#craftsky 🧶 @saskajanet.bsky.social Ok, for real I’m done. I let it sit, then decided to ever so slightly crisp up the outlines on the big wing feathers. On the left, the crow a week ago. On the right, very faint stitches in tiny thread to outline the flight feather silhouette. Only I care.

Acktually, there is only one good in this alignment chart because moisture builds up in the plastic leading to rapid mould. Wrapping in towels would be the next level down. Cough. Can you tell I’m lawful good?

I Profile Celebrities For A Living. Nothing Prepared Me For A Brown Wig Taped To A Fax Machine

#breadsky 🍽️🍜 Today’s sourdough, a bit later because of time spent in the wee hours hauling kid to a thing, but happy sourdoughs.

I am home. Kid loved the activity and wants to do it again soon. 😫

Symmetrical puffy pyramid (Laughing Gull) #birds 🌿

This morning I woke at 4:45 and drove 2 hours for a kid activity. I’m in a cafe and tried to order lunch and was genuinely shocked that this is breakfast time for people who have not had my hell morning. There are people out there who are not starving and ready for lunch at 10?

Tonight’s desserts (I was over-ambitious) 1. Lemon curd swirl ice cream 2. Pistachio chocolate cake with biscoff-butter cream cheese icing. #cooksky 🍽️🍜

Me: brain, I’m really stressed. Brain: I know. It’s rough out there. M: any ideas? B: I’ve got it. A tasteful neutral eyeshadow palette. M: we have a lot of those B: this one could be ever-so-slightly more purple though. The last one was ever-so-slightly more brown. M:🤩 M: it’s like you know me.

see then i thought THIS must be a photoshopped joke. but i asked google the question 3 times in a row and behold: the saturfish cometh

Stock up on Curses & Curtains to read this weekend! Perfect for everyone who wants more musical numbers in their fantasy novels!

It’s framed and ready to hang! #embroidery #blackwork #fiberart #prideandprejudice #crossstitch

Everyone please watch this baby condor try to get in its box like a miniature drunk person in a chicken costume.

Happy Monday!! #pottery

@larisa-labrant.bsky.social I show you … an ice cream book that has been loved. This is the velveteen rabbit of ice cream recipes.

ugh, the company I've been using to call US numbers (replacing skype, RIP and fuck microsoft) is now demanding identity verification and I don't really want my ID floating around out there—anybody have any recommendations for a replacement for international calling?

🛁 I like Anne because she is a kindred spirit: things get too people-y for her and she needs to sound a retreat.

🛁 The present was that Captain Wentworth would move about well in her drawing-room. Never change, Elizabeth.

JOB: Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature Salary: £45,031 King’s College London is a world-renowned public research university. #HigherEd #eduSky www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/147465-...

#cooksky 🍽️🍜 Rice pudding with pumpkin seed brittle and dark caramel sauce.

Kid1: mom, The Shining can’t be that scary, it’s old! Me: ok, you are old enough to watch it, but don’t say I didn’t warn you. K1: about 20m later: this would be so much scarier with more cgi k1, another 20m later: incoherent screaming punctuated with shouts of “don’t go in there” “augh no” etc. 😎

One more bowl of matcha latte flavored popcorn will totally fix me. (Narrator: nope)

Behold the impossibly adorable murder kitten.

Me: I finished my blackwork crow! I can catch up on those quilt blocks that need trimming! Brain: buy dress form M: but I don’t have space right now and I should finish those blocks B: smock own clothes. DRESS FORM NOW M: but cost? B: save money in badly-smocked clothes unsuitable for work! M:

🛁 I love how emo Wentworth is in this chapter. “Nobody understands me! I’m going to listen to early The Cure!” (Flounces off).

Last year's thread on how to deal with The Hot for inexperienced Northern drizzly people.

🛁 Everything about this blurb is wrong. This hurts. And it’s even the best version! Stop trying to make everything zazzy!

#craftsky 🧶 I think crow is done. I shaded around the big flight feathers, added a catch-light, and a little highlighting on the crest of the beak. Now I leave him be for a bit. I don’t have a pattern so it’s just vibes when he’s done. @saskajanet.bsky.social @jennwong.bsky.social

@mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social I got color, taste, texture!

Your kids are going to be little weirdos. Unless they are being destructive or mean, their weirdness does not reflect on you. Let them wear plaid, polka dots, and stripes at one time, or paint half their face green with eyeshadow before going out. Get out of their way.

#breadsky 🍽️🍜 Challah! My friend gave me a recipe: historically mine haven’t been very good, but his are excellent. Poppy seed on the left and nigella seed/za’atar on the right.

Some thoughtful person provided a link to a non-paywalled version of this article: gcaptain.com/drowning/

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

World-class upside-down blep.

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

Back to TOS, my first love.

One for TNG

🛁 I love Admiral Croft very much. We should all be named Sophy for his convenience. It is not too much to ask for such a wonderful character.

Ever since I made the first lucky Sunflower socks, I have been wanting to make a 3 colour version with some purl bumps. I forgot to size up the needle to accommodate 3 colours, but fortunately I have been able to get past it my giant heel. I love this 🥰 #knitsky 🧶🧦

Mrs Raw keeps telling me that the RSC need these two pieces to hang in Stratford. Who am I to argue :) @the-rsc.bsky.social

And my favorite worst opsec ever

The fact that the first time they crossed the galaxy barrier they got evil gods and then THEY DID IT AGAIN speaks to some short memories or serious incompetence. Sigh.

I love this.

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Let's bake a cake for my book launch for STARTUP HELL!

@zachweinersmith.bsky.social @jlkaufmann.bsky.social Look!

#skystorians 🗃️

@profaliceroberts.bsky.social #booksky 📚💙 Just finished Crypt - for those keeping count, found it via Bluesky - by Professor Alice Roberts. Amazing. Historical mysteries, pathology, murder, and statistical methods all extremely accessible! Going to get the rest of them. Highly recommended.