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MaryAnne
@rogueknytter.bsky.social
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Fan of Knitting, Ukuleles, Good Music, Travel, Science Fiction, Libraries, Oxford Comma. Computer Scientist. Librocubicularist. Dog person: Aussie Velcro dog & Eskie with a Napoleon complex. Doing my best to be a freakin’ ray of sunshine.
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Doesn’t quite get the concept of “bed”.
A dog curled up asleep on the floor adjacent to a dog bed. Rather than sleeping on the bed, she appears to be snuggling with the bed.
November 12, 2025 at 3:23 PM
rogueknytter.bsky.social
That’s exactly what he suggested.
From Senator Marshall’s speech: “So what’s the solution? Instead of giving money to insurance companies, let’s give it to the American people. Let me say that again. Instead of giving money to the insurance companies, let’s give it to hard-working Americans. What a novel idea. Let’s turn patients into consumers, once again, by funding some type of HSA or a flexible spending account. Call it what you want to but instead of giving the insurance companies dollars, these premium dollars, let’s give that money to hard-working Americans.
November 11, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Ever have one of those days?
Feet with sneakers on. The foot on the left has a white sneaker on while the foot on the right has a dark blue sneaker on.
November 5, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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The golden time has arrived.
Tall trees with golden leaves viewed from a yard.
November 4, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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I checked the instagram account shown on the pic and found this (translated). Looks like no pattern, but…
Gold sweater with cabled sleeves. Text indicates the sweater is made to order.
November 2, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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While the term “fingerless gloves” is not entirely accurate, it is the commonly used term for gloves with half fingers. Think Bob Cratchit.
David Warner as Bob Cratchit holding Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol. Bob Cratchit is wearing fingerless gloves.
October 30, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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I’m at the Dr. Evil stage of my fingerless glove.
#knitting 🧶
Dr. Evil with his pinky finger extended to touch his lips. A knit fingerless glove in progress with a completed pinky finger.
October 30, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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I think xenophobe is a word that describes those two.
xenophobe- a person having a dislike of or prejudice against people from other countries.
October 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think this is an official account.
An account called Disney Prime Video + posts: We are aware of the AWS outage affecting our streaming app as well as other services. Please do not killl your family.
October 20, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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I made a thing.
#knitting 🧶 #gnomes
A small knit gnome with a gold body and orange hat sitting on a desk with some balls of yarn and knitting needles also in view
October 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Implying causation where there is only correlation is another form of lying with statistics. 8/
A three panel XKCD cartoon about correlation vs. causation. Character 2 says “I used to think correlation implied causation. Then I took a statistics class. Now I don’t.” Character 1 says “Sounds like the class helped.” Character 2 says “Well, maybe.”
October 9, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Ever wonder what ”lying with statistics” means? This article title is a good example. 1/
Social Security's 2026 COLA: Retirees in 10 States Will Get the Largest Raises Next Year
October 9, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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He’s a little off his game tonight, he’s not quite perfectly centered in the pathway as is usually the case.
A small white dog lies between in the pathway between two items of furniture, effectively blocking the path to the doorway.
October 4, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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Ready for the ballgame. Very different vibe here from last week’s outdoor knitting, will refrain from headbanging to the pre-game Metallica songs since pointy knitting needles and head-banging don’t mix.
🧶 #knitting
Knitting project in progress in the foreground with a baseball field in the background.
September 27, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Russian join for the win in my current cotton project.
#knitting 🧶
A new ball of yarn is connected to a yarn tail using the Russian Join techniques.
September 20, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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False news? Publishing fake stories without checking facts first?Here is a 2021 story posted by a Sinclair station attributing statements highly critical of Biden admin to SecDef Austin, when those statements were made by Jim Inhofe. 1/
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A portion of text from the linked article : The Biden administration told the public that their plan to deal with these threats is something called "over-the-horizon counter-terrorism," and that they do it in other parts of the world as well. According to Austin, that claim is "misleading at best and dishonest at worst."Austin made it clear that the Biden administration has "no plan," and that there are no reliable partners on the ground or bases nearby.
September 19, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Thanks! I’m using the Nighshift stitch pattern on a rectangular shawl & alternating two colors of Ella Rae Marmel the way a lot of people have alternated Noro Ito. I wasn’t sure that it would work after seeing the balls side by side, but IMO the most interesting Ito combos were the “out there” ones.
Two balls of yarn. One is shades of blue, the other is shades of reds, purples, blues, and greens.
September 19, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Some days are just perfect for sitting outside and knitting.
#knitting 🧶
A table holds a knitting project, knitting bag, and a cold drink.
September 18, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Better pic with the porch light on.
Spider - about 2 inches long, with striped legs, orange body, and yellow and black pattern on abdomen.
September 14, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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So, uh, anybody know what kind of spider this is that’s hanging out right outside my front door?
September 14, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains.
Cover from the Sonia Dada album A Day at the Beach
September 8, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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We thought we’d train the dog to ring a bell hanging off the door-knob to let us know when she wants to go out. What we got is a dog who quietly lays by the door with the bell draped across her face.
Dog laying against a door with bells on a piece of fabric hanging from a door-knob draped across the dog’s snout.
September 6, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Final summer FO: Sick Day Shawl in Autumn House Farms Watercolors. This is probably the final summer project FO, the summer project I’m currently working on will have to hibernate once the weather cools down and I start jonesing for wool.
#knitting 🧶
A semi-circular lace shawl in blues, green, and purples pinned out to dry. The pattern is Sick Day Shawl by Kate Atherley and the yarn is Autumn House Farms Watercolors in the Water Lily colorway.
September 3, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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He sounds like a hangry petulant child who needs a snack and a nap.

People in their 90s are part of the Silent Generation. This is who he’s dissing.
As a cultural narrative, the Silent Generation are described as children of the Great Depression whose parents, having revelled in the highs of the Roaring Twenties, now faced great economic hardship and struggled to provide for their families. Before reaching their teens, they shared with their parents the horrors of World War II but through children's eyes. Many lost their fathers or older siblings who were killed in the war. They saw the fall of Nazism and the catastrophic devastation made capable of the nuclear bomb. When the Silent Generation began coming of age after World War II, they were faced with a devastated social order within which they would spend their early adulthood and a new enemy in Communism via the betrayal of post-war agreements and rise of the Soviet Union. Unlike the previous generation who had fought for "changing the system," the Silent Generation was about "working within the system." They did this by keeping their heads down and working hard, thus earning themselves the "silent" label. Their attitudes leaned toward not being risk-takers and playing it safe. Fortune magazine's story on the College Class of '49 was subtitled "Taking No Chances".This generation was also heavily influenced by the transformations brought about by the Golden Age of Radio, the rise of trade unions, the development of transatlantic flight and the discovery of penicillin during their formative years.
August 21, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Axios has a list they confirmed with the White House, but check out what the WH claimed about Egypt/Ethiopa.
www.axios.com/2025/08/19/t...
Regarding a diplomatic standoff between Egypt and Ethiopia over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, “The White House told Axios this should be considered a war Trump had resolved, though there has been neither a war nor a peace agreement. Trump claims there would have been a war if he hadn't intervened.”
August 19, 2025 at 11:44 AM