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She/her, white, I recognize whose land I live on, but this is the internet. #BlackLivesMatter #FreePalestine #LandBack #TransWomenAreWomen

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Wisdom from the Scrabble tiles: Do not ask for whom the rat squeaks.

You have been warned.
Scrabble tiles spell out: Do not ask for whom the rat squeaks.
November 22, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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I finished!!!! Now I have to wait until my daughter gets home so she can try on this finished project! I can't wait to show her.
#knitting #HandspunYarn
A child's sweater laid out flat. It has horizontal stripes of pink and purple and yellow and blue, all in soft tones.
September 19, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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My daughter wanted a sweater. Not bad for someone who only learned to knit last Christmas, hey? I'm pretty proud of myself! AND I spun the yarn 🧶 I'm using!
A children's sweater (unfinished) in light purple, pink, yellow, green, and blue stripes. The left sleeve is long but still unfinished while the right sleeve is only about a quarter done.
September 14, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Today's wisdom from the Scrabble tiles: Bibulous Bad Sam. Zestier.
Scrabble tiles spell out "Bibulous Bad Sam. Zestier."
August 12, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Today's wisdom from the Scrabble tiles:
#Fabulous! #TanNaked! #ThinnedSexy.
Scrabble tiles spell out "Fabulous. Tan naked. Thinned sexy."
August 11, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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Today's wisdom from the Scrabble tiles at work:
#FloridaMan #FreePalestine #DumpTim
Scrabble tiles spell out: Florida man free Palestine dump Tim
August 10, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Check out my makeshift #LazyKate! It's working perfectly to hold the two strands I'm plying together into a skein 🧶 I'm #spinning for my other mother. I managed to get over 1000yds out of the coloured #fibers, so I'm hoping it's enough for her to MAKE something with! #knitting #crochet #FiberArt
Two spools of single-ply hand-spun yarn are wound thickly onto two long wooden dowels. The spool on the left is variegated purples, blues, and a deep wine red. The spool on the right is black. The ends of each spool sit neatly in the hand-holes of a small wooden crate...a sort of make-shift lazy kate if you will. Lying across the upper left corner of the crate is a handmade wooden drop spindle with the beginnings of two-ply stripey yarn.
August 4, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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Slowly but surely Robyn is helping me overcome my fear of spiders. Isn't she so cute? There are no jumps in this clip.

#JumpingSpider
June 27, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Scout and Robyn spending a little quality time together. Robyn seemed to actually ENJOY exploring Scout's arm!

#BronzeJumpingSpider #RobynTheSpider #ErisMilitaris
June 24, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Also. In addition to Pink Floyd currently playing in my headphones, I'm also relaxing on the porch and hopefully finishing knitting the rainbow scarf my dd wanted using the first ball of yarn I spun!
Knitted fabric in soft rainbow stripes laying across my legs. The stitches are uneven because this was the first ball of yarn I've ever spun, so it has lots of lumpy character bits. I plied it with grey wool, too, so that adds more visual texture.
June 20, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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I'm doing it as you post!
OP holds a drop spindle filled with rainbow yarn.
May 24, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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This is about the closest these two have come so far. I think the glass is a tad slippery for Robyn. She keeps losing her footing, and then Food flies away at the last moment.
A blurry picture of a spider and a fruit fly in a little glass terrarium with rocks and moss and a couple of tiny plants. The spider and fruit fly are labeled in red as "Robyn" and "Food".
May 23, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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Top view of my spindle. I'm really proud of how it turned out!
Top view of my homemade spindle. The dowel sticks up through the center of the wooden bowl about half an inch or so, and a brass c hook is screwed on the top of the dowel to hook over the yarn while I spin it.
May 20, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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And of course I'm starting out with a rainbow gradient yarn... because sticking to one colour would be too easy to figure out.
Side view of my homemade spindle. There is a wooden bowl at the top with a wooden sticking out the bottom to wrap the yarn around. Most of the visible yarn is orange, with a bit of pink poking through the top and a little yellow overlayed.
May 20, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Happy 8 years of being married to delightful little me, @tetrapod.bsky.social ! You are so lucky you get to spend all your days being shushed when you interrupt my reading! I love you!
A scruffy redheaded man with a swoop of hair over one side of his forehead stairs intently at his phone in a quaint little coffee shop. Beside him is his black mug of coffee and a blue and gray water bottle. In the foreground are a yellow mug of coffee and a small embroidered purse. Behind him is a window framed in bright teal against butter yellow walls.
May 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Look at this gorgeous mug I bought at a farmer's market this morning! Hubby took it home and filled it with coffee and brought it back so I'd stay and watch our daughter play with her friends at the market instead of him watching her. Isn't he sweet?🤣

