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Leslie
@50000stitches.bsky.social
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Mostly knitting and sci-fi, but also cats, science, data science, mountains, crochet, and tea.
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clarkesworldmagazine.com
In light of the astronomical increases for my health insurance next year, I thought it would be a good time to encourage people to subscribe. (A few hundred should cover it. Sigh.)
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Text reads: Fed up with your world? Visit ours. Clarkesworldmagazine.com The Clarkesworld robot (center) looks to the right at the cover of Clarkesworld #230, which is in yellow, orange, and brown and features a futuristic cityscape with a small craft approaching. Cover art is "Neo Mars" by Guy Warley.
November 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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emilyknits.bsky.social
Also please stop asking knitters how long it took to knit that
November 15, 2025 at 9:55 PM
50000stitches.bsky.social
My current active knitting projects:
* plain socks in Regia Arne&Carlos yarn
* Starry starry night socks by Suzanne Byran in Polka Dot Sheep yarn
* Secession shawl by Kristina Vilimaite in Magliamaina Bellini yarn
* Deschain top by Leila Raven in Quince&Co Kestrel

🧶 #knitting #knitSky #WIPwednesday
A photo of 3 knitting projects in progress including 2 pairs of socks and a shawl. Plain toe-up heel flap socks made of purple/white/lavender self patterning yarn, 1.5 socks completed. Stranded colorwork cuff down socks in white with blue starbursts and an arch-shaped sole, 1.1 socks completed. A dark teal green triangular shaw starting from one point with a leafy border and a line of beads down the horizontal center. Photo of the front and back panels of a shirt knit flat. The front panel has a large feather-and-fan lace motif down the center and is spread out fully.
November 13, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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A knitting horror story for this week’s #showMeYourKnits: in August 2011 I knit these self-designed cabled gloves. Then I lost them 2 months later on Halloween night. The fell out of my coat pocket and I couldn’t find them the next day. I made them from the fingers up, so I lost 10 magic cast ons!
Navy blue cabled wool gloves. Looking down at the back of the hands to see intertwined knots on the hands and cables running down each finger. Navy blue cabled wool gloves from the side in a casual pose. Navy blue cabled wool gloves. Hands clasped together to show cables running down each thumb.
October 29, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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October 1, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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I’m just home from the Northwest Tea Festival, which I’ve wanted to go to for years. I tasted so many teas!!! Here’s what I came home with - mostly oolongs and Japanese green tea.
Photo of everything I came home with from the yea festival. Red reusable bag, branded porcelain tasting cup, and 8 different teas: rou gui, charcoal roasted black, apple hojicha, gaba oolong, heartwood hong-shui, kukicha, genmaicha sample, and coconut oolong.
September 28, 2025 at 1:49 AM
50000stitches.bsky.social
The latest Material Girls podcast episode has the perfect description of our times:

“I feel like everybody I know and love is being ground to a fine powder by late capitalism and none of us can imagine a respite from it except working ourselves to death.” (accompanied by grim/uproarious laughter)
September 25, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Took a photo for #WIPwednesday and I think it’s a bit out of hand? I need to finish some projects!

Neat ripple afghan (service project), Otra yoke cardigan in need of buttons & finishing, Starry starry night sock, Deschain top, and Secession shawl.

🧶 #knitting #knitSky
Photo of several partially completed knit or crochet projects. A pale gray-blue cardigan with a dark purple stranded yoke, folded and all done except finishing. A stranded colorwork sock in white with dark blue flowers or starbursts. A dark gray stockinette panel with an old shale lace pattern down the middle. A petrol green asymmetric triangular shawl with garter on the left and lines of twisted knits ending in leaves at the shawl edge, with turquoise beads on. A blue, red, and white striped ripple crochet afghan. A closer view of the the start of the Secession shawl. A petrol green asymmetric triangular shawl. A line of twisted stitches runs vertically down the center of the triangle with garter stitch on the left. The right side has lines of twisted knits ending in leaves at the shawl edge, with turquoise beads on.
September 25, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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jeymccreight.bsky.social
Proud to announce the project I've been working on 🏳️‍⚧️🧬

Had hoped to have more ready, but the events of the last week stressed the importance of speaking up against fascism NOW

I'd appreciate your support in spreading the word, esp if you work in life sciences research, healthcare, or biotech
beyondxandy.bsky.social Beyond X&Y @beyondxandy.bsky.social · Sep 23
It's the scientific community's duty to fight misinformation, bioessentialism, and eugenics

That's why we're launching Beyond X&Y, an educational campaign combating the rise of unscientific political propaganda used to attack trans and intersex people

Subscribe to our newsletter at beyondxandy.org
Logo reading "Beyond X&Y" where the X and Y are part of the trans symbol. Beneath it reads "Trust the real science. Biology is nonbinary."
September 23, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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40% of Republicans think the COVID vaccine killed more people than the COVID virus. One in four believe that QAnon is real.

No matter how far they radicalize, we are told over and over again that the people being rude to them are the problem.
September 2, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Yes, I did have a nice holiday weekend, thank you for asking.

This is the third steeked project I’ve done and it’s still a little terrifying.

🧶 #knitSky #knitting
September 2, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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My favorite knit sweater, for #showMeYourKnits sweater week. One of my first extremely successful sweater knits, and I’m so proud of the seaming. Made in 2022.

Pattern: Na Craga by Alice Starmore
Yarn: Hebridean 3 ply in “selkie”

🧶 #knitSky
Photo of me outside in autumn wearing a navy blue all-over cabled drop-shoulder sweater with a funnel neck. Angled photo of the navy all-over cabled sweater laid flat so you can see the cable details (many vertical panels of honeycomb, braids, twists, and horseshoes) and the depth of color in the yarn (navy with undertones of red, gold, and bright blue).
August 30, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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We just had a big surprise, a huge gift from our friends at @makersmercantile - a knitwear auction to benefit Loose Ends was scheduled to start on September 2, but it has started today! Bidding is open! @makersmercantile.bsky.social
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Makers' Mercantile Auction benefiting Loose Ends
Love the look of hand-knit and crocheted pieces but don’t have the time to make one yourself? Our online auction features a curated collection of handmade treasures — one-of-a-kind accessories that we...
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August 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Here’s my current knitting project (late for #WIPwednesday), a summer top with lace panels on the sleeves. Started in April and it’s taking FOREVER. I finished ~3 inches during Worldcon panels and Hugo awards ceremony.

Pattern: Linnea tee by Asita Krebs
Yarn: Purl Soho Cattail Silk in Cerulean
A partially completed cerulean blue, fine-gauge, handknit raglan tee on a hanger. Lace panels are at the top of each sleeve. The sleeves are on stitch keeper cords and the body is a few inches long. A closer view of the lace panel on top of one sleeve. It’s a recognizable lace motif, but I don’t know its name. Photo of knitting this tee during the Hugo awards ceremony. Partially knit tee on a chair with the Hugo Awards Ceremony program on top.
August 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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August 24, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Introduce yourself with the last five concerts you attended:

Gary West, Eilidh Shaw, & Ross Martin
Jocelyn Petit & Ellen Gira
Blitzen Trapper
The Byrne Brothers
Dawes
sarahpinsker.bsky.social Sarah Pinsker @sarahpinsker.bsky.social · Aug 19
Introduce yourself with the last five concerts you attended:
Mazemaker
Star Matriarch
Manners Manners
Lea
Bruce Springsteen
kirabug.com anne gibson @kirabug.com · Aug 19
Introduce yourself with the last five concerts you attended:

