the raven scholar would be a great videogame

I am walking around reading the Raven Scholar in the hallways and I cannot put it down. Delightful

The most charming parts are where the author reminds you the narrator of the book is a mostly-absent sentient flock of ravens

Don’t remember why I got the Raven Scholar from the library but it took me seventeen chapters to finally think okay, I am invested, I do want to read this. Appreciate an author who really loves gleefully putting A Protag In A Situation

LGBTQ

How do I explain to offline people that my favorite Japanese mascot said "we can only be liberated from queer oppression if we are truly seen as human" and then started wielding fireworks like a rocket launcher on the side of a mountain without sounding like I've totally lost it? Chiitan forever

Higgledy piggledy Timothée Chalamet Has a name meriting Endless design Much like his forerunner Benedict Cumberbatch: Hexasyllabically, Easy to rhyme

oh no i now have five wips sitting on my couch

Abolish. Fire. Prosecute.

I might have to stop crocheting to read the new Pynchon

good morning it’s day 2 ballon fiesta and the balloons are up today

🧶 How to knit knots This is how to make a small bobble - or knot I prefer to knit backwards rather than turn my knitting for knots and bobbles, but if you prefer you can do it the traditional way: kfb, turn, p2, turn, k2tog. annaplexisinenglish.wordpress.com/close-gaps-p... #knitting

Woke up at 5am thinking THERE ARE MANY REASONS WHITE PEOPLE FOOD FOOD IS BAD (corporate foods replacing local cooking, food divorced from the growing process, convenience foods with chemicals that are bad for people, IBS food triggers = whiteness) AND THAT GASTRONAUTS EPISODE IGNORED ALL OF THEM

season’s resolution: i have got to stop buying crochet patterns from young influencers because I’m insomnia scrolling crafting insta. I have been crocheting since 1998, I do not need a 36pg pattern that doesn’t have charts 🧶

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

dudes rock

It is already so hard to get people to vaccinate their babies

ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59

re: the tylenol thing, i think we're gonna reach an inflection point soon where corporate america has to decide whether or not the current admin's conspiracy brain decision-making is dangerous enough to its bottom line to undermine it, or if kleptocracy will really pay them more

I normally take ibuprofen for my assorted pains but now that I know tylenol is good for autism I may need to switch.

you know they make versions of the bible where they put Jesus’s words in red. like the things Jesus said matter a lot

imagine relying on AI to write your bio and then having the nerve to say you're witty and full of personality

Happy 71st Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.

2yo kicking the sides if her crib singing “twinkle…star….wanda…diamond” at 5:30am

RFK Jr. is objectively pro-disease, pro-illness and pro-child death.

I think, every so often, about how the student protesters in South Korea figured out there was a finite supply of tear gas, and then staged retreating marches that caused police to burn off most of it, before the big "bring your auntie and kids" marches that ultimately toppled the dictatorship.

Petition to start calling the middle of the night “dark noon”

i would simply have preffered to not live in the time of monsters. Ideally the New World, maybe the Old World.

When I learned to knit circa 2004 I loved knitty patterns and I’m so pleased they’re still around 💜💜💜🧶

In all my "Knitty doesn't use AI" messaging, I forgot that designers might want to turn to it for a tweak to their intro or a tarting-up of their photos. Whoops. It's now in the Submission Guidelines, and is the last item to confirm on the Submission Form. We don't do AI. Please you don't either. 🧶

If anyone's wondering I made board and then sent in a an information request form lmao. I also hunted down the book I think the chevron pattern was based on. 🧶 #knitting

3:54am: i wake up and think I NEED TO WATCH 2005 PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today

All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes

2015: “oh no, it’s the dystopian future where everyone is playing dumb hypnotic games on their little screen.” 2025: “The dumb hypnotic games are actually best-case scenario; everything else your little screen can do to you is worse.”

I dreamed about a Swedish knitting pattern that changed my life! What was it? Lost in the dream. Vague memories of folding and reminiscent of that origami compartment puzzle box

Nominating "There's no justification for this however you cut it but the beatings will continue until a stillborn god is born." for perfect sentences, @lifewinning.com

Listening to “southern gothic” playlist and all the songs are like FUCK THE MAN, FUCK THE MAN I HATE BILLIONAIRES AND DAD PURDUE PHARMA KILLED MY FRIENDS AMERICA AINT NOTHIN TO DEFEND

Governor announces New Mexico will now provide free universal child care

did you know gmail now has a subscriptions page where it lists all your subscriptions and you can unsubscribe from them????

Xiaohei 2 was so good and the action scenes were so insane and the plot is so well paced

TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT IM SITTING IN THE MOVIE THEATRE HALF AN HOUR EARLY WAITING FOR THE CAT TO RETURN

watched legend of hei, i like it a lot

anyway I sewed a rabbit plush and the two year old hugged it

setting my default skyline to the knitting one because that usually doesn’t give me nightmares about bodies rotting in the street, unlike the news bsky.app/profile/did:...

oh. my. goodness "Because you are alive, & alive, & alive — & the heart, that reckless anarchist, won’t stop beating its fists against the dark"

Time to remind people about the Commercial Pattern Archive — it doesn’t have instructions and search is a bear but there’s two hundred years’ worth of clothing patterns in here including all the big names new and old: copa.apps.uri.edu

socially constructing that he's dead.

‘Great Zeus has granted us, from youth to age, a life that loops from war to painful war, till each of us lies dead’