Amber Piona
@geekydancer.bsky.social
Historian and Urban Planner, passionate about the past and the future.
I love family book club. Every two weeks we take turns talking about a new book we read.
Today I got to hear about the latest Marisol Rainey book from the 11 year old and a very enthusiastic review of Of Monsters and Mainframes from Lara. Hearing people be excited about books is itself exciting.
Today I got to hear about the latest Marisol Rainey book from the 11 year old and a very enthusiastic review of Of Monsters and Mainframes from Lara. Hearing people be excited about books is itself exciting.
November 23, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I love family book club. Every two weeks we take turns talking about a new book we read.
Today I got to hear about the latest Marisol Rainey book from the 11 year old and a very enthusiastic review of Of Monsters and Mainframes from Lara. Hearing people be excited about books is itself exciting.
Today I got to hear about the latest Marisol Rainey book from the 11 year old and a very enthusiastic review of Of Monsters and Mainframes from Lara. Hearing people be excited about books is itself exciting.
Whenever I am trying a new (to me) quilt block, I do a test block out of stash fabric.
Accidentally made something mesmerizing with this disappearing nine-patch block using Kaffe Fassett and Morris & Co fabric. This feels like a Victorian drug trip, in a fun way.
Accidentally made something mesmerizing with this disappearing nine-patch block using Kaffe Fassett and Morris & Co fabric. This feels like a Victorian drug trip, in a fun way.
November 15, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Whenever I am trying a new (to me) quilt block, I do a test block out of stash fabric.
Accidentally made something mesmerizing with this disappearing nine-patch block using Kaffe Fassett and Morris & Co fabric. This feels like a Victorian drug trip, in a fun way.
Accidentally made something mesmerizing with this disappearing nine-patch block using Kaffe Fassett and Morris & Co fabric. This feels like a Victorian drug trip, in a fun way.
Felt motivated to do something small(er). I was able to put together this quilted table runner pretty quickly. This is for my mother's dining table which is wider than mine. Log cabin blocks are so versatile, I spent forever deciding how to arrange them because so many ways looked good!
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Felt motivated to do something small(er). I was able to put together this quilted table runner pretty quickly. This is for my mother's dining table which is wider than mine. Log cabin blocks are so versatile, I spent forever deciding how to arrange them because so many ways looked good!
I realized I never shared the finished quilt. I learned a lot, and I really like how it looks. Hopefully my grandmother agrees!
November 9, 2025 at 3:08 AM
I realized I never shared the finished quilt. I learned a lot, and I really like how it looks. Hopefully my grandmother agrees!
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It’s basically Deep Space Nine.
Hello welcome to bluesky. We have every kind of anti-government radical left of center, and also, baseball
November 2, 2025 at 3:54 AM
It’s basically Deep Space Nine.
Having some people over to celebrate Halloween (by eating ghost pizza and decorating Halloween cookies).
Behold my costume, the Other Kind of Mermaid!
Behold my costume, the Other Kind of Mermaid!
October 26, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Having some people over to celebrate Halloween (by eating ghost pizza and decorating Halloween cookies).
Behold my costume, the Other Kind of Mermaid!
Behold my costume, the Other Kind of Mermaid!
Reposted by Amber Piona
"Oh yeah? You like baseball? What if I make you smoke *an entire pack* of baseball?"
October 11, 2025 at 4:52 AM
"Oh yeah? You like baseball? What if I make you smoke *an entire pack* of baseball?"
Out of idle curiosity I checked in on the mariners/tigers game at the bottom of the seventh, and it was 2-2. That was two hours ago, we are now at the bottom of the 14th inning, it is still 2-2.
October 11, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Out of idle curiosity I checked in on the mariners/tigers game at the bottom of the seventh, and it was 2-2. That was two hours ago, we are now at the bottom of the 14th inning, it is still 2-2.
Every 2 weeks, my wife, our kid, and I have Book Club. We each read a book and share it. There's a giant gavel, it's fun.
I just shared the People's Project, and read @mirajacob.bsky.social 's You are Here to the table. Thank you, Mira (also @theferocity.bsky.social & @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social)
I just shared the People's Project, and read @mirajacob.bsky.social 's You are Here to the table. Thank you, Mira (also @theferocity.bsky.social & @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social)
October 4, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Every 2 weeks, my wife, our kid, and I have Book Club. We each read a book and share it. There's a giant gavel, it's fun.
