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Arctostaphylos Regismontana
@arctostaphylos-r.bsky.social
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Retired RN JD, mom to adults. Interests include fiber arts, health care, epidemiology, law, politics and biomedical ethics.
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HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Yes, I carved these myself!
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#pumpkins #prop50 #halloween
#voting #california
Two carved pumpkins during the daytime. The one on the left says VOTE YES! The one on the right says PROP 50 Two carved pumpkins at night, lit by internal candles. The one on the left says VOTE YES! The one on the right says PROP 50.
November 1, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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I mailed this potato chip batik quilt to my cousin in another state for her first grandchild. Despite tracking and a signature requirement, it vanished en route, never to be recovered. Yes, the post office paid the insurance, and yes, I promptly mailed her a different quilt, but 😠😡🤬.
#quiltsky
A quilt made of navy batik rectangles that alternating with one other color per horizontal row. The other colors are chocolate, pecan, gold, yellow, tangerine, orange, light fuschia, deep fuschia, dusty rose, lavender, and blue-violet.
October 29, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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I finished two 45"×45" quilts from my pile of tops; they are similar, but not identical. Someone had put 218 2.5"×2.5" 19th century repro squares in a ziplock bag & tossed them in the free bin; the bag contained enough patterned squares to make two tops with two squares left over! #quiltsky #quilt
A quilt featuring nine connected pixelated diamonds surrounding four background spaces. Each background space contains a heart. A quilt featuring nine connected pixelated diamonds surrounding four background spaces. Each background space contains a heart.
October 28, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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New protest sign!
A protest sign containing two lines of text. To the left of the first line is a black box containing a green check mark. The first line says FIRST AMENDMENT yes! To the left of the second line is a black box containing a red X. The second line says TRUMP RETALIATION no!
October 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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PREACH!!!
A photograph of the flag of Puerto Rico flying against a blue sky. The caption underneath says, "SOME MAGAS ARE SAYING BAD BUNNY SHOULD BE BANNED FROM THE SUPER BOWL. I THINK WE SHOULD TAKE IT A STEP FURTHER AND ARREST THE PRESIDENT OF HIS COUNTRY. -Steve Hofstetter
October 8, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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A black background with white lettering and a sprig of cherry blossoms in the left lower corner: Tylenol found to cause increased risk of distraction from the Epstein files.
September 24, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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My latest protest sign. The center symbol is the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety pictogram for "can cause death or toxicity with short exposure to small amounts," which seems apt.
A protest sign. Written in purple capital letters: RFK JR HAZARDOUS TO OUR HEALTH Between the two lines, a white skull and crossbones outlined in black, surrounded by a red diamond shaped outline.
September 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Thank you! I hate wasting even tiny pieces of fabric, but collecting enough to produce a quilt takes a ridiculously long time. Ask me how I know this. 😄
A 45"×45" lap or baby quilt made with a center panel consisting of 576 half square triangles sewn into 144 colorful diamonds. The center panel is surrounded by a narrow purple and red patterned border, then a wide teal border printed with a pattern of colorful circuitry, and a yellow binding with tiny colorful geometric shapes.
September 14, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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I made 12 8"×10.5" quilted mug rugs for a charity fundraising event. The batik HSTs were left over from making hearts, while the 3 color QSTs were left over from snowballing HSTs. These tiny orphans are perfect for mug rugs!
Ditch quilted with a walking foot.
#quilt #sewing #art #recycle #fabric
A photo of two stacks of quilted mug rugs. On the top, eight mug rugs made of colorful three color quarter square triangles with one side that is either black or white. The borders are lavender, while the bindings are three different shades of purple. On the bottom, four mug rugs made of batik half square triangles, bordered in a blue-violet batik, bound in light purple. All of the mug rugs are quilted stitch-in-the-ditch in a diamond pattern. A colorful quilted mug rug with a lidded blue and white floral tea mug on its upper corner and a small glass bowl containing three little cookies on its lower right corner. A batik quilted mug rug with a lidded blue and white floral tea mug on its upper corner and a small glass bowl containing three little cookies on its lower right corner.
September 14, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Mine gave me a "$10 off a $20 purchase" coupon yesterday after my flu and covid shots. Did yours?
A post flu and covid shot close-up selfie of my upper left arm with two shiny bandaids on it, one sky blue, one pea green, each with a white angular heart decoration at its center.
September 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Just got flu and covid shots via a same day appointment at CVS. Marked safe from whatever insane nonsense RFK Jr. is spewing today.
A close-up selfie of my upper left arm with two shiny bandaids on it, one sky blue, one pea green, each with a white angular heart decoration at its center.
September 11, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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This week's protest sign.
A protest sign. In purple capital letters: A BRAINWORM WILL KILL US ALL. Underneath these words is a badly drawn deep pink brain with a protruding orange and yellow horizontally striped worm. A speech bubble to the right of the smiling worm says, "MAKE DEATH GREAT AGAIN!"
September 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Last week's sign. It must have struck a nerve, because the moment I arrived at the protest, a man shouted from his car, "NO HE WASN'T!!!" My dude, I know their relationship was more complicated than that, but I can only fit so much text on a sign. My orange marker was running out of ink, so... 1/2
A protest sign. In black capital letters: TRUMP WAS EPSTEIN'S WINGMAN. Beneath the caption, a badly drawn picture of a grinning, thumbs up Trump from the top of his head to the middle of his chest. He is wearing a blue suit with a white dress shirt and a red necktie. He is flanked by two speech bubbles that say, "FILES? WHAT FILES?"
September 7, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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I'm making nametags for some of the volunteers at the nonprofit where we all work. The fabric is a 12"×12" linen square and can make six nametags. I've completed three so far, and am currently drawing a pattern for the fourth on graph paper.
A piece of natural linen with three cross-stitched name tags on it. The first: seven gray paw prints on top, two begging dogs (white, with black floppy ears and red collars) flanking the name BRON, and a dachshund, beagle and shiba inu on the bottom The second: the name DIANE surrounded by geometric borders featuring squares in light and dark blue and light green The third: the name GINA surrounded by geometric borders featuring diamonds and triangles in black, red, orange and yellow.
September 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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My latest protest sign. I must have hit a nerve, because the moment I arrived, some guy in a car spotted my crude masterpiece and shouted, "NO HE WASN'T!"

