TallHobbit
@tallhobbit.bsky.social
Joelle, she/her, AuDHD, cottage industry garment worker, sewing, knitting, spinning, plants, libraries, books, games. Not a fascist trad wife -- I just dress like a story book, and like baking bread and reading Tolkien.
Recovery from (what I now understand to be autistic) burnout means that my ideas from my long rumination on undergarment fitting are about to be tested.
I'm wearing the longline bra I bought a few years ago, and making notes on alterations that will be needed for comfort.
I'm wearing the longline bra I bought a few years ago, and making notes on alterations that will be needed for comfort.
November 12, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Recovery from (what I now understand to be autistic) burnout means that my ideas from my long rumination on undergarment fitting are about to be tested.
I'm wearing the longline bra I bought a few years ago, and making notes on alterations that will be needed for comfort.
I'm wearing the longline bra I bought a few years ago, and making notes on alterations that will be needed for comfort.
Soup and bread are magic.
And so is knitting.
Also tea.
And so is knitting.
Also tea.
November 12, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Soup and bread are magic.
And so is knitting.
Also tea.
And so is knitting.
Also tea.
I've solved nearly all my clothing related sensory issues by learning to make my own clothes.
My last challenge: a bra that doesn't make me ruminate on solving the discomfort all damn day.
I've concluded that I need a long line bra to distribute the compression.
My last challenge: a bra that doesn't make me ruminate on solving the discomfort all damn day.
I've concluded that I need a long line bra to distribute the compression.
November 12, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I've solved nearly all my clothing related sensory issues by learning to make my own clothes.
My last challenge: a bra that doesn't make me ruminate on solving the discomfort all damn day.
I've concluded that I need a long line bra to distribute the compression.
My last challenge: a bra that doesn't make me ruminate on solving the discomfort all damn day.
I've concluded that I need a long line bra to distribute the compression.
Long ago I was gifted an enameled cast iron Dutch oven in the shape of a pumpkin. I left it out unused in the kitchen for ages and it got all greasy and dusty outside.
Being an ignoramus who thought I knew how to wash things, used an especially abrasive cleaner on it and ruined the enamel.
Being an ignoramus who thought I knew how to wash things, used an especially abrasive cleaner on it and ruined the enamel.
November 12, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Long ago I was gifted an enameled cast iron Dutch oven in the shape of a pumpkin. I left it out unused in the kitchen for ages and it got all greasy and dusty outside.
Being an ignoramus who thought I knew how to wash things, used an especially abrasive cleaner on it and ruined the enamel.
Being an ignoramus who thought I knew how to wash things, used an especially abrasive cleaner on it and ruined the enamel.
Hell yeah!
Many are saying: 'Hell yeah - new medieval podcast just dropped.'
AND THEY ARE RIGHT TO DO SO!!
AND THEY ARE RIGHT TO DO SO!!
AND WE'RE LIVE!!!!!
Welcome to American Medieval! Our first episode sees @profgabriele.com talk with the amazing @goingmedieval.bsky.social about what got us interested in the Middle Ages, why Czech history is super cool, and why Dan Brown drives us nuts
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
Welcome to American Medieval! Our first episode sees @profgabriele.com talk with the amazing @goingmedieval.bsky.social about what got us interested in the Middle Ages, why Czech history is super cool, and why Dan Brown drives us nuts
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
November 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Hell yeah!
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It’s #WorldPneumoniaDay. Here is my #SciArt lung #embroidery, she breathed (2018) with a poem about ease of breath stitched between the bronchi.
🧪🐡🧶 #Medsky
🧪🐡🧶 #Medsky
November 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
It’s #WorldPneumoniaDay. Here is my #SciArt lung #embroidery, she breathed (2018) with a poem about ease of breath stitched between the bronchi.
🧪🐡🧶 #Medsky
🧪🐡🧶 #Medsky
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Libraries host food drives, have reading challenges with certificates for free burgers & pizza to encourage kids to read, have lunch-at-the-library programs in the Summer, have seed lending libraries to help grow your own food…
Libraries are adamant our neighbors be fed, that they never go hungry 💛
Libraries are adamant our neighbors be fed, that they never go hungry 💛
November 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Libraries host food drives, have reading challenges with certificates for free burgers & pizza to encourage kids to read, have lunch-at-the-library programs in the Summer, have seed lending libraries to help grow your own food…
Libraries are adamant our neighbors be fed, that they never go hungry 💛
Libraries are adamant our neighbors be fed, that they never go hungry 💛
Hey, friend, I love your pantaloons!
Breaking: The temps dropped in DC and FLUFFY SQUIRREL TROUSERS ARE BACK.
Squirrel of the Day for November 12, 2025 #sqrlpix
Squirrel of the Day for November 12, 2025 #sqrlpix
November 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Hey, friend, I love your pantaloons!
After I finish the raglan I'm knitting for Jesse, I'm going to turn to my yarn stash and start knitting hats and scarves to give away.
