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🎃 It’s the Mid Pumpkin, Emily 🎃 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 15m

Adding to my huge list of nonsense I need to accomplish: I need to make an Ultra Skelly playlist

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🎃 It’s the Mid Pumpkin, Emily 🎃 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 2h

Makes me feel a bit better that none of you are fully on top of it either

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🎃 It’s the Mid Pumpkin, Emily 🎃 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 10h

my “the allegations are false that I tried so hard to be the cool teacher that at least one teenager read it as flirting” ball cap is raising a lot of questions answered by the ball cap

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🎃 It’s the Mid Pumpkin, Emily 🎃 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 11h

I forget how you balance having a life and staying alive

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🎃 It’s the Mid Pumpkin, Emily 🎃 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 11h

I still don’t have a Halloween costume, I need to set up the rest of the tombstones and look at grave-level yard lighting, I need to buy candy, I need to buy groceries, I’m behind on work, the cats are due for vaccinations…

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🎃 It’s the Mid Pumpkin, Emily 🎃 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 11h

I need to lock in and learn enough about local candidates to be an informed voter, but I’m just getting so depressed that I don’t want to make the time.

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Laurie! Live! @laurie-merrell.bsky.social · 11h

yeah I am very bummed that so far my takeaway from both the CCPSA/police district councils and now the elected school board is that we simply don't have the civic infrastructure for new elected bodies to lead to good outcomes

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🎃 It’s the Mid Pumpkin, Emily 🎃 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 11h

I’m so crabby about the school board president race because I know I’m going to vote for the guy whose conduct (presumably) failed to meet a legal definition of sexual harassment, which YES should be exonerative, but it’s America in 2026 so I don’t trust men, legal definitions, politicians, or HR

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🎃 It’s the Mid Pumpkin, Emily 🎃 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Oh I got that, it just reminded me that I don’t even give off THOSE vibes so why didn’t they preach at me????

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🎃 It’s the Mid Pumpkin, Emily 🎃 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I’m not even ex-evangelical! They just know I’m going to ask them why they’re not doing something useful like feeding the hungry

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🎃 It’s the Mid Pumpkin, Emily 🎃 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Per @jwolfe73.bsky.social, they’re now doing some laying of hands prayer circle nonsense

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🎃 It’s the Mid Pumpkin, Emily 🎃 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Waiting for a bus and there are evangelists here but for some reason they’re giving the hard sell to everyone but me

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The Onion @theonion.com · 12/10/2026

North Dakota Apologizes For Contributing Nothing To Nation’s Greatness theonion.com/north-dakota-apologize…

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David C Bell @moviehooligan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

If you’re wondering what the vibe is going into the midterms the New England fall fair I went to today had a crochet guillotine for sale.

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🎃 It’s the Mid Pumpkin, Emily 🎃 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

If you look at history we’ve already done so much stuff with regulating speech so that slippery slope is available right now without us doing anything different to protect people

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🎃 It’s the Mid Pumpkin, Emily 🎃 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

GOTCHA. I was like “wait I thought we agreed” but I never want to assume!

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🎃 It’s the Mid Pumpkin, Emily 🎃 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I used to agree with you back in college but I just don’t see how we stop being a country full of Nazi shit as long as we hold that 1A specifically protects the freedom to say Nazi shit

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🎃 It’s the Mid Pumpkin, Emily 🎃 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I’m sorry, what I was trying to say is I don’t think we can ask the republicans for anything. That might seem circular, but I just don’t get the idea of holding republicans accountable via asking them nicely to govern and not break the law

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🎃 It’s the Mid Pumpkin, Emily 🎃 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I think 1a needs a carve out for Nazi shit and I’m pretty sure there have been supreme courts who agree

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🎃 It’s the Mid Pumpkin, Emily 🎃 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

People are asking more of the democrats than the republicans on the assumption that the democrats are not committing crimes or treason

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🎃 It’s the Mid Pumpkin, Emily 🎃 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

We need to jail them all, permanently disband the party, and make it illegal to display any of its messaging or symbolism for generations to come. The question is whether we need to do that with 1 fascist party or 2.

