Carson Cooper
@cooperwheels.bsky.social
Tree Hugger, dog lover, maker of things.
Author of books about making spinning wheels (yes, for making yarn). Ztwist.com
All 📷 taken by myself, All photos AI free.
🚫 Crypto
Author of books about making spinning wheels (yes, for making yarn). Ztwist.com
All 📷 taken by myself, All photos AI free.
🚫 Crypto
Pinned
Carson Cooper
@cooperwheels.bsky.social
· Nov 28
Discount pricing for multiple book sets, when ordered together as shown. All orders from my website ship within 3 days via Priority Mail. USA only, but if you're in Canada, Australia or UK take a look at our options on the webpage for shipping.
www.ztwist.com/books.html
#Handspinning
#Woodworking
www.ztwist.com/books.html
#Handspinning
#Woodworking
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Trying to protect everything from everyone all the time will drive you crazy. Here is what you should do about your digital privacy and security instead. I talked to KQED's Close All Tabs about threat modeling: www.kqed.org/news/1207053...
Your Digital Footprint Reveals More Than You Think | KQED
How easy is it to find someone from a single video posted online? To find out, Morgan put her own privacy to the test. She asked TikTok creator JoseMonkey, who’s famous for geolocating people who send...
www.kqed.org
January 22, 2026 at 3:30 AM
Trying to protect everything from everyone all the time will drive you crazy. Here is what you should do about your digital privacy and security instead. I talked to KQED's Close All Tabs about threat modeling: www.kqed.org/news/1207053...
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Scientists unearth an almost complete dinosaur skeleton with perfectly preserved skin - Futura, Le média qui explore le monde www.futura-sciences.com/en/scientist...
Scientists unearth an almost complete dinosaur skeleton with perfectly preserved skin - Futura-Sciences
An almost complete dinosaur skeleton, complete with fossilized skin, has been unearthed from a Canadian hillside. What researchers discovered next might just rewrite part of prehistory. In Alberta’s D...
www.futura-sciences.com
January 22, 2026 at 2:01 AM
Scientists unearth an almost complete dinosaur skeleton with perfectly preserved skin - Futura, Le média qui explore le monde www.futura-sciences.com/en/scientist...
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𝘽𝘼𝙍𝙎 𝙄𝙉 𝙉𝙊𝙄𝙍𝙎
ROAD HOUSE (1948)
ROAD HOUSE (1948)
January 22, 2026 at 12:17 AM
𝘽𝘼𝙍𝙎 𝙄𝙉 𝙉𝙊𝙄𝙍𝙎
ROAD HOUSE (1948)
ROAD HOUSE (1948)
Sending this to those awaiting (or in...) the nasty cold front on it's way. 🌬️🌨️❄️
You remember Summer 🌞 yes?
Hang in there and stay safe. 🦫🐝🦋
#Nature 🪻🐞🌿🐦🐚🦌🦉🌲🦔🌞🌻
You remember Summer 🌞 yes?
Hang in there and stay safe. 🦫🐝🦋
#Nature 🪻🐞🌿🐦🐚🦌🦉🌲🦔🌞🌻
January 21, 2026 at 11:26 PM
Sending this to those awaiting (or in...) the nasty cold front on it's way. 🌬️🌨️❄️
You remember Summer 🌞 yes?
Hang in there and stay safe. 🦫🐝🦋
#Nature 🪻🐞🌿🐦🐚🦌🦉🌲🦔🌞🌻
You remember Summer 🌞 yes?
Hang in there and stay safe. 🦫🐝🦋
#Nature 🪻🐞🌿🐦🐚🦌🦉🌲🦔🌞🌻
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Scientists Develop Sugar-Coated Nanoparticle That Blocks COVID-19 Virus From Binding to Human Cells Reduces Infection by ~99% in Lab Experiments
January 21, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Scientists Develop Sugar-Coated Nanoparticle That Blocks COVID-19 Virus From Binding to Human Cells Reduces Infection by ~99% in Lab Experiments
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A bit of levity, for a dreary January day. 🦋
Don't forget to eat your spinach. 🌿
youtu.be/DrXP8R6KjRg?...
Don't forget to eat your spinach. 🌿
youtu.be/DrXP8R6KjRg?...
Mark McCollum - Popeye
YouTube video by Craig Brauckmiller
youtu.be
January 20, 2026 at 11:12 PM
A bit of levity, for a dreary January day. 🦋
Don't forget to eat your spinach. 🌿
youtu.be/DrXP8R6KjRg?...
