My husband ate all my Aldi apple cider donuts so I got angry, went to the grocery store, bought a gallon of cider, and I am currently boiling cider on a Wednesday so that I can make LOTS more donuts. The Aldi ones were more cinnamon sugar than apple anyway.

I am really glad I found a US source for Lana Grossa Setasuri because I saw the new shipping directly from Filati and almost had a heart attack (it's not their fault, of course). But I'm sad about Holst. My stash will get me through, but I have a project I'd like more Lucia for.

I need you to understand that now that it is fall, knitting will become my personality. I'm a cold bitch and need my sweaters. I mostly make sweaters, with the occasional hat. I do not knit socks. Maybe also the occasional hand things or shawl. (Yes, I'm watching the MKAL.)

I knit half a fucking row before I realized it was supposed to be a pattern row and even though it's like 45 stitches I'm saltily tinking back cursing the entire time.

Honestly, it needs to go further than this. We need to confront the fact that democracy and wealth hoarding cannot coexist. Allowing people to amass the resources of a small state/country allows them to act as such, which is inimical to a shared society of “one person, one vote.”

This is a really good idea, but a very bad time for my stash to have very little green yarn.

A thread about brassicas is a really wild way to find out that there are still people who think that traditional plant breeding isn't genetic engineering. xD

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

Has anyone compared the Spoonful app to the Fig app when it comes to weird dietary restrictions in particular? Corn/Pork/Black Pepper are my known ones and I need something that can tell me what packaged foods I can and cannot eat a lot easier than reading every fucking label ever.

I am realizing, as someone who is trying to find a safe meal replacement shake that is *not* low calorie, that there are a lot of 'meal replacement shakes' that are abso-fucking-lutely NOT meal replacements. Holy shit. 150 calories is NOT enough to consider it meal replacement, wellness industry.

I kind of want people to knit with, but I am home alone. So...knitting, anyone? I have to finish this cuff.

I have achieved three things today that make me happy: 1. I have assessed my various knitting WIPs and decided that most are getting ripped out, but one is getting finished. 2. I have found yarn in my stash for a sweater I wasn't sure I'd have yarn for. 3. I have cleared half the cutting table.

Whatever outside is doing is too strong for both Zyrtec and Claritin *at the same time*. Pls send pseudoephedrine and possibly pray to your deity of choice for a freeze.

I accidentally put more milk than I intended into my oat cobbler thing I'm making myself for dinner (do not at me, I do not give a fuck) and now I'm patiently hoping it comes out. It's basically baked oats made with oat flour and lightly sugared dark sweet cherries.

Dear people who make menstruation products that are pads: THE ADHESIVE SHOULD GO ALL THE WAY FROM ONE SIDE TO THE OTHER, FRONT TO BACK. It should not stop a centimeter down. I am tired of my pad rolling up in the back when I pull my fucking drawers up and having to unroll it.

I switched to my fall/winter bedding today and while our washer is large enough to handle a full/queen comforter the dryer is not quite and so I have to dry my blankets in stages: an hour, rearrange, then an hour more. I didn't think about it until 10PM. Welcome to me having no bedding yet. 2AM. xD

I migrated to myatproto so hopefully the invalid handle is temporary. :D

Rodney came to the US when he was just two years old. The Shriners brought him over from Liberia to get much needed medical attention. He owns a barber shop in Atlanta and is a beloved member of his community. When ICE grabbed him, he was days away from getting new prosthetic legs:

I think that a company that made a phone that is upgradeable (RAM and storage) with a replaceable battery and a version of Android without AI bullshit would make considerable money.

THEY CLOSED PUBLIC POOLS RATHER THAN SWIM WITH BLACK PEOPLE YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP

Meanwhile, Des Moines students stage a walkout to protest their superintendent's detention www.desmoinesregister.com/picture-gall...

The state could have backed him but instead they demonstrated for the thousandth time that there is no level of respectability that will prevent white people from serving you up on a platter in order to appease powerful racists.

Like Hakeem Jeffries either truly believes that we are just gonna ride this era out as a nation and it will be business as usual in 2028 OR he is being paid to behave this way. Either way, he needs to be primaried and voted out

My daughter is randomly singing the Jigglypuff song from Pokemon Snap 64.