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🎃 It’s the Mid Pumpkin, Emily 🎃 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I’m 42 and trying to get my parents and my friends to be friends. A) This didn’t start until we were all 35+. B) I didn’t even start having friends my parents’ age until I was like 29 or 30. C) I’ve also started making friends with my friends’ moms in the last 7 years. D) None of us are dating.

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🎃 It’s the Mid Pumpkin, Emily 🎃 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This also makes it worse. He hates kids unless he’s fucking them. Disgusting.

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🎃 It’s the Mid Pumpkin, Emily 🎃 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

That’s not helping your case? Someone’s child is someone’s child when they’re 80. They don’t stop when they’re 18.

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bag of moons 🏳️‍🌈 @bagofmoons.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

twin cities queers, this is a phenomenal opportunity!!! more details in the thread, vacancies starting the first of november!

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🎃 It’s the Mid Pumpkin, Emily 🎃 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I take so much in Chicago for granted, so it’s nice to see it through fresh eyes.

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🎃 It’s the Mid Pumpkin, Emily 🎃 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I love having friends visit and getting to show off how great this city is

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🎃 It’s the Mid Pumpkin, Emily 🎃 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I’m free this evening and I’ve been told I’m a young 42

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🎃 It’s the Mid Pumpkin, Emily 🎃 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I was worried there wouldn’t be enough on the agenda for my friend’s Albany Park day on his first visit to Chicago but we basically spent the day eating and shooting the shit on bar patios, with a nice walk along the river in Horner Park in between

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🎃 It’s the Mid Pumpkin, Emily 🎃 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Had a big day of walking around the neighborhood and hanging with friends and now I get to sleep a full 8 hours then get up and do it again tomorrow

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Chicken Puppet 🏳️‍⚧️ @chickenpuppet.online · 10/10/2026

The supposed rationale for throwing trans people under the bus is that you gain more voters, even if you lose the trans people, so if that's not true you're just doing it for the love of the game

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🎃 It’s the Mid Pumpkin, Emily 🎃 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Bathroom is clean and I wiped up the worst of the hairball residue on the hardwood, please clap

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🎃 It’s the Mid Pumpkin, Emily 🎃 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Also if anyone wants to come by and look at my new ultra skelly, my bathroom is clean

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🎃 It’s the Mid Pumpkin, Emily 🎃 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I think I’m going to manage to shower and take out the trash before my guest arrives, so he’ll only have a medium amount of Seeing How I Live

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🎃 It’s the Mid Pumpkin, Emily 🎃 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I honestly like his shtick minus the sex pest shit, but the sex pest shit really kills it for me

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🎃 It’s the Mid Pumpkin, Emily 🎃 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Yeah like my sister’s oldest kid is a year younger than Soon-Yi when they “started” “dating” and they are a tiny baby I held for the first time when I was in grad school

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🎃 It’s the Mid Pumpkin, Emily 🎃 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Yeah it’s a fact he’s a fucking creep who dated then married his partner’s daughter. People who aren’t creeps see their partners’ kids as kids!

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🎃 It’s the Mid Pumpkin, Emily 🎃 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I don’t want to vote for a man who has had to be called in multiple times about how he interacts with teen girls but there really are not a lot of choices here

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🎃 It’s the Mid Pumpkin, Emily 🎃 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Does anyone want to rub a write-in campaign for school board president? Can that be a thing?

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🎃 It’s the Mid Pumpkin, Emily 🎃 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Given the quality of the two heterosexuals I dated from Columbus, I think that’s wise on their part

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🎃 It’s the Mid Pumpkin, Emily 🎃 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Just figured out the cardboard piece that made my magnetic phone grip way less strong pops off, after I broke 3 screen protectors dropping my phone

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🎃 It’s the Mid Pumpkin, Emily 🎃 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Siiiick. I think my friend Rob will love you and I hope you like talking to him!

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🎃 It’s the Mid Pumpkin, Emily 🎃 @lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Are you at brunch Sunday? If so, let’s make a plan then

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