K. W. Knight
@kwknight.bsky.social
So Cal, Oregon, New York.
Avi image detail from "Sisters of the Moon Diana" by Leonora Carrington
Avi image detail from "Sisters of the Moon Diana" by Leonora Carrington
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Oh no I just saw a picture of the art supply suitcase go by so it must be time for my yearly psa: don't buy that.
I've been given it many times in my life and it was usable once: in 1989.
"But I don't know what to get my artist friends/talented cousins for the holidays!"
I will help.
I've been given it many times in my life and it was usable once: in 1989.
"But I don't know what to get my artist friends/talented cousins for the holidays!"
I will help.
November 26, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Oh no I just saw a picture of the art supply suitcase go by so it must be time for my yearly psa: don't buy that.
I've been given it many times in my life and it was usable once: in 1989.
"But I don't know what to get my artist friends/talented cousins for the holidays!"
I will help.
I've been given it many times in my life and it was usable once: in 1989.
"But I don't know what to get my artist friends/talented cousins for the holidays!"
I will help.
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Question for gardeners!
If you plant the little bulbs (seeds??) that come out of garlic scape blossoms, what happens?
Baby garlic???
Or... will anything happen at all?
If you plant the little bulbs (seeds??) that come out of garlic scape blossoms, what happens?
Baby garlic???
Or... will anything happen at all?
November 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Question for gardeners!
If you plant the little bulbs (seeds??) that come out of garlic scape blossoms, what happens?
Baby garlic???
Or... will anything happen at all?
If you plant the little bulbs (seeds??) that come out of garlic scape blossoms, what happens?
Baby garlic???
Or... will anything happen at all?
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The Netherlands has specific "slow" lines at the grocery store so people can chat.
www.grocerydive.com/news/aisles-...
www.grocerydive.com/news/aisles-...
Aisles Abroad: Dutch grocer Jumbo embraces a slower checkout option
The supermarket chain’s “chat checkout” lanes, which have recently expanded to more than 100 stores, may resonate in U.S. grocery stores as retailers look to reach an aging population.
www.grocerydive.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The Netherlands has specific "slow" lines at the grocery store so people can chat.
www.grocerydive.com/news/aisles-...
www.grocerydive.com/news/aisles-...
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1) genuine life changing moment of my early 20s was realizing I actually didn't have to do this at all. tell the youths
2) I feel like there's a class discussion to be had around the stakes of this kind of decision though
2) I feel like there's a class discussion to be had around the stakes of this kind of decision though
So many men go through life like that. You can play poker because it's right-coded, you can't enjoy fruity alcoholic drinks because they're women-coded, you can't lick an ice cream cone because it's gay-coded. All day, every day, choosing and judging things based on coding for narrow norms.
November 26, 2025 at 3:43 PM
1) genuine life changing moment of my early 20s was realizing I actually didn't have to do this at all. tell the youths
2) I feel like there's a class discussion to be had around the stakes of this kind of decision though
2) I feel like there's a class discussion to be had around the stakes of this kind of decision though
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This silly offhand comment is somehow my best tweet ever so, uh, if you are looking for a software developer in the United Kingdom, or are elsewhere but are okay with remote, maybe hit me up? Contracting, startups ok. I’m flexible.
do you have any idea how much you have to piss somebody off to make them change their gauge
#Finland will begin to #Russia - proof its rail network, integrate with EU train infrastructure.
The Finnish government has announced the conversion of its rail network from Russian gauge (1,524 mm) to European standard (1,435 mm).
www.trenvista.net/en/news/flas...
The Finnish government has announced the conversion of its rail network from Russian gauge (1,524 mm) to European standard (1,435 mm).
www.trenvista.net/en/news/flas...
November 26, 2025 at 3:10 AM
This silly offhand comment is somehow my best tweet ever so, uh, if you are looking for a software developer in the United Kingdom, or are elsewhere but are okay with remote, maybe hit me up? Contracting, startups ok. I’m flexible.
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If you all MUST do Christmas, can you at least make an effort to buy from small businesses?
They need the custom.
They need the custom.
November 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
If you all MUST do Christmas, can you at least make an effort to buy from small businesses?
They need the custom.
They need the custom.
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Periodic reminder: the vaccine efficacy of the pertussis vaccine drops below 50% at 4.5 years. You should be getting a Tdap booster every 5 years, not every 10. It is especially vital if you have contact with pregnant people or infants too young to be vaccinated.
