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Karie Bookish
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I do things with wool & words. She/her. Tired. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇩🇰🏳️‍🌈

These are all my personal views and do not represent anyone else. Find my stuff at kariebookish.net
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Hello! Quite a few new followers. I'm Karie, a Danish woman living in Glasgow, Scotland. I've written a knitting book about Early Modern printing, teach psychogeographical craft workshops, stamp books, make my own jeans, and married someone from Clan Fraser before it was cool.
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Sounds rough! I avoid this ever happening to me with One Weird Trick
February 20, 2026 at 10:52 AM
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NEWS: C20 has supported listing Eduardo Paolozzi's polychromatic Pop Art murals (1983) at Kingfisher Shopping Centre in Redditch, described as the 'Ravenna of the New Towns' by historian Owen Hatherley. The 12 mosaic panels depict the towns industrial heritage.

➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/support...
February 18, 2026 at 11:03 AM
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[Lindisfarne]

Me: (chanting) teeth, teeth-

Other fossil hunters: teeth, TEETH

British Geological Society: [pounding its clipboard] TEETH, TEETH, TEETH!
'Smiling' fossil discovered in Northumberland
The unusual looking fossil is estimated to be a few hundred million years old dating to the Carboniferous period.
www.bbc.com
February 19, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Some .. interesting .. design choices in this house (that wood carving in the kitchen looked very .. different .. in the thumbnail 😳). 7 bedroom detached villa for sale in 9 Myrtle Park, Crosshill, G42 8UQ, G42 share.google/RD3Y3UVa5MLF...
Check out this 7 bedroom detached villa for sale on Rightmove
7 bedroom detached villa for sale in 9 Myrtle Park, Crosshill, G42 8UQ, G42 for £675,000. Marketed by Corum, Shawlands
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February 19, 2026 at 10:45 PM
Today's random album is a classic slice of Antipodean jangle pop (i.e. my favourite genre). Grant McLennan left this world far too soon.
February 19, 2026 at 9:40 PM
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and this is why we need to DIVERSIFY THE QUIZ SCENEEEEEEE
February 19, 2026 at 6:07 PM
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If anyone hasn’t visited this lovely museum and fancies a virtual tour, here you go: my.matterport.com/show/?m=Y8HD...
February 19, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Listen, aristocrats get away with it. Brothers to the monarch are not arrested.

This is incredibly topsy-turvy.
February 19, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Passed a shop selling - exclusively so - "curtain styling products" and I have questions.
February 19, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Heheheh, yes YES.
February 19, 2026 at 1:24 PM
One thing I greatly appreciate about Glasgow is the music I hear in shops. Currently picking up lunch with New Order's Blue Monday playing.
February 19, 2026 at 8:38 AM
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I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.

And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.
I’m constantly astounded at the sheer level of artistic production coming out of Iceland. Novels, movies, music. Amazing.
February 18, 2026 at 2:23 PM
I've been knitting faux cables at a very tight gauge today and I had forgotten how very easily my wrists can get fucked up.

Ouch. Rest and anti-inflammatory pills, then.
February 18, 2026 at 11:34 PM
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A post so smart I'm almost afraid to share it.

www.garbageday.email/p/the-only-t...
February 18, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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Like yeah, trans people are a tiny percent of the overall population. They’re a group that a lot of other marginalized groups feel kind of iffy about and aren’t willing to defend to hard.

That’s what makes them a perfect test group for fascists to see what they can get away with doing to people.
February 18, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Designing & pattern writing tips

1: make sure all the action happens on one rnd/row so a rest rnd/row is truly a rest rnd/row.

2: make the odd ends/row where the action happens unless there are Important Reasons Why (justify them to me).

Tip 2 relates to pattern charting, fyi.
February 18, 2026 at 3:50 PM
"Don't pull ur eye skin when doing eyeliner."

Jayden, you are a 20 yo twink & your skin is full of natural collagen. Some of us are fifty years old and decaying. Maybe ease up on the blusher, Jayden.
February 18, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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DOG AT THE OLYMPICS
FULL COMPETITION HIGHLIGHTS
February 18, 2026 at 1:26 PM
I'm reminded by a quote (possibly by Deleuze?): "all that we consider natural has taken time to build."
❗️We need to eradicate the word natural from our professional. No one should be syaing the context for an important palaeolithic find is "the natural" ever 8/x
February 18, 2026 at 1:16 PM
Pals, I'm working on someone else's pattern. This method creates holes around the thumb gusset. Gut feeling: extra rnd betw the m1s.

Work 3 reps of rnd 2, m1p, PM, k1, PM, m1p, work rnd 2 as set to end of rnd.
Work 3 reps of rnd 3, p1, SM, m1r, sl 1, m1l, SM, p1, work rnd 3 as set to end of rnd.
February 18, 2026 at 1:08 PM
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Roses are redde
Violettes are blue
Sayinge "thys technologye ys the future"
Ys an ideological move
February 16, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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Me: I'm giving up using Microsoft Office until Easter.

Him: How do you think that's gonna go?

Me: It will be Excel Lent.
February 17, 2026 at 10:12 PM
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February 18, 2026 at 9:23 AM
Okay, I don't think I can improve on this. Link to colour match game in quoted post x
February 17, 2026 at 9:36 PM