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Donna @randomknits.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Sorry, I probably wasn’t clear. I meant the 200% tariff will result in Americans paying even more for medical care - while I pay $15-$20 for a prescription

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Donna @randomknits.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Just for comparison sake. My dexamphetamine is $15 for 100 tablets. My antidepressant is $20 a month

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Donna @randomknits.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

I’m sorry Americans, but your government just doesn’t want you to have affordable medical care.

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Donna @randomknits.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

I count the #uglydogs as part of that support system, Mac. Including you!

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Donna @randomknits.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Now my other brother is homeless, because he was dependant on mum. But he’s also a drug addict who doesn’t want help. Shit sucks, Mac. Sometimes everything is too hard and hiding is easy. But I’ve got an awesome husband and the two best dogs on the planet. And some really, really good friends. 🩷

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Donna @randomknits.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

In October 2023, my stepmother (who saved us all after our birth mother died when I was 8) had a brain tumour removed. She was 84. It was a lung cancer metastasis. I supported her until she died in December 2024. I cried and cried and cried. Nothing wrong with me, my father was just a prick. 2/

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Donna @randomknits.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

In 2022 I supported (somewhat) my abusive father as he suffered from cancer. In early 2023, I sat by his bedside for 48 hours as he died. I didn’t cry & I thought there was something wrong with me. In mid 2023 I had to find my allegedly adult brother housing, because he’d been dependant on dad 1/

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Donna @randomknits.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I think I’d have to sleep on the floor 😂

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Donna @randomknits.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Australia did NOT elect Temu Trump! 🎉🎉

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Donna @randomknits.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

It won’t surprise you that if I do move to the spare bed, they follow! (I think it’s my “certain age” overheating)

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Donna @randomknits.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Election season. Where every time I open YouTube I’m bombarded with political ads.

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Donna @randomknits.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Did one of these dogs wake the house at 5:09am, preparing to vomit on the rug? Yes. Yes, they did.

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Donna @randomknits.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Everyone needs an emotional support Bonnie

A black Labrador resting his head on the back of a yellow Labrador

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Donna @randomknits.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

She waits until I’m asleep, then moves the donut to the end of the bed 🩷

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Donna @randomknits.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Working on a Kintra sweater by @thecreabea.bsky.social Nit getting much knitting done, spending more time just looking at it, it’s so pretty!!

The yoke of a knit sweater in progress, in rainbow stripes

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Donna @randomknits.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Karma's gonna track you down Step by step from town to town Sweet like justice, karma is a queen Karma takes all my friends to the cabin!!

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Donna @randomknits.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

But she had a snooze and now she’s checking that I’m still paying attention

A yellow Labrador looking over her shoulder

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Donna @randomknits.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I don’t know what she’s pouting about and she won’t look at me #uglydogs

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Donna @randomknits.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Took me a while to get the hang of the dip stitch, but I love how it’s coming out!!!

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Donna @randomknits.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

As a kid I moved a lot. Custody battles, new houses etc. I don’t recall ever having a teddy. ☹️ But I had a Kissing Barbie. I’d wanted one so badly, and I finally got her. In one of the moves she was lost. I don’t think I had her for long.

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Donna @randomknits.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Arbitrary rules is what pissed me off. Not everyone who enters the Iditarod is going to win. They know red lantern is usually 3-5 days after the winner. If you’re pulling the non-competitive rule, what’s the definition? 4 days behind at the midway? X number of miles?

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Donna @randomknits.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Wordle 1,371 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Donna @randomknits.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

It’s Utah’s 4th birthday tomorrow!

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Donna @randomknits.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Wordle 1,370 X/6 ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨 🟨🟩🟨🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 Just blew a 110 day streak. Best streak was 221 days, but in December I missed a day when my mother was dying in hospital. I guess it another 7.5 months to break that streak

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Donna @randomknits.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Strands #381 “Upright and grand” 🔵🟡🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵

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Donna @randomknits.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I also just noticed that this isn’t the best pic of Utah. Sorry, he’s very excitable 😂

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Donna @randomknits.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Wordle 1,369 5/6 🟨⬜🟩🟨⬜ 🟩⬜🟩🟩⬜ 🟩⬜🟩🟩⬜ 🟩⬜🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Donna @randomknits.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

It’s very fuzzy and soft!

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Donna @randomknits.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

This might just be one of the cutest things I’ve ever knit 👶🏻🐻

A hand knitted brown baby hat with bear ears

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Donna @randomknits.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

My service has been asked repeatedly in recent years by people who should know better “but isn’t there any way you can make money??”

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Donna @randomknits.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

We call Utah (black) blockhead. He’s got a seriously block shaped head 😂

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Donna @randomknits.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Bonnie and Utah are here for you!

A black and a yellow Labrador sitting on a bench

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Donna @randomknits.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I remember waking up suddenly in the dark and realising that @blairbraverman.bsky.social and the team would be arriving in Nome imminently. It was something like 4:30am in Sydney, so I sat on the couch in the dark and watched them cross over. I was so excited for them all that I cried 🙃

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Donna @randomknits.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Wordle 1,368 4/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Donna @randomknits.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

We once had a hermit crab who escaped their tank and traversed the entire house to the bathroom before we found them. Through two rooms and down a hallway into bathroom. Chaotic!

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Donna @randomknits.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

We built a new library in 2023. We told the architect and signage people over and over “lots of signs for the bathrooms” what did they leave out? 😫

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Donna @randomknits.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

We adopted him just after he lost his leg. We’re not sure if he got into an accident because he’s a bit dumb, or if he took a knock to the head in the accident where he lost his leg!!

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