My dude, I understand their relationship was far more complicated than that, but there's only so much I can fit on a sign...
A hand drawn sign on a dry erase foam core board featuring a grinning, thumbs up Trump saying, "Files? What files?" The caption above his head says, TRUMP WAS EPSTEIN'S WINGMAN
August 30, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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A photo of a maroon leather bound book with gilt page edges, decorative border and title. The title is FREEDOM HOW YOU CAN REJECT MODERN MEDICINE AND DIE LIKE A MEDIEVAL PEASANT
August 28, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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New sign for this week's protests.
A protest sign made with dry erase markers on a foam core dry erase board. In black lettering: FREE DC ARREST TRUMP Between those two lines, a drawing of disembodied arms: blue-suited mid-forearms, white-shirted wrists, black handcuffs, and two orange fists. The arms are flanked on either side by red stars from the DC flag.
August 24, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Trump has already given his base his playbook for the coming health apocalypse:
A leather bound, maroon hardback book with gilded page edgings, borders, and lettering. The title: FREEDOM HOW YOU CAN REJECT MODERN MEDICINE AND DIE LIKE A MEDIEVAL PEASANT
August 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Chris, no matter how often you kiss Trump's posterior, he's never going to love you.
Chris Voss with lips turned orange from kissing Trump's posterior.
August 18, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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You logical fallacy is ad hominem You attacked your opponent's character or personal traits in an attempt to undermine their argument
August 17, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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New protest sign, because the Epstein files continue to be hidden by those claiming to make America great again.

"You really don't care who you offend, do you?"

No, I do not.
A protest sign. The caption reads MOLESTING & ABUSING GIRLS ANONYMOUSLY All of the letters are black, except the first letter of each word, which is red. The red letters spell MAGA vertically. The poster also features two stick figures: a man wearing a red baseball cap is pursuing a shorter female figure wearing a skirt and a ponytail.
August 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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This is asparagus asparagoides, also known as bridal creeper, a South African native herbaceous vine in the Liliaceae family. The emerging plants are deceptively tiny; around 87% of each plant is underground. 1/6
#invasiveplants #gardening
A tiny bright green shoot, half the size of a pinky, attached to a dark brown root mass the size of two fists. The root mass is made of tubers shaped like elongated footballs, and rhizomes, a tangle of narrow brown fibrous strands.
August 15, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Nah, better that his loud and obnoxious views warn sane people to keep away.
A Gary Larson Far Side cartoon from 1/9/85 features a snake rattling its tail, an inflated and spiky pufferfish, a yowling and hissing cat with arched back, and a man dressed in a blue plaid overcoat, brown checked pants, with a yellow horsie inflatable swim ring around his waist, wearing an upside down black shoe as a hat, and carrying a black rocket launcher. The caption reads, "How Nature says, "Do not touch."
August 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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New protest sign.

A pertinent insight from Lady MacBeth: "Yet here’s a spot. Out, damned spot, out, I say!..What, will these hands ne’er be clean?...All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. O, O, O!"
A drawing of a frowning Donald Trump from the waist up, wearing a white dress shirt, blue suit jacket and red tie, arms outstretched with elbows bent, palms forward. Above his head, in black, is the word EPSTAINED. The word EPSTAINED is melting, and rivulets of black are dribbling onto Trump's hair, face, jacket, shirt and hands.
August 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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New protest sign. I thought it obvious, but a passerby asked what my sign meant. "What does the SoL symbolize?" I asked. "Freedom!" she responded.

When I recited Emma Lazarus's, "Give me your tired, your poor..." and described ICE's activities, she said, "But we shouldn't welcome immigrants!"

🤦‍♀️
A protest sign features a hand drawn head of the Statue of Liberty crying, tears running down her cheeks. The caption beneath her says OMG GOP... WTF?
August 5, 2025 at 2:10 PM