Last day!! Donate $15 USD (or more, or the equivalent in your currency) to one of our humanitarian aid orgs and get 30 cross stitch bookmark patterns! Craftivism for the win! sites.google.com/view/spellbo... #CrossStitch #Craftivism #ArtSky #BookSky #FiberArts #Needlework #StitchSky

I'm a designer in the Fasten Off Yarn-Along again this year! Starting on Friday nearly all of my knitting patterns will be 25% off with this year's coupon codes. There are nearly a hundred independent knit and crochet designers in the database; come join us! #Knit #Crochet 🧶 #FOYAL2025

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

“People are mad that the governments been closed for 6 weeks so we can protect healthcare. I bet they’ll be happy if the government reopens, they lose healthcare and it was closed all that time to gain exactly nothing!” — @democrats.senate.gov , apparently.

Schumer (NY) 202 224-6542 Booker (NJ) 202 224-3224 King (ME) 202 224-5344 Hassan (NH) 202 224-3324 Durbin (IL) 202 224-2152 Ossoff (GA) 202 224-3521 Shaheen (NH) 202 224-2841 Gillibrand (NY) 202 224-4451 Masto (NV) 202 224-3542 Warner (VA) 202 224-2023

Hi, some friends and I are working on getting resources together in a readable schedule for anyone who needs food. The doc link itself has locations (in Knox County), and it has start times for each of those locations. As more restaurants participate & help those with SNAP benefits, I'll add them.

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If you make knitting, crochet, Tunisian crochet, or loom knitting patterns and you have any sales platform off Ravelry, sign up for the Fasten Off Yarn Along! I'll be joining for my fourth year as both a designer and a maker and it's so much fun! #knitting #crochet 🧶

I've had no RAM lately and have been sequestered over in the weird fandom section of BlueSky. @fastenoffyal.bsky.social starts soon, though, and I can't wait! I'll be joining as a designer and all of my knitting patterns (except charity patterns) will be discounted for the event #knitting 🧶

If you’d like to add this block list to your feed, to keep things tidy and free from trolling. bsky.app/profile/did:...

The Spanish language zines have really been a group effort. Many thanks to @kimtillman.bsky.social, Rommel and the Marin Promise Partnership, @mediaperuana.bsky.social, Leah and @taniazsk.bsky.social!!! You can find them here: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

New book! Hoping it will inspire me and pull me out of the depressive rut I've been in #Craftivism

@hankgreen.bsky.social really called it like two days ago, huh? I'm so angry and sad. How can we even try to push back against this sort of shit when nobody on the "left" in the Senate or House is doing *anything* to resist?

Just learned about a neat Kickstarter for an inclusive knitting magazine www.kickstarter.com/projects/ply... #Knitting 🧶

I ordered a copy of Cherry Bones from @jameshoffmann.bsky.social and it's absolutely gorgeous. I hope more issues are made! And I hope I can continue to import them... #Coffee

10 games to get to know me - Baldur's Gate 3 - Stardew Valley - Portal - Hades - DOOM (2016) - Pokemon Crystal - Kingdom Hearts 2 - Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - Spiderman (2018) - Risk of Rain 2

Join us on 9/7 for a Craft Fair Fundraiser for Gaza. Can't make it and want to donate a craft, here's a form to fill out: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Testing call finally up! Thrive will be my next charity knit-along pattern, raising money for the Transgender Law Center. I am hoping to start the knit-along Saturday, October 11, which is National Coming-Out Day www.yarnpond.com/pattern_test... #Knitting 🧶 #Craftivism #TestKnit

I learned yesterday that @hankgreen.bsky.social has a productivity app? As somebody who knits, has difficulty concentrating, and calls everything cute a "bean," I think this was literally made for me? Excited to see how Deep Focus mode is when it comes out -- it might replace Forest on my phone

So I've been pretty quiet on social media lately, mostly because I've been going through a pretty bad bout of depression. Back in November when the election results came in, I knew it would be bad but really tried to fire myself up for "damage mitigation." /1

I've been coveting the pronoun pal pins from @kittywithacupcake.bsky.social since I saw the Kickstarter, but because I'm a hermit I couldn't justify them to myself. Now that I'm doing more in-person DMing, though, I decided to get a set for my TTRPG bag. It was so hard to choose just a few!

It should also raise the alarm for all of AI: If people like Musk are willing to weigh its AI to become mecha-hitler, they're probably also willing to weigh it to support their business interests.

