snowgall
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Linguist specializing in ASL and syntax. Knitter of doilies. Art editor for chestnutreview.bsky.social
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· Dec 8
Herbert Niebling - Wikipedia
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Figured I should make a thread collecting my doily posts.
These are all knit by me, mostly from designs by Herbert Niebling, a prolific designer from the early 20th century.
Check out his Wikipedia page (which I also created!) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert...
#knitting #lace #doily #fiberarts
These are all knit by me, mostly from designs by Herbert Niebling, a prolific designer from the early 20th century.
Check out his Wikipedia page (which I also created!) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert...
#knitting #lace #doily #fiberarts
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Yay! Yay! Yay! Double-Yay!! Can’t wait for this year’s #ArtAdventCalendar
Artists & Art lovers!
Time to get geared up for the biggest art event of the year on Bluesky!
Last year we had close to 1500 artists from 25 countries posting original work daily from December 1-24
Time to get geared up for the biggest art event of the year on Bluesky!
Last year we had close to 1500 artists from 25 countries posting original work daily from December 1-24
#ArtAdventCalendar
In its 11th year, #artadventcalendar participants post an original piece of art from Dec 1-24. Paintings, drawings, sculpture, textiles, beading, photography. If it’s art and it beautifies th…
earthskyart.ca
November 27, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Yay! Yay! Yay! Double-Yay!! Can’t wait for this year’s #ArtAdventCalendar
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Do yall wanna hear a crazy Thanksgiving story? I went to this lady’s restaurant, helped her take a bunch of trash to the dump, and ended up getting arrested for littering. But it actually kept me from getting sent overseas to die in a pointless war.
November 27, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Do yall wanna hear a crazy Thanksgiving story? I went to this lady’s restaurant, helped her take a bunch of trash to the dump, and ended up getting arrested for littering. But it actually kept me from getting sent overseas to die in a pointless war.
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AND supporting your local library is super important! If you actually DO want books to be available to everyone, the library *already exists* and is staffed by the people who are deep in the trenches of fighting censorship! Supporting the library is doing actual good for your community!
TAPS SCREEN
For like the zillionth time: Libraries are FREE for you, but WE still get compensated for our work!!
For like the zillionth time: Libraries are FREE for you, but WE still get compensated for our work!!
Just saw someone claim that authors who want to be paid for their work are "class traitors" because we "only let the wealthy" read our books, and I think I need to go into the woods to scream into the night for a bit.
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
November 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
AND supporting your local library is super important! If you actually DO want books to be available to everyone, the library *already exists* and is staffed by the people who are deep in the trenches of fighting censorship! Supporting the library is doing actual good for your community!
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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We're getting so close! This thread and the link can help you decide if you want to participate (the answer is yes) It's an all skill levels, unthemed, relaxed, fun & easy to spend the dark days of winter.
Artists & Art lovers!
Time to get geared up for the biggest art event of the year on Bluesky!
Last year we had close to 1500 artists from 25 countries posting original work daily from December 1-24
Time to get geared up for the biggest art event of the year on Bluesky!
Last year we had close to 1500 artists from 25 countries posting original work daily from December 1-24
#ArtAdventCalendar
In its 11th year, #artadventcalendar participants post an original piece of art from Dec 1-24. Paintings, drawings, sculpture, textiles, beading, photography. If it’s art and it beautifies th…
earthskyart.ca
November 25, 2025 at 4:25 PM
We're getting so close! This thread and the link can help you decide if you want to participate (the answer is yes) It's an all skill levels, unthemed, relaxed, fun & easy to spend the dark days of winter.
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I’m just going to block anyone attempting to justify or excuse pirating books. Times are hard, yes, but absolutely NO ONE needs to steal books. Libraries exist. There are umpteen works legitimately in the public domain. You don’t need to take income from authors trying to scrape a living.
November 24, 2025 at 11:25 AM
I’m just going to block anyone attempting to justify or excuse pirating books. Times are hard, yes, but absolutely NO ONE needs to steal books. Libraries exist. There are umpteen works legitimately in the public domain. You don’t need to take income from authors trying to scrape a living.
