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MaryAnne @rogueknytter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My dr referred me to a practice & said they’ll call you to schedule. 3 days later, the “referral team” called to ask which location I preferred & said they’d call me to schedule. 1 week later & they never called so I called them How is this process better than me just calling the day I saw my dr?

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MaryAnne @rogueknytter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Almost replied to someone being argumentative and snarky, but I backed off and muted them instead. Please clap. Seriously, the mute/block strategy is much better than engaging with someone whose main goal is to snark and insult their way to supposed superiority.

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MaryAnne @rogueknytter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Trump is to the arts what bulls are to china shops.

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MaryAnne @rogueknytter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Regarding AI, I think I’m on team Let’s Not Risk Extinction

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MaryAnne @rogueknytter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A perfect travel WIP … simple but interesting pattern, good size for car knitting, eye-pleasing colorway. Pattern is That Nice Stitch, a great pattern for that special skein of hand-dyed yarn (www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...). Yarn is Dream in Color Smooshy. #knitting 🧶

A colorful knitting project on a table next to a small project bag with a row counter from Green Owl Farmacy attached to it.

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MaryAnne @rogueknytter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I treated myself to a nice project/travel bag, I freaking love this thing. I have 3 projects (equivalent to 1600 yards of fingering weight), half-letter notebooks, reading/knitting light, and a small tool pouch in it right now … I can overpack projects for a trip with none the wiser 😂 #knitting 🧶

A boxy leather tote on a glass table top with a wooded area in the background.

An open boxy tote filled with knitting projects and supplies on a glass table top.

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MaryAnne @rogueknytter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The dialect questions I got nearly pinned down my hometown zip code 😂

A graphic showing a dialect heat map highlighting New England.

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MaryAnne @rogueknytter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I watched one of those animated AI ads on YouTube, the type with a folksy/country-ish song, to see how long they run. The one I watched started with “I slept with a Jewish billionaire’s wife” and sold (I am not joking) aged garlic. 7 min 38 sec. And that’s why we need more AI data centers #AISlop

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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Remembering Sister Rosetta Tharpe, born in 1915 in Cotton Plant, Arkansas. Here she's performing "Didn't It Rain" at a train depot in Manchester, England in 1964. She's often called the "Godmother of Rock & Roll" and influenced future music icons like Chuck Berry, Little Richard and Elvis Presley.

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MaryAnne @rogueknytter.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Progress pic for one of the summer projects. It’s not long enough yet 🙂. I’ll probably work until I’ve introduced a new ball of each color, then into hibernation it goes. I’m switching the foreground/background colors every pattern repeat (a repeat is 40 rows, and I’ve done ten repeats). #knitting 🧶

A colorful unfinished rectangular knit shawl is displayed on a chaise lounge. It is almost 4 feet long and about 20 inches wide.

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Hanna Blue 🏴‍☠️🏴🏁🗽⚜️❤️‍🔥🎃🎭🍁 @blueberrypoison.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The horse-riding librarians of the Pack Horse Library Project in Hindman, Kentucky, around 1940. This was a genuine New Deal initiative established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the Great Depression.

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MaryAnne @rogueknytter.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It’s that time of the knitting season when I start thinking about switching from the projects I’m not going to finish this summer to the projects that I won’t finish this fall. #knitting 🧶

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.

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MaryAnne @rogueknytter.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Was Bill Withers listening to the conversation I had with my yarn stash? #knitting 🧶

"Use Me"

'My friends feel it's their appointed duty
They keep trying to tell me
All you want to do is use me
But my answer, yeah to all that use me stuff
I want to spread the news
That if it feels this good getting used
You just keep on using me
Until you use me up
Until you use me up

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MaryAnne @rogueknytter.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

“Knitting is not just a grandma hobby, it’s a prescription you can hold.” #knitting 🧶 youtube.com/shorts/eqot_...

youtube.com

Dementia risk cut nearly in HALF by one common hobby

YouTube video by Neal K. Shah

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Computer scientist Margaret Hamilton coined the term “software engineer.” She directed the Software Engineering Division at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab & led development of the on-board flight software for NASA’s Apollo Guidance Computer. She was born #OTD in 1936 & turns 90 today! #WomenInSTEM

Two side-by-side black-and-white photographs of pioneering computer scientist Margaret Hamilton (born August 17, 1936). The left panel features a mature, close-up portrait where Hamilton gazes directly at the viewer with a serene, confident, and reflective expression, framed by her long, dark, slightly silvering hair. The right panel is a famous archival photograph showing a younger Hamilton standing indoors next to a towering stack of bound paper binders containing the Apollo Guidance Computer source code, which she led the development of at MIT. She is smiling broadly and wears a striped, long-sleeved mini dress with dark Mary Jane shoes and glasses, resting her hand proudly on top of the massive column of printed code. The overall composition contrasts her youthful triumph with her enduring legacy, capturing an optimistic, intellectually rigorous mood that highlights her monumental contributions to space exploration.