After two infants died, the Louisiana Dept of Health under the leadership of the new incoming deputy director of the CDC, delayed notifying the public for months of a whooping cough outbreak. Instead, he ordered DOH to stop promoting vaccines. Pertussis is currently a national health crisis.
Louisiana officials waited months to warn public of whooping cough outbreak
After a whooping cough outbreak killed two infants, Louisiana health officials waited months to officially alert physicians or do public outreach. That's not the typical public health response.
www.npr.org
November 26, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Periodic reminder: the vaccine efficacy of the pertussis vaccine drops below 50% at 4.5 years. You should be getting a Tdap booster every 5 years, not every 10. It is especially vital if you have contact with pregnant people or infants too young to be vaccinated.
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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Reflecting on my childhood:
So much easier to get a kid to take out the trash when they get to toss it in a barrel and light it on fire
So much easier to get a kid to take out the trash when they get to toss it in a barrel and light it on fire
November 26, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Reflecting on my childhood:
So much easier to get a kid to take out the trash when they get to toss it in a barrel and light it on fire
So much easier to get a kid to take out the trash when they get to toss it in a barrel and light it on fire
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How doth Ea-nāṣir saye goodbye?
Cu later!
Cu later!
November 26, 2025 at 2:42 AM
How doth Ea-nāṣir saye goodbye?
Cu later!
Cu later!
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this past saturday i learned my great-grandmother died of Raw Milk, which infection? who knows but it was raw milk in a rural louisiana summer that did it
November 26, 2025 at 12:16 AM
this past saturday i learned my great-grandmother died of Raw Milk, which infection? who knows but it was raw milk in a rural louisiana summer that did it
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In 1924, Calvin Coolidge's 16-yr-old son played tennis on the White House grounds w/o wearing socks. He got a blister and was dead from infection a week later.
This is unthinkable today—which is why I wrote this series. Cuz the systems that save us from this kind of fate are in urgent need of care.
This is unthinkable today—which is why I wrote this series. Cuz the systems that save us from this kind of fate are in urgent need of care.
For a yr, I've been working on a series for The New Atlantis about the vast systems that underlie our lives. Our ancestors built them up over decades to fend off hunger, thirst, darkness and disease. But too few of us know about them—and they're all at risk. The conclusion is now available online:
Why We Are Better Off Than a Century Ago
Our ancestors built grand public systems to conquer hunger, thirst, darkness, and squalor. That progress can be lost if we forget it.
www.thenewatlantis.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:03 PM
In 1924, Calvin Coolidge's 16-yr-old son played tennis on the White House grounds w/o wearing socks. He got a blister and was dead from infection a week later.
This is unthinkable today—which is why I wrote this series. Cuz the systems that save us from this kind of fate are in urgent need of care.
This is unthinkable today—which is why I wrote this series. Cuz the systems that save us from this kind of fate are in urgent need of care.
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This very good rabbit (drawn by Ursula) is the first thing you see when you crack open A Larger Reality, the book created by Winter texts to accompany the exhibition of the same name.
(There are many very good Ursula drawings inside.)
www.wintertexts.com/catalog/p/a-...
(There are many very good Ursula drawings inside.)
www.wintertexts.com/catalog/p/a-...
November 25, 2025 at 10:32 PM
This very good rabbit (drawn by Ursula) is the first thing you see when you crack open A Larger Reality, the book created by Winter texts to accompany the exhibition of the same name.
(There are many very good Ursula drawings inside.)
www.wintertexts.com/catalog/p/a-...
(There are many very good Ursula drawings inside.)
www.wintertexts.com/catalog/p/a-...
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I am absolutely seeing this in real time. I get at least 3 emails a day from people I know and people I don't asking me if I have leads on work. I usually have to say I do not. The job market is NOT GOOD right now at all.
November 25, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I am absolutely seeing this in real time. I get at least 3 emails a day from people I know and people I don't asking me if I have leads on work. I usually have to say I do not. The job market is NOT GOOD right now at all.
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Places has postcards!
As a special thanks to readers who donate $100 or $10/month (or more) to sustain the journal, we’ll send you your very own set of postcards featuring select images from Places essays.
