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Herding cats until the waveform collapses. Mostly harmless, but do note that both my grandfathers killed fascists. GenX. Слава Україні. Meese is still a pig. #OurFlagMeansDeath #ofmd #UglyDogs

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 13h
The Phantom of Heilbronn, also referred to as the Woman Without a Face, was a presumed female serial killer whose existence was inferred from DNA evidence found at 40 crime scenes across Austria, France and Germany from 1993 to 2009.

In March 2009, investigators concluded that the supposed serial killer did not exist, and the DNA belonged to a woman who worked at a factory that made the cotton swabs used for collecting DNA samples
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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 16h
I HAVE A COVER! And a pub date - July 6, 2027! If you want six true stories of antiquities fraud, from a California college convinced that Hong Kong tourist trinkets were worth millions, to an entire fake museum, to the titular mummy carved from styrofoam, preorder at www.amazon.com/Styrofoam-Mu...
Cover of the book The Styrofoam Mummy https://www.amazon.com/Styrofoam-Mummy-Tales-Antiquities-Market/dp/1324035870
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Emily @emilydawn.bsky.social · 20h
@hockeyviz.com I found some beautiful data viz for you
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David Ziff @djsziff.bsky.social · 10h
I don't think this has gotten as much press as the New Jersey fiasco from a while back, but we've got our own USAO power struggling going on out here in Western Washington.
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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 30/09/2026
Your 3rd dose today of Anthropic settlement madness (at least from me). Authors, CHECK YOUR CLAIMS! Your situation may have changed, per this email from the settlement administrator that some authors are receiving (subject heading: Anthropic Copyright Settlement: Allocation Updates)
We made updates that may affect your claim.
What Changed?
Wed, Sep 30,
2026 at 5:35 AM
Based on feedback from claimants, we updated how certain works are categorized.
In particular, where multiple claimants submitted default claims for the same
ownership interest in a work, we changed those works from agreement to
disagreement.
In addition, the portal is updated to reflect that some claimants changed their sole
ownership claims to default claims, and some claimants withdrew their claims.
What This Means for You
As a result of these updates, some works on your claim may now be categorized
differently. We encourage you to review the current allocations for your works.
How to Review and Update Your Allocations
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Claim Summary and Allocation Portal
For help making updates, please visit the allocation portal instructions.
If You Already Submitted Updates
If you already updated the allocation for a work, then you do not need to
submit those updates again. Any changes you submitted previously
through the online portal are recorded, but the portal is not being
updated in real time. If you submit multiple updates for the same
copyright number, your most recent submission will replace any earlier
submissionsWhat’s Next?
We will continue to work with claimants to help resolve disputes.
For works where all rightsholders are in agreement and where all necessary
payment information is provided, we expect to send a first round of payments in
November 2026.
If You Have Questions
Please contact us at 1-877-206-2314 or info@AnthropicCopyrightSettlement.com.
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Sarah Burris @sarahburris.bsky.social · 23h
Y'all I just caught the Kennedy Center claiming it isn't closing while telling vendors it's closing and now they're selling all of their Steinway pianos www.alternet.org/alternet-exc...
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Kennedy Center moves to sell all of its Steinway pianos
Photos show piano movers rolling massive Steinway grand pianos through the red-carpeted halls of the Kennedy Center this week.
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Dirtbag Left Milk Hotel @stambrah.bsky.social · 21h
POTUS: Donnie new ballroom. Practical Donnie entertainment room TIME: I'd like to talk about the rampant corruption and criminality. POTUS: Good ballroom good Donnie give beautiful Donnie deserve pedophile TIME: We have a limited amount of time. POTUS: jealousy interviewer
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
uhhhhh considering that the City of Seattle itself has the WAISN number linked for its ICE-report hotline this seems like it's a massive, massive safety concern for every immigrant in the Puget Sound? (source: WAISN union still fighting for recognition): www.instagram.com/waisnworkerc...
The Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network has officially laid off all of its Hotline Organizers and Rapid Response Organizers. Any phone calls from someone trying to report ICE or find support have gone unanswered since 7 AM.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.
From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water.  I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there?  God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"
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Ruth | Temporal_discounting 🏴‍☠️ @insane-foliage.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ed is having a hard time. But a knock at the front door brings the most beautiful man Ed's ever seen — a man in search of his missing pet tortoise. A plan forms in Ed's mind: Find the tortoise, snag the man. Rated T | Ed/Stede | 6.5k archiveofourown.org/works/93446281 #OFMDFic
Summary of a fic called The Misadventures of Dr Shrimp (about half the size of a coconut) by Temporal_discounting. 

