoney @cafecliche.bsky.social · 3d

“The left has been calling us racist for years, and now they’re upset that we’re posting racist sombrero memes?” Yeah man! You’re getting it

Rebecca Mahoney @cafecliche.bsky.social · 4d

Just made cream of mushroom soup despite a high of 80 today. It will be soup season by any means necessary

Rebecca Mahoney @cafecliche.bsky.social · 6d

Damn… apparently not everyone whose book was run through LibGen is eligible for the class action payout. For example: me 🫠

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Malinda Lo @malindalo.bsky.social · 7d

This is a very bad ruling for all of us who value the First Amendment.

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Rebecca Mahoney @cafecliche.bsky.social · 8d

Napheesa Collier you are so cool

Rebecca Mahoney @cafecliche.bsky.social · 15d

I laugh, but they are both very effectively scary re: how big Canada is

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Rebecca Mahoney @cafecliche.bsky.social · 15d

Horror TV shows about how big Canada is:
- The Terror
- Yellowjackets

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Rebecca Mahoney @cafecliche.bsky.social · 15d

Oooh jealous!! It’s such a picturesque countryside!

Rebecca Mahoney @cafecliche.bsky.social · 18d

Just saw a clip of someone getting tied to a big target on the ground so that the unseen killer could trebuchet wine bottles at him

Rebecca Mahoney @cafecliche.bsky.social · 18d

The place I’m staying at for a family wedding has a whole channel on the Roku dedicated to Midsomer Murders. There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity

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Sara Ghaleb @saraghaleb.bsky.social · 19d

It is fucked up what they did to the headphone jack

erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · Jan 13

i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?

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Rebecca Mahoney @cafecliche.bsky.social · 21d

Literally the beginning of the end

Rebecca Mahoney @cafecliche.bsky.social · 21d

And now I’m off to my gate to doomscroll on my phone

Rebecca Mahoney @cafecliche.bsky.social · 21d

I’m traveling without my laptop for once and I felt so smug telling them at security that I had no electronics to remove 💕 Like oh no thank you, I’m 💕unplugged💕 this weekend 💕💕💕

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Rebecca Mahoney @cafecliche.bsky.social · 21d

I also really struggle with Spanish in particular! I just really want to pronounce it in Japanese

Rebecca Mahoney @cafecliche.bsky.social · 23d

FGDHHDFH that would have been a great way to soft launch my business