Erin Goatkeeper
@handtotheneedle.bsky.social
maker of art, yarn, fabric, garments, food, & music. Cherokee 🧶
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could I love McSweeney's more? Probably not 😆🏋️♀️👗
"Ned Van Alstyne frowned. 'Her body looks like it was crudely chiseled out of ham,' he said. 'Has nobody else noticed this? Why is Lily Bart so jacked?'"
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/exc...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/exc...
Excerpts from The House of Girth, Edith Wharton’s 1905 Novel About Powerlifting
Selden paused in surprise. In the afternoon rush of the Grand Central Station his eyes had been refreshed by the sight of Miss Lily Bart. Lily Bart...
www.mcsweeneys.net
January 29, 2026 at 4:09 PM
could I love McSweeney's more? Probably not 😆🏋️♀️👗
me: "yeah, I don't really care about the Vikings, come on with all this Viking content everywhere."
also me: buys a medieval "spin like a Viking" spindle and distaff kit, gets all excited about the new Viking episode from @americanmedieval.bsky.social
also me: buys a medieval "spin like a Viking" spindle and distaff kit, gets all excited about the new Viking episode from @americanmedieval.bsky.social
January 29, 2026 at 1:35 PM
me: "yeah, I don't really care about the Vikings, come on with all this Viking content everywhere."
also me: buys a medieval "spin like a Viking" spindle and distaff kit, gets all excited about the new Viking episode from @americanmedieval.bsky.social
also me: buys a medieval "spin like a Viking" spindle and distaff kit, gets all excited about the new Viking episode from @americanmedieval.bsky.social
it is as cold as Billy be darned out there
January 25, 2026 at 12:08 AM
it is as cold as Billy be darned out there
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crazy that the website that I randomly decided to put together at 10AM yesterday has had over 25k unique visitors in 24 hours.
please keep sharing with your networks.
please keep sharing with your networks.
Stand With Minnesota
A directory of places to give to as Minnesota defends itself from ICE occupation
www.standwithminnesota.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:24 PM
crazy that the website that I randomly decided to put together at 10AM yesterday has had over 25k unique visitors in 24 hours.
please keep sharing with your networks.
please keep sharing with your networks.
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Well! We've got some good news for you.
kelty comic this week about to make the onion store a zillion dollars
January 23, 2026 at 9:27 PM
Well! We've got some good news for you.
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Annual reminder of how many days there are in each month.
January 23, 2026 at 10:08 AM
Annual reminder of how many days there are in each month.
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Timeline cleanse
don’t mind me, just watching this on repeat for an hour at a time
January 23, 2026 at 12:50 AM
Timeline cleanse
just visited ANOTHER new quilt shop & y'allllllllll I have never been in the presence of so much Liberty lawn in my LIFE 😆 unlike that of the other new shop in my area, this owner knows what she's doing but also, what a WEIRD time to massively expand your shop of 100% imported luxury goods
January 22, 2026 at 6:35 PM
just visited ANOTHER new quilt shop & y'allllllllll I have never been in the presence of so much Liberty lawn in my LIFE 😆 unlike that of the other new shop in my area, this owner knows what she's doing but also, what a WEIRD time to massively expand your shop of 100% imported luxury goods
buying a whole bunch of books about medieval women esp the beguines would fix me
January 22, 2026 at 12:52 PM
buying a whole bunch of books about medieval women esp the beguines would fix me
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Photo shows 5 Greenlandic women in their national dress with beaded yokes. In the late 1920s Norway sought to possess East Greenland. Norwegian knitting designer Annichen Sibbern Bøhn designed a sweater which mimicked the Greenlandic beaded yoke. And that's how yoked sweaters became a thing. 🧵
Indigenous Inuit (Kalaallit) native Greenlanders.
January 21, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Photo shows 5 Greenlandic women in their national dress with beaded yokes. In the late 1920s Norway sought to possess East Greenland. Norwegian knitting designer Annichen Sibbern Bøhn designed a sweater which mimicked the Greenlandic beaded yoke. And that's how yoked sweaters became a thing. 🧵
honestly I'm taking the forecast even more srsly now, not joking 🥶
This is a more accurate metric of impending bad weather than the Waffle House Index
Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was spotted earlier today, January 20, 2026, on a plane heading to Laguna Beach as the state of Texas braces for a rare ice threat and arctic cold front.
January 21, 2026 at 12:33 PM
honestly I'm taking the forecast even more srsly now, not joking 🥶
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I’m thinking more about how we’re all millions of flawed sense-making units having millions of different lived experiences of our current, utterly chaotic situation and (for the most part, the exceptions hopefully are obvious) all trying to see each other through.
January 20, 2026 at 11:20 PM
I’m thinking more about how we’re all millions of flawed sense-making units having millions of different lived experiences of our current, utterly chaotic situation and (for the most part, the exceptions hopefully are obvious) all trying to see each other through.
