My first two workshops at Ewe Felty Thing in Conwy are on April 4th - that’s in just under four weeks! I’m looking forward to introducing knitters to some new techniques: stranded colourwork knitting and two-colour brioche knitting. 1/2

Mini Motley sanctuary's fund raiser is doing well, but we can help it get over the line! @minisanctuary.bsky.social www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

💩Great explainer here from Windrush Wasp about how multi-billion-pound 'highly regulated' utilities with highly paid CEOs are making money by systematically breaking the law. We need to flush these crooks out of our water system. We need public ownership.

Campaigners who thought they'd won the battle to prevent fracking in Lincolnshire dismayed to learn mayor Andrea Jenkyns is courting fracking firm, Egdon - - vow to keep fighting to protect their homes from pollution: share.google/KdkhSjHxQ2AG... 🧵 1/4

I know I’ve got some Labour local gov’t types following me, so I want to say this clearly so that you can share it internally as appropriate: I will never again vote Labour while these policies, or Wes Streeting, are in place. I will not vote Labour at any level because of this.

If you have been blessed with a trans child; 1. Keep them away from the NHS 2. Try and move abroad if you can 3. Be prepared to fight transphobic staff at school 4. Find other sources of hormones/medication. If you can, get a car loan to pay for them. 5. Protect them from all governmental agencies.

Politics isn't Bluesky's thing but Ursula von der Leyen has just given a big foreign policy speech to EU ambassadors condoning the US/Israeli war on Iran, announcing that international law and multilateralism are a hindrance to EU interests and basically recasting the EU as a security project.

- Cancers - unexplained scarring on the lungs - impaired fetal growth - premature birth - heart disease Canadian doctors warn of alarming health trends near fracking sites: share.google/Y3bkaYqgOUfb...

Honouring Gaza’s women who refused to let the world look away: On International Women's Day, this article highlights the resilience and heroism of women journalists in Gaza who are documenting the ongoing Israeli occupation and its devastating impact. Despite facing i… https://ranked.news/289311?u=b

The fire at Glasgow central station is utterly devastating. Shops, homes and our transport link to England are being wiped out. I am amazed by the limited news coverage.

Israel has killed tens of thousands of Palestinian women and girls in its genocidal war on Gaza. On International Women's Day, we look at the number of women and girls Israel killed in Gaza in 2025. #Infograph

Happy International Women’s Day!

Running a business on your own can be challenging at times. Today feels like a good day to say that I'm proud of what I've built. And I'm proud to be part of a community of women who are out there doing the same. Happy International Women's Day. www.gailmyerscough.co.uk

Law of Armed Conflict Starmer has unwisely given USA permission to strike at Iran from UK territory. Has he put in place any mechanism for verifying that US military action remains within the permissions granted and within IHL/LOAC?

American B-1 bombers are landing on British soil before flying off to bomb Iran, yet Keir Starmer gaslights the nation by claiming the UK isn’t at war. These aircraft are dropping 2,000lb bombs on schools, hospitals and homes in Iran, where the death toll has already surpassed 1,300.

Okay, so I am definitely going to have to go freelance, at least for a while. So, if anyone has any advice on actually building up and finding freelance policy and comms works, including providing media and advocacy training, campaign planning and strategy please let me know.

I just released a new sock design - you can find it here on Ravelry: For the release weekend there is also a 10% discount. Just apply the code ArtDecoReleaseWeekend at the checkout #knitting #knitsky #sockknitting 🧶 www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

Our understanding is that the police's entire "intelligence" basis for the raid was "a social media post about targeting the rich" rather than specific plans for any protests actions.

This notinourname.org.uk petition by @nionwomen.bsky.social has almost reached 90,000 names! If you are a woman who is opposed to transphobic bigotry being deployed in your name, please sign and share…

#ShowMeYourKnits 🧶 Liv's prompt this week is sweaters. I don't knit a lot of jumpers - I prefer sleeveless vests/waistcoats - but I did make a couple of popular ones in recent years. Carbeth by @katedaviesdesigns.com and Weekender by @dreareneeknits.bsky.social Both are fab well-written patterns.

New in - The Toast Rack. The Hollings Building is a Manchester brutalist icon and now you can have it on your wall. Available as a print and a greeting card. www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/brutalist-co...

I’m so tired of bad people getting away with doing bad things.

"You don't liberate people at the barrel of a gun. Have we learned nothing from Iraq or Afghanistan? All we seem to have learned is from Gaza. Israel has learned that you can bomb hospitals & schools with impunity." Me on MSNOW with @chrislhayes.bsky.social Full intv: youtube.com/watch?v=u7LU...

