I’m at the Dr. Evil stage of my fingerless glove. #knitting 🧶

Looking at the list of donors to trump’s vanity ballroom project, trump’s name is nowhere on the list despite claiming that he was providing personal funds (much like his alleged charitable giving in 2016; look up Fahrenthold’s reporting). With Trump it’s always SSDD. www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/p...

Excellent movie summary on TCM: Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968) The vampire count (Christopher Lee) bites a tavern waitress and a monsignor’s (Rupert Davies) niece (Veronica Carlson), then falls on something sharp.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think this is an official account.

I made a thing. #knitting 🧶 #gnomes

Finally. Wordle 1,583 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Today’s adventure in “I reorganized my project space” … If I were knitting class notes, where would I be? #knitting 🧶

Working a Sophie scarf, I have too many stitches to leave on a dpn (sts want to jump off when I put it down), but not enough stitches to keep my circular cord from twisting up. So I’m working with the circ and 1 dpn, only putting it down when it’s on the circ. Much less stressful! #knitting 🧶

I am so uncool I thought this was an H. P. Lovecraft reference.

If you’re not in your seat for the beginning of Roundabout, why are you even at a Yes concert?

There are certain people at a concert - and you know who you are - who never manage to get to their seats before the lights dim. Trust me when I say that everyone in your row would prefer to see the band they paid good money to see and not your ass shimmying in front of them.

Ever wonder what ”lying with statistics” means? This article title is a good example. 1/

He’s a little off his game tonight, he’s not quite perfectly centered in the pathway as is usually the case.

I’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.

The ultimate stash buster. 🧶 #knitting

Ready for the ballgame. Very different vibe here from last week’s outdoor knitting, will refrain from headbanging to the pre-game Metallica songs since pointy knitting needles and head-banging don’t mix. 🧶 #knitting

i never knew about this. www.npr.org/sections/the...

Food for thought: AI and kids youtube.com/shorts/nywIe...

I wrote something about respectability in dress over on Twitter. The topic is nuanced for me, so unfortunately the post had to be long. Since Bluesky (reasonably) has character limits, I can't easily import the text here. So I'm including screenshots, if you would like to read it.

This is true.

Russian join for the win in my current cotton project. #knitting 🧶

I must get some of these labels 🤣🧶 #knit #knitting

Some days are just perfect for sitting outside and knitting. #knitting 🧶

The seasons are changing in Pennsylvania, spotted lanternfly season is winding down and stinkbug season is gearing up.

So, uh, anybody know what kind of spider this is that’s hanging out right outside my front door?

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains.

It’s just not possible to continue doom-scrolling once the Pittsburgh Scanner pops into the timeline.

the best to ever put the posting jersey on

This ⬇️ 🧶 #knit #crochet #craft #art

Guy who was afraid to ride the subway says don’t let safety be the enemy of progress. Nobody should be risking their safety when a cosplaying cowboy like this is in charge.

I know there is a group of knitters who will geek out over this.topic (I am one of them). #knitting 🧶 youtu.be/iTLvD6-X8WQ?...

Final summer FO: Sick Day Shawl in Autumn House Farms Watercolors. This is probably the final summer project FO, the summer project I’m currently working on will have to hibernate once the weather cools down and I start jonesing for wool. #knitting 🧶

“I’ve been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet A pawn and a king I've been up and down and over and out And I know one thing Each time I find myself Flat on my face I pick myself up and get Back in the race.” Frank knew this.

Was chatting & only half paying attention as I scrolled through what I thought was a knitting feed, so as this went by I thought “wait, what was that colorway, is that a shawl? wonder what the pattern is?” … then I focused on the bird. Oh. 😂 Ok, we’ll call it “colorway inspiration”. #knitting 🧶

Another variantion of the all too common AI failure story. The troubling part of this one is the over-reliance on AI, with no option for people to have a problem that AI caused addressed by a real person. #AI-Fail youtu.be/nchzG0oRSRk?...

Wanted to give a newly finished project in blues, greens, and a bit of purple a good soak - the water turned purple. Multiple soaks throughout the day - purple water. Finally just left it over night, no more purple! Now the water is blue. Here we go again. #knitting 🧶

Reading a sci-fi dystopian novel about an extreme surveillance state, and the irony of my device noting that I have 8 minutes left in the chapter hits me.

Today, I need a couple of minutes of music. youtu.be/jJJkyvJMA9I?...

Was having a perfectly normal conversation with someone at a local diner, and out of the blue “population control” popped into the convo. 🙄

I would categorize this as another AI fail. youtu.be/jLjD5PbjOgU?...

Love this story. Absolutely freakin’ love this. 📚💕 Here is the list of What Dan Read: www.columbuslibrary.org/wp-content/u... youtu.be/7-cI1p0FEHo?...

What must people have thought when they first saw these, having no prior knowledge about them?

This applies to a well-curated yarn stash. There is a certain pleasure in seeing a pattern and thinking “I have the perfect yarn for this.” It’s the culmination of the potential inherent in your stash. #knitting 🧶

An unqualified interim administrator, uninterested in the wide-ranging scientific contributions of NASA, should not be making significant changes to the agency’s mission. Yet another anti-science move by the trump admin. #nasa www.space.com/space-explor...

Went to order some cocoa, and the price increased by 37% over my last order. Thanks, trump.

Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends: 1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration; 2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you; 3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.

Found out I was pronouncing Ghislaine wrong, then I thought so what? That woman doesn’t deserve even the crumb of consideration it takes to pronounce her name correctly.

Scheduled a plumber. The office gives me a 9-11 window. The guy shows up at 7:30 😳 15 minutes early? Sure, great. 30 minutes? Ok, let’s get it done. But 1.5 HOURS early? I’m glad their plumbers are efficient, but the office is totally out of touch with how their guys work.

Saw a couple of Teslas on the road today sans Tesla emblems. I don’t know which model they were, but they resemble a big lump of barely shaped dough compared to the cars around them, so they’re hard to miss.

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