The summary reads Ed Teach is having a hard time. Burnout, that's what they're calling it. Ed calls it drowning. But an unexpected knock at the front door brings Ed face to face with the most beautiful man Ed's ever seen — a man in search of his missing pet tortoise.

A plan forms in Ed's mind: Find the tortoise, snag the man.

Easy, peasy, pudding and fucking pie.
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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We can learn from our queer elders 🫶🏻
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when my masc lesbian aunt died, women just kept coming, screaming, crying, and saying they were her wives. Eventually we just had to start telling them to join the others. They were all devastated to learn about each other. Except for one who came in, kissed her dead mouth and showed us all that they had matching tattoos. She actually won all the mourning wives over and they all agreed she was the wife. It was so weird.Did not expect more than a few people to see this but yes it really happened, yes it was insane

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They also ALL read love letters at the podium. It was painful and awkward but the final gift my aunt gave the familyfrom my mom

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And a couple girlfriends she was a popular and very liked lol
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it.
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matt.j.robb & 16h (€) So muse handled my Facebook marketplace today. Just found out it told people my address and agreed a lowball price and then they showed up without it even telling me until late tonight that it messed up.

Absolutely wild. 1/2

[Embedded image of a series of text messages from a meta muse "agent" given the call sign "Jarvis" (Parts of first message obscured by its logo have been replaced with brackets and ellipses and best guesses from context):]

Heads up, Usman is […] building right now for the MX Keys Mini [. He is sta]nding in front of the Shoppers Drug [Mart.]

$10 by e-transfer. The auto-reply told him to message when he's at your door.

10:28 PM Bad news on the MX Keys Mini pickup. Usman showed up at your building around 9:15 and waited, messaged a bunch of times, and nobody came down. He left angry at 9:38 and left a negative rating.

Worse, my auto-reply told him "Yep I'm here!" at 9:27 when you clearly weren't available, which is on me. That's a bad look and it made the no-show worse.

I've sent him an apology from your account owning it and offering to try again another day. But the negative rating is real, and I should probably stop the auto-replies from claiming you're home when I can't verify that. Want me to change the pickup replies so they don't promise you're there?

[reply, presumably from the threads user]: You gotta never do that ever again don't agree for pickup unless you check with me

[Response from Muse "Agent"]: You're right and I'm sorry. That should never have happened. It's locked in now as a hard rule: i will never […you]'re there unless you've explicitly […] that specific pickup. If someone proposes a time, I'll tell them I'll check and…  Screenshot of a tweet from Ray Wong @raywongy:
    Deleted Muse after seeing this post on Threads about how it told some Facebook Marketplace sellers the guy’s address and they showed up at his door

