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Heather H (she/her)

@oneeyedgraeae.bsky.social

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Cross stitcher. Reader. Agender. Childfree. Friend to crows, Stellar’s jays, squirrels, & neighborhood cats. Here for artists, writers, animals, science, weirdos, & progressive people. Partner is @darklament.bsky.social All opinions are my own.

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Heather H (she/her) @oneeyedgraeae.bsky.social · Dec 5

I'm gathering all my cross stitch posts into one thread so I can keep track of what I've finished & posted.

Heather H (she/her) @oneeyedgraeae.bsky.social · Jul 28

The first cross stitch I did back in July 2020. I was have massive pandemic anxiety & decided I needed a hobby to help me relax. Saw this kit from Subversive Cross Stitch & thus a hobby was born.

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Bree Lundberg @breelundberg.com · 2h

I've been seeing my favorite fuzzy friends around! 🍂🐛

Illustration of a wooly (sometimes spelled woolly) bear caterpillar. It's fuzzy and cute and has a happy little smile. There's lines radiating around it and above it says "it's wooly time!" in lowercase hand lettering. The background is a light orange checkered pattern.

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Megan Wyreweden @thecreepingmoon.bsky.social · 3h

Illustration I made of Death House from Curse of Strahd. My first campaign as a DM!

A tall, four-story house in a creepy, misty setting. Several windows are lit from inside giving it a hellish vibe. Three adventurers stand at the entrance, greeted by two children.

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Heather H (she/her) @oneeyedgraeae.bsky.social · 3h

Me: man, I feel like shit this morning. Flushed. Headachey. Jittery. Must be the weather change.

(remembers the two huge cups of coffee I had this morning)

Me, who sometimes has issues with caffeine: OOPS.

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Shubbabang @shubbabang.bsky.social · 4h

The image is a six panel black and white comic

Panel 1- A small child is being told "You'll want kids when you're older!" The child responds with "I don't think so..."

Panel 2- The same child, now a teenager, is being told, "You'll change your mind when you're older." To which the teen responds, "I doubt that"

Panel 3- Now an adult, someone off screen asks them, "Aren't you thinking of having kids?" To which they respond, "Nope"

Panel 4- The same person, an older adult now, is being told, "better have kids soon, or it'll be too late!" to which they respond, "That's fine"

Panel 5- Now elderly, they are once again asked "Don't you feel like you missed out?" to which they say, "Still nope."

Panel 6- They are now in their death bed, clearly close to death. The nurse says, "Shame you didn't have kids, don't you regret it?" To which the person says "You know what just kill me already"

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 3h

When tax breaks for billionaires were set to expire in December, Republicans made that priority number 1—because heaven forbid billionaires have to worry about filling up their private jets!

But tax credits for families to afford health care? Republicans refuse to talk about it.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 6h

Trans rights are civil rights. If you aren't willing to die on the hill of trans rights, then you aren't willing to die on the hill of Black rights. Of Jewish rights. Of disabled rights. Of gay rights. Of anyone's rights. Human rights.

the tallest stone @talleststone.bsky.social · 8h

I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.

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Katie Wilson for Seattle @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social · 1d

Capt Tietjen has a long record of actions that diminish public confidence in SPD. We cannot afford that. I want to give the new chief the benefit of the doubt, but this decision reflects either bad judgment or a lack of due diligence, neither of which will be accepted when I’m Mayor.

SPD Chief Puts Cop Who Called 2020 Protesters "Cockroaches" In Charge of East Precinct

Mike Tietjen, who was promoted over a gay acting commander, was suspended, reassigned, and reprimanded after multiple complaints in 2020, including an incident in which officers taunted a trans woman.

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Katie Wilson for Seattle @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social · 6h

In our second installment of “Harrell's Big Business Backers,” we present to you Brad Smith, President and Board Vice Chair at Microsoft, who took home $24M just last year! He wants to keep taxes low for himself and his $3 trillion corporation.

The back of the baseball card graphic with bullet points stating that Brad Smith is the president and board. vice chair of Microsoft, was paid 24 million last year, sold tens of millions of dollars of Microsoft shares this year still holds $240 million of stock, and is lobbying against Washington state in the golfing attacks. unlucky businesses model not jumpstart, which Katie helped enact in Seattle. Additional text says what he's buying: for taxes for himself and his $3 trillion dollar corporation.

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Heather H (she/her) @oneeyedgraeae.bsky.social · 8h

Boosted by prayers, a kaiju size Dolly Parton arises from Tennessee, strumming her guitar.

Children’s books, tickets to Dollywood, Duncan Hines cake mix, Lodge cast iron pans, and Covid vaccines rain down as she strides across the US bringing good will to everyone.

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 18h

“I didn’t mean to scare anyone or make it sound so serious … She’s been a little under the weather and I simply asked for prayers bc I believe so strongly in the power of prayer. It was nothing more than a little sister asking for prayers for her big sister. Thank you all for lifting her up.”

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 18h

DON’T SCARE US LIKE THIS, FREIDA www.wsmv.com/2025/10/08/i...

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 8h

The carnage, the absolute horror. Get those snipers in position, boys. The unicycling bagpiper might show up any second now with refreshing iced coffee and organic artisan donuts.

