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Blushing Flower @blushingflower.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Well, I finally heard "Choosin' Texas" in the wild - at a Banana Ball game

Blushing Flower @blushingflower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Listen, I want people to be paid a fair wage but also the rates that hotels charge you to rent a projector and a screen for a day are OUTRAGEOUS

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Jacob Pomrenke @buckweaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today SABR launched an incredible new book and companion website on Baseball at Manzanar: How We Played the Game, 1942-1945. It’s the story of 120,000 Japanese Americans who were removed from their homes after Pearl Harbor and forced to live at remote incarceration camps: sabr.org/baseball-at-...

Cover image for SABR’s “Baseball at Manzanar: How We Played the Game, 1942-1945,” edited by Russ Speiller and James Forr.

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Professionally Nosy @professionallynosy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My Rage Against the Machine/Les Mis mashup is complete. This is my interpretation of the quilt guild’s summer challenge “quilt with your interpretation and/or feelings towards our current ‘democracy’” all hand stitched.

Quilt hanging on a card catalog. Neutral background with navy cursive appliqué “Do you hear thr people sing?” The background is embroidered in red starting light and getting bolder the lyrics to “killing in the name” the quilting effect is a focused sunburst from the center.

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Blushing Flower @blushingflower.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The first thing that comes to mind is the washing machine - doing laundry by hand took DAYS. But there is a trend in history where when the tools make the work easier, the expectations for the amount of work go up.

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Blushing Flower @blushingflower.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

3 suburbanites heading into DC, 5 Smart trip cards between us (plus the app on one phone)

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 09/09/2026

Abolition Teapot by Josiah Wedgwood & Sons, 1760-80. www.flickr.com/photos/birmi...

Teapot
Health to the Sick Honour to the Brave
Success to the Lover Freedom to the Slave

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Blushing Flower @blushingflower.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Last night we went to see Star Trek IV at Alamo Drafthouse and the pre-show included a commercial for the Star Trek Encyclopedia, which I still have on my shelf.

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Blushing Flower @blushingflower.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I saw a lot of dogs at the Labor Day parade today, which led me to this joke: if the working dogs unionized, they would have a collective barkaning agreement

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JRho @jrho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.

Massive quilt made of prize ribbons in blue, red, yellow, and white

Center square of quilt made of yellow and red ribbons and yellow rosettes

Block of quilt made of blue, yellow, red, and white ribbons. Ribbons state the year. Some have the prize winning object written on in marker

Carol St. Clair Johnson
born 1954; resides Albuquerque, NM

O Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years
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satin ribbons

After unexpectedly winning her first blue ribbon for a sewn cape in 1981, Carol St. Clair Johnson developed an enduring love for the New Mexico State Fair. The quilt Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years incorporates more than six hundred of the ribbons she won at the fair every subsequent year except 2020 (when the fair was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic). Johnson earned ribbons for needlework, knitting, crochet, pies, cookies, cakes, canning, jewelry, flowers, vegetables, and potted plants. The title of the quilt is a reference to the state song, and the design places the state's Zia sun symbol at the center. The quilt earned Johnson yet another ribbon: Best in Category (miscellaneous quilt) at the 2023 New Mexico State Fair.

Courtesy of Carol St. Clair Johnson

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Blushing Flower @blushingflower.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

We are at Wolf Trap for Hook live in convert with the NSO and they played the TriStar opening music and the crowd went wild

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Blushing Flower @blushingflower.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Since we are talking about accents/dialects, I think one challenge I have with those quizzes sometimes is that if I see the word written out I will say "of course those are different" and I have to say them over and over. And possibly I say things differntly when reading aloud than when speaking

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Blushing Flower @blushingflower.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I think the most successful plant in our yard is the goldenrod - we planted a couple a couple of years ago. It has spread, and while it isn't blooming yet, it is currently as tall as I am (5'8")

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Blushing Flower @blushingflower.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The way I have hilariously mis-managed my schedule for this weekend and fully overbooked myself...

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Blushing Flower @blushingflower.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Just re-organized some recently moved bookshelves, please enjoy this shelf i call the Trojan War Expanded Universe

A dark wood bookshelf on it are copies of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, The Oresteia, collected plays by Euripides and Sophocles, and the Aeniad. Most are leather bound; there are multiple translations of the Homer and the Virgil

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Blushing Flower @blushingflower.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I think the thing about Dolly that we all respond to is that she knew her own worth, but she didn't think she was better than anyone (at least not publicly). She believed us all, herself included, to be beloved children of her God and she acted accordingly.

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Blushing Flower @blushingflower.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Josh Groban singing "Skyfall" as the rain starts to fall...

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Blushing Flower @blushingflower.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

If I could offer you one piece of advice beyond "wear sunscreen", it would be "see Jon Batiste perform live if you get the chance"

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Blushing Flower @blushingflower.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Hello friends - I would like some recommendations for a good multi-season show that I can use as background viewing for data entry or similar tasks. Ideally it would be in English and have minimal on-screen text that I need to read. I have most of the streaming services and I work from home.

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Blushing Flower @blushingflower.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Taste is subjective and some of the AI slop out there is BAD but not REPULSIVE so I get why people go "meh, good enough" but then sometimes you see something that goes viral and you think "did they people who published this even LOOK at it" because what the actual fuck

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Blushing Flower @blushingflower.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I know all the words to "If We Were Vampires" but I was not emotionally prepared for hearing it live...

