I really hated knitting this heel, which means the recipient will LOVE IT and want all her socks made this way forevermore. 🤣 Anyway, almost time to look up the "surprisingly stretchy bind off" for about the 50th time. (I have a great memory. I just don't seem to keep USEFUL things in it. 😂) 🧶

✝️ Where two or three skeins are gathered in a store, I am there 🧶✨ #YarnJesus #CraftHumor

Everybody Scream is a perfect colorway for the Autumn season and...well...every morning when we wake up and read the headlines. Here it is knit up into a Point Edwards Mitt (pattern by Fairlight Fibers). I like this pattern because they are snug on my hand. (Pattern link & yarn link in comments.) 🧶🧶

1. Knitting 🧶 2. Sumo wrestling 🇯🇵 3. Trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️

Finally got on insta for a minute and GOOD NEWS! 🧶 #knitting #KnitTheRainbow

Taking a break from cleaning to finish the heels. ✅ 🧶 #knitting

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My submission for #Showmeyourknits #autumnalknits is these boxes of hats for Knit the Rainbow! I send at least one box every fall when they open up donations again- this year it's going to be full of 🌈s. But LAST YEAR it had some glorious fall colors so I'll share that one too. 🍂 🍁 😂 🧶

This week has been pretty horrible. Emptying out a house we could live in if the US weren't descending rapidly into fascism is no fun. These socks are also no fun. I love toe up socks but the recipient prefers a square heel instead of short row and that has been a real slog. Ugh. 🧶 #knitting

Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom. Many may not know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country. (Published 2022)

THIS. And it's actually the founder of Indivisible, @leahgreenberg.bsky.social. If a founder of Indivisible is saying you don't have to attach your name due to security concerns, you don't have to! Now stop harassing Imani and other Black women/gender fluid folks who are raising legit concerns.

Since this whole debate is still happening, and since we are still not listening I will summarize what I understand the argument to be in the Lingua Franca of white nerds: Lord of the Rings analogies.

I will as well.

Censorship is here and it’s come in the form of corporations censoring themselves in order to win favor with the regime.

Charlie Kirk was a vicious, racist trust fund baby who made the world a worse place. I am the CEO of Antifa Inc. and I approve of this message.

Note how the right always *overestimates* the percentage of the population that is transgender (to create transphobic hysteria), while it relentlessly *underestimates* the percentage of the population that is gay (to marginalize gay people).

These efforts have to get a certain number of Colorado voters to sign a petition to get these exclusive policies put on our ballots in 2026. If someone asks you to sign a petition, make sure you read the whole thing. Don’t take their words at face value. #handsoffcolorado handsoffco.org

Two dangerous ballot initiatives are circulating in Colorado right now: one would ban trans kids from playing school sports (#109), and another would ban gender-affirming care for youth (#110). #handsoffcolorado handsoffco.org

thought the worst thing would be going about daily life while everyone just ignores the collapse of society but it turns out the actual worst thing is having 27 conversations per day that go “did you see the news alert? yeah, bleak times we live in. anyway, can you get this to me by Friday?”

the hysteria has gone off the rails so far that the average american thinks 1 in 5 people are transgender. pure absolute insanity that is driving the current lavender scare

There goes the First Amendment.

I’ve got 3 family members who are trans. You hurt them, you hurt me. Just saying…🏳️‍⚧️

I love Evie so much. Knitting IS amazing and so is she. 💕 🧶 (Also, honestly the sock/scarf thing in Focus Friend ALONE should've led us to expect a garbage video on the topic.)

I am just going to keep posting that the TX governor recently pardoned a political murderer. The dude texted "I'm going to shoot protestors", then went and shot a Black Lives Matter protester. He was convicted in a jury trial. Hard to find a more blatant example of celebrating political violence.

This isn't a new but: The Bluesky GIF library has excluded the famous Sound of Music scene where Capt. Von Trapp rips up the Nazi flag, and any GIFs of Nazis from that movie. Literally a movie about standing up to Nazis. YouTube still has up. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORRo...

Sec. 226 of H.R. 5300, the State Department reauthorization bill, will give the dept new unchecked power to revoke passports from US citizens for any speech or beliefs they oppose. Call your reps and demand they strip it from the bill 👉 5calls.org/issue/rubio-... theintercept.com/2025/09/13/m...

Now apply this policy this way to Megan McArdle's comments about trans people

Declaring that a private business refusing to print a vigil poster for the President's friend is a civil rights violation is an interesting legal argument. Brings to mind Colorado cases Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission and 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis.

I don't support what happened to Charlie Kirk, but Charlie Kirk supporters support what happened to Charlie Kirk.

Exactly. Stand up or be complicit. You don't have to understand trans issues. You don't have to debate them. You just need to loudly point out that they are people and they have a right to exist and live their lives and be free to be themselves, just like you.

Instead of the media’s lazy posthumous takes, I am in favor of Kirk’s actual words being spread far and wide.

If you are having a bad day, then here is an Angel Butterfly for you ..🥰😍 #bluesky #dog #dogday

A really good way to stop being compared to Hitler is if you stop doing Hitlery things

@bsky.app I left Twitter, currently referred to as X by fascists, because as a Jew I'm not into being noticed so I noped out of there. Hank Green successfully persuaded me in a video to give your site a chance. I've been enjoying being openly trans here. Could you cater to people using your site?

I would like to remind everyone that the #Nazi order to euthanize those with mental health issues (and other #disabilities ♿️) was called Aktion T4. This involuntary euthanasia killed 300K people by conservative estimate. Kilmeade is promoting Nazi killing protocol. Literally, he is saying we should.

I want to be measured and not assume future events that could, in theory, be prevented. However, I do think that, if you've been waiting for a signal that it's really time to leave, you probably shouldn't wait much longer.

Mr Green: Scientists say physicists can’t understand it. So obviously this has been proven true.

The quiet part, said aloud.

This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.

If I ever write a novel, the fake Christian villain will be called "Nancy Mace."

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

"Reality is super-inconvenient, y'all!!!"

Face it, MAGA, if your president's name weren't all over the Epstein files, they would have been released unredacted, printed, and bound in $500 special editions signed by Trump, recorded as an audio book by Mel Gibson, and tattooed on Laura Loomer's ass.

I think it's a sign of how cowed the American media is that we're getting pieces like "you have to understand, in Korean culture, it's considered very rude for someone to lock you in a brutal prison camp for a week for no reason." Like yeah, any free people would be offended by that?

Recently, I was in the hospital w/ my complex chronic health condition & being treated at the same time were 2 kind vets of Iraq & Afghanistan. 1 had worked as a social studies teacher & had a wife diagnosed with a case of RA that was disabling. Both were homeless. He's talking about human beings.

If you’re famous for behaving like a dick— and that becomes 99% of your thing— people don’t have to admire you when you die, even if you die tragically and needlessly. And that view is still fully consistent with empathy and patriotism. Anyone saying otherwise is up to no good.

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.