Rachel Ringdahl
@islandsonnet.bsky.social
Maker, pup mom, plant witch
You know you grew up in the desert of a heat warning makes you crack at least one window and park so your front windshield is not facing the sun
August 12, 2025 at 8:12 PM
You know you grew up in the desert of a heat warning makes you crack at least one window and park so your front windshield is not facing the sun
“So you just went in and boom?” Apparently some people are confused about shopping in stores instead of online.
August 6, 2025 at 11:39 PM
“So you just went in and boom?” Apparently some people are confused about shopping in stores instead of online.
I went to the grocery store for a single item needed for a recipe and only got that one thing. Please clap.
August 6, 2025 at 1:39 AM
I went to the grocery store for a single item needed for a recipe and only got that one thing. Please clap.
#WIPWednesday I’m knitting up a linen cami. Since I accidentally cast on too many stitches at the front, it became a ruffle. 🧶
July 30, 2025 at 10:04 PM
#WIPWednesday I’m knitting up a linen cami. Since I accidentally cast on too many stitches at the front, it became a ruffle. 🧶
Sometimes you feel crappy and you still have to work. #adultingsucks #allergies
July 28, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Sometimes you feel crappy and you still have to work. #adultingsucks #allergies
After getting fooled by a couple of AI cooking blogs, I discovered this old-fangled concept called a cookbook. Banana blueberry muffins.
July 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
After getting fooled by a couple of AI cooking blogs, I discovered this old-fangled concept called a cookbook. Banana blueberry muffins.
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July 24, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Swatched new-to-me yarn. I’m thinking a tank top? Linen just ages so well. ~1.5 cakes
July 22, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Swatched new-to-me yarn. I’m thinking a tank top? Linen just ages so well. ~1.5 cakes
Attempting my first refashion and realizing I might hate polyester. Yes, it’s flowy but it then flows frikin’ everywhere. 🪡
July 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Attempting my first refashion and realizing I might hate polyester. Yes, it’s flowy but it then flows frikin’ everywhere. 🪡
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ICE agents are harassing the courthouse volunteers who assist besieged immigrants
ICE agents are harassing the courthouse volunteers who assist besieged immigrants
"They want to be doing this with no witnesses."
www.motherjones.com
July 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
ICE agents are harassing the courthouse volunteers who assist besieged immigrants
You’ve inherited a movie theater, what’s your first double feature?
I need more joy, so…
NEWSIES (1992) and THE COURT JESTER (1955)
I need more joy, so…
NEWSIES (1992) and THE COURT JESTER (1955)
July 21, 2025 at 2:19 AM
You’ve inherited a movie theater, what’s your first double feature?
I need more joy, so…
NEWSIES (1992) and THE COURT JESTER (1955)
I need more joy, so…
NEWSIES (1992) and THE COURT JESTER (1955)
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You've inherited a movie theater, what's your first double feature? We're gonna drop my two favorite Shakespeare adaptations of all time
ROMEO + JULIET (1996) and MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (1993)
ROMEO + JULIET (1996) and MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (1993)
July 21, 2025 at 1:21 AM
You've inherited a movie theater, what's your first double feature? We're gonna drop my two favorite Shakespeare adaptations of all time
ROMEO + JULIET (1996) and MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (1993)
ROMEO + JULIET (1996) and MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (1993)
Unboxing my mom’s overlocker/serger. I have successfully threaded it and serged a scrap! 🪡
July 19, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Unboxing my mom’s overlocker/serger. I have successfully threaded it and serged a scrap! 🪡
My bean flowers are just so lovely this morning. 🌱
July 19, 2025 at 6:10 PM
My bean flowers are just so lovely this morning. 🌱
I hate adulting. Trying not to let the anxiety get to me long enough to get myself vaccinated. 💉
July 14, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I hate adulting. Trying not to let the anxiety get to me long enough to get myself vaccinated. 💉
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Happy Shark Awareness Day!
I want people to be aware of 5 things:
1 Sharks are awesome
2 Sharks are not a threat to your safety
3 Sharks are ecologically important
4 Sharks are highly threatened
5 We can still save them- but it matters what we do, don’t reinvent the wheel, follow experts!
I want people to be aware of 5 things:
1 Sharks are awesome
2 Sharks are not a threat to your safety
3 Sharks are ecologically important
4 Sharks are highly threatened
5 We can still save them- but it matters what we do, don’t reinvent the wheel, follow experts!
July 14, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Happy Shark Awareness Day!
I want people to be aware of 5 things:
1 Sharks are awesome
2 Sharks are not a threat to your safety
3 Sharks are ecologically important
4 Sharks are highly threatened
5 We can still save them- but it matters what we do, don’t reinvent the wheel, follow experts!
I want people to be aware of 5 things:
1 Sharks are awesome
2 Sharks are not a threat to your safety
3 Sharks are ecologically important
4 Sharks are highly threatened
5 We can still save them- but it matters what we do, don’t reinvent the wheel, follow experts!
Binding off my knitted top, and I lose yarn chicken! 🧶 🐓 time to dig out my swatch.
July 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Binding off my knitted top, and I lose yarn chicken! 🧶 🐓 time to dig out my swatch.
Wanting to make a “quick skirt” for an event on Saturday, I’ve gotten stuck on deciding between shorter and swishy or longer and less swish. #Sewing friends, thoughts?
July 11, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Wanting to make a “quick skirt” for an event on Saturday, I’ve gotten stuck on deciding between shorter and swishy or longer and less swish. #Sewing friends, thoughts?
Weirdest complement to date: someone was driving with their spouse and saw me walking. They pulled over to ask if I would go back and walk past the last few houses again for them to photograph because my dog and I looked iconic.
July 9, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Weirdest complement to date: someone was driving with their spouse and saw me walking. They pulled over to ask if I would go back and walk past the last few houses again for them to photograph because my dog and I looked iconic.
My current Work In Progress: knitting a sleeveless shell improvised top-down because I don’t know how far the yarn will go. I cast off when I run out of yarn. Hope to wear it to a local event on the 12th. 🧶 #WIPWednesday
July 3, 2025 at 5:32 AM
My current Work In Progress: knitting a sleeveless shell improvised top-down because I don’t know how far the yarn will go. I cast off when I run out of yarn. Hope to wear it to a local event on the 12th. 🧶 #WIPWednesday
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Kansas City will be the smallest city in North America to host the 2026 FIFA World Cup. But it may not have embraced the sport at all, if not for the efforts of early immigrants who fought for the beautiful game — before there were even soccer fields to play on. (via @kcur.org)
Before the World Cup landed in Kansas City, these immigrants brought soccer here first
Kansas City will be the smallest city in North America to host the 2026 FIFA World Cup. But it may not have embraced the sport at all, if not for the efforts of early immigrants who fought for the beautiful game — before there were even soccer fields to play on.
n.pr
July 2, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Kansas City will be the smallest city in North America to host the 2026 FIFA World Cup. But it may not have embraced the sport at all, if not for the efforts of early immigrants who fought for the beautiful game — before there were even soccer fields to play on. (via @kcur.org)
Anyone else watching the US House right now? They didn’t like the way the vote was going so R leadership told the rest of them to walk out mid-vote. This 5 minute vote has now lasted an hour. #politics
July 2, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Anyone else watching the US House right now? They didn’t like the way the vote was going so R leadership told the rest of them to walk out mid-vote. This 5 minute vote has now lasted an hour. #politics
Happy Pride my darlings
June 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Happy Pride my darlings
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Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
June 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.