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Kat L-C @katlombardcook.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I went to the craft store to buy a few more skeins of thread for this weekend’s embroidery class and did not buy Halloween merch. I would like a ‘good job’ badge, please.

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

🚨 ALERT 🚨: All of Stuart Hall's notebooks have been digitized and are freely available to browse and read??? stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...

Stuart Hall notebook: NOTES ON THE REPRODUCTION OF IDEOLOGIES AND THE MEDIA (Orange notebook, "Summit Students Pad")

Stuart Hall notebook page with headline: "Problems for a Marxist Theory of the Media" and a series of bulletpoints. Lined notebook paper with black handwriting.

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Kat L-C @katlombardcook.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

For local Boston peeps, I’ll be teaching folks to make one of these Halloween hoops at Artisans Asylum in Alston next Sunday. I’ll have materials for both versions, so you can pick the one you like best.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 01/10/2026

it’s good to remind people today we aren’t going to trauma-inform our way to “more humane” forms of caging and execution

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Kat L-C @katlombardcook.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This weekend’s rain kept us in for the most part. Made some soup using some of our frozen tomatoes from earlier in the summer. Got a good chunk of writing done too. Autumn ain’t bad

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Kat L-C @katlombardcook.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’m sure this is only because of the rain. Nothing to do with the Mass Attorney General saying folks could get a refund, I’m sure.

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Kat L-C @katlombardcook.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sometimes this timeline feels like: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the most stupid one, And that has made all the difference.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I hope this email finds you still registered to vote

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Kat L-C @katlombardcook.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Raindrops on pumpkins 🎃 And whiskers on kittens 🐈‍⬛ Bright copper kettles 🧪 And candles’ glow within 🕯️ Black leather packages tied up with string 🖤 These are a few of my favorite things

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Hayes Madsen @solfleet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Also, there’s a very nice little Easter Egg in Control

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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Scotland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Huh? Wales: We want to leave the UK BBC: What? Northern Ireland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Lolz Some shithole in Oxfordshire: We want to leave the UK because racism BBC: REPORT THE HELL OUT OF THIS #Piddington

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

PSA: No Kings is a coalition, not an org, and it does not do fundraising appeals for itself. Partner orgs raise money for costs we're incurring to put it on. But if you get a text from "NO KINGS" or a PAC you've never heard of before asking for $ that is a scam and you should block/shame away.

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Kat L-C @katlombardcook.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Category Is… is a total treasure and the folks who run it are lovely. I am forever sad I only lived a block from them for a month before I moved countries. If you can, please send them some money so they can get shutters and stop people throwing bricks & rocks at their windows

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 09/09/2026

Sunshine will return to Leith when we have purged transphobia from our society. Edinburgh is a nexus of this rot and it is both our shame and our responsibility to rid our culture of it.

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Kat L-C @katlombardcook.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Today I’m making dill pickles from 5lbs of cucumber from our porch garden.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Federal minimum wage in: 2009: $7.25 2010: $7.25 2011: $7.25 2012: $7.25 2013: $7.25 2014: $7.25 2015: $7.25 2016: $7.25 2017: $7.25 2018: $7.25 2019: $7.25 2020: $7.25 2021: $7.25 2022: $7.25 2023: $7.25 2024: $7.25 2025: $7.25 2026: $7.25 Folks, it's time to raise the damn wage already.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Just a reminder, Professor James Orr, Reform UK head of policy, teaches 'ethics' to undergraduates at Cambridge University youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Also since Orr is an academic at Cambridge who has actually been caught lying I look forward to the month of hounding on a deeply personal level and strokey chin pontificating about whether any white men should even get to be professors

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Kat L-C @katlombardcook.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

They called it before 9pm last night. lol

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A note re Warren Ellis: I've seen the narrative floating around that the process of transformative justice between Warren and SoManyOfUs fell apart for reasons outside of Warren's control, sometimes with an implication that these reasons were on the side of SMOU. This is not true.

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Kat L-C @katlombardcook.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Today is primary day in Massachusetts. If you haven’t cast your ballot, there is still time. And just a reminder that Ed Markey may be old but he supports trans rights & Seth Moulton thinks some people’s human rights are something to be debated.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

this is correct: the USPS rule is about mailing *to* voters (not *from*) we have an explainer on this! boltsmag.org/mail-voting-...