    Dangerous and creepy

    This would have been 1000x worse if the person was a woman
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MistyMountain | Save OFMD @mistymountain83.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Hello pirate friends! I’d love to invite you to my first ever completed fanfic, an AU based on the classic 80’s movie “Planes, Trains and Automobiles.” If you like road trips, misadventures, silliness and romance, this story is for you. Please join me :) #OFMDfic archiveofourown.org/works/933975...
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Mostly Harmless @toadlily.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Oh wow, there's a name for how I talk!
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Maciek Hamela @maciekhamela.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
With the Strait of Hormuz closed, Iraq has resorted to moving its oil across the desert to Syria in hundreds of tanker trucks, in true Mad Max style. From there, it will be shipped to worldwide markets.
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Kourosh Nourisamie, MD @knourisamie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#Nature #Photography #USA #Park #Photo #picture #Landscape #Travel #Wild Tumwater Falls Salmon: Born for the river, determined to reach home, against the current, one waterfall at a time and back to where it all began! Washington State USA
Salmon jumping over Tumwater falls in Washington state.
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.
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Puget Sound Storm Watch @pugetstormwatch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A Puget Sound Convergence Zone has been born. Congrats. It's a boy. #wawx
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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I knew it.
Geometry is a hoax created by the government to sell more rectangles.
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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
my small son has been wearing a superman cape we got from goodwill all day every day for ... two weeks? three weeks? and asking that we all call him superman, and pretending he's superman. which is very funny because his understanding of superman as a concept is rudimentary at best
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.
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Matthew Pfab @matthewpfabwx.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Fun" forecast model disagreement tonight...Last 2 European model runs keep 40-50 mph gusts for the Seattle area, while the hi-res HRRR and RRFS models keep strongest winds south of Olympia, w/40-50 mph for Portland, 50-60 mph for OR & S. WA Coast. Stay tuned. #wawx #orwx
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ACLU of Washington @acluwa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Privacy tip for Washingtonians: You can request to have your data deleted from that old period tracking app you no longer use.
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Again no link between Tylenol intake during pregnancy. “Current epidemiological evidence does not support a robust causal relationship, and paracetamol remains an appropriate first-line treatment during pregnancy…” Can we stop beating the dead horse now? 🧪 www.cidrap.umn.edu/anti-science...
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Tylenol during pregnancy not linked to autism, ADHD, major review finds
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strangefour 🪳🤍📛🐙🐔🏆👻 @strangefour.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
WTF? No seriously what the fuck? Why does Drexel University want to close the Academy of Natural Sciences? Why would anyone close the oldest natural history museum in all of the Americas with one month notice at the end of September? www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxyf...
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The Plan To Destroy Americas Oldest Natural History Museum
YouTube video by Miniminuteman
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Cynthia Rose @stillcham.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
See NOW is when we should be posting this 😂 youtu.be/Gs069dndIYk
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Earth, Wind & Fire - September (Official HD Video)
YouTube video by EarthWindandFireVEVO
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⚡⚡MAD DOCTOR IMPOSSIBLE⚡⚡ @impossiblephd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
*Frothing at the mouth with excitement* HEY GUESS WHAT, YOU DON'T HAVE ONE BRAIN, YOU HAVE TWO! med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...
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Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds
Stanford Health Care delivers the highest levels of care and compassion. SHC treats cancer, heart disease, brain disorders, primary care issues, and many more.
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Mostly Harmless @toadlily.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
KRXY is dead.Long live KMAS. Local radio remains.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 21/09/2026
I'm sure this will all work out just fine without any serious issues that cause a major loss of life. /s
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Gene Rayburn @generayburn.com · 21/09/2026
#sigourney
Sigourney Weaver using a flamethrower
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Joseph O'Sullivan @olympiajoe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Medicare AI program hit WA with ‘staggering’ denial rate, records show- In Washington, the program’s denial rate was 53% in its first three months, the documents show. www.seattletimes.com/business/med...
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Documents show ‘staggering’ denial rate for Medicare AI program in WA
Medicare's new AI-enabled program denied more claims than it approved during a rocky rollout, leaving patients who were in pain to wait out a long appeals process.
