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qarylla.bsky.social
Seanna Lea LoBue (she/they)
@qarylla.bsky.social
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Liberal computer programmer working in the automation utility space. Runner, knitter, baker, shitposter. She/her/they/them.
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Strawberry Machine Cake #starfinder

Because we go all in on the silly.
A 6-inch round multilayer cake with gray shiny fondant gears and fresh strawberry gears. The cake says S M C, because it was too small to write Strawberry Machine Cake. A 6-inch round multilayer cake with gray shiny fondant gears and fresh strawberry gears. The cake says S M C, because it was too small to write Strawberry Machine Cake. Is it perfect? Nope, but I learned some more today (and I'm the only one in the group who cares about perfection).
November 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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I feel like @kateatherley.bsky.social would be proud of me.

I stifled the urge to weave in the ends, washed my knitting and patted and lightly pinned it to shape to dry and then wove in my ends.

I think the areas where I put a new skein in for a stripe look better (more filled in).
A white woman with purple hair trying to take a bathroom selfie in the mirror. No skills there. She is wearing a pair of black pants and a black sweater with thin purple-pink stripes. The point of the picture is the striped sweater.
October 27, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Kid's birthday party cake. White velvet with strawberry and lemon. Filled with a strawberry whipped cream and topped with a chocolate strawberry frosting.
Close up of a 2-tiered chocolate-frosted cake with a goofy tuxedo cat made of fondant.
October 18, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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I decided I wanted to feel pretty this morning, so I put on my new earrings from @peculiarityshop.bsky.social.

I have gotten compliments already and they aren't too heavy given I haven't regularly worn jewelry in 12+ years!
A white femme with purple and brown hair and an undercut wearing a black t-shirt and a fair of skull and rose earrings.
October 17, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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If you see this, quote post with your favorite Pokémon (Wrong answers only).
The I Voted sticker that won a sticker design contest in Ulster County New York. The design is a spider like creature with a human head perched atop 6 legs in a rainbow assortment of colors. It is spectacular.
October 15, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Happy Birthday to my medium human!

Lemon cake with lemon curd layer.
A blue multi-layered cake with a lemon-shaped figured in an orangy yellow fondant with a little smile and bright black eyes. Birthday cake with the stuffy (model) sitting on the counter next to the cake.
September 30, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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My favorite is this one. Sadly my county only gives out boring stickers.

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A purple and red humanoid head with multicolored teeth sits atop 6 greenish blue legs (cyan, teal, who knows). It says I voted in the upper right. It is definitely not your everyday patriotic I voted sticker.
September 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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I used to bake a ton before the everything (waving hands). Yours are terrific! I kind of miss it!
A cake decorated in purple icing, little colored stars and star-shaped sugar cookies. The two largest cookies have melted candy windowpanes in blue. The cake is on a board on a turnstile and has a bit of frosting mess.
September 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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L'image premiere, maintenant, aven alt text.

(My French isn't good enough to explain how to do it.)
Quand j'étais petite, on me disait que les Québécois étaient un peuple accueillant, bon vivant, ouvert à l'autre. En ce moment, nos politiciens et autres grognons dans les médias essaient de me convaincre que le stéréotype du Québécois bon vivant, c'était du vent. Qu'on n'est pas différents de nos voisins du Sud, en fait. Qu'on est nous aussi toujours méfiants, toujours fâchés, toujours divisés. Je ne les crois pas. Je sais que les Québécois ouverts, accueillants et bon vivants sont encore nombreux malgré les efforts des éternels grognons. En tout cas, moi, j'aime Kim Thúy et l'immigration, j'aime notre culture que je trouve bien vivante et pétillante, j'aime découvrir celle des autres, et je suis entourée de Québécoises et de Québécois bon vivants et accueillants comme moi. Je "fitte" avec le stéréotype. Et toi?
September 18, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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I used to go to a local pond with the kid until we were told it was only for their HOA. This is my favorite picture.
A white duck with a yellow beak sits in the grass. The picture is mostly beak, because the duck is trying to eat the phone taking the picture.
September 17, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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I had about 10 minutes of high blood pressure excitement that I did not want today.