Available through the new year — or until we run out! Donate here: placesjournal.org/donate/
As a special thanks to readers who donate $100 or $10/month (or more) to sustain the journal, we’ll send you your very own set of postcards featuring select images from Places essays.
Available through the new year — or until we run out! Donate here: placesjournal.org/donate/
November 25, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Places has postcards!
As a special thanks to readers who donate $100 or $10/month (or more) to sustain the journal, we’ll send you your very own set of postcards featuring select images from Places essays.
Available through the new year — or until we run out! Donate here: placesjournal.org/donate/
As a special thanks to readers who donate $100 or $10/month (or more) to sustain the journal, we’ll send you your very own set of postcards featuring select images from Places essays.
Available through the new year — or until we run out! Donate here: placesjournal.org/donate/
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People looking for signs of change often assume the change that matters most, the watershed, the rubicon, the turning point will be a dramatic event. But a case can be made that the changes that matter most happen in minds and hearts, and the events follow from that.
Revolutionary Weather (and the Baboon in the Ruins)
Everything changed in the last few weeks. The Republicans, assumed by themselves and too many others, to be unstoppable got stopped again and again. Public opinion manifested in many ways: as an elect...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
People looking for signs of change often assume the change that matters most, the watershed, the rubicon, the turning point will be a dramatic event. But a case can be made that the changes that matter most happen in minds and hearts, and the events follow from that.
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Minnesota-St Paul, urgent cat relocation need! Get these sweet babies!
Urgent MSP #Caturday 🧵: these two handsome boys need a loving home as circumstances sadly force their person to part with them.
Bones & Basil are a bonded pair and need to stay together. Both are vaxxed, neutered, and very sociable. 1/
Bones & Basil are a bonded pair and need to stay together. Both are vaxxed, neutered, and very sociable. 1/
November 25, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Minnesota-St Paul, urgent cat relocation need! Get these sweet babies!
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I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
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This. Plenty of people would prefer that women be our only social safety net.
Look, women no longer do shit for free is actually at the root of a lot of social disruption. The question is whether you think the solution is women going back to being unpaid and unprotected by their own labor.
November 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
This. Plenty of people would prefer that women be our only social safety net.
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"McMinnville High School students staged a walkout Monday to protest federal immigration enforcement, days after agents detained a high school senior on his lunch break."
Oregon teenager’s ICE detention sparks high school walkout
Hundreds of McMinnville High students walked out Monday, days after ICE detained Christian Jimenez, 17.
www.oregonlive.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
"McMinnville High School students staged a walkout Monday to protest federal immigration enforcement, days after agents detained a high school senior on his lunch break."
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You can also get a sore throat with the flu which is expected to be very bad this year.
Patient came in with sore throat. While waiting for rapid Strep test result we glanced back at the Covid-19 RAT result: positive. Reminder that masking in health care makes sense, if you don’t want everyone in your waiting room to go home sick, your staff to get sick, and physicians to get sick.
November 25, 2025 at 5:06 PM
You can also get a sore throat with the flu which is expected to be very bad this year.
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Physical mail, land lines, now increasingly even email — I find it tragic the way we will sooner abandon a once revolutionary communication technology than regulate* its use by those who seek to sell us junk by feigning familiarity.
*or even cease to subsidize, in some cases.
*or even cease to subsidize, in some cases.
November 25, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Physical mail, land lines, now increasingly even email — I find it tragic the way we will sooner abandon a once revolutionary communication technology than regulate* its use by those who seek to sell us junk by feigning familiarity.
*or even cease to subsidize, in some cases.
*or even cease to subsidize, in some cases.
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I swear if our species ever invents a means of faster-than-light communication it will take us less than a generation to ignore it entirely what for all offers of a timeshares off Alpha Centauri and urgent messages from a boss stuck in the Kuiper Belt and in need of an urgent favor.
November 25, 2025 at 9:15 AM
I swear if our species ever invents a means of faster-than-light communication it will take us less than a generation to ignore it entirely what for all offers of a timeshares off Alpha Centauri and urgent messages from a boss stuck in the Kuiper Belt and in need of an urgent favor.
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we're going to win
Page One in Cincinnati:
“.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.”
#ICE
“.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.”
#ICE
November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
we're going to win
Two little kids, no relation, dressed as Spiderman, going opposite directions on the moving walkway
November 24, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Two little kids, no relation, dressed as Spiderman, going opposite directions on the moving walkway