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Kristin @kehf.bsky.social · 9h

7. Good, sharp scissors are an essential tool. Train your family not to touch your fabric scissors.

Kristin @kehf.bsky.social · 9h

6. Wash your fabric before you try to sew with it. (In rare cases this doesn't apply, but I'm pretty much a if it can't go in the washing machine (or at least be hand washed), I'm not wearing it person.

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Kristin @kehf.bsky.social · 9h

5. Investing in a simple serger was worth it. It makes so many sewing chores easier.

This goes double for the sewing machine you bought in your twenties that is now older than you were when you first bought it (and the regular maintenance you had done on both machines was an A+ life choice).

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Kristin @kehf.bsky.social · 9h

4. The time spent pinning a section to be sewn is worth it. Do not be tempted to skip pinning unless you _want_ to spend the next hour picking out stitches that went awry.

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Kristin @kehf.bsky.social · 9h

3. Buy the best fabric you can afford. Your labor doesn't cost you money, but spending your time fighting with terrible fabric or putting a lot of time into something that won't hold up to wear is a waste of a different sort.

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Kristin @kehf.bsky.social · 9h

Thread of things I would tell my younger self, sewing edition (in no particular order):

1. The iron is your friend, use it through out the sewing process.

2. Making a muslin & doing a fit test is always worth doing, especially for a new pattern.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 12h

Come teach with me for @resistanceschool.bsky.social !!

Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 18h

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social · 14h

Our thoughts are with the public servants caught up in the latest round of RIF notices. We've said this before, and we'll repeat it now: You matter. Your work matters.

OMB says ‘substantial’ federal employee layoffs have begun

Just before the shutdown, OMB told agencies to draft RIF plans for programs that wouldn’t have alternative funding sources.

federalnewsnetwork.com

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Mel🏳️‍🌈 she/they universal healthcare now @knownforms.bsky.social · 13h

One does not simply hop into Mordor

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 14h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Kristin @kehf.bsky.social · 14h

I support this. 🤣

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15h

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 16h

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 15h

I am happy that more people see that the police state is a BIPARTISAN project.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h

vought's view is that the president is an elected dictator and lo and behold he is seizing outright the power of the purse

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 19h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 21h

I've been busy as heck this week and haven't had time to keep up on this. So the partner just paid another $500 toward our rent. I got paid on thurs and paid $100 toward our electric and $300 toward the car payment. But we desperately need to get this funded.

ko-fi.com/johnniejae/g...

Support Johnnie Jae ❤️

Indigenous stories, media, and art by Johnnie Jae! Your support helps share Native perspectives with the world and keeps the lights on at home.

ko-fi.com

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 20h

When the notoriously leftwing institution of the <checks notes> papacy is telling your country it’s gone too far right

NPR @npr.org · 1d

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

Pope Leo XIV says 'inhuman treatment of immigrants' in the U.S. isn't 'pro-life'

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

n.pr

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4WheelMe @4wheelworkout.bsky.social · 19h

That’s when? Not when the first invaders invaded and forced assimilation on Indigenous ppl or str8 up killed them or trafficked Black Africans and put them in forced labor camps and raped the women and then enslaved their own children?

Not then?

utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 1d

anyone else notice that the west took a turn for the worse once the concept of signaling one’s own social virtue became derogatory, almost as if cynically deriding all displays of charity and good will is indicative of a deeply cynical and nihilistic society capable of collaborating in genocide

larry @larrrrrry.bsky.social · 1d

her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18h

True story: I got asked about this during my oral qualifying exam — where I had the flu and was on like eleventy drugs — and blanked on Olber’s name 😭

But thankfully I knew the paradox, which is a fun one:

Robert “The Bobby Yaga” McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 19h

“Why is the night sky dark, if we live in an infinite universe?”

Kepler, Halley, and Cheseaux all pondered this apparent paradox, but the question is commonly attributed to Heinrich Olbers, who was born #OTD in 1758. 🧪 🔭

Images: hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Astro/..., Wellcome Collection

A diagram shows arrows radiating from a central point, indicating directions, with lots of white disks (stars) surrounding the central point.

An etching of Hans Olbers. He wears a heavy coat, vest, and high collared white shirt. His wispy hair is receding.

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Mel🏳️‍🌈 she/they universal healthcare now @knownforms.bsky.social · 18h

@govpritzker.illinois.gov These are your state troopers abusing protesters.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 20h

Around 100 protesters here now, the crowd is growing in advance of 4pm demo planned.

State trooper Bradley again warning people they can protest but if they set foot in the road (note: this is a driveway) they'll be arrested.

Another fed vehicle departs.

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🦋ShouldBeWriting🦋 @vanellopemint.bsky.social · 21h

Microfiction - Succumb

"You will never stop my evil plan, Grandpa Anarchy!" exclaimed Dastardly Doug.

Grandpa Anarchy, world's oldest hero, raised his fists. "We'll just see about that."

"My plot is so sinister," said Doug, "that just hearing about it will cause you to succumb!"

"Really?" Grandpa replied. "That sounds like a dynamite plan. What is it?"

"I mean," said Doug, "that's basically my plan - to craft a plot so sinister you will immediately succumb. Unfortunately, I haven't thought of one yet...."

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

JB wants you to believe he’ll stop trmp when he won’t even stop the Illinois state police from attacking residents

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Dr Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social · 1d

Same. Attendance is the best it’s been in years.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

'It is no secret that student attendance has plummeted in recent years, with near-empty lecture halls a staple of the post-pandemic world.'

Really? I lecture to all our 1st years. Lecture hall is full, not near-empty. Student engagement picked up last year and (early days) seems stronger again. 1/2

Fiction ‘brings lectures to life’ as academics face empty classes

University ‘whodunnit’ inspired by attempts to tackle poor attendance as scholars look for novel ways to engage mainstream audiences

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 1d

From Catch the Fair One to True Detective: Night Country, Kali Reis has shown us what Indigenous strength looks like beyond stereotypes. Now she’s stepping into Raccoon City bringing that same energy to one of horror’s most iconic franchises.

redpopnews.com/from-true-de...

#residentevil

From True Detective to Resident Evil: Kali Reis Expands Her Reign

Zach Cregger's Resident Evil reboot just became a lot more interesting with the announcement that Kali Reis has joined the cast. Her addition is already one of the most talked-about moves in the proje...

redpopnews.com

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Winter @kernowshark.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, bollocks to this. I'll be using my Irish passport every time in future.

Britons travelling to EU to undergo new biometric checks at border from Sunday

Most non-EU nationals entering Schengen area will have photo and fingerprints taken as part of entry-exit system

www.theguardian.com

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 1d

Marvellous Minoan clay vessels made by creative potters on the island of Crete during the Aegean Bronze Age around 3,500 years ago! 🤩

Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology

From the Aegean Bronze Age, Minoan clay vessels with black handpainted decoration.on a pale biscuity-coloured slip

Top left - clay flask decorated in Minoan ‘Marine Style’’ with an octopus with tentacles writhing around the body of the vase. Additional motifs such as seaweed and rocks represent the seabed. From Palaikastro, 1500-1450 BC

Top right - clay rhyton in the shape of a bull’s head. A rhyton is a type of pouring vessel used for filling cups or making liquid offerings. There is a pouring hole at the bull’s mouth. From Knossos Little Palace, 1450-1375 BC

Bottom left - Nautilus vessel - clay rhyton depicting the seabed with nautili, corals and seaweed. From Phaistos Palace, 1500-1450 BC

Bottom right - Basket shaped rhyton decorated with double-axe motif. There is a small pouring hole in one of the bottom corners. From Pseira, 1500-1450 BC

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