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Erin Goatkeeper
@handtotheneedle.bsky.social
maker of art, yarn, fabric, garments, food, & music. Cherokee 🧶
national treasures 🥰
Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall
November 24, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I don't understand why Bob's Red Mill's website formats recipes so badly. I can't print them in a readable way from the recipe page, there is no downloadable pdf, you can't even copy the text because of all the formatting, whyyyyyyy
November 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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You can’t mindlessly celebrate Thanksgiving. Or else, what you’re grateful for is the stealing, pillaging, and raping of my people’s homeland for your comfort.

America is grateful it’s never been caught. Never paid a price. Never had to reckon for its genocidal intent & disrespect of Mother Earth.
November 22, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Additional Tip:

Gmail is being a pissy crybaby and will dump all your promotions and social emails into your inbox, I ended up with 24,000 of them.

Before switching off the setting, go in and clean out your social and promotions tabs because those will go away once you turn off smart features.
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."

There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 21, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."

There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
clinging to comfort these days so already rereading @kateelliottsff.bsky.social's Witch Roads duology ❤️ high stakes excitement yet they're extremely cozy books that also deal w/ trauma & found family really tenderly. I love how she builds the world by showing rather than explaining it all
November 20, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Have we not suffered enough?
November 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I wish there was an option on my library's website to filter out books saturated in perfume/laundry fragrances, ugh
November 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Massively satisfying thread, as is the one that kicked it off, highly recommend
Folks, I did it. I made the Cooks Illustrated competing pear crisps, and then I made my friends judge them blind.
November 17, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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My #SuperlativeCannedGoo tweet from the old place is making rounds again. Support co-op cranberry growers!
November 17, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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This year we have sold 31% of the advent calendars that we sold last year 😓

The art is so pretty and colorful 🥺
The facts are so good 🥺
Eels are so cool 🥺

Get an eel facts advent calendar at EelFacts.net
November 9, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Tomorrow! 10AM-2PM👇🏽👇🏽

🥫Drive-thru Food Drive supporting SA Food Bank

@bexardems.bsky.social
When the government fails to feed its people, Texans feed each other.
Join the San Antonio Food Bank Drive this Saturday, Nov 15 | 10AM–2PM | Wonderland of the Americas (near Denny’s).
Bring non-perishables. Bring friends. Bring hope.
Because dignity means action.
#SanAntonio #FeedTexas #TXDemocrats
November 14, 2025 at 6:59 PM
wow, @kateelliottsff.bsky.social's The Witch Road (and sequel) are just the heartsbalm I need rn, y'all. Highly recommended 💐🐁🐉
November 13, 2025 at 11:19 PM
the only acceptable public Christmas music rn is Action Aid's All I Want For Christmas Is A Goat, you're welcome
All I Want For Christmas Is A Goat (Full Album) - YouTube
'All I Want For Cristmas is a Goat' är årets viktigaste julalbum. Skivan som består av åtta julsånger är framtagen för att uppmärksamma det arbete som Action...
m.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Amem to this - clearly I'm not alone unpacking my collection of tiny trees, hanging lights indoors, and getting the candles out 😬🙌❤️🎄🕯️
after the year we've all had... a girl can have a two months long christmas season
November 7, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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Parks and Rec isn't a hill to die on, but one thing it gets right is this whole government thing rests on the shoulders of people you will never know, caring a lot about jobs you've never heard of, fighting challenges thrown at them from every angle just to make life a little better for everyone.
November 5, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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if you're looking for some amazing cheese this holiday season - after donating to your local food bank - I really wanna hype up the exquisite Cougar cheeses from Washington State University in this time of uncertain funding. These cheeses HAVE NO EXPIRATION DATE - they mature IN A CAN IN YOUR FRIDGE
Cougar Cheese | WSU Creamery | Washington State University
creamery.wsu.edu
November 4, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Legendary wing walker Lillian Boyer at work.

WW1, the availability of war surplus aircraft after it and the many flight schools that popped up, created an explosion of opportunity for female aviators.

E.g. the schools that didn't want take women quickly discovered that economically they needed to.
November 3, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Take a break and have a quick quiet peek at the latest addition to the mice icons/triptychs. This one is in the process of hanging a stitchwort garland up. Painted on 23 C gold leaf and vintage Italian folding panels.
November 1, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Discworld QOTD, from Pyramids

“Younger assassins, who are usually very poor, have very clear ideas about the morality of wealth until they become older assassins, who are usually very rich, when they begin to take the view that injustice has its good points”
Discworld QOTD, from A Hat Full of Sky

"... it must be hard, being the best. You're not allowed to stop. You can only be beaten, and you're too proud ever to lose. Pride! You've turned it into a terrible strength, but it eats away at you."
Discworld QOTD, from Night Watch
October 31, 2025 at 6:24 PM
so grateful I was able to use all the produce I had sitting in fridge & on the kitchen table to make a lovely soup this morning but since that took a good bit of time, storage space, & the $ to buy them originally (not an insignificant amt esp incl broth), it makes me even madder abt SNAP sabotage
October 31, 2025 at 2:05 PM