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This is how it should be. Anyone downloading romance from a pirate site should be actively terrified of getting a massive amount of trauma delivered straight to the heart.
November 24, 2025 at 8:31 AM
This is how it should be. Anyone downloading romance from a pirate site should be actively terrified of getting a massive amount of trauma delivered straight to the heart.
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There’s a reason boring-wozniak is disallowed
November 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
There’s a reason boring-wozniak is disallowed
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Meanwhile in an alternate universe….
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November 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Meanwhile in an alternate universe….
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YOU WHAT
There was a brief but weird trend at my high school of girls wearing lizards as earrings. Like. Live, unharmed, wild lizards. You just catch one and pick it up and wave a finger a bit and then hold it to your earlobe and they’ll bite and dangle all day. I do not recommend this but. it was a thing
The alligator lizard promptly bit the shit out of my finger.
November 23, 2025 at 8:54 PM
YOU WHAT
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Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
One of the bragging rights that the US ed system had in the 20th century is that we didn't have education tracks. Essentially, any kid could go to a CC or state school & major in whatever they wanted to (obviously an oversimplification). I fear this aspect of the American dream is dying.
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
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Wititji by Maggie Napangardi Watson at the National Gallery of Art's big new exhibition of Australian Indigenous art
November 22, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Wititji by Maggie Napangardi Watson at the National Gallery of Art's big new exhibition of Australian Indigenous art
Fuck this guy in particular, and fuck everyone who continued to enable this known predator for years.
9/ This time, LaBore went to the church’s preacher, Daryl Bruckelmyer.
According to her notes, Bruckelmyer said the church encourages abuse victims to go to police, but he told her he believed it was “on them to do that.”
According to her notes, Bruckelmyer said the church encourages abuse victims to go to police, but he told her he believed it was “on them to do that.”
November 21, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Fuck this guy in particular, and fuck everyone who continued to enable this known predator for years.
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2/ Clint Massie’s behavior was an open secret in the Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community of Duluth, Minnesota. Church leaders even sent him to a sex offender specialist.
But none of the preachers reported him to the police.
But none of the preachers reported him to the police.
Young Girls Were Sexually Abused by a Church Member. They Were Told to Forgive and Forget.
In Minnesota, leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community enabled a child abuser by telling his victims that once the sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never...
www.propublica.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:06 AM
2/ Clint Massie’s behavior was an open secret in the Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community of Duluth, Minnesota. Church leaders even sent him to a sex offender specialist.
But none of the preachers reported him to the police.
But none of the preachers reported him to the police.
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NC is only a red state through *extensive* gerrymandering, and the left is built different down here
we don't play nice because we can't fucking afford to
the people of NC are *fed up* with this shit, and ICE just walked right into the middle of it and thought they'd get a hero's welcome
fuck ICE
we don't play nice because we can't fucking afford to
the people of NC are *fed up* with this shit, and ICE just walked right into the middle of it and thought they'd get a hero's welcome
fuck ICE
November 20, 2025 at 6:33 AM
NC is only a red state through *extensive* gerrymandering, and the left is built different down here
we don't play nice because we can't fucking afford to
the people of NC are *fed up* with this shit, and ICE just walked right into the middle of it and thought they'd get a hero's welcome
fuck ICE
we don't play nice because we can't fucking afford to
the people of NC are *fed up* with this shit, and ICE just walked right into the middle of it and thought they'd get a hero's welcome
fuck ICE
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goddamn, I am so proud of North Carolina's response to ICE this week
people here are NOT having this shit, and I have never been so proud of being a lifelong North Carolinian
30,000 kids skipping school to protest, crowds chasing ICE thru the woods, slashing whole parking lots of tires on ICE cars
people here are NOT having this shit, and I have never been so proud of being a lifelong North Carolinian
30,000 kids skipping school to protest, crowds chasing ICE thru the woods, slashing whole parking lots of tires on ICE cars
November 20, 2025 at 6:09 AM
goddamn, I am so proud of North Carolina's response to ICE this week
people here are NOT having this shit, and I have never been so proud of being a lifelong North Carolinian
30,000 kids skipping school to protest, crowds chasing ICE thru the woods, slashing whole parking lots of tires on ICE cars
people here are NOT having this shit, and I have never been so proud of being a lifelong North Carolinian
30,000 kids skipping school to protest, crowds chasing ICE thru the woods, slashing whole parking lots of tires on ICE cars
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It's a good thing President Obama killed Osama Bin Laden because otherwise Trump would be inviting him to the White House for some goddamn hors d'oeuvres
November 19, 2025 at 11:49 PM
It's a good thing President Obama killed Osama Bin Laden because otherwise Trump would be inviting him to the White House for some goddamn hors d'oeuvres
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No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.
