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Jerilynn Aquino
@jerilynnaquino.bsky.social
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Writer, PhD Candidate @okstate
Contrib. Editor @splitlipthemag
🇵🇷 Memoir in progress
🦂 stillouthere.substack.com
🌴 jerilynnaquino.com
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astridoverthere.bsky.social
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.

Here's how to turn it off.

First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Screenshot of the top of a Bsky feed, with a red circle around the hamburger menu in the top left.
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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wendyortiz.com
40% discount today 👻
November 1, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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writesloud.bsky.social
NY friends, come hang November 16th!

@camilleuadams.bsky.social @michelleghenry.bsky.social @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social @raxkingisdead.bsky.social @saralippmann.bsky.social @katetooley.bsky.social
A flyer for a street side lit reading, featuring Camille U. Adams, Michelle Guerrero Henry, Aubrey Hirsch, Rax King, Sara Lippmann, Kate Tooley, and me! It shows the covers of our books and includes info about the reading: November 16 at 2pm at "Store Front West" (367 E 10th St, NY NY 10009)
October 7, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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livesinpages.bsky.social
I have a new story out today @maudlinhouse.bsky.social! Writing it was heavily inspired by the increasing cost of groceries and general anxieties around money and trying to live a stupid little life!
October 9, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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anniejowrites.bsky.social
I have a new tiny story in @havehashad.com today about fleeting connections. thanks as always to @aaronburch.bsky.social, one of the best editors around, & to all of you who read this one ♡ 💀 🪦 ♡ www.havehashad.com/hadposts/our...
At the top of the page is a drawing of a pile of skulls. Underneath is today’s date: September 4, 2025. Then the title of the story and the name of the author: Our second date was meant to be unconventional and unromantic by Anna Vangala Jones. Below that is the text of the story: —we thought we were funny when we suggested meeting at the laundromat because we bonded on the first date about putting it off so long we'd almost reached the bathing suits as underwear stage. But when he called to cancel, I worried I should have held onto my mystique a bit longer and not revealed the lazy mess lurking beneath my put together surface yet. "It's not that," he said. "I have to go to a funeral." After I told him how sorry I was, he said, "Want to come?" I joked, "It's too soon but take me to the next one." I appreciated the earnest vulnerability of his response that he could use the company so I said yes. My friends teased me that we'd only been on one date so maybe he was a serial killer and we would be going to my funeral. Weird how we cope with the possibility of being murdered every time we meet someone new by laughing about how hilarious it'll be if it happens, but it's preferable to being paralyzed by it. "He loves Bruce Springsteen, so he can't be that bad," I told them. The funeral was for his lifelong friend—they had first met at only five years old—so it was of course sad. We held hands as they lowered the casket. After everyone else left, we wandered the cemetery chatting about everything and nothing like we were at a coffee shop and he kissed me in front of a tombstone that read, "Beloved and remembered. Until we meet again." He ghosted me after that. When I listen to Bruce at the laundromat, I wonder why our first and last kiss happened amidst graves and death and almost write him to ask. But maybe it's better not to know.
September 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
jerilynnaquino.bsky.social
Teaching again next week after living in a muumuu for 3 months
a man with gray hair is sitting in front of a window with his hand to his chin
ALT: a man with gray hair is sitting in front of a window with his hand to his chin
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August 15, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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splitlippress.com
Heads up that if you follow us over on Instagram (same handle, @splitlippress), we're doing a giveaway... 👀
August 14, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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elnorterecuerda.bsky.social
The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.
Laura Loomer‘s tweet: Alligator lives matter. The good news is, alligators are guaranteed at least 65 million meals if we get started now.
July 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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megiddings.bsky.social
one of the strangest things is seeing how many people are fed up already with mass manufactured food (a narrative of the past 20 years: let's make tomatoes taste like tomatoes again!!) and yet are onboard with mass-manufactured art whose only intent is yield rather than being a specific object
July 2, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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suburbanprairie.bsky.social
In one week, I'm offering you 2hrs of whipping your creative muscles into shape! When the class is over and you have carpal tunnel, you’ll also have EIGHT ESSAY STARTS. That you did! Good for you! Happy Cinco de Mayo! Drink all the margaritas + write all the essays! writeordiemag.com/workshops/p/...
April 28, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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robertwarf.bsky.social
Excited to have new work in @cincinnatireview.bsky.social, many thanks to Andy Sia and everyone there for their edits and help with this too!!
cincinnatireview.bsky.social The Cincinnati Review @cincinnatireview.bsky.social · Apr 23
"At ten and two the airbag will hit your wrists first, sending them into your face ahead of its weight."

In this week's miCRo by @robertwarf.bsky.social, driving yields a kind of oppositional syntax.

