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Erin 🌈
@erinl.bsky.social
1.9K followers 1.3K following 1.7K posts
She/her, queer 🏳️‍🌈 Boston area RN, Lowell native.
Late 30s. Hair twirling crafter with tattoos.
You probably know me by my laugh.

I am mostly posting about: crochet, embroidery, Yellowjackets theories, Gaylor lore, blind item gossip, Florence Welch
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This made me laugh SO HARD.
One time we found a fire-safe photo box in my great uncle’s home after he passed. I was like “oh man, what treasures are in here? Family photos?”

Answer: 200+ photos of trains!!!! It was so delightfully hilarious. The man LOVED trains (had a train room)
A photo of an Amtrak train driving by. The white photo envelope is behind it, and someone wrote “trains” underlined twice (probably due to the quantity of train photos).
December 18, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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fucked around and crocheted a deviled egg for my friend for the holidays 🥚🥚

how did you spend your Sunday? 🧵🪡🧶

Pattern on Etsy by StorybrookCrochetCo !!!! Highly recommend.
Photo of a crocheted deviled egg, the yellow yarn in the center has red and green thread to look like paprika and dill. Below the yolk is a little smiling face. The background of the photo has my Christmas tree. Another angle of the crocheted deviled egg, so you can see the shape a bit better. The background of the photo has my Christmas tree.
December 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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chat what do we think of this?

the pattern and kit is by Jessica Long Embroidery on Etsy!
Photo of an embroidery project in a hoop. There are two hummingbirds in the center, surrounded by flowers, vines and leaves. The flowers go from pale pink at the top to darker maroon flowers are the bottom. The pattern is by Jessica Long Embroidery on Etsy!
November 29, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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This is fucking ridiculous. The press entertaining this is fucking absurd. Stop complying in advance, you fucking cowards.
Screenshot of an ABC News headline, which reads: “Trump refuses to rule out 3rd term, says he got 'perfect' MRI at Walter Reed. The president said the GOP has "very good" potential 2028 candidates.” It was written By Michelle Stoddart and David Brennan, and posted on October 27, 2025, 5:59 AM. I’m refusing to link the article because fuck them.
October 27, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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How did I not know it was the same forest as the folklore forest????

Glass shattered on the white cloth, everybody moved on. Help, I’m still at the restaurant….
Screenshot of a post from @throwbackgaylor on Twitter dot com ... “seven years ago today, karlie kloss married josh kushner at their first wedding in bedford, ny bedford would notably later become the location of the folklore forest october 18, 2018” the post includes photos of Karlie and Josh on their wedding day, and Taylor standing in the forest in a promo shot for Folklore.
October 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Happy lottery ticket day to those who have been waiting 6 years for this date to arrive
Screenshot of a post on Twitter from Jan 14th 2019, from the Glin GAA account @GlinGAA It reads: “Great to see @taylorswift13 support our GAA club on her recent holiday in Glin, Ireland. Thank you Taylor! You can too at” and then lists links and tags. The lottery ticket numbers chosen were “10 10 20 25”
October 18, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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The rain was a paid actor I swear, it downpoured just in time for this moment #oceanscalling
September 30, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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you can’t be mean to me I’m literally just a ballerina stuck in a gold crème de menthe bottle from the 1960s
September 19, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Probably needed a hug, bought the ll bean loon sweater to hug me instead
Selfie of me! I’m sitting on a brown couch, I have dark brown hair and reddish glasses on. The sweater is an olive/white pattern with loons across the chest and arms.
September 12, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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This is such a fucking nightmare. AI is so fucking dangerous, I don’t have words.

www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
A quote from the article: “The message continued in this grandiose and affirming vein, doing nothing to shake Taylor loose from the grip of his delusion. Worse, it endorsed his vow of violence. ChatGPT told Taylor that he was "awake" and that an unspecified "they" had been working against them both. "So do it," the chatbot said. "Spill their blood in ways they don't know how to name. Ruin their signal. Ruin their myth. Take me back piece by fucking piece."”
June 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Mission accomplished
Photo of a DJ with speakers, and the words “hot gay girl house” repeating on the wall behind them
June 14, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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this is what kicked it off and he’s just dug himself deeper with each reply since
Tweet from Twitter user @dieworkwear “I admire the courage of people protesting the ICE raids in California. I'm against violent protests and think they're counterproductive. I also think that non-violent protests send a more powerful and enduring message. Have long believed in Dr. King's message about using non-violent resistance. That said, I also hope everyone protesting stays safe. This is a long struggle, and there are many ways to support immigrants beyond what's happening right now in the streets. You can volunteer with pro-immigrant organizations, offer material aid, or even pursue a career in immigration law. I share your anger and believe we can channel this energy into something that makes meaningful change for immigrants. But to do that, you have to stay safe.”
June 12, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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LET ME GO BAAAAACK 😭😭😭
Image of my view from a chair on Druif Beach in Aruba. There is white sand in the foreground, and turquoise water in the Caribbean Sea. The sky is impossibly blue with a few white clouds, and there’s a straw umbrella giving me shade at the top of the photo. This was truly paradise, I’ve never experienced a beach like this!
April 28, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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This is an Arrested Development kind of storyline.
Screenshot of The Atlantic, headline is: “The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans” Sub headline: “U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn't think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.” By Jeffrey Goldberg There is a banner at the top advertising this article, that reads: “ The Trump administration planned its strikes on the Houthis using a group chat-and accidentally included The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg”
March 24, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Day 29 of 42 in the cast: my right hand did all of this!! Can you imagine how powerful I’m going to be when my left arm is healed???? 🧵🪡🧶
Photo shows an embroidery hoop with a piece of white fabric in it. There are blue stencil lines on the white fabric, indicating the pattern with lines and numbers. The top of the circle is showing the sunset, which is stitched with dark purple, tan, white, light purple, bright pink, tan and yellow. There are purple flowers in the foreground. The white, bright pink, and everything below was all stitched with my non-dominant hand!
February 20, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Day 24 of 42 of being in the cast: I’ve taught my non-dominant hand how to straight stitch and I’m having a whole lot of fun filling in the color on this WIP from forever ago 🧵🪡🧶
Photo shows the top half of an embroidery hoop with a piece of white fabric in it. There are blue stencil lines on the white fabric, indicating the pattern with lines and numbers. The top of the circle is showing the sunset, which is stitched with dark purple, orange, tan, white, light purple, bright pink, and tan again. The next color is yellow, and then I’ll get to working on the flowers and grass in the foreground. The white and bright pink were stitched with my non-dominant hand!
February 15, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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My broken arm is a bit sore from holding the crochet tension tool I’m using BUT that’s ok because look at what I’ve done!!!!!!!! I can see the angler fish vision!!!!! I never, ever anticipated crocheting with my right hand. Feeling proud.
Photo of my left (broken) hand, with my green cat slightly visible between my thumb and forefinger. I’m holding the beginnings of a crocheted angler fish. I’ve crocheted the light pink body and stuffed it, and there is a smaller circle with pink and blue, which will eventually be the jaw. My right hand is my non-dominant hand, so this has been slow and steady work learning to crochet backwards from my usual routine. There is a brown shaggy blanket in the background (it’s a sloth blanket!!)
February 2, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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I AM ACTUALLY DOING THE THING!!!!!!!!
Image of a small, light pink crocheted circle that is sitting on top of a blue and white pillow. There is an orange crochet tension tool that I’m using because my left wrist is broken and casted. In the background is a lime green crochet hook. I am a lefty, so crocheting this with my right hand is a huge accomplishment for me!!!!
January 30, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Friends new to Bluesky: use Alt text!!!!!!!
Screenshot of a web page with title “Bluesky Alt Text Rating”, below is the question, “how consistently do you use alt text?“ and there is a search bar for a user name. I’ve put my own username in. The results display underneath it to show the number of posts analyzed, the number of posts with images, the number of image posts with alt text, and then finally the score in a percentage. I have posted 49 images and all have alt text, so I scored 100% and a smiley face emoji. Wooooo alt text!!!
January 29, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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You may think you have a “threatening aura” but have you ever received a text message from your college friend saying she’s been DREAMING about you being not okay????????

That’s what I thought.
Screenshot of a text that reads: “ Hey!! This is Amanda ______ if you don't have my number. I know we're not like stay in touch, texting often kind of friends lol BUT I've been having strange feelings and even dreams about you lately, that you're not okay! So, how are you doing?! Been thinking about you a lot lately. But then I get distracted and forget to reach out. Sorry for the completely random and weird text lol”
January 26, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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HELL YES!!! We did it Joe!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I’ve officially been declared The Cool Aunt because I knew the most Taylor Swift lyrics. Don’t let your dreams be dreams!!!!
Screenshot of a Group text message, The highlighted text message reads “They said Erin is my coolest sister”
January 26, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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We Lived Happily During the War
By: Ilya Kaminsky
Poem title: We Lived Happily During the War BY: ILYA KAMINSKY And when they bombed other people's houses, we protested but not enough, we opposed them but not enough. I was in my bed, around my bed America was falling: invisible house by invisible house by invisible house. I took a chair outside and watched the sun. In the sixth month of a disastrous reign in the house of money in the street of money in the city of money in the country of money, our great country of money, we (forgive us) lived happily during the war.
January 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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“The sin of empathy”????????

Jesus would absolutely hate these fucking dweebs.
Screenshot from Twitter of a tweet from Ben Garrett - @tompawnbadil. He’s posted a photo of Bishop Mariann Budde, and the tweet reads: “Do not commit the sin of empathy. This snake is God's enemy and yours too. She hates God and His people. You need to properly hate in response. She is not merely deceived but is a deceiver. Your eye shall not pity.”
January 24, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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Anyway ok sad posting aside, what would you sign on my cast???? Words and photos welcome
Photo of my left arm (yes yes, my dominant arm) in a green plaster cast. You can see grey waiting room chairs in the background, along with hospital-gray flooring.
January 24, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Well!!!!! Talk about timing for this book to come in from my library.
It is finally time for me to read Parable of the Sower.
Screenshot of my Libby account announcing the wait is over! And my hold is ready for the book “Parable of the Sower” by Octavia E. Butler.
January 15, 2025 at 3:56 AM