Lior 🇺🇦
@jolior.bsky.social
transfemme+genderfluid fiber poetry, design
https://www.ravelry.com/projects/joLior
Yarn support for trans+/bipoc in Europe+UK: #strickdichfrei
Feminism never lived.
Cfs/cptsd, surviving
Please don't ask me for money
Nonbinary since <2012, li/lir
https://www.ravelry.com/projects/joLior
Yarn support for trans+/bipoc in Europe+UK: #strickdichfrei
Feminism never lived.
Cfs/cptsd, surviving
Please don't ask me for money
Nonbinary since <2012, li/lir
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Lior 🇺🇦
@jolior.bsky.social
· Aug 10
I am a knitwear designer focusing on trans feminine bodies, euphoria+colorwork🧶1/6
I also use my programming and writing skills as a former physicists for tech editing and
I offer 1o1 consultation* for designers who want to make their designs more gender inclusive. This encompasses shapes/sizes/
I also use my programming and writing skills as a former physicists for tech editing and
I offer 1o1 consultation* for designers who want to make their designs more gender inclusive. This encompasses shapes/sizes/
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New socks 🧦 🧶
Gender is wavy and swirly sometimes, and sometimes it's neat and organised. Much love to and solidarity with my trans friends.
(Also, I hope the pattern is somewhat distinguishable? My colour vision is so messed up that it's all one big mass to my eyes.)
Gender is wavy and swirly sometimes, and sometimes it's neat and organised. Much love to and solidarity with my trans friends.
(Also, I hope the pattern is somewhat distinguishable? My colour vision is so messed up that it's all one big mass to my eyes.)
November 25, 2025 at 9:50 AM
New socks 🧦 🧶
Gender is wavy and swirly sometimes, and sometimes it's neat and organised. Much love to and solidarity with my trans friends.
(Also, I hope the pattern is somewhat distinguishable? My colour vision is so messed up that it's all one big mass to my eyes.)
Gender is wavy and swirly sometimes, and sometimes it's neat and organised. Much love to and solidarity with my trans friends.
(Also, I hope the pattern is somewhat distinguishable? My colour vision is so messed up that it's all one big mass to my eyes.)
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The Juan de la Cierva call for 3yrs postdocs closes next 10/12/2025! If you are interested in climate change effects on organisms through epigenetic mechanisms don't hesitate to contact me and join us @icmcsic.bsky.social 🦀🦑🐟🌊🧬👩🏽💻🔬🧶
Call: www.aei.gob.es/convocatoria...
Call: www.aei.gob.es/convocatoria...
Ayudas para contratos Juan de la Cierva 2025 | Agencia Estatal de Investigación
Las ayudas Juan de la Cierva tienen como finalidad fomentar la incorporación de jóvenes, en posesión del grado de doctor, con objeto de que completen su formación investigadora postdoctoral en centros de I+D españoles.
www.aei.gob.es
November 25, 2025 at 1:37 PM
The Juan de la Cierva call for 3yrs postdocs closes next 10/12/2025! If you are interested in climate change effects on organisms through epigenetic mechanisms don't hesitate to contact me and join us @icmcsic.bsky.social 🦀🦑🐟🌊🧬👩🏽💻🔬🧶
Call: www.aei.gob.es/convocatoria...
Call: www.aei.gob.es/convocatoria...
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
(Princess Jellyfish is a very cute transfemme anime with a bunch of very neurodivergent cis or not so cis girls)
(Princess Jellyfish is a very cute transfemme anime with a bunch of very neurodivergent cis or not so cis girls)
November 25, 2025 at 2:10 PM
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
(Princess Jellyfish is a very cute transfemme anime with a bunch of very neurodivergent cis or not so cis girls)
(Princess Jellyfish is a very cute transfemme anime with a bunch of very neurodivergent cis or not so cis girls)
#knitsky look at these, now imagine them as stitch markers! *.*
🧶
🧶
Was gonna take some individual pics and actually get these up on ko-fi but the course of the evening darkness is upon us and all pictures turned out terrible.
Guess that'll be the project next weekend.
If anything catches your eye let me know.
Starting at $12 (incl shipping <3)
Guess that'll be the project next weekend.