I have the sinking feeling that this winter is going to be especially hard for people, and they'll need all the warm things for body and spirit.
I have the sinking feeling that this winter is going to be especially hard for people, and they'll need all the warm things for body and spirit.
November 12, 2025 at 2:36 PM
After I finish the raglan I'm knitting for Jesse, I'm going to turn to my yarn stash and start knitting hats and scarves to give away.
I have the sinking feeling that this winter is going to be especially hard for people, and they'll need all the warm things for body and spirit.
I have the sinking feeling that this winter is going to be especially hard for people, and they'll need all the warm things for body and spirit.
On hard days I need to remember one of my favorite games: Good Leaf.
It's where I go outside and really look at the leaves, even the ones on the ground this time of year, and find all the ones that make me say, "now that's a good leaf!"
I always feel better.
It's where I go outside and really look at the leaves, even the ones on the ground this time of year, and find all the ones that make me say, "now that's a good leaf!"
I always feel better.
When my depression’s especially bad I bring myself to the garden centre for the very good fractals. Ngl I’m tempted to buy myself a tiny Christmas tree & handmake all the decorations as a project to help my brain.🌿
PS I found that rowan leaf on the ground.
PS I found that rowan leaf on the ground.
November 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM
On hard days I need to remember one of my favorite games: Good Leaf.
It's where I go outside and really look at the leaves, even the ones on the ground this time of year, and find all the ones that make me say, "now that's a good leaf!"
I always feel better.
It's where I go outside and really look at the leaves, even the ones on the ground this time of year, and find all the ones that make me say, "now that's a good leaf!"
I always feel better.
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Take LoTR. The reason evil exists in the books is because the creator is singing new creations into existence and Melkor wants to co-opt the song. It’s the reason Sauron’s armies are twisted forms of elves. The evil in LoTR CANNOT CREATE, they can go “this thing looks like this other thing”
The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist
The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”
www.theatlantic.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Take LoTR. The reason evil exists in the books is because the creator is singing new creations into existence and Melkor wants to co-opt the song. It’s the reason Sauron’s armies are twisted forms of elves. The evil in LoTR CANNOT CREATE, they can go “this thing looks like this other thing”
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November 12, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Just a reminder that this is next week - if you'd like to hear me talk about the extreme right and medievalism, sign up! :)
Need a late-night read? Or maybe late-afternoon… or mid-morning… Ya know what, time zones are annoying! The latest Carantes newsletter is out on our website! We look forward to Dr Rachel Moss's (@menysnoweballes.bsky.social) talk next month, details in the newsletter!
carantes.org/2025/10/15/o...
carantes.org/2025/10/15/o...
October 2025 Newsletter
Dear friends, We hope this 25th newsletter finds you well as Fall settles over the northern hemisphere, and Spring greets the southern. We continue to watch with heartbreak and anger as viole…
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November 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Just a reminder that this is next week - if you'd like to hear me talk about the extreme right and medievalism, sign up! :)
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people as things, that’s where it starts
if you really internalize this one it will keep you on the right track
if you really internalize this one it will keep you on the right track
Discworld QOTD, from Carpe Jugulum
November 12, 2025 at 3:36 AM
people as things, that’s where it starts
if you really internalize this one it will keep you on the right track
if you really internalize this one it will keep you on the right track
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Freyja Stokes, a real-life #Pratchett scholar, looks at Mrs Palm and the historical connections between sex work and witchcraft... come for the history, stay for some amazing puns.
Read for free: www.speculativeinsight.com
Please share widely!
Read for free: www.speculativeinsight.com
Please share widely!
November 1, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Freyja Stokes, a real-life #Pratchett scholar, looks at Mrs Palm and the historical connections between sex work and witchcraft... come for the history, stay for some amazing puns.
Read for free: www.speculativeinsight.com
Please share widely!
Read for free: www.speculativeinsight.com
Please share widely!
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A better question to ask is
Who does it serve to make Mamdani a figurehead ?
Who does it serve to have the current political moment be “young versus old” rather than
“ at this critical juncture? What are people telling us and why is no one facilitating that conversation / whose stopping it”
Who does it serve to make Mamdani a figurehead ?
Who does it serve to have the current political moment be “young versus old” rather than
“ at this critical juncture? What are people telling us and why is no one facilitating that conversation / whose stopping it”
November 12, 2025 at 12:41 AM
A better question to ask is
Who does it serve to make Mamdani a figurehead ?
Who does it serve to have the current political moment be “young versus old” rather than
“ at this critical juncture? What are people telling us and why is no one facilitating that conversation / whose stopping it”
Who does it serve to make Mamdani a figurehead ?
Who does it serve to have the current political moment be “young versus old” rather than
“ at this critical juncture? What are people telling us and why is no one facilitating that conversation / whose stopping it”
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spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
November 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
When I was a toddler, my family lived on an AFB. We could walk to the childcare center.
