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Status Changed @statuschanged.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

YouTube has been going buckwild recommending me AI videos. Like there's even a little "youtube recommended!" tag on them. If I see an AI thumbnail, even if it's a topic that sounds nominally interesting, I'm not going to watch it because they obviously don't care about their video, why should I?

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Status Changed @statuschanged.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My child is being a BAD INFLUENCE on the little doggie. Sent me photographic evidence and everything.

A wide-eyed innocent chihuahua chewing on a piece of nori rolled up to look like a marijuana cigarette.

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Status Changed @statuschanged.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Man, my kids are so old there are exactly 0 board books I liked reading them that are still for sale. (I found an abridged Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb, but that's from Ye Olden Dayes, it doesn't count.)

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Status Changed @statuschanged.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Also, I figured out why it's called a shawl. Clearly meant for a chihuahua. (My dog is very patient with my nonsense.)

A chihuahua, unsure about the situation but willing to go with it, wrapped in a handknit scarf in spring-colred pinks and greens.

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Status Changed @statuschanged.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I did a smart! I was just about 5 rows short of a 22nd feather, but I thought that might happen so I put in a lifeline (blue wire) after the 21st, so it was an easy fix/finish. Also, I thought the lifeline looked kinda neat with the short rows, so I took a picture. #knitsky #FOFriday🧶

Closeup of the last few feathers of the pincha shawl (https://ravel.me/pincha-shawl) in Bumblebee Acres Farms Bubble Sock, colorway Spring Court, a mix of Springy pinks and greens. The last feather is separated with a blue wire, a lifeline for ripping back.

A finished pincha shawl (https://ravel.me/pincha-shawl) in Bumblebee Acres Farms Bubble Sock, colorway Spring Court, a mix of Springy pinks and greens.

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Status Changed @statuschanged.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I love knitting in orange, I do it because seeing the yarn makes me happy, but I don't want to wear orange, so I was certain I didn't have any autumnal knits. Then I moved one shawl out of the way and remembered I have two that I wear all the time, I just forgot over Summer. #showmeyourknits 🧶

A variegated rusty-orange shawl in a simple triangle pattern and a bright, candy-corn orange scarf folded. Both freehanded with some random acrylics, no details.

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Status Changed @statuschanged.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It might be the 70s in me but I love a philodendron, miss me with your newfangled pothos. My husband wanted a plant of his own, so I made this with things we had around the house (including a 3d printer). The cutting is from my desk plant which started the same size and is now bigger than me.

A 6" hanging pot in a window with two tiny plant leaves growing out of it. Background of leaves and city neighborhood.

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Status Changed @statuschanged.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Every morning the child asks me what the weather's going to be and I tell them. This morning, as I'm telling them, their friend texts "Don't forget a sweater!" I'm practically crying, that's so sweet! So thoughtful! Nobody ever called me in the morning to remind me to wear a sweater to school!

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Status Changed @statuschanged.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I was Very Careful about getting the Expanse books in order. I double-checked. HOW did I still manage to read the second one first and not notice until the end? I guess I like it more now, I thought the middle was dragging with stuff about characters who hadn't been introduced.

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Status Changed @statuschanged.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

After that sweater I needed a quick win. I don't know why this is called a shawl, it's very clearly a scarf. Otherwise, it's very nice. Winding it, I realized this yarn wouldn't work for the pattern I had in mind, but I think it's perfect for this! ravel.me/pincha-shawl #knitting #knitsky 🧶

About 1/3 of a https://ravel.me/pincha-shawl in Bumblee Acres Farm Bubble Sock, colorway "Spring Court" (springy pinks/purples/greens)

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Status Changed @statuschanged.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

They had so much fleece & roving at the Upcycle place! I don't spin and have no intention to ever learn, so I left it for someone who could use it, but those alpaca fleeces were tempting. I did get way more yarn than I should have, but I have plans for it at least.

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Status Changed @statuschanged.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Finally finished! It blocked out really nice, I love this texture and the cables actually look good. It is exactly the right length and a smidge too wide, and I have 40g of yarn left because I made it for my short-waisted self. ravel.me/atul #knitting #knitsky 🧶

A sweater using https://ravel.me/atul pattern, adjusted to use fingering-weight yarn. Yarn is Miss Babs Katahdin in Mahi-Mahi. Nearly a mile of yarn!

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Status Changed @statuschanged.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

One from my mom this time. She used to knit (before I was born) but switched to crochet because it was faster. Now she's retired to cross-stitch because it takes longer.

