Eljay/knitmeapony
@knitmeapony.com
Maker, builder, artist, gamer, and all around raconteur.
Alt text for profile pic: me, a fat white person with short silver hair and big turquoise framed glasses.
Alt text for profile pic: me, a fat white person with short silver hair and big turquoise framed glasses.
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Eljay/knitmeapony
@knitmeapony.com
· Jan 21
A pinned thread of creativity and joy so I have a place to go back to if I start doom scrolling.
Now that I've settled into my short hair and gone silver for a while, time to update the profile pic.
December 3, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Now that I've settled into my short hair and gone silver for a while, time to update the profile pic.
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Melville would’ve had an exceptionally chaotic LiveJournal
Charles Darwin would have had a Tumblr
December 3, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Melville would’ve had an exceptionally chaotic LiveJournal
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WE GOTTA CHECK THE CHEESE WITH MAGNETS NOW???? 🧲🧀😮💨
They don't care if we live or die.
Great Lakes Cheese Co.'s shredded cheese sold at major retailers, including Target, Walmart, and Aldi, has been recalled in 31 states and Puerto Rico.
The cheese was recalled on Oct. 3 for containing metal fragments. On Dec. 2, the FDA updated the risk level. 🌱
Great Lakes Cheese Co.'s shredded cheese sold at major retailers, including Target, Walmart, and Aldi, has been recalled in 31 states and Puerto Rico.
The cheese was recalled on Oct. 3 for containing metal fragments. On Dec. 2, the FDA updated the risk level. 🌱
FDA Announces Shredded Cheese Recall in 31 States Over Metal Fragments
A recall has been initiated for shredded cheese sold at major retailers—including Walmart, Target, and Aldi—due to pieces of metal, which can cause internal injuries.
www.health.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:27 PM
WE GOTTA CHECK THE CHEESE WITH MAGNETS NOW???? 🧲🧀😮💨
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If you're buying gifts for spirited 12 year olds who have read most of the middle grade graphic novel canon, can I recommend my book The Legend of Auntie Po? It's multi-awarded, and well reviewed, but hasn't entirely found its commercial footing.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/601780...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/601780...
The Legend of Auntie Po by Shing Yin Khor: 9780525554882 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST Part historical fiction, part fable, and 100 percent adventure. Thirteen-year-old Mei reimagines the myths of Paul Bunyan as starring a Chinese heroine while she works ...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:33 PM
If you're buying gifts for spirited 12 year olds who have read most of the middle grade graphic novel canon, can I recommend my book The Legend of Auntie Po? It's multi-awarded, and well reviewed, but hasn't entirely found its commercial footing.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/601780...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/601780...
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This is called Universal Design, where something is designed technically to help people with disabilities but ends up helping a whole bunch of other people too.
Curb cuts is perhaps the most famous example of this - it's for people in wheelchairs, but everyone uses them.
Curb cuts is perhaps the most famous example of this - it's for people in wheelchairs, but everyone uses them.
This is great. I think the whole idea of accommodation should rightly be an invitation to reject an ableist, eugenicist approach to the world and instead ask "What if we want to give *everyone* the chance to do their best?"
December 3, 2025 at 4:52 PM
This is called Universal Design, where something is designed technically to help people with disabilities but ends up helping a whole bunch of other people too.
Curb cuts is perhaps the most famous example of this - it's for people in wheelchairs, but everyone uses them.
Curb cuts is perhaps the most famous example of this - it's for people in wheelchairs, but everyone uses them.
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This is one of those things that I think is quietly important – when these people are talking shit about cities, Portland or Minneapolis or New York or Charlotte or wherever, you have to loudly say, “no, fuck you, you’re lying, that town and its people whip ass and you’re the asshole”
“I walk around Portland, and I go, ‘Fuck you, assholes. Portland is fine.’” - John Darnielle, @themountaingoats.bsky.social. We're proud to claim you as a Portlander, sir.
The Mountain Goats Ascend to Revolution Hall
Mountain Goats frontman John Darnielle discusses musicals, his new album, and why he keeps coming home to Portland.
www.wweek.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This is one of those things that I think is quietly important – when these people are talking shit about cities, Portland or Minneapolis or New York or Charlotte or wherever, you have to loudly say, “no, fuck you, you’re lying, that town and its people whip ass and you’re the asshole”
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EARLY CAT: What that?
HUMAN: A fish. You can eat them.
EARLY CAT: Mine now. I need it. I need the fish. Without fish I die. Gimmie fish.
HUMAN: But you're from the desert. How can you possibly-
EARLY CAT: WOE. WOE FOR KITTY. HUMAN INFLICTS A THOUSAND WOES ON-
HUMAN: God. Fine. Have it.
HUMAN: A fish. You can eat them.
