Do not sleep on your thrift store book section! I got some great books on knitting, sewing, gardening, and how to fix shit around the house... like, how to make a custom slip cover for my sofa?! Yes please! 📚🧶🪡🌿🪛

destroying the trees themselves instead of the peaches is where this goes from unmitigated greed into actual evil

Got another round of mulch as I prep more planting area! Currently have time and not money, so I'm doing the free scoop-it-yourself piles from SMUD. It's actually nice though because it's forcing me to slow and think about what I'm planting where. ✨🌱✨

Are there plat ID people on here who might know what tree this is? It's in my neighbor's yard and it's spreading out under the ground all over my back yard and even up into the front yard. #treeID #mysterytree 🌱🌳🍃

Exciting times in bean sprouting ✨🌱✨🥹 The more mature one was our first attempt, when we just sprouted a few beans that fell on the floor. The seedling pots are attempt 2, and we did a better job this time!

This is where I started ruthlessly unsubscribing from campaign fundraising texts and emails.

Got as much mulch as my IKEA bags could carry earlier today, then got obsessed with pulling out weed barrier from under the landscape pebbles as I moved them over to make room for my patches of mulch... I am tired and there is so so so much more to do! But it's raining so I'm on forced pause.

Please do not use weed barrier, particularly not the plastic stuff. 1) it doesn't work, the weeds always break through 2) they'll be harder to pull bc the soil under will be hard 3) plastics leech + micro plastics = not great Whether you like rock or mulch, please let the soil breathe.

Where we buying yarn these days? Like blanket quantity, washable. 🧶

Just over here trying to figure out how to grow food, the person who has killed 99% of their house plants and only keeps the current ones alive (barely) bc my girlfriend gives me dirty looks because they can hear my plants crying for help... 😬

The world’s ten richest people — all Americans — saw their collective net worth increase by $260 billion in April. These ten people are now worth a combined $2.7 trillion. The bottom 50% of U.S. households, 66 million in total, is worth $4.3 trillion. Wondering if inequality is out of control?

Not enough people are talking about this.     The Trump Administration is moving to cut benefits for up to 400,000 disabled Americans — people with Down syndrome, severe autism, dementia — for no other reason than that they live at home with their families instead of in an institution.

I'm over here wondering how, with qualifications, an excellent resume, and well thought out cover letter, I can't get a proper call back and then I see this... AI is used by 83% of companies in screening, and AI picks itself nearly 98% of the time. FFS

Just so everyone is clear, please never register online for a protest. You don’t know who is doing what with your info, ever, so you should always keep that to yourself as much as possible. Yes, spread the word that the stuff is happening, but don’t share your info or photos of faces. Thanks!

A big thanks to the organizer of the Stitch & Bitch who helped me figure out my sewing machine! These are the kind people we need around, the ones happy to help you grow your knowledge and skills and create space for community connection 💖🪡

Went to the Friends of the Library book shop 📚 and got a few knitting pattern books, each of them less expensive than a single pattern. Don’t sleep on thrift shops as a knitting resource! 🧶

As of 2023, Sherlock Holmes is finally in the public domain in the United States -- which means that Arthur Conan Doyle's heirs and random other rights-holders can no longer insist that the character be free of any trace of homoeroticism. buttondown.com/charliejane/...

Trying to stay focused on holding better in the imagination and doing better, locally, as my daily practice.

Went to a yarn swap. It was glorious. Highly recommend organizing one in your community! Yarn that I had been trying to will myself to use was happily swooped up by another, and I was able to get free skeins for my free beginner knitting classes + a little treat for me. All the rest was donated 💖🧶

Al-Fassel and Pishtaz News publish pro-U.S. coverage about the war on Iran and the Trump administration’s plan to redevelop Gaza.

If there are any knitters, crocheters, or yarn craft lovers out there interested in buying yarn on Mercari, I’ve listed some skeins of yarn on my shop account there. I had extra pink yarn I’m happy to part with 💖🧶🖤🤘🏼🦇 Link here to some pink yarn I’m selling below. Link here: merc.li/fEFZBjh6b?sv=0

Square Makes - Bags 👜 Follow the link below for details on different style bags that you can either knit or crochet 🧶 theimperfectknitteruk.blogspot.com/2024/11/squa...

Why do people still think billionaires running public anything is a good idea?! These are wealth-hoarding tax evaders who don't pay living wages and arguably benefit the most from the public infrastructure and social systems they don't pay into! All while trashing the planet..!

