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Amazing Digital Carcass @amagire.bsky.social · 20/01/2024

is it time to bust out my "bigfoot is bears" photo collection again? if your mental image of a bear is a thick-furred, fat glossy male bear in autumn, you're probably not prepared for how weird their proportions can look in spring, or when walking upright, like they frequently do.

a bear walking upright, away from a trail camera

a skinny bear standing up on its hind legs, rummaging through a picnic area

a skinny bear with rangy, ape-like proportions, walking on all fours

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thread and circuses @thread-n-circuses.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

are you an ex-mennonite witch? are you part of the missing witches coven? do you WANT to be? i've recently discovered that most 'ethnically mennonite' people in germany/russia/canada/south america were actively nazis.

clippings from manitoban newspapers pre-WWII, showing speakers at nazi rallies in winnipeg with nazi flags and hitler portraits behind them, and a crowd giving the nazi salute while the mennonite young people's choir sings.

a screenshot of a video of nazis visiting a mennonite colonial village in russia in 1942; on the right, citizens performing the nazi salute and on the left, nazi soldiers touring the village.

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thread and circuses @thread-n-circuses.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

i cannot decide between black ribbon laces or matchy leather laces for my unicorn disco fringed moccasins. halp? #leatherwork #HandmadeShoes #HandmadeMoccasins #FringedLeatherMoccasins #DiscoBoots

the front view of a white person's right foot wearing iridescent fringed high-top leather moccasins with black ribbon laces.

the front view of a white person's right foot wearing iridescent fringed high-top leather moccasins with matching leather laces.

the side view of a white person's right foot wearing iridescent fringed high-top leather moccasins with black ribbon laces.

the side view of a white person's right foot wearing iridescent fringed high-top leather moccasins with matching leather laces.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

it's important this go as viral as the original story for morale purposes if nothing else. despite the image they project these people are NOT unaccountable. consequences CAN be forced. focused anger and outrage MATTERS.

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thread and circuses @thread-n-circuses.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

when i was a kid, my family would have pillow fights, and for some reason when we swung a pillow at someone, we would yell 'yang!' and it came to mean bonking someone. so! if yeet is 'throw' and yoink is 'take', then yang is in the same word-family... #yeet #yoink #yang

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thread and circuses @thread-n-circuses.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Y'ALL. i just got half a cow of shiny iridescent fairy leather and i intend to make disco boots and fetish harnesses and everything i can imagine with this bovine. #leatherwork #FairyLeather

four rolls of iridescent italian pebble-grain leather.

one roll of iridescent italian pebble-grain leather leaned up against legs clothed in pink, purple, and orange galaxy leggings and black boots and standing on a sidewalk. also pictured, the ends of a brioche-knit scarf ('a wrinkle in time travel').

a half-hide of iridescent italian pebble-grain leather unfurled on a messy bed with grey sheets, blue-striped blankets, and jurassic park themed pillows.

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thread and circuses @thread-n-circuses.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

flowers are starting to show themselves on the east coast of 'canada'. it feels springy at last! #snowdrops #fleurs #PlantFrands

snowdrops growing out of dirt and dead leaves and covered in fog droplets.

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Jason K Pargin, author @jasonkpargin.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Are we not angry enough

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

The Trump Administration is eliminating the Office of the Chief Scientist at NASA. The current head of that office is Dr. Katherine Calvin, an expert on climate change, global modeling, and international scientific negotiations. www.science.org/content/arti...

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NASA to eliminate chief scientist position

Long-running advisory role cut along with two dozen others in agencywide reduction

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thread and circuses @thread-n-circuses.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

i am no longer involved with this person in any way, but... circus used to be my RealJob™ and this is a little BTS of me and a guy doing partner poi! i miss performing. #FlowSky #PartnerPoi #PodPoi #GlowPoi

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Partner poi

YouTube video by Zack The Freeman Photo

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 05/03/2025

Think we’ve forgotten about the time that Elon was booed so badly by fans of Dave Chapelle (of all people) that he locked himself in his office and Twitter employees considered calling the cops to do a wellness check. What I’m saying is we can go harder.

screenshot that reads Elon Musk almost needed SFPD wellness check after ‘breakdown,’ getting booed at Dave Chappelle show ‘He got to a point where he locked himself in his office, was so upset’ that Twitter employees feared he would hurt himself, the author of a new book says about the billionaire

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thread and circuses @thread-n-circuses.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

does this count as leatherwork or bookbinding? or both? i made a sleep cover for my kobo with leather and handmade paper. and magnets (to put the kobo to sleep). #leatherwork #BookBinding #KoboSleepCover

the front of a black leather, handmade kobo sleepcover on a bamboo background.

a white person's hand holding a black leather, handmade kobo sleepcover to show the spine. there's a bamboo background.

an open black leather, handmade kobo sleepcover on a bamboo background. it has an orange, teal, red, and gold handmade paper on the inside of the cover, and contains a kobo clara 2e.

