MakeReadGrow
@makereadgrow.bsky.social
Sometimes known as stringthing - into all the fiber arts, books, and plants.
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Normalizing shaming corporations who refuse to pay people a living wage so that their billionaire owners can get even richer.
Normalize shaming people who think we must “prove” our worth before we can eat or receive healthcare.
Stop shaming the sick, the poor & marginalized.
Normalize shaming people who think we must “prove” our worth before we can eat or receive healthcare.
Stop shaming the sick, the poor & marginalized.
November 11, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Normalizing shaming corporations who refuse to pay people a living wage so that their billionaire owners can get even richer.
Normalize shaming people who think we must “prove” our worth before we can eat or receive healthcare.
Stop shaming the sick, the poor & marginalized.
Normalize shaming people who think we must “prove” our worth before we can eat or receive healthcare.
Stop shaming the sick, the poor & marginalized.
In better news I got new fabric today and it's already in the wash so I can do a BIG craft tomorrow.
November 10, 2025 at 10:26 PM
In better news I got new fabric today and it's already in the wash so I can do a BIG craft tomorrow.
What's the point of living in Kentucky if I have to deal with this premature ejaculation? It's FALL. The leaves are red and yellow and still on the actual trees. Get it together weather.
November 10, 2025 at 10:22 PM
What's the point of living in Kentucky if I have to deal with this premature ejaculation? It's FALL. The leaves are red and yellow and still on the actual trees. Get it together weather.
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I like that Kim Davis fails at everything she tries to do, including destroying marriages, maintaining her own marriages, and her hair.
New: The Supreme Court DENIES Kim Davis' request to overturn Obergefell, the marriage equality decision. No noted dissents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
November 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I like that Kim Davis fails at everything she tries to do, including destroying marriages, maintaining her own marriages, and her hair.
Today's crafts have been pattern prep and matching fabric with patterns. I traced the Helen's Closet Arbutus robe this morning and now I'm tracing the style arc Albie pajama pants. #garmentsewing #sewsky
November 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Today's crafts have been pattern prep and matching fabric with patterns. I traced the Helen's Closet Arbutus robe this morning and now I'm tracing the style arc Albie pajama pants. #garmentsewing #sewsky
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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
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
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
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
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every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours
November 9, 2025 at 2:55 AM
every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours
Painted my nails and now I'm quilting. Nails say fall goth, quit says cute spring.
November 7, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Painted my nails and now I'm quilting. Nails say fall goth, quit says cute spring.
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Was this the best use of my time today? No. Is it the most amusing way I could have spent the last 90 minutes? Absolutely. Pattern is free here: bit.ly/4nGGCGc
November 6, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Was this the best use of my time today? No. Is it the most amusing way I could have spent the last 90 minutes? Absolutely. Pattern is free here: bit.ly/4nGGCGc
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Nandy, a 22-year-old in Kentucky, has Type 1 Diabetes. Foods he's supposed to eat are more expensive, he said. He goes to Walmart and Kroger trying to find lowest prices. He's been eating one meal a day to stretch food out. It's impacting his health: “It’s like a death sentence for people like me”
More Young People Will Go Hungry Without SNAP
“We’re trying to make it, but it’s been hard.”
www.teenvogue.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Nandy, a 22-year-old in Kentucky, has Type 1 Diabetes. Foods he's supposed to eat are more expensive, he said. He goes to Walmart and Kroger trying to find lowest prices. He's been eating one meal a day to stretch food out. It's impacting his health: “It’s like a death sentence for people like me”
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Please join me in praying for our neighbors in Louisville and everyone affected by this tragedy…
UPS plane crashes at Louisville's airport, injuries reported
Breaking news: Officials are responding to reports of a plane crash near UPS Worldport.
www.wlky.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Please join me in praying for our neighbors in Louisville and everyone affected by this tragedy…
TVP also makes an excellent crock pot chili and eliminates the need to brown the beef.
Textured Vegetable Protein makes a "ground beef" taco that's as good as the real thing except HEALTHIER and CHEAPER with shelf-stable ingredients, besides the tortillas.
TVP can be found in health food BUT bulk stores often carry it and at a much better price.
TVP can be found in health food BUT bulk stores often carry it and at a much better price.
IT IS TIME FOR BLUESKY RECIPE POSTING
do you have a cheap, healthy, low-cost recipe? post it here! or quote tweet this post. or dunk on me for something I don't care just post easy meals that people can make right now.
do you have a cheap, healthy, low-cost recipe? post it here! or quote tweet this post. or dunk on me for something I don't care just post easy meals that people can make right now.
November 4, 2025 at 10:51 PM
TVP also makes an excellent crock pot chili and eliminates the need to brown the beef.
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There's a reason that we rely on the government and not individuals for food safety regulation.
Does freezing and/or cooking food not kill listeria????
Six people became ill and died after eating prepared pasta meals that were contaminated with listeria and sold at major grocery chains across the U.S., federal health officials said.
November 4, 2025 at 2:56 AM
There's a reason that we rely on the government and not individuals for food safety regulation.
