Mike Braun is going to be big mad when he realizes our nuclear (looking) family has two queer, polyamorous parents that are not religious and believe in radical love, empathy, and kindness. #HoosiersAgainstHate #Pride #QueerAllYear

New blog post about recent shop updates and what other updates will be happening next weekend. I also asked for feedback, so if you have something you want to share, please leave a comment on the blog! kindhandsdesign.mayhem.my/blog/happy-a... #knitsky #crochetsky #yarnsky

I know personally that government policies and programs are not abstract – they determine whether families survive or fall through the cracks. That is why I am leading @oversightdemocrats.bsky.social on the newly formed Task Force on Defending Constitutional Rights & Exposing Institutional Abuses.

New products and I reorganized the site a bit 🥳 kindhandsdesign.mayhem.my #handdyed #handmade #selfpromo #yarn #fiberarts #knitsky #crochetsky

So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

#FinishedObjectFriday is two dish scrubbies. #handmade #crochet #crochetsky

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

#politics #vote I'm going to say it again, because it seems we all have very short memories. Polling. Doesn't. Mean. Shit. We've been let down repeatedly. Voter turnout is what matters. Stop watching polling. Start planning to get your ass to the actual polling places. We only win by showing up.

it's always 2 white guys telling each other "exactlyyyy"

I did it. I finally updated my storefront. Please clap! Kindhandsdesign.mayhem.my

Who's going to tell all these men that their ballsmaxxing is gender affirming care? It won't be me, but someone probably should.

Yearly reminder that there are few things more attractive than someone comfortable in their own skin and owning it.

Making progress and fucking the pattern up by missing a purled section. I'd frog it but that goes against my firm belief that some mistakes don't need fixing and we just need to deal with the imperfection. Plus, I really hate frogging this yarn 🥲 #knitting #knitsky #fiberarts

I mean this as sincerely as possible, but the 6 individuals on the supreme court that voted to essentially end the VRA can get fucked by endless cacti in all available orifices. I'm so tired of having everything ruined by smooth brained pieces of shit.

PSA: Hachette workers are currently leading the largest unionization campaign in publishing history and they're inviting all of us (readers, publishing professionals, anyone with a full name and an email address) to sign in support 💜 hachetteworkers.com/open-letter/

We couldn't make it to our local bookstores @mainbooksin.bsky.social and @2ndflightbooks.bsky.social today for National Independent Bookstore day, so I placed an order through @bookshop.org and have two new queer books coming soon! Support indie bookstores any way you can ❤️

do u hate prisons? do u love books??? wild, us too. we are in a matching grant fundraiser atm for lgbt books to prisoners and wi books to prisoners. whatever you donate will be MAGICALLY DOUBLED and all the money goes to getting books inside prisons. why? cause fuck prisons. ven/mo @roomofonesown

Today's dye bath is a custom order for the agender pride flag colors. I will also be starting to work on the #Pride line and can't wait to make the Greater Lafayette area even more queer 😈 #yarn #handmade #knitsky #crochetsky

Sometimes I'll say no problemo when there is in fact problemo

ICE in Chicago this morning at Elston and Kennicott—a masked agent tells a witness (on the sidewalk) not to get in front of his car. Feds are continuing kidnappings across the city & burbs after increased activity this month. No flashy CBP caravans, just a steady stream of covert ICE arrests.

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

"She’s been a court interpreter for over 20 years, the only one licensed in Texas for Hindi, Punjabi, or Urdu. Her language skills are requested nationwide..." "One of her children recently enlisted in the military... www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

Why do we have lawmakers in Congress who are willing to hold fellow members of Congress accountable for sexual assault but not a President?

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you shouldn’t learn about bands from shady TikTok manipulation, you should learn about bands by hanging out with a girl you like but are also extremely afraid of

Maestra is such a good film. Seeing driven, talented, deeply feeling women excelling in their field and working to shatter the glass ceiling is powerful. Seeing that the film was made with a film crew of 80% women was the cherry on top. All the stars, everyone should watch it. #filmsky

The Greencastle Wool & Fiber Show was such a wonderful time! I got to meet so many talented, creative, & supportive people the past two days & I couldn't be more grateful. Kelly from Kiss Looms used one of my favorite colorway skeins on her loom demo and it made such a cute neckerchief 🥹 #yarnsky

All set up and ready for the Greencastle Wool Show! #handmade #knit #crochet #embroidery #yarn #fiberarts #madewithlove

Something I worked hard to assist in. “As advances in computing, data integration and Earth observation converge, modeling is shifting from long-term climate projection to a practical tool for managing near-term risks, from natural hazards to infrastructure planning” www.gesda.global/earth-system...

Wake up, kids We got the dreamers disease. ‘Radical’ comes from a Latin word meaning "root." Because roots are the deepest part of a plant, ‘radical’ came to describe things understood as fundamental or essential. ‘Radical change’ was a change at the root of a system.

Please stop saying TACO. We’re talking about an ungodly number of people who could die or maimed. It’s not time for cutesy little internet slang. We have to get away from this bizarre desensitization.

Today is day 127 of the ICE occupation of MN. ICE is still here. Neighbors are still being abducted. So we’re here too. Still carrying whistles. Still standing watch in our neighborhoods. Still doing mutual aid. Still fighting for ICE OUT EVERYWHERE.

It’s okay to be outraged and scared and tired and admit we don’t know what to politically do... and to still try to do something.

just to be clear, everyone, when 8 pm EDT comes and goes, regardless of what does or does not happen, the president still threatened genocide and war crimes and we should still impeach, arrest, and try him

We traded in the minivan for a 2023 Kia EV6 last week. It was staying clean and nice...until this morning when I went to catch a falling backpack and hit my coffee cup with my hand and it spilled everywhere 🥲

Dating in your 30s when you're relationship operating method is consensual non-monogamy/polyamory, with a preference for sapphic connections, all while living in a conservative state, really fucking sucks.

2nd week in a row the neighbor is mowing the lawn. Meanwhile I'm trying to eek out another week or two before we mow ours. I do need to weed our garden bed a bit though 🫠

🎨 @wizardofbarge.bsky.social

Yes, I know we're in the dumbest, darkest timeline. However, there are still things that bring me immense joy - like seeing data centers being destroyed because the most uninspired, milquetoast dorks decided to play Risk in real life and now their sugar daddies have a costly mess to clean up 😈

We've had herons back at our pond after not really seeing them last year and it has been so nice 🥰

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DON'T LET THE BASTARDS GET YOU DOWN 🏳️‍⚧️ #art #tdov #transart

I have started blocking accounts that post AI slop. I feel like I should have been using the block button with lots more reckless abandon before now.

Tonight was the first Crafting Community session at the art studio I work at and have been lobbying to get on the schedule. It was so fun to see what other people were working on and to meet new people! Also, sometimes we have to be the ones to build the community we want to exist where we live.

“I asked ChatGPT”- ok well I asked the mycelium and it said to plant more trees and to tell you to return to the forest

I think we need to celebrate the death of Sora a bit more. This is a technology that, just MONTHS AGO, we were being told was going to literally destroy Hollywood and Disney was going to give them a BILLION DOLLARS and NONE OF THAT EVEN REMOTELY HAPPENED