If anything catches your eye let me know.
Starting at $12 (incl shipping <3)
November 25, 2025 at 3:52 AM
#knitsky look at these, now imagine them as stitch markers! *.*
🧶
🧶
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My aunt who famously can’t cook tried to make a pumpkin pie. She didn’t know what cloves were, so she put garlic cloves in it. Whole.
November 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Advent packages are all done & most shipped!
15 minis, 6 medieval/Black history facts, 6 charms, knitting needle stoppers, stitch markers, earrings, crochet rings, pompoms, pattern ideas, beads, craft rings, a postcard, a write up on 2025's package inspiration. Yes, all this. Why? you deserve it.🧶
15 minis, 6 medieval/Black history facts, 6 charms, knitting needle stoppers, stitch markers, earrings, crochet rings, pompoms, pattern ideas, beads, craft rings, a postcard, a write up on 2025's package inspiration. Yes, all this. Why? you deserve it.🧶
November 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Advent packages are all done & most shipped!
15 minis, 6 medieval/Black history facts, 6 charms, knitting needle stoppers, stitch markers, earrings, crochet rings, pompoms, pattern ideas, beads, craft rings, a postcard, a write up on 2025's package inspiration. Yes, all this. Why? you deserve it.🧶
15 minis, 6 medieval/Black history facts, 6 charms, knitting needle stoppers, stitch markers, earrings, crochet rings, pompoms, pattern ideas, beads, craft rings, a postcard, a write up on 2025's package inspiration. Yes, all this. Why? you deserve it.🧶
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"Creating a pattern requires considering the entire work; each step has to fit with and work with all the others (..) This is especially true since AI can’t “test” the pattern after writing it, which is a big part of what humans do"
Yet another example of ChatGPT enshittification 🧶 🙄😒
Yet another example of ChatGPT enshittification 🧶 🙄😒
AI has been infiltrating knitting and crochet spaces, filling them with useless patterns. Here's why that's happening and what can be done about it.
www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/11/24/t...
#AI #Knitting #Crochet #FiberArt #Copyright
www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/11/24/t...
#AI #Knitting #Crochet #FiberArt #Copyright
The AI Invasion of Knitting and Crochet
AI has been infiltrating knitting and crochet spaces, filling them with useless patterns. Here’s why that’s happening and what can be done about it.
www.plagiarismtoday.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:39 PM
"Creating a pattern requires considering the entire work; each step has to fit with and work with all the others (..) This is especially true since AI can’t “test” the pattern after writing it, which is a big part of what humans do"
Yet another example of ChatGPT enshittification 🧶 🙄😒
Yet another example of ChatGPT enshittification 🧶 🙄😒
get to know your moots! List 10 random things you like:
🧶 color gradients
🌳 analog instruments in electronic music
💙🤍💛🧡 sunrise
🐝 listening to my wife practicing the piano again
🌺 being known 🐴
🧶 playing with yarn
🧮 turquoise+teal shades 💠
💠 graveyards
🧦 knitting math working
💜 fluidity, the river
🧶 color gradients
🌳 analog instruments in electronic music
💙🤍💛🧡 sunrise
🐝 listening to my wife practicing the piano again
🌺 being known 🐴
🧶 playing with yarn
🧮 turquoise+teal shades 💠
💠 graveyards
🧦 knitting math working
💜 fluidity, the river
I could do this all day. I like so many things.
