I'm attempting #blackwork for the first time. My stitches are untidy, the back is a mess & I've unpicked half a dozen times already from miscounts. It comes together really fast though, even with the boo-boos. More practice needed... #CrossStitch #embroidery

Not very weather appropriate but I’ve finished my latest #crochet project 🧶 #knitsky

They could have made this map any color.

A Norway fan has gone viral for not taking part in their Row celebration after matches and won't do it if they win the World Cup "It’s factually wrong; they didn’t row, they sailed over the Atlantic”

Count Binface belongs to a long, noble tradition of fools and court jesters who mock kings and politicians by enacting grotesque imitations of them. In doing so they hold up a mirror to society.

Solitude - 1944 https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104101

Colombia v Switzerland being referred to as Charlie v The Chocolate Factory.

Dear Auntie You will be surprised to hear that I am going to prison tomorrow.

“President Infantino, we’ve got the King of Belgium on line 1, the Prime Minister of Belgium on line 2, the Minister-Presidents of Flanders, Wallonia, and the Brussels Capital Region on lines 3, 4, and 5 respectively, and the Minister-President of the German-Speaking Community of Belgium on line 6.”

this....

This woman ♥️

I would kill or die for Larry

Reform U.K. is for people who have tattoos of their children but not custody of them.

Time for the next step in the Great(ish) FIFA men's Cross-Stitch-Up, with a throwback to 2016 and this ace design for @GuamFootball 🪡⚽️🇬🇺 #CrossStitch #GuamFootball #GuahanFutbol

Latest #WIP going well. Pinks and purples finished, onto blue next. Rather suspect these colours won't be to everyone's taste, and can't blame the pattern designer since I chose 'em myself 😆 #CrossStitch #crafts

“We’re all trying to find the guy who did this” - ChatGPT

Graphic design is my passion.

Saw somewhere that they'd observed that these shenanigans had resulted in the deaths of several tiny ducklings and I cannot stress how quickly a British PM who did that would be forced from office.

Quick cross stitch finish on the day of the summer solstice: Hope. Cos we all need some. #CrossStitch

Well done Scotland! I'm not really a football fan so didn't stay up to watch the match but, reading about it this morning, even my cold black heart gets a little emotional when I see a stadium full of fans singing Flower of Scotland 🎵 #WorldCup #Scotland

It appears my countrymen have arrived in the Americas and culturally appropriated a statue of George Washington.

OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY CLOSE TO A DEAL WITH EURASIA

Ok so I’m reading this book I got a while ago about creativity and I got to this anecdote and…. and…,…,: HELLO??? SIR HOW DID YOU SURVIVE THIS??? I AM NOT APPENDIX DOCTOR BUT I’M PRETTY SURE THIS SHOULD HAVE KILLED YOU?????????

Philip has took me out to London for the day, don't laugh but he's just dropped the tray with dinner on.

New project and it's coming together fast! Pattern is The Dark Tower by @badstitch.bsky.social #CrossStitch #WednesdayWIP #DarkTower

Social media would have less power and influence if legacy media was more forthright in dismissing and challenging its harmful narratives rather than indulging and reinforcing them.

labour: social media is bad for children! labour: ai, which is known to impair cognitive and reasoning skills, is great and should be forced on to your children from a young age.

We need more rich people with normal interests like "your movie sounds neat" instead of, like, white fertility rates.

you’re a woble

National trust need to buy this and turn it into a museum for services to UK animation

I have questions.

I forgot to turn off the electric. Would you mind doing it for me please.

You folks and your cross stitch projects... BEAUTIFUL! WONDERFUL! AMAZING! So much work goes into these you all should be awarded the "I DID THIS!" awards. My hat is off to you folks.

Have you, like me, spent the last 26 years worrying if the Canadian Potato Museum STILL has the display of various potato diseases with potatoes in little coffins? Stop worrying. I checked today. Still there.

My latest #CrossStitch finish, finally in the hoop and stuck on the side of my fridge! Love this one, so summery 🐝 #crafts

🫣😂 #CrossStitch #WIP #crafts

Been having a lot of fun on longer journeys inventing back stories for road signs. Fazakerly Kirkby is an apprentice wizard (on his Middle Eastern mother’s side). She married an accountant Philip Kirkby. Faz is coming into his powers but his abilities appear to be a different discipline to UK magics

You come to me, on the day of my son's wedding, which I am not attending

For the unpatriotic, those are: Paddington, Winnie the Pooh, Rupert and Sooty. WE SHALL REMEMBER THEM.

[goth first date] GOTH: a dead fly should be called a flew OTHER GOTH: a dead bee should be called a been *they kiss, but sadly*

A short tale that doesn’t show me in a particularly good light, but whatever The small Essex town in which I live is not renowned for its diversity of culture or vibrant underground music scene 1/

Google seems not to realise that I do not use Google search so that Google can tell me things. I use it to get to other, more reliable sources of information. You'd think we'd be starting to chafe at the control big tech companies have over what we see.

Fallen down a Bobby Womack wiki hole

I see so many BBC articles like this. They almost never lead on people being supportive of solar projects. It is the noisy, angry homeowner opponents who get wall-to-wall uncritical coverage.

Got a terrible but persistent urge to buy a typewriter, but no idea what to get. Recs welcome. #WritingCommunity

TIL I can 'run a marathon' in my current state 😄

Got a notification from a medieval copyright lawyer

😆 Jokes aside, I've seen Idris Elba mentioned as a future Bond and that would be absolutely *chef's kiss* (And not just for the meltdown from the usual suspects)