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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House. We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication. They own what happens next.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

american masculinity is so amazing. caring about clothes as a man apparently makes you "gay" but our position on geopolitics totally depends on whether you wear a suit

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Sarah Cain @sarahjeanmakes.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

HELLA BASIC BLOCKS In my efforts to bring you more FREE creative projects this year, I am kicking off my new quilt block series! It’s affectionately called the Hella Basic Blocks and every other month I’ll be dropping a new basic block tutorial. To kick it off, let’s make the classic Nine Patch!

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Fran | Cotton and Joy @cottonandjoy.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Me: wow, my schedule is so busy Also me: starts a new quilt no in the schedule just for funsies lol

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

He’s literally saying all Palestinians should be removed from Gaza via ethnic cleansing, forced to move to neighboring countries who do not have the space to house them, and that America should take over Gaza. That’s what your moral superiority got you.

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 03/02/2025

Elon Musk—an unelected billionaire with a long list of conflicts of interest and deep ties to China—is hijacking our nation's checkbook so he can block funds that help the American people. It's corrupt—and it's putting our economy & the most at-risk communities in jeopardy.

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Fran | Cotton and Joy @cottonandjoy.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Sitting here wondering if maybe i could just drive to QuiltCon — two plane crashes in a week? 😅

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Fran | Cotton and Joy @cottonandjoy.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Today feels like the longest day in a long week in the longest month 😩

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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/01/2025

the disconnect between elected Dems (business as usual) and the base (boiling mad) is about as big as I've ever seen it I don't know how this eventually gets resolved but it's not a sustainable equilibrium

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

1000% this. Public libraries are actually pretty radical--free to all, and based on the idea that info should be available to all. Get a library card! Use your library! Those numbers often play into their funding.

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Fran | Cotton and Joy @cottonandjoy.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I’m thinking of not only making a new backpack for QuiltCon but drafting my own pattern. Someone PLEASE talk me out of it.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 25/01/2025

There is a Guardian article about this with an interview with a farmer who said 2 white folks showed up to work, double counted everything they picked, and lasted half a shift. What is happening now is cruel. What was already happening was also cruel. Everything about this is broken.

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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 23/01/2025

When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure. Read our op-ed here ⤵️

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Billionaires Should Not Exist

Yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 22/01/2025

SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)

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Fran | Cotton and Joy @cottonandjoy.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I cannot properly put into words how angry this makes me. These people have been working on their refugee status FOR YEARS. YEARS!!!

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The Daily Beans Podcast @dailybeanspod.com · 22/01/2025

This is how you do it...

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Lucy Mason @lucymason217.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Don't forget to add alt text to your images. There's even a helpful setting you can turn on that makes it required, which saves my bacon a lot because I forget sometimes in haste.

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Fran | Cotton and Joy @cottonandjoy.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Im already tired and it hasn’t even been a full 24 hrs

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mariahmakesquilts.bsky.social @mariahmakesquilts.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

One of my biggest to date! Pattern is Stellar Mosaic by Cotton and Joy

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quiltsmarymade.bsky.social @quiltsmarymade.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Fresh from the longarmer. Now to bind. Perfect timing as I need a weekend project while celebrating men who've led with character and integrity...MLK and Jimmy Carter💙. Not wasting time and attention elsewhere. TV off. Pattern is Golden Hour by Cotton and Joy #quiltsky #quilt #quilter #quilting

Rust-Red and white medallion quilt with a sawtooth star in the middle.

Red and white medallion quilt with a sawtooth star in the middle. Plaid backing is cream, purple, gold, and rust-red.

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Fran | Cotton and Joy @cottonandjoy.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Another look at my Pandamonium blocks — if you saw my IG reel then you know the yellow blocks are missing and that’s because I originally had a different color set here but the contrast was off so I made all new blocks, as one does 😂 #quilt

Quilt blocks for the Pandamonium quilt pattern on a cutting table organized by colors

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Fran | Cotton and Joy @cottonandjoy.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Listen. I’m going to sit here and hyper focus on the Onyx Storm release on Tuesday and my silly little legos over the weekend and whatever else because I honestly CANNOT believe we are doing this shit again in Monday.

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Fran | Cotton and Joy @cottonandjoy.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Idk if I’ll ever share this one on IG, but regardless a peek at my solid Pandamonium quilt pattern coming Feb 7🤩

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Fran | Cotton and Joy @cottonandjoy.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

It feels so small in light of *everything*, but I finally set up a monthly donation to One Tree Planted. I’m tired of just… reacting to the consequences of climate change. This feels like a small step towards preventing increasingly more catastrophic natural disasters. onetreeplanted.org

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One Tree Planted | Tree Planting Non-Profit

One Tree Planted is a non-profit 501(c)3 environmental non-profit tree planting charity that plants trees in countries around the world. One dollar helps plant a tree.

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brian david gilbert @briamgilbert.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

waaaaay too many people in the middle imo

a venn diagram. the left circle is “people who understand that climate change is an existential threat” and the right circle is “people who use Al, but, like, not for real work! lol! i just needed a silly pic of a dog on a scooter and it's surprisingly hard to find good reference images”

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Fran | Cotton and Joy @cottonandjoy.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Might have to fully migrate over here after all… the changes Meta is implementing are not it.

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Fran | Cotton and Joy @cottonandjoy.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Might read a whole book today, might plan out all of 2025 for my business. Might do neither and just nap instead 😂

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Katee Robert @kateerobert.com · 24/11/2024

We all know audiobooks are reading. Saying otherwise is ableist AF.

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Erin @seamrippersociety.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

This quilt is a collaboration between @peach-and-honey.bsky.social, @quiltblocked and I for the Ruby & Bee Solids Challenge for Quilt Con 2025. The map is based on an abortion access map from an NPR article showing access after the bans in Florida and Arizona went into effect. Article linked below.

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Fran | Cotton and Joy @cottonandjoy.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Sometimes, a lot of the time, I have too many ideas in my brain and not enough time to make them all happen 😅

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Fran | Cotton and Joy @cottonandjoy.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I don’t know how active I’ll be here, but I really wanted to claim the username 😂

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