Eva Skewes
@evaskewes.bsky.social
Yale University Press. Former indie bookseller; loves tea, cider, photography, and sleep
Atrocious light for photographing walnut, but behold! One of a set of 2 chairs my dad made for me, now in its home. These are based on the Chandigarh chair and my dad figured out how to make the from photos alone.
November 30, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Atrocious light for photographing walnut, but behold! One of a set of 2 chairs my dad made for me, now in its home. These are based on the Chandigarh chair and my dad figured out how to make the from photos alone.
I am finally reading Not Without Peril and you really do have to read to believe all the insane things that have happened on Mt Washington.
November 24, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I am finally reading Not Without Peril and you really do have to read to believe all the insane things that have happened on Mt Washington.
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the Appalachian mountains are so ancient they predate the evolution of bones.
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 3:09 AM
the Appalachian mountains are so ancient they predate the evolution of bones.
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how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
My third quilt is done! I started this last year and leisurely hand-quilted it throughout 2025. I made the somewhat unorthodox decision of binding this halfway through quilting (March?) which meant there were months that passed where I didn’t work on it and just got to enjoy it nearly-complete.
November 9, 2025 at 7:49 PM
My third quilt is done! I started this last year and leisurely hand-quilted it throughout 2025. I made the somewhat unorthodox decision of binding this halfway through quilting (March?) which meant there were months that passed where I didn’t work on it and just got to enjoy it nearly-complete.
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
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November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
It is extremely easy to get a weather report for summit conditions on Mt. Washington. NHPR provides a weather report from the observatory every day!
People are so fascinatingly stupid about Mt. Washington.
“Oh, it’s not that tall,” they say, little knowing it is haunted by Weather Demons
“Oh, it’s not that tall,” they say, little knowing it is haunted by Weather Demons
I’m sorry but what were over 20 people thinking:
October 29, 2025 at 1:58 PM
It is extremely easy to get a weather report for summit conditions on Mt. Washington. NHPR provides a weather report from the observatory every day!
My most excellent best friend is now on Bluesky! She is a font of knowledge of all things circus and also I was up until 1:30 this morning reading her book which hopefully will be keeping up many more people in Autumn 2026.
In 2024 I remembered how to blog. Maybe now, at the end of 2025 I can remember how to micro-blog.
Excited to be here! You can read my long-form thoughts (for free!) at the link:
Excited to be here! You can read my long-form thoughts (for free!) at the link:
Stacey Strange | Patreon
flinging words and occasionally my physical form into the void
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October 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
My most excellent best friend is now on Bluesky! She is a font of knowledge of all things circus and also I was up until 1:30 this morning reading her book which hopefully will be keeping up many more people in Autumn 2026.
One of my obsessions is the Gemini and Apollo photography (there are 12 Hasselblads just lying on the moon!), so I feel like this article was written specifically for me: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How Lunar Photography Brought the Heavens Down to Earth
No explorers ever traveled farther from home than the Apollo astronauts. As artists, they’re still underrated.
www.nytimes.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
One of my obsessions is the Gemini and Apollo photography (there are 12 Hasselblads just lying on the moon!), so I feel like this article was written specifically for me: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
My dad finished making his pair of Chandigarh chairs! If you are in northern New England you should get a chance to see them in early November through the Guild of New Hampshire Woodworkers and their New England Woodworking Competition. They’ll technically be on loan from me!
October 22, 2025 at 4:57 PM
My dad finished making his pair of Chandigarh chairs! If you are in northern New England you should get a chance to see them in early November through the Guild of New Hampshire Woodworkers and their New England Woodworking Competition. They’ll technically be on loan from me!
It is not done (needs a hem facing) but here is the first skirt I’ve ever self-drafted based on my measurements. Made of green Harris tweed and flatlined in silk organza.
October 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
It is not done (needs a hem facing) but here is the first skirt I’ve ever self-drafted based on my measurements. Made of green Harris tweed and flatlined in silk organza.
You’ll never guess who watched the quince picking at Yale University Press today.
October 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM
You’ll never guess who watched the quince picking at Yale University Press today.
This pastel by my grandmother used to hang in her bedroom and now it proudly sits in my apartment. A framer friend very generously put museum glass in it (at wholesale) and I can’t stop looking over at it. Unclear if these are Green or White mountains.
October 2, 2025 at 4:41 PM
This pastel by my grandmother used to hang in her bedroom and now it proudly sits in my apartment. A framer friend very generously put museum glass in it (at wholesale) and I can’t stop looking over at it. Unclear if these are Green or White mountains.
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CHOTINER: And you didn’t know this person - what did you call him again?
CELEBRIMBOR GREATEST OF THE ELVEN SMITHS: Right, his name was Annatar but
CHOTINER: And you taught him to create a ring harnessing all his malice and cruelty?
CELEBRIMBOR: Well I mean I was deceived
CHOTINER: So you’ve said
CELEBRIMBOR GREATEST OF THE ELVEN SMITHS: Right, his name was Annatar but
CHOTINER: And you taught him to create a ring harnessing all his malice and cruelty?
CELEBRIMBOR: Well I mean I was deceived
CHOTINER: So you’ve said
September 24, 2025 at 11:02 PM
CHOTINER: And you didn’t know this person - what did you call him again?
