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Dan the Gnome

@brewergnome.bsky.social

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He/Him - Gnomewood/Gnomespun Owner, Biologist, Woodworker, Army Vet, Gardener, Fiber Artist, Baker, Professional Dilettante https://gnomespun.com/

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Dan the Gnome @brewergnome.bsky.social · Nov 15

So, uh, hi all! I'm Dan, the Gnome. I do textile arts and woodworking (Gnomespun Yarn and Gnomewood Creations). I'm a gay, ace, disabled, married, Army Veteran with two fabulous Swedish Vallhunds that periodically give advice.

I love to learn anything about anything.

Gnomespun Yarn and Fiber Arts

Hand made spindles and fiber tools, hand dyed yarn and breed specific top and roving! fiber arts, spinning, yarn, roving, top, combed, carded, wool, silk, longwool, downswool, downs wool, handmade spi...

www.gnomespun.com

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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 2h

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

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Franklin Habit @franklinhabit.bsky.social · 20h

Enrollment is open for Knit Stars Season 10 and I think that's so hot. 💋 All those luscious teachers. Mmmmmmm. My affiliate link is below. Use and I make money. Ohhhh yeahhhh.

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Dan the Gnome @brewergnome.bsky.social · 18h

For spider biologists out there, yeah the chelicerae are too small in comparison with their eyes, but making the eyes smaller seemed to lose them on the mugs.

I did consider trying to add pedipalps as that's part of what makes jumping spiders so cute... but couldn't quite figure it out.

Dan the Gnome @brewergnome.bsky.social · 18h

I planned to throw stuff and wrap it for Tuesday. But the air was dry so I had to finish it all today.

We have Salticidae (Jumping spider), Lycosidae (wolf spider), and octopus tentacles (the original plan was vines/roots but this was faster as I didn't have a full plan for that yet). 7 hours 🧶

A large freshly thrown white mug with modeled jumping spider eyes and mouth parts on it being held by a hand.

A large fresh thrown white clay mug with a wolf spider face on it being held in a hand

three mugs upside down on a board in a plastic bag. Two mostly off-screen are the spider mugs from before. The third has tentacles curling up from the base around the body of the mug.

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🎃 Trick or Pete 🎃 Lucier @peterlucier.bsky.social · 1d

There is a cost insulation mechanism, a defensive projection of the mind, that wants to believe: things may be bad, but those who really need or deserve it will be ok. The worst will be avoided. Surely there’s a program…

To that, I say: recall that the admin is trying to get rid of commissaries

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geneva @gdbee.bsky.social · 1d

🌈 ramen noodles

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 22h

If it weren’t for Wall St huffing hopium on AI we’d be in total free fall right now

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 22h

And this:
92% of the growth in the entire country this year has been data centers. And some of that is "circular deals" that dont involve actual money

fortune.com/2025/10/07/d...

Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says | Fortune

Is a U.S. without data centers a country without GDP growth?

fortune.com

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Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 21h

Dems floated a narrow bill to fund the military, which can’t move because the House isn’t in session. Meanwhile, DoD is now going to spend funds not appropriated by Congress to ensure military paychecks continue.

POTUS now both commands and provisions the military. Unconstitutional and SO dangerous

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.
A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC
News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

a russ vought special

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 1d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Jordan L. Hawk @jordanlhawk.bsky.social · 20d

🐙PREORDER ALERT!🐙

UNBROKEN (Rath & Rune 4) now has a cover and is available for preorder! The book will release on October 17, 2025, in ebook and paperback, with audio coming next year.

Preorder from me: jordanlhawk.com/products/unb...
Preorder from a corporation: buy.bookfunnel.com/6pbn12izk1

A book in ebook and paperback formats is displayed on a blue background. The cover shows two White men in vintage suits, one tall and blond with glasses, one shorter with dark hair. They are looking at one another. The blond man is holding a book with veins growing on the cover. Behind them in an old fashioned town with fireworks exploding overhead. Cover text reads: Rath & Rune 4, Unbroken, a novel of widdershins, Jordan L. Hawk. The imagine text against the blue background reads Unbroken, Rath & Rune 4, coming October 17, 2025, www.jordanlhawk.com. Smaller text with a list of tropes surround the books with arrows pointing to them: Librarians, Evil book, family secrets, Consentacles.

