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Lineth @busylin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I recommend the Harmony Guides! There are two volumes just of crochet and then more of knitting etc. The photos are good, the instructions are clear, there are good charts so you can compare and learn to work from a chart. It says pub. 2008 but I learned from these in the 70s.

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Lineth @busylin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This squirrel sounds like he smokes a pack a day and wants you to get off his lawn. (Sound at about 8 seconds). He sits here outside my kitchen window and yells until I come to say hello.

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Lineth @busylin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I don't let my black cat out at night on Halloween (or any other night) because they are impossible to find under the neighbor's bushes in the dark.

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Lineth @busylin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Sometimes you just gotta draw something silly. This alien would like to paint you.

Messy watercolor of a mantis-inspired alien with a weird exposed brain, a clacky beak, a scorpion tail. It is holding a paintbrush at an easel

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Unite Against Book Bans @uabookbans.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Banned Books Week starts today! This year’s theme is: #LetBooksBe What do you think books should be? Share your answer in the comments: ✨ Let Books Be Free 🎉 Let Books Be Fun 🌎 Let Books Be Diverse 💡 Let Books Be Thought-Provoking ❤️ Let Books Be Themselves

Drawn image of a woman reading, surrounded by books, birds, flowers, clouds, vines, stars. Text reades: Protect the Freedom to Read - Let Books Be - Banned Books Week, Oct. 4-10, 2026. American Library Association. ala.org/bbooks

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Lineth @busylin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We used to go in with friends in shares of a pig or cow. Better quality, local farmer. We just don't eat enough meat any more to justify having 125 pounds of beef in the deep freeze.

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Lineth @busylin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I grew up in central coastal CA where everyone has a lemon tree in the yard. Iowa was a real hard transition.

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Lineth @busylin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

You're not gonna get any argument from me here, having more hogs than people is not doing Iowa any good.

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Lineth @busylin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We belonged for many years to a co-op farm, and she had hoop houses for lettuces and whatnot. Greens. They still only did the trick til about November. I guess if you were willing to invest in a lot of gro lights and insulated walls? I don't know of any co-ops around here that do, though.

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Lineth @busylin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Every year about Feb I go to the local middle eastern restaurant and they have a side dish of lightly pickled red cabbage that makes me practically cry because it's been so long since I had a fresh vegetable 🤣

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Lineth @busylin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Can't argue there. Greenhouses only extend the growing season so far when the ground is frozen. But I don't know why we have tomatoes from Mexico instead of Texas or whatever.

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Lineth @busylin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Americans want tomatoes in January. In Iowa I can get local produce of some sort in the summer, but if I want anything besides withered potatoes and storage squash, or whatever I processed for freezing/canning myself between November and June, it's gotta come from somewhere else.

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Lineth @busylin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Both Spanish and French look fine

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Lineth @busylin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Heck yeah I wanna see the baby coo

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Lineth @busylin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is the kind of thing that occurs to me in the car and then I find myself trying to do geometry on my fingers at a stoplight.

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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

YOU MUST MAINTAIN YOUR STRENGTH AND POWER! TAKE YOUR MEDICATIONS.

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Alexa Heinrich (she/her) @alexaheinrich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Tomorrow is Dolly Parton Day (9-25)! Make sure to leave out a nice potato dish tonight for her so she blesses your dreams with butterflies, rhinestones, and kindness. 🦋

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Lineth @busylin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think that's my favorite so far too.

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Lineth @busylin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I mean, they are all successful insofar as they are colorful and interesting and someone will love the finished product. But none of these methods so far reproduces what I would do with a piece of fabric.

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Lineth @busylin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Experiments in the continuing effort to combine my long-term interest (and business) in tie dye, with my more recent interest in leather work, specifically journal covers because boy howdy do I love a notebook that is pretty to look at and pleasing to touch. So far none of these are winning.

Two hands meet across a table , each wearing a leather cuff bracelet dyed with shaving cream and green and purple leather dyes.

A journal cover and three snap-close bracelets made of white leather dyed with waterproof fountain pen ink in pink, purple, and yellow, on a wet paper towel.

A rectangle of leather with a swirly, heavily textured pattern in green, yellow, and plum, dyed with acid dyeson a dry paper towel

A rectangle of leather dyed with yellow, pinky purple, and aqua acid dyes, applied with a foam brush in an overlapped starburst swirl

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Lineth @busylin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'd love to talk about this but am feeling too middle aged (or maybe too autistic) to figure out how DMs work here 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 22/09/2026

I found the Yom Kippur traditional Poster's Confession really meaningful this year.

