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Aster Hesperus
@rlstar.bsky.social
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Hyper-local journalist. Unbutterable. May behave in a weedy manner.
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rlstar.bsky.social
On my needles - so very close to the end of my Askell shawl, and it is on top of the nearly finished blanket. I am hoping there will be a new swatch by the end of the weekend. #ShowMeYourKnits
A long tapering end of a garter stitch scarf with icord edges. It is a dark indigo in a colourway called “ figue” and it does indeed have a very dark purple bloom
January 10, 2026 at 8:29 PM
rlstar.bsky.social
Hells, yes, Daniel.
danielsuitor.com Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 3d
no, absolutely not, you all should've been nicer to my trans homies
January 7, 2026 at 7:00 PM
rlstar.bsky.social
It was just cold enough again to put on this sweater I made myself last year as my New Year cast on, and I had forgotten how much I love it. So perfect for like 5 weeks of the year. Yarn is Sandnes garn Poppy. #ShowMeYourKnits
A cream-coloured sweater with a lot of flecks, streaks and dots of autumnal colours - navy, dark green and a couple of browns. It is very simply constructed, which allows the yarn to shine.
January 2, 2026 at 8:37 PM
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amandawtwong.bsky.social
Fine, whatever, this random cat is your new god of the winter solstice
That black cat named Moon at Stonehenge surrounded by its adoring crowd during this year's winter solstice
December 24, 2025 at 8:22 PM
rlstar.bsky.social
I just finished this hot water bottle, where I was leaning in to the "pink is the coziest colour". Very seasonal for solstice I think. It's fuzzier in person because of the strand of bubblegum mohair. #ShowMeYourKnits
A hot water bottle with a knitted cover. The pattern is Kintra and it's 1x1 colourwork through the body of the bottle, in a variety of pink, white and purple. The top and bottom are a pinkish mauve.
December 20, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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ferwen.bsky.social
On December 10, 1823, Mary Anning found the first complete Plesiosaurus. The new specimen acquired by the Duke of Buckingham was transported to the Geological Society for its meeting of February 20, 1824. #WomenInSTEM
#histsci

paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2024/03/29/o...
On the bicentenary of Mary Anning’s Plesiosaurus.
Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus found by Mary Anning. From: W D Conybeare, 1824 Mary Anning was born in Lyme Regis on May 21, 1799. Her father was a carpenter and an amateur fossil collector who died wh…
paleonerdish.wordpress.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:47 PM
rlstar.bsky.social
Perfect timing! I just finished this snow sweater. I think it's giving seasonal, or low-key holiday. #ShowMeYourKnits
A sweater in very dark grey lying flat on a mat for blocking. It has a simple round collar shape. The sleeves are very long and wide. At the bottom they have a colourwork detail that looks like sage-green pine trees sitting on snow, and there are additional small speckles of white up the arm that look a bit like falling snow. The colourwork ends just above the elbow.
December 6, 2025 at 8:03 PM
rlstar.bsky.social
Well, this is embarrassing, NATURE. "28 November 2025 Editor’s Note: Readers are alerted that the contents of this paper are subject to criticisms that are being considered by editors." No shit. doi.org/10.1038/s415...
An AI infographic titled "Austims Spectrum Disorder" with a figure in the centre "seated" on a table, except the table has no legs and the figure's legs are going through the table. There is a child on the figure's lap and their arms intersect in a strange way. Around the table are some nonsense diagrams including a bicycle that says "Autism", and text that says "Factor Fexcectorn" and "Environental features". It's clearly AI.
November 28, 2025 at 5:25 PM
rlstar.bsky.social
I did read this, and then I ordered the book, and I need Sheila Winfarthing to be on Bluesky.
dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · Nov 8
I've removed the paywall permanently from this piece, which is a chapter from my novel Villager, told entirely in the form of an online village message board. If you like it, you'll probably like the book. If you don't, you won't...

www.tom-cox.com/the-village-...
The Village Message Board
Its authenticity was discredited because of his reputation, but also because he was quick with gin at the time and wearing an item of knitwear back to front.
www.tom-cox.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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theserfstv.bsky.social
So it turns out the transphobic anti-vaxx racist kids will eat bugs local party in my area is doing their social posting out of Germany
Conservative Caucus of BC account based in Germany
November 23, 2025 at 4:52 AM
rlstar.bsky.social
"Adversarial Poetry" as an effective tool to jailbreak AI! And people say writing poetry in traditional forms has no real-world applications.
arxiv.org/pdf/2511.15304
@michelinemaylor.bsky.social
arxiv.org
November 21, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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nnedi.bsky.social
Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.

This is who it was:
A male Anna’s hummingbird at the door. So nosy! 🤣
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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neolithicsheep.bsky.social
authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now
arstechnica.com Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · Aug 27
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:35 AM
rlstar.bsky.social
Just some awesome sheeps you need to look at.
dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · Nov 14
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks.