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 31/08/2026

Last night was extraordinary & I’m still dazed from it. THE RIVER HAS ROOTS won a Hugo award! Huge congratulations to all the finalists & winners—it was such an honour & a joy to get to celebrate with you!

Backstage selfie of me in a black dress with blue and gold sequin-embroidered flowers, holding a Hugo Award for Best Novella, beaming and overwhelmed.

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Kat L-C @katlombardcook.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Someone really likes the new plant set up. Someone is Meep.

A cat (tabby with white paws and a white ring round her shoulders) naps next to a hydroponic planter with grow lights. Her head is in the glow of the light

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Katie West @katiewest.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

If you're in Canada and want to tell Tim Hortons that their Harry Potter marketing campaign is shit, you can contact them here: www.timhortons.ca/support

help.timhortons.ca

Tim Hortons Help Centre

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Kat L-C @katlombardcook.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Well, you’ve lost me to the plants. All this ‘eating food from the grocery store might kill you’ stuff and now I’m setting up a hydroponic garden in my office.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In the Renaissance people theorized, since the Aeneid is great, if you wrote poems made only of words & phrases from the Aeneid rearranged they should be great too, since a great source regurgitated should yield greatness. They produced NOTHING we still read. Thinking about that a lot lately.

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Kat L-C @katlombardcook.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

It’s August 18, and I both long for the cool of autumn and am irrationally upset that a tree across the street has leaves that are turning red.

A small deciduous tree with a couple of red leaves on the left-hand side.

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Katie West @katiewest.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

My thoughts on Image publishing a new Warren Ellis book.

I have spent the day re-reading the entirety of SoManyOfUs.com, including every testimonial. I’ve also re-read dozens of documents and communications from the transformative justice action SMOU-TJ and Warren Ellis started. I wanted to remember the hope I held at that time. I also wanted to see if I could approach this moment with gratitude instead of anger.
To believe in transformative justice is to believe people capable of change. But, as our mediator said during the process, “transformation is heartbreak.” It is crushing and painful, but it is also our right as human beings. I haven’t spoken to Warren Ellis in over 6 years. I don’t know who he is now. I don’t know how he’s changed, but I’m sure he has. I know Warren read all of SoManyOfUs.com and I can’t imagine an outcome where doing so doesn’t change you. But, as Kai Cheng Thom says, “Change is inevitable, growth is optional.” I was often sad that Warren, when confronted with the consequences of his actions, didn’t react in the way I expected him to. But I am grateful it led to me untangling 15 years of complicated feelings and hurtful actions.
I’m grateful that I believe we can change and hold ourselves accountable in this world. But, quoting our mediator again, “being called to accountability feels like being reminded that your shit stinks. and coming clean is hard to do.” It can feel impossible to look in the mirror and confront the worst version of ourselves. Without having the necessary support systems in place to make it possible, I don’t blame or fault anyone for not being able to do it.
We all tried our best. When our attempt at a community accountability action failed, I was disappointed, but grateful that we tried. And grateful to know that Warren had tried, too.

I currently work as an editor in comics, with books I work on being published by Image. I love comics. I love the comics community and how we all keep making them despite it being so hard, with no financial security, and no safety nets. I see groups within the community doing so much good and fighting hard to make the industry more sustainable and safer for everyone involved.
But there is no set process for anyone in the comics community to account for our actions and change our behaviour after harm or abuse has happened. This has led many people to be forced out of the industry – victims, perpetrators, and witnesses. My heart hurts for all the people who were bullied, ostracized, shunned, or threatened out of this community, particularly those I spoke to back in June and July of 2020, impacted by Warren’s actions. I hope one day this changes.
I’m grateful to everyone who was wondered if Warren has “made amends to the satisfaction of all involved.” It shows me solidarity and care are widespread within comics. I wouldn’t say I’m satisfied, but I also would say I am no longer personally invested in Warren’s transformation.
I am personally invested in the books I work on that come out with Image, and I really hope you don’t take any disappointment you feel in Image’s actions out on the creators whose work they publish. Seeing people boycotting Image comics feels a cruel joke when that directly affects my livelihood and that of the people who respect and support me. But I get it – this seems like a financial decision from Image, so respond in a financial fashion. I hope we can all keep ourselves open to change in the future.
My resolve to expand my capacity to hope for change – after a night of anger and crying and shouting – is renewed. Thanks for hearing me out and for reading all of this.

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Kat L-C @katlombardcook.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

It is both the best of times and the worst of times when you are in the middle of four different projects. Got enough going on that I can always pick up one to suit my mood. Absolutely nothing to show for it.