EARLY CAT: Mine now. I need it. I need the fish. Without fish I die. Gimmie fish.
HUMAN: But you're from the desert. How can you possibly-
EARLY CAT: WOE. WOE FOR KITTY. HUMAN INFLICTS A THOUSAND WOES ON-
HUMAN: God. Fine. Have it.
December 3, 2025 at 9:57 AM
EARLY CAT: What that?
HUMAN: A fish. You can eat them.
EARLY CAT: Mine now. I need it. I need the fish. Without fish I die. Gimmie fish.
HUMAN: But you're from the desert. How can you possibly-
EARLY CAT: WOE. WOE FOR KITTY. HUMAN INFLICTS A THOUSAND WOES ON-
HUMAN: God. Fine. Have it.
HUMAN: A fish. You can eat them.
EARLY CAT: Mine now. I need it. I need the fish. Without fish I die. Gimmie fish.
HUMAN: But you're from the desert. How can you possibly-
EARLY CAT: WOE. WOE FOR KITTY. HUMAN INFLICTS A THOUSAND WOES ON-
HUMAN: God. Fine. Have it.
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There are many songs about this city, but Tom Waits wrote one of the best, simply titled "Chicago." Out today, Mavis Staples' new album kicks off with her fantastic version of the song. I'm so glad to hear this quintessential Chicago singer putting her own stamp on it.
Chicago
YouTube video by Mavis Staples - Topic
youtu.be
November 7, 2025 at 7:26 PM
There are many songs about this city, but Tom Waits wrote one of the best, simply titled "Chicago." Out today, Mavis Staples' new album kicks off with her fantastic version of the song. I'm so glad to hear this quintessential Chicago singer putting her own stamp on it.
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The thing about the panic over disability accommodations in education is that they're often intentional hit pieces on disabled students deliberately crafted to be conclusory.
December 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The thing about the panic over disability accommodations in education is that they're often intentional hit pieces on disabled students deliberately crafted to be conclusory.
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America is a country that will test UBI hundreds of times, get the same radically positive results each time, and still look at it askance, but will also put untested robotaxis on the road because a billionaire threw a shit fit.
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
December 3, 2025 at 6:27 AM
America is a country that will test UBI hundreds of times, get the same radically positive results each time, and still look at it askance, but will also put untested robotaxis on the road because a billionaire threw a shit fit.
At about two and a half hours now with a car alarm going off outside my house. It's a largely unmarked white van with ladders on top, so it's probably someone's livelihood and I don't want to call the cops but I am going a little crazy.
December 3, 2025 at 5:50 AM
At about two and a half hours now with a car alarm going off outside my house. It's a largely unmarked white van with ladders on top, so it's probably someone's livelihood and I don't want to call the cops but I am going a little crazy.
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Y'all... the very well-funded shelter an hour away currently has $16,290 in donations right now, and my shelter has: $325.
If there is any way to convince you to help out an underdog, please, please :-) I'll reward you with cute animal pictures forever.
www.valleygivingguide.org/organization...
If there is any way to convince you to help out an underdog, please, please :-) I'll reward you with cute animal pictures forever.
www.valleygivingguide.org/organization...
Support PAWS (Pendleton Animal Welfare Shelter) | Valley Giving Guide
I’m ready to support PAWS (Pendleton Animal Welfare Shelter) on December 2, 2025 during Valley Giving Guide .
Learn more about PAWS (Pendleton Animal Welfare Shelter) and all the other organizatio...
www.valleygivingguide.org
December 2, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Y'all... the very well-funded shelter an hour away currently has $16,290 in donations right now, and my shelter has: $325.
If there is any way to convince you to help out an underdog, please, please :-) I'll reward you with cute animal pictures forever.
www.valleygivingguide.org/organization...
If there is any way to convince you to help out an underdog, please, please :-) I'll reward you with cute animal pictures forever.
www.valleygivingguide.org/organization...
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idk how to get through to people on this. they literally refuse to listen. even the ones who claim to be radical and revolutionary.
Hi friends.
As your hottie friend doing work on data centers, I am BEGGING you to stop using AI.
It is not worth the increase in your electricity bills.
the increase in water bills
the emergency room visits
the droughts
the degradation of ecosystems
the fatalities
the racism
As your hottie friend doing work on data centers, I am BEGGING you to stop using AI.
It is not worth the increase in your electricity bills.
the increase in water bills
the emergency room visits
the droughts
the degradation of ecosystems
the fatalities
the racism
a man is laying on a bed with a glass of water in his hand and looking up at the camera .
ALT: a man is laying on a bed with a glass of water in his hand and looking up at the camera .
media.tenor.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:36 AM
idk how to get through to people on this. they literally refuse to listen. even the ones who claim to be radical and revolutionary.