I just shared the People's Project, and read @mirajacob.bsky.social 's You are Here to the table. Thank you, Mira (also @theferocity.bsky.social & @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social)
I just shared the People's Project, and read @mirajacob.bsky.social 's You are Here to the table. Thank you, Mira (also @theferocity.bsky.social & @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social)
Last night Lara and I got dressed up and went to the theater to see The Play That Goes Wrong. I love a farce, and a -live- farce is such an impressive technical feat.
September 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Last night Lara and I got dressed up and went to the theater to see The Play That Goes Wrong. I love a farce, and a -live- farce is such an impressive technical feat.
Reposted by Amber Piona
so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining
September 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining
Okay, I am done with the news today. I have a pizza birthday dinner to attend (someone in this house turned 11 today), and I need a little time to get my party face on.
September 11, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Okay, I am done with the news today. I have a pizza birthday dinner to attend (someone in this house turned 11 today), and I need a little time to get my party face on.
After dinner out, I read a book with a cup of tea. On my way back to my car I heard live funk music. I followed it to a little theater and was let in for free to see the last hour of an excellent band. It was a really great time! Fun little community event.
September 7, 2025 at 5:28 AM
After dinner out, I read a book with a cup of tea. On my way back to my car I heard live funk music. I followed it to a little theater and was let in for free to see the last hour of an excellent band. It was a really great time! Fun little community event.
I have two quilt tops I much want to quilt but I do not have the space to pin one of them and I somehow miscalculated the yardage I needed for my backing on the other. I know I could make my life easier if I quilted small(er) things (or lived in a smaller place) but I dream in big cuddly blankets.
September 4, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I have two quilt tops I much want to quilt but I do not have the space to pin one of them and I somehow miscalculated the yardage I needed for my backing on the other. I know I could make my life easier if I quilted small(er) things (or lived in a smaller place) but I dream in big cuddly blankets.
Every time my kid adds a new food to her list of food she will eat it is a celebration for all of us. She is so giddy from the success of tonight's vegetarian corndog (delicious) and side of red bell peppers with dip (the dip helped a lot) that she is right now reading a kid's cookbook in bed.
August 30, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Every time my kid adds a new food to her list of food she will eat it is a celebration for all of us. She is so giddy from the success of tonight's vegetarian corndog (delicious) and side of red bell peppers with dip (the dip helped a lot) that she is right now reading a kid's cookbook in bed.
In 7th grade a friend lent me VHS of MST3K: the Movie. I saw it and suddenly got so many jokes. It was foundational to my friend group. I never saw the show when it aired (no cable), only tapes. Years later I found @glaiveguisarme.com blog b/c she also liked that show. We've been married 14 years.
What movie has had the most impact on your actual literal life? Not necessarily your favorite, but the one that’s most influenced or shaped something in your trajectory?
August 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
In 7th grade a friend lent me VHS of MST3K: the Movie. I saw it and suddenly got so many jokes. It was foundational to my friend group. I never saw the show when it aired (no cable), only tapes. Years later I found @glaiveguisarme.com blog b/c she also liked that show. We've been married 14 years.
On the last day of my vacation I managed to finish this quilt top. I really like how this one turned out if you stand back and look at it from afar.
Now I have two quilt tops that need finishing.
Now I have two quilt tops that need finishing.
August 11, 2025 at 12:08 AM
On the last day of my vacation I managed to finish this quilt top. I really like how this one turned out if you stand back and look at it from afar.
Now I have two quilt tops that need finishing.
Now I have two quilt tops that need finishing.
Oh dang. I saw the X-files movie in costume (as Langley) on opening night for my 14th. Which also explains some of -my- lore.
Seeing Alanis and Tori on my 14th birthday explains so much of my lore.
August 10, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Oh dang. I saw the X-files movie in costume (as Langley) on opening night for my 14th. Which also explains some of -my- lore.
Spent the first part of this week in Victoria. Lara and I just wandered around being tourists. It was lovely to see Beacon Hill Park in high summer. Last time I saw it was November of 2023 and it was Very Fall.
