snowgall
@snowgall.bsky.social
Linguist specializing in ASL and syntax. Knitter of doilies. Art editor for chestnutreview.bsky.social
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· Dec 8
Herbert Niebling - Wikipedia
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Figured I should make a thread collecting my doily posts.
These are all knit by me, mostly from designs by Herbert Niebling, a prolific designer from the early 20th century.
Check out his Wikipedia page (which I also created!) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert...
#knitting #lace #doily #fiberarts
These are all knit by me, mostly from designs by Herbert Niebling, a prolific designer from the early 20th century.
Check out his Wikipedia page (which I also created!) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert...
#knitting #lace #doily #fiberarts
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My #SuperlativeCannedGoo tweet from the old place is making rounds again. Support co-op cranberry growers!
November 17, 2025 at 1:52 AM
My #SuperlativeCannedGoo tweet from the old place is making rounds again. Support co-op cranberry growers!
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If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
November 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
This is a hyper-specific comparison that is 100% accurate.
IYKYK
IYKYK
Trump is a mix of the geriatric self aggrandizement of Leonid Brezhnev, and the sexual history of Lavrentiy Beria.
November 16, 2025 at 12:18 AM
This is a hyper-specific comparison that is 100% accurate.
IYKYK
IYKYK
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Always "a 15-year-old isn't a child" and never "a 15-year-old should be able to vote." Smdh
November 15, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Always "a 15-year-old isn't a child" and never "a 15-year-old should be able to vote." Smdh
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This is me at 15. I’m a child.
I’m a CHILD.
I’m a CHILD.
November 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
This is me at 15. I’m a child.
I’m a CHILD.
I’m a CHILD.
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Story Time: How a VR video game opened a cis straight guy's mind to what it's like being transgender (and yes, there's alt-text):
November 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Story Time: How a VR video game opened a cis straight guy's mind to what it's like being transgender (and yes, there's alt-text):
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I can't believe it's November 5th already. We've got up to 5cm of snow forecast for tonight so I guess it's time...
#ArtAdventCalendar starts in 25 days. Artists get your posting fingers ready.
#ArtAdventCalendar starts in 25 days. Artists get your posting fingers ready.
#ArtAdventCalendar
In its 11th year, #artadventcalendar participants post an original piece of art from Dec 1-24. Paintings, drawings, sculpture, textiles, beading, photography. If it’s art and it beautifies th…
earthskyart.ca
November 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I can't believe it's November 5th already. We've got up to 5cm of snow forecast for tonight so I guess it's time...
#ArtAdventCalendar starts in 25 days. Artists get your posting fingers ready.
#ArtAdventCalendar starts in 25 days. Artists get your posting fingers ready.
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I've given it some thought, and I think the funniest possible outcome is if they somehow decide to impeach Bill Clinton again
November 15, 2025 at 6:08 AM
I've given it some thought, and I think the funniest possible outcome is if they somehow decide to impeach Bill Clinton again
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The Midwest yearns for more train
The Chicago-hub Amtrak service is outperforming many other U.S. regions in ridership growth. will.illinois.edu/21stshow/sto...
The state of rail travel across Illinois | Illinois Public Media
There's a lot of passenger rail projects underway across Illinois with some pushing full-steam ahead and some in railway limbo.
The 21st Show is Illinois' statewide weekday public radio talk show...
will.illinois.edu
November 15, 2025 at 4:39 AM
The Midwest yearns for more train
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"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 9:10 AM
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
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Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
www.yahoo.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
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65 Years Ago,,, History was made. #RubyBridges
November 15, 2025 at 4:41 AM
65 Years Ago,,, History was made. #RubyBridges
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How quickly people have forgotten about Dennis Hastert.
They still use, obey, and talk about "The Hastert Rule" in the House. Just in case you thought all this "GOP is the Party of Pedophiles" is new. He was Speaker of the House for 8 years.
They still use, obey, and talk about "The Hastert Rule" in the House. Just in case you thought all this "GOP is the Party of Pedophiles" is new. He was Speaker of the House for 8 years.
November 15, 2025 at 4:50 AM
How quickly people have forgotten about Dennis Hastert.
They still use, obey, and talk about "The Hastert Rule" in the House. Just in case you thought all this "GOP is the Party of Pedophiles" is new. He was Speaker of the House for 8 years.
