DTE: squeezing Michigan residents and weaseling around clean energy legislation. open.substack.com/pub/distills...

I'm attending Oak Park Concerned Citizens's event, “No Kings! No Hunger! Stop the Healthcare Heist!!” - sign up now to join me! This event includes a food drive for the Oak Park Gifting Little Pantry. www.mobilize.us/oakparkconce...

Got a #Socktober sock on the needles for husband. 🧦 Pattern is Chequer Socks by @verybusymonkey.bsky.social 🧶 Yarn is West Yorkshire Spinners Signature sparkle 4-ply in Mulled Wine. Pattern 5 of 5 stars: interesting enough but not super complicated, good car or social knitting

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We can save the White House from demolition but it’s going to cost money. A lot of money. Don’t worry, I have a plan: let’s put on a show

Non-political rant ahead. Authors, please check that your book is made up of the words that mean what you intend to say. My current read uses “passed” in every instance that should be “past.” And “virulent” instead of “virile.” Virulent = 🦠🤧 Virile = 🏋🏻‍♀️🍆 This concludes my Ted Talk.

💛❌👑 #NoKings

Oct. 18- find an event near you, then show up with your sign and a paperclip. open.substack.com/pub/50501/p/...

This is bullshit. Facts will soon have no meaning in the US.

Crafting stash to the rescue! The throw pillows I got from Ikea are too squishy to provide adequate support as backrests on the daybed. I was able to grab my stash of assorted fabrics (thanks, Covid mask-making!) and quilt batting to add floof and structure. (Alt texts for details) #fabric #stash

We have been updating our tv/home theater space, from a 15+ year old tv that only 75% worked (half the screen was fuzzy), to smart tv with assorted players, amps, and 7.1 channel surround sound. This is Car Guy playing with setups. The big amp remote (66 buttons!) is not pictured.

The UN needs to implement the anti-time-overrun measures that awards shows use: cut the mic, cue the orchestra, and have a page walk the offender away from the podium.

USians, make a sign, grab your comfy shoes, and join your neighbors on October 18. (And before, if you have other events in your area!)

I’ve been calling Disney “The Evil Empire” for a quarter century. Mostly related to their metamorphosis into a greedy mega-corp so far from their roots of providing quality family entertainment. I guess that was just the start of the transformation to cowardly yes corp of a fascist regime.

Getting ahead with my sign for protests this weekend. I was going to use red for “fascist,” in a classic color combo. And then I realized that the T at the end was perfect for a minimalist Dementia Don, and that meant I needed to use orange. #FirstAmendmentRights #Protest #ProtectFreeSpeech

Join me at Oak Park Make Billionaires Pay action.womensmarch.com/events/oak-p...

At the risk of sounding callous, thoughts and prayers. But seriously, violence is not the answer. Trump ally Charlie Kirk fatally shot during event at Utah Valley University www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Workers over billionaires #LaborDay #Protest #Pro-Worker #BanBillionaires #Resist

Laserdisc night! Car Guy picked up some discs with me in mind. Should I be offended that a bunch are really old musicals or things like a Busby Berkeley sampler? Tonight’s selection: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)

Today in Double Duh News: Tariffs and deportations seen as contributors to rising prices and fewer immigrant workers. Really? How could anyone have predicted either of those things? (Extreme sarcasm indicator here) www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Next up in the crazy timeline that is 2025 USA: sandwich shops will require background checks and a waiting period. Sandwiches must be carried in their paper wrapper only, not concealed in a lunchbox. Only law enforcement and the military will be able to get licensing to carry a party sub.

Laserdisc night! Stay Tuned, 1992. The theme music is vaguely Superman-like.

Laserdisc time! 1955’s Hit The Deck I know nothing about this beyond what’s on the disc sleeve. At least it will have dancing.

Laserdisc night! I asked husband if we could maybe watch something that didn’t suck. I had to dig through the shelf of discs to find one- Wayne’s World. Excellent! Party on!

Tonight’s #laserdisc entertainment: Tales of Terror, the 2nd movie in the double feature set. It’s a live action version of a Simpson’s Halloween special- 3 vignettes, each based on an Edgar Allan Poe story. Not so much terrifying as ridiculous. Vincent Price was in all 3 stories.

