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rebecca
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making stuff out of yarn, petting cats, talking to computers. weird.

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this is petty but these look so much better than the local bakery's christmas cookies. they make great bread but the cookies ... eh.

I can _tell_ theirs are going to be greasy cocoa bombs from the photos. bleh bleh bleh.
dark brown, almost black, flat shiny cookies with peppermint chunks, labeled "Peppermint Chocolate"
December 17, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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winter solstice preparations are afoot. ❄️🌿✨

these are peppermint mocha brownie cookies (made from brownie mix!) and I have cleverly situated myself in front of the cooling racks for easy quality assurance.

#baking
a cooling rack with six roundish chocolate cookies with crushed peppermint candy on top
December 17, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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while I was writing alt text for those shapes she made a new one

#catsofmastodon
a round beige tabby cat with dark ears sitting between my legs. she is facing away from the camera and is loafing in a very round shape
December 13, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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s h a p e s

#catsofmastodon
a round beige tabby cat with stripy tail and paws, sitting up and looking to the side with her head tilted down a round beige tabby cat with big round eyes and a pink nose, sitting on a bed and looking up at the camera.
December 13, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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they are ... In Cahoots

#catsofmastodon
two cuddling tabby cats, on a sofa, backlit in gentle golden light. their faces are close together and they are looking smug and satisfied. two tabby cats cuddling on a tie dye tapestry covering a sofa.
December 12, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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daaaaaammmmmn

we're visiting my second favorite civ II wonder today
Intake towers at Hoover Dam, at sunset Hoover Dam at sunset, from the Lake Mead side. A dramatic arched bridge spanning the Colorado River just past Hoover Dam two people taking a selfie next to a slatted window, in a tunnel inside Hoover Dam
December 4, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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the coziness levels are off the charts today

#catsofmastodon
two tabby cats sitting on my lap being comfy. Pearl is under a blanket with just her head sticking out, with a totally vacant and satisfied expression. Rosie is sitting on top of her, with her big fluffy tail wrapping around in front of Pearl's face.
November 26, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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yummy yummy pasta night 🍝
a slice of baked penne casserole with ricotta and sausage, and two pieces of toasted bread
November 25, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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so nice of Karl to welcome us back to the bay
rolling hills with windmills, covered in fog, with the sun peeking through giving the whole scene a warm glow the view from the 580 freeway coming into Livermore, with fog blanketing the rolling hills and the sun glowing weakly through the fig
November 24, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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did I worry it wouldn't come out? yes

did I burn my hand when it fell out of the pan because I wasn't expecting it to come out so fast? a little

it's glorious. my friends are going to be so impressed. just have to make some raspberry coulis and pack it up for tomorrow.

#baking
a yellow bundt cake with crispy brown edges and a circular crack around the center, cooling inside its pan on a cooling rack a large bundt cake, freshly removed from the pan onto a cooling rack. it has a slightly bubbly golden brown crust all the way around the outside, with a creamy yellow center
November 21, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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I want to believe he had a long and cozy life with us. towards the end, his seizures and his arthritis got pretty bad but he was always close by. sometimes too close, he didn't get the nickname Mr Underfoot for nothing.

I'll miss him and his goofy little mrrraps. sleep well, young man. ❤️‍🩹
a fluffy black tuxedo cat with a large white mustache, with some paper or garbage or something stuck to his nose. he is not letting it get in the way of looking dignified and handsome. a fluffy black cat poking out from underneath a white computer desk.
November 16, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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but he could be a real supermodel when he wanted to. after he got his chin scratchies, obviously. he was very handsome as a young man.
a beautiful fluffy black cat with red highlights in his fur, looking at the camera with a devastatingly handsome stare a fluffy black cat sinking happily into a down comforter, one paw extended toward the camera a fluffy black cat sitting on my lap in front of a computer desk, melting into my hand which is behind his head, scratching his ears a fluffy black tuxedo cat, sitting on a paper bag on a wooden floor, looking up handsomely
November 16, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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he was the hardest cat to take pictures of because as soon as you got down on his level with a camera, he would come over and head butt it out of your hands and demand pets. 99% of my photos of him are hopelessly blurry.

