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Vereesh @temporal-spider.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 1d

I think this might be my favorite #photo ever. I saw it for the first time years ago, and never forgot it. I've searched several different times trying to find it again, going through hundreds of similar pictures. I think I'll ask for a print for my birthday. This […]

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Photo of three men wearing orange fishing pants, each standing easily in his own narrow little boat. The three men are facing one another in a triangle, using their legs and bare feet to control the poles to steer. Each boat has a big handmade cone shaped net that glows golden in the morning sun. The shallow water is calm and dark blue.

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Vereesh @temporal-spider.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 1d

#cat #catsofmastodon #floof #snooze

Very floofy cat with a white belly and paws sleeps on her back with her front paws tucked under her chin. Her nose is light pink and she seems to be smiling.

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Vereesh @temporal-spider.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 4d

If you suffer from #ibs with #gutpain I might have a tip for you. I just discovered that my regular muscle relaxer, Tizanadine relieves those awful cramps. I don't know if a doctor will prescribe it for this purpose, but it's easy to get for skeletal muscle pain, (if you can access a doctor...) […]

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 5d

One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.

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Vereesh @temporal-spider.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 5d

One of the grim, hard realities of life is that no one is going to just spontaneously bring me a snack of deviled eggs. #chonicillness #mecfs #humor #justchatting #bedbound

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Vereesh @temporal-spider.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 9d

@judell thanks very much for the recommendation. I can definitely use some positive input! Another bright spot is that the audiobook is available on the NLS Bard system (for blind and print disabled Americans.) I was able to download it immediately.

Vereesh @temporal-spider.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 9d

@desafinado is it a variety of fuscia?

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Vereesh @temporal-spider.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 9d

This is what #brainfog is like. I had a terrible episode the other day; I worked on this section of my cardigan project ALL DAY LONG, #knitting and #frogging over and over. This section is a little tricky. It uses a slightly advanced technique (short rows) that many […]

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Part of a knitting project with two trapezoidal sections highlighted, the two upper front sides of the sweater. The yarn is pink.

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Vereesh @temporal-spider.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 9d

Thinking about the way we use the word stupid in the USA, vs the UK. The UK version seems to imply a temporary state that can affect anyone for various reasons, like heat or drink. It's not a judgment of your entire existence. It will pass. But in the USA, the word has more weight. We're saying […]

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Vereesh @temporal-spider.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 10d

Why I moved the sous vide. The top is being washed. Ada likes to sit in the windowsill and rest her tail on the lid. She didn't seem to mind it getting wet. (the sous vide is the black thing on the right.) #cat #catsofmastodon #floof

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Vereesh @temporal-spider.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 11d

Sigh. I keep checking the hashtags to see if a certain evil human is dead yet. Even though I know it won't fix anything. I know there are lots of terrible humans driving the catastrophes now unfolding. But I still look forward to seeing him dead. In fact, if it happens in public, I'll watch the […]

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Vereesh @temporal-spider.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 11d

@kerravonsen oh, that sounds familiar! I'll check this channel out.

Vereesh @temporal-spider.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 11d

@kerravonsen that sounds cool. When I was little, "cleaning your room" was a punishment, and there was absolutely no advice given, and it wasn't permitted to throw anything away if it had been a gift, no matter how long ago. Impossible! We're so fortunate to have so many approaches now.

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Vereesh @temporal-spider.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 11d

@kerravonsen another resource that worked well for me is the viral thing from last decade, Konmari, the Japanese art of Tidying. Just the original book, not any of the $ grabs that followed. The book just lays out the idea, and gives you a blueprint for applying it in your own space. I got rid […]

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Vereesh @temporal-spider.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 11d

@kerravonsen a couple of resources if you like. A YouTube channel called Midwest Magic Cleaning. It's just him cleaning houses for people who have various mental issues that can cause clutter or hoarding. He's realistic, funny and kind, and is also neurospicy himself, so he doesn't judge. He has […]

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Vereesh @temporal-spider.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 15d

Well damn. I've been trying to watch any classic #movies I've missed, and chose The Great Escape, but now I wish I hadn't. So depressing! I didn't realize it was going to be so grim. Spoiler alert, most of them die. What a bummer. Now I need a palate cleanser. #films

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 15d

Today I saw an ant (one single ant) floating up into heaven on a column of light. She was crying the whole time because the rest of her colony and all her other bug friends were too sinful to get into heaven.

I don't think ANY humans got in. Pica the cat has activated her legal team but I don't […]

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Vereesh @temporal-spider.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 16d

@FrugalGamer thank you!

Vereesh @temporal-spider.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 16d

This how the book works. You decide on a basic style, take your measurements, and knit a gauge swatch in your chosen stitch pattern. The book takes you, step by step through the process. You just find the place on the grid matching your gauge and size. It tells you […]

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One page of "The Knitter's Handy Book of Top-down Sweaters, by Ann Budd. It's spiral bound, and shows charts and instructions very neatly.

Vereesh @temporal-spider.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 16d

#cognitivedecline and pattern #knitting are very awkward bedfellows, but I love knitting so much. Even if I have to redo every section, sometimes multiple times, it's still worth it for me. And my #handspinning is holding up very nicely, despite too much unraveling […]

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The beginning of a knitting project, the shoulders and upper back of a top-down sweater, made with yarn hand-dyed in various shades of pink and orange.

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Vereesh @temporal-spider.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 16d

@futurebird thank you!

Vereesh @temporal-spider.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 16d

I am so happy with this book. It offers blueprints for making several of the most popular styles of top-down sweaters, including raglan, set-in sleeve, saddle shoulder, and round yoke. You can design your sweater any way you want, any yarn, any gauge, any stitch […]

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Me modeling my new celery green cardigan. It has unusual "banjo" cables down the sleeves and simple pockets. I am wearing my jammy pants and felt slippers.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 17d

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

Night time. Three figures walk up a set of stairs. They are in fact Penrose stairs, an impossible object which one can walk up endlessly.
Low on the side of the stairs is a window. Another figure leans out and shouts up at the walkers:
“Guys! I'm sure it's not easy being trapped in an endless paradox representing the limited nature of human perception, but some of us are trying to sleep down here!”

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Vereesh @temporal-spider.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 20d

It's been a very good day on YouTube, because two of my favorite women both dropped great videos. Caitlin Doughty did one about Vladimir Lenin's corpse, and Evie did this fantastic "correction" of the awful knitting video put out by SciShow, about which there has been so much outrage from the […]

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Vereesh @temporal-spider.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 20d

Oh look! Rachel Aaron has announced the fourth book in her Tear Down Heaven series. She is really cranking them out. I love her work, and I think this series is her best so far. It concerns a group of rebel demons led by their warrior queen, Rebexa, and a witch named Adrian Blackwood who has […]

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