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a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 2d

I balled up one of the hanks so I could do some swatching and I just can't stop patting it, haha

a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 2d

My goal is to be spinning regularly between fingering and DK weight as those are the weights I use the most and I'm pretty pleased that most of this spin is comfortably in that range, although I'd like to be able to get a DK-weight 3-ply.

a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 2d

this is about 700g of combed corriedale spun short backward draft into about, um, 525 metres of ~11wpi two-ply. You can see from the picture of my first hank and my last hank that my grist changed A LOT as my drafting improved over the course of the spin.

a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 2d

Finished my big spin

Eight hanks of handspun yarn in pastel pinks, blues, oranges, greens, and purples, sitting on a green bedspread. They are arranged roughly in order of thickness, with the top left hank very thick and thick and thin and the bottom right hank much finer and more consistent (but also a bit overspun).

The top left very very thick and thin hank posed with the bottom right much more even, fine hank

An arrangement of three objects: a nest of spinning fibre, combed sliver, commercially dyed in pink blue purple and orange; a spinning bobbin with a singles yarn on it showing clear areas of blue and pink; and a hank of finished yarn clearly plied from two of the singles.

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Romenzo Mallas @rommallet.bsky.social · 4d

EXPLOSION DE LA CRIMINOULITÉ EN FRANCE

a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 5d

Ilu 🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡

a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 5d

Well, did you play it?

a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 5d

"your music"

a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 5d

I really enjoy all her work but the recent two romance-inflected ones are great. I also just binge re-read Laurie Marks' Elemental Logic books and now I'm reading Juliet McKenna's The Green Man's Heir which is pretty good

a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 5d

Hate this feeling! Was gonna rec the new KJ Charles but I see there's no need. New Martha Wells? New Zen Cho?

a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 6d

My working theory is that a series binge gives you the perfect balance of the comfort of a re-read and the interest of something new.

a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 6d

that sounds extremely nice tbh

a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 8d

Done! Under the wire.

a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 8d

Holy shit thanks its been sitting in my bag all week

a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 8d

They are so silly and it's so good

a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 9d

Hell yeah

a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 9d

I am forcing myself to read Queen Demon really slowly and I'm doing it by alternating reading a couple of chapters with spinning up some fluff and it's the perfect way to spend a windy wet day UNLIKE working

a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 9d

When you're done with the work week but inexplicably teh work week is not done with you

a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 9d

Year of the Griffin mentioned!

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 11d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 13d

Your walk to work is enviable

a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 13d

On the other hand I do think this would be very interesting for local body!

a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 13d

Additionally if our lot don't show up, either to a select committee or to the House, on each day the House is sitting, they don't get paid. (Unless they have the permission of their party's leader.) I believe unpermitted absences are recorded in the weekly journals and they are very uncommon.

a bird @prosthemadera.bsky.social · 13d

It's pointless in an NZ parliamentary context because the vast majority of our votes are whipped party votes so you don't get any information out of a list of someone's votes except for the three to five conscience votes per Parliament.

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Melanie Newfield @melanienewfield.bsky.social · 13d

On my recent visit to #TiritiriMatangi island I took this video in the forest. The birdsong here is extraordinary. I’ve never heard anything like it.