So I should try to taper off of r/crochethelp and r/menopause, then?
So I should try to taper off of r/crochethelp and r/menopause, then?
Yeah. The sight of an RN *quietly shaking her head* has saved me a couple of times.
The only thing better would be polling a support group of RNs who all have painful chronic diseases.
It's wild to see a Readers Digest book selling at those prices! Archive.org has it for loan: archive.org/details/folk...
Wow, thank you for this series of images. (Ouroboros fox?)
HEY KIDS - Read that again! This is SO IMPORTANT. (Teaching knitting, I've even handed someone a pair of needles that has the cast-on done and a row or two knitted. Dive straight in!)
HEY, Y'ALL -- READ THIS. Read it slowly. Read it out loud. Listen to your own voice. Clip and save. (The source and more is in the thread.)
Don't speak ill of anybody in yr dept until you understand the social networks. (They are complex!) Don't get into a romantic or sexual situation with ANYBODY in (or adjacent to) yr department. Your path is long, and dealing with triangles and exes is a stressor you don't need to volunteer for.
Outside your department AND outside your partner.
The cost of the damn yarn alone, let alone your labor...
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Because the diversity on the design team was at ZERO.
NEW LEVEL UNLOCKED:
Big galoots make the best Golden Retriever Husbands.
ICYMI: www.wearethemighty.com/articles/the...
Depends on the stitcher, I guess, and how she feels about the shit.
Wow, that is Public Service Alt Text, I salute the Alter!
There's the kernel of a cross-stitched motto in this Truth.
And ALL THE CONNIE WILLIS. Of all her time-travel work, the 1982 novelette FIRE WATCH was the most searing for me. (This memorial is in Canterbury, not London, but it certainly brought me to tears.)
2014 movie: DIE AGAIN TOMORROW. I dislike Tom Cruise, and I've watched this 3x! From a Japanese novel. Cruise goes all in as a chew toy. Emily Blunt is the action hero that Cruise's character respects and wants to become like. She doesn't appear in the early scenes, so stick with it.
From 1970, TIME AND AGAIN by Jack Finney. A sketch artist is sent to the NYC of 1882 (by people who are lying about his mission, of course). Beautifully evocative of that place and time, cleverly illustrated. The first t-t book that really sold and transported me.
I've shown that clip to many people who never watch Dr Who, and most of them have shed tears.
BOTH. yes.
Yes! THIS.
Meanwhile, MedicAID is what pays for the majority of Skilled Nursing Facility beds - "nursing homes." And lots of mixed-revenue facilities that serve both MedicAID and cash-pay residents could not stay in business without those MedicAID funds. Nasty ripple effects... www.kff.org/medicaid/5-k...
A lot of y'all haven't heard about this wrinkle... ...which may kick almost 8 million older people off MediCARE as a result of cuts to MedicAID. (That's separate from how MedicAID pays for a big number of people in "nursing homes" - see my next skeet.) Check it out:
I depend on this searchable collection: emojipedia.org/en/search?q=... And the 'pedia schools me about the implications (e.g. click on the "beaver"). As an old person who can't quite decipher some of the little guys, it's also glorious to PASTE AN EMOJI into the search bar and learn what it is.
A lot of the kids are straining their bandwidth. (How can us crones help with that?) Over on TikTok, AGiftFromTodd sang a little song about the current situation for young folks, and Vinny Marchi thought it needed an electronic dance remix. Lyrics in the subtitles: www.youtube.com/shorts/sLn8G...
Good kazoos in a rainbow of colors run a dollar each. For $3 there's the deluxe model with a little megaphone to snap on ("excessively audible" and "great for teachers!"). AND it's "available in patriotic colors." Would crowdfund: www.musiciansfriend.com/folk-traditi...
Kazoos are gloriously portable - much easier to stuff into a pocket than a bagpipe or accordion.
Share with all your writing friends: www.poynter.org/reporting-ed...
CORRECTION:
Brace yourself, y'all: www.pfizer.com/news/article...
Housecleaning tip:
Six is better
Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus
Me, too, when I think about it. Way more.
APPRECIATE getting the descriptions in the alt text!
Yes, and no: melmagazine.com/en-us/story/...
In the olden days, that was one of the two preferred opening moves in the game "Twenty Questions." The game master thinks of something or someone, and players have 20 questions to guess it. Strategic to start with "Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral?" or "Is it bigger than a breadbox?"
Let's not forget Prince, please.
Yikes. Condolences to you both!
SO GRATEFUL I never dyed anything in my mom's washing machine!
Threads did a great piece about dying to black: web.archive.org/web/20250123... (Check the links in there, several cool ideas explained.)
You are so right! Overdying can be magic. Worth looking at pictures and searching posts to get a rough sense of what's possible. duckduckgo.com?q=overdying&... Experimenting can really pay off. Just start with a few thrifted items before you do your favorite blouse.
PS - You may be way ahead of all this! Ignore if you know it already. (Seeing that you're not into sewing made it feel less likely that you've done things with modern dyes.)
Before you do it, research the choices & process www.dylon.co.uk/dyes/how-to/... & www.dylon.co.uk/dyes/upcycli... Before using a washer, learn how: thegigabrain.com/search/can%2... Think ahead about how you'll clean up, and handle dye with care and mindfulness. No regrets, & you may fall in love.
And, gloriously enough, I think that advice works best with black dye. As long as the garment's fabric will take the dye (compare its label and dye info) you're likely to end up with black, or with a very dark value of the original hue - which can be a handsome surprise.
Thanks for posting this here and bringing people to my attention whom I need to be following. Excellent venue choice!