get to know your moots! List 10 random things you like:
🧶beeswax for sewing
🧶single-ply merino
🧶not-too-sweet pastry cream
🧶quatrefoils
🧶aquarelle pencils
🧶anagrams
🧶the clear plastic on library books
🧶@emmagrant01
🧶the color of lime Jell-O
🧶purrs
get to know your moots! List 10 random things you like:
🧶beeswax for sewing
🧶single-ply merino
🧶not-too-sweet pastry cream
🧶quatrefoils
🧶aquarelle pencils
🧶anagrams
🧶the clear plastic on library books
🧶@emmagrant01
🧶the color of lime Jell-O
🧶purrs
get to know your moots! List 10 random things you like:
🍓frogs
🍓+ other creatures that are a bit gross
🍓really good audio design (ear tickles)
🍓creative substitutions
🍓baking
🍓singing in harmony
🍓non-parametric statistics
🍓tree smells
🍓helpfully finishing others' sentences
🍓seasonal fruit
🍓frogs
🍓+ other creatures that are a bit gross
🍓really good audio design (ear tickles)
🍓creative substitutions
🍓baking
🍓singing in harmony
🍓non-parametric statistics
🍓tree smells
🍓helpfully finishing others' sentences
🍓seasonal fruit
November 25, 2025 at 1:26 AM
get to know your moots! List 10 random things you like:
🧶 color gradients
🌳 analog instruments in electronic music
💙🤍💛🧡 sunrise
🐝 listening to my wife practicing the piano again
🌺 being known 🐴
🧶 playing with yarn
🧮 turquoise+teal shades 💠
💠 graveyards
🧦 knitting math working
💜 fluidity, the river
🧶 color gradients
🌳 analog instruments in electronic music
💙🤍💛🧡 sunrise
🐝 listening to my wife practicing the piano again
🌺 being known 🐴
🧶 playing with yarn
🧮 turquoise+teal shades 💠
💠 graveyards
🧦 knitting math working
💜 fluidity, the river
Reposted by Lior 🇺🇦
Reposted by Lior 🇺🇦
extremely niche reader’s advisory question for my library fam: YA with volleyball player main character???? besides Haikyu obv
November 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
extremely niche reader’s advisory question for my library fam: YA with volleyball player main character???? besides Haikyu obv
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Y’all @jimiknits.bsky.social is here now! 💃🧶
Jimi, @knitty.com has some awesome starter packs to connect with other knitters/designers.
Jimi, @knitty.com has some awesome starter packs to connect with other knitters/designers.
#ShowMeYourKnits fave indie designer? That is a *hard* one but I am gonna say JimiKnits for her multiple sizing colour-coded into the pattern, clarity of instruction, and the first sweater I managed to knit, like, and wear 💗🧶
www.jimiknits.com/about.html
www.jimiknits.com/about.html
About JimiKnits
About JimiKnits. JimiKnits! Knitwear designer for hand knitting patterns. Follow Jimi through her design experiences and creative challenges. Read articles on her blog and knit her latest designs.
www.jimiknits.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Y’all @jimiknits.bsky.social is here now! 💃🧶
Jimi, @knitty.com has some awesome starter packs to connect with other knitters/designers.
Jimi, @knitty.com has some awesome starter packs to connect with other knitters/designers.
Reposted by Lior 🇺🇦
Carole also bought my very first piece, The "ENOUGH". 100% of the proceeds have gone to MMIW organization @csvanw.bsky.social
I feel privileged to been able to shown my art and happy to see people enjoy it. It was truly surreal for me.
You can also peep @daanis book Bad Indians Book Club
🧡❤️
2/2
I feel privileged to been able to shown my art and happy to see people enjoy it. It was truly surreal for me.
You can also peep @daanis book Bad Indians Book Club
🧡❤️
2/2
November 23, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Carole also bought my very first piece, The "ENOUGH". 100% of the proceeds have gone to MMIW organization @csvanw.bsky.social
I feel privileged to been able to shown my art and happy to see people enjoy it. It was truly surreal for me.
You can also peep @daanis book Bad Indians Book Club
🧡❤️
2/2
I feel privileged to been able to shown my art and happy to see people enjoy it. It was truly surreal for me.
You can also peep @daanis book Bad Indians Book Club
🧡❤️
2/2
@libro.fm can you pleeeeeeeaaaaase fix your search engine both on site and in-app? It turns up unrelated garbage on 80% of the searches I do, to the point where author's books are not findable no matter the spelling, even though I know they are there 😢
November 24, 2025 at 12:14 PM
@libro.fm can you pleeeeeeeaaaaase fix your search engine both on site and in-app? It turns up unrelated garbage on 80% of the searches I do, to the point where author's books are not findable no matter the spelling, even though I know they are there 😢
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I guess it's about that time of the year where I should mention I've got a short christmas fairytale for you to read.
