Alyssa Long
@measuredandslow.bsky.social
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I make art, try to raise my kids to be Good Humans, and yell about disability. Maker of Santa Dinos and whatever else I feel like. She/they #art #knitting #3Dprinting 🧶 https://linktr.ee/measuredandslow
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measuredandslow.bsky.social
Since we can do pinned posts now, hi, I’m Alyssa and make things! You can find them in several places:

Shop: measuredandslow.studio/shop
Tree-Rex: measuredandslow.studio/treerex-samp...
Special orders/wholesale: measuredandslow.studio/contact-me-1
Three 3D printed dragons laying on also 3D printed fainting couches, lined up on an old porch railing A blue crocheted dinosaur, in the same shade as Cookie Monster, holding an also crocheted chocolate chip cookie A loom woven tapestry made to look like notebook paper, hanging from a wooden dowel covered in handdyed rainbow yarn. The words “you are enough” are embroidered in rainbow yarn on the 4th line down A crocheted fox with a soft, unstuffed body and knotted limbs. It is being held up by a white hand
measuredandslow.bsky.social
Yeah this is the large size!
measuredandslow.bsky.social
Also it’s hard to tell from the picture but it’s a HUGE pillow 😂
A large green knit pillow shaped like a tree, sitting on a bright orange office chair
measuredandslow.bsky.social
Hey hey if you got the Knit Picks email today, I knit that pillow! It was a really quick knit and I think it would look so CUTE with some little pompoms on the branches ☺️. Also this is the reason I was making Christmas stuff last June that I couldn’t show you lol 🧶 #knitting
A screenshot of an email from Knit Picks featuring a dark green pillow shaped like a tree.
measuredandslow.bsky.social
I absolutely will lol! This month’s presentation is on tablet weaving and next month’s is on Turkish Hand Weaving, I’m really excited for both. There’s also something called Scandinavian Stars on that one, which I don’t know anything about and that’s also fun ☺️
measuredandslow.bsky.social
(Also yeah it’s the Seattle Weaving Guild! I don’t have any local weaving friends so I decided to go make some lol)
measuredandslow.bsky.social
Yeah I think the board approval thing is more of a formality than anything and I’m really excited about the guest lectures! I know not everyone likes daytime meetings but it works really well for me with the kids in school. They’ve been around for a LONG time so I get the holdover stuff ☺️
measuredandslow.bsky.social
My impression is that it’s more of a formality? They do ask you a lot of questions on the application, but I don’t know how strict they are. Also, meetings are open to the public so I bet you could go and maybe ask around to see if someone would come do a lesson!
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drjbw.bsky.social
I love this idea, but hear me out.

What if one billionaire or millionaire in a station’s market just donated even a small part of their annual income? No matching, no drive, just doing the right thing.

We have so, so much wealth in this country, yet basic services like PBS are folding.

Shameful.
pbsnews.org
Thirty paintings created by the bushy-haired, soft-spoken Bob Ross will soon be up for auction to defray the costs of programming for small and rural public television stations suffering under cuts in federal funding. https://to.pbs.org/4nEQMrw
Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal funding cuts
All profits will help public TV stations with licensing fees for popular programs that include "The Best of Joy of Painting" and "America's Test Kitchen."
www.pbs.org
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baddestmamajama.bsky.social
CLUE is, in many ways, one of our best games about how we’d all like any excuse to wander around other people’s houses checking for weird shit.
measuredandslow.bsky.social
Yay! It’s the only thing my oldest ate for dinner. There was also soup, but he just ate a huge piece of bread 😂
measuredandslow.bsky.social
Weaving is full of neurodivergent people for whom weaving is an intense special interest, in my experience 😂. Which is saying something because textiles as a whole REALLY draw in the ND crowd lol
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neongrey.bsky.social
all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.
measuredandslow.bsky.social
Oh yeah the quilt guild is already so good for that, I cannot wait for weaving gossip lol
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rdotspoon.bsky.social
not directing this at Greg but this is what BLM was all about. trying to explain to people that the guns they aim at Black folks just minding their own business will be turned on everyone if we dont course correct and here we are.
gregpak.net
On the verge of a lot of potential Kent State situations out there. Be careful, friends.
measuredandslow.bsky.social
Mr Measured: “…are you joining a guild or the Free Masons??”

I guess we’ll find out 😂
measuredandslow.bsky.social
I decided to join the weaving guild and the vibe is SO different than the modern quilt guild lol. The quilt guild was basically like “Hey do you like quilts? Great!” and the weaving guild was like “Don’t worry, we stopped requiring a sponsor and a weaving sample, you just need board approval!”
measuredandslow.bsky.social
Mama got her nails did so it’s time to demand those good good nose scrunchies
measuredandslow.bsky.social
The kids cheered so loud when he took the shirt off to show the 62 one 😂
measuredandslow.bsky.social
Oldest child, who has been to one (1) baseball game: “Tigers are very nice and I like your mascot but I think you should lose. You seem nice except for the spitting so I would high five you, but I would like you to cry to your mamas.”

Lmao that’s actually kind of devastating trash talk tbh 😂😭
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dlknowles.bsky.social
Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...
Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children
Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.
southsideweekly.com
measuredandslow.bsky.social
Decided it was time for fricken’ bats (and spiderwebs). I accidentally put more black than I was intending but I think it still works 🦇🕸️
A white person’s hand curled to show a manicure that is black on the bottom fading to purple on top, with an overlay of black bats or spiderwebs
measuredandslow.bsky.social
I think I did okay! I didn’t have instant yeast so o just used a bit more regular and did longer rises (Reddit said it was fine lol) and it tastes pretty good!