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 20h

Holy shit, Fr Dowling.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 21h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 1d

What drives me nuts about this dialogue: diversity and inclusion training was a corporate response to the statutory requirements civil rights laws. None of these laws have been repealed by Congress. Congress can pass the laws under Section 5 of the 14th Amendment, which has also not been repealed.

Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 1d

lol gentle reminder that DEI is not illegal. Supporting marginalized groups is not illegal. Anyone reneging on support is making a CHOICE to do so.

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Dan the Gnome @brewergnome.bsky.social · 1d

I love him

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 1d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 1d

You need to understand: this administration is not merely destroying access to treatments, but the possibility that they might exist at all.

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Dan the Gnome @brewergnome.bsky.social · 1d

My antifa buddy said they're heavily invested in AI. So definitely wouldn't want to regulate or limit that.

Spark ⛓️‍💥 @hey-nunya-business.bsky.social · 1d

Definitely don't go after ANTIFA's Temu income stream either. It would be terribly tragic if the entire company fell and crippled ANTIFA's ability to rebuild.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

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Philipp "Soma" Urlich @somartist.bsky.social · 2d

Just a quick painting before going to sleep. Saw this sunrise the other day.

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Dan the Gnome @brewergnome.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing a lot of misinfo about this going around (mostly just incomplete understanding). It's not a base, it's a training facility. As mentioned, Singapore has pilots there as well.

Sam Fellman @samfellman.bsky.social · 2d

Not really. This is a US air base that will host a facility where Qatari pilots are trained to fly F-15. The US also trains pilots from Singapore there www.spokesman.com/stories/2022...

Dan the Gnome @brewergnome.bsky.social · 1d

Ludicrous Violence! Maybe we can go plaid.

Dan the Gnome @brewergnome.bsky.social · 1d

Oh Andy, you've always been a shitheel but dayum that is some serious bullshit you've got there.

"Ultraviolence?" That's not even a word, you weirdo.

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Dan the Gnome @brewergnome.bsky.social · 1d

I mean... it is a thing we do as mayosapiens. THings going too well? Better fuck up our own shit... and blame it on someone else!

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Jennifer Molidor @jennifermolidor.bsky.social · 2d

Hanging onto every bit of good news

The river has come alive in the Klamath with wild Chinook salmon. The wider ecosystem is healing.

This most powerful story of Indigenous-led #rewilding after the largest dam removal in US history keeps getting better.

lostcoastoutpost.com/2025/oct/9/o...

One Year After Klamath Dam Removal, 'There's Just Fish Jumping All Over the Place': Scientists Describe Improvements to Water Quality and Wildlife

lostcoastoutpost.com

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 2d

Government shutdowns offer a rare opportunity to un-submerge the submerged state. Something Democrats could/should be doing is every day of shutdown, pick some agency and focus on it for the day. Highlight what it does and what we're losing each day their staff are furloughed.

Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 2d

A park employee, who spoke with SFGATE on the condition of anonymity to protect their job, said they know of only one wilderness ranger working the entire park. And technically, that person is not even a ranger, the employee said, but a volunteer.

SFGATE @sfgate.com · 2d

"It's the Wild Wild West."

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 2d

Seeing pictures of an abandoned tamale cart in Pilsen where ICE took a tamale street vendor. Those photos of left behind carts are so haunting. Community members disappeared. Not just vendors but people who have long standing relationships with the community and people.

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Dan the Gnome @brewergnome.bsky.social · 2d

Hey Schumes, here's a nice blueprint of what y'all should be campaigning on and pushing for.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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