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Lynn Hall, Ph.D. @doclynn.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

And a good thing they closed the damn freeway:

Screen grab of headline from the San Diego CBS affiliate. The photo shows a chink of shrapnel embedded on the surface of a CHP unit. The headline reads "California Highway Patrol vehicle damaged following live ammunition demo over I-5 freeway near Camp Pendleton."

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Lynn Hall, Ph.D. @doclynn.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

One of my neighbors in Carlsbad! Well done! #nokings

A large fabric sign strung across a 2-car garage of a classic SoCal suburban house. The sign says "NO KINGS" and the next line says "Government of the people, by the people, for the people. Abraham Lincoln" and a flag.

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Lynn Hall, Ph.D. @doclynn.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Best Little Free Library ever, seen on my walk yesterday.

A free library in the shape of an Imperial Walker. The back leg is slightly bent like he's actually in motion, and his head dips into the bushes like he's looking around. Made of metal. Seen on a quiet, upscale street of McMansions in Carlsbad, California.

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Lynn Hall, Ph.D. @doclynn.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

@rhyall.bsky.social Dude, someone is using your name on YouTube. I've reported them twice.

Screen grab from youtube. Not live, not Ryan Hall. A complete crook and con.

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Lynn Hall, Ph.D. @doclynn.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Finally, a finished quilt in 2025! A king-sized stashbuster. #quiltsky

A king-sized quilt made from 15" squares of cotton from my stash. Most of the prints feature fish, flowers, or water. Sewn and quilted by me, on a Bernina 770 QE and a Bernina Q16.

One square with a print that is aqua in the background, with many orange-and-white koi, a water lily pad and part of a lily flower. I quilted the prints design, connecting the parts with watery squiggles.

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Lynn Hall, Ph.D. @doclynn.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Headline of the day, demonstrating that line breaks really do matter:

On a black background, the white headline reads "Exploding squirrel population drives popular Southern California Beach community nuts."

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Lynn Hall, Ph.D. @doclynn.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Current quilt in progress. When I need to *really* learn how to use a new machine, there's nothing like quilting the prints on big squares.

A quilt being stitched, held down by a heavy red hoop. The upper square is a blue-and-white Hawaiian hibiscus print. The bottom print is of ripples in water in a more pattern. You can see that I've quilted it in circles spreading out from individual droplets.

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Lynn Hall, Ph.D. @doclynn.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Our local Rite-Aid today. Can't imagine why they're going belly up.

Nothing but empty shelves at the local Rite-Aid in Mammoth Lakes. The next nearest drugstore is almost an hour drive away, and it's not in great shape either. You can get prescriptions filled at Vons, at least.

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Lynn Hall, Ph.D. @doclynn.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

The sound of spring: FROGS! Ignore the visuals, just listen.

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Lynn Hall, Ph.D. @doclynn.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

A film that takes place where you're from

The leads from Deliverance (1972): Sonny Cox, Ned Beatty, Burt Reynolds, and Jon Voight.

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Lynn Hall, Ph.D. @doclynn.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Spring is springing in Mono County! The jays and robins are everywhere.

Steller's Jay with a grub in his mouth, on a pine tree branch missing bark. Or is it some other bug, who knows? Photo taken in Old Mammoth by me, Lynn Hall.

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Lynn Hall, Ph.D. @doclynn.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

@schiff.senate.gov Very interested to hear about this bill. Our condo association in Mammoth Lakes would love to make improvements. Will the proposed bill help us? We are homeowners too, and we can't even get wildfire insurance as of this year.

Screen grab of story from NBC news: "A proposed tax credit could help homeowners hit by climate-fueled disasters.

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Lynn Hall, Ph.D. @doclynn.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Beautiful! I enjoy using it as a way to give some energy and motion to a wash of color. This quilt was made during the worst times of covid... but I still like it!

"My Journal of the Plague Year," 2020. King-sized bed quilt using drunkard's path blocks. The colors shade from almost black in the lower left to light neutrals in the upper right. Bits of brights spice up the mix. Cotton and linen, hand embroidered, hand and machine quilted. Quilt & photo by Lynn Hall.

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Lynn Hall, Ph.D. @doclynn.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

#Trumptariffs hitting the #quilting community. Got this email today from Accuquilt, a company that makes fabric die cutters. I guess if I want one (I've been dithering), I'd better get it today. So, yeah, fuck trump and all who sail on him.

Email from Accuquilt announcing they will be increasing prices 6-10% due to increased tariffs and material costs.

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Lynn Hall, Ph.D. @doclynn.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Timeline cleanse to save me from my own rage... Baby turtle season at the pond!

8 small turtles sunning themselves on a golden-colored rock, which conveniently rises out of the pond like a ramp. A larger turtle is on a different rock to the right.

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Lynn Hall, Ph.D. @doclynn.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

My dear husband in his vintage Hanshin Tigers cap, super excited about seeing them face the Cubs in the Tokyo Series!

My hubby, in the vintage Hanshin Tigers cap he got in Tokyo, giving a thumbs up in front of the tv. Yes, we keep the tv in front of the fireplace.

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Lynn Hall, Ph.D. @doclynn.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Everything my heart hoped for in Tokyo.

The giant head of Gojira (Godzilla) seen in backlit silhouette, outside a terrace high up in a hotel in Tokyo. Photo by me, Lynn Hall.

Giant Godzilla at the Godzilla Store in Tokyo. We got some seriously cool stuff here, including a Godzilla sake set. Photo by me.

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Lynn Hall, Ph.D. @doclynn.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Look, we have a troll! This exact rant went out to dozens of us overnight. (I checked the feed.) Report and block for spamming.

