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Elle Cayabyab Gitlin

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“I’m sorry, Senator, but counsel has advised me not to answer any further questions.” she/her #FreeDC

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Elle Cayabyab Gitlin @ellegitlin.com · 28/09/2026
YMMV, but when similar situations have happened at Nats Park, I’m not moving from the seat I’ve had for multiple seasons
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Elle Cayabyab Gitlin @ellegitlin.com · 23/09/2026
just got back from feeding the colony at the nearby marina — my neighbors and I have been looking after them for six years now
Four cats (one grey and white tuxedo, one tortie, one orange tabby, one black) eating on the grass
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Elle Cayabyab Gitlin @ellegitlin.com · 19/08/2026
SW DC folks, we’re looking for help feeding the James Creek Marina cat colony. If you can’t volunteer but want to help, spread the word: we appreciate it (and the cats would too) 😻
An orange tabby named TruckA black cat named PepperA grey cat with white tuxedo markings named Earl Grey
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Elle Cayabyab Gitlin @ellegitlin.com · 16/08/2026
paging @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social
the tire marks left by Kyle Kirkwood’s IndyCar at the Markham street track
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Elle Cayabyab Gitlin @ellegitlin.com · 15/08/2026
I should turn my adblockers off more often
An ad on the VRBO site promoting the F1 Italian Grand Prix with photos of touring cars
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Elle Cayabyab Gitlin @ellegitlin.com · 08/08/2026
love that he snuck into our end-of-season group photo a decade ago
A group of baseball fans with a player sneaking into the shot
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Elle Cayabyab Gitlin @ellegitlin.com · 06/08/2026
street names are hard
A map of the track layout for the Freedom 250 IndyCar race in DC that misspells CONSTITUTION AVE NW as CONSTITUION AVE NW
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Elle Cayabyab Gitlin @ellegitlin.com · 01/08/2026
quick turnaround in south Texas earlier this week
a photo of the Rodriguez Tortilleria Cafeteria’s yellow building with a red roof
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Elle Cayabyab Gitlin @ellegitlin.com · 26/07/2026
learning so many nifty tidbits about the 1776 film adaptation from @beccagrawl.bsky.social
a scene from the film adaptation of 1776
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Elle Cayabyab Gitlin @ellegitlin.com · 19/07/2026
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Elle Cayabyab Gitlin @ellegitlin.com · 19/07/2026
CATS LIVING TOGETHER

I love you.
I love you too.
Actually you know what

© Sarah Andersen
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Elle Cayabyab Gitlin @ellegitlin.com · 14/07/2026
“this ballpark is a prison”
A tweet from @youngsmallkevin (a parody account of a cat) that reads “Gotta leave the room just to yawn so I don't have to hear dad go "ooh big yawn" this house is a prison”
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Elle Cayabyab Gitlin @ellegitlin.com · 11/07/2026
at least they’re easy to spot thanks to the matching shirts
the Hitler Youth of today
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Elle Cayabyab Gitlin @ellegitlin.com · 09/07/2026
Nats in today’s NYT Crossword
39D. The ["Curly W" team] solves to NATS, a nickname for the Washington Nationals, D.C's M.L.B. team. That curly W refers to their cap insignia. It's also apparently favored by the team's radio play-by-play announcer, Charlie Slowes, who often says,
"A curly W is in the books!" when the Nats win.
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Elle Cayabyab Gitlin @ellegitlin.com · 09/07/2026
channeling my inner Annie Lennox right now
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Elle Cayabyab Gitlin @ellegitlin.com · 05/07/2026
PATO
Merlin the Mexico duck
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Elle Cayabyab Gitlin @ellegitlin.com · 04/07/2026
the trophy for the F1 sprint race at Silverstone
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Elle Cayabyab Gitlin @ellegitlin.com · 03/07/2026
The show box seems awfully tight
The USCG Maritime Safety Zone for the Potomac River during the Fourth of July
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Elle Cayabyab Gitlin @ellegitlin.com · 01/07/2026
A woman on the Great British Bake-Off closed-captioned saying “Where do you put the glockymolo?”
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Elle Cayabyab Gitlin @ellegitlin.com · 21/06/2026
an apt way to celebrate the summer solstice (at Hill East Burger)
The Longest Dog of the Year menu at Hill East Burger for the 2026 summer solstice
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Elle Cayabyab Gitlin @ellegitlin.com · 29/05/2026
ten years ago, @pantherraccoon.bsky.social and I were in the Tower Terrace for the 100th running of the Indy 500
A woman and man in sunglasses and baseball caps at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway
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Elle Cayabyab Gitlin @ellegitlin.com · 24/05/2026
PatrickBateman: Alright who’s ready for 500 miles single file, followed by 600 miles of single file?

