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I know there is a group of knitters who will geek out over this.topic (I am one of them). #knitting 🧶 youtu.be/iTLvD6-X8WQ?...
Don’t know about MPD, but If a gift is under $20 it’s probably ok for the feds. Most feds, though, turn down any gifts just to avoid the appearance of impropriety … at least that’s how it used to be before the grifters took over.
Correction: tenured position, not tenure-track.
They gave him a tenure track position at UF and it sounds like they’re paying him a lot of money to phone it in. Guess you don’t have to work very hard when you make it big in the right wing conspiracy sphere. So much for the so-called meritocracy. www.alligator.org/article/2025...
Final summer FO: Sick Day Shawl in Autumn House Farms Watercolors. This is probably the final summer project FO, the summer project I’m currently working on will have to hibernate once the weather cools down and I start jonesing for wool. #knitting 🧶
Yes!
“I’ve been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet A pawn and a king I've been up and down and over and out And I know one thing Each time I find myself Flat on my face I pick myself up and get Back in the race.” Frank knew this.
Was chatting & only half paying attention as I scrolled through what I thought was a knitting feed, so as this went by I thought “wait, what was that colorway, is that a shawl? wonder what the pattern is?” … then I focused on the bird. Oh. 😂 Ok, we’ll call it “colorway inspiration”. #knitting 🧶
Another variantion of the all too common AI failure story. The troubling part of this one is the over-reliance on AI, with no option for people to have a problem that AI caused addressed by a real person. #AI-Fail youtu.be/nchzG0oRSRk?...
He’s done this before, and it’s always SSDD.
Does FEMA control leave - administrative or otherwise - of contract employees? Wouldn’t administrative issues with contract personnel, such as pay, leave, etc. fall to the contractor employing the personnel? Regardless, she never explained why they were placed on leave.
When was the last time Trump wore something other than a red maga hat to golf?
That sounds logical … but logic has nothing to do with it. Don’t forget that the “family values” party loves Trump. They want an authoritarian leader, and Vance has great potential to be that guy.
MAGA has shown that they’re gullible, so they’ll be easily manipulated by Vance because he’s a much more polished turd than trump.
Ooh, really like that medallion.
Wanted to give a newly finished project in blues, greens, and a bit of purple a good soak - the water turned purple. Multiple soaks throughout the day - purple water. Finally just left it over night, no more purple! Now the water is blue. Here we go again. #knitting 🧶
Reading a sci-fi dystopian novel about an extreme surveillance state, and the irony of my device noting that I have 8 minutes left in the chapter hits me.
“DOJ official said the programs are no longer agency priorities”. If they said “we’re sending these programs to a different agency for oversight”, well ok, a case could be made for that. But no, it’s cancellation. They’d rather prosecute than prevent. It feeds into their strongman narrative.
If Babbitt had tried to break into the house of a MAGA gun owner the same way she tried to break into the Speaker’s Lobby, the MAGA person would shoot without hesitation and MAGA would praise the shooter for their “good guy with a gun” bravery.
Today, I need a couple of minutes of music. youtu.be/jJJkyvJMA9I?...
If the guns are for self-defense, why all the floor to ceiling windows in the first house?
Nothing says “cozy” like a gun safe by the fireplace.
A principled person has 2 choices in this admin when they’re prevented from doing their work - resign or be fired. In both cases they’ll be maligned. If they resign they can publicly lodge their objections in their resignation letter and diminish the inevitable claim of “disgruntled employee”.
Was having a perfectly normal conversation with someone at a local diner, and out of the blue “population control” popped into the convo. 🙄
I would categorize this as another AI fail. youtu.be/jLjD5PbjOgU?...
First time I visited Ithaca, after walking around downtown during a picturesque snowfall, I got back to my room and looked up info about it’s a wonderful life to see if there was a connection to the Finger Lakes. Capra really captured the look & feel of the area.
That already happened … with the same guy! In 2022 when McCormick was losing to Oz, he wanted them counted. In 2024 when he was ahead of Casey, he didn’t want them counted. electionlawblog.org?p=147299
You know, there are some politicians who would have sat down with those 8 and had an earnest conversation, it’s not like she had anything else planned for the time. But not Nancy - she’s there for the glory, not the work.
Surely you - Debbie, Mistress of Cables - could work out that pattern? 😉
There is also this thing called “night”.
I’ve been reading books written in the 50s & 60s and those authors were unafraid of $5 words. I became enamored of e-book dictionary look-ups when I read Casino Royale - I looked up the Britishisms with the glee of a Catholic school grade-schooler looking up dirty words in the dictionary.
