Yes it’s acrylic…which is perfect for easy care before we get to wool-only weather! Twisted German cast on, 2x2 rib, an inch of eye of partridge, then stockinette until rapid decreases. Red Heart Bitty Stripes on size 6 needles. 🧶 #KnitSky

the lady that filled the bird feeder was two hours late and chester was starting to get pissed

For the win of the day 👍

I call shenanigans

The best Hallmark movie ever made

Lest we forget...

Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1 He's the same ISIS leader who orchestrated suicide bombings, mass-casualty attacks, and killed U.S. troops—but put him in a suit, call him “interim president,” suddenly he’s magically absolved of it all. From terrorist to ally—America’s favorite plot twist.

music.apple.com/us/album/pap... #MusicChallenge #MusicSky #BilliesMusicMonth Day 11 fill out paperwork Paper Planes M.I.A.

When we build enough supply of homes so that landlords must compete, renters win. "The more properties there are, it drives all of us to lower rents and offer concessions" says the property manager pictured here. bendbulletin.com/2025/11/11/b...

Racism’s a terrible disease!

The problem is that replacing most of these worthless, faithless senators, including Schumer, via elections will take many years. We won't have a functioning democracy anymore by this time next year.

Dick Durbin retiring should have made him courageous. This will be part of his legacy…

This is the kind of toxic optimism that feels extremely unhelpful to me. Nor is characterizing those who are feeling hopeless as "bitter."

Unfortunately this is more evidence the Dems in the Senate still don’t get the rules have changed. The GOP is willing to kill the hostage. You cannot negotiate with that.

"As droughts intensify & insects thrive in warming forests, trees are dying of thirst while being eaten alive. It's a double assault turning once-green mountainsides into graveyards of standing dead timber...'This trend could continue as our climate continues to warm."🌏 www.king5.com/article/tech...

Happy Veterans Day 🖕

Happy Veterans Day 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Forever President Obama made a heartfelt surprise visit to greet Korean and Vietnam War veterans arriving in Washington, D.C. on an Honor Flight ahead of Veterans Day 2025.

it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet

Notice how Trump only pardons people for crimes that he himself is guilty of? It's like he's starting a felon support group offering clearance sales for felonies. Buy one, get it free.

You’re at Loggins I need you at Messina

(The Atlantic) Excellent article about the freedom of speech as practiced by Trump, not just the bloviation of his utterances but the challenge he has at eliminating this protection from our Constitution. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Democrats must be willing to leave the current system behind, the gifts, the lobbyists bribes, corporate money, the stock trading. We will not end Trump only to go back to this.

Here's the thing: I agree with Ro Khanna and everyone calling for Schumer to resign. But keep in mind: There's a reason why Khanna doesn't stand up to Thiel and Big Tech: he profits from them. So put pressure on him, too! www.svvoice.com/rep-ro-khann...

The latest in an endless river of corrupt Trump pardons for wealthy and well-connected Republican criminals.

The Veterans Day memorial was designed to align perfectly at 11:11 on each Veterans Day.

AI is going to consume 13-15% of the nation's energy in 3-5 years. For what? For what?

Remembering those who served & perished

Trump Says ‘It Was an Honor’ To Meet With Former Al-Qaeda Jihadist Who Fought American Troops www.mediaite.com/politics/tru...

The Trump administration’s #VeteransDay message: Thank you for your service. Now get out. Trump's mass deportation machine is betraying America’s veterans and tearing their families apart: americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/trump-to-v...

Private equity firms are taking over mobile home parks & raising the rent, forcing the residents out. www.palmbeachpost.com/story/opinio...

There is no such thing as transparency in a dictatorship. The less the rabble know, the better. And what we do find out is usually only the tip of the iceberg.

As long as this planet continues to be run as a for-profit business rather than a community of 10 million species, most life on Earth is destined to vanish

Read, SUBSCRIBE open.substack.com/pub/georgets...

Hmm. Here what Socrates thinks how collapse works. From The Republic, Book II by Plato, The Luxurious State www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... Local, low-tech, plant-based. It’s the only mitigation & adaptation there is by definition but we will never accept it by design, only by disaster.

Old article from 2019, discussing collapse. 'the world is now deeply interconnected and interdependent. In the past, collapse was confined to regions – it was a temporary setback, and people often could easily return to agrarian or hunter-gatherer lifestyles' www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

“Much like farm animals on growth hormones, humans can easily live the entirety of their existence sustained by the distractions of a technofeudalistic society, never for a minute raising their heads to notice that they, in fact, are inhabitants of an enclosure”

Trump is trying to build an American system of indoctrination that goes from kindergarten to graduate school. Actual education will be verboten.

It was my pleasure. I made lifelong friends. Im locked and loaded to do it all again.

Veterans Day

THE REPUBLICAN REAPER

Considering that Musk/DOGE and Trump fired pretty much any career and qualified people/department/agency that could do the accounting no one knows what the real numbers so Trump makes them up.

what happened to the tariff shelf? i thought he said it was sitting on the tariff shelf? does this mean there is no tariff shelf? how can that be?

Translation - the $$$ are in my pocket and you will not get them back

Sounds like he is planning to declare martial law if the supremes rule against him. Nice.

💦♥️💦 Tue, Nov 11 Yesterday, all members of J, K, & L pod were together inland Puget Sound making for a true superpod! Today, orcas present in Central Puget Sound, behaving like residents, so looks like at least some stayed over. ♥️ 📸 SRKW breaches off Point Robinson on Nov 2. By Kas Alexis. #psws

Maximizing airflow for ventilation I’m sure

Kind of like backing into rent control. A guaranteed stable payment and no one can force you to move but with little to no equity when you want to move.

Investment advisors will say that if you take the monthly savings from a 50 year over a 30 year and invest it conservatively, the equity you build in your investment will far exceed the equity you would have built in your home by paying more. The glitch is that it does nothing for affordability.

A 50-year mortgage is very close to a perpetuity, which is interest-only. But nobody pays down a mortgage, anyway. They sell or refinance. This just ensures nobody ever accumulates any equity before they exit.