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Blitz⭐︎ @blitzetoile.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Listen, Here [in #Texas] Everything’s Better. #H-E-B #HEB #cookies #Halloween

Blitz⭐︎ @blitzetoile.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

#OTDIH in 1829, #Mexico abolished slavery via the #GuerreroDecree, a full 5 years before the UK and 34 years before the US. The news didn’t arrive to #Texas until October 16 which, come to think of it, should probably be our true Juneteenth day, huh? 🤔

Official portrait of Vicente Guerrero, the second president of Mexico and first Mexican president of indigenous & African descent. Who knew Mexico had a black president centuries before the United States? Vicente Guerrero is known for abolishing slavery in Mexico.

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Blitz⭐︎ @blitzetoile.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Yesterday was also the anniversary of the UT sniper shooting in Austin, Texas. I happened to be in Austin at the time, so I visited the tower to pay my respects to the deceased & their families. May they RIP. There was a lot of construction happening, so I wasn’t able to find the proper memorial.

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Blitz⭐︎ @blitzetoile.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

#OTDIH in 1865, the Freie Presse für #Texas, a #German -language newspaper, was founded here in #SanAntonio. The periodical was not only famous for its language but also for prominently sharing #abolitionist sentiments, leading thousands of German families in the #South to oppose the #CivilWar.

News clipping of the front page of the Freie Presse für Texas dated March 9, 1893. The Freie Presse ceased publication in 1945. Founded by August Siemering, the paper was a five-column, four-page publication that released biweekly, triweekly, & sometimes even daily issues. Siemering was eventually forced to serve the Confederate cause despite carrying staunch Unionist sentiments throughout his life. As mentioned in the original BlueSky post, many German families in the South & predominantly in Texas sympathized with the abolitionist movement, leading many of these families to be slaughtered by the Confederacy. In one remarkable story, families congregated in the Texas Hill Country near San Antonio at a place called Freethinker’s Rock to plan their escape to freedom in Mexico, perhaps along the Southern Underground Railroad. Sadly, these families were intercepted along the border before they could flee to a safer & freer life. May they RIP.

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Blitz⭐︎ @blitzetoile.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Booo, #ChristineMcConnell ‘s home has sold after like three years, and she didn’t even give me a chance to save up for it. #realestate #zillow #twinpeaks #california

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Blitz⭐︎ @blitzetoile.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

So for my #SanAntonio peeps: A friend of mine used to attend #SAC ( #SanAntonioCollege, for the uninitiated ), and apparently they used to hand out these pencils from #PorterLoring — maybe because of SAC’s mortuary school? What on earth could this messaging possibly mean? It’s so bizarre!

White pencil on a black background with silver lettering that reads, “A child on the curb is ALWAYS a danger signal.” The photo is a screenshot from preview photo of an eBay listing.

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Blitz⭐︎ @blitzetoile.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Seen in a bar window this past weekend in Austin!

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Blitz⭐︎ @blitzetoile.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Went to the opening weekend of the #InstituteofTexanCultures — #free admission until tomorrow! They have an exhibit on #EmmaTenayuca and the #PecanShellersStrike (which took place #OTDIH) as well as a rotating exhibit on #mum culture in #Texas.

Interior shot of the new Institute of Texan Cultures. Guests walk toward the camera at a distance toward the right, and an illuminated flag of Texas adorns the back wall. Other artifacts and visual displays feature prominently in the photo.

Small exhibit featuring Emma Tenayuca and her experience as an activist.

Thread wall exhibit with threads forming negative space that reads, “Common Threads, Hilos Comunes”.

Clapboard sitting atop a director’s chair. The flapboard is an artifact from the second season of “From Dusk Till Dawn,” and the director’s chair is an artifact from the film “Machete Kills.” The flapboard credits Robert Rodriguez as both director and camera operator. The director’s chair features Robert Rodriguez’s name printed on fabric on the back of the chair.

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Blitz⭐︎ @blitzetoile.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

#OTDIH in 1938, the historic #PecanShellersStrike took place right here in #SanAntonio. Nearly 12,000 workers (mostly #Latina, led by #EmmaTenayuca) walked off the job in protest of wage cuts to already underpaid positions in unsafe working conditions. Read more here 👉🏽 guides.loc.gov/latinx-civil...

Monochrome photo sourced from the San Antonio Light newspaper showing Latinx picketers in 1938 lining the sidewalk of a San Antonio storefront holding signs that read, “This Shop Unfair / Pecan Workers Local 172 / C.I.O.” Demonstrators dress warmly in cold weather with coats, hats, & other garb.

Monochrome photo of Emma Tenayuca sourced from the Museo Del Westside website. Tenayuca wears a a white collared blouse with six buttons forming a capital-letter “T”. Tenayuca is framed candidly off-center, smiling and looking off-camera to the right. She has neck-length hair pulled behind her ears.