We have subtweeted. We have argued in bad faith. We have dogpiled. We have uploaded images with no alt text. We have read the replies of our mutuals without leaving a courtesy like, and we have become irrationally angry when our posts did not get a courtesy like. We have thirsted and we have judged others for their thirst. We have posted bait, and we have taken the bait of others. We have posted cringe, we have been horny on main, we have assumed that someone’s retweet was an endorsement. We have posted things which are true but unkind. We have posted things which are kind but we knew to be false. We have scrolled when we should be sleeping or paying attention to our loved ones. We have replied seriously to a joke. We have strayed from Your good terms & services and it has not made our lives better.

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Lineth @busylin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Fun experience tonight: in a restaurant with friends, was approached by a very familiar-looking woman who reminded me excitedly that I taught her to knit, like 17 or 18 years ago. It's especially gratifying because teaching knitting was my favorite job.

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Lineth @busylin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Are you sure about that? Cat can have a little noodle, as a treat

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Lineth @busylin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If you could scratch all the way into my brain, Mom, that'd be greaaaat

A fluffy orange cat with an enormous mane tips her head into a blurry hand that is rubbing her ear

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Lineth @busylin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

File under: notes left by my children, part eleventy-two

A battered toilet lid with a pink post-it note in black sharpie, reading
"TROUBLE
...IN TOILET TOWN!"

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Lineth @busylin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'm only guessing you don't mean me, but Spanish works pretty similarly 👀

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Lineth @busylin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: Low-budget LARPers complete most, but not all, of a quest before being interrupted by law enforcement.

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Lineth @busylin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Sometimes something happens in dance class that begs to be illustrated.

A monkey mermaid facing the side, with arms held in a downwards facing curve to the front and fish tail curving upwards in back, reminiscent of the shape of the "Barrel of Monkeys" toy. Caption reads, "Expand your abdominal barrel so it will hold more fish-monkeys! But not so much that your pelvic bowl tips out"

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Lineth @busylin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Sir Arthur is innocent of any rumors you may have heard about harassing the other cats. He is a sweet innocent angel boy, just look at that face.

A 4 or 5 month old kitten, white with tabby spots, sitting on a cat tree with his front legs folded neatly together. He is looking, wide-eyed, over the photographer's shoulder as if to say, "who, me?"

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Lineth @busylin.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I offer our entire troupe's dance bags at an outdoor performance as counter-evidence

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Lineth @busylin.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

My horoscope says it's a good day for me to post thirst traps, so here's a martini *and* a water bottle, that's twice as thirsty. Right? Am I doing this right? My resident Youth Expert is asleep.

A green Moroccan-style tea glass holding a martini, and a water bottle covered in stickers. I should probably have a mug of tea out here too.

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Lineth @busylin.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Artist: time for fresh rinse water

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Lineth @busylin.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I thought I was making this to sell but I think I'm gonna have to keep it. Taking suggestions about what needs to live in this.

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Lineth @busylin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

"upfuckenating" gets my vote for word of the year

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Lineth @busylin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

"That's not the fun part!"

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Lineth @busylin.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

And it wasn't even because we brought it in with us!

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JER (They/Them) @skatunenetwork.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

SKA IS A THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY

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Zephyrel 🏳️‍⚧️ @zephyrel.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

HOLY, that hook is INCREDIBLE

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Vaccines do not cause autism. Autism is not something to be fixed. Autism is not something to be cured. My autistic friends, you are autistic joy. Thank you for being wonderful you ✨ Sincerely, Your Autistic Library Friend 💛

Mychal smiles in a shirt that reads, “Be a buddy not a bully”

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Lineth @busylin.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Aged. But not like wine, more like milk.

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Lineth @busylin.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Ah, I see what my problem is, it's not enough swimmi- Wait, this just in, it's the lack of a wife

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Lineth @busylin.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

It's an exciting #caturday, the kitten has been named! Please allow me to present Sir Arthur, Voleslayer, first of his name. He would like to lick your nose.

A white kitten with grey spots poses politely for the camera

A closeup of the kitten's pink nose as he investigates what I am doing with the phone

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Lineth @busylin.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Latest addition to "weird/cool things in my house": a Bluetooth speaker for the kitchen, built into a previously non-functional Fender amp.

A butter yellow wall with shelves (cat shaped wine bottles, novelty salt & pepper shakers, giant pottery Pokeball), drawers full of pens and ink, assorted clutter, a bread machine, various framed art, and a calendar. In the middle is a shelf made of piano wood holding a small Fender amp.

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