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Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 17h

Like many of you, I'll be taking a stroll in my city tomorrow. If you manage to find me on the Boston Commons, you're invited to sketch in a segment of scales for the flag. Look for the woman in 1770s garb, stitching while walking. #NoKings

An embroidered version of Franklin's "Join or Die" snake flag done in pride colors

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Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 17h

The caveat is that if it rains before I finish following your design in thread, or if a certain feline gets mad at me (again) and does her own protest art (puking directly in my sewing bag, again), then it's gone, sorry.

Also, @ethancecchetti.bsky.social, you want a cat? Free cat.

Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 17h

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Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 17h

Like many of you, I'll be taking a stroll in my city tomorrow. If you manage to find me on the Boston Commons, you're invited to sketch in a segment of scales for the flag. Look for the woman in 1770s garb, stitching while walking. #NoKings

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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 1d

I love this. 👊

Chicago Cyclists Are Buying Out Tamale Carts To Keep Vendors Home And Safe From ICE

Cycling x Solidarity's latest mutual aid effort takes cyclists on group rides through Pilsen and other neighborhoods to buy out tamale vendors so they can stay home as ICE agents swarm the city. They ...

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Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 1d

Midwesterner here, and I think there’s actually two distinct “guys” usages. The gender-neutral version only works as direct address. “Hey guys,” vs “those guys over there.“

Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 2d

Folks who care about either violins or bag charms, feedback? Playing with different options.

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Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 2d

Oh hey me too! Now trying to learn to use a shoemaking knife and my mentor is like “hold it like a pencil…wtf are you doing”

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Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 2d

Ughhh I want one now

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Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 2d

skill issue

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Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 5d

I am so very sorry. And I also know that now feels like a terrible time to break, like you have no real choice but to hold it together—but that’s probably not true, and now is when your community is most actively looking to catch and support you.

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 5d

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 engraving in the Pennsylvania Gazette, published in Philadelphia, in an effort to foster cooperation among the various colonies against the tyrant king of Britain, with the American colonies replaced by the nine universities selected for special collaboration opportunities

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 6d

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 6d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 7d

So, for all those who love the Finger Lakes: a b*tcoin miner plans to turn the old retired coal plant on Cayuga Lake (just north of Ithaca) into a hyperscale data center.

A bunch of us worked for years to shut down that coal plant—and won in 2019.

sustainablefingerlakes.org/2025/10/08/c...

Coal plant in the far bank across a lake

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Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 7d

I suppose neurotypicality is stored in the foreskin—as also evidenced by how b*tches be crazy?

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 9d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 9d

That one is adorable!

Not sure how @basus.me felt getting chided for not Reflecting Sun to Chase around the living room on cloudy mornings.

This is End of Work Day, Time for TV Snuggles, which is absolutely adorable. (Photo credit to Basu)

An expectant cat in front of a computer screen

Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 9d

Also since you’re a medievalist: yes I know Pangur Ban means white cat. Yes he was gray. First of all I thought no one would ever call me on it (forgetting who I hung out with), and second I was extremely concussed when I got him (forgetting who I hung out with).

A raggedy gray cat perched on a headboard

Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 9d

MewMew insists that if we are making spaghetti we must tithe a singular noodle to him.

He’s scared of it, mind you. But the Ritual.

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Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 9d

Huh! Both of these and their very janky rescue-Russian Blue predecessor are/were schedule-oriented. Pangur knew days of the week; Natasha ran @basus.me’s daily schedule during lockdown, including making him make his bed after coffee.

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Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 9d

We are currently beginning the evening solemnities, dubbed “Peace in Our Time,” in which Natasha warms a spot, MewMew shows up and grooms her for a bit, and then he absolutely chomps her to take over the pre-warmed spot.

She does not enjoy this. Nonetheless, it must be done.

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Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 9d

quantum cat physics!

Does your handsome lad have routines? Because MewMew and Natasha are inflexible about observing The Rituals

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Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 9d

we have to put magnets on the cabinets off-limits to him. We've given up on the ones above the fridge: those are now officially Lair.

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Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 9d

Genuinely higher than the bathroom ceiling, alas. And can do pull-ups.

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Anna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 9d

Please enjoy this picture of MewMew, who is decidedly NOT enjoying the cold snap.

If anyone has cat-proof towel hanging suggestions, lmk.

A cat head peeps out of a towel on the tile floor

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