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Amanda @graidh.bsky.social · 19h

I need a 6 week sabbatical to catch up on crafting.

Amanda @graidh.bsky.social · 1d

I settled on a pattern so now to put in an hour so so a day and hopefully have these sorted by the end of the month. #halloweencraft #weaving #fiber #fiberarts

Handwoven striped towels on a floor loom in black, green, purple and orange. The weave is zigzag and points in twill. There is a LeClerc shuttle with black yarn sitting on top of the weaving.

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Amanda @graidh.bsky.social · 2d

Halloween warp is on! For whatever reason, this warp did not want to behave, but it looks pretty good now. Fibonacci stripes in cotton for point twill towels. #fibersky #weaving #handweaving

A warp of Fibonacci stripes for point twill towels in Halloween colors: black, green, orange, purple on a Schacht Standard 8 harness loom in a messy studio.

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Amanda @graidh.bsky.social · 3d

I really do enjoy weaving handspun yarn on the rigid heddle loom, even though it’s fussy. Will make an appropriate hedge witch wrap for the season. #fibersky

Handwoven handspun sage green merino warp yarn and silk/alpaca Malabrigo weft in earth tones.

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Amanda @graidh.bsky.social · 3d

Hayley Williams making me cry about my hometown was not on my bingo card this week. Good grief, all my feels right here.

Hayley Williams: True Believer | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

YouTube video by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

www.youtube.com

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Amanda @graidh.bsky.social · 5d

I have potato soup in right this minute. 🧡

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Amanda @graidh.bsky.social · 5d

Just an FYI if you feel the need to grab a banned book...

alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 5d

kinda sweet that bookshop.org's anti-prime sale overlaps with banned books week, which means today you can get free shipping PLUS 20% off their banned books list! bookshop.org/info/banned-...

Banned Books

bookshop.org

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Amanda @graidh.bsky.social · 6d

Your IKEA product is your name, spelled backwards, with an umlaut.

The Adnäma is a handwoven pillow cover in organic cotton that appears to match everything when you are in the store but matches nothing you own when you finally get it home.

geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 6d

Your IKEA product is your name, spelled backwards, with an umlaut.

the Yeffroëg is a faux wood finish composite board (four colorways available) low-profile bed frame designed to imitate the minimalist aesthetics of frames sold by midrange millennial-branded online-only foam mattress retailers

Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 6d

Your IKEA product is your name, spelled backwards, with an umlaut.

I am Arön, a $6 fairly dim smart light bulb that only fits chandelier style fixtures, but is IFTTT compatible.

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Amanda @graidh.bsky.social · 9d

Without! Without him. We really need that edit 🤭.

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Amanda @graidh.bsky.social · 9d

Happy birthday to my little prince, J’zargo. Life would not be nearly as sweet… or funny with him. #catsky

A black Oriental Shorthair cat sitting next to a jack o’ lantern shaped pillow in front of a shelf full of records with a plant on top.

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 10d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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Amanda @graidh.bsky.social · 10d

Any person who has been the victim of verbal and/or physical abuse instinctively understands the body language on display in all the videos of these very very angry men enacting violence on innocent and traumatized people. These people have wanted this power for a long time.

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Amanda @graidh.bsky.social · 11d

We need more of this everywhere.

Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 12d

This woman is on fire in the EU parliament.

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Amanda @graidh.bsky.social · 11d

I thought this was a joke. Why is this not a joke?

Amanda @graidh.bsky.social · 12d

I would do this.

Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 12d

100% All Achievements

xkcd.com/3148/

Comic. PERSON 1 to person with white hat: I finished all the gen-ed back in 2010, and I’m up to the 400-level courses in most departments. But now one of my advisors is saying I “can’t have more than 20 majors” and “need to graduate next year.” It’s outrageous! [caption] My university is making it really hard to finish a 100% all achievements speedrun.

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Amanda @graidh.bsky.social · 13d

Same!!!! 💜

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Amanda @graidh.bsky.social · 13d

As I was picking up my CSA share from the farmstand, I saw a little girl select a rustic loaf of sourdough bread, pop open the wrapping and just start gnawing on it like a squirrel. I see you, kid. And totally understand.

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Amanda @graidh.bsky.social · 14d

I needed this news so much today. Thank you Mychal, you are a treasure.

Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 14d

🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶

🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈

#FollowTheRainbow

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Amanda @graidh.bsky.social · 18d

I have The Knight and the Moth one, it’s stunning and one of the most beautiful books I own. 💜

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Amanda @graidh.bsky.social · 18d

Not to mention the fact that a ton of pharmaceutical components come from overseas and are put together here. Estriadol is a big one. They make the patches here, but the estradiol comes from Europe for loads of them.

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Amanda @graidh.bsky.social · 18d

Yeah, that.

Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 18d

Anybody: this is worse than you probably think.

Me: you're entirely correct, but my sympathetic nervous system is on strike and I'm all out of panic.

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Amanda @graidh.bsky.social · 19d

10/10 no notes.

Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 19d

CHOTINER: And you didn’t know this person - what did you call him again?

CELEBRIMBOR GREATEST OF THE ELVEN SMITHS: Right, his name was Annatar but

CHOTINER: And you taught him to create a ring harnessing all his malice and cruelty?

CELEBRIMBOR: Well I mean I was deceived

CHOTINER: So you’ve said

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Amanda @graidh.bsky.social · 19d

Oh I wanted to be her so badly.

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Amanda @graidh.bsky.social · 19d

Oh no. No no no. Nope.

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Wool-Encased Tea Addict @passeriform.bsky.social · 20d

Gift link: Roxane Gay: Civility Is a Fantasy

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o.... "We would have to believe, despite so much evidence to the contrary, that the world is a fair and just place. And we would have to have nothing at stake...To be uncivil means pointing out hypocrisies and misinformation."

Opinion | Civility Is a Fantasy

www.nytimes.com

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