They still use, obey, and talk about "The Hastert Rule" in the House. Just in case you thought all this "GOP is the Party of Pedophiles" is new. He was Speaker of the House for 8 years.
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So
This is how I learned that
There were some new emails released today
Um
This is how I learned that
There were some new emails released today
Um
Honey, literally nothing in the last thirty years prepared me for the suggestion of Trump blowing Bill Clinton.
November 15, 2025 at 3:26 AM
So
This is how I learned that
There were some new emails released today
Um
This is how I learned that
There were some new emails released today
Um
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And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:16 AM
And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
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a “Space Force”, if you will
November 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
a “Space Force”, if you will
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One thing to keep in mind,going into the holidays shopping season: huge corporations can offer deep discounts because they never intended to sell items at full price anyway- prices were always grossly inflated to make big discounts look like Deals. It’s built into their marketing.
November 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
One thing to keep in mind,going into the holidays shopping season: huge corporations can offer deep discounts because they never intended to sell items at full price anyway- prices were always grossly inflated to make big discounts look like Deals. It’s built into their marketing.
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There's this woman doing an absolutely wild social experiment on TikTok. She calls random US churches with the sound of a baby crying in the background, explain the baby hasn't eaten in over 12 hours, and asks for 1 bottle of baby formula. She has a public spreadsheet of how each one responded. 1/3
November 13, 2025 at 6:48 AM
There's this woman doing an absolutely wild social experiment on TikTok. She calls random US churches with the sound of a baby crying in the background, explain the baby hasn't eaten in over 12 hours, and asks for 1 bottle of baby formula. She has a public spreadsheet of how each one responded. 1/3
This could be another example for @gretchenmcc.bsky.social 's ongoing series of novel and bizarre sentences that speakers of a language are nevertheless able to understand perfectly well.
Imagine trying to convince someone a decade ago that this sentence would be a 100% literally accurate description of the American political situation.
The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
November 13, 2025 at 8:32 AM
This could be another example for @gretchenmcc.bsky.social 's ongoing series of novel and bizarre sentences that speakers of a language are nevertheless able to understand perfectly well.
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Let's talk about why "just spell it how it sounds" is actually not straightforward, especially for a large language like English. The big questions are: "How it sounds" when spoken*by whom*? And who gets to choose?
#linguistics
#linguistics
Incidentally, this is why I’m against strict spelling. Words should be spelled the way they sound & we spell words as if we’re speaking Middle English for ridiculous class reasons
In ME you’d pronounce the k in “knight” but some dumbass needed to prove he was cool & now we have a literacy problem
In ME you’d pronounce the k in “knight” but some dumbass needed to prove he was cool & now we have a literacy problem
ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
November 12, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Let's talk about why "just spell it how it sounds" is actually not straightforward, especially for a large language like English. The big questions are: "How it sounds" when spoken*by whom*? And who gets to choose?
#linguistics
#linguistics
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I legitimately don’t fucking feel good right now.
I don’t care how that man died I’m glad he did and I hope there’s a hell just for him and I hope the rest join him soon.
I don’t care how that man died I’m glad he did and I hope there’s a hell just for him and I hope the rest join him soon.
November 12, 2025 at 11:42 PM
I legitimately don’t fucking feel good right now.
I don’t care how that man died I’m glad he did and I hope there’s a hell just for him and I hope the rest join him soon.
I don’t care how that man died I’m glad he did and I hope there’s a hell just for him and I hope the rest join him soon.
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Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
November 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
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The font would appear to be English 111 Adagio CE, available for the highly presidential sum of just $39.75 USD
Note "The" is not kerned correctly
(see perspective-corrected still for reference)
Note "The" is not kerned correctly
(see perspective-corrected still for reference)
November 12, 2025 at 5:11 AM
The font would appear to be English 111 Adagio CE, available for the highly presidential sum of just $39.75 USD
Note "The" is not kerned correctly
(see perspective-corrected still for reference)
Note "The" is not kerned correctly
(see perspective-corrected still for reference)
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Friendly reminder that dishwashers made after 1995 or so are so water and energy efficient that even if you ran them twice fully loaded it would still use less water than handwashing the same load.
So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.
So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.
November 12, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Friendly reminder that dishwashers made after 1995 or so are so water and energy efficient that even if you ran them twice fully loaded it would still use less water than handwashing the same load.
So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.
So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.