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thread and circuses @thread-n-circuses.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

anyone else feel like 'the substance' was a scathing critique of beauty standards and aging in women, but the last 10 minutes were written by sam raimi and performed by GWAR? just me? i feel like i got punked. #TheSubstance

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thread and circuses @thread-n-circuses.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

little bit late to the #ShowMeYourKnits sock party, but here's two mismatched socks! one from a pattern i have lost and one that was just a mish-mash recipe of toe-up sock components i liked. 🧶 #knitting #KnitSky

a pair of feet wearing mismatched handknit socks; on the right foot is a variegated green and red sock, and on the left foot is a purple sock with a thin lace strip up one side.

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thread and circuses @thread-n-circuses.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

was anyone else's family indoctrinated at dinner by 'dr.' james dobson, or were y'all normal? good heavens, no wonder i need therapy. youtu.be/32yCQoCXwhE

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Part One: Focus on the Family: James Dobson | BEHIND THE BASTARDS

YouTube video by Behind the Bastards

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thread and circuses @thread-n-circuses.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

sip and stitch not going very quickly, here's that same partly-finished brioche hat from weeks ago with an oat milk mocha and! a dilly dally lemon meringue poptart! 🧶 #FiberuaryChallenge #CoffeeIsLife #knitting #KnitSky #EatLocal #PoptartThursday

a yellow-lidded takeout coffee cup with an obscured picture of a local café on the sleeve, a partly finished brioche knit hat in teal, chartreuse, black, and speckled rainbow yarn, and a paper takeout box containing a homemade lemon meringue poptart.

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thread and circuses @thread-n-circuses.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

okay, so... these neon green and black fingerless mitts were a handmade gift for @jcvideohfx.bsky.social and i took slightly racy photos to show him. nothing is showing besides my scandalous shoulders, but... i'm labeling it anyway. sorry (not-sorry?) #FiberuaryChallenge 🧶 #knitting #KnitSky

a waist-up photo of a white woman with short brownish hair, bluegreen glasses, a neon green knit handkerchief cowl, neon green and black fingerless mitts, and... nothing else. the mitts are strategically placed enough that no nudity is present.

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thread and circuses @thread-n-circuses.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

i've missed a few days, but i'm back to #FiberuaryChallenge ! today's prompt is 'memories'. this is me rediscovering how cute knit hats are with my short hair, with my 'konami code' reversible hat. 🧶 #knitting #KnitSky www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib... payhip.com/b/MQDa ko-fi.com/s/7450e13dd9

a white woman with a dark grey shirt and knit hat and blue-green rectangular glasses is smiling and leaning her head back on a velvety blue couch.

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thread and circuses @thread-n-circuses.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

believing that both the pandemic AND the vaccine were engineered for population control to advance 'the great replacement' (get over yourself, but also remember THAT'S WHAT CANADA DID to indigenous people) is a disgusting, racist, white supremacist delusion. 🧵1/5

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thread and circuses @thread-n-circuses.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

my fibre friends! also my witchy friends, but since fibre arts are basically magic, same thing. here is überwench plus mini-wenches yelling up the sun on a beach. #FiberuaryChallenge

a bunch of bundled up femmes and thems sitting in a row on blankets and tarps on the beach in winter. it is almost sunrise.

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thread and circuses @thread-n-circuses.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

i'm not american, but if you are and want to know what you can do... here's one thing. #NoLGBWithoutT

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thread and circuses @thread-n-circuses.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

#FiberuaryChallenge twos day calls for fingerless mitts! the green 'dukes up' are reversible, grey 'velvet grip' are lace. www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib... payhip.com/b/E7SJ ko-fi.com/s/28e1b5c2c3 www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib... payhip.com/b/Om7Ne ko-fi.com/s/26d8127cce 🧶 #knitting #KnitSky

a pair of hands wearing dark green cabled fingerless mitts on a white sheepskin background.

a white woman with short, greying hair and blue-green glasses wearing a pink graphic t-shirt, lacey charcoal fingerless mitts, and black chandelier earrings. she is gleefully sticking out her tongue and signing 'i love you' with both hands as if she's 'throwing up the horns', metal style.