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A hand-thrown mug in a dark olive green sits on bright green grass. A book lies splayed open with the cover showing... because I'm a monster and I crack spines. In the upper left corner is a mysterious block of white. It's a treat box that used to contain a homemade cinnamon bun and a rhubarb fritter...but I ate those so nobody would drool over their deliciousness in a picture. You're welcome.
May 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Book #3
Book #3 Against White Feminism by Rafia Zakaria This was another audiobook with a lot of holds on it that came available in February, so I just went with it. Rafia Zakaria is a Pakistani American attorney who writes passionately about the ways white feminism continues to marginalize women of colour. How the experiences of white women are considered default and representative of ALL women, but those of women of colour are "aberrations" and NOT representative, and therefore are left out of general discourse. 5/5 stars
March 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Book #2
Book #2 Tar Baby by Toni Morrison This is the only Black book I finished this month, because Toni Morrison is kind and never hides on me. But I think maybe that's because she knows I'm going to take my time with her. I started this one in December I believe...or possibly early January. It was definitely one of the faster Morrisons I've read because, unlike many of her other books, the trauma isn't so heavy and prominent in this one. Tar Baby is populated with your usual complex Morrison characters, but with an added twist I REALLY enjoyed: the Caribbean island the story is set on is also brought to life. Not in a City We Became kind of way, but, like, she brings the river to life in all of its bewilderment and eventual depression. The avocado tree just wants to help and comfort, but she also is skeptical that humans know what they're talking about. And the butterflies are little gossips just here to watch the drama unfold. 4.5/5 stars
March 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Book #1
Book #1 The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi Rajaniemi is a Finnish author, and he made it into this month because it was an audiobook on Libby that I was in the middle of and there were a lot of holds on it and...you know how that goes. Anyway, this was a fun book about a prison break and a heist with self-inflicted amnesia, rewritten history, and all kinds of crazy biotech. There was a lot going on, so I had to re-listen to lots of parts several times so I could fully grasp the little bits that I might miss....but I've started doing that in general with audiobooks anyway. I love listening to stories, but my brain doesn't retain things as well in that format, so repetition is my friend. 3.75/5 stars
March 5, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Did you all crash it before I could get a chance to mess with them too?
A screenshot saying "Web page not available" and a little green alien peeking upside down in the upper left corner.
March 1, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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It's a Boys for Pele and sewing day, I think. I'm supposed to clean up the downstairs room, but I found a bunch of old holey clothes down there that I was keeping for patching clothes...and one of my favourite hoodies needs a major overhaul. This is part of tidying, right?
A crumpled pile of fabrics...we have grey and black stripes along the left edge, a teal fabric with pink and blue highlights and black flower doodles across the top, and the middle and bottom right is taken up by a white fabric with black and grey palm leaves that kinda look like feathers. A needle and brass safety pin stick out of the teal fabric near the top.
February 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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#crow #corvid #pizza #photography #ValentinesDinner
A single crow, being "too cool" (as crows often are) to observe Valentine's Day, consoles himself with an abandoned slice of pizza at a bus stop. I hope he knows that solitary pizza is sometimes self care, and is all the time preferable to pizza in toxicity. "When you gonna make up your mind? When you gonna love you as much as I do? When you gonna make up your mind? 'Cause things are gonna change so fast" Winter by Tori Amos
February 14, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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I thought for sure the "dark" slice would be bigger. And I definitely didn't expect so much "lighthearted". Most of my reading isn't usually very light.
A colourful pie chart on a charcoal background. Below is the colour key for each mood represented in the pie chart. Approximately 1/6 is a weird pond-scum sandy colour that represents "reflective". Approximately 1/6 is a bright orange for "emotional", and approximately 1/6 is pale pink for "lighthearted". Approximately 1/8 is a fuschia for funny and another 1/8 is lime green for adventurous. 1/12 is pale gray for challenging, and approximately 1/6 is split evenly between purple for tense, brown for mysterious, blue for informative, teal for hopeful, and dark gray for "dark". Honestly, I expected there to be more "dark", but it's still early in the year and this is only tracking 10 books so far.
February 12, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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So much of the America that Malcolm describes in this book is what Trump is actively making reality all over again. Not that it got to be actually equitable, of course. 💙📚

#BlackBookSky #DiverseBookSky #BlackAuthors #MalcolmX #BlackHistoryMonth #WhiteFuckingHistory
Excerpt from The Autobiography of Malcolm X: "All of us--who might have proved space, or cured cancer, or built --were, instead, black victims of the white man's American social system." In teal writing in the margins is a note that says "Trump just eliminated all DEI initiatives, and POC are losing jobs."
February 7, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Hopefully pictures of my two fur sons sleeping will help calm your brain.
Sleeping grey tabby with his paw stretched towards the camera. His name is Burnzie. A sleeping tuxedo kitty with his paws all bunched together. I swear this boy is all feet. His name is Omelette, but we call him Squeaks. The self-possessed grey tabby, Burnzie, is shown here curled up and cozy, with a few toe beans showing. The tuxedo kitty, Omelette, sleeps on my leg. He is very "handsy" with his paws, and in this picture all four of them are touching my hand. Sometimes if he's sleeping beside me, he'll stretch out one paw just so it'll touch me.
February 6, 2025 at 7:57 PM