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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.eurosky.social · 13/08/2026

Guadalajara, Spain, at totality. People cheered and clapped when the sun vanished, and again when it reappeared. It set before the moon’s shadow was off of it. ¡Te veré mañana! called one man: I’ll see you tomorrow. Verdad.

A total eclipse of the sun, in dark skies above dark trees.

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.eurosky.social · 04/08/2026

Looking forward to breakfast tomorrow.

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.eurosky.social · 29/06/2026

Less subtle, more chaotic, but in the same vein…

A blue package of sliced pale cheese. It’s produced by the Chevington Cheese Company, which promises “a taste of England”. The variety of cheese in the pack is English Gouda.

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.eurosky.social · 20/06/2026

A very Dutch photo on one of the canals in my village. NAP - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterd... - is basically sea level. Units are centimeters.

A blue water level marker is mounted on a brick wall. It reads that the water level is N.A.P. -141.

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.eurosky.social · 30/05/2026

M got an inflatable kayak last month and I’m pretty much hooked. Given that my back gate is maybe 20 meters from the water, this is an easy addiction to feed.

A tree stands beside silky-smooth water whose few ripples give its reflection just enough variety to be interesting.

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.eurosky.social · 24/05/2026

It’s Pentecost, for them as follow such things, and the liturgical color is RED.

The redness of a poppy in the foreground calls out to the red cherrypickers in the background. Purely for thematic consistency, the bike path between them is also red.

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.eurosky.social · 21/05/2026

This is a cat checkpoint; relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone. 🐈

A fluffy grey tabby lies sideways on a cloth on top of a table, looking like you owe him something.

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.eurosky.social · 03/05/2026

I am always reminded of this panel.

One character shouting at another: Why is it the greatest champions of the white race always turn out to be the worst examples of it? You! Where the fuck is your chin?

The character he is addressing does not, in fact have much of a chin.

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.eurosky.social · 28/04/2026

Birb is watching. (Hopes you’re really a fish.)

A heron sits on the roof above a doorway.

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.eurosky.social · 26/04/2026

I've been doing an online course on modern bobbin lacemaking, and finally finished one of my exercises: a design using only three pairs of bobbins. It's based on the last line of my favorite poem (allpoetry.com/poem/8505767...): "it is alternately stone in you and star." 🧶

A piece of lace created around the word STONE in mottled grey, with the spaces filled in with black and blue threads in wandering patterns and occasional crystal beads.

The shadow of piece of lace created around the word STONE, showing the patterns of wandering threads that make it up.

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.eurosky.social · 11/04/2026

Let’s just say they want some old-school shit to come back.

Goose meme, with the goose asking, “What Catholic traditions do you want to restore? What traditions, motherfucker?”

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.eurosky.social · 19/02/2026

Shades of the classic New Yorker cartoon there.

Five men and a woman in a meeting. The chair says “That’s an excellent suggestion, Miss Triggs. Perhaps one of the men here would like to make it.”

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.eurosky.social · 14/02/2026

Tattoo! Very vivid because we did the color today.

A tattoo covering the entire upper arm of a white woman in a black sleeveless dress. It’s of a rooster with roses around its neck and turquoise lace in the background. The colors are vivid.

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.eurosky.social · 21/01/2026

I guess this counts as lace-weight spinning?

A round-bottomed lacemaking bobbin lies on a red background. Its stem is full of fine-spun grey thread, and a tuft of unspun grey silk lies beside it. Clearly some crafting maniac has been using it as a drop spindle.

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.eurosky.social · 10/01/2026

Multipurpose? Or just insulting to cats?

Two cat litterboxes on a shelf labeled “monsters “ in a hardware store.

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.eurosky.social · 31/12/2025

Unrelatedly, I have a tattoo based on a stained glass window…

Tattoo on my inner left forearm. It’s an abstract cathedral rose window design made of dots of color in a black frame.

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.eurosky.social · 30/12/2025

Tattoo, phase one. Phase two in February after it heals.

Very fresh greyscale tattoo with a rooster with a garland of roses and a Torchon lace pattern, covering most of the upper right arm of a white woman.

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.eurosky.social · 28/12/2025

If nothing else, regurgitating AI responses does make people politer during arguments.