A cross-stitched scene from Rothenburg ob der Tauber. 40,000 tiny little stitches!

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Status Changed @statuschanged.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Watched The Black Cauldron, and it was interesting, because I could see why I didn't like it then and why I don't like it now is different, but it's still Not Good. Can't for the life of me remember why I hated their Gurgi though, I think he's... a fine adaptation for a Disney movie.

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Status Changed @statuschanged.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My child thinks they're funny. Glanced out the kitchen window and:

The view out of a small window; A crying clown statue stares sadly into the home he cannot enter, framed by generic backyard tree and fence.

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Status Changed @statuschanged.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I've been rereading the Chronicles of Prydain, which I last read just a little before the movie came out (my introduction to "adaptations can be bad!") Absolutely loved them as a child, and absolutely not enjoying them now. Yuck.

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Status Changed @statuschanged.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Scarf! I have a million but they're not very interesting, except this one. Designed by my youngest, knitted by me, and they never ever wear it because it's always too warm here. (Yes some of the eyes are supposed to be different.) Perhaps the dog will wear it this winter. #showmeyourknits #knitsky 🧶

A scarf about 6' long and 10" wide, double knit so that it has a motif of white eyes on black background on one side and black eyes on a white background on the other. Some of the eyes are unsettlingly off-center.

A chihuahua sits contemplatively upon a scarf about 6' long and 10" wide, double knit so that it has a motif of white eyes on black background on one side and black eyes on a white background on the other. Some of the eyes are unsettlingly off-center.

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Status Changed @statuschanged.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I firmly believe that if a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. Baked myself a terrible-looking but incredibly tasty cake to celebrate surviving this job 15 years! (IYKYK)

An incredibly sloppy cake that looks to have been baked by a toddler. Betty Crocker Devil's Food box mix with homemade cherry/cranberry compote and vanilla buttercream, with orange sprinkles in the shape of the number 15.

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Status Changed @statuschanged.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Oh, are we doing WIPs? Behold, the same cursed sweater I've had OTN for like 10 weeks. Every bind off has been done at least twice. Now I'm lengthening the sleeves. It's going to require super-hard blocking, but I think it will be ok. Maybe. #knitting #showmeyourknits 🧶

https://ravel.me/atul Atul sweater in a teal, fingering-weight yarn. It's mostly finished, which means it's probably about halfway finished.

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Status Changed @statuschanged.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I was so inspired by the State Fair exhibit that I'm determined to enter something in our state fair next year. Missed the deadline for this one by a week, so I have a solid 50 weeks to plan. (And one for shipping, our fair is far.)

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Status Changed @statuschanged.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This display was impressive, and brought up a discussion of how display => art. Of course the glassblowing child immediately clocked the Joey Kirkpatrick pear at the top.

Rod Zeitler's Home Canning Display, a massive pyramid of canned preserved foods displayed with dramatic underlighting, topped with a blown-glass pear by Joey Kirkpatrick.

Rod Zeitler
born 1952;
resides Iowa City, IA
Home Canning Display 2025
glass mason jars and preserved foods
Rod Zeitler has preserved his status as an IA State Fair legend. For the last several years he has had an entry in each of the roughly 180 canning classes, and he typically wins a ribbon per class.
Zeitler grew up on a farm in rural IA, where he was a 4-H member and exhibited livestock at fairs. Years later, seeking to emulate his wife's success in winning fair ribbons for her weaving, he began entering canning competitions.
This display features more than 700 jars of Zeitler's home-canned pickles, relishes, sauces, vegetables, fruits, jellies, jams, preserves, and butters. The stepped arrangement recalls historical canning and horticultural exhibitions at state fairs.
Courtesy of Rod Zeitler

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Status Changed @statuschanged.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

There were a bunch of awesome quilts. I thought this temperature one was especially neat because I've seen it in knit and crochet a bunch, but never quilting before. The Medallion Quilt is just amazing, all the fabrics look so soft and good and I can see why it took 5 years.

Debra Wykert's "Temperature Quilt - Wonky Weather". A quilt where each block represents the temperature on that day of the year, forming an interesting gradient of cool and warm squares.