Link in comments.
Quote from Warf's "Push-Pull": "At ten and two the airbag will hit your wrists first, sending them into your face ahead of its weight." Robert Warf pictured in a white bucket hat and pale pink co-ords. Warf is holding a pair of sunglasses.
April 23, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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splitlippress.com
It's Chapbook Day! Our Open Prose Chapbook Period is open for submissions now through 6/1!

We're looking for your fiction, nonfiction, hybrid, and other surprising prose chapbooks (btwn 60-100pg, with a little flex in both directions) from April 1 through June 1.

splitlippress.submittable.com
OPEN for all prose chapbook submissions! 4/1-6/1, splitlippress.submittable.com, we've got a person with a high bun holding a snack with a mug in front of them, their face covered by a book JUST LIKE OURS WILL BE...will it be YOUR book? You miss 100% of the shots you don't take! Submit your 60-100pg chapbook to us!
April 1, 2025 at 12:45 PM
jerilynnaquino.bsky.social
Whoa, I started a substack! ✨ Read what it's about and join me:

open.substack.com/pub/stillout...
Still Out Here
A manifesto, perhaps.
open.substack.com
April 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
jerilynnaquino.bsky.social
I need to find this part of BlueSky
April 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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chriswarcraft.bsky.social
It’s weird how you can accomplish things by simply trying to do them
April 18, 2025 at 2:21 AM
jerilynnaquino.bsky.social
Does this count
Fergie meme, with Fergie's face superimposed over Thomasin's face in The Witch (movie). The caption reads: Wouldst thou like to live fergaliciously?
April 5, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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johnchrostek.com
Struggling with deep panic, so to channel that productively, I'll post a reminder my partner and I just started a tiny bookstore. To be sustainable, we need to make enough to move into the building's front space to get foot traffic. ALL purchases, local or not, help a ton:
eveninghousebooks.com
Evening House Books
eveninghousebooks.com
April 2, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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elienyc.bsky.social
Continue this stuff. This stuff matters.
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Apr 1
‘Target suffers eighth week of foot-traffic losses since caving on DEI

Costco, which resisted demands to end DEI, extends its streak of foot-traffic gains to 13.’
Target suffers eighth week of foot-traffic losses since caving on DEI
Costco, which resisted demands to end DEI, extends its streak of foot-traffic gains to 13.
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April 1, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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keithboykin.bsky.social
Target foot traffic falls for the eighth consecutive week after the retailer ended its DEI programs. Meanwhile at Costco, which kept its DEI programs, foot traffic has been up for 13th straight weeks.
Target can't get its footing after its DEI program demise and a 40-day boycott against the retailer. Foot traffic at stores is down for the eighth consecutive week
For the week that began March 17, foot traffic fell 5.7% YoY for Target, according to data from Placer.ai.
fortune.com
April 1, 2025 at 3:25 PM
jerilynnaquino.bsky.social
I feel like it's been March 31st for 8 days
March 31, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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toddkaneko.bsky.social
I’m not at AWP in LA this year but here is my unsolicited advice: no there will not be food available at that reading later so you should just stop now and eat something.
March 26, 2025 at 12:02 AM
jerilynnaquino.bsky.social
This kid at the bar asked if we wanted to see his finger which he had recently almost severed. He said he was cutting shrooms when it happened. He ended up taking the shrooms, passing out, and didn't go to the ER until the next morning. When I asked how old he was, he said "22." I was like, Ah.
March 22, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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coocoo4afropuffs.bsky.social
My name is Exodus Oktavia Brownlow. I’m a writer, sewist and the editor-in-chief of The Loveliest Review. 🌹

We are currently open for a fellowship centering upon themes of JUSTICE, with the award being $1,000 and digital publication.

Apply Here: www.theloveliestreview.com/the-lovelies...
The Loveliest Fellowship — The Loveliest Review
www.theloveliestreview.com
February 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
jerilynnaquino.bsky.social
This puts some fight back in me. Bleak world but we're still here, shining and doing the damn thing. 💖 Love ya @splitlipthemag.bsky.social
maureenlangloss.bsky.social Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · Jan 23
The world is bleak, but the SLM FAM is still shining. Big congrats to @jerilynnaquino.bsky.social @sudhab.bsky.social @cdeskilson.bsky.social @toddedillard.bsky.social @writesloud.bsky.social @dustinkpearson.bsky.social @tinazhu.bsky.social @samforbreakfast.bsky.social @taylorbyas.bsky.social & MORE
splitlipthemag.bsky.social Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · Jan 23
As we’re saying goodbye to 2024, we’re delighted to close out the year with our December compilation of our SLM FAM’s wonderful accomplishments.
https://buff.ly/40HiYAX
January 23, 2025 at 8:45 PM