Thanks for pushing on this. You're right, but the nature of the dialogue is different to that with a human or with an LLM (3 different

That's fair and a result of flattening this in a post reply. But books aren't dialogic and
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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.eurosky.social · 25/12/2025

The gnomes have added another work to our art wall: Gnomerican Gothic.

Gnomerican Gothic: American Gothic but with gnomes. And a fork.

A gallery of famous pictures redone with gnomes; the Gnome with the Pear Earring, Gnoma Lisa, the Gneam (the Scream), and now Gnomerican Gothic.

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.eurosky.social · 23/12/2025

Today I got some felt to cover the lower surface, then finished sanding and staining the new edges. Result: gaming table in a couple of days. (n=7)

The table showing the lower level with its green felt playing surface. It’s surrounded by chairs occupied by gnomes.

The table with its top on it, surrounded by chairs occupied by gnomes.

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.eurosky.social · 23/12/2025

The edges of the box were pretty rough and splintery. I poked around the local hardware store’s website and found some hardwood edging with an L cross section. That would cover the rough part as and save our wrists. (5/n)

The table with unstained wooden edging. And an MDF lower surface.

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.eurosky.social · 23/12/2025

A person could take out that center bar, if they were willing to abandon the leafing. A person could then add a sunken surface there and have one of those fancy gaming tables. We tried it out with a bit of cardboard. (3/n)

The table base with cardboard forming a lower table surface.

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.eurosky.social · 23/12/2025

Typical secondhand store find. The leafing mechanism was fussy (it was wonk when we found it in the store). But the base structure made us think. (2/n)

Base of the wooden table, with the top and leaves removed.

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.eurosky.social · 23/12/2025

On Saturday M and I bought a table to put in a corner of the living room and play games on. Chunky, wood, old, leafs out. (1/n)

A wooden table whose top is divided into four panels. The outer two are leaves that can otherwise be stored in the table base.

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.eurosky.social · 17/12/2025

I have another version. It got a ton of laughs.

A white woman with salt and pepper hair wearing a red ugly Christmas sweater with the text BUT DID YOU DOCUMENT IT? in green.

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.eurosky.social · 06/12/2025

Digging through my Aida cloth and found this bit of blackwork I designed. Late 2020? Early 2021?

Blackwork embroidery of a red Covid virus surrounded by masks and syringes.

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.eurosky.social · 27/11/2025

You just died. The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.

A very fluffy grey tabby sits curled up in a shoebox. He’s looking at you solemnly.

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.eurosky.social · 11/11/2025

I’m currently obsessed with bobbin lace. The bobbins in question are little wooden or bone things, 10-15 cm long, and some of them are exquisite.

An intricately carved wooden bobbin. It looks kind of like a medieval tower.

A dark wood bobbin with a blue and white cameo embedded in it.

Three bobbins painted with Rennie Mackintosh roses. They have bead loops hanging from them, also with painted roses.

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.eurosky.social · 31/10/2025

I do like a workplace that enjoys Halloween.

A white woman with skull-shadows on her face and red lipstick. She is wearing a crown of roses and a black hood atop it. Her earrings are glowing red.

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.eurosky.social · 25/10/2025

Are you aware of blackwork? It’s an embroidery technique to make it look like you’re wearing lace. (I did some during the pandemic lockdown period. Here’s my Death Star sampler.)

An embroidered Death Star with different patterns in black thread in each of the segments.

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.eurosky.social · 25/10/2025

And..close. It only closes because the roller compresses and the latch is good. I’ll probably add a strap today. Likely something tablet woven, because I have a bunch of those around.

The closed leather box, ready to travel.

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.eurosky.social · 25/10/2025

Ad any other lacemaking this and that: the pin box, the prickers, scissors, spare thread, a tiny crochet hook, and a tick remover I use as a pin puller.

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.eurosky.social · 25/10/2025

Now start packing the box. First the stiffener, then the frame, then the pad. Add the roller and lay the bobbins on the folded pad. It’s a little chaotic, but that’s the reason for all that pinning and fiddling with crochet strips.

The box with the blue plastic stiffener and the wooden frame inside it.

The box with the roller pillow and mad pile of protected bobbins inside it.

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.eurosky.social · 25/10/2025

Remove the stiffener from behind the pad that sits on the lid of the box.

Sliding the blue plastic stiffener out of the magenta pad. The roller lurks in the background.

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