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melissa boles

@melloftheball.bsky.social
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she/her. storyteller. impatient optimist. pop culture enthusiast. trauma expert. fat queer w/ adhd. trying to find joy every day. melissaboles.com

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melissa boles @melloftheball.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
friends and writers, I’m an editor and proofreader who wants to help YOU get your writing ready to be published/submitted/read by the world. I’m looking for up to five writers who have been looking for an editor/proofreader and would be interested in an exchange: my work for your words.
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melissa boles @melloftheball.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
overstimulated? never met her.
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melissa boles @melloftheball.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
last week i told my supervisor that my job (at the crisis line) was the least stressful part of my life right now and tbh i stand by it because the “which bill do i pay” and the “how will i eat” games i’ve been playing are taking me out
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melissa boles @melloftheball.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
there is nothing i wish i had more than a credit card right now. i’m so hungry
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melissa boles @melloftheball.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
blogging again about books and (eventually) tv and film, here’s the first installment!! melissaboles.com/blog/emily-s...
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Emily St. John Mandel Does It Again — Melissa Boles
From its opening line, Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel is intriguing, setting up a world that looks so different from our own but is also tinged with shades of things we are currently dealing wi...
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melissa boles @melloftheball.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
yes that payment was overdue but I sort of needed that money for GROCERIES fuck
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melissa boles @melloftheball.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
losing my job in november (for having adhd!!) destroyed all the financial gain I’d been making and now i can’t even get a simple personal loan. just $1000 would change everything but noooo
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melissa boles @melloftheball.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
it is very nice to be going to work at a job again and also my new job has a lower hourly rate than my last job so I am already somehow $500 short of my bills and I just got paid. anyone need any editing, proofreading, writing, or citation work done?
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melissa boles @melloftheball.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
i have been BITCHING about #AnimalControl not returning yet and it turns out season four has already aired three episodes?! i’m a big dummy lmao
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melissa boles @melloftheball.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
i would cut off my hand for a warm chocolate chip cookie
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melissa boles @melloftheball.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
it is insanely difficult to find a good hot apple cider in this city. we are in WASHINGTON. there are apples EVERYWHERE
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melissa boles @melloftheball.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
i’m supposed to make a $400 payment in two days and i don’t have it. i am looking for work - if you need social media support, editing, proofreading, audio or video editing, data entry, or anything similar, i am available!
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melissa boles @melloftheball.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
thought I was going to finally get some good sleep and then got a 2 am email that i was denied unemployment benefits for last week because i missed an appointment and it was the final hit. the last six weeks have been excruciating and exhausting and i feel positively broken
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melissa boles @melloftheball.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
my eyes are so tired and I am like half functional but I am writing??? so we are powering through
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
We are a rogue state, run by a dictator, and the international community should treat us as such including all appropriate economic and diplomatic sanctions
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melissa boles @melloftheball.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
did i sleep at all last night? i truly have no idea
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melissa boles @melloftheball.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
holding my life together with silly putty and super glue and it is dicey i gotta say
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melissa boles @melloftheball.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
the way i would die for a $1000 personal loan right now
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
This message hits hard.
Graphic with a blue background and large white text reading “DEAR AMERICAN FRIENDS.” Below is a screenshot of a post explaining that Canada does not have CBS, that a “60 Minutes” episode aired normally in Canada, and stating that Canadian networks are not subject to U.S. government interference. The post ends with “We’re not under a dictatorship. You are.”
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melissa boles @melloftheball.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
my sister got me this book [“The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle” by Anna Shechtman] and a book of Sunday NYT crossword puzzles for Christmas and I’m STOKED!!!!
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melissa boles @melloftheball.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
merry christmas ya filthy animals
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melissa boles @melloftheball.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
if somebody could just magic $500 into my account that would really save my ass 😩😩
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melissa boles @melloftheball.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
i’m working a part-time gig and receiving unemployment for hours not worked and i make too much for food stamps? this country is a joke country
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melissa boles @melloftheball.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
i have not slept well or eaten well in a month and yesterday i felt the cold so deep in my bones that today by body said “no, sorry, absolutely not”
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melissa boles @melloftheball.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
i do not know what to do when someone hits on me. it’s something that didnt really happen in high school because of my body type and now when it happens i feel like a bumbling idiot.