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Constance Lee Menefee @conniemenefee.bsky.social · 9h

Gray squirrel up in a tree #Sqrlpix

Gray squirrel facing away clutching a nut - hid eye is looking backwards

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Heather H (she/her) @oneeyedgraeae.bsky.social · 9h

The fire detector industrial complex, man.

The low battery beep only goes off at 3am, so, in your half asleep state, you break the detector trying to change the battery & have to buy a new one.

Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 9h

😤

It's the Anakin Padme meme. Anakin is now a smoke detector saying I don't have enough energy to tell u if there's a fire. Padme happily asks So u don't have enough energy to make a shill loud beep every minute for years? Then she looks worried, and asks again: U don't have the energy to make a shill loud beep every minute for years, right? To which Anakin the smoke detector replies BEEP

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 10h

It took a highly sophisticated Jacquard weave to create the incredibly detailed oranges that form the fabric of of this early 1890s dress. You can almost smell the citrusy peel. There so many details to observe here, the pattern matching, the cuff trim, the drama! #V&A #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

A view of the back of an1890s dress showing the bodice with clusters of oranges woven into the fabric. It has black lace on the sleeves and a high collar

A detail of the front of the bodice of the orange patterned 1890s dress showing black lace at the neckline and the detailed fruit

Sleeve detail of the 1890s orange patterned dress which has a yellow silk trellis work trim with black lace

Full length view of the front of the 1890s dress patterned with oranges and trimmed with black lace

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Heather H (she/her) @oneeyedgraeae.bsky.social · 9h

❤️📚❤️📚❤️📚

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 15h

doomscroll break

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

I would absolutely read this book.

Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 1d

Tumblr poster: Why is the Fantasy Protagonist's Cool Animal Companion always a wolf, a bird of prey, or something cool? If you live in a medieval-ish society, even if you have cool powers to bond with an animal, it's probably going to be a farm animal.

What about a fantasy book where the heroine's Spirit Companion Animal is a pig. And not a cute piglet, but a huge fucking sow. As clever as a human, but absolutely as ruthless as pigs can be.

And the protagonist is like "should I quit eating pork? Does it disturb you, that milk piglet could have been yours." And the pig is like "bitch first of all the difference is that it *isn't* mine, and don't fucking pretend that - given the chance - I wouldn't eat a human child."

keuhkopussirotta: "What are we going to do with him?"
"I propose murder."
"Where would we put the body?"
"I volunteer."
"Are you suggesting we should kill him *because* you want to eat his corpse?"
"I'm sure there are plenty of other good reasons to kill him here, I just can't think of them all right now."

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 19d

Don't stop searching for joy.
Track it down if you can.
Look in cluttered bookstores, movie theaters, spooky cemeteries, and mossy forests.
Take joy out for tea, adventure, and gentle mischief across the land.

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Heather H (she/her) @oneeyedgraeae.bsky.social · 22h

Well, that just means they’ll be ready to go when Katie Wilson becomes mayor.

The Urbanist @theurbanist.org · 1d

NEW // Lake Washington Boulevard Safety Upgrades Fully Designed Before Mayor Pulled Plug

By Ryan Packer

via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2025/10/07/l...

Lake Washington Boulevard Safety Upgrades Fully Designed Before Mayor Pulled Plug » The Urbanist

# A major intersection redesign near Seward Park was ready to go to construction with a Mayor's Office review the only impediment, records show. The exchanges reveal what was happening behind the scen...

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Sexy Henry Kissinger Costume @mightygodking.com · 1d

today seems like a things-fall-apart-the-center-cannot-hold sorta day so how about a timeline cleanse for you? this is absolutely the best thing you will watch at least this week

(via Matt Storer on IG)

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Lucas @phoenixfire.bsky.social · 2d

The state goons are powerless before the awesome might of someone in an inflatable frog costume, and you seriously expect me to believe the situation is hopeless?

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 4d

wizard frog is insane

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 23h

House Republicans haven't shown up to work in 18 days. But if they do decide to show up—I have a message for them.

3/4s of the families that rely on the expiring health care credits that you refuse to acknowledge live in red states.

Time to show up and do your jobs.

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Captain Suboo baja blast: the falafel lobbyist @coolranch4lyfe.bsky.social · 23h

there's only two fun ghostbusters films and they're 32 years apart from one another

Kayleigh Donaldson @ceilidhann.bsky.social · 1d

Surely it's Jaws, although Ghostbusters evolving into the most maudlin nostalgia fetish of the decade us up there.

Matt Singer @mattsinger.bsky.social · 1d

Food for thought: What is the worst franchise made from the best movie?

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 1d

The Squirrel of the Day for October 7, 2025 with a sweet double-acorn score #sqrlpix

reddish gray squirrel with two acorns in mouth

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Heather H (she/her) @oneeyedgraeae.bsky.social · 23h

I do need to keep in mind one thing: there’s probably a distinct possibility that she feels that she cannot live without her husband, Carl, who died earlier this year.

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david s. pumpkins 🎃 @honkifyouareantifa.bsky.social · 1d

dig in mr mittens

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love when people try to hate on cats by saying. He would literally eat you if you died.... like im dead why would i care. hes a hungry boy. and he has a cute nose. dig in mr mittens

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