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owen
@skrulls.bsky.social
knitting, SFF, disability justice, and assorted musings. I'm historically bad at social media. Southwestern PA, USA

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Black lives matter, trans rights, reproductive freedom, food justice, accessibility, ICE must be destroyed, etc etc
Nope! But I bet if you sign up for her mailing list she'll post when it's punished c:
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May 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
it's just for today, though. tomorrow it will be back to normal length c:
April 1, 2025 at 4:11 PM
there is actually a BTB about that specific horror from several years ago. I remember it being not necessarily the most community-preferred language but broadly respectful (and very against poisoning children).
April 1, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I have no idea what your personal style is, but I feel like that would look nice knitted up as a simple-ish lace or an eyelet pattern.
March 28, 2025 at 3:17 PM
And millions of disabled people, who are already forced into severe poverty by income and asset limits.

Most Americans don't know that people on SSI can't have more than 2k in savings and assets.
March 20, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I knew you were cool, but thanks for being explicitly and outspokenly cool.
March 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
as far as I can tell, it mostly originates from grifters on Joe Rogan selling all-meat diets and tallow products. Though I do remember people being skeptical of canola in the early '00s?
March 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Did you anchor your floats behind those particular stitches?
March 19, 2025 at 11:49 PM
generally pattern › yarn, but I also impulse buy yarn with no plans on a somewhat regular basis.
March 16, 2025 at 9:05 PM
have you tried licking more horseshoes? it cured my neighbor's sister's dog groomer's ex husband's cousin.
March 16, 2025 at 2:43 AM
No, that's clutter. Cloture is Brazilian-style grilled meat, carved tableside.
March 14, 2025 at 11:35 AM
I've never once gotten through to a human at any of his offices, so I email and leave voicemails and it feels so fucking useless.
March 13, 2025 at 7:45 PM
yes. I have a friend who's a professor who told me they hardly ever have to make accommodations for students in their class - because they already do most of those things as a matter of course, because it's good pedagogy.
March 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
box deprivation is actually a literal actual real life crime against felinity and you can be charged and prosecuted (meowed and glared at)
March 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM
You are an embarrassment to Pennsylvania. Grow a goddamn spine, you gutless coward, and stop voting against our rights. You billed yourself as a progressive and you deserve to lose your job. May you step on a thousand legos.
March 12, 2025 at 4:36 AM
then he started telling me about all the different ways to set up wheel spokes for better shock absorption, and it turned out he was a former bike mechanic who had built several custom sports wheelchairs, and it was really interesting and cool.
March 4, 2025 at 6:25 PM
one of my weirdest good interactions was with a hardware store employee who looked like Santa in a Hawaiian shirt who stopped me and said "now you know what you need to do with that chair..." and I cringed, waiting for him to say something bad, and
March 4, 2025 at 6:25 PM
TDAP, COVID, and flu all at once gave me a pretty rough 24 hours, but still much better than having any of those. though it's probably the last time I'll get three at once.
March 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
never mind i figured it out and now I feel silly
March 1, 2025 at 7:14 PM
How did you get storygraph to generate the cover collage???
March 1, 2025 at 7:14 PM