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Emily

@themerriest.bsky.social
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Aspiring starving poet. Weird mom. Oversharing on the internet since 1999. She/her. 🏳️‍🌈 Let's be pen pals: overshare.beehiiv.com

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jamie loftus @jamieloftus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
me too was a flawed movement, and it was also less than ten years ago. the details of my experiences, and so many others, were put out into the world in the hopes that someone would give a shit less than ten years ago, and there's an eerie deja vu to watching it happen again. love to everyone
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Emily @themerriest.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Bestie, that’s not what that emoji means.
Screenshot of an incoming email. Subject: Midterm Madness
Body: 💦 Cash flood
A drought-state Dem is accepting data center developer funds.
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Emily @themerriest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My new morning affirmation.
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Emily @themerriest.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s over for you bitches. (I got a bra that fits.)
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Jason, ex Inferis @benedictsred.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I love non-binary Halloween. What do you mean you’re iced coffee at a job interview
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Emily @themerriest.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Found a weird little guy in my garden.
A hand holding up a cherry tomato. The greenery on top looks like hair standing on end. A second bulbous tomato is growing out of the greenery. It looks like a tomato with a nose. There’s an uneven cedar fence and a bright blue sky in the background.
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Emily @themerriest.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Typing “The Raiders” into the search bar after listening to Orville Peck’s “Ring the Bell” to figure out what sport they play.
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Emily @themerriest.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Mama, the chaos of this (perfect) closet. youtu.be/rKKqZhrYPMw?...
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Isaac Mizrahi’s Closet Picks
YouTube video by CRITERION
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Emily @themerriest.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Theory: Men are aging into Tig Notaro.
A photograph of Brandon Flowers, lead singer of The Killers, holding a microphone on stage. He's wearing a purple jacket with black lapels and black skinny pants. He has one hand on his hip. He has short dark hair, and maybe it's my face blindness, but it's giving Tig. This has been on my desktop since July 6, 2025.A screenshot of Adam Scott from the show Severance. He's wearing a white shirt and a blue-grey tie, jacket, pant combo. He's squatting down to crawl through a small door. He has longish dark hair, and again, I do have mild face blindness, but he is also giving Tig. This has also been on my desktop since July 6, 2025.
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Emily @themerriest.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The person who decided to color-code the A cups yellow and the DD cups a slightly darker yellow is de.ranged.
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Emily @themerriest.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
In 2022, the kids went through a brief Sesame Street phase. I could never remember the name of the food truck monster, so Logan gave me a helpful little rhyme to remember. I thought he couldn’t possibly have made it up so I googled it. Anyway, it’s what I think of every time I see that redhead now.
Screenshot of a Google search. “Showing results for ginger singer / Search instead for GONGER DONGER.”

