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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 03/10/2026

I mean… LOOK AT IT. This is a reproduction fabric design licensed by Chawton House. I just feel…right when I put it on.

A blue-gray dress with pink and white printed flowers in the Regency style is draped over a chaise.

Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 29/09/2026

Back in #lyra 1 class tonight. This is a combo I am very familiar with, but there is always more to perfect. Especially since I was doing it on my LEFT side (the one I'm not always great about training). Peter Pan, Birdie, forward roll, split under the bar, pencil, stapler, staple remover. #aerials

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 20/09/2026

Hard to believe it is 16 years since Caitlin’s Make-a-wish trip to Disney World and Universal.

A lady on a blue shirt sits next to a girl in a wheelchair also in a blue shirt, holding a Mickey mouse doll. The background is colorful.

A lady in a teal shirt crouches next to a girl in a pink shirt in a wheelchair. Cinderella 's castle is innthe background

A lady in a teal shirt crouched next to a girl in a pink shirt who is using a wheelchair. Jaws hangs behind them.

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 18/09/2026

Extra caffeine to hopefully get me through today's one job: finish writing my opening remarks for the exhibit.

A white mug that has two images: on the left, a brown horse with the words "other archivists" over it. On the right a unicorn with a rainbow mane dancing on a pole with the word "you" over it.

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 18/09/2026

Please enjoy thia video of me losing a fight with a brightly colored piece of fabric. I'm working on a #silks #aerials basic trick called hip keys, and believe it or not, the final attempt represents progress. Very much a beginner.

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 10/09/2026

Oh, right, I can directly post video hee now. This is me working on chest stands and associated shapes. #aerials #Lyra

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 30/08/2026

I seem to be building a pattern of buying myself a shiny to commemorate adventures. Here's the one from this trip, courtesy of the Angelwear booth in the dealer's room.

A necklace that has a pendant of silver circles with blue opals.

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 28/08/2026

Please note for record that the Hilton Anaheim knows how to make a PROPER sidecar, including a sugar rim.

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 22/08/2026

Woke up with a craving, made it so. Scones. smittenkitchen.com/2006/11/drea...

6 golden brown scones on a cooling rack and two scones on a blue plate.

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 20/08/2026

@katy-katy.bsky.social and I wrote a book about what time travel stories about archives get right, get wrong, and why that matters. Also why archives matter to Future Us, and what we can do to hopefully get to a version of the future that is less hellscape-y

The cover of The Infinite Loop, which has all of the words in a white area, surrounded by a salmon pink set of circles.

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 01/08/2026

This is why New Orleans is always a pleasure to visit as a food city. Even the most basic version of the hotel breakfast buffet goes hard. Not pictured: omelette station, waffle station, grits, biscuits & gravy, bagel/lox station...

A plate with scrambled eggs, potatoes, andouille sausage, fruit, and a biscuit.

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 31/07/2026

For Science. Cafe du Monde. More "atmosphere" but the Cafe Beignet beignets are definitely superior. Sorry.

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 15/06/2026

🎶It’s the most wonderful tiiiime of the year 🎶 aka fresh tomato season from the farmer’s market. #food

In the foreground is a dark blue bowl with a caprese salad (mozzarella, tomatoes, and basil) and two slices of garlic bread. In the background, a black cat. To the right, a water bottle.

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 03/06/2026

The North Star in Northampton, which was directly across the street from my dorm/house where the bookstore is now. My first non-college gay bar was Sisters in Philadelphia, along with The Bike Stop.

Meme with pastel rainbow stripes on the left side, asking “What was your first gay bar?”

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 31/05/2026

Now that I am awake from my surprise nap, time to start making this for dinner:

Sesame spiced turkey meatballs and smashed chickpea salad from the first Smitten Kitchen cookbook.

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 11/05/2026

Apologies to my in-person colleagues who get to spend the next couple of days listening to me do my Bill the Cat impression as this cold works its way out of me.

A scraggly orange cat wearing sneakers throws horns and says Blech ACTH ooop

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 08/05/2026

Best film adaptation of The Odyssey, wrong answers only

A poster for Magic Mike XXL, featuring Channing Tatum and four other guys shirtless and mid dance. Spoiler alert: the plot actually *is* The Odyssey.

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 17/04/2026

It’s hard to believe it has been 2 years since Caitlin passed. It went so fast, and so slow, simultaneously. I miss her laugh, and her slyboots smile.

