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Yeah, you can't wear a hat in this house without getting SOME commentary.

I had to insist they quit yelling they didn't like/hated things and switch to "that's not my favorite".

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The book that helped teach my kids to be jackasses. Like my effect on them wasn't enough, hahaha.

Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

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I'm being asked to choose between people who shout transphobic slurs and people who respond to being called transphobic slurs by shouting back that actually, they don't think trans people deserve rights, privacy, or dignity, either, thank you very much.

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The right's answer to political divide - be nicer to me while I hurt people, pls. Also, you're evil and I hate you and you're next.

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Sara “Blade” Reine @smreine.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I could 'read' goodnight moon while falling asleep beside the kid.

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This post has been haunting me so much, it feels like it must be rage bait Reading to your kids is a special, singular experience you can’t get back. Educational for them in critical ways but also critical bonding time. It is…like…why are you even alive if you’re outsourcing this???

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Yeah, I have a little chart taped to the bookcase beside my nest in case I forget if sport is bigger or smaller than dk which I do on the reg.

For one conspiracy second...could companies take advantage of "we won't copyright AI" which is technically a good thing...to say everything is AI now and issue no more copyrights so they can steal it all?

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I do not have an artist's eye. I can follow a pattern and learn THAT but I can't just whip up a good wearable with mismatched yarn like some fiber artists can.

I get an equal amount of joy in using yarn that I already had but I've been into wearables lately and I rarely have enough of any one kind, and mix and match is tricky.

You need over 1000 yards for a lot of the good wearable projects.

The issue with my hoarding, as I am sure you will immediately understand, is that for a project larger than a hat, you need a lot of matching yarn in the same type/size/etc. And when you only buy one skein, well, you can't make a hexagon cardigan with one skein. Or a skein and a half.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

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gregor samsa awoke one morning to discover he had been transformed into a sickass beetle. fuck yeah he said scuttling all over the walls and ceiling like no dumbfuck traveling salesman could ever do. this is the best day of my life he said

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Weightless Books @weightlessbooks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I don't think you understand how MUCH yarn I have. Speaking of pictures. Let me add it to the list so you can be like 'holy FUCK Jody do you ever crochet anything or just hoard yarn' and like shut up i am crocheting 18 projects right now.

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New issue of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social has stories by James Morrow and Jordon Jones and cover art by Bruce Brenneise! weightlessbooks.com/beneath-ceas...

Cover art for BCS #468 by Bruce Brenneise, feautring a weird seashell-like building perched on a cliff amid waterfalls and tropical flowers

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Shipping anymore is cost prohibitive so perhaps just karma me some of your thrift luck!

I would really like that, LOL. Don't tease.

For example, some bidder is about to get all this for $34 bucks. shopgoodwill.com/item/278848584

shopgoodwill.com

Used Lot of Yarn Skeins

And I hate to tell you all this, but...goodwill online auction sells big boxes of rando yarn.

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It doesn't suck! Come vacation with me for awhile, we'll go thrift EVERYWHERE. @cathypegau.bsky.social too.

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I actually think I have that exact maroon chenille I got at the thrift store. Just one, tho. Takes 2 to make a cat bed, per the patterns I read.

Hear me out. Right now I'd vote for Project Hail Mary.

We have a craft supplies thrift store here and sometimes it's GRAND and sometimes it's Red Heart Super Saver.

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I want to try making a cat bed out of the really big fat chenille because I have zero need of blankets in my life. Or sweaters. Or hats. Or, often, socks.

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That is really hard. I'm sorry. I wish more houses had fewer steps to enter. Our front steps are stupid.

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Let's see a pic. Vicarious thrifting, pls.

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What do you think has changed? Just the overload in general or anything else? I have to hide sometimes and that didn't use to be the case. Since Covid, probably.

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Hello, PT was torturous today and I told the therapist that complaining is a natural analgesic and I bet she's STILL laughing at me.

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That would be awesome. I also like waterfalls, but I don't like to hike a long way to see them or for there to be a lot of other people around, so we will want to get a helicopter for that part.

One time I read about a potato grown in Peru that is said to taste like it's already buttered, and I think I was in my teens when I read it, and I've been sad about not getting to eat every potato ever since. So 40 years of sadness.

I have been surprised at the wide variety of apples available after a youth of red or green and nothing else. Sadly, I know there are a lot of plant foods like apple that have a wide variety in reality and we just don't get to have them here.

On that note, I guess I need to cure myself of saying "have a great/nice day" because I think we read the same stuff and I can see it's not my best closer.

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Oh noooo! Well, I like the sweet ones like Honey Crisp. We keep apples around because they stay good a long time, which suits our style, LOL. My sister prefers them cold and keeps them in fridge.

I wonder if you associated apples with red not-so-delicious delicious and mealy apples and that's why you disliked them?

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I had that one on cassette :). That was right when I graduated high school.

Jody Wallace @jodywallace.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I think I had quit reading DA & the other blogs by that point -- I missed all that. Whoa! But your piece is indeed great :)

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Then is your mission to talk someone who CAN do it into doing it? Heh. Some of us know we can't, so we talk other people into do it so we can participate at a lesser level.

I've gotten so burned out on the bullshit 'both sides' neutrality that I no longer trust anyone who claims to be neutral. Facts are neutral -- but not anymore, I guess.

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Are they accurate in how they access factualness, do you think?

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So Ground News just...shares "news" without regard to whether the news is factual?

Oh, I love their stuff, then and now.

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Suburbia is a hellscape sometimes, and so is my brain right now.

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