Erin Blakemore
@erinblakemore.bsky.social
Journalist, bookworm, feminist, historian, library school dropout, inveterate knitter, author of THE HEROINE'S BOOKSHELF. (She/her)
I used to be heroinebook on Twitter
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Erin Blakemore
@erinblakemore.bsky.social
· Nov 21
Hi to all you new folks!
I'm a journalist in Boulder, CO. History is my first love, and I'm lucky to be able to help translate the past for present-day audiences as a reporter and author.
When I'm not writing about yesteryear or obsessively knitting, I report on cool science/health stories.
I'm a journalist in Boulder, CO. History is my first love, and I'm lucky to be able to help translate the past for present-day audiences as a reporter and author.
When I'm not writing about yesteryear or obsessively knitting, I report on cool science/health stories.
It took me about three waking hours to realize I had on two completely different slippers today, and only because someone pointed it out. I guess that's how I'm doing.
January 21, 2026 at 10:11 PM
It took me about three waking hours to realize I had on two completely different slippers today, and only because someone pointed it out. I guess that's how I'm doing.
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"This is such a strange decision with no clear rationale. None of it really makes sense.”
NASA quietly ends financial support for planetary science groups
The U.S. space agency will quit funding several independent science advisory groups this year
www.scientificamerican.com
January 21, 2026 at 7:24 PM
"This is such a strange decision with no clear rationale. None of it really makes sense.”
This has got to be the most embarrassing era ever.
January 19, 2026 at 7:54 PM
This has got to be the most embarrassing era ever.
New series: SEEN DURING SEARCH, a thread where I share neat-looking academic articles I came across while searching for ancillary or related topics. I'll be making more time to read stuff I simply find interesting, neat, or fascinating this year, so join me! 🧵
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a woman with red hair and a scarf around her neck looks at the camera
Alt: a woman with red hair and a scarf around her neck looks at the camera
media.tenor.com
January 15, 2026 at 6:02 PM
New series: SEEN DURING SEARCH, a thread where I share neat-looking academic articles I came across while searching for ancillary or related topics. I'll be making more time to read stuff I simply find interesting, neat, or fascinating this year, so join me! 🧵
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Everything is awful, but now we know what pattern likely inspired Mrs. Rachel Lynde's apple-leaf quilt in the Anne of Green Gables series and you may knit it yourself if you'd like: www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
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Rachel Lynde's Apple Leaf Quilt pattern by Rebecca-Anne C. Do Rozario
The pattern combines and updates two 19th century patterns, one, the apple-leaf bedspread from The Ladies’ World (1896), that is a contender for the pattern described in L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Gree...
www.ravelry.com
January 14, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Everything is awful, but now we know what pattern likely inspired Mrs. Rachel Lynde's apple-leaf quilt in the Anne of Green Gables series and you may knit it yourself if you'd like: www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
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Reposted by Erin Blakemore
If anyone is visiting Denver I highly recommend the top floor of the History Colorado museum where you can learn a lot more about this awful moment in history from the perspective of the survivors. Powerful stuff & the power of that story is still relevant especially today as we face unlawful feds.
🧵As I'm prepping my class meeting on Native American genocide (example: Sand Creek Massacre), it strikes me that the sheer moral heroism of US Army Captain Silas S. Soule is particularly relevant in our current times.
January 13, 2026 at 6:00 PM
If anyone is visiting Denver I highly recommend the top floor of the History Colorado museum where you can learn a lot more about this awful moment in history from the perspective of the survivors. Powerful stuff & the power of that story is still relevant especially today as we face unlawful feds.
Reposted by Erin Blakemore
🧵As I'm prepping my class meeting on Native American genocide (example: Sand Creek Massacre), it strikes me that the sheer moral heroism of US Army Captain Silas S. Soule is particularly relevant in our current times.
January 13, 2026 at 12:29 PM
🧵As I'm prepping my class meeting on Native American genocide (example: Sand Creek Massacre), it strikes me that the sheer moral heroism of US Army Captain Silas S. Soule is particularly relevant in our current times.
San Diego: The victim in this report was my 94-year-old grandma, and her injuries are far worse than what was initially reported. I’m furious and heartbroken.
Sharing in the hopes someone in Kearny Mesa witnessed and will speak with the investigators.
fox5sandiego.com/news/local-n...
Sharing in the hopes someone in Kearny Mesa witnessed and will speak with the investigators.
fox5sandiego.com/news/local-n...