One day, some other child pissed me off, so I told the caretaker lady. She did nothing.
So I left and walked home. I was 3.
Without this set up, I wouldn't have my favorite story about my childhood.
One day, some other child pissed me off, so I told the caretaker lady. She did nothing.
So I left and walked home. I was 3.
Without this set up, I wouldn't have my favorite story about my childhood.
Growing up on military bases is why my fantasy of a better world involves things like community centers, and tool libraries, and municipal kitchens, and dense housing, and walkable neighborhoods, and free mass transit -
Because none of that is abstract for me. It's just "how things were."
Because none of that is abstract for me. It's just "how things were."
November 11, 2025 at 6:19 PM
When I was a toddler, my family lived on an AFB. We could walk to the childcare center.
One day, some other child pissed me off, so I told the caretaker lady. She did nothing.
So I left and walked home. I was 3.
Without this set up, I wouldn't have my favorite story about my childhood.
One day, some other child pissed me off, so I told the caretaker lady. She did nothing.
So I left and walked home. I was 3.
Without this set up, I wouldn't have my favorite story about my childhood.
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Our Work in Progress session this Friday 14 November will feature papers on the theme of "Science and Manuscripts" by Mathilde Mioche (The Courtauld) and Blanche Darbord (Cambridge). See you at St. Catherine's College or online!
📷 London, Wellcome MS 49, Germany, 1420, f. 31r.
#OMMG #medievalsky
📷 London, Wellcome MS 49, Germany, 1420, f. 31r.
#OMMG #medievalsky
November 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Our Work in Progress session this Friday 14 November will feature papers on the theme of "Science and Manuscripts" by Mathilde Mioche (The Courtauld) and Blanche Darbord (Cambridge). See you at St. Catherine's College or online!
📷 London, Wellcome MS 49, Germany, 1420, f. 31r.
#OMMG #medievalsky
📷 London, Wellcome MS 49, Germany, 1420, f. 31r.
#OMMG #medievalsky
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Yes. We need to end the mythology that having a job equals enough money to live.
Affordability was already an emergency before Republicans voted to raise the cost of healthcare for millions, and eliminate it for millions more.
Affordability was already an emergency before Republicans voted to raise the cost of healthcare for millions, and eliminate it for millions more.
Yes, the cashier on their feet full-time should be able to afford rent, groceries, and healthcare with their paycheck.
And the custodian. And the fry cook. And the waitress. And and and.
And the custodian. And the fry cook. And the waitress. And and and.
November 11, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Yes. We need to end the mythology that having a job equals enough money to live.
Affordability was already an emergency before Republicans voted to raise the cost of healthcare for millions, and eliminate it for millions more.
Affordability was already an emergency before Republicans voted to raise the cost of healthcare for millions, and eliminate it for millions more.
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Bringing this back. Canadians shut the fuck up about universal healthcare in the replies about healthcare premium increases challenge
I am seeing the posts about American healthcare premiums going up 5x and more. And I want to gather my Canadians and folks who have universal healthcare and let you know that Americans know their system is broken. You don't need to tell them that right now.
November 11, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Bringing this back. Canadians shut the fuck up about universal healthcare in the replies about healthcare premium increases challenge
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. @teaberryblue.net and I have been boycotting Amazon for decades, and Target since the election; if you need help sourcing around those, we're happy to help!
Thanksgiving-Cyber Monday, my wallet's ignoring Target, Home Depot, ＆ Amazon. I'm tired of corporations enabling this administration ditching DEI, allowing ICE to terrorize our communities, ＆ chase tax breaks. Join me! #WeAintBuyingIt 🚫 app.sosha.ai/s/umrLzurP
We Ain't Buying It - Target, Home Depot & Amazon
app.sosha.ai
November 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM
. @teaberryblue.net and I have been boycotting Amazon for decades, and Target since the election; if you need help sourcing around those, we're happy to help!
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"One of the most bizzare illusions of modernity is the idea that we're alone."
Oh fuck, there goes @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social just casually tossing off a sentence that makes me cry for a reason I'll have to take time to examine, must be a day that ends in Y.
Oh fuck, there goes @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social just casually tossing off a sentence that makes me cry for a reason I'll have to take time to examine, must be a day that ends in Y.
Brennan Lee Mulligan Eats His Last Meal
YouTube video by Mythical Kitchen
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
"One of the most bizzare illusions of modernity is the idea that we're alone."
Oh fuck, there goes @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social just casually tossing off a sentence that makes me cry for a reason I'll have to take time to examine, must be a day that ends in Y.
Oh fuck, there goes @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social just casually tossing off a sentence that makes me cry for a reason I'll have to take time to examine, must be a day that ends in Y.
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We are literally mad about your failure to fight the real dangers.
But there are real dangers out there that must be fought; and energy spent fighting each other is energy lost to that bigger fight.
November 11, 2025 at 1:37 AM
We are literally mad about your failure to fight the real dangers.
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