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social media is a thousand indoor kids calling each other cowards for not individually waging physical combat revolution against the largest military in the world
January 20, 2026 at 10:10 PM
social media is a thousand indoor kids calling each other cowards for not individually waging physical combat revolution against the largest military in the world
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i feel like the viral bus thread resonates because at every step of the way you're like "ok surely this will be resolved shortly, any second now," which seems like what all the passengers are also thinking. then the fact that the situation doesn't resolve and the bus just keeps going is an Allegory
January 20, 2026 at 5:02 PM
i feel like the viral bus thread resonates because at every step of the way you're like "ok surely this will be resolved shortly, any second now," which seems like what all the passengers are also thinking. then the fact that the situation doesn't resolve and the bus just keeps going is an Allegory
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As if the world wasn’t crazy enough, I go to my drive-thru for breakfast and have to deal with this crap…
January 20, 2026 at 12:34 PM
As if the world wasn’t crazy enough, I go to my drive-thru for breakfast and have to deal with this crap…
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AAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
January 20, 2026 at 1:56 PM
AAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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This is endangering all our lives lives. It is an obsession beyond rationality, mass hysteria given government paychecks and guns.
The quote at the end of the article: "If this is going to turn out to be America, what are we doing here? Why are we here?"
The quote at the end of the article: "If this is going to turn out to be America, what are we doing here? Why are we here?"
A Minnesota man told Reuters he felt fear, shame and desperation a day after ICE officers broke down his door with guns drawn, handcuffed him and dragged him into the snow wearing shorts and Crocs. reut.rs/4pPCx3x
January 20, 2026 at 1:23 PM
This is endangering all our lives lives. It is an obsession beyond rationality, mass hysteria given government paychecks and guns.
The quote at the end of the article: "If this is going to turn out to be America, what are we doing here? Why are we here?"
The quote at the end of the article: "If this is going to turn out to be America, what are we doing here? Why are we here?"
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Central Texas: be aware that we may have bad weather next weekend (23-25 Jan), start preparing ahead of time - make sure you've got what you need so you don't need to drive in potentially icy weather Sat/Sun.
January 20, 2026 at 12:40 PM
Central Texas: be aware that we may have bad weather next weekend (23-25 Jan), start preparing ahead of time - make sure you've got what you need so you don't need to drive in potentially icy weather Sat/Sun.
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modern american politics consists of experts patiently explaining why something insane that people are talking about could never happen, followed by that exact thing happening
January 20, 2026 at 1:11 AM
modern american politics consists of experts patiently explaining why something insane that people are talking about could never happen, followed by that exact thing happening
Honestly I was an hour late going to bed: "I can't wash dishes/fold clothes/go to sleep: Duck's still on the bus!!!" 😆😬😳
"a lot of people are posting about the bus kidnapping story, surely it can't be that bonkers"
my friends this is an actual odyssey
my friends this is an actual odyssey
I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
January 20, 2026 at 11:41 AM
Honestly I was an hour late going to bed: "I can't wash dishes/fold clothes/go to sleep: Duck's still on the bus!!!" 😆😬😳
such a good episode - it made me wish I was one of John Terry's hs students; his class sounds incredible!
did you miss this week's episode? good news, it's still available to listen to ANY TIME YOU LIKE!!!
here's a little taste of us talking about how de-centering Europe when we talk about the "Middle Ages" can change a student's perspective. #medievalsky
www.youtube.com/shorts/FZ6o0...
here's a little taste of us talking about how de-centering Europe when we talk about the "Middle Ages" can change a student's perspective. #medievalsky
www.youtube.com/shorts/FZ6o0...
Thinking about Africa within the "Middle Ages" - a permeable world? #podcast #medieval #history
YouTube video by American Medieval
www.youtube.com
January 19, 2026 at 1:51 PM
such a good episode - it made me wish I was one of John Terry's hs students; his class sounds incredible!
thank God, I wasn't sure how I was going to make it through the week, not joking
Putting the 'Pod' in podcast, we revisit Mary Norton's The Borrowers (1952) on today's episode of Eleanor & Alasdair Read That. And it had better be whimsical, goddammit!
linktr.ee/readthat
@eleanormorton.bsky.social
linktr.ee/readthat
@eleanormorton.bsky.social
January 19, 2026 at 1:39 PM
thank God, I wasn't sure how I was going to make it through the week, not joking
dizzy from a fever and seasonal allergies but I MUST remember "spamularity" #nailedit
LLMs are spam generators. That is all.
They're designed to generate plausibly human-like text well enough to pass a generic Turing Test. That's why people believe they're "intelligent".
But really, all they are is spam generators.
We have hit the spamularity.
They're designed to generate plausibly human-like text well enough to pass a generic Turing Test. That's why people believe they're "intelligent".
But really, all they are is spam generators.
We have hit the spamularity.
January 16, 2026 at 9:33 PM
dizzy from a fever and seasonal allergies but I MUST remember "spamularity" #nailedit