As requested, here are day old ducklings jumping off a ledge onto a lake set to "Ride of The Valkyries" 🐣 🪶

#ShowMeYourKnits - Blankets! I’ll have to dig out pattern information later

#knitting So, the honeycomb texture looks cool. And then I saw someone used some variegated yarn… nice! So, I asked myself, “what if I used variegated yarn *AND* some self-striping stuff?” My motto: anything worth doing, is worth overdoing.

President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...

Gee, I don’t know why there is always fog hair on my knitting projects… #knitting

I baked cherry rhubarb bread pudding today because it’s our wedding anniversary weekend! Also, I had some old bread and milk that needed to get used up; but that should not detract from my romantic expression!

Damn! Gas prices are so high I just saw Dolly Parton carpooling with Jolene.

Here’s a thought — Maybe these people don’t deserve to be handsomely rewarded? (From NPR)

Peacock Spider (genus Maratus), a group of tiny Australian jumping spiders famous for their vibrant colours and elaborate courtship dances to attract its mate. They are very tiny in size only between 2-5 millimetres ( the size of a pea)

Last day of another school year, and buried among the Freshmen responses to my question “what is something you learned in biology if it’s gonna stick with you for a while?” was this gem: “That the world is really weird” Yes, that is something you should get from your first year of high school!

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The longer you look at this, the worse it gets

So close, and yet so far. It is down to the ruffles. Pinning this out is going to take forever! #ShowMeYourKnits

My beloved made lavender margaritas! Friday is taking a turn in the right direction

horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...

Color vision test: What number do you see?

Sunday

Several news stories in the comments. Big push to drill at Mt Rushmore and surrounding sites.

The editorial cartoonist's pen is one of the sharpest tools in journalism, whittling issues down to basics for satire or rage. I'm proud to say that my long-ago colleague, Milt Priggee, is unafraid to shock with a tough point of view.

#ShowMeYourKnits #MeMadeMay I went to see ice sculptures in my newly completed qiviut DNA cabled hat, qiviut/silk gloves, and (harder to see) intarsia knit sweater from a pattern lost to the decades and self designed socks. (Yarn is all either local sources or old stash.)

I love how this poem moves from funny to serious I've seen this. The bar in Belfast International Airport. We heard the alarm, could smell the smoke & sat on & finished our pints. I have witnessed the second half of the poem too. It's time to pour our pints on the fire #Poetry #Poemoftheday

In the biggest jolt to abortion policy in the U.S. since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, a federal appeals court has restricted access to one of the most common ways to end early pregnancies, by blocking the mailing of mifepristone prescriptions. Here's what to know. https://to.pbs.org/4cKyJxf

This is an abortion ban

Republicans applauding while actively helping to weaken our checks and balances. 🤡

My conclusions were made seconds after I saw a headline but it's good to know the facts.

Today I realized the periodic table has gained 9 elements since I minored in Chem and my daughter is majoring in it. Damn, do I feel old all the sudden.

Dudes. As a society we taught young women to walk with keys between their fingers in dark parking lots and to carry pepper spray in their purse. So yes. I’m asking you to be responsible for the actions of other men. After all, that’s what you’ve asked of women for centuries. It’s your turn.

Oh sure blame Alaska www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...

The 99% is coming for those at the top.

After big dams on the upper Klamath River in far northern CA were removed in 2024, Chinook (king) salmon migrated upstream for the first time in 100+ years--and now they have hatched.

Hungarian mushroom soup for dinner! It was a real winner!

I object to the snow falling for the last few hours. I do not approve at all! #Anchorage

Cable week for #showmeyourknits ? I got this! Yggdrasil afghan in a cotton blend (brand name forgotten, but it ended feeling like a soft sweatshirt!) and a spiral wedding gift blanket of my own design in Lion Scarfie. And a superwarm hat from old stash wool, again my own design #knitsky #knitting

Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon all have headquarters in Seattle. This year the Seattle School District has an 80 million dollar shortfall.

I teach high school science. Some of my students are taking a photography. They all lit up with big grins as I told them the astronauts on Artemis took a photography class so they’d do the best job possible of recording what they saw. These students like having something in common with astronauts!

#WIPWednesday yes, a bit late! #knitting Finishing the sleeve cuffs. Needing to decide how I’m going to alter the sleeves to meet the desired length and flounce!

What the president is doing is batshit crazy.

New El Niño forecast just dropped and it’s a whopper! Maybe the strongest on record. The European model seasonal forecast shows record Aug-Oct tropical Pacific sea surface temperature warmth at 2-3°C above normal (~ +5°F) in the central-east Pacific. The record for Aug-Oct is +2.2°C in 2015… 1/

I don’t tend to do involved color work on socks anymore. Socks have become my travel projects that deliberately don’t require a whole lot of attention! These are a pattern I made up as I was going. And I can’t remember what brand of yarn this was #showmeyourknits. #knitting #knitsky

Love this!

You might forward this story to every Marine you know.

Did the DOJ rely on factual claims they knew were false in seeking and securing the Antifa convictions in Prarieland, Texas? It now seems that they did. inthesetimes.com/article/prai...