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Today’s @visibilitybrigade.bsky.social message in Concord MA

Honestly folks. The bluster & bullying & “how dare they say that?,” & silencing, & censoring? It’s weakness x 10. If you’re really strong, jokes don’t matter. Only if you’re banking on fear to give you power do jokes matter. That’s why authoritarians HATE being poked fun at. No fear=no power.

This is so messed up.

Cancelled the Disney/Hulu subscription, and we won’t be watching local affiliate @wcvb5.bsky.social until @jimmykimmel.com is back.

Route 2 Rush-hour Resistance Stand-out: Concord MA - 9/11 - 4-6pm. If we can do it… You can do it 🗽🇺🇸

it’s a shit show today, loves. Find some beauty in your world where you can and fill your cup.

Fellow knitting folks, especially those of us who teach and publish: if a new-to-you event wants to hire you to teach or speak, please remember that it is up to you to ask before signing what their policy is for inclusion, both for students and fellow teachers.

CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery. America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons. Watch and share his message.

I want to speak to something that feels really important right now I have been in the on-line knitting community for a long time and I have been a part of and learned from a number of conversations and I think that there is a very important conversation that is Happening and needs to happen 1/3

Day 83 of typing out posts and immediately deleting them.

Thank you for calling The Void, due to unusually high volume all of our lines are busy right now but if you can hold onto your scream someone will be with you shortly.

Just did this. Repeat and repost

Hello from Boston where the sun will set AFTER 5pm tonight. Celebrating with some Kidsilk Haze and Felted Tweed for a @norahgn.bsky.social Bolin Cardigan. 💕

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I feel like everyone already knows that AOC is learning to knit. She's off to a great start using yarn from a small dyer, Chiagoo needles, and look at her cute stitch stoppers! One more reason to be so proud of her!

I’ve got this tech edited and photographed, it’s been test knitted and named. I can’t get out of my own way to read through the edits and get the pdf done. But it’s pretty and I love it.

I don’t trust my knitting tension today, so I embroidered my Blunnies

If you're a new knitter, come out and meet other knitters! This Sunday in Boston, there's a great opportunity to get a taste of what dyers and small vendors bring to the community. www.newenglandfarmandfiber.com

another top down neckline option: I almost always begin with a provisional cast on beneath the ribbing. Proceed from there, knit neck ribbing later, sprinkle decreases in 1st round if necessary. Much more stable and under my control.

another neckline tip: a loose neck can be reined in with a judicious row of slip stitch crochet on the wrong side, to pull in back neck stitches.

Polled knitters say #1 disappointment with finished sweaters is an ill fitted neckline. Wondering if together we can help.

Bishop Budde got a fan letter from me today, c/o The Washington National Cathedral.

yup, in fourth grade, Barbara B*** held a pencil *tip up* so I sat on it with my right side bum. It took the doctor 45 minutes of work to get all the pieces out and I wear the blue tag to this day, but it's now on my hip. I've grown a bit since then.

It took me two minutes to call my congressperson and tell her office that I support her. www.house.gov/representati...

Stranded Hearts Ring: 9 st/” for a 2.5” circumference (0 or 00 needles + light fingering like Berroco Ultra Alpaca Fine): CO 24 sts. Join to work in the round. Work 2 rows of seed stitch. Work 8 st Heart Chart 3 times around, work one round of seed st, BO in second round of seed st.❤️

The best show that wasn’t renewed.

Tears.

A wet block smooths out the weirdness. I lengthened my Lanas Light body and got this hinky moment. A follower shared this with her big Reddit group who decided I had funked it up by changing the gauge. I was not concerned because …. 1/2

Editing a blocking video this morning. So much breathing noise!

New to Bluesky? Here's a yarn starter pack by @veg-grower.bsky.social. Also check Amy's @knitty.com for new lists go.bsky.app/4ZYeRCW

Ends woven in. A bath and a squish in some towels to follow.

I’ve never donated to Wikipedia before but I set up a small monthly donation as a fuck you to the world’s richest psychopath.

We watched Sharper tonight and I am so grateful to past me for putting that in the streaming queue

Last night’s celebration consisted of going through recent texts and sending Happy New Year fireworks. This morning’s coffee entertainment was making note of all my friends who didn’t know their phone could do that.

If watching the bad men be bad helps to power your political action, by all means, stick your head all the way up that firehose. But remember, being mad isn't activism. Outrage doesn't change anything on its own. And changing things is the point.

My research, and that of my colleagues, shows that we can achieve good lives for all within planetary boundaries. Our research (and reality) also exposes how those profiting from inequality, violence & plunder are doing EVERYTHING in their power to prevent us from getting there.

it’s forbidden in their culture but a vacuum cleaner wants nothing more than to eat it’s own cord

Knitters: I found a charge from Soho Publishing on my credit card statement this week for a Vogue Knitting subscription, a magazine that shuttered in the spring of last year. Was refunded the moment I reported. Check your statements.

This news has me completely rethinking Threads.

In a knitting rut. Please send podcasts and off the beaten path streaming suggestions.

I finished my Penny Candy Shawl, one of the patterns from my S/S23 collection for Manos del Uruguay yarns. I liked this collection so much, I am reknitting all of the patterns for myself while the samples I knit are on tour. Check your local Manos LYS for when the trunk show visits!