I wrote it back in highschool almost 20 yrs ago and found it by accident a few years back, gave it a basic edit, and here you go.
It's free on Ko-Fi and Itch!
ko-fi.com/s/5f3400a90d
I wrote it back in highschool almost 20 yrs ago and found it by accident a few years back, gave it a basic edit, and here you go.
It's free on Ko-Fi and Itch!
ko-fi.com/s/5f3400a90d
November 23, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I guess it's about that time of the year where I should mention I've got a short christmas fairytale for you to read.
I wrote it back in highschool almost 20 yrs ago and found it by accident a few years back, gave it a basic edit, and here you go.
It's free on Ko-Fi and Itch!
ko-fi.com/s/5f3400a90d
I wrote it back in highschool almost 20 yrs ago and found it by accident a few years back, gave it a basic edit, and here you go.
It's free on Ko-Fi and Itch!
ko-fi.com/s/5f3400a90d
Reposted by Lior 🇺🇦
Was gonna take some individual pics and actually get these up on ko-fi but the course of the evening darkness is upon us and all pictures turned out terrible.
Guess that'll be the project next weekend.
If anything catches your eye let me know.
Starting at $12 (incl shipping <3)
Guess that'll be the project next weekend.
If anything catches your eye let me know.
Starting at $12 (incl shipping <3)
November 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Was gonna take some individual pics and actually get these up on ko-fi but the course of the evening darkness is upon us and all pictures turned out terrible.
Guess that'll be the project next weekend.
If anything catches your eye let me know.
Starting at $12 (incl shipping <3)
Guess that'll be the project next weekend.
If anything catches your eye let me know.
Starting at $12 (incl shipping <3)
Reposted by Lior 🇺🇦
#ShowMeYourKnits fave indie designer? That is a *hard* one but I am gonna say JimiKnits for her multiple sizing colour-coded into the pattern, clarity of instruction, and the first sweater I managed to knit, like, and wear 💗🧶
www.jimiknits.com/about.html
www.jimiknits.com/about.html
About JimiKnits
About JimiKnits. JimiKnits! Knitwear designer for hand knitting patterns. Follow Jimi through her design experiences and creative challenges. Read articles on her blog and knit her latest designs.
www.jimiknits.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
#ShowMeYourKnits fave indie designer? That is a *hard* one but I am gonna say JimiKnits for her multiple sizing colour-coded into the pattern, clarity of instruction, and the first sweater I managed to knit, like, and wear 💗🧶
www.jimiknits.com/about.html
www.jimiknits.com/about.html
Btw, in case you wondered why so many arguments in journalism articles rest on thin ice:
The percentage of people who openly hate math in journalism is staggering.
They would sit around the table during lunch and make *jokes* about how bad they were at the simplest calculation
The percentage of people who openly hate math in journalism is staggering.
They would sit around the table during lunch and make *jokes* about how bad they were at the simplest calculation
Studied physics as a compromise between "hard,practical" and esoteric enough, was decent but low self esteem for science
Went into journalism: too fast, horrible mentality and math haters
Did another degree in history of science, loved it
Pandemic killed my PhD (and nearly me, too)
PTSD, exhaustion
Went into journalism: too fast, horrible mentality and math haters
Did another degree in history of science, loved it
Pandemic killed my PhD (and nearly me, too)
PTSD, exhaustion
What’s the lore behind choosing your career path ?
November 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Btw, in case you wondered why so many arguments in journalism articles rest on thin ice:
The percentage of people who openly hate math in journalism is staggering.
They would sit around the table during lunch and make *jokes* about how bad they were at the simplest calculation
The percentage of people who openly hate math in journalism is staggering.