Banzai: Don't forget about 300km single file between
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Elle Cayabyab Gitlin @ellegitlin.com · 24/05/2026
Thessaly: and here I thought Kimi was the biggest baby on track today

Tsaedje: kimi at least has the excuse of being a teenager and italian
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Elle Cayabyab Gitlin @ellegitlin.com · 13/05/2026
a decade ago, @pantherraccoon.bsky.social and I were plane spotting on the plaza before heading in for the Washington National Opera’s Das Rheingold — sad that the trees behind us are gone (like much of the Kennedy Center)
A dark-haired man in black tie wearing glasses leaning against a dark-haired woman in an ivory gown
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Elle Cayabyab Gitlin @ellegitlin.com · 09/05/2026
Text reading “TRADE OFFER.  I receive run support.  You receive good pitching,” superimposed over a photo of a man with his fingers touching in front of him along with the text “Nationals”
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Elle Cayabyab Gitlin @ellegitlin.com · 03/05/2026
america causing the last two races to be cancelled, then having their own race cancelled would just be chef’s kiss
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Elle Cayabyab Gitlin @ellegitlin.com · 02/05/2026
RIP to the Donut King
After winning a race, Zanardi was fond of spinning his car around in tight circles, leaving circular doughnut-shaped patterns of tyre rubber on the track; Zanardi became known as "the Donut King" for this practice. This would eventually become a popular means of celebrating race wins all across America.
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Elle Cayabyab Gitlin @ellegitlin.com · 01/05/2026
the melted effect by the exhausts is a brilliant detail
A Porsche 963 in the Apple Computers livery
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Elle Cayabyab Gitlin @ellegitlin.com · 01/05/2026
tip of the hat for dolling up the safety car as well
A Porsche in a throwback Apple Computers livery
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Elle Cayabyab Gitlin @ellegitlin.com · 25/04/2026
nothing like living just a few blocks from our independent bookstore
A man walking past the Politics and Prose bookstore in Southwest DC
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Elle Cayabyab Gitlin @ellegitlin.com · 25/04/2026
2 Screenshots from the movie "Miss Congeniality" (2000): First, a beauty pageant host in a red blazer holds a microphone and stands beside a contestant wearing a sash labeled "RHODE ISLAND" among other contestants lined up behind her, with the subtitle "Describe your perfect date." Second, a close-up of the same host and the smiling contestant as she responds, with the subtitle "That's a tough one. I'd have to say April 25th. Because it's not too hot and not too cold. All you need is a light jacket."
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Elle Cayabyab Gitlin @ellegitlin.com · 16/04/2026
This year, like every year for the last 17, @pantherraccoon.bsky.social and I paid our taxes to a government in which we have no representation. It feels far worse than in previous years because of the things done with that money that zealous representation might have been able to curb or stop.
I am a DC resident, and I pay federal taxes. There is no vote for me in Congress. 

If you have representation on the hill, tell your members of Congress that you support DC Statehood.
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Elle Cayabyab Gitlin @ellegitlin.com · 15/04/2026
a rough sketch of a factory conveyor belt with black sneakers followed by servers and a worker saying “I guess we’re doing compute now”
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Elle Cayabyab Gitlin @ellegitlin.com · 07/04/2026
that bottom of the eighth is why you have to stay until the last damn out #NATITUDE
One of Nationals Park’s Kwanzan cherry trees in bloom with the scoreboard behind it
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Elle Cayabyab Gitlin @ellegitlin.com · 04/04/2026
tiptoe through the tulips with me
a woman and a man holding yellow and purple tulips standing in a field of multicolored tulips
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Elle Cayabyab Gitlin @ellegitlin.com · 02/04/2026
A screenshot of trending topics on Bluesky showing “Challenger Trauma” in the top spot
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Elle Cayabyab Gitlin @ellegitlin.com · 28/03/2026
got to fly our @catmagicpunks.bsky.social flag (h/t @musicologyduck.bsky.social)
white text reading “C.L.A.W.S (Cat Lovers Against White Supremacy)” with a hissing cat illustration on a black flag
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Elle Cayabyab Gitlin @ellegitlin.com · 26/03/2026
all of my favorite teams won today
the MLB scoreboard for 26 March 2026