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MaryAnne @rogueknytter.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I dislike the term warfighter. There‘s an inherent redundancy to it; if they’re fighting, we know it’s going to be in a war. It just sounds rather … juvenile. But it seemed to be a self-fulfilling prophecy - if you call them warfighters, then they need a war to fight to justify their existence.

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MaryAnne @rogueknytter.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I did not look like this in the spring of 2020 (the best I could pull off was homemade masks from the most closely woven cotton I could find), but I respect the hell out of the people that did. Even then, Trump was politicizing the response. www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

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Political influence skews Trump's coronavirus response

Trump and his top aides have played favorites in awarding coronavirus contracts and allocating scarce resources.

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Scott Rockvam @flowstatephoto.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

"This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself." - Chief Seattle

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MaryAnne @rogueknytter.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Air quality in my area of PA has gone from hazardous to very unhealthy. Yay?

A chart showing air quality currently in unhealthy range after several hours of being in the hazardous range.

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MaryAnne @rogueknytter.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

If we go to permanent DST in winter, I suspect that after a prolonged and annoying period, businesses will open later because people will run errands in daylight & schools will delay their start for safety reasons; workplaces will shift hours to fit in. We’ll functionally be in standard time.

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MaryAnne @rogueknytter.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

What a sweet rendition. He will be remembered fondly.

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MaryAnne @rogueknytter.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Chances are pretty good your library has some summer events going on, check them out!

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Daniel Benneworth-Gray @danielgray.com · 13/07/2026

Sam Neill on tackling depression and imposter syndrome when you’re between jobs.

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MaryAnne @rogueknytter.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I knew it! The idiot thought it was ok to superglue that godawful gaudy crap everywhere.

Excerpt from the book Regime Change: “One morning, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt entered the Oval Office to find Donald Trump clutching a tube of superglue and attempting to affix gold decorations to the marble fireplace mantel.”

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MaryAnne @rogueknytter.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I blocked this guy. The fake rage bait is still there, despite many replies telling him it was fake. www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

Fake screenshot of a Trump truth social post, posted by
@deaconbluesky.bsky.social

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MaryAnne @rogueknytter.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Speaking as a wife about another wife … what’s wrong with her? If I got a call that my 84 year old husband was found unconscious, given CPR, and taken to the hospital, I’d drop everything to be with him, even if I’m told he’s doing fine.

JULY 7, 2026 (6 P.M.)
Elaine Chao sends statement.
McConnell's wife had been in China since before his hospitalization. Her spokesperson sent this statement: "The secretary was on a long-planned trip in China to support her family's philanthropic endeavors. During the trip, she met with a number of people, including the US ambassador. The Senator's health did not warrant an immediate return to the US.”

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MaryAnne @rogueknytter.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Summer as a retired person, except for the water balloon part … and the tree part.

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MaryAnne @rogueknytter.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

When I saw this, I thought love at first sight. But reading further in the thread, I see it’s much more … enduring love ❤️

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MaryAnne @rogueknytter.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Did I have to do a special order to get the Robbery Experience? Because that never happened when I ate out in DC.

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MaryAnne @rogueknytter.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Looks like he’s going to be mucking with the White House again. Wonder if he’ll have them golf-leafed? 😒

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MaryAnne @rogueknytter.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

60+ year old women know their shit 😉🧶

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MaryAnne @rogueknytter.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Stepped out for my minute of fresh air … it’s 94 F in the shade, 101 in the sun (at 4:40pm). Or 34.8 and 35.8 C. Yikes. Didn’t have temps like this when I lived 200 miles south of here in the 90s.

A thermometer showing a temperature of 101.8F

A thermometer showing a temperature of 94.6F

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MaryAnne @rogueknytter.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Things I never imagined I would say: “It’s 94 out, I think I’ll go read outside for a bit before it gets really hot”

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MaryAnne @rogueknytter.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I suspect that the fireworks in DC are scheduled so late not just to accommodate trump’s speech, but because of his age … scheduling it late so it will be cooler when he’s speaking. Just cancel the damn speech, start the fireworks earlier, and let people go home and get out of the heat sooner.

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MaryAnne @rogueknytter.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I have been loving all the stories about the Tartan Army in Boston. When I heard Boston was running out of beer, I found myself envying everyone lucky enough to be there during this grand party. www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...

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Tartan Army devastated to leave Boston after World Cup matches, "You've been the best hosts"

Scotland may have lost 0-1 to Morocco in a World Cup match at Boston Stadium on Friday, but the thing they were most upset about? Leaving New England.

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MaryAnne @rogueknytter.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I used to hang with a bunch of moms while our kids were in sports practice who bitched about everything (school related). Then I started bitching about everything. Then I stopped hanging with them because 1. I mostly liked what the school was doing, 2. My kids were fine. 3. I was miserable.

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MaryAnne @rogueknytter.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I just finished reading lf Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All”. I’d say it’s a must read. At the very least, I think it would change many people’s view of AI (imo there are implicit assumptions at work about AI based on decades of tv & movie depictions)

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MaryAnne @rogueknytter.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Just checked in on the progress of the name removal only to find they covered it up with a tarp? (There’s some kind of metaphor there) Was really looking forward to seeing video of the name ripped off letter by letter.

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