yarnandwhiskey @yarnandwhiskey.bsky.social · 10/04/2026I said I wouldn’t bring back my scarves until I could do it right. That meant double-sided printing and a hand rolled hem. Finally got them made and now scarves are back and they’re better than they’ve ever been 061
yarnandwhiskey @yarnandwhiskey.bsky.social · 15/03/2026Excited about my latest release on Tuesday. I call it “Busy Signal” 030
yarnandwhiskey @yarnandwhiskey.bsky.social · 14/03/2026I really should make more of these videos in which I show what my customers are ordering 142
yarnandwhiskey @yarnandwhiskey.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Maybe I should call this the Colossal Satchel? 150
yarnandwhiskey @yarnandwhiskey.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Calling all AI ethicists. I was asking Gemini about the propaganda tactic called Accusations in a Mirror because of all of this Epstein stuff and things got weird. Am I reading too much into this? Would love to hear from some experts who understand ai guardrails yarnandwhiskey.com/blog/google-...yarnandwhiskey.comGoogle Gemini mentionedI was watching Wahajit Ali and the podcaster from The Nerd Reich and he mentioned a propaganda term called "Accusations in a Mirror." I googled the term and learned that it is an effective tactic in w... 000
yarnandwhiskey @yarnandwhiskey.bsky.social · 25/01/2026I felt like writing this morning yarnandwhiskey.com/blog/burning...yarnandwhiskey.comBurning All IllusionI was 16 years old the first time I realized the police weren't there to help us. It was 1989 and a young man named Richie Luke died in police custody 90 minutes after being arrested in the lobby of t... 010
yarnandwhiskey @yarnandwhiskey.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Been listening to a lot of Prince lately. I wonder what kind of music he would make today in light of the state sanctioned violence in Minnesota 041
yarnandwhiskey @yarnandwhiskey.bsky.social · 08/01/2026I wrote this last month. Seems appropriate to post today, seeing as we’re all being asked to disbelieve our own eyes yarnandwhiskey.com/blog/notes-o...yarnandwhiskey.comNotes onI'm pretty sure I was in junior high school when we read George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. I have a confession to make: I was not a big reader as a kid. In hindsight, it was mostly due to the mate... 221
yarnandwhiskey @yarnandwhiskey.bsky.social · 06/01/2026My new textile design is landing at the end of the month. My theme for this year’s collection is Analog. I made a playlist to go with it. My Music for the Revolution. Our story is in the music open.qobuz.com/playlist/499... Or open.spotify.com/playlist/4uK... 080
yarnandwhiskey @yarnandwhiskey.bsky.social · 05/01/2026The Pantone Color of the year might be white, but we like color over here. 071
Reposted by yarnandwhiskeyTade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 19/12/2025-Comes into your space uninvited, without permission -Greedily uses up resources preferentially - Forces a new mode of existence on you -Steals your own shit to sell back to you -Desperately wants to convince you that its arrival is good, that these are glad tidings AI or colonialism? 15602228
Reposted by yarnandwhiskeyTech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us · 15/12/2025🚨 THE BATTLE BEGINS 🚨 Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025! Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday. 🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person... 89926541
Reposted by yarnandwhiskey50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 27/11/2025We Ain’t Buying It Day 1! Spend time with your family, tell them you ain’t buying it and why! #weaintbuyingit 14492188
yarnandwhiskey @yarnandwhiskey.bsky.social · 11/11/2025The Eclipse Crossbody Bag is back, this time in Inky Florals This compact and roomy crossbody bag has a whole lotta personality. Big enough for your wallet, phone and keys and perfect for tooling around town. Order at yarnandwhiskey.com Your bag should ship by December 5th. 072
Reposted by yarnandwhiskeysouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Burry’s Palantir trade is roughly an order of magnitude bigger—and more interesting imo—than the Nvidia puts. 281069208
