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haloroundmyhead knits @haloroundmyhead.com · 02/09/2026

My first CompSci teacher in high school had a poster of Admiral Hopper on the wall and taught about her. How many of the boys in the class bothered to retain that information into adulthood is another question…

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haloroundmyhead knits @haloroundmyhead.com · 03/08/2026

If not Dracula, then at least a “Dr. Acula”

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Audrey Farnsworth @audipenny.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital

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haloroundmyhead knits @haloroundmyhead.com · 23/05/2026

Now if it were a DS9 episode, then it’d be about Quark having Worf train him to undergo the Rite of Ascension to persuade Grilka to marry him again. The B plot is Dukat prank calling Sisko.

DS9 title card with view of the station, title text reads “muS muSwI’pu’” (albeit in all-caps, which isn’t proper romanization of Klingon), which is Klingon for “haters gonna hate”.

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haloroundmyhead knits @haloroundmyhead.com · 23/05/2026

If this title were for a TNG episode, it would be about Worf going on a spiritual retreat with the Kahless clone to learn the most sacred of Klingon drinking songs.

TNG title card with front view of the Enterprise-D, title text reads “muS muSwI’pu’”, which is Klingon for “haters gonna hate”.

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Josh Mayfield @bean525.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I'd REALLY appreciate it if anyone who sees this would try out my text generators so I can iron out any remaining bugs. Please, and thank you! trek.epicrandomness.com

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Star Trek Title Card Generator

Make your own era-accurate Star Trek episode title cards in seconds. Boldly go!

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haloroundmyhead knits @haloroundmyhead.com · 03/04/2026

Out of curiosity, what is the exact Japanese expression? I’m studying Japanese and I’d love to learn some more idioms.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

This weekend and always, NO LILIES FOR KITTIES. www.fda.gov/animal-veter...

graphic that says in bold lettering "remember: no lilies for kitties. even ingesting a tiny amount of pollen can cause fatal kidney failure. don't risk it." the background is a wallpaper of lily drawings and there is a photo of a perfect, fluffy white cat in the bottom right corner.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 03/01/2026

FOLKS NEED TO REALIZE HOW HUGE THIS IS For the first time in modern Texas history, Dems have candidates running in every state and federal race on the 2026 ballot. That includes all congressional seats, every state House and state Senate race, plus statewide judicial and State Board of Education.

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haloroundmyhead knits @haloroundmyhead.com · 29/11/2025

Stella is such a ham. Here she is hogging the footrest of the recliner as I knit. I liked the hat I came up with for a present so much that I had to knit another for myself out of a special skein of polwarth/seacell yarn in a beautiful variegated green. 🧶 #knitting #Caturday

Russian Blue cat lying stretched out on her side with belly exposed and feet curled up, underneath her is the footrest of the recliner covered in a fuzzy gray blanket. In the foreground of the photo is the folded legs of the human taking the photo, which are covered by the blanket, and a chevron rib hat in a lustrous handpainted green wool blend is on a set of marbled pink circular needles.

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haloroundmyhead knits @haloroundmyhead.com · 25/11/2025

How have I been missing out on all the DS9 talk on here? I have “tlhIngan Hol” as an interest in my profile…you’d think more Star Trek discourse would reach me!

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haloroundmyhead knits @haloroundmyhead.com · 18/11/2025

Cult of the Lamb, probably, although I’d call it “cute macabre”.

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I said abolish and I fucking meant it @astridoverthere.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

Screenshot of the top of a Bsky feed, with a red circle around the hamburger menu in the top left.

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haloroundmyhead knits @haloroundmyhead.com · 09/10/2025

I feel brioche charts could be much improved by removing all of the extraneous rows between the pattern rows, and using a consistent symbol for each column instead of mapping out whether it’s a brk/brp or sl1yo for that specific square.

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haloroundmyhead knits @haloroundmyhead.com · 22/08/2025

Same here. I do occasionally have to add an entry for a design, or look up information on a pattern, but I don’t use the forums anymore. I also very rarely buy a pattern there when a designer’s checkout cart doesn’t think the mailing address it nabbed from my PayPal is valid and won’t complete.

