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Paula @begoosedocrime.bsky.social · 1h

I think I watched a video tutorial a long time ago, but I don't think there was anything special to it, although it might help to visualize it for you! 🧶🧦

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Paula @begoosedocrime.bsky.social · 5h

So apparently magic loop sock #knitting is super easy? I didn't even need to look anything up, it seems so intuitive! Not really faster than double-point needles, but less fiddly and fewer chances of stitches getting dropped or stretched out between needles.

A ginger cat snoozing on his human's lap, with a knitted two-color sock in variegated blue and white laid on top of him. He's helping. He's a helper!

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Paula @begoosedocrime.bsky.social · 2d

AHHHHHHH ❤️❤️❤️

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Drastic @drastic.bsky.social · 6d

No one likes being treated as if they're on-call and I don't want to disrupt its work/eternity balance, but I'm just saying that when its able to it might be time for the ceaseless watcher to turn its gaze upon any number of wretched things.

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Paula @begoosedocrime.bsky.social · 5d

My brain is filling this with @apocalypseplayers.bsky.social material 🤣

Amanda Watson @amndw2.bsky.social · 6d

I couldn't resist. #pleasingterror

A bingo card for the ghost stories of M.R. James. Boxes read:
"Spiders
Terrible hotel stay
Narrator makes fun of golf
Latin passages
Eerie disembodied voices
Confirmed bachelor main character
Vengeful spirit
Evil magician
Working-class character as comic relief
Bleak East Anglian coast
Visit to an archive
Narrator in guidebook mode
FREE SPACE
Unholy doings in a church
Frogs or toads
Queen Anne style house
Cursed artifact
Don't buy that rare book!
Something hairy and horrible
Someone gets too curious
Tentacles
Story told via old manuscript
Research trip gone horribly wrong
Beds are scary
Tactile horror

Paula @begoosedocrime.bsky.social · 6d

I kept going with the double strand for the edging and I had enough yarn! This will be smaller than the original pattern (Bridgewater by Jared Flood) calls for since I reduced the size of the central panel, but it should be enough for warming up my shoulders or lap. #knitting

Finished but not blocked Bridgewater shawl in a nice grey to purple fade. It looks wrinkled but promising!

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Paula @begoosedocrime.bsky.social · 9d

I'm sorry for your loss. 🧡

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Paula @begoosedocrime.bsky.social · 10d

Oh I'm so glad you said this! I've been going back and forth on it, loving and hating it, until I finally told myself "it's a house-only thing, who cares, just get it done." Thanks!

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Paula @begoosedocrime.bsky.social · 11d

OK, but six seasons and a movie, please!

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Paula @begoosedocrime.bsky.social · 11d

Now that I'm down to the last 2 skeins, I'm also seeing that held together, they're thicker than the others, so the edging is coming out too thick for my liking and I'm not sure if I wouldn't be better off just doing single-strand... Neverending #knitting problems.

The border and edging of the Bridgewater shawl by Jared Flood, using some pretty old yarns to make a nice gradient, but the edging is looking like it's too thick.

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Paula @begoosedocrime.bsky.social · 12d

I saw "Waiting for Godot" with Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, this would make an excellent follow-up to that! I guess this is quite the enticement to travel to the US this Christmas to visit my mom and maybe manage this as well...

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 18d

this is the only Rapture I recognize

Art from the game BIOSHOCK, featuring a drill-handed dive-suit BIG DADDY monster, fist out, standing in a hallway juncture inside the underwater Art Deco nightmare city of RAPTURE

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Paula @begoosedocrime.bsky.social · 19d

Bucky just arrived in my office with much wailing because he went outside and it's wet and slightly muddy out there.

I'm sorry, little dude, but I can't even control most of the things in my life, how do you expect me to deal with the weather? 🤷🏻‍♀️

An indignant orange cat holding up his back paw to show off his beans that have been besmirched by sand and mud!

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Paula @begoosedocrime.bsky.social · 20d

I just binged all of "The Residence," came online to see what people were saying about it, and found out @netflix.com canceled it after only one season 🤬. Because this apparently *is the worst timeline and we can't have nice things.

Paula @begoosedocrime.bsky.social · 21d

I'm sorry, Kayleigh, you shouldn't have to deal with evil people like this.

Paula @begoosedocrime.bsky.social · 21d

Either all three of the avocados just plain had pots that were too small, or they were lonely, because I haven't ever seen this many leaves on them before.

It also took them some time to bounce back from when my mother put them outside in the August sun and they got sunburned a couple of years ago.

A brick-orange pot, about 12 inches in diameter, with three single stalk avocado plants with long leaves. The soil is dry but the bird-shaped watering doohickey is full, so the plants are getting water to their roots.

Paula @begoosedocrime.bsky.social · 22d

Today is an extended travel and walking day and my sacroiliac joint is ON FIRE. 😭

Paula @begoosedocrime.bsky.social · 23d

Man, I just love waking up and seeing a bunch of vague posts referring to something happening in the US. And I'm a 1000% certain if I turned off my muted words, I'd find out, but I'd feel even worse.

Remember when the future was supposed to be good and happy and fun? 🙃

Paula @begoosedocrime.bsky.social · 26d

I think my cats may be mutants, or possibly broken - they sleep as long as I sleep, or at least until the first alarm goes off. Bucky used to wake me and my then roommates up, but since I've lived alone, he's been content to snooze all night and not be bothered about the time.

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Paula @begoosedocrime.bsky.social · 27d

The wonky #knitting math worked but I didn't think the color change through well enough - there was a portion knit with the two colors held together but it would need to be far longer than it was. So I guess I'm frogging back to the beginning of the lace and doing the color change there.

A light grey knitted object with a garter stitch center and a lace pattern edge. There is a color change to a light purple shade in the middle of the lace pattern and it doesn't really work.

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Paula @begoosedocrime.bsky.social · Sep 11

I know it's just my brain making random connections but I can't get over the proximity of "Vezda" on #StrangeNewWorlds and "Vashta Nerada" on #DoctorWho (which are theoretically in the same universe...)

Paula @begoosedocrime.bsky.social · Sep 10

I tried making this at 75% of the size, but I'm not going to win this yarn chicken. I'm gonna need to do some math and then frog back and start the decreases earlier. #knitting

Garter stitch knitting in grey lace weight yarn folded in half, showing that the tiny ball of yarn left is definitely not enough to complete the missing portion of the knit.

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Paula @begoosedocrime.bsky.social · Sep 10

I wonder if this is related to my age, the fact that I live in Poland so pop culture isn't the same, or just me being a total dork about things like that. 🤔

Paula @begoosedocrime.bsky.social · Sep 10

I rewatched Godzilla: King of the Monsters tonight and the end credits once again reminded me of being the only person in the theater to react to the music as I let out a little squeal and clapped as the Blue Oyster Cult cover kicked in. #nowplaying

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Paula @begoosedocrime.bsky.social · Sep 10

Hey @netflix.com, can you please stop cheaping out and have proper subtitles instead of "speaks in [language]" or worse yet, "speaks in foreign language," especially when there are whole scenes that should be translated? It's insulting to speakers of that language and viewers who need the subtitles.

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