Three photographs of Ed Sheeran looking like a doofus follow.
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Emily @themerriest.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I took my Prozac for five days straight and the two little serotonin molecules in my brain found one another again and high-fived and I ended up calling everyone dude all day.
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Emily @themerriest.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I just confirmed my voter registration (and Logan's, because we have no boundaries) with @5calls.org and 5 Minute Midterms — you should too 5calls.org/midterms/sha...
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Check your voter registration ⭑ 5 Calls
Washington: register and vote on election day Tue, Nov 3.
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Emily @themerriest.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Absolutely plowed through HEART THE LOVER yesterday and can’t stop thinking about it.
The cover of Heart the Lover by Lily King. A bright orange background. A collage of pink eyes with white daisies like eyelashes and petals falling like tears. The title is written in simple black serif text, the author’s name in white.
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Emily @themerriest.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
That weird phase where the pain gets so heady it sort of feels like it’s abating.
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Emily @themerriest.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
MILE END KICKS was delightful except for the vague horror of recognition watching someone make bad romantic choices while wearing opaque leggings. They nailed the costume design. thesetset.com/articles/mil...
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Courtney Mitchell Brings Indie Sleaze Costume Design To Mile End Kicks
Courtney Mitchell drew from her experience in the 2010s Montreal underground music scene to create the indie wardrobes of “Mile End Kicks.”
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Emily @themerriest.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“Let’s tuck in together.” —Bear, pulling the covers over us on the couch 😭
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Emily @themerriest.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I trust this man implicitly.
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SinnamonS @sinnamonscouture.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Megan Thee Stallion for InStyle - September 2026
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Emily @themerriest.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A banger! Great choreo, too.
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Emily @themerriest.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Can you tell I'm catching up on my newsletter reading? haha
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Emily @themerriest.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"Both responses, the manic and the depressive, the gambling and the giving up, are rational responses to the same underlying condition. They are the two ways a rational agent expresses the recognition that the productive game no longer pays." --@henryfudgeofficial.bsky.social
henryfudgeofficial.substack.com
Degeneracy is a Symptom
On Conspicuous Despair, the Ponzi stage of being alive, and why your grandparents are wrong about you.
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Emily @themerriest.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"[Both laughing, with hunger]" 👀
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Let Me And A Food Scientist Sample The Abandoned Fish Sauce Terrorizing A Small Canadian Town | Defector
Take capelin, a small silvery fish in the smelt family. Now add salt. Then throw those two ingredients in 110 vats, each of them about 10 feet tall, and let them sit in a defunct factory for over two ...
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Emily @themerriest.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"I don’t need a stair-climbing wheelchair that costs $30,000 and requires a maintenance crew. I need better doorknobs and or a ramp." @weirdwriter.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy Great post on the unsexy work of accessibility and why flashy tech isn't helpful. sightlessscribbles.com/posts/disabi...
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The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and you., Sightless Scribbles
A fabulously gay blind Romance author.
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Emily @themerriest.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Molly Soda forever. mollysoda.hotglue.me?Desktop%20Du...
mollysoda.hotglue.me
does this seem more professional?
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Emily @themerriest.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
YOU ARE CAPABLE OF ENGAGING WITH THE PROJECT
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Emily @themerriest.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Raised by a Michigander and a fourth generation Texan in a city of immigrants, went to college on the east coast, moved to the west coast, now I talk most like someone in a state I’ve never been to.
Screenshot of the MyDialect result page. “Redder areas talk more like you; bluer areas least.
You talk most like someone from Vermont - about 51% of your answers match a typical resident.”
The map indicates hear on the west coast, the lower bit of the middle od the country, the panhandle of Florida, and the very upper tip of the Northeast.
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Emily @themerriest.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This is how I find out LA has two basketball teams.
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Emily @themerriest.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
So many resumes I’m seeing refer to positions that were ended because of funding cuts. It doesn’t have to be like this.
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Emily @themerriest.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
My back, like my actual back, was used as a trampoline by an elementary school aged child earlier today so if this is the last you hear from me, that’s why.
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Emily @themerriest.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Yinmn Littlewood
A pile of bright blue YInMn powdered pigmentA black and white photo of a store with the sign LITTLEWOODS. Several people are wandering around in front. The men are wearing ties.
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Steph Davidson @stephd.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
the Target Delia's collection is not historically accurate
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Emily @themerriest.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Chocolate chip protein waffle crumbs burning in the bottom of the toaster smell like a Black and Mild, pass it on.
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Emily @themerriest.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I often think about standing alone in the darkness of this infinity room, grieving a huge loss while not knowing that I was pregnant. As the lights gradually came on, I saw my own face on the mirror, reflected back at me with the golden lights. My whole life was different six months later.
Museum photograph of Yaoyi Kusama’s Aftermath of Obliteration of Eternity, 2009, wood, metal, glass mirrors, plastic, acrylic paint, and LED. A small mirrored room that’s dark with yellow lights reflecting off each other like stars.
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Emily @themerriest.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The Walmart men’s t-shirt section had a Dolly shirt. I bought three of them because they were comfy, and wearing those over the last couple of years I can report that people LOVE her. So much so that they get excited to see her even on a cheap shirt on a middle-aged mom.
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Emily @themerriest.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
At the risk of triggering discourse, something that I really like about @cbbworld.bsky.social is there are consequences for people. And it’s not a discussion, it just happens. You don’t have to wonder, the thing is just gone. This has been consistent for years and I really appreciate it.
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Emily @themerriest.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I think it’s really inspiring that Bill Gates is included in a Faces of Autism article because Autistic people can also be horrible pieces of shit and that’s ✨ beautiful. ✨
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Emily @themerriest.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I love keeping a food journal because every day it’s like “Tea, oatmeal, a piece of fruit; hours of not eating; the cheese and pepperoni scraped in desperation off the pieces of pizza the children didn’t want for dinner.”
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Emily @themerriest.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Got to see this on a rare date night today and it was SO GOOD. Matte paintings forever.
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Emily @themerriest.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Have now tapped out of both film versions of CAPE FEAR. I think I’m just done with male directors handling assault with the skill level of a finger-painting toddler. Like why? For what?
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Emily @themerriest.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Delightful sick-day mail: Produced and Abandoned, which I tracked down after seeing it mentioned in the Wikipedia entry for NIGHT MOVES.
Photograph of a book on a wooden floor. An illustrated man in khakis and a blue shirt with a brown jacket on top leans on a movie theater box office with a fedora obscuring his face. The title text reads: Produced and Abandoned
The National Society Film Critics Write On
The Best Films You’ve Never Seen
Pauline Kael
Roger Ebert
Richard Schickel
David Denby
[two names obscured by sales tag]
And Many Others
Edited by Michael Sragow
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Emily @themerriest.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Assessing convalescence in units of sitcom episodes.
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Emily @themerriest.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
How does this not have 10,000 likes?
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Emily @themerriest.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Frog on the trampoline!
A photograph of a large trampoline with a little green frog directly in the center, just chilling out.
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Emily @themerriest.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Apparently Bear posted to my Tumblr. emilyisreading.tumblr.com/post/8071283...
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Emily Is Reading
This is the best GIF for rock n’ roll!
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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 11/08/2026
I was hoping for your help with something. (Please RT for reach.) Is there a particular font that’s instantly recognizable to someone who lives where you do, and appreciated/recognized/hated there, but completely unknown elsewhere? Road signs, street names, transit, infrastructure, stuff like that?
An old dot-matrix display at the platform of Bay Area Rapid Transit near San FranciscoA license plate in TaiwanA house number in San FranciscoAn old street sign in Szczecin, set in a distinctive typeface
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Emily @themerriest.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Get in losers, we’re culturally reexamining the comic strip Cathy.
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Emily @themerriest.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The woman in this period drama is crying while wrapped in a pashmina from Sax while her husband archly watches her from a window and monologues to a painting.
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Emily @themerriest.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Saw a religious sign at the craft store that because of kerning read, “HE MAKES AWAY.” Can’t stop imagining a little cartoon Jesus booking it with a cloud of dust where his feet should be.
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Emily @themerriest.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The color grading of Obsession is so bad that it looks like they slapped an Instagram filter on the whole thing. Apparently no one else feels this way (based on searching reviews) to the extent that I’m like, “Did we somehow see a different version?!”
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