Watching some laserdiscs Husband picked up. Tonight’s feature is The Premature Burial. 30 seconds in, and it’s already bad. 1962, based on a story by Edgar Allan Poe. Directed by Roger Corman (there’s a clue to the quality)

Michigan peeps and others with elections today, get out there. Make your voice heard! Don’t give me pushback that it’s just local primaries on the ballot today. Change starts locally. With efforts by MAGA to disenfranchise voters, don’t make the mistake of skipping your vote. #Vote #VotingRights

Dementia Don is unfit to lead. #Protest #FightFascism

Breaking: The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports a drop in August employment of the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, citing softening demand for accurate labor employment statistics.

🧶 #Severance fans - here's a severed floor approved shawl to wear with your non-logo, non-text workwear. Customize it to match your department's color key. Non-Severance fans, it's a cool shawl. Pick some fun colors and have a blast. #BlueSkyKnitters #ShawlKnitters #IndependentDesigner #Knit

New Pattern! I just hit the button to activate my mysterious and important shawl pattern on Ravelry. It's inspired by the Emmy-nominated AppleTV show #Severance. I give you, The Floor. Alt text has info on yarn colors, etc. Yarn from @leadingmenfiberart.bsky.social Pattern at: ravel.me/the-floor

Got my sign done! Front and back sides. #PedoPrez #FuckICE #Protest #GoodTrouble

I’m making a new sign for a protest today, and I’m very happy that I have a chisel tip orange Sharpie for coloring it in.

Worst. Sale. Ever.

Musk is only concerned about the bill because it affects him. And I can’t believe I’m going to type this, but he’s got a point. Renewable energy/battery is important and the BBB (gah! I hate that name!) will be devastating to the industry.

Obliterated. You keep saying that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Submit articles of impeachment against Trump for an act of war w/o approval from congress. When congress inevitably turns down the impeachment, give a press conference announcing each dissenting voter’s name as someone who has chosen to abandon American democracy in favor of a Trump dictatorship

Waiting in the car for an estate sale to start. Husband got a bee in his bonnet about buying laserdiscs, and this sale supposedly has some. I swear, some days it feel like I’m living in the back lot for @techconnectify.bsky.social Electric car ✅ heat pump ✅ laserdisc ✅ brainy guy ✅

i'm surprised by how low energy and farcical that whole military parade situation was. I was expecting Moscow 1945 and we got Spirit Halloween instead.

So many clever and creative signs in Livonia, Michigan today. I don't know how many people were estimated in the crowd, but folks were friendly. Lots of thumbs up and honking horns from drivers passing by; only a few Trumpsters driving by or waking past on the sidewalk. #NoKings #Michigan

Updated the back side of my sign. And here’s a blank coloring book version of the king taco if anyone wants to use it. #NoKings

Oh! I almost missed Cowl Week for #ShowMeYourKnits! Love is Love cowl by me. Pattern on Ravelry. (There’s a sweater pattern with the same colorwork, too.) Cream and rainbow cowl yarn by @leadingmenfiberart.bsky.social Brown and pink is local non-superwash. 🧶

Low tech, but fun. 🧶 I don’t know how other designers work, but this is how I create colorway sets for my patterns when I’m working with @leadingmenfiberart.bsky.social (I have about 130 mini skeins that still need to be knit into swatches, too. 🙄) The Floor shawl coming in July.

I’ve got my sign ready for Saturday. Finally, an appropriate use for Comic Sans. As much as I love Worldwide Knit in Public Day, and heaven knows I knit in public all the time, the #NoKings peaceful protests take precedence this year.

Buying flowers for the yard doesn't count as "wasting money," does it? Especially when half of the total was for perennials that attract butterflies and hummingbirds. No, I'm not telling you the total. It's embarrassing. Tomorrow: get potting soil and put the flats of annuals in planters. 🦋🌸🌺🪴

Looking for a couple of test knitters for a #Severance inspired shawl. I cannot offer monetary compensation, but you will have my undying gratitude. 🧶: @leadingmenfiberart.bsky.social see Alt text for more

Please tell me she will only be prosecuting the kinds of cases that were featured on her daytime tv court show.

Michigan yarn friends: I am looking for someone who is planning to attend the Spring Maker's Fest next weekend in Charlotte who has a spouse who is open to a "play date" with my spouse. Husband has agreed to drive over, but won't hang around. Will include donut run and charging our EV. 🧶🍩🚗

There’s a theory that all orange cats in the world share a single braincell. I posit that Trump has ended up on that list, but keeps being pushed to the bottom instead of getting his turn with it.