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Dan the Gnome

@brewergnome.bsky.social

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He/Him - Gnomewood/Gnomespun Owner, Biologist, Woodworker, Army Vet, Gardener, Fiber Artist, Baker, Professional Dilettante https://gnomespun.com/

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Dan the Gnome @brewergnome.bsky.social · Nov 15

So, uh, hi all! I'm Dan, the Gnome. I do textile arts and woodworking (Gnomespun Yarn and Gnomewood Creations). I'm a gay, ace, disabled, married, Army Veteran with two fabulous Swedish Vallhunds that periodically give advice.

I love to learn anything about anything.

Gnomespun Yarn and Fiber Arts

Hand made spindles and fiber tools, hand dyed yarn and breed specific top and roving! fiber arts, spinning, yarn, roving, top, combed, carded, wool, silk, longwool, downswool, downs wool, handmade spi...

www.gnomespun.com

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Dan the Gnome @brewergnome.bsky.social · 5h

That’s next. I need to get a size up hole cutter made

Dan the Gnome @brewergnome.bsky.social · 9h

Thanks! It seems the season for decorative gourds, so why not, right?

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Dan the Gnome @brewergnome.bsky.social · 9h

Feels like fiddling while Rome burns but we replaced our sink today, and I made some stuff with clay.

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Dan the Gnome @brewergnome.bsky.social · 12h

It could. But that doesn't negate the suck we're affected by.

Dan the Gnome @brewergnome.bsky.social · 12h

I've been enjoying labeling all the (terrible) AI ads on TikTok as "too sexual"

Dan the Gnome @brewergnome.bsky.social · 13h

So weird. Everything from top to bottom is wildly off kilter

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Dan the Gnome @brewergnome.bsky.social · 13h

Hugs

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Dan the Gnome @brewergnome.bsky.social · 13h

Awww what a cute little danger noodle!

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chetom ✨🐸 @chetom.bsky.social · 14h

tomorrow!!! 🐸🍄⭐ also, how awesome is the photo my sister took of Wizard Frog? #frogart

wizard frog sitting in the forest with red mushrooms cute wizard Ferdinand frog plush by chetom

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Natalie @nataliehall.bsky.social · 17h

👁️‍🗨️

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Dan the Gnome @brewergnome.bsky.social · 13h

Wow

Dan the Gnome @brewergnome.bsky.social · 13h

I have now been through… 8 I think? Don’t have my notebook here. I’m still not sure what my favorite is. Maybe the Standard 112? Maybe the B3? Bmix seems fairly capable, but I don’t love it yet.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 20h

I wrote about the president's only friend lying to him

Portland Is Burning on the Only Screens That Matter

Welcome to my relaunched newsletter, with independent writing and reporting on science, politics, and policy. Read more about it here, and please subscribe at the bottom of this post to support this w...

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angel💀 @sabattons.com · 1d

what legal recourse do artists and museums have against international militaries stealing and using our work to commit warcrimes, since apparently that's a conversation we need to have now.

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 1d

Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war.Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers.

Models of parking lots, antennas, + pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

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Fascinating work here tracing how the IDF recycled 3D assets from a cyberpunk sci-fi art project, the Scottish Maritime Museum and elsewhere to populate its widely-seen models of supposed enemy locations in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. One of the most infamous, the alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.

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Dan the Gnome @brewergnome.bsky.social · 13h

Beeg feets

Nash Turley @nashturley.bsky.social · 15h

Big fan of this weevil's color scheme, pointy snoot, and huge feet!

www.inaturalist.org/observations...

black and yellow weevil on a green leaf with long thin rostrum and very large foot pads

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 18h

Yeah everything SUCKS but humans are still silly wonderful beautiful creatures who collaborate with slugs to make videos like this. So. All is not lost.

Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 1d

oh hell yeah youtu.be/nGZOFyLrCwk?...

Slug Eating Spaghetti Time Lapse (With Stopwatch Timer)

YouTube video by Nature's Fantastic

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 14h

feds have been all over chicagoland today.

reports of people abducted from back of the yards, cicero, rogers park, hermosa, barrington, batavia, and bridgeview.

feds are out in force in aurora. not sharing video, but residents have likewise turned out in force—and they aren't happy.

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Dan the Gnome @brewergnome.bsky.social · 13h

I have yet to stick with a clay for more than a single 25 lb bag. Though I’m running out of new ones my studio carries. Right now I’m on Bmix. It’s so squishy

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Dan the Gnome @brewergnome.bsky.social · 14h

Thiiis. The market is GONE and it’s not coming back. Either they find NEW markets (which would likely mean different crops and supply lines and and and) or they do something else. Or we just pay them every year to plant and throw their harvest away

Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 15h

I feel like a broken record, but I have to keep saying it over and over again: a farmer bailout won’t do much of anything because the market is gone. There will be no incentive to plant next year.

The bailout will help payoff farmer debt to the banks. That’s all.

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 20h

fiction is a safe space to think of unsafe things

if you feel it's messing you up, step away. don't assume it's messing everyone up and you need to eradicate it because you caught a case of the feel-bads from something. go sit with that and think about why instead of pissing in everyone else's cheerios.

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 14h

CAN YOU GUESS THIS ONE?? 👀

(Thanks to @schmidtocean.bsky.social for letting me share their video!)

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Dan the Gnome @brewergnome.bsky.social · 21h

Have totally sanded off the side of my hand. And am JUST going over a shoulder I injured throwing… not very big at all. So I FEEL you!

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Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 22h

“A study, published on Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed that last season’s 2024–2025 mRNA COVID vaccines reduced people’s risk of emergency department visits by 29%, their risk of hospitalizations by 39% & their risk of death by 64%”

Benefits were seen even if 0 risk factors

Soren Larsen (SEGL) @sorenlarsen.bsky.social · 1d

Annual COVID Vaccines Protect People against Severe Disease, Even with Prior Immunity

"The new research also “calls into question the idea that younger individuals and those without risk factors don’t need the vaccine,” Viswanathan says."

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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Emily Hare @emilyhare.co.uk · 23h

Naiads are a little bit of a problem if you are around fresh water (especially if you cannot see the bottom) in Strangehollow, so think twice before you journey there.
#watercolour #animated #naiad #nymph #siren #folklore #fairytales

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Toby Fox @tobyfoxart.bsky.social · 1d

Stampede Summoner, my fifth piece for #Octoby2025 🐎🎠

In the tundra of the Coldgrounds, a summoner invokes the spirit of a great stampede
#octoby

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