Don't forget to eat your spinach. 🌿
youtu.be/DrXP8R6KjRg?...
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Good morning, Bluesky!
Thanks to some intrepid local photographers who stayed up well into the night (3-4:30 am), here are a couple of photos of the aurora as seen in the Seattle area:
📸Randy Small
📸David Crook
#Aurora
Thanks to some intrepid local photographers who stayed up well into the night (3-4:30 am), here are a couple of photos of the aurora as seen in the Seattle area:
📸Randy Small
📸David Crook
#Aurora
January 20, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Good morning, Bluesky!
Thanks to some intrepid local photographers who stayed up well into the night (3-4:30 am), here are a couple of photos of the aurora as seen in the Seattle area:
📸Randy Small
📸David Crook
#Aurora
Thanks to some intrepid local photographers who stayed up well into the night (3-4:30 am), here are a couple of photos of the aurora as seen in the Seattle area:
📸Randy Small
📸David Crook
#Aurora
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I switched to proton about 4 months ago. Still have a Gmail account as a throwaway account but all my important mail goes thru proton. And it aliases my company email nicely with a custom domain.
It's not free though.
But then neither is Gmail.
It's not free though.
But then neither is Gmail.
Proton Mail seems to be the thing.
In the interim, here's a guide to turning a lot of this stuff off in Gmail -- ironically, provided by Proton!
proton.me/blog/turn-of...
In the interim, here's a guide to turning a lot of this stuff off in Gmail -- ironically, provided by Proton!
proton.me/blog/turn-of...
How to turn off Gemini in Gmail — and why you should | Proton
New AI features are making their way to your Gmail inbox. Here's how to turn off Gemini in Gmail and why you should.
proton.me
January 20, 2026 at 3:43 PM
I switched to proton about 4 months ago. Still have a Gmail account as a throwaway account but all my important mail goes thru proton. And it aliases my company email nicely with a custom domain.
It's not free though.
But then neither is Gmail.
It's not free though.
But then neither is Gmail.
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Name another song with the word "Smoke" or "Smoking." 🎶
Written by composer Jerome Kern and lyricist Otto Harbach for the 1933 musical comedy Roberta & first recorded by Gertrude Niesen in 1933, the song "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" was covered by The Platters in 1958. Their version was the #1
Written by composer Jerome Kern and lyricist Otto Harbach for the 1933 musical comedy Roberta & first recorded by Gertrude Niesen in 1933, the song "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" was covered by The Platters in 1958. Their version was the #1
January 20, 2026 at 3:00 AM
Name another song with the word "Smoke" or "Smoking." 🎶
Written by composer Jerome Kern and lyricist Otto Harbach for the 1933 musical comedy Roberta & first recorded by Gertrude Niesen in 1933, the song "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" was covered by The Platters in 1958. Their version was the #1
Written by composer Jerome Kern and lyricist Otto Harbach for the 1933 musical comedy Roberta & first recorded by Gertrude Niesen in 1933, the song "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" was covered by The Platters in 1958. Their version was the #1
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What's Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition
I've thoroughly updated this public health propaganda zine! With new information about:
Adjusting mask fit
CO2 monitoring
Improving ventilation for infection control
Read at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the thread below 👇
I've thoroughly updated this public health propaganda zine! With new information about:
Adjusting mask fit
CO2 monitoring
Improving ventilation for infection control
Read at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the thread below 👇
![[COVID zine front cover]
[bold, handwritten] What’s Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition
[Drawing of a person (me) with a shoulder-length shag haircut, wearing head-strap respirator mask a sweatshirt, carrying a Corsi-Rosenthal box (a DIY air purifier made with a box fan and furnace filters)]
[word balloon] clean the air, basically! By Hazel Newlevant
[COVID zine back cover]
[handwritten text, circled by a chain which is breaking on the bottom]
“Every chain of transmission that is broken is VALUABLE. Every person that doesn’t GET SICK, that doesn’t lose that WEEK OF WORK, that doesn’t become DISABLED or DIE, from the minorest of inconveniences, to the GREATEST of losses: every single one of those things is VALUABLE.” -Becca on DEATH PANEL podcast 2/16/23.
