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sleepyd.bsky.social
@sleepyd.bsky.social
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Crafting in general but mainly knitting. Books. Information access. Horror. Comics. Cartoons. Food. History. Science. A little corner to peruse.
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pantspants.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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snig.bsky.social
For the knitters and crocheters among you. Generative AI patterns, why they're a problem, and how to spot them.
www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/11/24/t...
The AI Invasion of Knitting and Crochet
AI has been infiltrating knitting and crochet spaces, filling them with useless patterns. Here’s why that’s happening and what can be done about it.
www.plagiarismtoday.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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stephencollins.bsky.social
[Scene is a MEDIEVAL PLAGUE PIT with all the bodies inside it. On the edge of it is a young peasant woman, in a sack cloth dress, covered in boils. She is lounging glamorously next to the pit. Her boyfriend is standing a few feet away, photographing her with an anachronistic mobile phone] GIRL: OK so I'll sit here... With my hair like this… Rubbing my cyst with the corpse's hand. [She produces a whithered severed hand and starts rubbing it on her face.] [We are treated to a revolting close up of her rubbing the severed hand on her disgusting massive cyst.] [Her boyfriend takes a photo of her.] SNAP GIRL: OK, now write this: "Hanging out at the burial pit, rubbing my sebaceous cyst with a severed corpse hand from #BurtsGraverobbers…” And then: #selfcare, #metime, #BurtsGraverobbers… ... nails emoji, heart emoji, cyst emoji. BOYFRIEND: Um... Should we really be promoting this? I mean… does rubbing a corpse's hand on a cyst actually work? GIRL: Look, Burt's done research, OK? And he's paying us four groats. BOYFRIEND: Hmm. [Boyfriend dutifully taps out the post on his phone] TAP TAP TAP BOYFRIEND: Cyst emoji? GIRL: Just use a fried egg. [Ends]
November 25, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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victoriadahl.bsky.social
I’m very sorry to announce this to the rest of the country & the world, but a transitional logo has been chosen for the 2034 Salt Lake City Olympics & this is it. Why does it say Utah? We don’t know. Why is the font illegible? Yet another mystery. Did they go ugly on purpose? Again, no idea.
A logo reads “UTAH 2034” in an indescribable custom font. The letters look like a boomerang whelped a pack of bastard children with a Lincoln Log? I’m hoping there will be a better description in the comments. The Olympic rings & Paralympic logo are above & below the words.
November 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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mondomascots.bsky.social
Terumaru, a bright young lightbulb and the mascot of the Tokyu Denki electric company, trapped in a door yesterday:
A yellow lightbulb mascot is stuck in a doorway.
November 23, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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unenthusiast.com
two panel comic P1: cop stands in middle of kitchen, unnerved by red spatter marks on walls and cabinets and countertop, saying "Mother of God... Nothing human could have done this." P2: Panel labelled "Earlier." shows pup struggling to squeeze catsup from the bottle onto his cheeseburger source:drawerofdrawings ig
November 23, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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astrokatie.com
Anyway please enjoy this pumpkin I saw yesterday
A jack-o-lantern on someone’s porch steps. The pumpkin is old and starting to rot in such a way that it looks like an old man with no teeth, making a grumpy expression, with the top also falling in. This pumpkin has seen some stuff.
November 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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pantspants.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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monicamedhist.bsky.social
Oh wow! This is what happens when you're photographing MSS & don't capture the text in the inner gutter. 1st, here's the photograph (made about 100 yrs ago) of the Codex Salernitanus, f. 82ra. Although that big tear of the page is obvious, the inner gutter hasn't been fully captured in the photo.
Breslau Codex (Wrocław, Stadtbibliothek, MS 1302, s. xii ex./xiii in.), f. 82ra, showing tear in the page but only the very edge of the text in the inner gutter.
November 18, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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everydaylouie.bsky.social
making art in the time of AI

lately i've been getting more questions (and occasionally downright accusations) of using AI in art and music. rest assured i have not and will never touch that garbage. thank you
a stylized 3d render of me playing a guitar surrounded by computer screens displaying various odd images.
November 16, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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bouletcorp.bsky.social
Je déclare ouverte ma liste personnelle de one-panel-comics préférés.
Pour marquer sa subjectivité elle commencera par la Joconde des one-panel, à savoir "Cow Tools", par Gary Larson.
Une vache à l'air sérieux se tient debout devant une table sur laquelle sont posés des outils grossiers. Il y a une ferme en arrière-plan. La légende dit juste: "Cow tools".
November 15, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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pikaole.bsky.social
Rosy maple moth with umbrella 🎀
A Rosy Maple moth decked out in ribbons, holding a gorgeous lace umbrella. A cute and sparkly atmosphere.
November 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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romgothsam.bsky.social
When people say that Wuthering Heights doesn't have anything to do with race or that no film has engaged with race, what they mean is that for them Romani people do not count and they also haven't been paying attention. I'm going to share a little material from a recent talk. Content note: racism 1/
November 14, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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swordsjew.bsky.social
Frankenstein (2025)
sadiq @SadiqoJN • Follow Why do bash "dead-beat" dads for not being there for their kids but we never question if the child has bad vibes? Or if they're just unpleasant to be around?
November 13, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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merchantshallyork.org
Bonjour nos petits macarons. It us the Merchant Adventurers' Hall!

