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Nathania Johnson

@nljwashere.bsky.social

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Royal School of Needlework certificate student. Fan of democracy, equal rights and due process, among other things. She/her.

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Nathania Johnson @nljwashere.bsky.social · 20d

É Finito! My piece for the second module of the Royal School of Needlework certificate.

#embroidery #art

Blackwork embroidery. The subject is the Pantheon in Rome. Blackwork embroidery uses geometric patterned stitches with varying thicknesses of thread, as well as deconstruction/negative space to create shading and highlights. This piece is based on a photograph. I took in Rome in 2001. The image is at an angle. The point of view is from the right front.

Black and white photograph of the pantheon in Rome. This photograph was the basis for my black working embroidery project. I took the photograph on film in the spring of 2001. I scan the negative in turned it into a digital image. Originally, this was a color photograph, but I turned into a black and white one.

Nathania Johnson @nljwashere.bsky.social · 8m

He sure seems panicked. Maybe Friday’s health checkup was really bad news.

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 17h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Nathania Johnson @nljwashere.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you, yes.

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Nathania Johnson @nljwashere.bsky.social · 1d

Jenn Budd has deleted the note from her substack. She’s a long time immigration activist. She made mistake. A lot of us have made mistakes with AI and will in the future. I think we need grace here, not social media mob pile ons.

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Nathania Johnson @nljwashere.bsky.social · 1d

Was raised fundamentalist evangelical, too. Changing my mind as an adult, as well. Keep up the good fight.

Nathania Johnson @nljwashere.bsky.social · 1d

We just impulsively went to Seattle earlier this year. Realized we would be there for Opening Day, got tix to Mariners, a team we’ve never paid attention to. And now we’ve stayed up cheering for them through 15 innings.

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Nathania Johnson @nljwashere.bsky.social · 1d

Plus we can also learn from Koreans who successfully staved off martial law last year without Kirk’s hateful rhetoric. And they have a longer, more successful history of organizing than Kirk.

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Nathania Johnson @nljwashere.bsky.social · 1d

Encourage her to use the library. People hate on self help books but they’ve helped me do a lot of this work.

Calming the Emotional Storm by Sheri Van Dijk is a really great book that helped me.

Dewey Decimal System 152 has what she’s looking for.

Nathania Johnson @nljwashere.bsky.social · 2d

a man with long hair and a beard is holding a glass with the word huh on it

ALT: a man with long hair and a beard is holding a glass with the word huh on it

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Nathania Johnson @nljwashere.bsky.social · 2d

I forgot to do the alt text for the last two photos. Just know that all of the blooms have petals have an orange-yellow gradient. There are large green leaves on this sunflower plant and I’m primarily showing off the latest six blooms. There are a few old blooms in the photos, however

Nathania Johnson @nljwashere.bsky.social · 2d

Blooms 38-43 on this one sunflower plant.

#bloomscrolling

Two sunflowers labeled 38 and 39. They are surrounded by large green leaves. There’s a small bud between the two that will bloom soon. the petals have an orange to yellow gradient. The middle is brown.

Four sunflowers on the same branch. The top two are fadinf and labeled 20 and 29. The bottom two are freshly bloomed and labeled 38 and 39. There are also a few green leaves. the petals have an orange to yellow gradient. The middle is brown.

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Nathania Johnson @nljwashere.bsky.social · 3d

You can analyze Democrats without quoting them.

Nathania Johnson @nljwashere.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve been waiting since 2016 for Democrats to do stuff like this. It’s so easy to counter them with their own bullshit and yet…

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Bill Wolkoff @billwearsties.bsky.social · 14d

Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1

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Nathania Johnson @nljwashere.bsky.social · 3d

37th bloom on this one sunflower plant

#bloomscrolling

Four sunflower blooms on one branch plus really big green leaves. The petals of the sunflower have a orange yellow gradient. The center is brown the top two flowers. Their petals are drooping and fading. The flowers are numbered. The top two are 17 to 21. The third one is 36 and the bottom flower is number 37.

Nathania Johnson @nljwashere.bsky.social · 4d

Lol this was perfect. See the second post in the thread, too.

#mlbplayoffs #mariners

Roger Cormier @yayroger.bsky.social · 4d

A gentleman with a "Dump Here 61" shirt caught the Raleigh home run (on a bounce.)

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Nathania Johnson @nljwashere.bsky.social · 4d

It’s lotion time.

Capital Weather Gang @capitalweather.bsky.social · 4d

The dew points are too darn high! That'll be changing, though. Low-to-mid 60s is summerlike humid tomorrow morning. Upper 20s and low 30s possible by later Thursday. Dry air sets the stage for a chilly Thurs night. More at cwg.live.

Nathania Johnson @nljwashere.bsky.social · 5d

“We have to protect our cities.”

Has a reporter asked him when he’s going to protect our cities from the pedophiles listed in the Epstein files?

Because that seems like a game over line of questioning.

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Nathania Johnson @nljwashere.bsky.social · 5d

Now up to 36 blooms on this one sunflower plant this year.

#sunflowers #bloomscrolling

A collage of two photos of sunflowers. The petals have an orange-yellow gradient. The middles are brown. In the top image, 4 blooms on the same branch, labeled 31, 33, 34, and 35. In the bottom image, 3 sunflowers on the same branch. 2 are facing away and are labeled 17 and 21. The third is labeled 36.

Nathania Johnson @nljwashere.bsky.social · 5d

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Please Stay In The Protest Zone

YouTube video by Adam Barger

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Nathania Johnson @nljwashere.bsky.social · 5d

I grew up with film and just want to tell the younger film beginners - skip scans and only get prints - from the negatives - for the first year or two.

Nathania Johnson @nljwashere.bsky.social · 6d

Love the whole look. That lip color is gorgeous!

Nathania Johnson @nljwashere.bsky.social · 6d

I’m much older but started listening to indie radio again this year. Good stuff.

Emily White @emwhitenoise.bsky.social · 9d

College radio stations are seeing a surge in student interest.

Stations that once struggled to fill airtime are now overflowing with student DJs.

I spoke to 7 college radio stations across the U.S. to understand what is driving the revival:

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Nathania Johnson @nljwashere.bsky.social · 7d

I learned from scientists during covid that cloth absolutely does not stop gases from passing through. And fabric cloths aren’t as good at stopping aerosols or droplets, as opposed to, say, an N95 (which still doesn’t stop gases, so you can, you know, breathe).

Do with this knowledge what you will.

Nathania Johnson @nljwashere.bsky.social · 7d

Blooms #30-32 on this one sunflower plant.

#sunflower #bloomscrolling

Two pictures stacked one above the other. The top has 1 sunflower, which is labeled 30. The bottom has 2 sunflowers, labeled 31 and 32. All have petals that are a gradient orange to yellow color. And middles that are brown. The top one’s petals on the right side are tiny and not opening. Both images also have giant leaves on the same plant.