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haloroundmyhead knits @haloroundmyhead.com · 21/08/2025

Also, I recommend to anyone who has a Switch or Switch Lite that’s several years old to open it up and replace the thermal paste. Preferably you should use name brand, but even those little packets of generic paste properly applied will be better than the OEM application of paste.

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haloroundmyhead knits @haloroundmyhead.com · 21/08/2025

Assuming I didn’t damage those cables, this means that getting a functional Switch Lite again might be as simple as going back in and reseating two cables. (But I still have to remove a lot of screws and reapply thermal paste in the process, so it’s not an entirely trivial operation.)

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haloroundmyhead knits @haloroundmyhead.com · 21/08/2025

However, the screen didn’t light up, but that means that I know which specific cables I should be looking at when I go back in. (When I thought it wouldn’t power up at all, the potential culprit was *anything* I had to unseat and reseat when I replaced the fan and analog sticks.)

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haloroundmyhead knits @haloroundmyhead.com · 21/08/2025

On a whim, I decided to plug in that Switch Lite I didn’t succeed in repairing earlier this year. After a few minutes of charging, I pressed the power button. I thought I heard a faint sound, so I held it up to my ear and heard the fan spinning very quietly. It can turn on after all!

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haloroundmyhead knits @haloroundmyhead.com · 13/08/2025

slightly diminish a band: My Clotty Valentine

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haloroundmyhead knits @haloroundmyhead.com · 13/08/2025

slightly diminish a band: Subtly Furry Animals

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Comicsbeat @comicsbeat.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

VIZ Media quietly added an AI-translated manga to their app and hoped no one would notice. We did. Manga deserves better than cheap, soulless automation. This is a betrayal of translators, fans, and the art form. We don't want your AI translations!

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Dear manga publishers, we don’t want your AI translations

VIZ Media quietly added an AI-translated manga to their app and hoped no one would notice. We did and want none of it.

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haloroundmyhead knits @haloroundmyhead.com · 01/08/2025

I bet she’s also going to be disappointed if the wheel ever does get assembled, and finds that it doesn’t magically turn batts, roving, or whatever into yarn without any effort on her part.

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haloroundmyhead knits @haloroundmyhead.com · 27/06/2025

Also, I have the yarn I need, and a knit Dugga Doo plushie design is in the works.

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haloroundmyhead knits @haloroundmyhead.com · 27/06/2025

Nooo! The Dugga Doo livestream is over! 😢😢 (I purchased the song before the stream ended, but I can still lament the loss of the livestream.) #DoctorWho #DuggaDoo

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 22/06/2025

AOC: “It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”

The President's disastrous decision to bomb Iran without authorization is a grave violation of the Constitution and Congressional War Powers.
He has impulsively risked launching a war that may ensnare us for generations.
It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

CLARIFICATION : The Trevor Project's hotline will still be live. But basically this means LGBTQ people can no longer be connected to it through the US national 988 suicide prevention hotline. They will need to be contacted DIRECTLY So spread this around They can be texted. They can be called.

A screenshot of a website laid out in a two-by-two grid:

Top-left, a line-drawing image of a cartoon woman with braided hair looking at text messages on her smartphone with a smile.

Top-right, "Text us from anywhere, anytime. Standard text messaging rates may apply." "Text 'START' to 678-678" button, "What to expect +" link.

Bottom-left, "Reach out to hear a live voice on the line." "Call us at 1-866-488-7386" button. "What to expect +" link.

Bottom-right, side-by-side line-drawing images of two cartoon people. On the left, a cartoon woman is holding her phone to her ear and looking up at the night sky. On the right, a cartoon phone agent is sitting in front of a laptop with a headset on in front of a bright, sunny sky.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Protesters being arrested in Dallas now

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

The correct way to connect the authoritarian presence in LA and the Big Beautiful Bill is that the bill gives the government the resources to do this in dozens of cities at once. So if you don't like what's happening in LA, it's coming to your town if the bill passes.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m starting to get the same feeling in my gut that I had at about 1:30 PM on January 6, 2021—like Donald Trump has incited a series of events that are intended to culminate in a coup of our democracy by the far right. This is getting very bad.

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haloroundmyhead knits @haloroundmyhead.com · 12/05/2025

Went browsing in a used bookstore today, and I came across a particularly cursed title in the craft section: “Mormon Origami”. Those two words do not belong together, and yes, it really is Mormon-themed origami and not someone’s name.