Print and distribute this zine yourself! Download a PDF here. [arrow pointing to the citations QR code]
[drawing of this zine, getting stapled with a long-arm stapler]
[Creative Commons license logo] CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Citations:
[QR code] newlevant.com/COVIDzine
[bold, handwritten] ALWAYS FREE](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:twccexjsbh6y2tyhysjrhc2v/bafkreicg6f3tsxzbhi6hesaqppsfaaidnee33exrrwoalyxyaihaxxdk3a@jpeg)
January 16, 2026 at 3:17 PM
What's Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition
I've thoroughly updated this public health propaganda zine! With new information about:
Adjusting mask fit
CO2 monitoring
Improving ventilation for infection control
Read at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the thread below 👇
I've thoroughly updated this public health propaganda zine! With new information about:
Adjusting mask fit
CO2 monitoring
Improving ventilation for infection control
Read at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the thread below 👇
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Wow, can see with the naked eye over Loch Long in Argyll Scotland and the colours are amazing 🤩
Taken with iPhone, night settings, no editing 🎉
#Aurora #Scotland #StormHour
Taken with iPhone, night settings, no editing 🎉
#Aurora #Scotland #StormHour
January 19, 2026 at 9:56 PM
Wow, can see with the naked eye over Loch Long in Argyll Scotland and the colours are amazing 🤩
Taken with iPhone, night settings, no editing 🎉
#Aurora #Scotland #StormHour
Taken with iPhone, night settings, no editing 🎉
#Aurora #Scotland #StormHour
Today's reminder, once, many of us were forest dwellers. 🙏🌿🌞🦋🎶
#LongLiveForestNymphs 🌲🧚🌲
#Nature 🦫🌊🐬🌻🐝🐾🐾🪻🐞🌿
#LongLiveForestNymphs 🌲🧚🌲
#Nature 🦫🌊🐬🌻🐝🐾🐾🪻🐞🌿
January 19, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Today's reminder, once, many of us were forest dwellers. 🙏🌿🌞🦋🎶
#LongLiveForestNymphs 🌲🧚🌲
#Nature 🦫🌊🐬🌻🐝🐾🐾🪻🐞🌿
#LongLiveForestNymphs 🌲🧚🌲
#Nature 🦫🌊🐬🌻🐝🐾🐾🪻🐞🌿
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January 19, 2026 at 6:17 PM
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Movie theatre marquee and display for Alfred Hitchcock's THE BIRDS (1963) (theatre location unknown)
Happy Birthday to Tippi Hedren!
Happy Birthday to Tippi Hedren!
January 19, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Movie theatre marquee and display for Alfred Hitchcock's THE BIRDS (1963) (theatre location unknown)
Happy Birthday to Tippi Hedren!
Happy Birthday to Tippi Hedren!
Video of a coyote swimming to Alcatraz. So, maybe not so impossible that those early jailbreaks could have succeeded...
www.sfgate.com/local/articl...
www.sfgate.com/local/articl...
San Francisco coyote swims to Alcatraz for first time ever
"This was the first time our park biologists observed anything like this."
www.sfgate.com
January 19, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Video of a coyote swimming to Alcatraz. So, maybe not so impossible that those early jailbreaks could have succeeded...
www.sfgate.com/local/articl...
www.sfgate.com/local/articl...
The Lady Shreds... 🎶🦋🎶
youtu.be/6LUCKkxnNdY?...
youtu.be/6LUCKkxnNdY?...
Samantha Fish - Sweet Southern Sounds (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Samantha Fish
youtu.be
January 17, 2026 at 10:52 PM
The Lady Shreds... 🎶🦋🎶
youtu.be/6LUCKkxnNdY?...
youtu.be/6LUCKkxnNdY?...
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In the lush forests of Cuba lives a marvel of nature so tiny it can be mistaken for an insect in flight. The Bee Hummingbird (Mellisuga helenae), weighing less than a penny and smaller than some bees, holds the distinction of being the world’s smallest bird.
January 17, 2026 at 6:19 PM
In the lush forests of Cuba lives a marvel of nature so tiny it can be mistaken for an insect in flight. The Bee Hummingbird (Mellisuga helenae), weighing less than a penny and smaller than some bees, holds the distinction of being the world’s smallest bird.
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Splash/Mountain, Maui, Hawai'i.
#scape #eastcoastkin #landscape #ocean #photography #love #nokings #nature #marinelife #goodmorning #bluesky #sunrise
#scape #eastcoastkin #landscape #ocean #photography #love #nokings #nature #marinelife #goodmorning #bluesky #sunrise
January 17, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Splash/Mountain, Maui, Hawai'i.
#scape #eastcoastkin #landscape #ocean #photography #love #nokings #nature #marinelife #goodmorning #bluesky #sunrise
#scape #eastcoastkin #landscape #ocean #photography #love #nokings #nature #marinelife #goodmorning #bluesky #sunrise
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January 17, 2026 at 1:03 AM
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