Not afraid of the bully. I see a metaphor for my times.

I don’t keep up with technology these days. www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6IF...

Any historians out there, or friends of friends? I'm trying to follow a plot bunny. One of the books that has popped up is by a historian, Simon Webb. My spidey senses aren't entirely happy with the blurbs on the book: The Forgotten Slave Trade: The White European Slaves of Islam. Is he any good?

It is entirely appropriate that Trump's reflecting pool is "Money Green." images.wsj.net/im-27787451?...

My kid brought home a copy last night and asked if I’d read it before. I told her, “Baby girl, what’s in those pages is the reason I got into the field. We need representation and protection.”

Love the sound of ancient instruments.

I had a brain-storm last night and checked my medications. At least two are known to cause edema in the legs. And the timeframe is rather suggestive. But then my husband found this and it's a LOT more suggestive. And most of the treatments look palliative to me. cov19longhaulfoundation.org?p=13120

/1 No Kings. Dang, I wanted to go to it, so very badly! The weird part is that it is being held a scant mile from my home. I can't walk a mile. We've been tracking my endurance. For the woman who gladly strode along at 4mph for years, walked 5-6 miles a day; it's really really annoying.

/1 pain update. I’ve been using the “thigh-hi”s compression stockings. I’ve been doing PT. I’ve gotten off GABA (didn’t do anything for me) and taken a course of pred. Report. I am sleeping most nights. 6 out of 7. Night pain in the legs is seriously decreased. Daytime is increased. Occasionally

Too many of my friends have had to farewell family members of the four-footed kind this week.

My funnest comic these days. sidequested.com/page/1/ It’s sweet and silly, and there are several others, in progress or finished by this duo.

Puget Sound Geometry

For my health, I walk in Titlow Park. My "payoff" are the creatures I photograph. Today I caught one of the nesting Eagle. Later on the little dock I saw this Warrior, harassed by crows. It's NOT one of the nesting Eagles. I've never seen this one before. It isn't giving in.

History of Turkey. I need an English language history of Turkey that covers the 18th century. I want to send my protagonist there, and I'm working on the plot bunny, but absolutely unsure if it is even a thing.

/1 COVID and Long-COVID. Every one seems to have different disabilities. For me, among the inability to have more than 30 minutes of exercise a day without paying a severe price over the following 7 days; are increased light sensitivity and the inability to withstand crowds.

So why did I hate it? Because it isn't time travel like the blurbs say. It's somebody who screwed up and couldn't take the heat and lost her mind; was (gaslit?) by her husband and two kids for years. The "redemption" at the end of the book didn't redeem anything. The kids payed the steepest price.

Oh, thank goodness!

Ah, nice one. I must do this.

EAGLES! I think the nest I've been watching has hatchlings. Probably last night! Whooooo!

What is our vice-president doing interfering in other countries elections??????

#CrochetCreations Lux Red Resistance cap. Made using a pattern by Alicia Hathorne, in an art fiber of cashmere, silk and lurex with beads and sequins. (For Tacoma residents... "Fibers, Etc." has the most delicious palette of yarns.) 275yds

#CrochetCreations Thought I’d lost my red resistance hat at the last “No Kings” rally. Alicia Hathorne posted a ribbed pattern that looked really good. She made it up herself and I loved it. She was kind enough to share her pattern with me. It took two days, but I did finish it.

So… Netflixs will release in September of this year a 6 part miniseries of Pride and Prejudice. It’s interesting. The blurb says that the scriptwriter and director want to hew to the original. Good for them. But the first scene on the teaser is…

Quote: “It will just open up naturally,” Trump says about the Strait of Hormuz. Me: yeah, just like every 13 year old ‘just opened up naturally’ for him.

I've been getting a lot of "We'll publish your book!" and "E-Book HERE!" spam. The latest lovely little hook to reel that author in was: ________*********________ This is unbelievable… New revolutionary technology has JUST been launched that allows you to INSTANTLY create professional Ebooks,

Took me a minute.