My cable felt weird during church and it turned out it was hanging by a thread. It eventually broke off and started dropping stitches from my sweater. Thankfully all fixed now.
A Knit Picks interchangeable cable with an end broken off. The frustrated mutterings of the cable owner are not visible in the photo, but are present.
August 31, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Challenge: post your last photo taken in DC to show what a hell hole it is.
This is a giant wheel for some plane at the air and space museum (shared over pictures with my kid in them). If I was in a modern game, I would put my Baba Yaga hut on this set of wheels.
August 12, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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We went on vacation and our kitty spent the few days at a kitty kennel. I used part of that time to wash, block and weave in ends on the blanket for my kid.
Photo of a baby blanket only couch throw size. The blanket is a light blue chenille yarn with a lavender chenille edging in triangular spikes (like a stegosaurus). The blanket is on the lap of an 11-year old of average build.
July 28, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Serendipity!
Two tweets, the top one showing a gif of a dancing crab. Doc Ock/Aunt May Ship S... @kiddocu... • 22h Me getting news Hulk Hogan is dead okie @okie.gay • 21h • they/them good morning i learned about hulk hogan via a crab rave meme in a lesbian discord server
July 25, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Congrats!
Meme showing a Windows XP error window reading "Task failed successfully."
July 15, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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But not wet.
Picture of a parking lot where fireworks are being launched from. There is a fire near the launch point. One firework can be seen going up into the sky. A sign for the Lexington Legends is on the right side of the picture.
July 5, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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And the mud bath cake is done.

I should have made bigger foxes, because they could have 1-2 more friends on top of the cake. No ribbon yet, because I am done.

#BirthdayCake
Two red foxes, both alike in dignity, are resting in a mud bath. They brought towels for later. A two layer cake surrounded by Kit Kats and topped with chocolate ganache. The frosting between the layers is plain cream cheese frosting and the top and sides has the addition of King Arthur's black cocoa. Foxes and towels made of fondant. A more aerial view of the mud bath cake. I neglected to color in the inside of the fox's ear, but other than that it came out fine.
July 4, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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I don't know where all the time goes, but the red velvet cakes are out of the oven and cooling.
Two 6-inch round red velvet cakes are sitting on a golden cooling rack. The cakes are destined for a red velvet version of the animal mud bath cakes from Nailed It.
July 4, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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So, I do Camp Loopy almost every summer, and this year was GBBO themed. For bread month and #showmeyourknits and yellow, I made banana "bread" socks. I modified the pattern for sock weight rather than DK.
A pair of curved banana socks resting on some eldritch stretch banana. The socks are made from a color called corn maze. Now the banana socks are flipped around to give everyone some banana pie. Because I don't want to wait for a more reasonable time, my shadow is in the picture. My kid is stretching the eldritch horror banana to a small fraction of its full length, while the banana socks are showing off their natural curves beneath.
June 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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I did Pilates yesterday with my knee sleeve, and I still felt like it might be too much for my left knee. So, today I'm sitting under the big ceiling fan and knitting socks and taking ibuprofen. Yarn: Urth Yarns 3003. Pattern: Twizzler Socks. 🧶 #knit
A partial pair of socks in Urth yarns 3003. The socks are blue and purple stripes with a vertical slipped stitch pattern. The ball sits in the background showing that bright blue and green will eventually be in the sock. All of this sits on a light gray blanket.
June 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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I wound a skein of Knitted Wit's Progress Pride. I don't want to make socks, but the color lengths are pretty darn short. Any pattern suggestions?
🧶 #knitting
A ball of yarn in the colors of the progress pride flag is resting in a steering wheel of a parked car.
June 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Here is another one.
A very close-up photo of white duck in grass. The duck was trying to eat my phone as I sat on the bench, which is not in frame.
June 10, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Today for my upcoming 50th birthday, we had a bad art day with preused canvasses, airdry clay and various other paints and materials.
A mixed-media piece featuring a white woman holding two babies made of stone. The golden hearts are obscured by a flowery blue paint, hiding the jagged cuts inside.
June 8, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Today is Global Running Day, so a group of us went to a park to run or walk and get pelted by cicadas.

My fellow walker and I are recovering from injuries, so I'm going to follow her lead and have a running sabbatical.
A 3D printed medal showing a silhouette of a woman runner against a blue and green earth. At the bottom it says Lex, KY SRTT. To the left it says Global Running Day 2025. The background is white. One of our members made the medal and brought a slew of them to the park. Such a good time!
June 4, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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For #showmeyourknits, this is a competed blanket from a few years ago.

I have made other blankets, but this one involved some really great yarn. 🧶
A sock yarn blanket with a cherry merlot center and light purple, blue, green, yellow, orange and pink stripes. Blanket is held up by a white woman in a messy living room. Pattern is Kashti, finished January 2022. This sized for a baby blanket (larger sized) and was given to a coworker, who changed jobs a year or so later.
June 1, 2025 at 11:59 AM