Brenda Dayne
@brendadayne.bsky.social
Host of Cast On, a podcast for knitters.🧶Lover of books, art, birds, wildflowers, heritage textiles, women and Wales. Insufferable and correct.
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Brenda Dayne
@brendadayne.bsky.social
· Mar 24
Nobody’s asked about the avatar, but whatever, imma tell ya. Meet Dr Marie Equi, an early abortion provider, women’s rights activist and anti war campaigner in Portland OR, my old home town.
I have need of someone with Japanese scholarship. Maybe someone knows someone?
I’ve written a piece in the style of Sei Shonagon. Working title: nagori.
Q: Is there a 10th c equivalent for this word? Something that holds both anticipation and aftermath, or lingering?
I know. Pass it on anyway?
I’ve written a piece in the style of Sei Shonagon. Working title: nagori.
Q: Is there a 10th c equivalent for this word? Something that holds both anticipation and aftermath, or lingering?
I know. Pass it on anyway?
November 7, 2025 at 11:38 AM
I have need of someone with Japanese scholarship. Maybe someone knows someone?
I’ve written a piece in the style of Sei Shonagon. Working title: nagori.
Q: Is there a 10th c equivalent for this word? Something that holds both anticipation and aftermath, or lingering?
I know. Pass it on anyway?
I’ve written a piece in the style of Sei Shonagon. Working title: nagori.
Q: Is there a 10th c equivalent for this word? Something that holds both anticipation and aftermath, or lingering?
I know. Pass it on anyway?
It was 20 years ago today... Cast On began to play. It's the anniversary of the very first episode of my podcast!
Twenty. Years.
In Internet years that's practically Neolithic.
Twenty. Years.
In Internet years that's practically Neolithic.
October 31, 2025 at 10:23 AM
It was 20 years ago today... Cast On began to play. It's the anniversary of the very first episode of my podcast!
Twenty. Years.
In Internet years that's practically Neolithic.
Twenty. Years.
In Internet years that's practically Neolithic.
Fuck. Claude.ai is down. I was in the middle of a project. Whyyyyyyy?
Claude
Talk with Claude, an AI assistant from Anthropic
Claude.ai
October 31, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Fuck. Claude.ai is down. I was in the middle of a project. Whyyyyyyy?
I am deeply, deeply in love with the driver of this car.
October 23, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I am deeply, deeply in love with the driver of this car.
@Anthropic.com should give me a free enterprise account because I’m doing important feminist infrastructure work, and at the vanguard of building creative praxis and collaboration with AI. And because I’m pretty.
October 16, 2025 at 9:44 AM
@Anthropic.com should give me a free enterprise account because I’m doing important feminist infrastructure work, and at the vanguard of building creative praxis and collaboration with AI. And because I’m pretty.
This is one of my favourite quick lunches. Makes enough for two, and can be eaten cold, straight from the fridge in a pinch.
The fact that Fish Finger Bhorta is #RecipeOfTheDay makes me feel the week’s got off to a good start!https://www.nigella.com/recipes/fish-finger-bhorta
Fish Finger Bhorta
If you’d asked me any time up until recently whether I’d ever thought I’d bring out a book with a fish finger recipe in it, I’d have been fairly certain the answer would be no. Thank goodness we live ...
www.nigella.com
September 29, 2025 at 11:22 AM
This is one of my favourite quick lunches. Makes enough for two, and can be eaten cold, straight from the fridge in a pinch.
The last flowers of the season. Cosmos, calendula, sweet peas and cornflower, all grown from @higgledygarden.bsky.social seed.
September 27, 2025 at 8:41 PM
The last flowers of the season. Cosmos, calendula, sweet peas and cornflower, all grown from @higgledygarden.bsky.social seed.
Well, I didn‘t get raptured last night. You?
September 24, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Well, I didn‘t get raptured last night. You?
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If all of my outfits this winter do not come with matching mittens then what is even the point? This #1930s skating ensemble was created by Schiaparelli for her sporting line, an innovative addition to her fashion brand #palaisgalliera #fondationazzedinealaia #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
September 20, 2025 at 7:24 PM
If all of my outfits this winter do not come with matching mittens then what is even the point? This #1930s skating ensemble was created by Schiaparelli for her sporting line, an innovative addition to her fashion brand #palaisgalliera #fondationazzedinealaia #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
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The muppet show is returning.
I repeat
THE MUPPET SHOW IS RETURNING.
Kermit was my first crush this is momentous.
If this little girl’s giggle, Kermit’s disgruntled face & the last 10 seconds of this don’t make your day better then I cannot account for you:
I repeat
THE MUPPET SHOW IS RETURNING.
Kermit was my first crush this is momentous.
If this little girl’s giggle, Kermit’s disgruntled face & the last 10 seconds of this don’t make your day better then I cannot account for you:
September 19, 2025 at 8:37 AM
The muppet show is returning.