Got my almost-6yo an abacus at the thrift (I've been waiting for a while) and it's a big hit! ✨

Impatiently waiting for the book on hand sewing garments I thrifted to show up in the mail! I have a machine, but I want to understand garment construction from a couple different perspectives. I'd like to make things from new, mend, tailor, and repurpose things. ✨📖✨🪡✨

When you want the psycho out but also you don't want a decade of JDV who is coherent + super evil 🫠 Anyway, back to learning to grow my own food and advocating for Indigenous Leadership! 👋🏻

My garage is as chaotic as my brain 🫠 Prepping for a garage sale and wondering how I'm even going to get it all sorted 😅 The hope is to turn the space into an extra play/chill area off the backyard + sensible storage for seasonal items (no car fits in there, maybe a golf cart) Wish me luck! ✨🤞🏻✨

FIGHT BACK AGAINST #ICE 's DEPORTATION MACHINE AND #AI POWERED MASS GOVERNMENT #SURVEILLANCE! 1. Call your representatives at 202-953-1892 Tell them to vote NO on FISA until the Data Broker Loophole is closed 2. Call Out Corporate Dems on social media like @jahimes.bsky.social & @meeks.house.gov

Sheriff Chad Bianco seized more than half a million ballots and claimed he was investigating alleged counting discrepancies.

posting this shit when you’re owned by a billionaire is basically a recruitment ad for socialism

I see that #showmeyourknits is socks! These ones are my proudest accomplishment so far, but I do love a good vanilla sock. This is the Herding Hens pattern from Stone Knits, knit up in KP Palette. They were a Xmas gift for my sweetie.

Over here thinking about my preferred method of heel turn, as one does 🧶🧦

Working on a pattern and tutorial sample for first-time socks - these will be the small size and going to my partner's mom when they're done. I'm glad she has small feet, because between the three of us, I can test all three sizes 😅

The really impactful thing here is the tracker on what could be funded instead: militaryspend.org/us-iran-war

Planted some native strawberries... heres hoping I don't kill them! 😬✨🤞🏻✨🍓

Digging through stash to find yarns for YouTube tutorials... just over here remembering that I never fully catalogued all this and maybe I should 😬 But do I use a spreadsheet or Ravelry, that is the question 🧶

Okay, took a moment to jot down some of my favorite knitting resources 🧶 open.substack.com/pub/workingy...

Also, please everyone, stop letting AI have your face and/or voice - you are giving valuable biometric data to evil people who will use it against us all, I am sorry to say… people are already being harmed by surveillance tech, including being nabbed for crimes they did not commit.

I'm anti-AI for a myriad of reasons, all of them to do with who controls it. There is no denying that certain use cases are highly valuable and could be used to do great work. But as things are, we are destroying ourselves and our planet with it, because it’s controlled by irl super-villains. 🫠

Wrote up three knitting class proposals for our free school summer session! I’m excited to see what is accepted and meet a new round of knitting students! 🧶 Hoping to get some of my continued learning workshops on the roster, too! ✨

#TumbleTee update - I bound off the sleeves too tightly and most likely decreased a bit too much anyway since I shortened my sleeves a bit. This weekend I’m going to pick it all out and shorten them a bit more, do fewer decreases, etc. Reminding myself not to rush 🧶

This weekend I changed a blow-out diaper while the baby's mom was packing, and I remembered how grateful I am not to be wiping anyone's bum anymore. 😅

Over here trying laundry stripping on my whites for the first time... wish me luck! 😬 Doing my best to get the most out of my clothes between mending and special care ✨

Spent these two days bouncing a six-month-old baby around (Sir Chubby Cheeks) and am over here wondering why my arms and wrists are so worn out 😅

Took a lunch and yarn-winding break before binding the sleeve off 😬🧶

No curl cast off I love the clean, minimalistic look of this cast off 🤩 I have used it on cotton cardigan sleeves and love that really neat finish🧶 annaplexisinenglish.wordpress.com/2022/10/03/e... #knitting

Knitting my way through the horrors, bc it keeps me connected to lovely people, off of destructive algos, and away from ads that want to convince me I need more stuff 🧶 Capitalism and the endless growth it requires is death. Wool and cotton creating magic from my fingers is life 🌱 🐑

More twisted rib on the #tumbletee 🧶 - at least its just 12 rounds on the shorties per sleeve 🫠

Planted 3 native plants in my side yard. Paranoid the landscape flags won't be enough for landlords garden crew, I got some free wood chips to put around them. Please know I used to sell truck loads of this stuff, so I can measure. But LMAO at the minimal impact of my two IKEA bags full of chips!