August 8, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Spent the first part of this week in Victoria. Lara and I just wandered around being tourists. It was lovely to see Beacon Hill Park in high summer. Last time I saw it was November of 2023 and it was Very Fall.
At Hereditary, the audience was rapt after the scene with Charlie and the telephone pole.
It was dead quiet and 20 min. later during a quiet moment, a wag in the audience clicked his tongue Very Loudly and people gasped and jumped in their seats.
If you've seen it you'd get why that was scary.
It was dead quiet and 20 min. later during a quiet moment, a wag in the audience clicked his tongue Very Loudly and people gasped and jumped in their seats.
If you've seen it you'd get why that was scary.
Got me thinking.. What's the strongest reaction you've seen an audience member have to a scene in a cinema?
During the birthday party scene in SIGNS I saw a whole row of young women literally throw their popcorn in the air like a cartoon.
During the birthday party scene in SIGNS I saw a whole row of young women literally throw their popcorn in the air like a cartoon.
Someone in my audience had a very audible negative reaction to the dog scene in TOGETHER. So that was fun!
August 3, 2025 at 4:56 AM
At Hereditary, the audience was rapt after the scene with Charlie and the telephone pole.
It was dead quiet and 20 min. later during a quiet moment, a wag in the audience clicked his tongue Very Loudly and people gasped and jumped in their seats.
If you've seen it you'd get why that was scary.
It was dead quiet and 20 min. later during a quiet moment, a wag in the audience clicked his tongue Very Loudly and people gasped and jumped in their seats.
If you've seen it you'd get why that was scary.
I subscribe to the federal register to look at proposed federal rules (because I'm fun), and I saw that the EPA is having a virtual public hearing on August 19-20 on the repeal of greenhouse gas emission standards for vehicles and engines. @lizneeley.bsky.social Do folks know about this?
www.federalregister.gov
August 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I subscribe to the federal register to look at proposed federal rules (because I'm fun), and I saw that the EPA is having a virtual public hearing on August 19-20 on the repeal of greenhouse gas emission standards for vehicles and engines. @lizneeley.bsky.social Do folks know about this?
Okay, so I am learning, and that is good. I need to square up my quilt blocks -before- I add the stitch and flip triangles.
Would it have been useful to learn this -before- I had already completed all my blocks? Yes. But lessons come when they do.
Would it have been useful to learn this -before- I had already completed all my blocks? Yes. But lessons come when they do.
July 30, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Okay, so I am learning, and that is good. I need to square up my quilt blocks -before- I add the stitch and flip triangles.
Would it have been useful to learn this -before- I had already completed all my blocks? Yes. But lessons come when they do.
Would it have been useful to learn this -before- I had already completed all my blocks? Yes. But lessons come when they do.
One of the things I love about quilting is seeing how the blocks fit together to make a pattern or design. It makes my mind fizz.
Today I found myself sitting for 15 minutes staring at my layout, brain fizzing away, completely overstimulated.
This is a good stopping place for today.
Today I found myself sitting for 15 minutes staring at my layout, brain fizzing away, completely overstimulated.
This is a good stopping place for today.
July 21, 2025 at 12:45 AM
One of the things I love about quilting is seeing how the blocks fit together to make a pattern or design. It makes my mind fizz.
Today I found myself sitting for 15 minutes staring at my layout, brain fizzing away, completely overstimulated.
This is a good stopping place for today.
Today I found myself sitting for 15 minutes staring at my layout, brain fizzing away, completely overstimulated.
This is a good stopping place for today.
Every year I get to fall in love again with summer in the pacific northwest. I was out at 8, it was warm and the sky was so blue over my head.
I try to hold on to these memories to get through the gloom and dark of the rest of the year.
I try to hold on to these memories to get through the gloom and dark of the rest of the year.
July 13, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Every year I get to fall in love again with summer in the pacific northwest. I was out at 8, it was warm and the sky was so blue over my head.
I try to hold on to these memories to get through the gloom and dark of the rest of the year.
I try to hold on to these memories to get through the gloom and dark of the rest of the year.
I have really been enjoying my little guy Tinvel, from @nora.zone. He sits on my desk with me and we feel our feelings together.
June 30, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I have really been enjoying my little guy Tinvel, from @nora.zone. He sits on my desk with me and we feel our feelings together.