94-year-old seriously injured after being struck by BMW in Clairemont
A 94-year-old woman was struck by a vehicle while crossing the street in Clairemont Mesa East on Saturday afternoon, suffering multiple injuries, and was transported to a local hospital.
fox5sandiego.com
January 11, 2026 at 8:40 PM
San Diego: The victim in this report was my 94-year-old grandma, and her injuries are far worse than what was initially reported. I’m furious and heartbroken.
Sharing in the hopes someone in Kearny Mesa witnessed and will speak with the investigators.
fox5sandiego.com/news/local-n...
Sharing in the hopes someone in Kearny Mesa witnessed and will speak with the investigators.
fox5sandiego.com/news/local-n...
Reposted by Erin Blakemore
An arsonist hit a Mississippi synagogue Saturday. Seven Torahs were damaged or destroyed in the fire.
One Torah, from the Holocaust, was in a glass case and wasn't touched.
The same synagogue was bombed by the KKK in 1967.
mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...
One Torah, from the Holocaust, was in a glass case and wasn't touched.
The same synagogue was bombed by the KKK in 1967.
mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...
Predawn fire reduces parts of Mississippi's largest synagogue to charred ruins - Mississippi Today
A fire heavily damaged Jackson’s only synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship that was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967 because the rabbi had been an advocate for civil rights...
mississippitoday.org
January 11, 2026 at 3:59 AM
An arsonist hit a Mississippi synagogue Saturday. Seven Torahs were damaged or destroyed in the fire.
One Torah, from the Holocaust, was in a glass case and wasn't touched.
The same synagogue was bombed by the KKK in 1967.
mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...
One Torah, from the Holocaust, was in a glass case and wasn't touched.
The same synagogue was bombed by the KKK in 1967.
mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...
Reposted by Erin Blakemore
Every woman has heard it. Your daughter, your sister, your mother, your wife. We have ALL heard it.
I haven’t (and most likely won’t) watch the recently released video but I swear I can hear that “fucking bitch” in my head clear as day. The snarling hate and disgust. Every woman has heard it.
January 9, 2026 at 8:38 PM
Every woman has heard it. Your daughter, your sister, your mother, your wife. We have ALL heard it.
One of the phrases that keeps coming to my head more and more often In This Age is...
You could just not.
Think of how much could be avoided with even a tiny modicum-like soupçon of self-control or willingness.
You could just not.
Think of how much could be avoided with even a tiny modicum-like soupçon of self-control or willingness.
January 8, 2026 at 9:37 PM
One of the phrases that keeps coming to my head more and more often In This Age is...
You could just not.
Think of how much could be avoided with even a tiny modicum-like soupçon of self-control or willingness.
You could just not.
Think of how much could be avoided with even a tiny modicum-like soupçon of self-control or willingness.
Today is the 81st anniversary of the death of Anne Frank's mother, Edith Holländer Frank, at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
January 6, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Today is the 81st anniversary of the death of Anne Frank's mother, Edith Holländer Frank, at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Quilting
What's the most ridiculous way you ever hurt yourself? I got out of the tub, skidded in water and tripped over the toilet. Ankle sprain.
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January 5, 2026 at 10:59 PM
Quilting
This will also affect extant children’s hospitals—kids that have or are eligible for Medicaid make up a huge portion of their patients.
This is a policy choice. As Dr. Gottlieb recently put the issue on CNBC: if we substantially reduce vaccination rates, "we're going to have to build new pediatric hospitals." www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8CJ...
Shifting many pediatric vaccines into the category of shared clinical decision-making means in many red states governors and legislators will be pressured to strip them from school-entry requirements. Vaccination rates could fall sharply with stark regional differences in protection against disease
January 5, 2026 at 10:53 PM
This will also affect extant children’s hospitals—kids that have or are eligible for Medicaid make up a huge portion of their patients.
Reposted by Erin Blakemore
NEW: Mandatory evacuation order for the South Pointe neighborhood in Boulder County. Wildfire at 287 and Dillion (SE of Louisville)
January 5, 2026 at 10:34 PM
NEW: Mandatory evacuation order for the South Pointe neighborhood in Boulder County. Wildfire at 287 and Dillion (SE of Louisville)
Reposted by Erin Blakemore
Kind of a wild story here.
A mystery person took control of CU Boulder's student news outlet & turned it into AI slop.
The students made a new website & lawyered up. But, it turns out, AI is a hard beast to fight.
www.denverpost.com/2026/01/05/c... via @denverpost.com
A mystery person took control of CU Boulder's student news outlet & turned it into AI slop.