Love this story. Absolutely freakin’ love this. 📚💕 Here is the list of What Dan Read: www.columbuslibrary.org/wp-content/u... youtu.be/7-cI1p0FEHo?...
What must people have thought when they first saw these, having no prior knowledge about them?
Yes! Browsing shelves tailored to my interests & stocked with favorites … 😁. I have a knitting book collection that I recently reorganized, and I discovered that I have several themes that I’d like to dig into more deeply - both in books and projects. My other books could use a similar reorg.
This applies to a well-curated yarn stash. There is a certain pleasure in seeing a pattern and thinking “I have the perfect yarn for this.” It’s the culmination of the potential inherent in your stash. #knitting 🧶
Were they leaked? I recall them being discussed when the indictment was released, since they were part of the indictment.
Trump complained that the docs weren’t laid out that way before they were photographed, implying that he was being framed for a staged layout, but the purpose of the photo was to document the nature of the sensitive docs found in Trump’s possession.
As I recall, those photos were part of the indictment. The issue wasn’t the layout in the photo but 1. sensitive documents found stored in an unsecured manner and handled carelessly, and 2. the documents still in his possession after trumps claims that all govt docs had been returned.
I try to find the facts from reasonable sources - it never pays to jump to conclusions. I should say that I also wonder how Ben Wittes was on the spot … could have been a tip, or he could live in the area for all I know.
Thanks. Looked into it, that one appears to be journalistic perseverance/luck more than a tip. The same could be true of the NY Post, but this raid seemed to be out of the blue so I’m skeptical, particularly with these hyper-PR-conscious admin appointees. www.cnn.com/2019/01/25/p...
I could recall seeing some pictures associated with other raids, but when I checked into them they were along the lines of “we obtained body cam video” or “fbi released these photos”. Do you recall specific examples?
An unqualified interim administrator, uninterested in the wide-ranging scientific contributions of NASA, should not be making significant changes to the agency’s mission. Yet another anti-science move by the trump admin. #nasa www.space.com/space-explor...
Bulwark reported local police had the street blocked, but the NY Post was there and got pictures. Is it normal for the FBI to invite the press to raids?
Would it also came with the 90% tax rate on rich people and common sense about guns? And the common view of the time that John Birchers were far right nutcases?
I thought they were currently losing their minds over male cheerleaders in the NFL. The outrage machine seems a little hyped up lately. Trying to figure out how losing the guy and the barrel is going woke. Oh, I get it, a white cartoon guy is losing his job to a yellow background.
The explanation was that “In the Chinese culture, money is often given to others in a gesture of friendship and gratitude”. I have questions. 1. Gratitude for what? 2. Is the potato chip bag a required part of the cultural gesture?
Guaranteed that if people start doing this, Texas will pass a law to make it illegal.
Mimicry is what the MAGA sycophants do; mockery is what Newsom is doing. They’re trying to cast it as mimicry to keep trump supporters from reaching the logical conclusion if they were to start thinking “if Newsom sounds ridiculous, then maybe Trump… “
He sounds like a hangry petulant child who needs a snack and a nap. People in their 90s are part of the Silent Generation. This is who he’s dissing.
Any comments on Hegseth’s plaid jacket/graph check shirt/polka dot tie combination? I always thought the middle of a Venn diagram with those three elements would say “just no”.
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Someone in their 90s would have been born in the 30s and would have been too old to be a hippie in the 60s. That said, Miller’s comments make me want to go find a flower power t-shirt and visit DC. As always, Miller is an overwrought idiot.
What he describes are people who are either 1. Sycophants sucking up to trump for position or power, or 2. Those who are aware that one can’t reason with trump, but one can easily manipulate him by stroking his fragile ego.
I think he wanted to say “driver’s license” but his senior brain substituted “license plate”. Inappropriate word substitution is a warning sign for dementia, btw.
Axios has a list they confirmed with the White House, but check out what the WH claimed about Egypt/Ethiopa. www.axios.com/2025/08/19/t...
I didn’t know that tactical vests came in size elephant.
He looks slovenly next to the other leaders. When was the last time he buttoned his jacket for a photo op? He ought to be able to, because his jacket seems over-sized in an attempt to hide his his girth.
Last sentence of abstract: “High-dose ivermectin was safe but did not show efficacy to reduce viral load.”
Went to order some cocoa, and the price increased by 37% over my last order. Thanks, trump.
Really amazing how clueless they are, that they don’t realize it’s spot-on mockery. It’s like the time in 2017 when NPR tweeted out the Declaration of Independence line by line and some maga zealots were outraged that NPR would dare criticize trump with left-wing propaganda.
