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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 · 3d

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 · 17m

my brother works in the aircraft engine industry and JUST recently texted me about snarge! he’d never heard it before either!

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 39m

that’s the way i see this trending. i’m too exhausted and too frustrated to care too much, but i am hoping i can make some peace with it all eventually.

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

I’m having an honest to god crisis and want to scream and cry every day. My last five years have been truly horrible and COVID doesn’t even crack the top 5 of why. I feel like i lost my last few viable years- especially as a woman who society thinks has a hard expiration date- and i feel like shit!

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1h

That's because they're fucking idiots, there is literally no other explanation

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OpenAI wasn’t expecting Sora’s copyright drama

It felt “more different to images than people expected.”

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

well over $3,000 in cat bloodwork to find out she should probably just be on different food 🫠

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 12h

my husband used to run into composers in LA who knew rachmaninoff.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 17h

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 12h

for the night crowd:

Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 23h

October 2025 #newsletter is up! Let's discuss what horror movies mean when you're 40, plus what I've read/watched in the past 30 days: msemilyedwards.com/2025/10/07/o...

October 2025 Newsletter

Author Emily J. Edwards muses about what is scary when you’re 40.

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 13h

“more gravy than of grave” was a banger

Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 1d

Ann Radcliffe eating hard cheese right before bed to give herself nightmares, Stoker claiming Dracula was the result of a nightmare induced by a “too generous helping of dressed crab,” let’s go back to the golden age of eating incredibly rich food before bed to create horror literature

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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 13h

The evolution of Marxism

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 13h

nope! dont like that at all!!!

Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 14h

i swear to god, it’s like they’ve spent a trillion dollars on tamagotchis that spy on you

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h

“.. Never before has so much money been spent so rapidly on a technology that, for all its potential, remains largely unproven ..”

@bloomberg.com $NVDA
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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 17h

I don't think it's CAROUSEL carousel, I think it's just using the name.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 20h

The audacity to anthropomorphize machines being built by corporations
--stealing data
--exploiting the labor of the people who are actually the "undesirables" under eugenic thought
--killing the environment,

and then compare criticisms of such eugenic practices to, wait for it, eugenics.

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 17h

In the early days of the internet I saw a post referring to how pigs would eat any "laying down" human (very specifically that does not mean "dead") and I have never forgotten that.

Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 17h

don't give a fig what it's about, I will be there with BELLS ON

Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 17h

god I fucking hope so

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 17h

oh look, someone made a movie SPECIFICALLY for me and no one else on the planet

Chris Pine to Star in Indie Movie 'Carousel' with Jenny Slate

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 17h

I LOVE LIMA BEANS SO MUCH!!! I have no idea how they got such a bad rap!

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Chris Yogerst @chrisyogerst.com · 1d

“Any investigation into the political beliefs of the individual is contrary to the basic principles of our democracy,” read the stern words from the star-studded Committee for the First Amendment (CFA) on October 28, 1947.

Chris Yogerst @chrisyogerst.com · 1d

New column up at @thr.com where I offer a history of the Committee for the First Amendment, then and now.

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 18h

I cannot eat artichokes in company. I will gnaw at the heart of that thing like a starving animal, while it drips down my arms and I have to pluck the sinews from my teeth.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 18h

how do I get my cat to stop biting my fingers while I type because he wants dinner two hours early

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onion person @junlper.beer · 20h

if the democratic party starts stepping away trans people they might as well sign this country away to the far right forever

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 20h

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 21h

ah, editing old newsletters, when you accidentally email people a million times a day.

sorry, folks

Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 23h

October 2025 #newsletter is up! Let's discuss what horror movies mean when you're 40, plus what I've read/watched in the past 30 days: msemilyedwards.com/2025/10/07/o...

October 2025 Newsletter

Author Emily J. Edwards muses about what is scary when you’re 40.

msemilyedwards.com

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

this is so fucking gross i don’t even have words to process how fucking gross it is

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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