A rant about how we shouldn't waste our time on Google Maps abdd the Gulf of Mexico . I suspect shenanigans.

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Lynn Hall, Ph.D. @doclynn.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

For those Google Maps users who switched to Apple Maps over the "Gulf of America" horseshit... Bloomberg and others say Apple Maps is also making the change.

Screen grab from Bloomberg, headline is "Apple is Renaming Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America on Maps App."

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Lynn Hall, Ph.D. @doclynn.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

I had a request for a screenshot of my review of "Gulf of America" on Google Maps. Here is is.

Screenshot of my review of "Gulf of America" on Google. The review is 1 star and says simply "It's the Gulf of Mexico."

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Lynn Hall, Ph.D. @doclynn.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I needed this today. Taken in southern Inyo County, CA, looking east.

The photo shows very dark clouds with a tiny band of lighter sky at the bottom. The foreground is sagebrush, with sunlit hills in the middle and dark ones behind them. A beautiful rainbow cross from upper left to land in the sagebrush at lower right.

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Lynn Hall, Ph.D. @doclynn.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

If I lack trust in the military, it's bc I'm old enough to remember this:

John Filo's Pulitzer winning photo of a woman kneeling over the body of a male student. The student was shot by an Ohio National Guardsman during a protest against the Vietnam War. May 4, 1970.

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Lynn Hall, Ph.D. @doclynn.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

This kind of shit makes me crazy. When did it become eacceptable to blame seniors for everything and wish them dead? Saying this as an old lefty married to an old lefty. I checked the feed for "Monstah," and it's full of hate and wishes for death and destruction. Reported and blocked.

These posters are hoping a bird flu plaque wipes out old white people.

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Lynn Hall, Ph.D. @doclynn.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Fascinating! It is true that I tend to call most blue-greens blue.

My blue-green boundary is at hue 176, bluer than 75% of the population. For you, turquoise is green.

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Lynn Hall, Ph.D. @doclynn.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I made a doom-quilting quilt during the lockdown in 2020. I call it "my journal of the plague year." Making it was very therapeutic.

"My Journal of the Plague Year," made in 2020 by Lynn Hall. Drunkard's path squares. Hand-dyed and commercial cotton, hand-embroidered, quilted on machine and by hand. So big it drapes over a king-size bed. Photo by Lynn Hall.

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Lynn Hall, Ph.D. @doclynn.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Because today set a new standard for 2025 weirdness, a picture of lenticular clouds over the eastern Sierra:

A stack of lens like "lenticular" clouds. Seen from Old Mammoth, Snowcreek golf course in foreground. Shocking how little snow there is. Photo by me, Lynn Hall.

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Lynn Hall, Ph.D. @doclynn.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

SAQA (Studio Art Quilters Associates) isn't having any of AQS (Amer. Quilters Society) censorship. Just got an email from SAQA, excerpted below. Very proud to be a member of SAQA. #quiltsky

This text describes the problem faced by SAQA: they had a set of quilts that had been accepted to an AQS event, and as they were preparing to ship the quilts, AQS informed the that 2 of the quilts would be censored out of the show. The letter says, "The reasons given for removal were inconsistent with the Studio Art Quilt Associates' mission and values."

This part of the letter describes SAQAs response: the Board of Directors voted unanimously to pull the entire exhibit from the AQS show. The letter says: "Censorship does not align with our organization's core values."

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Lynn Hall, Ph.D. @doclynn.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I am pleased to export that I went skating, had fun, and didn't fall! And now the reward.

2 pints of beer from Distant Brewing in Mammoth Lakes, CA. Dark Mountain coffee stout on left, 9 to 5 Anniversary IPA on the right. Happy Friday!

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Lynn Hall, Ph.D. @doclynn.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

A headline from CNN that isn't complete nonsense... of course, it could be better, but it counts as a win these days.

Headline from story on CNN app, reads: "trump jumps right to the blame game over DC midair collision that left dozens dead." By Jeff Zeleny and Michael Williams. Pub 10:33 am PST, Thursday Jan 30, 2025.

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Lynn Hall, Ph.D. @doclynn.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Wrestling match with king-size quilt. Still learning how to use this machine. #quiltsky

Mounds of a king-sized quilt top stuffed onto the table of my Bernina Q16. The red ring is weighted, and you use it to help steer the quilt under the needle. Photo by me, Lynn Hall.

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Lynn Hall, Ph.D. @doclynn.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Cajon Pass about 10 this morning!

Snow on the ground and dusting a pine tree, Cajon Pass, California. Photo by Lynn Hall.

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Lynn Hall, Ph.D. @doclynn.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Okay, whaddaya think: bot or not? I'm thinking bot.

Replies that look suspiciously like AI chat. You don't really need to read them. They're pretty content-free. I'm thinking engagement bot.

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Lynn Hall, Ph.D. @doclynn.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

On the other end of the scale, AI is still stupid. #stupidAItricks

I asked Google if water boils at 450 degrees F. And it said "no," which is dangerously wrong at normal sea level pressure. The follow-up goes on to talk about pressure cookers. That part is true. But sheesh.

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Lynn Hall, Ph.D. @doclynn.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I tried the viral "how stupid is AI?" test myself. It really is that stupid.

I asked google, "Will water freeze at 27 degrees?" AI says no. I'll never trust any AI answer on anything ever again.

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Lynn Hall, Ph.D. @doclynn.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

This is how much good it does to say "no crypto" in your bio. Everybody, please block and report this fool.

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Lynn Hall, Ph.D. @doclynn.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Pin-basting a king-size quilt is excruciating work. When I get my barn (in my next life, lol), I will have a table big enough to hold a beast like this without squatting on the floor for 2 hours. #quilt