Y'all I have to have allergy testing on Friday and to do that I had to go off my allergy meds this weekend and I am not okay. Like I'm so itchy I'm on the verge of tears.
November 4, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Y'all I have to have allergy testing on Friday and to do that I had to go off my allergy meds this weekend and I am not okay. Like I'm so itchy I'm on the verge of tears.
Guess I'm not working on that quilt anymore tonight?
November 2, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Guess I'm not working on that quilt anymore tonight?
I've been at this asthma game long enough to remember the days before premixed sterile ampules and it's a reminder every time I clean out the pocket of my nebulizer bag how plastics are truly a gift often squandered.
November 1, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I've been at this asthma game long enough to remember the days before premixed sterile ampules and it's a reminder every time I clean out the pocket of my nebulizer bag how plastics are truly a gift often squandered.
The ravening hoarde of polite youths have gone and we are left with the aftermath.
November 1, 2025 at 12:11 AM
The ravening hoarde of polite youths have gone and we are left with the aftermath.
Due to going back and forth between my kindle and my phone I've ended up reading two Fae based romantasy series at once (The Otherworld by Emma Hamm and Fae Guardians by Lana Pecherczyk) and I am not doing a good job remembering which is which.
October 31, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Due to going back and forth between my kindle and my phone I've ended up reading two Fae based romantasy series at once (The Otherworld by Emma Hamm and Fae Guardians by Lana Pecherczyk) and I am not doing a good job remembering which is which.
Y'all this is basically dismantling the ACA without actually having to dismantle the ACA.
Nobody actually wants to go to the bad old days when ever having been prescribed an inhaler makes you essentially uninsurable.
Nobody actually wants to go to the bad old days when ever having been prescribed an inhaler makes you essentially uninsurable.
Well, an acquaintance who relies on the ACA marketplace for insurance just received a notice explaining that their fee for coverage will be rising. Right now they pay $180 a month. The new price?
$2733.15 a month.
$2733.15 a month.
October 31, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Y'all this is basically dismantling the ACA without actually having to dismantle the ACA.
Nobody actually wants to go to the bad old days when ever having been prescribed an inhaler makes you essentially uninsurable.
Nobody actually wants to go to the bad old days when ever having been prescribed an inhaler makes you essentially uninsurable.
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JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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My pumpkin looks worried about the state of the world in 2025.
October 29, 2025 at 10:46 PM
My pumpkin looks worried about the state of the world in 2025.
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I'm going to start a new political party. It's called Shut The Fuck Up and Feed People.
"But what if they're on drugs?"
Shut The Fuck Up And Feed People
"Or not really THAT poor?"
Shut The Fuck Up And Feed People
"What if they have a phone and nice nails?"
SHUT THE FUCK UP AND FEED PEOPLE
"But what if they're on drugs?"
Shut The Fuck Up And Feed People
"Or not really THAT poor?"
Shut The Fuck Up And Feed People
"What if they have a phone and nice nails?"
SHUT THE FUCK UP AND FEED PEOPLE
October 28, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I'm going to start a new political party. It's called Shut The Fuck Up and Feed People.
"But what if they're on drugs?"
Shut The Fuck Up And Feed People
"Or not really THAT poor?"
Shut The Fuck Up And Feed People
"What if they have a phone and nice nails?"
SHUT THE FUCK UP AND FEED PEOPLE
"But what if they're on drugs?"
Shut The Fuck Up And Feed People
"Or not really THAT poor?"
Shut The Fuck Up And Feed People
"What if they have a phone and nice nails?"
SHUT THE FUCK UP AND FEED PEOPLE
I challenge any journalist to construct an Appalachian family tree based on honorifics alone. Possibly the only family tree weirder than my actual one based on genetics.
as someone with a much older cousin he also grew up calling an aunt, i am now definitively on Team Zohran
October 28, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I challenge any journalist to construct an Appalachian family tree based on honorifics alone. Possibly the only family tree weirder than my actual one based on genetics.
Finished the first book last night, there's some interesting world building but also some elements seem to have some hand wavey vagueness that the author seems to hope we won't notice.
Fae Guardians by Lana Pecherczyk! The first few are very by the books typical romantasy but the back half gets way more interesting
October 28, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Finished the first book last night, there's some interesting world building but also some elements seem to have some hand wavey vagueness that the author seems to hope we won't notice.
Both of my grandparents were sent to live with their grandparents for periods of time when their own parents couldn't afford to feed them.
What did people do before SNAP?”
They died.
Healthcare, vaccines, disability support, education & food assistance are vital to our survival.
They’re why the average lifespan isn’t 35 anymore
The mark of a good & decent society is whether it sees the value in helping others.
They died.
Healthcare, vaccines, disability support, education & food assistance are vital to our survival.
They’re why the average lifespan isn’t 35 anymore
The mark of a good & decent society is whether it sees the value in helping others.
October 28, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Both of my grandparents were sent to live with their grandparents for periods of time when their own parents couldn't afford to feed them.