Monochrome photo of six Latina pecan shelling workers sourced from the Library of Congress. The workers sit at a narrow table, flanked three on each side facing each other, with small burlap sacks of pecan meat and whole pecans between them on top of the table. The table is positioned in a small corner of a shack. The women wear blouses, dresses, and sweaters of varying patterns. All women stare down at the pecans in their hands while another woman toward the top center looks up at the workers opposite her, possibly in mid-conversation.

Monochromatic photo of protestors clashing with local San Antonio Police Department officers, sources from UT Libraries. The photo shows a chaotic scene from above with officers toward the left inside the entrance to an unidentified building while a larger crowd of protestors to the right, mostly wearing white dress shirts and hats, pressing tightly against the police force to the left.

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Blitz⭐︎ @blitzetoile.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Hi, I think this mug is supposed to read “herbes,” which is French for “herbs”? It would make sense with the plant imagery I guess? Here’s another mug with “herbes” written on it.

Three white mugs positioned in various ways, with stylized graphics of aromatic herbs from Provence. The mugs are written in French to read, “Herbes Aromatiques de Provence.”

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Blitz⭐︎ @blitzetoile.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

If we’re to understand that this photo shows the river at E Houston St (based off the caption), then this is what the area looks like today — 136 years later.

Modern screenshot of Apple Maps street view image of the San Antonio River at E Houston St. The river is still, flanked by decorative stones, lush riverbeds, paved walkways, & tall buildings with stylized embellishments on the façades. A bridge for motor vehicles crosses the river over the paved walkways.

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Blitz⭐︎ @blitzetoile.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

#Russia is not a monolith, obviously. In fact, the country has many good people who disagree with the #Kremlin. I often think about how #Muscovites responded to the invasion of #Ukraine — downright enraged. Where are our protests? Where is our fury? Is it still being scheduled on Meta? #Venezuela

News photo of a female Moscow protester being detained by Russian authorities.

News photo of a male Moscow protester being detained by Russian authorities.

News photo of a large crowd of Moscow protesters swarming a thoroughfare.

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Blitz⭐︎ @blitzetoile.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

My Year in Review from @letterboxd.social ! The Bong Joon Ho bender was completely accidental as I watched three of his films in a row. And I guess I watched Jacek Koman in both Conclave & Talk to Me?

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Blitz⭐︎ @blitzetoile.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

#OTDIH 101 years ago, #Texas appointed the nation’s first all-female #SupremeCourt (pictured below). #Women didn’t even serve on juries until 1954, so this was a huge step! Shortly thereafter in February, Texas inaugurated America’s second female governor, narrowly missing the milestone by 15 days 🇺🇸

The all-women Supreme Court of Texas in 1925, showing (from left) Ruth Brazzil, Chief Justice Hortense Ward, and Hattie L. Henenberg. The justices pose in a black and white photograph sitting behind a large wooden dais and before large portraits of male Texan political dignitaries. The portraits are flanked by a large garment with tassels, and a passageway leading out the courtroom lies at the right of the image just behind Henenberg.

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Blitz⭐︎ @blitzetoile.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Just after midnight on New Year’s Day, after the fireworks have been lit — and my weather app is giving me an air quality alert that it’s unsafe outside for sensitive breathers. 🙃 Happy New Year, frands! #SanAntonio #weather #fireworks #airquality #AQI #airqualityindex

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Blitz⭐︎ @blitzetoile.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

My public transit app has offered the only end-of-year wrap up that matters to me! Really surprised to learn that I rode the 4 more than the 8 though. Like WTF lol. #SanAntonio #PublicTransit #VÍA #Buses

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Blitz⭐︎ @blitzetoile.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

#OTDIH: #PearlHarbor happened, and the first #Black American to be honored from WWII, Doris Miller— from #Texas! —courageously left his post in the mess hall to fire artillery at the Japanese, weaponry he had never been trained to use (hint: segregation). He received the Navy Cross for his bravery.

Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN, Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Fleet, pins the Navy Cross on Doris "Dorie" Miller, Steward's Mate 1/c, USN, at a ceremony on board a U.S. Navy warship in Pearl Harbor, T.H., May 27, 1942. Sadly, Miller perished less than a year later when his ship was torpedoed in the Pacific Ocean during the Battle of the Gilbert Islands. The Navy posthumously honored him with a renaming of a dining hall, barracks, & even a navy destroyer escort, the USS Miller. Later in 2022, the Navy named an aircraft carrier, the USS Doris Miller, after him. TEXAS HONORS: In Waco, a YMCA branch, a park, and a cemetery bear his name; in Houston, an elementary school was named after him; in Austin, an auditorium at Huston-Tillotson College is named after him. Beyond Texas, a school was named after him in Philadelphia, a VFW chapter in Los Angeles, and a foundation for racial understanding in Chicago. Apologies for this lengthy alt text, but 300 characters are not enough to sing this man’s praises! #BlackHeroismMatters #BlackLivesMatter #BlackTexansMatter

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Blitz⭐︎ @blitzetoile.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

According to this test, I don’t know how to conduct a scientific experiment, and I need to brush up on some chemistry. Quiz by @pewresearch.org ! #science #quizzes #pew Test your knowledge of science facts and applications of scientific principles by taking our 11-question quiz. pewrsr.ch/2HY2mx9

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Blitz⭐︎ @blitzetoile.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Neither am I! And that’s OK. 🤗

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Blitz⭐︎ @blitzetoile.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

#OTDIH: Today is the 50th anniversary of Rocky #Horror —that’s all well & good, but did you also know that today is the 50th anniversary of the world release of #DavidCronenberg ‘s #Shivers? It was originally released in the US as “They Came From Within,” and it released right here in #SanAntonio!

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Blitz⭐︎ @blitzetoile.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Listen Linda, I know that protests are supposed to be serious, but I laughed so hard when I saw the “What The Hellyante” sign. 😅 This was at our #NoKings protest in #SanAntonio! #WTHelly #DownWithFascism

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Blitz⭐︎ @blitzetoile.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

To answer your question, looks like Shivers was released at the Aztec and another theater here called Century?? Shivers was called “They Came From Within” in the United States. @sarcasticcanadian.bsky.social And here’s the Wikipedia article too: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shivers... Happy 50th!

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Blitz⭐︎ @blitzetoile.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Went to see the summer solstice performance at #SanAntonio International Airport yesterday! #URBAN-15 Group puts on the annual event, sponsored by the Department of #Arts & #Culture, and it takes place beneath a solar sculpture that aligns spectacularly with the sun. Also, happy #PrideMonth! 🌈

An image of a clearing in the four-tiered San Antonio International Airport long-term parking garage. The image is captured from the second floor. Bridges crisscross each level. All square blocks on the concrete floor are nearly aligned with the light cast from colored glass panels hanging above on a convex roof overhead. A concrete staircase with iron handrails flanks the the image on the right, while passersby observe the colored solar lighting from above. Across the clearing, other observers watch from a bridge also on the second floor as the solar colored lighting slowly aligns with the squares on the floor. Parked vehicles flank both sides of the image.

An image of the solar colored panels casting blocked lighting on a concrete staircase with iron handrails. Passersby walk past the staircase toward the entrance of San Antonio International Airport.

An overhead image of a performer from San Antonio’s URBAN-15 Group as she dances beneath the colored lights. Some panels are blue, some are green, and some are white. The dancer wears a tightly stretched white nylon skirt that extends from her body at the waist. The nylon skirt is embellished with light-reflective mirrors in stylized shapes such as diamonds and circles. The costume also features matching hand elements that also bear reflective mirrors in the shapes of squares and triangles. She also wears a highly stylized chapeau with fringe, mirrored patterns, and silvery ribbon. Lastly, she wears a shimmery, metallic blouse. Not featured in the image, because they are covered by the large skit, are the dancer’s loose white pants and flats. The performer is posed mid-performance with arms stretched out and head tilted.

A distant image of the dancer performing atop the concrete blocks on the floor as the solar sculpture casts colored lights that align neatly with the blocks. The colors include orange, yellow, blue, green, red, purple, and white.

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Blitz⭐︎ @blitzetoile.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Everyday, my heart increasingly believes that the San Antonio Express-News actually hates #SanAntonio. Like, really? #CharlesBarkley trashes our home all the time—and now we’re calling him “one of a kind”? Tf outta here, babosos! 🙄

Screenshot of an iPhone push notification from the San Antonio Express-News. The headline reads, “Charles Barkley,” and the lede reads, “As the NBA on TNT era comes to a close, Charles Barkley is still one of a kind, writes Mike Finger.”

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Blitz⭐︎ @blitzetoile.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Sometimes, I really hate the #SanAntonio Express-News’s ledes. This push notification, for instance, feels alarmist of union activism: “free to flex on,” as if the union were blitzing the district with bullish EOs à la Trump. 🙄 We never get this tone from E-N about right-wing corporate activism.

Screenshot of an iPhone push notification from the San Antonio Express-News yesterday at 13:17. The headline reads: “Union-controlled board.” The lede reads, “Union-backed trustees, now a majority, are free to flex their power on Northside ISD’s board, schools, and policies.”