Debra Wykert
born 1960; resides Muscatine, IA
Temperature Quilt - Wonky Weather
2023
cotton
Debra Wykert's quilt, which won first place at the 2023 Iowa State Fair, is a visual record of the daily high and low temperatures in Wykert's home city of Muscatine, Iowa, in 2022. Each patterned block represents a day. A legend matches each fabric color to a five-degree temperature range. The transition between cool and warm colors reflects the area's weather patterns and seasonal fluctuations.
Courtesy of Debra Wykert

Bertha Neiden's Medallion Quilt, an amazingly detailed quilt of over 10,000 tiny pieces.

Bertha Neiden
1888-1976, resided Lincoln, NE
Medallion Quilt
1909-14
machine-pieced wool suiting, serge, and gabardine
Bertha Neiden's Medallion Quilt took nearly five years to construct. Following the traditional pattern of a medallion quilt - a center motif framed by multiple borders - Neiden pieced approximately 10,200 triangles and squares to create a dynamic gradient effect. (The discoloration is the result of a flood in 1951.) In 1914, Medallion Quilt won a purple ribbon (first place) at the Nebraska State Fair.
Neiden was born in Gorodish, a small Jewish village in the Russian Empire, now Ukraine. At age twenty0one she immigrated to Lincoln, Nebraska, where she worked as a seamstress in a department store. The quilt fabrics could have been leftovers from her work or fabrics she brought from Europe.
Courtesy of International Quilt Museum

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Status Changed @statuschanged.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The quilt was not the only ribbon-quilted project on display. There was also this very cool jacket by Penny Singer:

Penny Singer's "Prized Winner Jacket", a poncho-style jacket made out of satin and fair ribbons.

Penny Singer
Dine (Navajo)
Born 1970; resides Albuquerque, NM
Prized Ribbon Jacket,
Award Ribbons from SWAIA, HEART, Pueblo Grande Art Show, NACC
2024-25
cotton and satin-lined ribbons and photo tranfer
For Penny Singer, "fashion happened by accident" when she began sewing shirts for her boyfriend, a powwow dancer, and discovered her passion for design. Self-taught in applique techniques, Singer has received numerous awards for her work. She constructed this jacket from the ribbons she won at various Native American art markets and fairs since 1995 and photo transfers of herself and family members over the years. This jacket embodies both her artistic journey and her dedication to Indigenous fashion.
Courtesy of Penny Singer.

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Status Changed @statuschanged.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I was musing to my husband about why the Lucille Ball portrait was so much better than all the rest. He said it was probably because they used an old photo of her, you know, a grainy one. >:(

A wall displaying seed art portraits of various celebrities. The Lucille Ball one is really spectacular, although the rest aren't bad at all.

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Status Changed @statuschanged.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I was not prepared for the size of this quilt. I didn't have a banana, so my husband (5'11") stood in for size. I'm so glad this quilt inspired me to go to the exhibit, it was 100% my jam, there were so many cool pieces I feel lucky I got to see.

Carol St. Clair Johnson's "O Fair New Mexico - 41 Fair Years" quilt, made of all of her ribbons she won. A man stands in front of it, showing its large size.

Carol St. Clair Johnson's "O Fair New Mexico - 41 Fair Years" quilt, made of all of her ribbons she won.

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Status Changed @statuschanged.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Got a pic of one of the first things I ever knit, ~30 years ago. My mom still uses it, my kids grew up snoozing in it, it's surprisingly warm for being 99% holes and definitely showing its age. It's Lion Brand Homespun something, long discontinued. My doggie thinks it is for him, natch. #knitting 🧶

A lacy acrylic blanket doubled and spread on the floor, in neutral greens and purply-brown. A blurry chihuahua rushes over to investigate.

A chihuahua sits proudly on a lacy blanket spread on the floor to photograph, not actually for him to sit upon.

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Status Changed @statuschanged.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I don't usually post pictures of myself on the Internet, but here's one of me & my mom having lunch with the lil' doggie.

A photo angled low over a dining room table, so the chihuahua sitting in a chair looks extremely far away and tiny. Two people sit on either side of him, and he looks invested in the conversation.

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Status Changed @statuschanged.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Pinterest is the only service I've seen that lets you remove your email from someone else's account. Everyone needs to hop on that train, I'm sick of people deciding my email is theirs. I get medical records, insurance information, all kinds of garbage, and there's nothing I can do most times.

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Status Changed @statuschanged.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I've worked really hard to get my dog to be calmly interested in things he used to be reactive to, and I'm proud of how far he's come. But it is really awkward when he wants to settle in on the sidewalk and stare at contractors loading their truck for 20 minutes.

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Status Changed @statuschanged.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This isn't even the first outdoor wedding in August I've been to. Why do I know so many sadists?