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Kat L-C @katlombardcook.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Many thanks to my friend who gifted me an @americastestkitchen.com subscription. Might have overdone it a bit today but winter Kat will thank me

Four jars on a countertop. There are three 16 oz jars in front of one 32 oz jar. The central front jar is salsa. The other three are all bread and butter pickles. All are from recipes from America’s Test Kitchen

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Kat L-C @katlombardcook.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Today’s adventures in having too many tomatoes: dehydrating cherry toms. I had to get them on early since it takes between 10-14 hours and if it’s on the long side I might be up past my bedtime 😹

A small baking sheet covered in halved cherry tomatoes. Other tomatoes to be prepped are in the background. So many tomatoes

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Kat L-C @katlombardcook.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Anyone off to Fan Expo in Boston should give Conor a shout! He takes great portraits

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Kat L-C @katlombardcook.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

We have a porch garden and right now the tomatoes are producing like crazy. I’m gathering about a pound a day only picking the ripest. This is our current haul, after I used 2.5 lbs of tomatoes to make roasted tomato salsa.

A very full bowl of tomatoes of various sizes, with a hand next to the bowl for scale. Also in frame is a red cubanelle pepper and various stuff for making my morning coffee

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Kat L-C @katlombardcook.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Today was a day for preserving and using some of our porch garden veggies. I made 2.5 jars of pickles (I sliced sliiiightly too many cucumbers), roasted about a pound of cherry tomatoes for freezing, prepped and froze about 3 lbs of plum tomatoes, and gonna make a big veg stir-fry for dinner. 😋

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Kat L-C @katlombardcook.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Learning lots of Armenian embroidery techniques this summer. Here are some little Aintab samplers I made to learn some stitches. Almonds, lentils, spider webs, and file filling

Three small hand embroideries in frames. They are white thread on white cloth, with grids cut from the cloth. The grids are filled with different pattern stitches

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Kat L-C @katlombardcook.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Come watch some World Cup games with us later this month!

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Kat L-C @katlombardcook.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Something small but satisfying: you go to fix an iron-on patch that is lifting and find a pretty exact color match for the outline in your thread collection

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Kat L-C @katlombardcook.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Last week I took a class on Svaz embroidery, a counted-stitch form of Armenian embroidery, from Tatter with Lizzy Vartanian. I’m enjoying how the outlined motifs look before I fill them in.

Hand embroidery. Top row has two outlined motifs. The left is a flower, and the right is a star. The star is partly filled in with red and orange zigzags. Below there is a different flower outlined on the right. The left side will have the mirror of the flower on the right but has only been started. The needle, threaded with black thread, is visible in the fabric

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Kat L-C @katlombardcook.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Happy to say I will have two pieces in the Art and Healing show at the Mosesian Center for the Arts in Watertown, MA from March 20–May 1. If you’re local I’d love to see you at the opening reception on March 26!

Gallery flyer for Art and Healing exhibition at the Mosesian Center for the Arts in Watertown, MA from March 20–May 1, 2026

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Kat L-C @katlombardcook.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

It’s tomato season! Making butter-braised tomato soup for the first time. We’ve got a few different varieties growing on the porch, plus some from a friend’s garden. Hoping it adds complexity to the flavor!

Various kinds of tomatoes from cherry to beefsteaks and heirlooms in a Dutch oven cooking in butter. Step one for the soup!

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

If you are okay with this, if you think this is justified, if you think people living on the street have brought this upon themselves, if you think this is good leadership, you may be able to fool yourself that you care about others but you don’t fool me

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Kat L-C @katlombardcook.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Classes start back next week. Today I have been baking & crafting. Threw some dried blueberries my mother’s friend gifted us into an Izzy’s blackberry & pretended to be fancy.

In the foreground, at the bottom of the image, is a dark red drink with berries floating at the top. It could be a cocktail! But it’s fizzy fruit juice. Above, in the background, is a lilac piece of cloth which is in the process of being embroidered on

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Trans Legal Project @translegalproject.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

TW. Needs to be widely shared with cisgender people, especially politicians. Utterly horrifying that Britain has come to this- that most of Britain is just looking the other way while a whole community is being eliminated from society because of lies and hatred. transactual.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Trans Actual's report entitled 'Trans Segregation in Practice. Experiences of trans segragation following the Supreme Court Ruling'.

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