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Blitz⭐︎ @blitzetoile.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Ex-squeeze me? #Texas is doing something right, and none of the coastal media outlets are reporting on it? #storyofourlives #mediahipocrisy #LGBTrights @expressnews.com

A screenshot of a push notification from the San Antonio Express-News. The headline reads, “Texas’ sex ban,” and the lede reads, “Texas House votes to repeal state’s long-defunct ban on gay sex. Now it must pass the Senate.”

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Blitz⭐︎ @blitzetoile.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

#SanAntonio peeps: Have y’all heard about this? Apparently Occulto! has been in print for about five months now, started by a group called #VelaCultura. I see that they only have internet presence on Meta, but I hope they make their way here to #Bluesky soon. Love it! #Horror #Periodicals #Occulto

Photo of a mostly black-and-white print newspaper called “Occulto!” The cover page features a photo of a silhouetted paletero with glowing eyes beneath an eye-popping headline that reads, “Paletero Phantasma – Soul Sucking Ghoul Stalks Downtown San Antonio!” Behind the silhouette is a faint image of the specter of the paletero himself, possibly what he looked like when he was alive. The paletero walks through Main Plaza in downtown San Antonio before the façade of the San Fernando Cathedral. Other ledes flank the cover photo.

A photo of a black-and-white print page from Occulto! magazine. This page features a story with the headline, “La Llorona Cries For Change! – San Antonians throw support behind unlikely candidate.” Beside the lede is an image of La Llorona speaking to a crowd of onlookers as she holds a sign that reads, “La Llorona VOTE.” The article is flanked by other articles of a spooky nature, include a spotlight feature on Man-Bat (an artist) and a follow-up to the Krampus Fiesta Masquerade Pachanga parade in downtown San Antonio this past holiday season.

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Blitz⭐︎ @blitzetoile.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

The less y’all vote, the more we slouch toward this fascist dystopia. I almost wanted to say that apathy is the real opiate of the masses, and I’m just now seeing how similar the two words, apathy & opiate, appear. I’m sure there’s some sort of Ancient Greek explanation for the etymology here.

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Blitz⭐︎ @blitzetoile.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

I attended the #SanAntonio #CityCouncil #District1 Candidate Forum last night. I have a lot of thoughts on these people that can’t be captured here on #BlueSky — blasted, pesky character limits! Read my thoughts here: www.tumblr.com/houseoforang...

Facing the camera, nine political candidates sit side by side in a large fellowship hall on the second floor before large windows partially obscured by wooden Venetian blind panels. Branches & leaves of oak trees and a waxing dusk sky are beyond the windows. Before each candidate are paper name tents identifying each candidate, with the name tents sitting atop two baby blue vinyl tablecloths for two tables. The room comfortably illuminates light brown hardwood floors, and in frame of the photo at the bottom are the backs of two empty chairs, offering a clear view of the candidates. Some candidates look right to a moderator who is not shown in the photograph, while others look ahead or face down. The candidates from left to right are, First Table: Patty Gibbons, Anita Marie Kegley, Susan Strawn, Maureen Galindo (whose name tent has collapsed), Dominique “Domingo” Littwitz; Second Table: Ramiro Gonzales, Sukh Kaur, Matthew Gauna, and Julissa Medrano-Guerra. The name tents display last names of each candidate except for Matthew Gauna, whose name tent displays his full name.

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Blitz⭐︎ @blitzetoile.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Currently streaming the 2025 San Antonio mayoral debate being held at Carver Cultural Community Center. Our next mayor has some big sleeves to fill. #SanAntonio #Texas #NCAA #FinalFour #MarchMadness #RonNirenberg

San Antonio mayor Ron Nirenberg lifts the NCAA National Champion trophy above his head in a form fitting, branded polo t-shirt atop a river barge in the Riverwalk before a crowd of onlookers.

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Blitz⭐︎ @blitzetoile.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Thinking of @allicinema.bsky.social as I eat today’s lunch: vegan carne asada tacos with French fries!

At left, marinated chopped soy steak in handmade corn tortillas with fried red onions, cilantro, & two wedges of lime on aluminum foil & a black plastic bag with a cardboard carton of seasoned French fries to the right.

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Blitz⭐︎ @blitzetoile.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

#OTD in #history in 1839, the Congress of the Republic of Texas adopted the #Texas coat of arms. In 1845, officials altered the words to say "State" instead of "Republic." After a century of iterations, the government in 1992 finally simplified the coat/seal to look similar to what you see here. 🤠

The 1839 Texas coat of arms: a white star of five points on an azure ground encircled by olive and live oak branches.

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Blitz⭐︎ @blitzetoile.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I love fideo so much I could eat it just by itself lol. #StayWarm! 35% tomorrow, and 75% on Tuesday. 🥶

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