If someone had told me 25 years ago that we'd be watching the world's technological leaders race to find out who can create the best 'steal all our joy' device while the president raises prices on everything, guts scientific advancement, and deports our neighbors, I would have laughed.

Personally I think all the chatbots should be put through an industrial shredder

I'm currently listening to Tanis for the first time. You can make a conspiracy-loving teenager into a skeptic (I was an X-Files nerd and had a phase, as you do), but apparently you can't completely take away finding it entertaining. Spooky. Female tech genius is a plus. On Ep 10.

Fund the arts

Make more fiction podcasts. Make more actual play podcasts. TELL STORIES. I really enjoy listening to them when I knit.

Today I am angry at the New York Times because that article on sewing that I can't even read is going to piss me off when I do. Talk to less privileged people and you will find that the skills of sewing and mending have literally never gone away. Jesus fucking Christ.

Calling #tea drinkers: I am looking for a masala chai mix that doesn't have black pepper. My stomach and black pepper does not mix. Can anyone think of a tea blend maker that has something like that? I know I can roll my own, but sometimes I just want to stick a ready made blend in a bag.

In "there's a game for this":

I've gotten into the meat of the Honoka sweater now and I am really remembering why I love this pattern so much. It's so well written. The raglan is charted with each size on its own page for convenience. The stitch pattern is so relaxing to do. It's just so good. Really do recommend it.

Sometimes I feel like with the amount of serious stuff I post I should probably consider changing my avatar from Captain from My Time at Sandrock, but he makes me happy so I've decided that you can all just think about serious political commentary coming from a video game cat. You're welcome.

Since Bluesky has been on one and because the attention-seeking has been wildly successful I'm posting as a reminder to myself as much as anyone else. In this case we're explaining over and over again what is self evident: Black people have a consistent track record of getting free.

So Target stopped carrying the pants my son has worn since he leveled up to men's sizing a couple years ago. If you have an autistic kid, you'll know that it has been annoying as FUCK to find things he'll wear instead. One thing he does like, though, is a pair of linen shorts I made him.

You should be talking to old Punks, Goths, Ravers, and Hip-Hoppers who used zines and flyers and whisper networks to coordinate events THEY KNEW would be surveilled and shut down if things got too public. You SHOULD NOT be listening to people who have never had to operate under the radar. Period.

What we're seeing in the "don't sign up for protests" discourse is what Paulo Freire described as the convert's failure to trust the knowledge of the oppressed. As the convert tries to stand in solidarity with the oppressed, they refuse to let go of a world where they were the authority by default.

Fun facts with me: 1. If I was fully able-bodied and could do anything I wanted with money being no object I would run a combination bakery/bookshop/rec room with comfy couches and tables for board and tabletop games and good lighting for knitting and hand crafts. Coffee and tea and pastry provided.

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

Also, for the 'posting online is virtue signaling' crowd: if it did no good then why are they trying so fucking hard to stop us all from doing it?

Toast with butter and honey is such a stupidly simple but stupidly good food.

While I'm knitting I sometimes pat my cake of yarn when I'm adjusting because it's good yarn and it deserves the pats and I can't do it to the animals it came from so this feels like the next best thing.

A whole lot of people are coming for @angryblacklady.bsky.social today for saying "do not put your name on a list of people attending a protest, what the fuck" with responses like "you're just discouraging people!" and "but they already know who you are!" and "DON'T LET THE TERRORISTS WIN" etc

Can't reply so I don't know if you'll see this, but call your local sex shops.

Listening to white men over black women is how we got here. It's how we fucking got here.

Russia designated the 'LGBT Movement' as a terrorist organisation. They know there is no such group; that's the point. It means they can choose to arrest ANYONE with any association with LGBT issues and treat them as a terrorist. The fact that 'antifa' is not a group should not be a comfort here.

Great British Sewing Bee > Project Runway. Yes, both are fun, but GBSB is just so much more positive and less stressful in a way that I need more right now.

I lied. We're going with a merino/alpaca/silk blend because I don't want to hold something double right now.