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Emily the knitter @emilyknits.bsky.social · 6h

Like this. (This one isn't ours but it's an exact match.)

Emily the knitter @emilyknits.bsky.social · 15h

The stove in this house is from the 1950s. We mostly keep it turned off at the breaker because otherwise it makes noise. Yesterday it turned itself off while we were making Thanksgiving dinner. Then it charred the hell out of the mushroom Wellington. I'd still rather have it than a "smart" one.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22h

Read every word of this and share it.

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Emily the knitter @emilyknits.bsky.social · 18h

It was probably earlier, though. My kindergarten teacher told my mother, “I don’t know what I’d do with a class full of Emilys. She’s a little beyond me.”

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Emily the knitter @emilyknits.bsky.social · 18h

Might have been in grade one when we were doing pair work and I asked my partner, “What’s the matter, Tushar, can’t you read?” and he bit me.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 11/10/2026

Hi, I’m a sighted alt text user! Here are some reasons I use it: - Slow Internet on an airplane - I’m over 40, I have no idea who that celebrity is - Bluesky broke images again - My vision sucks and that text is too small to read otherwise - Conveys further context and authorial intent

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Emily the knitter @emilyknits.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Cast on Wednesday for my second attempt at the Harley pullover, this time in Malabrigo Rios. (Bailed on the first because drawstring holes were off centre and the yarn too fuzzy to show cables well.) Now the collar is done and blocking and I can't keep going until it's completely dry. Woe!

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Emily the knitter @emilyknits.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

We had a flock of sheep near our place last week. One of the guardian dogs played hooky to come visit us. He and MizC were smitten with each other. He presented his belly before we walked him back up to his ewes, and when he went back to work, he was all business again, barking at us to stay away.

A large white dog stands outside a wooden door open to the outside. He is smiling.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…

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Emily the knitter @emilyknits.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It will be very exciting to have our pantry back so we don't have big piles of things in the kitchen and all our pantry staples in bags in the basement

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Emily the knitter @emilyknits.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The contractors are coming back on Monday after two quiet weeks of not having extra people in our house all the time. They're going to start by drywalling the laundry room and installing the dryer that's been sitting there for at least five years. 🎉

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This by Courtney Maum is where I am too. I am grateful to her for the words...

For me, the subject of AI detection is an ouroboros. I’ll speak only for myself, here is my opinion. I didn’t ask for artificial intelligence. It’s not something I need, it is not something I desire. And yet, it barged its way into my life and stole all of my books. All of them. Stole them. Trained off of them. Did not compensate me for this theft. So now, AI can write a book like me, because it stole my own work and learned my breed of humor and satire. So if someone runs an AI text detector on my creative output, it will probably “test positive” why? Because AI is a contaminant that has embedded itself into my work by stealing it and using my own work to perpetuate itself. It will test for itself and find AI there because it AI is a virus that has contaminated the DNA of my current and future writing—a form of intellectual rape. A kind of colonization. A raging plague that some gatekeepers are opening the door for.

If you ask me what I’m currently working on, the answer is nothing book-length. I’m not going to publish a new book in this current landscape. That’s a stance of privilege, I recognize that. And I can’t hold this stance forever, I can hold it as long as I have savings from my last book.

This current literary climate isn’t acceptable. It is not acceptable to have a thing thrust upon us that takes absolutely everything, and then be forced to prove that we are not the thieves.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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Emily the knitter @emilyknits.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Already made two of these thneeds but both were in smaller amounts of heavier yarn. Started a third in 2022 in a skein of Wollmeise Lacegarn in the Tollkirsche colourway. It's been my go-to when I need something mindless. Now it's almost done and I already feel a little bereft.

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Viajante pattern by Martina Behm

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Emily the knitter @emilyknits.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

MizC is 20 years old today. 20! How?

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

imagine telling the pope “you’re not even an AI influencer” like that’s a sick burn

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Emily the knitter @emilyknits.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Everything has to come away from the basement walls so the spray foam people can come in. This is exhausting work but I'm thrilled at the forward momentum. This house will be done soon.

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Emily the knitter @emilyknits.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Spent a good chunk of the afternoon moving bins and shelves out of the basement and into my shed. Tomorrow: the dozen huge bags of fabric scraps from the Murdoch Mysteries costume room, and a lot of power tools, and some chairs, and so much weird detritus left by the previous (original) owners.

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Emily the knitter @emilyknits.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sweater's done, 13 days after I cast on. Now I need another new project.

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Emily the knitter @emilyknits.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Terrific and necessary thread for all the guys out there.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i hope that men notice how whenever a rape story gets widespread coverage, women use it as an opportunity to vent about how fucking disgusting we think many of you are and how many have made our lives measurably worse, and take a few moments to deeply process that.

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Emily the knitter @emilyknits.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

So it turns out I made the wrong size. I made a medium instead of a large because I didn't notice the pattern had an XXS option. That explains a lot.

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Emily the knitter @emilyknits.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Tried it on in front of D, who has returned from the sea (read: the city), and he talked me into keeping it in the current size. He says the fit is very flattering and that it will work better under overalls than a big sweatshirty piece would. Okay then.

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Emily the knitter @emilyknits.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

That’s a nice one! This yarn is too fine for it but I’ll keep it in mind for a future project.

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Emily the knitter @emilyknits.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The sweater body fits me well, which isn’t what I wanted. I want big floppy sweatshirt-style for this one. So I may rip it out and do it again in a bigger size. It’s only a week’s worth of knitting.

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Emily the knitter @emilyknits.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The contractors are finally hooking up the dryer that's been sitting in our laundry room without even so much as an outlet for it since we bought the place five years ago. 🎊

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Emily the knitter @emilyknits.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just bound off the body of the August sweater (from Ozetta Designs) that I started a week ago today.

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Emily the knitter @emilyknits.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I quit playing Wordle because fuck the transphobic NYT.

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Emily the knitter @emilyknits.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I haven't, but I also get overstimulated by having sound right in my ears. These days I need it to be in the room, not straight from the speaker into my head.

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Emily the knitter @emilyknits.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Since menopause, I've been unable to tolerate headphones or earbuds. If I put on music or watch TV, my (almost certainly autistic) daughter gets overstimulated. Music helps and is important to me but it's not something I have much access to these days. Makes me sad.

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Emily the knitter @emilyknits.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So all the heat from the furnace would escape almost immediately. We finally hired a contractor to winterize the place so I can stay here year-round instead of at our place in downtown Toronto, which is all noise and traffic and construction these days.

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Emily the knitter @emilyknits.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This house was originally built as a three-season cottage, but there's a big electric furnace that can also burn wood. It works well but the ducts are only to the first floor, where the biggest window in the house had only a single pane of glass and the rest of the windows weren't sealed properly.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot

Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Humans are interdependent. This is sacrosanct. Some people don't like this but it's something that will always be true.

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Emily the knitter @emilyknits.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's getting chilly! We've owned this cottage for five years and there have been nights when our bedroom was 6 degrees C. I'm not going to have to sleep in thermal underwear under my pjs anymore. 🎉

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Emily the knitter @emilyknits.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

THE HEATERS GO INTO THE BEDROOMS TODAY

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Emily the knitter @emilyknits.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I am amused that my most popular post on Bsky so far is a screenshot from Formerly Twitter that I found on Reddit.

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Emily the knitter @emilyknits.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Same. Finally got my ADHD diagnosis a couple of months ago, too, at 56yo. The combination of autism plus ADHD explains volumes.

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