What do an alpaca, a sex strike, and a protest with a baseball bat have in common? (1/9) They’ve all helped take down authoritarian regimes. Here’s how creative activism actually works — and why it’s so powerful. #ArtisticActivism #CreativeResistance #C4AA

🚨URGENT🚨 The House is set to vote this morning on the “Big Beautiful Bill” that will reshape all of our lives in order to make billionaires richer. They're trying to jam this bill through, but it is not a done deal—we have one last chance to try and stop this bill.

#Sewsky Where do you buy sewing thread now that JoAnn is gone? I went to Michael's, but they said they don't carry it. I refuse to give Hobby Lobby my money and I don't seem to have a local indie option, but I really want to buy in person so I can color match my fabric #Sewing

Happy Pride Family! I made this for you. I also made free patterns so you can make your own! drive.google.com/file/d/1kVsZ... #craftivism

Apparently the current #ShowMeYourKnits prompt is yellow. The lighting isn't amazing, but here's a little sneaky peek at my latest pattern, Thrive. This will be in testing soon and will be released probably in September as a craftivism Knit-along raising money for the Transgender Law Center #Knit 🧶

Does anybody else love an outcome they hate the process of? The design for my next charity knit along has an icord edge and bind-off. I love the way it looks, but find it so tedious... #Knitting #Craftivism

Confirmed Un|En Twine is a SUPER TURBO GAY GAME. I'm very happy @stitch-theory.bsky.social and I made it VERY QUEER and EXPLICITLY TRANS, because fuck small notions of gender and corporealisation Be GAY and slightly toxic and playtest it during Pride Month 👉👈 johnson-ofair.itch.io/unen-twine

CW: pregnancy, miscarriage West Virginia prosecutor is warning that miscarriages could lead to criminal charges. This is absolutely infuriating. Did you know that 26% of all pregnancies end in miscarriages? www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/h... pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30422585/

Nothing quite like sewing a whole, long seam and then realizing your bobbin ran out two inches in... #Sewing #Sewsky

I know everyone is loving the Musk schadenfreude but we have to stay on the alert for the possibility that Musk is going to turn his sights to those centrist dem conventions going on and further entrench transphobia and anti-immigrant sentiment. And they would easily work with him.

#Knitsky, I'm looking for a top knitting pattern that uses fingering weight yarn, doesn't cover the upper back, and is available somewhere other than Rav. Any suggestions? #Knitting 🧶

Happy pride! I just cast on the sample for my next charity knit along pattern, which will raise money for the Transgender Law Center. This gorgeous yarn is SilkPaca in Amber from @yarndragon24.bsky.social is so soft that I keep stopping to pet it #Knitting #Craftivism

Started a Lunar Top (pattern by @aklori.bsky.social) in this gorgeous Stardew Valley yarn from @gamercrafting.bsky.social. The only problem is that the colors are such a perfect match to the start screen that it's tempting me to put this away and pull out my Switch #Crochet #TunisianCrochet

If you’re Jewish and want to see Gaza receiving food and an immediate end to the Israeli food aid blockade — that’s it, that’s the whole message, surely no one can quibble with those asks — please sign this petition! It’s just 500 names short of 18,000 signatories www.foodaidforgaza.org

This is why "separating the art from the artist" is bullshit. The money the shitty artist gets from your support furthers their ability to continue the behavior that makes them shitty. Meaning, you are supporting their shitty behavior with your attention and dollars. So stop!

Phew! Finally finished the sample for this cross stitch pattern. This is the first of an eventual four #CrossStitch #CrossStitching #Balatro #VideoGames

Working on fill on this cross stitch and cuddling with a doggy today

#SewSky You know those presser feet you always see in IG reels? The really narrow ones for super precision? What do I need to search to find if one exists that would work for my Janome MOD-30? #Sewing

Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Today, Marjorie Taylor Greene’s DOGE subcommittee is wasting time and resources to hold an illegitimate and hate-filled hearing targeting trans athletes. It’s nothing more than a political stunt meant to reinforce harmful stereotypes.

Alright! It's finally out! Determination, a cross stitch pattern inspired by the video game Undertale, is available as a digital download on my PayHip stitchesandstringtheory.com/b/vigSs #CrossStitch #VideoGames

Hmm interesting, but did Maine try giving Trump what he wants and getting kicked in the face anyway?

If a stranger posts about how happy a silly little pleasure made them and your response is to be an asshole and make fun of them it’s time to re-examine your whole life. It’s 2025. We no longer shit on other people’s joy if it’s not hurting anyone else. This is loser behavior.