Thanks, Mr Oswalt, from all of us who celebrate. OTOH, Fredric Douglass would like a word about that *MOST* ironic: constitutioncenter.org/the-constitu...
INBOX: Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, is urging lawmakers to change the GOP-led “Big, Beautiful Bill” budget proposal, citing Pope Leo to argue that the bill “takes from the poor to give to the wealthy.” It’s the strongest language USCCB has used yet
no more bullshit AI in schools for kids of roman catholic parents, right? the pope says we can't
Don't you know any Modern Crochet people?
@juliethecranky.bsky.social
@laurakbuzz.bsky.social
Been following the antics of the SBC for a lot of years, so, unsurprised. Still, SMDH.
Evan makes a very large Point, y'all:
If by chance she doesn't know it, I *highly* rec "Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story" by Ursula Le Guin. GREAT, engaging intro to the tools and tradecraft of storytelling.
First. Person. Testimony:
Sheer genius!
Lucky you! A litter of Carb Cats!
If she's not read "To Say Nothing of the Dog," it is, indeed, a great romp. (And if she loves it, Connie Willis has more books.) www.goodreads.com/book/show/77...
We call that the Cone of Privacy.
bsky.app/profile/dann...
I remember the time that Baby Professional Me caught a glimpse of the Principal Investigator's Desk Whiskey in his deep drawer. One of those moments of realization that there are levels and tradecraft you do not understand.
Kids, THIS is the Way. Local sports, weather events, send us your cute pet pictures, here's how you're being outrageously screwed.
In a long-term situation of being seriously and profoundly married, these rare moments of acknowledgment are to be savored. Congratulations!
ICYMI: I find it helpful to examine the structure and constraint of a strongly-constructed insult: stronglang.wordpress.com/2017/02/09/t...
He ends the piece with: "Here’s how a Gardener-filled College of Cardinals probably sees it: They elected a multilingual, multicultural American to be world pastor. To help, care for, and protect the people of the world. And to convert the American Right to Christianity." Check it out!
- He's written a lot about major actors approaching their mission as either "Knights" or "Gardeners" - and in this piece he asks: "If 'Knights' are hierarchical, and the Catholic Church is the greatest religious hierarchy in the world, then how on Earth could a Catholic pope be a 'Gardener'?" -
Another interesting piece here, by a professional futurist who grew up immersed in US Baptist seminaries and church politics - writes a lot about how "Everyone holds a storyline in their head about how the world works and who they are in that story" - cassidysteeledale.substack.com/p/how-to-for...
PUZZLING:
Just in case this peoples' techno-fable has escaped your notice: publicdomainreview.org/collection/l...
This. There are legitimate and genuine uses for machine learning. The plagiarism and cult making machine are not included in legitimate or genuine.
Go where you may in life, the Alumni Association will find you. (Love that Dan and Ernie ran into each other in Tampa, of all places! What a world!)
REALLY MAD MOCKINGBIRD? A quick check of what's going on is generally worthwhile!
And the SBC has sure felt like one s-l-o-w step forward, two hops back.
I would be fascinated to hear more in this zone. (Had a period in the 80s when I felt up to date, but have been out of it for a logn time now.)
OF COURSE it was with Piers!
Talking with some UK friends, they were shocked to hear that 6/9 of SCOTUS are RC. I wonder how many US adults realize it? (Sotomayor is more in tune with Francis than Dolan, but then Gorsuch gets counted as Protestant because he's attending an Episcopal church. So 6 tradcaths still feels true.)
Haven't seen "WCS," but he did tell Piers Morgan in April: "I do think [Prevost is] one of the dark horses, and I think, unfortunately, he’s one of the most progressive," and “I think it’s pretty shocking..." But, yes, we share the delight. www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
ahahaha, BANNON HAS SPOKEN: "It is shocking to me that a guy could be selected to be the pope that had had the Twitter feed and the statements he's had against American senior politicians," and that there will "definitely be friction" between the two of them.
Co-Admin Susan Bin, an art historian who's worked with papal sarcophagi, says, "[Y]ou bring together a bunch of really neurodivergent, queer, funny people, and we're going to be very funny." www.npr.org/2025/05/11/n...
Tangentially: I had no idea these BNFs were even out there, and only today learned that they SCOOPED the rest of the media: www.vulture.com/article/pope... (They're on X, that's my entire excuse. And I had to learn this from RollingStone because I'm now Older Than the Pope.) archive.ph/NW1QY
Personal trainer!
@rahaeli.bsky.social
MAGA is trying to connect the dots as we speak, though: bsky.app/profile/gabe...
REALLY looking forward to your take on his Dicastery work!
Meanwhile, in the Vatican: bsky.app/profile/clai...
Ra is a superpowered Explainer.
Adult-Onset TradCaths, explained. @rahaeli.bsky.social @clairewillett.bsky.social
Saw him called "an Adult-Onset Catholic" and chortled.
AND ALSO AT: bsky.app/profile/jame...
Thank you!
YES! But, weirdly, I couldn't find it mirrored over here.
(Just read that he became a naturalized citizen of Peru, too. Even more "US-born"...)
Add to your Possibly Good Pope BINGO card: a) American-born NATURALIZED PERUVIAN CITIZEN. b) MATH MAJOR. (BS, Villanova, 1977) c) Read JDV for filth (in an educational manner)
How about, "The Pope was a math major"? (BS, Villanova U., 1977)
Before his Vatican service he'd been working pastorally as a bishop in Peru for more than 20 years. More of an "American-born" pope...
Did you see Fr Martin's comment at The Other Place a couple of hours ago?