Memphis, right?
😂 A+
Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends: 1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration; 2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you; 3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
Found out I was pronouncing Ghislaine wrong, then I thought so what? That woman doesn’t deserve even the crumb of consideration it takes to pronounce her name correctly.
The website has noted the omission and is repairing it.
It’s really difficult for an organization like NASA trying to work on any kind of long term goals - 10 or 20 or 30 years - to have to deal with the fickleness of changing administrations and political whims.
I used to work in interlibrary loan, and people would often request series on DVD. But as far as I could tell, Apple never releases DVD versions, probably because they wanted people subscribing to their service.
Abso-friggin-lutely. This may be a gross generalization, but it seems like many US journalists are more interested in getting the gotcha sound bite - it explains the lack of in-depth dogged follow-up that you see in journalists from other countries (Mehdi Hassan comes to mind).
Scheduled a plumber. The office gives me a 9-11 window. The guy shows up at 7:30 😳 15 minutes early? Sure, great. 30 minutes? Ok, let’s get it done. But 1.5 HOURS early? I’m glad their plumbers are efficient, but the office is totally out of touch with how their guys work.
Right here youtu.be/R8AGEjj2Jds?...
This is why he only he only plays at his own courses - he gets to play Donald-ball where he gets to make up the rules on the fly. He’s never played by the book real golf.
What amuses me about articles like this that use terms like “grannycore” is the failure to recognize that older women who knit were, back in the day, younger women who knit.
Saw a couple of Teslas on the road today sans Tesla emblems. I don’t know which model they were, but they resemble a big lump of barely shaped dough compared to the cars around them, so they’re hard to miss.
It’s an imperfect tool. I think there is a bias to treat it like it’s the “Computer” in every sci-fi show since at least Star Trek (it’s not, as anyone who has queried it in depth finds). As long as you understand you’re dealing with Pinky and not the Brain, it has its uses.
Trump and his fanboys have a list of MAGA triggering topics that they roll out keep the acolytes enraged and uncurious about anything else. Recently saw a Fox chyron about Hunter Biden’s opinion on immigration - a MAGA two-fer! Not holding my breath for MAGA to wake up to the manipulation.
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Gonna have to delete my account on Bill Clinton’s social media platform. And that Clinton wine goes right down the drain.
“Trillions”, it means a lot of billions. A number the likes of which nobody has seen before.
Same!
An FO! I have an FO! Pattern is Arete, and yarn is an Autumn House Farm cotton/linen blend. This had been in hibernation for a few years, but only took a few weeks to finally finish. www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib... #knitting 🧶
Apropos of nothing, the current admin continues to tart up the Oval Office. First picture is prior to 2025 showing the understated but elegant marble fireplace, second picture is a few months ago, last picture is recent. Note added “ooh, shiny” in last picture. Who puts gold leaf on dentil molding?
So noted by George Carlin youtu.be/4rhVQCzF3r0?...
I’ve discovered that the advantage of having finished a 1600 yd. project over a few months is that I can look at a WIP that needs just one 200 yd. ball of yarn to finish it and think “easy-peasy”. #knitting 🧶
This is interesting, but since they’ve moved into this area the only final form I want to see them in is flat.
As long as I don’t have to say “thank you, sir” with tears in my eyes.
Cool, they’ll be paying me when I pick up a prescription.
People using AI to solve their problems think they’re dealing with The Brain when in actuality they’ve got Pinky.
There’s a guy from reality tv running NASA *and* Transportation, a podcaster is deputy FBI director, a tv co-host runs Defense, and the guy who did a cameo on Home Alone 2 is president. If you tried to sell this as a movie plot in 2010 people would expect a comedy, not drama.
Everything about 2025 feels like a crappy low-budget movie.
As the parent of a former college athlete (different school), Jim Jordan and all the coaches who heard those young men’s complaints over the years and did nothing disgust me.
Good to know 👍
I don’t have a list, I’m going to get some local recommendations as we go. Counting on serendipitous discoveries instead of a strict itinerary. You know how it goes, once you get something in mind, you run across it everywhere. Sort of like Papyrus font.
Very timely, as my New England lobster roll crawl starts soon.
It appears that my internal “check the original poster history” filter was obviously taking a snooze when I should have been.
Someone thought that asshole parody was real? That’s like admiring Archie Bunker as a role model.
How could they possibly believe that Russia would send their men to the front line and give the foreigners the “safe” jobs?
Is “purely financial decision” the corporate equivalent to an individual stepping down to “spend more time with their family”? Nobody buys that one, either.