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She shouldn't have to keep doing this by herself. She is supposedly a member of a political party and every single one of her *colleagues* should be BLASTING the fascist in chief. ALL OF THEM. Where is the solidarity???
Congresswoman Omar calls Trump's comments about her 'creepy' after the US president launches into an anti-Somali tirade.
Ilhan Omar denounces Donald Trump for calling Somali immigrants ‘garbage’
Congresswoman Omar calls Trump's comments about her 'creepy' after the US president launches into an anti-Somali tirade.
bit.ly
December 3, 2025 at 12:34 AM
She shouldn't have to keep doing this by herself. She is supposedly a member of a political party and every single one of her *colleagues* should be BLASTING the fascist in chief. ALL OF THEM. Where is the solidarity???
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*taps mic* Listen it seems some of you have not experienced Devil Wears Prada femslash and I am here to fix that for you all now, starting with Telanu's The X Ingredient, a fic so hot it melted all my objections to workplace sexual harassment archiveofourown.org/works/779927
The X Ingredient - Telanu - The Devil Wears Prada (2006) [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
archiveofourown.org
December 3, 2025 at 12:18 AM
*taps mic* Listen it seems some of you have not experienced Devil Wears Prada femslash and I am here to fix that for you all now, starting with Telanu's The X Ingredient, a fic so hot it melted all my objections to workplace sexual harassment archiveofourown.org/works/779927
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Please donate to a cause you believe in today if you can. If you can't, just be your awesome-kind-wonderful self today and every day because that also makes a difference.
a man singing into a microphone with the words " you are awesome " written above him
ALT: a man singing into a microphone with the words " you are awesome " written above him
media.tenor.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Please donate to a cause you believe in today if you can. If you can't, just be your awesome-kind-wonderful self today and every day because that also makes a difference.
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It’s like a man telling you you didn’t smile enough but via a machine and a college application
December 2, 2025 at 5:24 PM
It’s like a man telling you you didn’t smile enough but via a machine and a college application
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Labour has completely adopted right-wing framing on this and they set new unpopularity records seemingly every week, maybe some lessons there
i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
December 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Labour has completely adopted right-wing framing on this and they set new unpopularity records seemingly every week, maybe some lessons there
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CALLOUT: I am looking to interview individuals who have sought health care at crisis pregnancy centers, whether intentionally or unintentionally, and want to talk about their experience. The center can be located anywhere. If you or someone you know might be interested, please email or send me a DM.
December 1, 2025 at 8:19 PM
CALLOUT: I am looking to interview individuals who have sought health care at crisis pregnancy centers, whether intentionally or unintentionally, and want to talk about their experience. The center can be located anywhere. If you or someone you know might be interested, please email or send me a DM.
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FYI as you head into the holiday season:
Shopify is a Canadian company, but its CEO Tobi Lütke is Maple MAGA in both words & monetary support (under the guise of “free speech” & “open commerce”).
Shopify is a Canadian company, but its CEO Tobi Lütke is Maple MAGA in both words & monetary support (under the guise of “free speech” & “open commerce”).
Really beginning to hate Shopify, they are doing a lot to make shopping shittier lately
December 2, 2025 at 2:30 AM
FYI as you head into the holiday season:
Shopify is a Canadian company, but its CEO Tobi Lütke is Maple MAGA in both words & monetary support (under the guise of “free speech” & “open commerce”).
Shopify is a Canadian company, but its CEO Tobi Lütke is Maple MAGA in both words & monetary support (under the guise of “free speech” & “open commerce”).
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Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
I'm so tired of measles.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
Gallatin Co. reports 2nd measles case, warns of exposure sites nbcmontana.com/news/local/g...
December 2, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
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the batshit American government is forcing children’s book publishers to put out the absolute wildest statements
December 2, 2025 at 4:45 AM
the batshit American government is forcing children’s book publishers to put out the absolute wildest statements
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Well, this is yet another example of why the GOP is so positively certain that there is rampant voter fraud despite all evidence to the contrary. They’re buddies with the ones doing it!
REPUBLICAN MAYOR IN KANSAS FACING DEPORTATION OVER VOTER FRAUD
Joe Ceballos, a longtime Republican and small-town mayor in Kansas, is facing felony voter fraud charges and possible deportation from the presidential administration he voted for.
Full story: https://bit.ly/4iwEwYj
Joe Ceballos, a longtime Republican and small-town mayor in Kansas, is facing felony voter fraud charges and possible deportation from the presidential administration he voted for.
Full story: https://bit.ly/4iwEwYj
December 2, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Well, this is yet another example of why the GOP is so positively certain that there is rampant voter fraud despite all evidence to the contrary. They’re buddies with the ones doing it!