Nationals 10 - Cubs 4
Pirates 7 - Mets 11
Twins 1 - Orioles 2
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Elle Cayabyab Gitlin @ellegitlin.com · 24/03/2026
damn, I should have worn my RUN PKS shirt to this show to show off my Kubernetes + hip-hop bonafides
A woman and man standing in front of a marquee announcing the Hieroglyphics show at Union Stage
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Elle Cayabyab Gitlin @ellegitlin.com · 23/03/2026
SASCAR + Awful Baseball Oafs goon meetup with @boco-t.bsky.social at Nats Park for the Nationals-Orioles exhibition game
A woman holding a DC flag fan next to a man wearing a Baltimore Orioles jersey at Nats Park
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Elle Cayabyab Gitlin @ellegitlin.com · 16/03/2026
A tweet from @longwall26 quoting a 2019 YouGov poll stating that one in eight men (12%) said they could win a point in a game of tennis against 23-time Grand Slam winner Serena Williams reading “Confident in my ability to properly tennis, I take the court. I smile at my opponent. Serena does not return the gesture. She'd be prettier if she did, I think. She serves. The ball passes cleanly through my skull, killing me instantly.”
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Elle Cayabyab Gitlin @ellegitlin.com · 13/03/2026
it’s been s/84/22 years
Fernando Alonso
ASTON MARTIN

The only remaining active F1 driver from the inaugural Chinese Grand Prix in 2004
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Elle Cayabyab Gitlin @ellegitlin.com · 07/03/2026
The Sickos cartoon figure in a helmet and race suit while waving a checkered flag
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Elle Cayabyab Gitlin @ellegitlin.com · 03/03/2026
150 years ago today
A screenshot of the Wikipedia page for the Kentucky meat shower.  The introductory paragraph reads “The Kentucky meat shower was an incident occurring for a period of several minutes between 11 a.m. and 12 p.m. on March 3, 1876, where what appeared to be chunks of red meat fell from the sky in a 100-by-50-yard (90-by-45-meter) area near Olympia Springs in Bath County, Kentucky. There exist several explanations (from the plausible blood rain to the not so plausible vulture ejecta) as to how this occurred and what the "meat" was.”
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Elle Cayabyab Gitlin @ellegitlin.com · 28/02/2026
time for me to be disappointed no matter what
A woman in sunglasses wearing a Mets baseball cap and Nationals lanyard
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Elle Cayabyab Gitlin @ellegitlin.com · 28/02/2026
reminiscing about the DC of a decade ago
Tickets to the National Symphony Orchestra’s family concert on 28 February 2016The program for the National Symphony Orchestra’s Let’s Remix the Classix! family concert on 28 February 2016 featuring selections from Leonard Bernstein, Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Johann Sebastian Bach with beatboxer Christylez Bacon and Wytold on the electric cello
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Elle Cayabyab Gitlin @ellegitlin.com · 22/02/2026
just imagine it’s the MP4-30 in the background
a parody of the Vietnam flashbacks meme but it’s Fernando Alonso and Aston Martin
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Elle Cayabyab Gitlin @ellegitlin.com · 20/02/2026
BAH GAWD THAT’S THE 107% RULES’ MUSIC
Several sources told BBC Sport this week that Newey said at Wednesday's meeting of the F1 Commission - a rule-making body comprising all the teams as well as F1 and the FIA - that the Honda power-unit could not even recover energy at the lower limit of 250kw, let alone the higher one of 350kw, which comes into force under certain circumstances in the highly complex rules.

Reliability was so bad that by the start of the final day of the test, Honda had only one battery left, and took the decision to limit running to only short runs. A statement said that was to allow them to study data in between track outings, but in the end Lance Stroll did only six laps all day.
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Elle Cayabyab Gitlin @ellegitlin.com · 12/02/2026
one of my fondest neighborhood memories is of Greg Bloom doing a dramatic reading of this on @akmattos.bsky.social’s stoop
I am a newly elected public official in the District of Columbia. My constituency comprises the southern half of the Bloomingdale community located a mile or so north of Capitol Hill.

Deep longstanding divisive forces at work in the community that I represent threaten to further destabilize our delicate balance of social harmony. My office, Single Member District 5C03, is working to develop a
community peace treaty with the objective of burying the hatchet between concerned residents and local business interests so that we can collectively move forward in unity to build a foundation for long-term harmony and sustainability.

I would love to meet with you or someone in your Department to learn about frameworks and best practices for developing and negotiating peace treaties. My professional background includes engineering and business, so the world of socio-political affairs is quite new to me. I would also love to have someone from your Department speak at an event in our community on the subjects of peace and managing relations.

Please contact me at your earliest convenience to discuss.
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Elle Cayabyab Gitlin @ellegitlin.com · 01/02/2026
of course they couldn’t be bothered to get DC’s geography right
an AI-generated image of the US Capitol with the Washington Monument to the right
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