"when the urge to resume doomscrolling hits (our brains asking for dopamine), make a choice to be creative instead"

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Good news: my bags are at Annie&Company, all ready for you to shop the crawl F-Sun!

Bad news: I’m having a nasty fatigue flare/crash, so I won’t be able to come see your smiling faces in person.

Can’t wait to follow the crawl hashtag this weekend to see how much fun you all have!!

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Just packed up a 23lb box of bags to send to Annie & Company (upper east side, NYC) for a mail in trunk show this weekend for the NYC yarn crawl.

I was hoping to attend the crawl myself and see people in NYC too, but my health had other ideas, so I’m staying home. #KSQShop

If only more people saw it that way!

Several states have issued orders or taken similar actions to protect access to COVID vaccines including: CO, MA, MD, MN, NM, NY, PA, WA

Please call your Governor's office and demand that they take action to make sure COVID vaccines are accessible to everyone!

So when I boost COVID numbers and ask folks to mask back up?

I’m not scolding you. It comes from a place of care. I don’t want anyone else to have to live with long COVID. It sucks.

The damage of each covid infection is cumulative on the last, and the risk of long COVID goes up each time.

I’ve been in some level of MECFS / long COVID crash for nearly a month now, which has required me to really curtail my physical and mental activities in ways I find very difficult.

I had just gotten back the ability to read academic nonfiction for fun without a migraine, and now it’s gone again.

A reminder that measles erases your body's immune memory for fighting other diseases, too.

COVID vaccine update: Pharmacies in these states won't give you a shot unless you have a prescription.

CVS: CO, FL, GA, KY, LA , ME, NY, NC, PA, UT, VA, WV, DC

Walgreens: AZ, CO, GA, IN, LA, MO, MT, NM, NY, OR, SC, UT, VA, WA, WV, WI

CVS is not yet offering COVID shots at all in MA, NV, and MN.

We made the world this way. We benefit from the world being this way. And only we can unmake it. Because it must, it absolutely must, be unmade.

So next time you're going on about money, keep that in mind. Money is a tool. And yes, way too many of us accept money soaked in blood.

Thanks @drbibliomane.bsky.social & @transbookhistory.bsky.social (QT'd thread) for helping us put the Queer Book History zine in the present urgent rights context—if we do history work to remember+resurrrect human voices, we must also work to protect+resource folks now zinebakery.com/bakeshop-zin...

The Harvard Crimson (student newspaper) once again doing superb reporting--in this case, about the (troubling!) recent changes, implemented this week, in the campus's 1st-year orientation activities. I was feeling cheerful (to my surprise), but this is chilling: www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

“A new study from Australia found sheep [who graze among solar panels] had better wool compared to sheep grazing on traditional pastures.”

Knitters for clean energy! Let’s go!!! 🐑🧶💪

Earlier this year, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced massive cuts to federal health agencies.

The Trump administration has refused to say how many workers have been lost so far. But a new ProPublica analysis gives a detailed view.

And supporting a local small business in Queens as the final exclamation point at the end.

Friends: as many of you know, I have a patreon account where I write about the maps, mapping, & related things.

I'm hoping to get the membership up over 500 subscribers. It's free, so if you're curious, go read some articles! If you like it, please consider subscribing!
patreon.com/SurprisedEel

Oh how phenomenal

More sweater bags in the shop, and sea-creature stitch markers to pair with the manatee bag!

(The manatee fabric has been discontinued and this is the last sweater-size/XL bag in this print that I have in stock!)

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Reminder to everyone who was ALSO waiting for something they bought to come in the the right size box for sending books then lost track of time-- the Bluestockings book drive has another week to go!

Now to be an adult and get my ass to a post office. 😷💢

Whenever I read 'what will it take for people to rise up?' I want people to be SPECIFIC. What is the actual question? And are they currently *rising up* themselves whatever that means because it's always unclear what the person asking means...

What are you willing to risk? [no answers needed]

a first step to organizing people to do anything right now is just bringing people together for anything—to vent. to eat together. to make art.

to remind people we have each other. to ask what we can do together. to keep the despair at bay.

Wisdom. 💚🦉

Exactly