Gentle and shy tree-dwellers with famous long noses 👃 🐒🤎 Proboscis Monkey are #endangered in #Malaysia and #Indonesia. Their main threat is #palmoil and #mining #deforestation. Help them to survive when u #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social youtu.be/_f27DNoc0TQ

I wrote a book called Nature’s Acre — an Irish garden memoir about wildlife, community, and making a place where life can grow. If that sounds like your kind of book, I’d love you to read it. And if you’d share this, I’d be very grateful. 🌱 #climateaction #spéirgorm gardeningwell.ie/natures-acre

Purl Soho is discontinuing one of my favorite sweater yarns, Wigeon 😭 Remaining stock is 40% off, go grab it while you can! Not an affiliate, just a fan www.purlsoho.com/wigeon.html?...

Happy Friday everyone! 😀 I'm wearing my new "Tankful"! So I mashed up two things, a casual tank with an oversized lower body, you see what I did there right? 🧶 The fabric is filled with awesome flecks & nubs. #justknitting #knitsky #allthingsyarn #crafting #knitwear #slowfashion #handknit #yarnlove

This method allows us to add any motifs and colour patterns to our projects, even the big motifs that we would normally make using intarsia. tenrowsaday.com/armenian-kni... #knitting #knit #yarn #handmade #crafts #knitter #handknit #fiberarts #bskyknits #knitsky #diy #beginnerknitter #crochet

I've been fortunate enough to meet many formidably smart, fully committed, & thoroughly decent people who, for years, have strived to try to avert dangerous climate change. They failed. Saying that does not lessen my gratitude to them, 1/11 www.technosphere.earth/yes-we-can-n...

Butcher Benjamin Netanyahu is telling Western media this war is to "free" Iran - but to Hebrew media he's discussing how to 'kill them all'

In Cyprus, a growing grassroots campaign is demanding the removal of British military bases that London retained after the island’s 1960 independence. Critics call them colonial relics that risk dragging Cyprus into foreign wars, especially after a drone strike hit RAF Akrotiri.

It's absolutely mental that Israel is getting caught red-handed carrying out one false flag after another against its so-called allies and the corporate media is just acting like it isn't happening.

It’s time to knit, isn’t it? 🧶 How about the “Atypical” sweater? I absolutely love wearing mine. Two yarn weights make this work in simple knit and purl stitches. The back is longer over the tush, which is very cool. #knitting #allthingsyarn #knitsky #knitwear #sweaterknitting #knittop #crafting

Knitting as protest..."Her actions have since inspired a broader knitting movement in protest over the gender imbalance in Denmark’s public monuments..." Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/a... #knitsky

#Knitsky I have a question specifically for busty knitters. I'm designing my first sweater pattern. Do you find it useful to have more stitches in front than in back when separating the sleeves from a circular yoke? Does that improve fit, or does the drape of the yoke make it unnecessary? #Knit 🧶

War crime of such cynicism, such vindictiveness that it seems unbelievable. But then Trump. And Hegseth.

A lobbyist who worked directly for Peter Mandelson, on the Palantir board, and on the board of *four* NHS trusts. Lobbying the NHS to hand over even more patient data to Palantir. This absolutely stinks. Get Palantir out of the NHS. Sign my petition: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Dear Shabana, Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

Well, here’s the thing about being antiwar as an ethical belief: it means you end up opposing most wars. Almost all of them, in fact. This is quite common in people who have consistent beliefs but looks insane to people who have none, or mostly just believe superior people should make the decisions.

Murder for the sheer joy of killing and the thrill of total impunity: a thing that should not really surprise us, historically speaking, nor in light of the tens of thousands of killings already killed in appalling atrocities carried out by or with the direct support of these men.

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

They killed 180 children and their teachers in a double-tap strike on a school. The girls were 7 to 12 years old.

Incredible scenes out of Tehran. March 4, the US began dropping 2000 pound bombs on the densely populated city of 9 million people. I guess we’re not trying to free the Iranians anymore. Also, the administration still says this is not a WAR.

There is just something deeply disturbing and offensive about watching a Labour govt keep kicking the most vulnerable in our society.

Plans floating around elite circles to turn Gaza into a tax-free “billionaire haven” say everything about the mindset driving this conflict. When devastation becomes an investment opportunity and displacement becomes “development,” the line between reconstruction and exploitation disappears.

This is where we were 22 years ago, and this stuff didn’t seem to overly bother the smart lads back in the day. As you can see today, the empire has progressed and evolved somewhat.

Who benefits the most form the UK's current form of democracy? Did you vote for this? 24m people live below the minimum living standard. Unchecked profiteering – energy companies made £125bn profit since 2020. 120,000 people a year die in fuel poverty. Who/What governs the UK.

#WIPWednesday 🧶 is an unusual one for me, as I haven't crocheted much in the last 15 years. I decided to renovate some old moth-eaten Birdies & make some new to hang in the windows of my conservatory to deter real birds from hitting the glass. I'm having a lot of fun! www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

If Westerners Could Wrap Their Minds Around What War Really Is We’ve never had the experience of seeing our child’s shredded body after a blast and thinking about how we’d carefully helped them dress that precious body for school just hours before. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/if-western...