They would sit around the table during lunch and make *jokes* about how bad they were at the simplest calculation
Studied physics as a compromise between "hard,practical" and esoteric enough, was decent but low self esteem for science
Went into journalism: too fast, horrible mentality and math haters
Did another degree in history of science, loved it
Pandemic killed my PhD (and nearly me, too)
PTSD, exhaustion
Went into journalism: too fast, horrible mentality and math haters
Did another degree in history of science, loved it
Pandemic killed my PhD (and nearly me, too)
PTSD, exhaustion
November 23, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Studied physics as a compromise between "hard,practical" and esoteric enough, was decent but low self esteem for science
Went into journalism: too fast, horrible mentality and math haters
Did another degree in history of science, loved it
Pandemic killed my PhD (and nearly me, too)
PTSD, exhaustion
Went into journalism: too fast, horrible mentality and math haters
Did another degree in history of science, loved it
Pandemic killed my PhD (and nearly me, too)
PTSD, exhaustion
Was haunted by some ghosts, so I called my enbyfriend, took a letter to the postbox and the glass bottles to the container. And then to the river, through starlight and frost. Thinking of the girl complaining to the Canterville ghost how she could only paint sad moonlight scenes in blue, grey,black
November 23, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Was haunted by some ghosts, so I called my enbyfriend, took a letter to the postbox and the glass bottles to the container. And then to the river, through starlight and frost. Thinking of the girl complaining to the Canterville ghost how she could only paint sad moonlight scenes in blue, grey,black
Or in other words: at some point you will have seen so much shit that you either die or adopt the serenity of the person who sits on the riverbanks and waits for the corpses of their enemies to drift by.
Because while the upper 2% may get away with everything, I believe the rest will drown in their
Because while the upper 2% may get away with everything, I believe the rest will drown in their
When people are mean to you, remember the universal truth that it comes from their own fears, not from a deficiency in you. So don’t react. Chin up. Wait for the reality of their own internal conflict to take care of it.
November 23, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Or in other words: at some point you will have seen so much shit that you either die or adopt the serenity of the person who sits on the riverbanks and waits for the corpses of their enemies to drift by.
Because while the upper 2% may get away with everything, I believe the rest will drown in their
Because while the upper 2% may get away with everything, I believe the rest will drown in their
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Hurray!
GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.
Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
Exotic Animal Photo Reference Repository
www.animal-photo-references.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Hurray!
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🧶 #KnittingForNiblings The second dinosaur pullover is blocked, and I love the way it turned out. I think 3 year old nibling will appreciate it, and I‘m looking forward to giving it to them in a few weeks. The pattern is by @aimeeshermakes.bsky.social #ShowMeYourKnits #KnitSky
November 22, 2025 at 3:27 PM
🧶 #KnittingForNiblings The second dinosaur pullover is blocked, and I love the way it turned out. I think 3 year old nibling will appreciate it, and I‘m looking forward to giving it to them in a few weeks. The pattern is by @aimeeshermakes.bsky.social #ShowMeYourKnits #KnitSky
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I could use some money and you could have some handmade warmth. Check out my store in ko- fi ?
All these hats are for 30$
ko-fi.com/chembarathi/...
For those in India,
chembarathicrafts.dm2buy.com
All these hats are for 30$
ko-fi.com/chembarathi/...
For those in India,
chembarathicrafts.dm2buy.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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you are taking parts of us into places never planned
you are going far away with pieces of our lives
it will be short, it will take all your breath
it will not be simple, it will become your will - Adrienne Rich
#Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀
you are going far away with pieces of our lives
it will be short, it will take all your breath
it will not be simple, it will become your will - Adrienne Rich
#Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀
November 22, 2025 at 9:09 AM
you are taking parts of us into places never planned
you are going far away with pieces of our lives
it will be short, it will take all your breath
it will not be simple, it will become your will - Adrienne Rich
#Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀
you are going far away with pieces of our lives
it will be short, it will take all your breath
it will not be simple, it will become your will - Adrienne Rich
#Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀
Reposted by Lior 🇺🇦
The problem with SNAP “fraud” and “abuse” is that we’ve made a system where when people ask for help with food we don’t just give it to them.
The problem is that you’ve labeled any use at all of it as “fraud” or “abuse.”
The problem is that you’ve labeled any use at all of it as “fraud” or “abuse.”
November 20, 2025 at 5:41 AM
The problem with SNAP “fraud” and “abuse” is that we’ve made a system where when people ask for help with food we don’t just give it to them.
The problem is that you’ve labeled any use at all of it as “fraud” or “abuse.”
The problem is that you’ve labeled any use at all of it as “fraud” or “abuse.”