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Blushing Flower @blushingflower.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Grouchy and in my feelings, fully aware that doing something productive would make me feel better but too grumpy to want to do anything I am supposed to do

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Blushing Flower @blushingflower.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This is like how he had to put a hat on for his snow storm pressers because all the aunties were Concerned.

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Blushing Flower @blushingflower.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Assuming we aren't counting phone games, I'm pretty sure it's Power Wash Simulator 2, so I'll be fine.

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Blushing Flower @blushingflower.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

On the one hand, I don't have to work tomorrow, on the other, it's because I took PTO to get a mammogram and do some stuff related to my Mom's estate. I am gonna buy myself so many Little Treats.

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Blushing Flower @blushingflower.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

TFW no one else at the group dinner wants dessert but you do but you also don't want to prolong the meal

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Blushing Flower @blushingflower.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Lol, we boarded, then immediately had to deplane due to a ground stop for weather. As soon as we were off the plane, everyone's phones went off with tornado warning alerts

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Blushing Flower @blushingflower.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Flight has been delayed past when I should have landed at my destination. (It's a short flight) We have been directed to a new gate three different times and are now back at the original gate. Travel is so glamorous.

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Blushing Flower @blushingflower.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Because I love myself, when I booked my flight for today (work trip), I booked a 1:30 departure, meaning a normal morning and an 11:30 pick-up at home. Unfortunately, I have been up since 6 AM because T has jury duty and I couldn't fall back asleep after his alarm (we normally get up at 8)

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

“She forged a trailblazing career… In the early 2000s, she was credited as the first researcher to show definitively that the human papillomavirus, or HPV — the most common sexually transmitted infection — caused so-called oropharyngeal cancers of the throat, tonsils and base of the tongues”

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Dr. Maura L. Gillison, Who Linked Throat Cancers to HPV, Dies at 61

She challenged the conventional view that a majority of head and neck cancers resulted from cigarette smoking and excessive alcohol consumption.

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Blushing Flower @blushingflower.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Watching WPBL and wondering what the health insurance situation is for the players

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Blushing Flower @blushingflower.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Polymarket should be either a Feeld competitor or a store where you can buy things for your polycule, not a place where you can bet on who wins prom king

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Blushing Flower @blushingflower.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I have been the note-taker in so many meetings where the decision got made during the conversation, and often CHANGED during the discussion. An AI summary of a transcript would not capture that.

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Blushing Flower @blushingflower.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I am watching SHE'S ALL THAT to soothe my ragged nerves and what do I notice but a blink-and-you'll-miss-it wordless cameo from Sarah Michelle Gellar

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Blushing Flower @blushingflower.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

We went tubing along the Shenandoah today and while I don't love the thing where people bring speakers it was fun to pass different flotillas of people playing different music (and they were far enough apart that it wasn't cacophonous).

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Blushing Flower @blushingflower.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

There are multiple rooms, so - in my office, mostly by genre and then alpha by author. History is generally chronological. The books in the main living room are mostly SFF and then alpha by author and in series order as appropriate, but hardcovers and paperbacks separated

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Blushing Flower @blushingflower.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

We drove up and they had a patch of coneflowers, false sunflower/oxeye and this absolutely gorgeous phlox

Purple Phlox (Phlox paniculata) in bloom

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Blushing Flower @blushingflower.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Okay there's a baby and a dog and a native plant garden, things are looking up

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Blushing Flower @blushingflower.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Overstimulated! At the family reunion

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Blushing Flower @blushingflower.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Matthew Rhys (with his natural/native accent).

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Blushing Flower @blushingflower.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Upon waking up this morning I found myself thinking "they should have cast Denzel as Odysseus" and imagining the crash out from certain corners

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Blushing Flower @blushingflower.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

What's fun for me is that my Dad used to call me "Ebenezer" as one of his many nicknames for me so that's what I hear in my head every time y'all share the movie poster

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Blushing Flower @blushingflower.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

One of the many things I hate about the chatbotification of so many services is that I have spent the last 20+ years getting really good at search queries and now you want me to put it in full sentences and I don't wanna change! (Also it's less efficient)

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Blushing Flower @blushingflower.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

You know you're a fiber arts nerd when you see the sails unfurl in The Odyssey and you go "holy shit, the hours it would have taken to weave that by hand"

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Blushing Flower @blushingflower.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Went to see The Odyssey (it's fine) and the theater turned the lights on before the credits were over, rendering them unreadable. I know there wasn't gonna be like, a teaser for The Aeneid or anything but I like to see all the people who worked on a movie and all the little niche jobs they have

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Blushing Flower @blushingflower.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Say what you want about America but we invented Gospel music and the electric guitar, so we've done a few things right

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Blushing Flower @blushingflower.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Man, between the World Cup and The Odyssey, there are a lot of top-notch niche liberal arts jokes on my feed

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Blushing Flower @blushingflower.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Ice cold take, but "Guns and Ships" just came on shuffle and I am sitting here going "can we really call Lafayette an 'immigrant' when he pretty much immediately went back to France and never lived in the US?"

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