yarnandwhiskey @yarnandwhiskey.bsky.social · 08/11/2025Still working on my Hole Sweater by Lindsey Degen.🧶 The holes are taking foreverrrrrrr #showmeyourknits 2251
Reposted by yarnandwhiskeyTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/10/2025WUT?!! newrepublic.com/article/2005...newrepublic.comDoes Anybody Care This Is the Worst Bribery Scandal Since Teapot Dome?The UAE put $2 billion into World Liberty Financial, then got export restrictions lifted on AI chips. Nothing to see here, move along. 124067
Reposted by yarnandwhiskeyDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/10/2025dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience 6117663280
yarnandwhiskey @yarnandwhiskey.bsky.social · 25/10/2025Beware of bitches with bad energy. My new mantra after I let an energy vampire get a little bit too close. The dog’s name is Watson. He wears a bow tie and a sweater so he means business. Beware of bitches with bad energy. 081
yarnandwhiskey @yarnandwhiskey.bsky.social · 21/10/2025My post Rhinebeck shop update is all the way live! And I’m slowly moving away from made-to-order so the project bags and pouches are ready to ship. If you knit or crochet, check me out 🧶 yarnandwhiskey.com/textiles-by-... 072
Reposted by yarnandwhiskeyProPublica @propublica.org · 14/10/2025Taxpayers aren’t supposed to deduct losses from something that has no hope of being a profitable business. But billionaire-owned operations that look like expensive hobbies, like race horses, rack up business deductions by the tens of millions of dollars. (Published 2023)propublica.orgPrivate Planes and Luxury Yachts Aren’t Just Toys for the Ultrawealthy. They’re Also Huge Tax Breaks.What’s the only thing better than having your own Gulfstream jet? Why, getting to claim millions in tax deductions for it. All you have to do is make a case you’re using it for business, which turns o... 17849332
yarnandwhiskey @yarnandwhiskey.bsky.social · 09/10/2025I opened a preorder on my website for scarves and kaftans. Shirts are back, too yarnandwhiskey.com/the-playgrou... 030
yarnandwhiskey @yarnandwhiskey.bsky.social · 08/10/2025My NPR News update mentioned reporting on a possible AI tech bubble. Ed Zitron would be happy to hear this 130
yarnandwhiskey @yarnandwhiskey.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Limited Edition. Available only at A Woolen Affair on Oct 17th at Hutton Brickyards 050
yarnandwhiskey @yarnandwhiskey.bsky.social · 29/09/2025My latest YouTube video is up. It’s a preview of what I have for my October events and a little tea on how I screwed up bringing a new bag into production youtu.be/S-pNSmiUaRc?... 062
yarnandwhiskey @yarnandwhiskey.bsky.social · 19/09/2025I’m starting to announce my fall lineup, y’all. These are just some of the bags I’m bringing to my love events next month. This batch of project bags features my original textile designs 🧶 Crafters, let’s go! 0113
yarnandwhiskey @yarnandwhiskey.bsky.social · 17/09/2025I am really grateful to be a part of this program with @buildanest ... and right on time, too. I am learning so much about ways to move my business into profitability, retail math, and setting up systems that will help me build a sustainable brand. 📸 @ultraclay 040
yarnandwhiskey @yarnandwhiskey.bsky.social · 04/08/2025POV: You’re a textile designer. Be a textile designer 1171
yarnandwhiskey @yarnandwhiskey.bsky.social · 30/07/2025Why don't the AI tools helping people write code have security baked in by default? So many people are using these tools to build websites without thinking about security. We are living in the Golden Age of Scamming. Baking in security might help solve some of the scamming 030
yarnandwhiskey @yarnandwhiskey.bsky.social · 17/07/2025I wrote about the evolution of my project bags. I’ve been making these bags since 2020 and refining them along the way, through a combination of using my own product and customer feedback. Forever evolving and forever trying to make it as good as it can be yarnandwhiskey.com/blog/evoluti...yarnandwhiskey.comEvolution of a Project BagI’ve been refining the signature yarn&whiskey project bag for over five years. What began as a simple drawstring pouch has evolved into a versatile, thoughtfully constructed bag with straps,... 080