this was his signature pose.
a large fluffy black cat standing on a weathered wooden patio, almost entirely filling the frame because he is walking over to get pets a fluffy black cat, out of focus because he is moving towards the camera to demand pets a fluffy black cat standing way too close to the camera, demanding pets
November 16, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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he had a lot of nicknames - Little Buddy, Mr Young Man Sir, Big Beef Bulgogi Man, Orson Wellington Welles

like all good cats, he loved boxes (especially when they had catnip)
a fluffy black cat sitting inside a cardboard box, stoned out of his mind with a completely blank look on his face a fluffy black tuxedo cat sitting in a costco box of Kirkland Signature Stir Fry Vegetable Blend, looking dignified a black cat with a terribly embarrassing lion cut, sleeping in a box that used to say big beef bulgogi mandu but which has been altered to read "big beef bulgogi man" a fluffy black cat lying on a blanket and a pair of pajama pants in a cardboard box, looking up at the camera with a happy expression
November 16, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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I had to say goodbye to my big boy Orson today. he was the biggest sweetest goofiest boy and I miss him so much. 🖤
a fluffy black cat with a greying mustache and a white goatee, looking up and meowing happily at the camera a fluffy black cat poking his face out behind my shoulder playfully a fluffy black cat with long white whiskers walking jauntily across a red and grey and blue quilt an elderly black cat with big yellow eyes standing on my lap and looking up at the camera
November 16, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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this was a triumph
I'm making a note here: huge success 💕

#handspinning #boucle
a big skein of fluffy nubbly handspun bouclé yarn in pastel rainbow stripes
November 14, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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the ferns are thrilled about the rain. I hope they get enormous over the winter.

#ferniverse
a vibrant green fern, wet from the rain, in a garden box full of leaves and mulch
November 14, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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taking a breather from my trash batts and spinning something simple and luxurious. this is tweedy merino/silk and I didn't have to blend it myself or anything.🍃

#handspinning
a plastic spinning wheel bobbin half full with smooth singles yarn in a blend of blue, green, and gold with pops of white silk
November 14, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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I went online shopping and not only did I manage to land 38 cents over the free shipping amount and I did not buy the cake pans designed for someone's four year old grandson because I am Exercising Restraint.

(but boy oh boy do I want to make a choo choo train cake now)
a plate with six miniature cakes shaped like various train cars decorated with lines of white icing dinosaur shaped calzones and some marinara sauce
November 13, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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I learned on my last skein not to snap wet silk, so these are having a very gentle drip dry before they get hung in the bathroom window

they came out so pretty 😍

#handspinning #boucle
two skeins of lightweight handspun bouclé yarn, damp and drying in a colandar. one skein is shades of pink and lilac, and is about twice as large as the other skein, which is green, blue, and yellow.
November 13, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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these keep getting better! there was not quite enough twist in the first ply on this one, it's verrrry soft. I am going to send the last bobbin of singles through the wheel again just to tighten up the loose bits. just fine tuning now ✨

#handspinning #boucle
a wiggly twisty skein of lightweight handspun bouclé yarn in yellow, pink, and purple, plied with white silk thread.
November 12, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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ohmigosh this is so fun. it's like an underwater candy store 🍭
a nubbly twisty skein of lightweight handspun bouclé in a rainbow gradient, sitting on top of a spinning wheel
November 11, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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bouclé is so charming. worth the effort, even if the first ply makes my ankles ache and my hands tired. the targhee in this should bounce up nicely.

this is the purple/pink end of the skein, less moody and tonal than the blue/purple end, more fun.

#handspinning #bouclé
a spinning wheel bobbin mostly full with blue/purple/pink handspun boucle yarn with a lot of texture
November 11, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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me, spinning: oh this is going to be nice! I'm going to spin it fine and get lots of yardage

me, plying: fuck fuck fuck fuck goddamn why do I do this to myself
a spinning wheel bobbin wound with light blue-green yarn spiral plied with a fine white silk thread. there are probably 400 yards of yarn on the bobbin because it is tiny yarn.
November 11, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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I haven't really made friends with my carder until now. initially I bought it to process fleeces but it turns out I kind of hate washing fleece and you can't card greasy wool.

I didn't know it was so great for recycling. this is fiber that bugs got into […]

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three braids of roving in a pastel rainbow gradient, sitting on a drum carder. the small drum is covered in a rainbow of waste fibers. three rainbow braids of roving and two gradient batts, one blue-green-yellow and one pink-red-purple blended with white wool
November 9, 2025 at 3:45 AM