You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
A morbidly inclined sheep, who likes to hang around in graveyards, detests parties and owns original pressings of the entire classic run of Leonard Cohen LPs from 1967-1974.
November 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
rlstar.bsky.social
My favourite fluffy knits right now are the Garden Cardigan I made this spring and the Sophie Hood. The cardigan gets daily wear in the current weather; I love the granny vibe the colour gives it, and it feels super fluffy, even if the fluff doesn't show so much in the pic. #ShowMeYourKnits
A pinky-purple cardigan with a simple vertical motif of lace eyelets all over. The yarn is a combination of pale purple Biche et Buch lambswool and a bubblegum pink mohair but it doesn't look stripey. The arms of the cardigan are holding a folded hood which is garter stitch in a greyish purple Isager Soft. You can see a bit of a fluffy halo on both garments.
November 15, 2025 at 7:28 PM
rlstar.bsky.social
This is the funniest thing ever. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard Sues Ex-HBS Professor Gino for Defamation, Accusing Her of Falsifying Evidence | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard sued behavioral scientist Francesca Gino for defamation in August, alleging the former Harvard Business School professor sent the school a falsified dataset to prove she did not commit data fr...
www.thecrimson.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:50 PM
rlstar.bsky.social
This is just inexcusable. No one on the production team looked at this graphic illustrating "Knitting uses 2 needles" and had a momentary thought "maybe we could use a better graphic and not use AI"? #GameofWool
A graphic showing Knit vs Crochet. The line drawing on Knit shows 4 needles, 2 o which are attached to some knitting and 2 of which are attached to some string that has a very odd shadow. The Crochet picture depicts some kind of mattock with a series of non-connected loops hanging down from it, and a string at the back, which does not appear to be connected either.
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 AM
rlstar.bsky.social
Yay, WIP week! I am creeping along with the colourwork sleeve for my Snow Sweater. #ShowMeYourKnits
A section of a knit sleeve of a sweater showing a repeating colourwork pattern of fir trees in sage green, and scattered single white stitches that look like snow on a dark blue/black background. The yarns include some mohair so the pattern is not vey crisp, but the fuzziness is satisfying.
November 8, 2025 at 9:14 PM
rlstar.bsky.social
Current horror story: 3 colour colourwork on sleeves on a knit using 2 strands of yarn for every colour. That's 6 balls! What was I thinking?
Previous horror story: left my fave mitts in the pockets of a coat I donated.
#ShowMeYourKnits
2 balls of seafoam yarn, 2 balls of charcoal yarn and 2 balls of white yarn attached to a small circumference circular needle which has just enough knitting on it to look like a hot mess. The inside of the sleeve cuff is visible with a lot of floats.
October 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
rlstar.bsky.social
The questions in this survey are so depressing, go do it and put some resistance in your answers, like asking where the space is for research that isn't just giving money to businesses and doing their R&D for them.
October 15, 2025 at 8:36 PM
rlstar.bsky.social
I don't wear socks, so the only ones I ever knit are gifts. These ones are in a really nice mohair sock yarn from Whistlebare, and they were for my lovely sister-in-law who had very kindly received my inkle loom and shipped it to me from the US. #ShowMeYourKnits
A dusty pink knitted sock with a loop motif running up the side from the toe and in the middle. The sock is being blocked on a wooden blocker so it is very flat and there's a mysterious black paw touching the cuff.
October 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
rlstar.bsky.social
The project top of mind for me this week for care in knitting is the Emotional Support Chicken I knit for work. I had a couple students last week who were super nervous before a big event and trying to hold it together, and they both took advantage of the offer to hug the chicken. #ShowMeYourKnits
A knitted chicken in primarily pale brown and white marled yarns. She has purple stripes on her neck and tail, and she is sitting in a window box with some red and orange flowers. She looks super kind and friendly, and her name is Eglantine Beckett.
September 28, 2025 at 6:14 AM
rlstar.bsky.social
I just finished my blanket yesterday, so my WIP is just a tiny wee starting triangle of a Sophie hood in the new colour of Isager Soft. it's really hard to get the actual colour to photograph - it's lavender, but it does tone quite grey, which I actually love. #ShowMeYourKnits
A thin triangle of garter stitch knitting with i-cord edges. It is next to a ball of yarn. The yarn is fuzzy, with glimpses of the cotton core showing. The colour is a very soft grey-purple. The knitting is on a desk covered with other bits of knitting in the background, some random balls of yarn, a cushion and a cat toy that looks like a wee sausage roll. No cat in evidence.
September 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
rlstar.bsky.social
For Sweater week I picked Mayu by Espace Tricot because it's the most successful and loved sweater I made for my kid. I first made one in 2017, and he loved and wore it so much I had to make a new one a couple years ago after it wore out. This is version 2. #ShowMeYourKnits
A person standing outside on a patio holding a branch of cherry blossom. The image is cropped to feature their torso and they are wearing an oversized sweater with very wide sleeves and a rolled neck. The sweater is dark grey and it has a fuzzy mohair halo.
August 30, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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courtneymilan.com
Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!
arstechnica.com Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · Aug 27
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
August 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM