Distaffcreations
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Books, bryophytes, and fiber arts.
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Staff at a Twin Cities yarn store put together a pattern for a red knit “Melt the ICE” hat inspired by the Norwegian resistance.
They thought they would attract 10 people to a weekly knit-along.
They’ve sold 70,000 copies, raising more than $250k for immigrant aid groups.
They thought they would attract 10 people to a weekly knit-along.
They’ve sold 70,000 copies, raising more than $250k for immigrant aid groups.
‘Rage knitting’ against the machine: the hobbyists putting anti-ICE messages into crafts
Makers take a stand through ‘Melt the ICE’ red knit caps and sparkly nails – all while raising funds for those affected by immigration raids
www.theguardian.com
January 29, 2026 at 1:43 PM
Staff at a Twin Cities yarn store put together a pattern for a red knit “Melt the ICE” hat inspired by the Norwegian resistance.
They thought they would attract 10 people to a weekly knit-along.
They’ve sold 70,000 copies, raising more than $250k for immigrant aid groups.
They thought they would attract 10 people to a weekly knit-along.
They’ve sold 70,000 copies, raising more than $250k for immigrant aid groups.
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"My husband complains about the cold," the man said. "Can you teach me a spell to keep him warm?"
"I can teach you to bind hair into a net to catch heat," the wizard said, "using arcane counting and a pair of fine wands."
After a while, the man said "Isn't this knitting?"
"This, too, is magic."
"I can teach you to bind hair into a net to catch heat," the wizard said, "using arcane counting and a pair of fine wands."
After a while, the man said "Isn't this knitting?"
"This, too, is magic."
January 23, 2026 at 5:20 PM
"My husband complains about the cold," the man said. "Can you teach me a spell to keep him warm?"
"I can teach you to bind hair into a net to catch heat," the wizard said, "using arcane counting and a pair of fine wands."
After a while, the man said "Isn't this knitting?"
"This, too, is magic."
"I can teach you to bind hair into a net to catch heat," the wizard said, "using arcane counting and a pair of fine wands."
After a while, the man said "Isn't this knitting?"
"This, too, is magic."
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the knitters too. this is the top pattern on ravelry right now
January 19, 2026 at 4:40 AM
the knitters too. this is the top pattern on ravelry right now
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Sphagnum rubellum hummock with a view #moss #bryophyte
January 16, 2026 at 9:11 AM
Sphagnum rubellum hummock with a view #moss #bryophyte
Sad news. Walter S. Judd was my master's thesis advisor and an excellent teacher of taxonomy and systematics. He had a positive influence on my career trajectory.
I have the sad news that my friend & mentor Walter S. Judd passed away last Sunday. Walt was an award-winning teacher & a stellar systematist & taxonomist. His work with Ericaceae & Melastomataceae is the model of what good taxonomy is all about. He will be greatly missed. #Botany 🌾🧪
January 7, 2026 at 12:17 AM
Sad news. Walter S. Judd was my master's thesis advisor and an excellent teacher of taxonomy and systematics. He had a positive influence on my career trajectory.
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Let’s make 2026 the year of the bog. The world’s most unique and interesting plants, clean water, cooler climate. Bogs deserve our thanks, care, and deep respect. Please join me and love a bog today.
January 5, 2026 at 10:15 PM
Let’s make 2026 the year of the bog. The world’s most unique and interesting plants, clean water, cooler climate. Bogs deserve our thanks, care, and deep respect. Please join me and love a bog today.
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Pilot had a massive ad spread in a jp newspaper with "make AI jealous" and "write what AI can't touch" written on it
Anyway I think everyone should own a Pilot kakuno pen
Anyway I think everyone should own a Pilot kakuno pen
November 5, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Pilot had a massive ad spread in a jp newspaper with "make AI jealous" and "write what AI can't touch" written on it
Anyway I think everyone should own a Pilot kakuno pen
Anyway I think everyone should own a Pilot kakuno pen
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Autumn is on the way, and with the change in season, so comes the change in colours.
Once Sphagnum moss has established in a peatland environment, the different species develop their natural colours, and we think it’s just beautiful – particularly these autumnal hues of red and burnt orange.
Once Sphagnum moss has established in a peatland environment, the different species develop their natural colours, and we think it’s just beautiful – particularly these autumnal hues of red and burnt orange.
September 1, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Autumn is on the way, and with the change in season, so comes the change in colours.
Once Sphagnum moss has established in a peatland environment, the different species develop their natural colours, and we think it’s just beautiful – particularly these autumnal hues of red and burnt orange.
Once Sphagnum moss has established in a peatland environment, the different species develop their natural colours, and we think it’s just beautiful – particularly these autumnal hues of red and burnt orange.
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I don't normally make comics, but this one has been in my head a long time. #MakeATerribleComicDay2025 #SciArt
June 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I don't normally make comics, but this one has been in my head a long time. #MakeATerribleComicDay2025 #SciArt
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The WH has covered up POTUS health issues forever and Biden's is not the worse. Consider just a few:
-Reagan's emerging Alzheimer's
-JFK's Addison's disease (and drug regime) & sex addiction
-FDR's wheelchair
-Wilson's strokes (and non-recovery)
-Cleveland's oral cancer
-Pierce's alcoholism
-Reagan's emerging Alzheimer's
-JFK's Addison's disease (and drug regime) & sex addiction
-FDR's wheelchair
-Wilson's strokes (and non-recovery)
-Cleveland's oral cancer
-Pierce's alcoholism
May 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
The WH has covered up POTUS health issues forever and Biden's is not the worse. Consider just a few:
-Reagan's emerging Alzheimer's
-JFK's Addison's disease (and drug regime) & sex addiction
-FDR's wheelchair
-Wilson's strokes (and non-recovery)
-Cleveland's oral cancer
-Pierce's alcoholism
-Reagan's emerging Alzheimer's
-JFK's Addison's disease (and drug regime) & sex addiction
-FDR's wheelchair
-Wilson's strokes (and non-recovery)
-Cleveland's oral cancer
-Pierce's alcoholism
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I'm painfully tired of honey bees still getting the most attention when they're not native to North America. They're basically livestock and outcompete our native bees. We do NOT need more urban hives.
So please, let's some some of our glorious wild bees for a change!
#Invertebrates
So please, let's some some of our glorious wild bees for a change!
#Invertebrates
April 17, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I'm painfully tired of honey bees still getting the most attention when they're not native to North America. They're basically livestock and outcompete our native bees. We do NOT need more urban hives.
So please, let's some some of our glorious wild bees for a change!
#Invertebrates
So please, let's some some of our glorious wild bees for a change!
#Invertebrates
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Signs of spring, ranked.
April 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Signs of spring, ranked.
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In this age of diminishing funding, citizen and community science work becomes ever more important.
As a wildflower enthusiast, I love the iNaturalist app. It's helped us ID plants in our backyard & in countries around the world. However, it also can help advance our knowledge of biodiversity. A recent story from the NC Botanical Garden provided a great example 1/n
ncbg.unc.edu/2025/02/19/c...
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Community Scientist Documents New Plant, Lesser Mock-strawberry, in North Carolina - North Carolina Botanical Garden
by Sarah Oberlin, Community Scientist In 2023, I joined the community science website iNaturalist and developed an interest in learning how to identify the plants around me in North Carolina.... Read ...
ncbg.unc.edu
March 9, 2025 at 8:03 PM
In this age of diminishing funding, citizen and community science work becomes ever more important.
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Scientists Document Cultural Change In The Dialects Of Wild Parrots Over 22 Years
by @grrlscientist via medium
#parrots🦜 #dialects #culture #communication #wildlife #SciComm🧪 medium.com/grrlscientis...
by @grrlscientist via medium
#parrots🦜 #dialects #culture #communication #wildlife #SciComm🧪 medium.com/grrlscientis...
January 13, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Scientists Document Cultural Change In The Dialects Of Wild Parrots Over 22 Years
by @grrlscientist via medium
#parrots🦜 #dialects #culture #communication #wildlife #SciComm🧪 medium.com/grrlscientis...
by @grrlscientist via medium
#parrots🦜 #dialects #culture #communication #wildlife #SciComm🧪 medium.com/grrlscientis...
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please enjoy this "vintage movie poster" I saw in a dream which was so funny to my subconscious that I immediately woke myself up to write it down for later
December 31, 2024 at 7:27 PM
please enjoy this "vintage movie poster" I saw in a dream which was so funny to my subconscious that I immediately woke myself up to write it down for later
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Love this! Failure is an integral part of any learning process. Pausing, reassessing and going at it again. Applies to all kind of scenarios, really ,)
The Journal of Trial and Error is a scientific publication that only publishes papers with negative or unexpected results.
The team behind it wants to change how the scientific community thinks about failure in order to improve science.
The team behind it wants to change how the scientific community thinks about failure in order to improve science.
What To Do When Your Hypothesis Is Wrong? Publish!
In an effort to learn from scientific failure, The Journal of Trial Error only publishes “negative” results.
www.sciencefriday.com
November 13, 2024 at 4:08 PM
Love this! Failure is an integral part of any learning process. Pausing, reassessing and going at it again. Applies to all kind of scenarios, really ,)
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Friends, if you send a distraction in the next hour, check out this live feed of the capsule bringing our moss experiment (and some other stuff ;-) to the ISS
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NASA's SpaceX 31st Cargo Resupply Services Rendezvous and Docking - NASA+
Coverage of the Rendezvous and Docking of the NASA/SpaceX CRS-31 Dragon Cargo Craft to the Harmony module of the International Space Station (docking
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November 5, 2024 at 2:09 PM
Friends, if you send a distraction in the next hour, check out this live feed of the capsule bringing our moss experiment (and some other stuff ;-) to the ISS
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We respectfully acknowledge the Coharie, Eastern Band of Cherokee, Haliwa-Saponi, Lumbee, Meherrin, Occaneechi Band of the Saponi, Sappony, and Waccamaw Siouan and honor the enduring presence, vibrance, and diversity of contemporary Indigenous communities. linc.osbm.nc.gov/p/celebratin...
Celebrating Tribal North Carolina — NC OSBM
Data for the tribal community of North Carolina
linc.osbm.nc.gov
November 4, 2024 at 7:53 PM
We respectfully acknowledge the Coharie, Eastern Band of Cherokee, Haliwa-Saponi, Lumbee, Meherrin, Occaneechi Band of the Saponi, Sappony, and Waccamaw Siouan and honor the enduring presence, vibrance, and diversity of contemporary Indigenous communities. linc.osbm.nc.gov/p/celebratin...
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Ok, here she is. The woman of the hour.
Thank you for the ko-fis!
And GOOD LUCK!
#kamala #kamalaharris #VPOTUS #shewill
Thank you for the ko-fis!
And GOOD LUCK!
#kamala #kamalaharris #VPOTUS #shewill
July 21, 2024 at 10:22 PM
Ok, here she is. The woman of the hour.
Thank you for the ko-fis!
And GOOD LUCK!
#kamala #kamalaharris #VPOTUS #shewill
Thank you for the ko-fis!
And GOOD LUCK!
#kamala #kamalaharris #VPOTUS #shewill
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Remember to turn the clocks back 1 hour, NOT 100 years. VOTE!
November 3, 2024 at 11:01 AM
Remember to turn the clocks back 1 hour, NOT 100 years. VOTE!
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In case you missed it: I have a story in the fall issue of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology magazine about an amazing nonprofit trying to make field work more safe and inclusive for minoritized people of all sorts. www.allaboutbirds.org/news/field-i...
Field Inclusive: A Small Nonprofit Aims to Make Fieldwork Safe for All
Founded by two Black graduate students, Field Inclusive is working to raise awareness of the risks that minority scientists face when they go into the field.
www.allaboutbirds.org
October 22, 2024 at 4:15 PM
In case you missed it: I have a story in the fall issue of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology magazine about an amazing nonprofit trying to make field work more safe and inclusive for minoritized people of all sorts. www.allaboutbirds.org/news/field-i...
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Time has passed but the needs continue in western NC. Here's a way to donate to recovery efforts in one of the small towns that have received less attention: Lansing NC. The community is working together but financial support helps!
lansingrecovery.com/local-inform...
lansingrecovery.com/local-inform...
Lansing Recovery
If you have a resource to be added please email: lansingrecoverync@gmail.com - NOT A DISTRIBUTION LIST
lansingrecovery.com
October 13, 2024 at 12:59 PM
Time has passed but the needs continue in western NC. Here's a way to donate to recovery efforts in one of the small towns that have received less attention: Lansing NC. The community is working together but financial support helps!
lansingrecovery.com/local-inform...
lansingrecovery.com/local-inform...