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thread and circuses @thread-n-circuses.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

forgot my #FiberuaryChallenge yesterday! i'm reading 'hand of light', 'finding the fool', 'the only astrology book you'll ever need', and i'm watching 'elementary' (woo lucy liu!!) #OnMyKobo #KoboBooks

the cover of 'hands of light: a guide to healing through the human energy field' by barbara ann brennan. it is blue, with a pair of blue, partially cupped raised hands full of white light painted on it. the text is all in white.

the cover of 'finding the fool: a tarot journey to radical transformation' by meg jones wall (3am tarot). it has a dark blue and purple galaxy-swirl background with the phases of the moon painted across the cover. the initial text is black, with the tagline and author's name in white.

the cover of 'the only astrology book you'll ever need' by joanna martine woolfolk. it has a yellow background with a stylized circular map of the zodiac split in half and oriented to the top and bottom of the page. each zodiac creature is painted semi-realistically on the map halves. the text starts in dark rust, transitions to lighter rust and back to dark, with the author's name in olive green.

a poster for the tv show 'elementary' with lucy liu in a dark red, short sleeve dress and jonny lee miller in a patterned white and grey shirt and grey blazer standing in front of a backlit, filligree stone 'window'.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Thank you to everyone who has joined the resistance! Our ranks grow stronger every day.

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thread and circuses @thread-n-circuses.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

my #FiberuaryChallenge cozy corner: a grey sheepskin pillow and a book. i'm sure there's yarn somewhere close, because at my place, yarn is like spiders; never more than a few feet away. 🧶 #YarnIsLikeSpiders #HandmadeKoboCover #LeatherWork

a white woman with grey hair and glasses peeks out from behind a handmade leather kobo cover meant to look like a vintage book. she is wearing a black tshirt and silver moon phases cylindrical pendant and lying on a grey sheepskin pillow.

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SassyMetisChick @sassymetischick.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.

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thread and circuses @thread-n-circuses.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

a very happy 'james cook is dead' day to those who celebrate. #LandBack #DismantleWhiteSupremacy

a painting of a white colonizer cowering before a hawaiian person with a spear. text at the bottom reads 'Valentine's day is boring. Instead, let's celebrate the anniversary of Native Hawaiians killing the f k outta douchebag English explorer Captain James Cook, on February 14, 1779.'

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

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thread and circuses @thread-n-circuses.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

favourite could be a lot of things, #FiberuaryChallenge ... coffee is my favourite 'thing', i suppose, but! knitting related? chiaogoo needles (especially interchangeable shorties) are my favourite tools. 🧶 #knitting #KnitSky

a red zip pouch for chiaogoo needles, the black organizer the tips (from 2 mm to 3.25 mm) are stored in, and a fixed chiaogoo circular needle on a red cord on a blue striped cloth background.

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thread and circuses @thread-n-circuses.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

my unfinished business is vast, but today, the 12th day of the #FiberuaryChallenge i am thinking about this 'invisible' ballerina flat toe-up sock i'm developing. all the ones i've found have been top-down and i'm not a fan. 🧶 #knitting #KnitSky

a very tiny 'invisible' ballerina-flat sock on a right foot. It is unfinished, still on dark double-pointed needles. the toe and heels are chartreuse, and the 'body' is rainbow speckled.

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I have taken the resources that were in the budget and which you were probably saving for higher education Forgive me they were needed to feed the AI bubble and to dismantle the humanities

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thread and circuses @thread-n-circuses.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

ohai #FiberuaryChallenge ... texture, you say? @woollywormhead.bsky.social north lyme has TEXTURE. especially when you use not-superwash wool to knit it. mmm. toothy. 🧶 #knitting #KnitSky

the beginning 3.5 inches of the north lyme knit hat. i've modified it for fingering yarn, and i'm using deep red jamieson & smith yarn and chiaogoo twist shorties.

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thread and circuses @thread-n-circuses.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

alas, #FiberuaryChallenge i was too busy having a #SundayFunday to document it, and i don't really keep a mood board, so please accept instead my recent ravelry wishlist. it's nerdy af. 🧶 #knitting #KnitSky

my ravelry wishlist, populated with octopus-shaped bags, nerdy sweaters, and fancy shawls. this is as close as it gets to a mood board for me.

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thread and circuses @thread-n-circuses.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

i'm not finished designing these socks because i cannot find the project bag that they're in, BUT! they're red, which is one of the themes for this week's #ShowMeYourKnits behold the boston sock in progress! 🧶 #knitting #KnitSky

a partially finished lacey red sock on a right foot, with red and orange striped cloth in the background. the sock is still on a circular needle.

a partially finished lacey red sock on a right foot, with red and orange striped cloth and an ipad in the background. the sock is still on a circular needle.

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

The part of George Orwell’s 1984 that everyone forgets is how the music and publishing industries have been replaced by a machine that spits out songs and bad novels “without any human intervention.” The goal is to keep you from ever having to think.