Today we are going to talk about Napoleon. Specifically this statue of Napoleon and his adventures in York.

Rejoignez-nous!
We are looking at a close up of a painted advertising statue of Napoleon. He is wearing a smart green, white uniform with a red and gold collar. He wears a large bicorn hat trimmed in gold with a rosette in the colours of the tricolour. We are looking at a painted advertising statue of Napoleon. He is wearing a smart green, white uniform with a red and gold collar. He has large gold brocaded shoulders and knee high black boots. He wears a large bicorn hat trimmed in gold with a rosette in the colours of the tricolour. He has a small snuff box in one hand.
November 12, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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rockpapershotgun.bsky.social
The team behind Blue Prince puts out a call to get one of the puzzle game's devs a life-saving kidney
One of the lead playtesters on Blue Prince is in need of a kidney, and the team behind it is asking for your help.
www.rockpapershotgun.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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measuredandslow.bsky.social
New in the shop today: yarn bobbins that you can attach to your work as you go! I was making a blanket with a lot of colors and got annoyed with tangles so a solution was necessary lol. You can grab yours here: https://measuredandslow.studio/shop/3dr8p5pxj9mr8utl2q
🧶 #crochet #knitting
November 11, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social
A cow wearing a t-shirt with the word "SICKOWS" on it looks through a window at 4 crudely made tools and says "MOO... HA HA HA... MOO!!"
November 11, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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sarahjeong.bsky.social
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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csmfht.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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csmfht.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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everydaylouie.bsky.social
SPYGLASS - i spy-themed folktronica album out now!

louiezong.bandcamp.com/album/spyglass
an album cover in a walter wick i spy style of me with a guitar, sitting amongst a bunch of found objects
November 7, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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adapalmer.bsky.social
Lorenzo de Medici’s pet giraffe used to wander 1480s Florence sticking its head in second story windows to be fed by excited neighbors (or eating their ribeye is herbs) and this is a great visual to help imagine it.
fxmc1957.bsky.social Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 21d
PHOTO OF THE DAY. A policeman stops traffic to let a man carrying an inflatable rubber giraffe cross the road on his way to the British Industries Fair in London (1935)
📷 google images
November 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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paintree.art
To paraphrase Ursula le Guin, to seek absolute safety is to seek control. That's not a way to live among friends. Instead of bunkers, build community.

Xenography, up at paintree.art

#poem #skypoem #poetry #art #artist #artsky #painting #paintree #hopescrolling
A painting of hands overlapping in a loop, one holding a bunch of incredibly delicious looking grapes and one holding a sparkling new set of glasses. Accompanied by the following poem: Xenography Americans prep for doomsday by flexing self-reliance. A suburban fluoride-free well, a personal wheat silo. I broke my leg as a kid and while in traction grasped that in a bunker I would have died. So when it looked like the worst might happen, I began begging in my city, since it’s wiser to ask someone for help and then ask them to be your friend than the reverse. You, you reading this poem, are my hedge against catastrophe. I will hunt and gather for you if you will make me new glasses when mine break. A painting of hands overlapping in a loop, one holding a bunch of incredibly delicious looking grapes and one holding a sparkling new set of glasses. Accompanied by the following poem: Xenography Americans prep for doomsday by flexing self-reliance. A suburban fluoride-free well, a personal wheat silo. I broke my leg as a kid and while in traction grasped that in a bunker I would have died. So when it looked like the worst might happen, I began begging in my city, since it’s wiser to ask someone for help and then ask them to be your friend than the reverse. You, you reading this poem, are my hedge against catastrophe. I will hunt and gather for you if you will make me new glasses when mine break. A painting of hands overlapping in a loop, one holding a bunch of incredibly delicious looking grapes and one holding a sparkling new set of glasses. Accompanied by the following poem: Xenography Americans prep for doomsday by flexing self-reliance. A suburban fluoride-free well, a personal wheat silo. I broke my leg as a kid and while in traction grasped that in a bunker I would have died. So when it looked like the worst might happen, I began begging in my city, since it’s wiser to ask someone for help and then ask them to be your friend than the reverse. You, you reading this poem, are my hedge against catastrophe. I will hunt and gather for you if you will make me new glasses when mine break.
November 7, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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techknitter.bsky.social
#knitting #knittinghowto #doubleknitting #🧶

Knitters are asking me: Is 4-needle double-knitting related to 4 double-pointed needles?

The answer is no.

An illustrated post shows the difference + what 4-needle double-knitting actually is.

techknitting.blogspot.com/2025/11/four...
graphic in two parts. The top shows the four-needle double-knitting set-up to be two circular needles with a total of four tips, each tip is numbered. The bottom shows four double-pointed needles (dpn's). Each needle is numbered. The title is "similar names, different set-ups."
November 5, 2025 at 9:05 AM