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The Octopus Gallery

@octopusgallery.bsky.social

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Dogs, plants, quilts, nerd shit, fish. Call me up day or night: Free drinks and bad advice. Shop with famous cat toys and other sewn goods. https://ko-fi.com/octopusgallery/shop Call me Cyp

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The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 1h

Oh that’s the worst.

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The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 2h

God, I wish I could take vitamin D and get mine up. But whenever I do, my teeth start hurting (like a constant ache) and no one can figure out why. I feel so much better in the summer when I’m in a tank top 24/7 😭

The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 2h

If you’re in a lucky region, they may even have sewing machines you can use/borrow.

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The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 3h

There’s still time! Lots of resources online and more places are offering classes and workshops.

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The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 3h

Sigh. Whenever I get a skeet with some traction, the follow farmers come swarming again

The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 3h

You never know with landlord-brain

The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 3h

Today in peak ridiculousness, Penny is barking at a ladybug on the ceiling.

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The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 4h

At least it’s not poison? That’s about the only thing you can give him

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The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 4h

WTF

The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 4h

lol it’s been like a month, guys. You couldn’t keep the data safe for a month.

The Verge @theverge.com · 6h

Discord says 70,000 users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach

The ID pics had been submitted as part of age-related appeals.

buff.ly

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The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 5h

Holy smokes. That is SO MUCH!

The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 5h

I’m so glad my nightmares aren’t about real things because this would probably qualify.

Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 7h

They did give me a nightmare scenario addition:

"The larger the datacenter, the larger the battery backup it needs, which we also only have recently started addressing in the code."

And added "So, yeah, I guess we're waiting for a Triangle Shirtwaist Fire for datacenters."

The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 6h

I make these and they're very well reviewed by cats!

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Stuffed Bird Cat Toy - OctopusGallery's Ko-fi Shop

Stuffed bird cat toy. Made out of cotton with a cotton or wool filling depending on what I have available. I can add catnip as well. If you have col...

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The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 6h

My firefox has a lot of stuff on it like NoScript and occasionally I need to spend a bunch of time on LinkedIn or other sites that won't play nice with Firefox so that is quarantined into Edge. Sometimes I'll fire up Chrome to when I'm doing site building.

The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 6h

Only on my work computer but that balloon there sometimes depending on what I’m doing. And I usually have two different browsers open there.

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The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 6h

*cries in 100 page quilt pattern*

Definitely rec Elmer’s school glue over tape tho if you haven’t tried it. A lot easier on your needle

The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 6h

Me: one of the more obnoxious issue with dropping weight is that the dogs can pull me over now that I don’t outweigh what they can pull.

Me: oh sure, I’ll take a third large dog on my walk this afternoon!

(It was fine. She’s a very sweet puppy without the bad habits mine have)

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The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah, I’m a quilter only and I have to say that gluing together 100 sheets of paper for a FPP project s u c k e d and I would have really loved a preprinted version. The most recent fpp pattern I bought has the option for large scale printing thankfully.

The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 6h

I’m hoping they can survive through this bottleneck of retail consolidation and destruction. Direct to consumer is hard and expensive but it hopefully is on the table.

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The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 6h

Sizing is definitely one of the things they brought up in the article! I’m hoping they take a long look at the market and make good choices. And continuing to make the printers available for indie designers will help

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The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 7h

I started doing very minimalist lifting again and got dropped into the hungry and needing naps thing right away while my bg stays stubbornly high. I want a redo! And a baked potato!

The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 8h

Good news for sewists: the paper pattern company feared lost to bankruptcy has been saved as an independent company.

craftindustryalliance.org/sewing-patte...