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haloroundmyhead knits @haloroundmyhead.com · 05/05/2025

Get in folks, we’re posting lockscreens.

Eye-width extreme closeup of Russian blue cat’s face, with incredibly narrow pupils to showcase the beauty of her green irises to maximum effect. Backlighting is bright daylight, which makes the hairs on top of her head a radiant halo and her ears glow translucent red; time font is the funky one with multiple line strokes, and in a color that nearly matches the cat’s eyes

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haloroundmyhead knits @haloroundmyhead.com · 17/04/2025

Perhaps it might be long enough to work with a hook or button post-blocking, but I doubt it’s going to be long enough to tie. Although a fancy closure could certainly be a fun twist. /end

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haloroundmyhead knits @haloroundmyhead.com · 17/04/2025

At the top, the middle panel is bound off, and the two bias “wings” are worked outwards. The reason for the difference in length is that I got tired of working both sides at once while I was watching a show I needed to focus more on. /continued

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haloroundmyhead knits @haloroundmyhead.com · 17/04/2025

I haven’t bound off either tip, hence why they’re connected by several inches of yarn (I was working from both end of the ball at once. It’s an unusual construction worked up from the bottom of the shawl, with the side panels biased. /continued

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haloroundmyhead knits @haloroundmyhead.com · 17/04/2025

I’m a bit surprised I ran out of yarn, because although my gauge isn’t a perfect match (bit wider stitchwise, but row gauge spot on), I had about 80 more yards than the pattern required, and I tend to use less yarn than patterns call for. And this wool is a bit like Fixation (stretchy!)

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haloroundmyhead knits @haloroundmyhead.com · 17/04/2025

So, do I rip back on the longer tip and rework both to be the same length, and accept that it probably won’t be as long as the original pattern, or do I rip out entirely to make something else?

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haloroundmyhead knits @haloroundmyhead.com · 17/04/2025

I lost yarn chicken on this shawl (notice the short piece of yarn bridging the two tips…that’s all that’s left), and I’m trying to decide what my next step is. Unfortunately there isn’t enough yarn to make the wings long enough for the body wrap option. #Knitting 🧶

Long narrow triangular bias ribbed piece of knitting in semi-solid pesto green wool, folded to show that one tip is about three inches shorter than the other, and that there’s only several inches of unworked yarn connecting the two tips

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Many products sold in the U.S. are made in El Salvador. In response to the El Salvador president’s statements today, we’re calling for an immediate boycott of all Salvadoran-made goods. Please help by listing any products or brands made in El Salvador in the comments below.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 09/04/2025

The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.

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haloroundmyhead knits @haloroundmyhead.com · 09/04/2025

Etude’s Soonjung Panthensoside sheet mask has a very simple ingredient list for a sheet mask, and the mask is the super thin kind that fits very smoothly. Rest of the Soonjung line is also pretty fab for sensitive skin.

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haloroundmyhead knits @haloroundmyhead.com · 09/04/2025

Currently working on N-ogee by @norahgn.bsky.social. The yarn is Mountain Meadow Cody, which is a yarn that was made for cables and rib…the lively springiness of the yarn is magic. #Knitting 🧶

Triangular shawl in vibrant pesto green rustic wool, with triangular panel of intertwining cables in the middle, and panels of rib flanking the outer edges. The piece fills the circular knitting needles, and is the largest it can be and still lie flat on these circs. Attached yarn cake is very small, showing that the knitter needs to attach the next ball soon.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Strom Thurmond's record is 24 hours and 18 minutes which was done against the Civil Rights Act of 1957 & in defense of segregation. Cory Booker, a Black senator from Jersey, breaking his record to speak out against a white supremacist President would be poetic justice.

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Cory Booker crosses 23-hour mark in marathon Senate floor speech protesting Trump agenda | CNN Politics

Sen. Cory Booker is holding the Senate floor into Tuesday afternoon, as the New Jersey Democrat continues his marathon speech protesting actions taken by President Donald Trump’s administration.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Martial Law. It’s the elephant in the room. It’s what authoritarians resort to when the tide turns against them. It’s what the authoritarian in this White House is setting the stage for. 🧵…

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