I repeat
THE MUPPET SHOW IS RETURNING.
Kermit was my first crush this is momentous.
If this little girl’s giggle, Kermit’s disgruntled face & the last 10 seconds of this don’t make your day better then I cannot account for you:
I repeat
THE MUPPET SHOW IS RETURNING.
Kermit was my first crush this is momentous.
If this little girl’s giggle, Kermit’s disgruntled face & the last 10 seconds of this don’t make your day better then I cannot account for you:
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Here is my best guidance, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons nearly nine years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
snyder.substack.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Here is my best guidance, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons nearly nine years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
Woodstove weather has arrived. Rejoice with me.
September 11, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Woodstove weather has arrived. Rejoice with me.
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🤔Not for everybody, but if you ❤️ history, architecture and heritage like here at Beverley Minster, you might like my Genius Loci Digest - an architectural photographer’s camper-van-camino through the British Isles - posted weekly. Subscribe for free: digest.andymarshall.co
September 11, 2025 at 6:02 AM
🤔Not for everybody, but if you ❤️ history, architecture and heritage like here at Beverley Minster, you might like my Genius Loci Digest - an architectural photographer’s camper-van-camino through the British Isles - posted weekly. Subscribe for free: digest.andymarshall.co
I am torn between really wanting it to be warm enough for my tomatoes to ripen, and really wanting it to be chilly enough to fire up the wood stove.
September 9, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I am torn between really wanting it to be warm enough for my tomatoes to ripen, and really wanting it to be chilly enough to fire up the wood stove.
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We'd save half a billion a year. We'd be able to hold our head of state accountable. Sounds like a better future for Britain, right? #NotMyKing #AbolishTheMonarchy
September 8, 2025 at 10:50 AM
We'd save half a billion a year. We'd be able to hold our head of state accountable. Sounds like a better future for Britain, right? #NotMyKing #AbolishTheMonarchy
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The thing nobody tells you about moving house is how long it takes to hunt for that thing you unpacked and put away in very safe spot two years ago. I can guarantee you will not be able to find that thing when you want it.
September 3, 2025 at 11:02 AM
The thing nobody tells you about moving house is how long it takes to hunt for that thing you unpacked and put away in very safe spot two years ago. I can guarantee you will not be able to find that thing when you want it.
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As Americans, we ask tough questions and demand real answers. When those in power attack journalism and silence scientists, is that patriotism or manipulation? Real patriotism is protecting dissent and demanding facts. #TruthBrigade
Join the Truth Brigade
dlvr.it
August 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
As Americans, we ask tough questions and demand real answers. When those in power attack journalism and silence scientists, is that patriotism or manipulation? Real patriotism is protecting dissent and demanding facts. #TruthBrigade
Cool and damp today, so fire. But still technically summer, so Pimm’s.
August 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Cool and damp today, so fire. But still technically summer, so Pimm’s.
A good bank holiday house party with excellent friends, one of whom has mad skillz and is about to install our new dishwasher. Life is sweet.
August 24, 2025 at 7:15 PM
A good bank holiday house party with excellent friends, one of whom has mad skillz and is about to install our new dishwasher. Life is sweet.
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ICYMI... My new talk from TEDxBerlin asks the question few are willing to face: why is democracy in retreat globally, and what can we do about it? Here's one possible way forward, and we should consider it — before it's too late.
america2.news/is-democracy...
america2.news/is-democracy...
Is democracy dying? Here's why — and what to do about it.
In the 35 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, democracy has been in retreat around the world. Can we build new designs that help it flourish?
america2.news
August 18, 2025 at 3:22 PM
ICYMI... My new talk from TEDxBerlin asks the question few are willing to face: why is democracy in retreat globally, and what can we do about it? Here's one possible way forward, and we should consider it — before it's too late.
america2.news/is-democracy...
america2.news/is-democracy...
Bless all who sail in Wanker McWankface.
'The likes of Farage and Reform criticising the work of the RNLI has backfired, leading to a surge in donations for the charity' leftfootforward.org/2025/08/fund...
Fundraiser to buy new RNLI lifeboat named after Nigel Farage set to hit £300,000 target
The likes of Farage and Reform criticising the work of the RNLI has backfired, leading to a surge in donations for the charity.
leftfootforward.org
August 7, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Bless all who sail in Wanker McWankface.
The Assassin on Amazon is like the opposite of a Wes Anderson film. The framing is… odd? The focus of the first episode seems to be the right eye of each actor. Haven’t read any reviews. Stick with it, or bail now?
July 30, 2025 at 8:26 PM
The Assassin on Amazon is like the opposite of a Wes Anderson film. The framing is… odd? The focus of the first episode seems to be the right eye of each actor. Haven’t read any reviews. Stick with it, or bail now?