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Josh Hood 20-twenty-sick!! @joshuahood.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Mostly Harmless @toadlily.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Wondering if @stedeco.re has thoughts on the Miami Prime Air crash...? That just seems so weird.
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Salty MacTavish @saltymactavish.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Look, we’re losing light and the veil between the living and the dead is becoming gossamer thin, so let me get this off my chest before it’s too late: you’re a dork
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 19/09/2026
Purchase WICKHILLS to support Premee in the luxurious lifestyle of *checks notes* lower blood pressure. (In THIS economy?!)
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EcoCity Action @ecocityaction.org · 19/09/2026
OMG this is the most beautiful Jimothy we have ever seen stoningtongallery.com/artwork/anom...
See https://stoningtongallery.com/artwork/anomaly-jimothy/ for description of Anomaly (Jimothy) artwork.
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
running a bit late bc I always overcommit myself but otw to the Kennedy Center protest
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April Ehrlich @aprilehrlich.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Data centers are consuming a quarter of Oregon’s power. www.opb.org/article/2026...
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Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report
A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
When they eventually make a movie about this time, please don't put the male politicians in good suits. IMO, the ugly, low rent tailoring should be part of the story.
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Mary McNamara @marymcnamara.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Whoa! www.nytimes.com/live/2026/09...
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Supreme Court Rejects Trump’s Restrictions on Mail Voting: Live Updates
The ruling blocks the Trump administration from dramatically changing how Americans vote by mail in the midterm elections.
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Em 🏴‍☠️⛵🌊 is going to Wee Con @hms-terrorble.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Former Innkeepers launch pirate experience amid allegations regarding missing Navy vessel. archiveofourown.org/works/91127081
Image shows a picture of ed and stede from ofmd 2.08 the text underneath says former innkeepers launch pirate experience amid allegations regarding missing Navy vessel. The newly inagurated Goldfish cruise terminal just south of Bridgetown welcomed its first passengers on Friday, marking a milestone for tourism in...
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KalansPhantom 💜🏴‍☠️🔞 @kalansphantomff.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This is now fully uploaded including a bonus 'interview' with the boys for the last chapter while they're on the red carpet at the Grammy's. archiveofourown.org/works/920632...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12/09/2026
STOP SCROLLING Why I’m sounding the alarm: VoteSafe. org is run by Elon Musk’s America PAC, the same political operation working to turn out Republican voters in the midterms. The site collects voter and political info, and allows your information to be shared or sold to business partners.
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The only 9/11 history I will be revisiting today tbh
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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I don’t remember whose insight this is, but it blew my mind when I first read that to understand American history you have to get that race law was designed to increase the number of enslavable people (one-drop rule) and decrease the number of claimants to indigenous land (blood quantum)
Jamelle Bouie writes: yeah this is a separate conversation but one of the things that hasn’t quite bubbled up from scholarship into mainstream thinking is that american slavery was a system centered principally on reproduction. forced birth for capital accumulation is what it was
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Mostly Harmless @toadlily.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Murderbot fans: a Pod-Together exchange team has posted a "musical episode" podfic. It's got production values! - it's got plot! - it's SO GOOD. archiveofourown.org/works/90168251
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Software Tune-Up - AppleSapling, blackglass, bluegeekEM, DevilWithABirdDress, farken collabs (farkenshnoffingottom), harmony_of_the_rain (melody_of_the_rain), lc2l, mahons_ondine, nonplussed filks (no...
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JRho @jrho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.
Massive quilt made of prize ribbons in blue, red, yellow, and whiteCenter square of quilt made of yellow and red ribbons and yellow rosettesBlock of quilt made of blue, yellow, red, and white ribbons. Ribbons state the year. Some have the prize winning object written on in markerCarol St. Clair Johnson
born 1954; resides Albuquerque, NM

O Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years
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satin ribbons

After unexpectedly winning her first blue ribbon for a sewn cape in 1981, Carol St. Clair Johnson developed an enduring love for the New Mexico State Fair. The quilt Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years incorporates more than six hundred of the ribbons she won at the fair every subsequent year except 2020 (when the fair was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic). Johnson earned ribbons for needlework, knitting, crochet, pies, cookies, cakes, canning, jewelry, flowers, vegetables, and potted plants. The title of the quilt is a reference to the state song, and the design places the state's Zia sun symbol at the center. The quilt earned Johnson yet another ribbon: Best in Category (miscellaneous quilt) at the 2023 New Mexico State Fair.

Courtesy of Carol St. Clair Johnson
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