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Jennifer Thorvig @absurdities.bsky.social · 5h

😂 I don't have any video of *me* making it, but this is the tutorial I followed. It's remarkably simple, for the most part.

youtu.be/ACoa_evquo4?...

Kaleidocycle Summer Bead Along - Part 1

YouTube video by offthebeadedpath

youtu.be

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Jennifer Thorvig @absurdities.bsky.social · 7h

Thanks! 😊

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 8h

New Yorkers know Attorney General James for who she is: a champion for justice who fights relentlessly for the people. Donald Trump knows her only as an obstacle to his corruption.

My full statement:

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Jennifer Thorvig @absurdities.bsky.social · 13h

BREAKING: all cis women are autistic

Jennifer Thorvig @absurdities.bsky.social · 14h

Thank you! 😊

Jennifer Thorvig @absurdities.bsky.social · 14h

Thank you! It's been a lot of fun to make.

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Jennifer Thorvig @absurdities.bsky.social · 14h

Thanks! It's amazingly simple components, just hinged together. This was my first one, but definitely won't be the last.

Jennifer Thorvig @absurdities.bsky.social · 14h

It's a super fun project, all the way around. 😊

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Jennifer Thorvig @absurdities.bsky.social · 16h

Thank you so much! I've been posting occasional updates about it and just did the final one. It was a fun project. bsky.app/profile/absu...

Jennifer Thorvig @absurdities.bsky.social · 16h

Final kaleidocycle update: She's done.

People always ask so, it's 6,126 beads.
🪡 🧵 🧶

#beading #beadweaving #crafting #craftiverse

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Jennifer Thorvig @absurdities.bsky.social · 16h

The second face is gold, bronze, and brown tones with arrow, triangle, and stripe patterns. The third face is concentric triangles of gold, white, and 3 shades of red. The fourth face is a flower in shades of pink and purple with white accents. Green sections on the outer edges imply leaves.

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Jennifer Thorvig @absurdities.bsky.social · 16h

I'm not seeing the alt text for the vid, so just in case:

A kaleidocycle, or turning toy, being turned by pushing on the outer edges of the toy. There are 4 hexagonal faces with symmetrical, mostly abstract designs.

The first face is abstract swirls in green, blue, and purple tones. (cont.)

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Jennifer Thorvig @absurdities.bsky.social · 16h

Final kaleidocycle update: She's done.

People always ask so, it's 6,126 beads.
🪡 🧵 🧶

#beading #beadweaving #crafting #craftiverse

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Jennifer Thorvig @absurdities.bsky.social · 1d

Crafting that's detailed enough that I have to focus.

A kaleidocycle (turning toy) made from seed beads woven into a pattern. The face that is visible is a hexagon with a design in red, gold, and white tones. It has arches pointing toward the center of the hexagon.

The same face of the kaleidocycle is now turned in the opposite direction. Instead of arches the design is now concentric triangles centered in the middle of the hexagonal face.

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Jennifer Thorvig @absurdities.bsky.social · 1d

Babe, I'm thrilled that this was zero waste and I am just a city girl ...

... but that is neither hay nor bales.

xo -- the granddaughter of farmers who fed a lot of cows, stacked a lot of square bales, and slid down a lot of round bales

Farm Aid @farmaid.org · 1d

We were very proud to learn this week that Farm Aid 40, which took place last month in Minneapolis, was the first-ever Zero Waste event at Huntington Bank Stadium! That means we reached a 90% diversion rate.

In these photos, hay bales are donated to a local farmer:

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Tom Eastman @tom.eastman.nz · 1d

The risk of Americans learning their OWN history is just too high.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Jennifer Thorvig @absurdities.bsky.social · 1d

Friendly reminder that SART isn't just, "let's build a safe trail for everyone," it's part of necessary public works projects to replace 100-year-old water/sewer lines.

The nimbys have made it all about bikes, but the trail just makes it a comprehensive plan.

Summit's getting dug up, regardless.

robingarwood.bsky.social @robingarwood.bsky.social · 1d

I will not be ranking Kaohly Her for mayor of Saint Paul.

Asked about the Summit Ave regional trail, she said a bunch of critical nonsense capped by “I will look at the project and reevaluate it.”

I agree with Adam Dullinger: that was such a bullshit answer.

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

St. Paul’s mayoral candidates diverge on Summit Ave. bike trail

Asked about a long-proposed protected bike trail along Summit Avenue, state Rep. Kaohly Her told a wall-to-wall audience that she was not ready to call for its cancellation, but she was skeptical of t...

www.yahoo.com

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Jennifer Thorvig @absurdities.bsky.social · 1d

Go get stabbed again, folks.

Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 1d

A study of nearly 300,000 people published today in the New England Journal of Medicine found “that last season’s 2024–2025 mRNA COVID vaccines reduced people’s risk of emergency department visits by 29 percent, their risk of hospitalizations by 39 percent and their risk of death by 64 percent.”

Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

www.scientificamerican.com

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

A tweet from Mayor Brandon Johnson says Trump has tried to unjustly arrest a Black man and he’s not going anywhere. A reply from Donald Trump says the Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect ICE officers.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

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

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

buff.ly

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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 1d

In unrelated news, here's @juliesulabor.bsky.social writing for @msnbc.com about how Amazon mistreats its package handlers and delivery drivers: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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💞Sabrina💞 @sabrinarina.bsky.social · 2d

Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 2d

Literally they've shot two people in Chicago alone, we're all unbelievably fortunate the woman they shot last fucking weekend survived

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 2d

I know there's a lot to keep up with but someone has ALREADY been killed by ICE in Chicago, its not a theoretical question, and folks are dying in ICE detention and being disappeared constantly, when you say "someone's gonna get killed" youre actually washing the blood from their hands 😘✌️

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Jennifer Thorvig @absurdities.bsky.social · 2d

Okay, but let's challenge him to all the push-up contests, because every moment he's trying to show off is one when he's not actively instigating more harm.

He's never going to help. Push-ups are as good as we'll get.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

Pete Hegseth was busy ignoring his job and doing pushups as part of a show for the Guinness Book of World Records while Illinoisans are being invaded by Trump’s military troops.

Pentagon chief Hegseth more interested in pushups than talking with Illinois leaders, Pritzker says

The governor said the Trump administration is keeping him in the dark about immigration enforcement and National Guard deployments.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia" should be how Democrats begin every single comment to reporters these days.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2d

Ruben Gallego on whether Trump is talking to Democrats:

“Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there's a he's probably talking to himself, or think he's talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that's actually he's actually physically talking to a Democrat.“

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