Reposted by yarnandwhiskeyAnil Dash @anildash.com · 08/07/2025This (completely anonymous) form was sent out by HHS for NIH staffers to fill out, asking them to report on any Biden-era DEI practices they felt were discriminatory. Does anyone have thousands and thousands of responses to this request? forms.office.com/g/HXGhXVdGKZ... 46235
yarnandwhiskey @yarnandwhiskey.bsky.social · 07/07/2025I’m dropping a tote bag soon. Are you on my newsletter list? Excited for this one. It’s been a long time coming 070
yarnandwhiskey @yarnandwhiskey.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Back in Stock — Cozy Canines Satchel 🧶 I created this textile in collaboration with my customers! yarnandwhiskey.com/cozy-canines...yarnandwhiskey.comCozy Canines Satchelcozy canines, satchel, customer collab, textile design, textilesbytammi, designed by tammi williams 062
yarnandwhiskey @yarnandwhiskey.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Behind my latest design — Cozy Canines. A collab between me and my customers 031
yarnandwhiskey @yarnandwhiskey.bsky.social · 20/06/2025If my table is covered in fabric collages, it means I’m giving thanks for the orders in my queue. Thank you to everyone who has ordered from my site over the past few weeks. A surge of joy is in the mail and on its way to you 0121
yarnandwhiskey @yarnandwhiskey.bsky.social · 15/06/2025🧶 My Big Summer Shop Update is live and there are 11 new project bag styles. Pretty sure this is the first time I’ve ever released so many at once yarnandwhiskey.com 0111
yarnandwhiskey @yarnandwhiskey.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Ready for my pop up today at Miss Purl in Chicago. I’ve got the colorful goods. You won’t want to miss it. Today only! 181
Reposted by yarnandwhiskeyNew York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 13/06/2025“Begging Obama to save us is undignified,” our columnist Tressie McMillan Cottom writes. “It reeks of weakness, and it begets more weakness.”nytimes.comOpinion | Obama Isn’t Going to Save YouWe no longer have the country that made Obama possible. 913620
Reposted by yarnandwhiskeyGabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 23/05/2025A long long time ago, in a far away galaxy... the US used to tax the rich 11344482041
yarnandwhiskey @yarnandwhiskey.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Made project bags with my new design, created in collaboration with my customers, and they sold out in less that an hour. Back in stock soon! 🧶 0140
Reposted by yarnandwhiskeyRolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 04/06/2025Republicans' “One Big Beautiful Bill" has a dangerous provision to prevent states from enacting any AI regulation of any kind for 10 years.rollingstone.comRepublicans Are Trying to Block My State From Regulating AII helped write, pass, and protect the nation’s first law to regulate artificial intelligence. Republicans want to undo our law in Colorado. 1213653
Reposted by yarnandwhiskeyMichelle Ma @michellema.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water. A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...bloomberg.comThe AI Boom Is Draining Water From the Areas That Need It MostA Bloomberg News analysis finds that roughly two thirds of new data centers built or in development in the US since 2022 are in places with high levels of water stress. 6626421943
yarnandwhiskey @yarnandwhiskey.bsky.social · 16/05/2025Made some project bags for Juneteenth. Gotta make sure your yarn comes correct to the cookout. I’ll be updating my website with these later 🧶 0110
yarnandwhiskey @yarnandwhiskey.bsky.social · 16/05/2025The absolute worst people are in charge of everything 090
Reposted by yarnandwhiskeyDr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 13/05/2025AI hype in action "Nearly two-thirds of CEOs (64%) say 'the risk of falling behind drives them to invest in some technologies before they have a clear understanding of the value they bring to the organization'" Read FOMO is not a strategy by @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social fortune.com/2025/05/09/k...fortune.comAs Klarna flips from AI-first to hiring people again, a new landmark survey reveals most AI projects fail to deliverJust 1 in 4 AI investments bring in the ROI they promise—but CEOs just can’t resist the technology. 1129