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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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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 4h

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

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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 18h

damn my nobel prize brackets are totally busted already

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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 2d

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

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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 3d

that is a really good point actually

Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 5d

WHAT IF THEY FIGURED OUT HOW TO SING IN HARMONY ANNA

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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 5d

OH MY GOD THIS IS SUCH GOOD NEWS

Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 5d

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

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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 5d

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 · 6d

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

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ACLU @aclu.org · 6d

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 · 6d

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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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 6d

it’s all good! it’s been a rough week and i totally misread! ☺️

Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 6d

i cooked something that required effort for lunch today and i swear i could taste my own fear

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Wendigo Wires 👻 @joparkerbear.bsky.social · Jul 1

God will never give you more than you can handle, unless you were born in the wrong place or don't have money. That makes god super mad.

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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 6d

thank you, yes, this is deeply true, was just trying to make a joke

Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 7d

the weather is gatekeeping soup and sweater season and i am so pissed about that

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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 8d

can you imagine if they tried to build a city on smooth jazz

Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 8d

TRUE they would be the most stable buildings ever built

Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 8d

rock n’roll does not seem like an especially solid foundation to build a city on

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