Enter the Haggis
Does the ren faire count?
Billy Joel’s storytelling thing in 1999?
Kingston trio
Toad the Wet Sprocket
August 19, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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#Worldcon air quality report: Wed Aug 13. Bad in the Terrace Suite/Martha Wells crowd, moderate in room 431-432, and great in the front row of the Ballroom during opening ceremonies. Also bad in my own car on the way home.
Plot showing CO2 concentration over time on the first night of Worldcon, annotated with the 3 rooms/events I was in. Peak of 1856 ppm in the Terrace Suite for the Martha Wells Q&A. Around 1200 ppm in room 431-432 for Ecology of Worldbuilding. A slow climb to 800 ppm in the Ballroom during opening ceremonies. Around 1500 ppm on the light rail and then in my car on the way home.
August 15, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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knitty.com
The new Knitty First Fall issue has just gone live for THE WHOLE WORLD!

Find it here: knitty.com and tell all your yarny friends! A magazine with high-quality tech edited patterns that are free. FREE, I tell you!
🧶

#shareandenjoy #gladtobeofservice
Knitty.com - First Fall 2025
Knitty is the longest-running free knitting magazine on the web. Enjoy our huge selection of high-quality free knitting patterns and tutorials!
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June 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
50000stitches.bsky.social
For this week’s #showMeYourKnits BLANKET theme, I have 3 baby blankets (1 knit and 2 crochet).

* Garter rib baby blanket from Orange flower yarn, in KnitPicks Comfy
* Neat ripple from Attic24 in Wool & the gang cotton
* Neat ripple (again) in KnitPicks Brava

🧶 #knitting #crochet
Close view of a knitted baby blanket spread on an office floor. The blanket is pale gray with dark gray and purple stripes and a dark gray border. The body is 3x3 garter rib and the border is garter. Top down view of the same knitted baby blanket laid flat on an office floor. The blanket is pale gray with dark gray and purple stripes and a dark gray border. The body is 3x3 garter rib and the border is garter. A sunshine yellow crocheted ripple baby blanket folded into thirds and displayed artfully. A crocheted ripple baby blanket hanging from two hangers against an off-white wall. The blanket is a 5 color fade from aqua to teal to blue to dark purple to violet, with 3 rows of alternating stripes making the transition from one color to the next.
June 3, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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I finished the plain stockinette body on my Otra Yoke cardigan and thought I’d start on the ribbing tonight, but it’s too long 😞
It’s going in time out for a few days before I rip it back 2 inches. I hate ripping back, but sometimes it’s the only way.
🧶 #knitting
A partially knit sweater with a yellow yard stick measuring at about 22.5 inches long at the shoulder. 22.5 inches is the desired final length, but 2 inches of ribbing is still needed. The sweater is a top-down steeked cardigan with a stranded colorwork yoke in dark purple. There are still no sleeves.
May 16, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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Terrible morning traffic today, but at least I’m knitting (as a passenger). Nearing the end of the body of my Otra Yoke cardigan.
🧶 #knitting
A sweater in progress on my lap as I’m sitting in the passenger seat of the car. The sweater is top down and has a stranded colorwork yoke in dark purple on a very pale blue background.
May 14, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Morning plans: matcha latte and sock knitting.
🧶 #knitSky #knitting #sockKnitting
A half-knit sock (toe-up magic loop) with its project bag sitting on a kitchen counter with a large matcha green tea latte in a glass mug. An espresso machine is in the background.
May 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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drandrealove.bsky.social
Which FDA-approved vaccines had randomized, placebo-controlled trials?

ALL OF THEM.

Polio?
Measles, mumps, rubella?
Haemophilus influenzae B?
Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis?
Meningococcus?
Varicella?
Pneumococcus?
Rotavirus?
RSV?
Hepatitis B?
Influenza?
HPV?
COVID-19?
Shingles?

YEP.

A thread🧵
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May 5, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Wrote a political satire bc sometimes all you can do is laugh. Here it is:

**When Trump Definitely Totally Won the Space Alien Invasion**

On Mon morning around 3am Eastern Time, the space aliens showed up in their bright hovering ships and began transmitting a message in their own language.

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April 24, 2025 at 7:11 PM