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Jeffrey Epstein can rot in hell.
And I’m going to make sure he has no peace while he is there.
And I’m going to make sure he has no peace while he is there.
November 19, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Jeffrey Epstein can rot in hell.
And I’m going to make sure he has no peace while he is there.
And I’m going to make sure he has no peace while he is there.
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This is a really interesting article about a horrifying distortion of sign language happening in the UK, and which its creators are now trying to export to other countries and their sign languages
Learn actual sign languages from Deaf people, not from hearing people making their own weird versions!
Learn actual sign languages from Deaf people, not from hearing people making their own weird versions!
I will not fight with people on Threads about Makaton. I will not fight with people on Threads about Makaton. I will not thebaffler.com/outbursts/si...
Signed Away | Sara Nović
The hearing world continues to pillage and caricature the deaf community—most recently with the proprietary, sign-based system Makaton.
thebaffler.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:18 PM
This is a really interesting article about a horrifying distortion of sign language happening in the UK, and which its creators are now trying to export to other countries and their sign languages
Learn actual sign languages from Deaf people, not from hearing people making their own weird versions!
Learn actual sign languages from Deaf people, not from hearing people making their own weird versions!
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yup, this is a point I keep making - people keep being like 'if we provide better parental and family support it will raise birthrates' and it just doesn't! nor do coercive methods or propaganda, China's biggest single-year fall came when they were pushing natalist stuff hardest.
I've talked about this before, but in Ireland our biggest sustained bump in birthrates since the 70s came in the wake of the Great Recession, with another smaller one in 2020.
The dynamics governing falling TFRs are well understood, but the causes of the reverse are beyond rational comprehension.
The dynamics governing falling TFRs are well understood, but the causes of the reverse are beyond rational comprehension.
November 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM
yup, this is a point I keep making - people keep being like 'if we provide better parental and family support it will raise birthrates' and it just doesn't! nor do coercive methods or propaganda, China's biggest single-year fall came when they were pushing natalist stuff hardest.
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The #ArtAdventCalendar is one of my favourite hashtags--beautiful, creative, rich, diverse!
Though I participated for several years on the former socials, this will be my first go at it on Bluesky. Mostly my photography; sketches and watercolour if I'm feeling particularly brave.
Can't wait!
Though I participated for several years on the former socials, this will be my first go at it on Bluesky. Mostly my photography; sketches and watercolour if I'm feeling particularly brave.
Can't wait!
Artists & Art lovers!
Time to get geared up for the biggest art event of the year on Bluesky!
Last year we had close to 1500 artists from 25 countries posting original work daily from December 1-24
Time to get geared up for the biggest art event of the year on Bluesky!
Last year we had close to 1500 artists from 25 countries posting original work daily from December 1-24
#ArtAdventCalendar
In its 11th year, #artadventcalendar participants post an original piece of art from Dec 1-24. Paintings, drawings, sculpture, textiles, beading, photography. If it’s art and it beautifies th…
earthskyart.ca
November 19, 2025 at 12:14 AM
The #ArtAdventCalendar is one of my favourite hashtags--beautiful, creative, rich, diverse!
Though I participated for several years on the former socials, this will be my first go at it on Bluesky. Mostly my photography; sketches and watercolour if I'm feeling particularly brave.
Can't wait!
Though I participated for several years on the former socials, this will be my first go at it on Bluesky. Mostly my photography; sketches and watercolour if I'm feeling particularly brave.
Can't wait!