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Status Changed @statuschanged.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Never say I don't support my child's art. I have allowed this to live on our porch.

A 2' statuette of a classic sad clown, with tiny red hat and umbrella, fluffy pompom buttons, and giant tears rolling down his clown-makeuped cheeks. The tears glow in the dark but that isn't apparent from the photo.

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Status Changed @statuschanged.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

They assigned a bus stop before the school year even started, an exciting hint at functionality, but no bus ever arrived. Never change, ACPS.

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Status Changed @statuschanged.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

My dog and I feel the same way about me going into the office.

Closeup of a sleepy chihuahua face, eyes half-closed and tongue slightly sticking out.

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Status Changed @statuschanged.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This year the school decided to send my child back a grade instead of forward, but they DID get a bus stop before the third week of school for the first time in 4 years, so I'm calling it a wash.

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Status Changed @statuschanged.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

It took a bit over 2 weeks to reknit everything. Also did 1.5 repeats of wrong in a different way, so there's still a big messed-up bit because I couldn't psychologically do it a 3rd time. I don't know that I'll ever like cables, trying to read them is like trying to read Greek. #knitsky 🧶

Most of a teal sweater, still in the process of being knitted. Pattern is Atul, on Ravelry. A Jacob-horse pillow looks on approvingly.

A chihuahua looking pleased with himself for jumping on my sweater as soon as I put it on the couch.

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Status Changed @statuschanged.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I often wonder who falls for those dumb ai ad scams, and turns out it's my former boss. I knew she fell for one ages ago, but turns out she does it CONSTANTLY. Any FB sob story, she buys their dumb drop-shipped crap. She fell for the one where it's a fake product with ai video. All of them.

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Status Changed @statuschanged.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Are you Team Snoppy or Team Sncoby?

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Status Changed @statuschanged.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I'm home with no cars because SOMEONE is ALLOWED TO DRIVE now. It would be peaceful, except the dog wants to watch tv.

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Status Changed @statuschanged.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I was pretty sure they were playing AI music in CVS this afternoon. Remembered just enough lyrics from one "song" to figure out it was Ed Sheeran. (Which is not to say it's NOT ai, but it's from 2023, so probably just his natural ability to make terrible music.)

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Status Changed @statuschanged.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I wish I had gotten involved in this primary earlier. I think it's a good lesson, because there was a candidate that turns out I thought was really good, I just didn't find out about him until the day of voting. What if I could have helped more people hear about him? Next time I will do better.

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Status Changed @statuschanged.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Don Beyer was a good choice for here like 800 years ago when I started voting for him, but he needs to catch tf up. I'm sure he'll win based on name recognition alone, but I hope the votes against him today are enough to make him at least a little worried.

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Status Changed @statuschanged.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

WELP. Somehow I switched the cabled edges after joining the fronts and have been working them backwards for 6". That's about 8 hours worth of #knitting I'm gonna rip back. 😭 On the plus side, that's 8 extra hours of knitting before I have to buy new yarn! What a savings! #knitsky 🧶

The cabled edges of an Atul sweater, showing where the cables reverse slightly over halfway through.

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Status Changed @statuschanged.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

My tattoo is finally finished, and it's the most beautiful thing in the world but I'll never post a picture of it on the Internet, so instead I will share this can of Liquidypuff. (No relation.)

A can of QDOL peach soda. The can is pink and has a picture of Jigglypuff's face on the front. Dangerously cute!

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Status Changed @statuschanged.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I don't use LinkedIn, but this is the first social media AI development I'm excited about.

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Status Changed @statuschanged.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Jim Henson's Creature Shop is doing tours right now. It's not cheap and you can't take photos in most of it, but it was 100% worth it. Everything was so cool! You get to see so many Muppets! I drove to Long Island and back and lived to tell the tale!

Posed puppets of Ma Otter, Emmet Otter, and Charlie Muskrat from Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas.

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Status Changed @statuschanged.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Another project from my child - their OC Eridian, Disco. Designed and crocheted by them, I think it came out great! #crochet 🧶

A pastel, multicolored soft toy with five legs, in the style of a Project Hail Mary Eridian, lays in a dog bed while a chihuahua looks on in concern.

A 5-legged crocheted soft toy in pastel and gray colors, in the style of a Project Hail Mary Eridian.

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Status Changed @statuschanged.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Huh. Added my kid to our car insurance and the total went down by $80/year. I should pay them $6.50 a month since I said they were responsible for insurance?

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