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melissa boles @melloftheball.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
you guys my sister is fucking incredible. she is amazing at her job. she bakes. she has her life together. she is so much of the reason i have survived this last year and i can’t buy her a Christmas present. i can’t afford food so presents are out of the question and i’m SO MAD.
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melissa boles @melloftheball.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
i’m working a seasonal gig at a Christmas market and my biggest fear was running into one of my coworkers from the job i’m on unpaid leave from. it just happened and it was 100% fine. as usual, my brain overthought the hell out of it.
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melissa boles @melloftheball.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
truly an amazing experience to apply for a job, get a response, and then immediately discover it is a scam. incredible.
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melissa boles @melloftheball.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
still looking for seasonal and temporary gigs or even something longer!
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melissa boles @melloftheball.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
i was SO CLOSE to feeling like i could breathe again financially and now i’m out of food and out of money and i just wanna
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melissa boles @melloftheball.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
i am $180 short for my rent thanks to this mess going on with my job, so if anyone needs a writer or editor, data entry support, audio or video editing, transcription, or even someone to place phone calls for you between now and December 4, i am available for work!
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melissa boles @melloftheball.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
asked for an accommodation for my ADHD and was put on unpaid leave until the accommodation gets “figured out.” if anyone needs a writer, editor, or social media consultant, or needs help with any kind of project (data entry, returning calls, etc.), i am suddenly avail.
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melissa boles @melloftheball.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
does anyone know how to hug yourself as tight as humanly possible because things are not great right now and it’s the only thing i can think of that will make me feel better but i cannot order it on the internet
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melissa boles @melloftheball.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
i was supposed to finally be able to buy Christmas gifts and celebrate the holidays and not feel like i’m in financial hell this year but instead i am on the brink of financial hell again and I’m SO MAD
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melissa boles @melloftheball.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
asked for an accommodation for my ADHD and was put on unpaid leave until the accommodation gets “figured out.” if anyone needs a writer, editor, or social media consultant, or needs help with any kind of project (data entry, returning calls, etc.), i am suddenly avail.
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melissa boles @melloftheball.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
a guy asked for my number at a bus stop last week and i said yes and we’re still talking and he seems very nice? and he asks questions about me? am i hallucinating??
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melissa boles @melloftheball.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
“you need to sound more confident on some calls. even if you’re not confident, just fake it.” i am currently in a training program that suffocated my confidence three weeks ago but sure thing, will do. (also, i thought i waaaaaas 😩)
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melissa boles @melloftheball.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
this ⬇️!! Katie Wilson’s run did not have anywhere near the press coverage Mamdani’s did but they are truly companion wins. the left has bookended the country and that’s *important*
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melissa boles @melloftheball.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
so i’m eavesdropping on the two women behind me as they talk about books and movies and yes i DID interrupt to tell them that the editor of The Perfect Neighbor just won a Critics Choice Documentary Award hahaha
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melissa boles @melloftheball.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
at @townhallseattle.bsky.social for the @elysemyers.bsky.social event tonight!! very excited to dive into her book later, too.
a copy of the book “that’s a great question, I’d love to tell you” by Elyse Myers is held in front of a row of church-like pews with a stage and a screen with a blue image in the background.
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melissa boles @melloftheball.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
thrilled for this city!! i cannot wait to see what katie accomplishes.
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melissa boles @melloftheball.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
thackery binx, my beloved
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melissa boles @melloftheball.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
it is annoyingly difficult to surprise people when you are rapidly running out of money for your trip home
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melissa boles @melloftheball.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
when a caller refuses to give their location and says “just send the police!” it takes ALL of my strength not say “send them where, to the moon?”
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melissa boles @melloftheball.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
!!!! Yes, @wgawest.bsky.social, we love you.
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melissa boles @melloftheball.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
tbh, huge props to the guy who called to report a shrub on fire and then said “i don’t know” when the fire department asked how it caught on fire as if he was not partially being drowned out by fireworks lmao
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melissa boles @melloftheball.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
sorry haha this app has inadvertently become my wallowing place because no one in my family is on here but i promise i am not always such a sad sack
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melissa boles @melloftheball.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
would love to not feel like my father’s afterthought, hahahaha
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melissa boles @melloftheball.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
hey if you have any level of spending problem do not download whatnot you will spend too much money too quickly. just have heard that, do not have direct experience with it, *obviously*
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melissa boles @melloftheball.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
this day feels one thousand years long
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