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Emily @emilyemem.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Chicken pot pie with wee pottery rooster tonight.

Emily @emilyemem.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

It's warm enough for open windows. I'm lying in bed doing the crossword, while my husband's next to me listening to the baseball game on the radio. This just might be the life.

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Emily @emilyemem.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Show me a picture on your phone that isn’t you but has your energy Tie between these two.

Otilla from "The Skull" sitting by a campfire.

Mrs. Pig napping by her freshly mopped floor, in "Mrs. Pig Gets Cross," which might be the single best picture book on large family life.

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Listen To and Vote Like Black Women @bullet1982.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

THREAD🧵I have voted in every election since 1978. My spouses and children have voted in every election. Why? Voting is the most revolutionary, non-violent change agent we have in a democracy. Also because my maternal grand parents voted. Here's the case of my maternal grand ma. Real talk. 1/13

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Emily @emilyemem.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oh loaféd beast, we know not what kind of beast you were, but now you are loaféd, and so delicious.

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cara giaimo @cjgiaimo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

i was fortunate enough to profile Margaret Hamilton in 2019. A really kind and curious person. This was my favorite story she told me:

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Emily @emilyemem.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Trogdor with Burninated Peasants," by the little guy.

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 05/10/2026

[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!

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Knobs Returning To Some Automakers’ Vehicles, To The Relief Of Many

Auto companies are listening to the complaints of consumers, who want their knobs and buttons back.

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Emily @emilyemem.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"How many local models has the Pope?" 😂😂🤣

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Emily @emilyemem.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I know, I know, inflation, but I got my leather CBP set for not much over $100 like 20 years ago. And that was as nice as they got; you could have fake leather for $80-something with colored covers and page edges, or black leather with gold. Everybody got the same 5 ribbons.

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Emily @emilyemem.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The notion that it's rude for someone to sit during a customer-facing job is such a weird, boomer-coded notion. I get to sit as soon as I get to my gate, whereas they could be stuck for seven more hours, of course they should be allowed to sit!

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Mike Finger @mikefinger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just asked Victor Wembanyama if he’d ever consider promoting a sports betting company. “Absolutely not. I will never do that. Honestly, I think it's very sad to see some players promote it. .. Everybody does whatever they want, but without me.”

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

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Emily @emilyemem.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Had to go out late this evening to scrub some possibly poison-ivy-contaminated kids' shoes, but I did find a bumblebee that had decided that my marigold would make a comfy bed, so that kind of makes up for it.

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Emily @emilyemem.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Almost every adult in "Night of the Hunter." (Both good, but I prefer the book) The main villain is a very creepy classic horror/suspense baddie, but the banality of everyone who could put a stop to things and won't because of polite convention really captures a frustratingly realistic banality.

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Emily @emilyemem.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And she's a double Domer. 🍀

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John Herreid @herreidjohn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

While you were choosin’ Texas, I studied the blade

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Emily @emilyemem.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Last-ish hurrah of the perennials.

Queenie mix zinnias, yellow and white cutting marigolds, and pink-and-yellow cactus-type dahlias.

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c 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇻🇦 @cburkenstock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

thinking of a rhyme to discourage parishes from using AI in their bulletins and flyers: "every time you use AI, you make the Holy Father cry."

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Emily @emilyemem.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Here, have some mushrooms that look like rosettes.

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Emily @emilyemem.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

TFW you keep getting ads for online classes to learn how to draw medieval initials and marginalia, but your to-do list is already a dumpster fire...

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Emily @emilyemem.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Before my 12yo goes and writes them a scathing email ... this is AI, right?

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Harrison Lemke @hplemke.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

we live in a world of vague inscrutable threats

Instagram notification reading: "Meta accounts are coming to Instagram. You'll be updated to yours soon."

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Emily @emilyemem.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"It's decorative gourd season..." said one of the dads at the orchard field trip, and then we just nodded knowingly at each other.

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Emily @emilyemem.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Is Whitaker's Words just not working anywhere online anymore? I need to help my kid with his homework and I. Am. Rusty. (Also, even when I wasn't rusty, I used Whitaker's all the dang time.)

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Emily @emilyemem.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Wasn't feeling autumn-y at all, but woke up with a sudden craving for cinnamon apples fried in butter, so here we are.

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Emily @emilyemem.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I might just get my salsa verde yet, if we don't get an early frost!

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Emily @emilyemem.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Post your favorite Disney princess. Wrong answers only.

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 08/09/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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Emily @emilyemem.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Sitting on my scruffy deck with my cup of Irish Breakfast while the plants get a really good soak and the two littlest play frisbee below in their rainboots. This. Is. The. Life.

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Emily @emilyemem.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I remember back when I was the only one leaving my needlework projects all over the living room...

A latch hook rug on the floor, a loom on the couch, and that's my current knitting project on the end table way in back.

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Emily @emilyemem.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Labor Day book stack (which, full disclosure, my kids probably won't read because no one does anything productive when the big ones are off school, but oh well). What else should be in here?

Lumberjack, Mike Mulligan and his Steam Engine, The Tailor Shop at the Intersection, Mother Jones and Her Army of Mill Children, Kids at Work, Me and Momma and Big John.

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Emily @emilyemem.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Never thought of this as the Protestant work ethic rearing it's head again, but yeah...

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Emily @emilyemem.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Indiana Jones would punch this guy first and ask questions later.

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Emily @emilyemem.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Almost had a coyote/roadrunner drama play out in my backyard, but fortunately I was sitting close by the door when I heard the chickens sound the alarm.

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Emily @emilyemem.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Finally finished the bottom band on this sweater and now it's time to graft the ends!

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Emily @emilyemem.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I always get a weird mix of west coast in these, even though I'm a lifelong midwesterner. You'd think the fancy education would skew me east, if anything.

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Emily @emilyemem.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

6th century pope surprisingly relatable for 21st century mom.

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Emily @emilyemem.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

You can tell I have a long to-do list because I'm getting sucked down the rabbit hole of bookbinding videos/supply shopping for no good reason.

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Emily @emilyemem.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Look, when I'm listening on the Roku app, Bluetooth lags noticeably and wired is in perfect sync. 🤷

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Emily @emilyemem.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Teaching math: "Okay, so what's in your--" Kid: "wallet?? I hate when they say 'What's in your wallet?' because I don't *have* a wallet, only a money box!" In case you were wondering what's eating 3rd graders.

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Emily @emilyemem.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Post something random or you'll have an awful September

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Emily @emilyemem.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

So, friends, every day do something that won’t compute. Love the Lord. Love the world. Work for nothing. Take all that you have and be poor. Love someone who does not deserve it. Denounce the government and embrace the flag. Hope to live in that free republic for which it stands.

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