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thread and circuses @thread-n-circuses.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

i don't take a lot of flat lay photos, so i'm recycling this one from a #FiberuaryChallenge from the past. here is a pile of hats designed by me, the weekender sweater, knit-n-slide shawl, and no-pattern socks that i just threw together. 🧶 #knitting #KnitSky

a flat lay of 'the weekender' sweater in rainbow and grey with a neon green collar, rainbow speckled 'knit-n-slide shawl', green variegated 'bubblegum crisis' knit hat, mossy green 'demogorgon' knit hat, chartreuse 'hickory' knit hat, pink and green 'arnold sideways' brioche knit hat, and feet in green variegated knit socks, no specific pattern.

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thread and circuses @thread-n-circuses.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

dear #FiberuaryChallenge my most obvious mood booster is coffee! though noro silk garden doesn't hurt either (that's what this hat is made of. probably a discontinued colourway). 🧶 #knitting #Knitsky

a white woman wearing glasses, a multicoloured knit hat, a cylindrical vessel necklace with moon phases depicted on it, and a black puff-shoulder shirt is smiling and raising a takeout cup of coffee. the hat is 'konami code'.

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thread and circuses @thread-n-circuses.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

pop of colour(s?) for #FiberuaryChallenge day 6. it's a polygrade shawl and i haven't worn it yet because i keep forgetting to weave in the ends. #BadBaby 🧶 #knitting #KnitSky

a rumpled-up 'polygrade' shawl; it's a triangle shape knit in garter stitch. the main colour is charcoal grey and has diamonds and stripes of multicoloured speckled yarn.

a flat-lay 'polygrade' shawl; it's a triangle shape knit in garter stitch. the main colour is charcoal grey and has diamonds and stripes of multicoloured speckled yarn.

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thread and circuses @thread-n-circuses.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

even more stripes! it's 'clever anna', bias knit stripes. #ShowMeYourKnits

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thread and circuses @thread-n-circuses.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

work in progress for #FiberuaryChallenge today: this is a brioche hat i'm designing to go with my knit-n-slide shawl. i'm using bluegreen and chartreuse @yvieknits.bsky.social yarns, a mitchell's fiber arts black unicorn, and a speckle yarn i forget the name of. 🧶 #knitting #KnitSky

a brioche and garter knit hat in progress. the brim is bluegreen and chartreuse striped garter with a strip of brioche stitch patterning, and the body is two-colour brioche with a chartreuse yarn at first and then a multicoloured speckled yarn comtinuing as the 'main' colours and a black yarn with rainbow dashes as the contrast colour. the brioche patterned strip continues up from the brim while the rest of the body is just plain brioche stitch.

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thread and circuses @thread-n-circuses.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

THIS. meatball soup, from the genius brain of matty matheson. it is delicious and spicy and i never want to stop eating it. #HomemadeSoup #SoupsSaladsSandwichesCookbook #MeatballSoup

two black bowls of meatball soup with red peppers, onions, and farfalline noodles (very tiny bowties) sitting on a bamboo tray.

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thread and circuses @thread-n-circuses.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

moar #ShowMeYourKnits stripes! i designed and knit this hat to replace one that @jcvideohfx.bsky.social lost, and then i wanted one for myself. i have yet to publish the pattern, because my computer is stuck in storage... 🧶 #knitting #StripedKnitHats

one side of a striped, reversible, lined knit hat made by knitting both ends of a ball of gradient yarn that starts black and ends white; this side of the hat is the outer bits, so very contrasted colour. the hat is laying flat on a black background.

the other side of a striped, reversible, lined knit hat made by knitting both ends of a ball of gradient yarn that starts black and ends white; this side of the hat is the inner bits, so the colours are starting to fade into each other and become lighter and more grey. the hat is laying flat on a black background.

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thread and circuses @thread-n-circuses.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

day 4 of the #FiberuaryChallenge is 'inspiration'... so much of what i love to knit and design has been influenced by @woollywormhead.bsky.social and lynne barr. their brains just work differently in the best ways! #SidewaysKnitting #ReversibleKnitting 🧶 #knitting #knitsky

two long-haired white people stand against a blue mural or graffiti background wearing spiky crocheted hats. the hat on the right is red with orange seams and has one row of rounded spikes over the top of the head. the hat on the left is green with blue seams and the rounded spikes are over the top and on both sides of the head. the text at the bottom in white says 'Hat of Horns' and 'woollywormhead.com'.

a dark red puffy scarf with orange accents draped over a chipped, cream coloured stool on a wood floor. there are orangey-red shoes out of focus in the background. 'Knitting New Scarves' is written in white across the top, and 'Lynne Barr' 'photographs by Tyllie Barbosa' are written in white in the bottom right.

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