CELEBRIMBOR GREATEST OF THE ELVEN SMITHS: Right, his name was Annatar but
CHOTINER: And you taught him to create a ring harnessing all his malice and cruelty?
CELEBRIMBOR: Well I mean I was deceived
CHOTINER: So you’ve said
CELEBRIMBOR GREATEST OF THE ELVEN SMITHS: Right, his name was Annatar but
CHOTINER: And you taught him to create a ring harnessing all his malice and cruelty?
CELEBRIMBOR: Well I mean I was deceived
CHOTINER: So you’ve said
I finished the top of my banner. Now I need to make the backing and quilt it up! If you ever want to see this in person and also like aerials and a lovely and welcoming community in Connecticut . . . It will live there eventually.
September 21, 2025 at 12:41 AM
I finished the top of my banner. Now I need to make the backing and quilt it up! If you ever want to see this in person and also like aerials and a lovely and welcoming community in Connecticut . . . It will live there eventually.
Working on a new project with foundation paper piecing! You really have to pay attention with this stuff and almost think backwards.
September 13, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Working on a new project with foundation paper piecing! You really have to pay attention with this stuff and almost think backwards.
Spent most of the day completing this linen robe. I am tempted to swan around my apartment in it for the rest of the weekend.
September 6, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Spent most of the day completing this linen robe. I am tempted to swan around my apartment in it for the rest of the weekend.
This is my neighborhood and I'm delighted a judge agrees I should have actual neighbors and not a blighted, decrepit series of buildings: www.newhavenindependent.org/article/gran...
Judge Clears Way For 112 Apartments
A state judge has rejected two Lyon Street neighbors' attempt to overturn the site plan approval of a proposed 112-unit apartment building on Grand…
www.newhavenindependent.org
August 22, 2025 at 7:30 PM
This is my neighborhood and I'm delighted a judge agrees I should have actual neighbors and not a blighted, decrepit series of buildings: www.newhavenindependent.org/article/gran...
Siri described a photo my dad sent of several unfinished walnut boards in the back of his car as "cardboard" so that's how Apple's AI is doing . . .
August 6, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Siri described a photo my dad sent of several unfinished walnut boards in the back of his car as "cardboard" so that's how Apple's AI is doing . . .
My dad has been working on replicating (with some modifications) a Chandigarh chair and just oiled his test, which is made of ash. He figured this out from photos, a lifetime of woodworking knowledge (his first career was making Shaker furniture), and golden ratios.
August 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM
My dad has been working on replicating (with some modifications) a Chandigarh chair and just oiled his test, which is made of ash. He figured this out from photos, a lifetime of woodworking knowledge (his first career was making Shaker furniture), and golden ratios.
I’ve made a lot from mid-June to mid-July. I completed the ‘final version’ of a dress I tested in blue cotton voile, and made two versions of a trapeze pattern I modified (changed shoulder slope, lowered armscye, shortened). Also I made a tailor’s sausage to match my ham.
July 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I’ve made a lot from mid-June to mid-July. I completed the ‘final version’ of a dress I tested in blue cotton voile, and made two versions of a trapeze pattern I modified (changed shoulder slope, lowered armscye, shortened). Also I made a tailor’s sausage to match my ham.
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July 17, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Something keeps eating my butternut seedlings (farmers market says this is common), so good wishes appreciated for the third round of planting. They appear to be less enticing when the leaves grow hairy.
I will cull, obviously, if all of these make it.
I will cull, obviously, if all of these make it.
June 25, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Something keeps eating my butternut seedlings (farmers market says this is common), so good wishes appreciated for the third round of planting. They appear to be less enticing when the leaves grow hairy.
I will cull, obviously, if all of these make it.
I will cull, obviously, if all of these make it.
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Ways to contact the governor to support HB5002!
1. Call his office! 860-566-4840 - This took 1 minute and 47 seconds for me earlier today
2. Email directly governor.lamont@ct.gov
3. Online form (below)
As always, be polite but direct with your support for the bill + ask him to sign the bill asap
1. Call his office! 860-566-4840 - This took 1 minute and 47 seconds for me earlier today
2. Email directly governor.lamont@ct.gov
3. Online form (below)
As always, be polite but direct with your support for the bill + ask him to sign the bill asap
CT Friends! Can you take 3 minutes of you evening to send our governor a note telling him to sign 5002, that you support ending the housing crisis and this bill will make progress? (Bonus points for plugging parking reform)
Help combat the NIMBYs if you can
portal.ct.gov/governor/con...
Help combat the NIMBYs if you can
portal.ct.gov/governor/con...
June 6, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Ways to contact the governor to support HB5002!
1. Call his office! 860-566-4840 - This took 1 minute and 47 seconds for me earlier today
2. Email directly governor.lamont@ct.gov
3. Online form (below)
As always, be polite but direct with your support for the bill + ask him to sign the bill asap
1. Call his office! 860-566-4840 - This took 1 minute and 47 seconds for me earlier today
2. Email directly governor.lamont@ct.gov
3. Online form (below)
As always, be polite but direct with your support for the bill + ask him to sign the bill asap
My new couch arrived and it’s perfect. If anyone wants furniture you can have forever and also the loveliest customer service, my experience with Pompanoosuc Mills was just top tier at every stage.
June 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
My new couch arrived and it’s perfect. If anyone wants furniture you can have forever and also the loveliest customer service, my experience with Pompanoosuc Mills was just top tier at every stage.