Thank you University of Oxford! 🐝🌎

#crochetcreations Another project with Crafty Intentions patterns, inspired by art work. This Mural by @marymann of Tacoma WA (see instagram) inspired two Crafty Intentions dolls with slide-on Mermaid tails. Lushootseed Coastal PNW peoples. Reposted with hashtag

DOGE employee deposed about DEI... Going in circles: "What is your understanding of DEI?" "Well, it was laid out in the EO-Executive Order- and we used that to determine..." Finally: "All right, so why is this holocaust exhibit DEI?" "Well, it's a gender-based story..." (full story 404media)

Mace to Walz :Do you know what a woman is? Mace to Walz :If you can't define what a woman is, you can't define fraud. False equivalencies for the win. And for the lose, Walz to Mace: I'm not here to be your prop

It’s time to re-institute weregild.

1/5 I just had a HUGE miscommunication in a discussion. It took three tries before I finally managed to communicate my thought to my friend.

I have friends. I follow many artists in many mediums. Most have posted in the last 3 months that they are battling depression and I wish there was something I could do. Money. Money and freedom from the fear of bankruptcy, homelessness and loss would help. I don't have enough money.

#crochetcreations Latest make. An imago for a friend during a stressful time. She asked for something that can give her what I call "sosiego." (It translates as "calm/peace" But that's not how we used that word. It meant a level headed person who could face the world and keep their balance.)

FlyingFoxDemon, one of the few users of AI generative videos I actually can stand to watch in the last month, has new one out on YouTube. Canadian Defense Force… and in the very very last frames, the geese, some are wearing a red resistance cap! W00t!

What are the consequences of firing so many people in weather related government jobs? My weather app says there is “light drizzle” in Tacoma. My eyes see Snow.

CrochetCreations# 1/4 It is a truth universally accepted (for the most part by toy makers) that our Creations talk to us. We say, "She doesn't like the pink I bought for her horns;" or "He's demanding something else and I don't know what."

1/3 Quoting Jim Wright The military loaned Border Patrol a secret high energy laser weapon which CBP then used to shoot down what they claimed were drug cartel drones but were actually party balloons. And they did this next to a major civilian and military airport, the primary transportation->

/1 Welp... the last few months Long COVID... evolved. I really thought I was getting out from under it. Then two sneaky things hit me, pretty much together. My A1C increased. Yah, I'm tired all the time and am not exercising, is a known secondary from COVID. My gut stopped working. (Also known)

#CrochetCreations Crafty Intentions pattern, "Charming Lace Winged Dragon Pattern. Made with cotton yarn, brand Cummulus and an E hook by moi.

#CrochetCreations From the "Charming Lacy-Winged Dragon" pattern by the incomparable Megan Lapp of Crafty Intentions (Seen on Ravelry!) Her answer to AI Slop is to create a real CHARMING pattern that's better than any machine can do.

Tacoma Peeps... somebody is "leafletting" the parks with this ugly little message. If you see it, destroy it, please. TOXIC STUFF (I found 7 of these on a trails in Titlow Park.) It tells people to report aliens giving a number and saying "Neighborhoods, School, Work, Church, Restaurants."

They are coming for your gunz.

Bad Bunny needs to wear a blue, lop-eared bunny hat. I can't think of anything stronger or more powerful for him to do to remind people that young "Conejo" has been sprung, but 15,000 more kids are in those prisons, facing measles as well as dirt, abuse, bad food, bad water and no hygiene.

FAFO... the new short form... federaloverreach.org

Give a dog a bad name and hang him. from Heather Cox Richardson’s report Jan 27, quote:

This was the list I wanted… though it should be “First to LAaast.” All the outrage NOW, I’ve been outraged for over a year. Knowing that we are not being TOLD of the deaths and that many more have died, and they are vanishing behind the curtains as if they never lived.

This is the single funniest excuse he could have come up with for not wanting to be booed in public

Ran into an interesting nibblet of history. During WWII, the Norwegians used a red cap to show their anti-German stance. The Germans showed the usual oppressor reacting to a threat knee-jerk reaction, banning the red caps and visual depictions of them.

Some days I don’t know where to start. And I shut my mouth and sits and thinks. On one of my forums somebody posted a happy story. Her child read a book, drew the doll of the protagonist, and the poster created that doll in fiber arts. It’s a happy story, see the nice thing mother and daughter did.