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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 · 09/10/2026

I mean, I think any commerical platform will see a ton of cancellations but they can always just build it into a government website, unfortunately.

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Blushing Flower @blushingflower.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I understand being a little tipsy and thinking you could get away with a little stealthy self-love under a blanket or something (I don't endorse it). I don't understand stripping everything below the waist to go all out, just, logistically. Must not have been a full flight!

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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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Blushing Flower @blushingflower.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The last time I interviewed for a job they scheduled it for like 4 hours and I talked to multiple people (I was also offered water during the course of it). Plenty of job interviews are multi-hour affairs. It's okay to have a bottle of water with you!

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Blushing Flower @blushingflower.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I haven't been since I was a wee lass but I remember being very freaked out by it. I do think there is something ghoulish about the way some people treat the trials as entertainment that ignores the very real suffering of the victims, but I don't think that's his objection

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Blushing Flower @blushingflower.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Colonoscopy - scope up the rectum, involves cleaning out your bowels, usually also drugs for the procedure Colposcopy - close examination of the vagina & cervix under bright lights, often results in a biopsy of the cervix or nearby tissue, often without any drugs at all (the point of the OP)

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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 · 20/09/2026

Yeah, but almost all of their teachers came functionally through the same teaching academy (Harper Hall) so there are some elements reinforcing continuity! Also they functionally have teleportation which reduces some isolation.

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Blushing Flower @blushingflower.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Right, 3 Katherines, 2 Annes, and a Jane, nary a Mary to be found (except, you know, his daughter)

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Blushing Flower @blushingflower.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Goat cheese Thinly sliced apples & gorgonzola

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Blushing Flower @blushingflower.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I described this table to my husband and he correctly identified the source. I don't know if I am proud or not.

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Blushing Flower @blushingflower.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Oh, yeah, actually it probably is like, one of Shakespeare's histories or a similar piece in another language - something written to appease the monarch in that time and place

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Blushing Flower @blushingflower.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I got it once, in my house. (My husband got it from a friend who was very diligent about masking but also worked in the office)

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Blushing Flower @blushingflower.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Pleading the 5th on whether or not she would like a snack

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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 · 09/09/2026

Yes, but I prefer them raw, in a salad (or coleslaw)

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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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Blushing Flower @blushingflower.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

My Mom lived with us for the last two years of her life (after my Dad died) and I was a joint account holder on all her accounts which helped SO much both while she was alive and when she passed.

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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
2023
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 · 04/09/2026

I think what's interesting is how you can have an accent that isn't necessarily your dialect! Like, to me, there is a difference between what words you say and HOW you say them (e.g. I say "y'all" but I don't have a southern accent; I might pick up "ink pen" but I don't have a pin/pen merge)

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

Right, there's "I don't have a word for this" and there's "I didn't grow up with a word for this but I adopted someone's at a certain point" and those can definitely skew an attempt to pin you down, linguistically!

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

yeah - I don't have that immigrant experience influence but I definitely had a few questions where the thing was "the people I grew up around say it one way but I was expressly taught not to say it that way/taught that that way was 'wrong'"

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

Mine was saying "New York" for a while but it settled on Delaware (I grew up in upstate NY but live in Maryland, so, compromise). There were a few words where my answer varies but that wasn't a choice. But I got Baltimore and DC as two of my closest cities, which seems very correct.

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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

It wouldn't be so bad except for the part where we also have houseguests coming

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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 · 02/09/2026

My Godson turns 11 this fall (which is the same age the kids are at the beginning of the books) and his mom and I read the books when we were teens/young adults (I read the first 4 in 2000 when I was 18)

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Blushing Flower @blushingflower.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

right, something that searches your personal back catalog to find the last time you preached on that topic, what you said, who you cited, etc. would be fine, that's just a fancy index and might make you better.

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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 · 30/08/2026

My husband is one of my favorite people in the world but also there is nothing so lovely as 24 hours home alone without him

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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

We have a huge one in our compost heap! A bird must have planted it (or there were seeds in something I weeded)

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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

without knowing how many other liquor stores are on Seneca Street I can't tell if this is just a very humble "we're number 1 of 1" or a "fuck those other guys a block away"

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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

We need more arts classes in school for a lot of reasons but one is so that people have more of an opportunity to develop a sense of aesthetic discernment

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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

We were on a "camping" trip this spring where one of our group had an EV and he just plugged it into the cabins 220 outlet in the laundry room and ran the cord through the window.

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

We have a plug-in hybrid and a full EV so we got a charger installed and have it set to meter to when rates are lowest, but T is also on a quest to get solar and/or geothermal on our property (he has really leaned into "power usage" as his middle-aged special interest). We have a lot of trees tho

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

You CAN, but it takes forever and you don't necessarily wanna use just any old extension cord.

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