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Sacha B @shouldhavezagged.com · 3h

I was speculating about custom freemotion quilting, ruler work, etc., not panto. Outlining each plate right inside the edge would be the most secure way of attaching them at the quilting stage.

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Sacha B @shouldhavezagged.com · 15h

I'd probably fully secure them to the top before quilting (due to my own limitations) by gluing them down with Elmer's under the edges and straight/decorative stitching. If one were to rely on quilting only—which is valid!—they'd have to catch every edge pretty closely.

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Mary @marybadthings.com · 23h

Pray for Dolly Parton, y’all!! people.com/dolly-parton...

Dolly Parton's Sister Says She 'Was Up All Night Praying' After the Country Icon, 79, Postponed Shows amid Health Issues

Dolly Parton's sister is asking for prayers for the country icon a week after she postponed her Las Vegas residency due to unspecified "health challenges." "Last night, I was up all night praying for ...

people.com

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Sacha B @shouldhavezagged.com · 1d

Was wondering why the latest @yourewrongabout.bsky.social episode sounded familiar. It's because I heard the story on 'This Is Love' in August. I'll still listen to Blair tell Sarah about it!

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Sacha B @shouldhavezagged.com · 1d

It's amazing to see scientists studying autoimmune diseases. So little is known about them, comparatively, likely because they disproportionately affect women.

Brunkow, Ramsdell and Sakaguchi win 2025 Nobel medicine prize

Scientists Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for "their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance", the award-giving body said on Monday.

www.reuters.com

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Sacha B @shouldhavezagged.com · 1d

Oh, wait, this is the one Ruby Tandoh wrote. I read that already!

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 2d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 2d

please send me your candidates for the weirdest things Eric Adams has done in 2025

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Sacha B @shouldhavezagged.com · 2d

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2d

Burbank Airport air traffic control tower unmanned on Monday evening amid government shutdown

The air traffic tower at Burbank Airport is unmanned on Monday evening as air traffic controllers begin to call out in greater numbers due to the government shutdown.

abc7.com

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Sacha B @shouldhavezagged.com · 2d

Cop tense—always passive voice.

Sacha B @shouldhavezagged.com · 2d

Bill mentioned that things look autumnal and as I replied, "Spooktacular," I thought, Scott would be appalled.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 2d

Every week I recruit more archaeologists and every week I run out of archaeologists again. Lol.

Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 16d

Welp here we are again, fresh out of Archaeologists for Skype a Scientist matches.

This fall, we have matched 248 groups with Archaeologists for online Q&As. I have 38 more groups who need a match, but I'm out of Archaeologists!

Archaeologists! Please volunteer
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

a woman is smiling and holding a cup that says help me .

Alt: a woman is smiling and holding a cup that says help me .

media.tenor.com

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Sacha B @shouldhavezagged.com · 2d

#GBBO

kottke.org @kottke.org · 2d

I missed this from a couple of months ago: Inside the World of “The Great British Bake Off”. “No show does so much to hide its true nature: namely, that it is a competition people desperately want to win.” [newyorker.com]

Inside the World of “The Great British Bake Off”

The show captures disastrous custard-making, quintessentially British faux-modesty, and the blistering hubris of bakers—including me.

www.newyorker.com

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Sacha B @shouldhavezagged.com · 2d

It clearly reads to me (at least in part) as "I'm not here to talk to men, doofus" but what do I know.

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Mary @marybadthings.com · 2d

May the people responsible for this burn in hellfire.

The Intercept @theintercept.com · 2d

Birth in Gaza often means sharing incubators, giving birth without anesthesia during power outages, and risking infection because water and sanitation systems are destroyed. interc.pt/42vx3lD

A photo illustration of a mother and child, overlaid with the headline, "Mothers in Gaza Give Life to the Next Generation of Palestinians Despite Genocide," and the DEK, "As the Israeli government enters the third year of ethnic cleansing in Gaza, mothers keep bringing new Palestinians into the world."

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Sacha B @shouldhavezagged.com · 2d

"There’s a different, much more positive way to look at [something like a stain or a tear in a museum collection item], and that is the idea that these clothes have lived a life and that they were, in fact, important to someone and had this kind of moment in the sun.” Same for quilts!

Instead of hiding rips and tears, the visible mending movement turns them into art

Born from the Japanese art of sashiko, visible mending enables crafters to eschew fast fashion and make mistakes beautiful.

www.vox.com

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Sacha B @shouldhavezagged.com · 2d

Lovely!

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Sacha B @shouldhavezagged.com · 3d

I saw that earlier and liked that a commenter said trans pride was still represented. 🏳️‍⚧️

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Sacha B @shouldhavezagged.com · 3d

That looks great! 💀

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3d

Bad Bunny responds to his Super Bowl critics in Spanish, and then English: “And, if you didn’t understand know what I just said, you have four months to learn!”

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Blac Eve @eveshabazz.bsky.social · 3d

The police funding discussion was laughed at… “what do you mean DEFUND the police?”.

Funding levels have skyrocketed to support the activities we see right now.

Now it’s “…but nobody knew it would be this bad…”

Yeah, WE knew!

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Sacha B @shouldhavezagged.com · 3d

🤣

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve thought about this a lot. We’re back in the 19th century: “Show me your walking papers.”

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 3d

Gov. Pritzker: "[ICE is] just picking up people who are brown and black and then checking their credentials. I don't know about you, but I don't carry around papers that say I'm a U.S. citizen. So U.S. citizens are getting detained and arrested."

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Sacha B @shouldhavezagged.com · 3d

I think headlines are written by an editor, not the author, so that could be why it's weird.

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InarticulateQuilter @inarticulatequilter.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Another panel quilt awareness project inspired by the AIDS quilt, this time with a focus on climate change. The organizers are actively looking for quilters who want to participate (second link)

https://www.binghamton.edu/news/story/5821/binghamtons-threads-of-change […]

Original post on mastodon.art

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