Caitlin wearing a purple shirt and a grey sweater, grinning like a loon and laughing next to a pumpkin she helped decorate.

Caitlin giving her slyboots smile while I look on.

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 06/04/2026

Caitlin 's quilt arrived. They did a good job. (Hugo cat for scale). Will now spend some quality time crying really hard, as expected.

A black cat strides across a throw blanket made up of tshirts.

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 26/03/2026

The White Christmas dress for formal night, as promised. #JoCo

Me in a slinky black dress and white elbow length gloves, holding a glass of sparkling wine.

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 20/03/2026

Having made it to O'hare and through security, I present the MCGRIDDLE. OF.VICTORY.

A bacon egg and cheese mcgriddle, hash browns, and an orange juice

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 08/03/2026

Dinner at The Space before hanging out with friends. This is the Oklahoma smashburger, with duck fat fries. If there were an elevated version of White Castle, this is it. And I absolutely mean that as a compliment.

A burger with crispy edges and a lot of fries.

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 26/02/2026

Here’s the pic. Also, mammograms are important.

Two slices of sourdough toast with peach - black currant-sichuan pepper spread on a light blue plate.

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 31/01/2026

Penultimate leftover #jamvent: Rhubarb strawberry. I prefer when it’s more strawberry-forward. Vehicle: toasted sourdough with salted butter. The sharpness of the rhubarb has been so tempered (but not over sweetened at least) that it isn’t really all that distinctive an experience. B.

Two slices of sourdough toast with rhubarb-strawberry spread on a dark blue plate.

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 19/01/2026

Leftover #jamvent #2 today: Apricot-lavender spread. Vehicle: wheat thins with goat cheese. I had been holding this one back because I’m VERY picky about lavender as a flavor in food, but I’m pleasantly surprised. Solid apricot flavor, with just a hint of light floral at the end. B+.

A light blue plate with a hunk of goat cheese, some wheat thins, and a wheat thin spread with goat cheese and apricot lavender spread, plus a butterknife.

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 19/01/2026

Leftover #jamvent this morning: cherry-violet leaves. Vehicle: toasted challah with salted butter. This is pretty good. Mostly cherry, just a whisper of floral on the back end, not enough to taste perfume-y, which is my usual complaint about floral-based flavors. B+

Toasted challah slices with cherry-violet spread and butter on a light blue plate, flanked by a green napkin and a black Tigger mug of coffee.

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 18/01/2026

I chickened out at an hour twenty for the onions. 40 min only got me to “nicely sweated.” 😅

A large Dutch oven full of onions that have been cooked down to relatively golden (40 min)

A Dutch oven full of onions that are golden brown (120 min).

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 13/01/2026

It’s another leftover #jamvent day. Today’s flavor is Wild blueberry-lychee-rose. Vehicle: sourdough toast with salted butter. I was afraid this would be rose-heavy, and unfortunately, it’s not *anything* heavy. I get mild blueberry, and not much else. B.

Two slices of sourdough toast with wild blueberry lychee rose spread sitting on a light blue plate.

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 10/01/2026

Sometimes you just need one of the best burgers in the state, now in walking distance, which makes it healthy. I don't make the rules.

A cheeseburger with mushroom, onion, and blue cheese, lettuce tomato and pickle, with fries.

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 06/01/2026

Leftover #jamvent: mandarin spread. Vehicle: toasted sourdough with salted butter. B+. This is basically a sweeter marmalade with fewer bits in. It’s good, but not life-changing.

Two slices of sourdough toast with mandarin spread on a light blue plate with a paper towel as a napkin.

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 01/01/2026

Leftover #jamvent flavor to start the new year: strawberry passion fruit. Vehicle: toasted sourdough with salted butter. The need to balance the passion fruit means less intense strawberry than I’d hoped. B. This is fine, but not super-exciting.

Two slices of sourdough toast with butter and strawberry-passion fruit spread on a light blue plate.

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 27/12/2025

Today’s leftover (from day 16) #jamvent flavor is a returning fave: orange-yuzu-grapefruit. Vehicle: toasted ciabatta with goat cheese. Perfect balance of sweet and pucker with a great citrus punch. I want MORE YUZU in things, it’s great. A.

Two slices of ciabatta with goat cheese and orange-yuzu-grapefruit spread on a dark peacock blue plate.

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