The students made a new website & lawyered up. But, it turns out, AI is a hard beast to fight.
www.denverpost.com/2026/01/05/c... via @denverpost.com
How CU Boulder’s student news site got taken over by AI slop
The imposter site is confusing readers with articles that appear to be generated by artificial intelligence and is siphoning pageviews from real student reporting, the CUI’s journalists say.
www.denverpost.com
January 5, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Kind of a wild story here.
A mystery person took control of CU Boulder's student news outlet & turned it into AI slop.
The students made a new website & lawyered up. But, it turns out, AI is a hard beast to fight.
www.denverpost.com/2026/01/05/c... via @denverpost.com
A mystery person took control of CU Boulder's student news outlet & turned it into AI slop.
The students made a new website & lawyered up. But, it turns out, AI is a hard beast to fight.
www.denverpost.com/2026/01/05/c... via @denverpost.com
Reposted by Erin Blakemore
Schloss, who was friends with Frank in Amsterdam and whose mother later married Frank's father, was a tireless educator about the Holocaust and was honorary president of The Anne Frank Trust UK. n.pr/4pnJxEo
Holocaust survivor Eva Schloss, the stepsister of Anne Frank, dies at 96
Schloss, who was friends with Frank in Amsterdam and whose mother later married Frank's father, was a tireless educator about the Holocaust and was honorary president of The Anne Frank Trust UK.
n.pr
January 5, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Schloss, who was friends with Frank in Amsterdam and whose mother later married Frank's father, was a tireless educator about the Holocaust and was honorary president of The Anne Frank Trust UK. n.pr/4pnJxEo
Age bias in hiring/cheapness of outlets and the diminution of the profession also plays into this. When outlets gut their editorial staffs or tempt higher-paid staff with buyouts, the kinds of institutional and life experience memory that can prevent this goes away.
for years i have been screaming about how we need "history for journalists" training.
how every j-school school should teach students the history of journalism, and teach future journalists how to access the history of what they are covering.
how every j-school school should teach students the history of journalism, and teach future journalists how to access the history of what they are covering.
So many in media are ill-equipped to interview officials about what’s happening because they begin with the presumption of legitimacy and don’t know enough about history or U.S. foreign policy to foment intelligent pushback and hold officials accountable.
January 5, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Age bias in hiring/cheapness of outlets and the diminution of the profession also plays into this. When outlets gut their editorial staffs or tempt higher-paid staff with buyouts, the kinds of institutional and life experience memory that can prevent this goes away.
Happy International "Just Following Up/Circling Back/Checking Back In" Day to all who observe!
January 5, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Happy International "Just Following Up/Circling Back/Checking Back In" Day to all who observe!
My break from the doom and gloom today was purging my closet of multiple bags of clothing I either don't wear, don't fit, or have been holding on to for sentimental reasons that no longer work for me. Out with the old, in with the new. Yes, I kept all the yarn.
December 29, 2025 at 6:51 PM
My break from the doom and gloom today was purging my closet of multiple bags of clothing I either don't wear, don't fit, or have been holding on to for sentimental reasons that no longer work for me. Out with the old, in with the new. Yes, I kept all the yarn.
Watching Busby Berkeley movies on Christmas Eve, as the baby Jesus intended
a black and white photo of a woman wearing a white fur coat
Alt: A smiling chorine flies out of a formation of other smiling chorines
media.tenor.com
December 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Watching Busby Berkeley movies on Christmas Eve, as the baby Jesus intended
Something funny about brain surgery recovery is how exhausting silly everyday stuff can feel. Today’s culprit: eating some chile rellenos and crossing one street
December 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Something funny about brain surgery recovery is how exhausting silly everyday stuff can feel. Today’s culprit: eating some chile rellenos and crossing one street
Reposted by Erin Blakemore
Not now, haunted Victorian shoes
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
More than 400 leather hobnailed boots, thought to date back to the 19th Century, have been found.
www.bbc.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Not now, haunted Victorian shoes
Live footage of me and my family making it to the new year
a man standing next to a child laying on the floor in a store with a sign that says " ramp-tan friendly "
Alt: A warmly dressed man drags his child down the aisle of a grocery store
media.tenor.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Live footage of me and my family making it to the new year
So much heaviness today, at the darkest time of the year.
May we somehow find the courage to be the light.
May we somehow find the courage to be the light.
December 15, 2025 at 4:33 PM
So much heaviness today, at the darkest time of the year.
May we somehow find the courage to be the light.
May we somehow find the courage to be the light.