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squ33ack.bsky.social
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@squ33ack.bsky.social
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I knit and I know (some) things.
I drive an EV (no, not a Tesla) and recycle, so yeah, I'm one of those people.
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Cracked the filter cover on my N95 earlier when I was swapping the filter to prep for my infusion center appt. 🙃 Had to borrow the husband's, which felt weird since his is more broken in than mine. Lucky for me, envomask's running a sale so I can replace the cover and grab a couple spares.
Cracked blue frame of a reusable N95 respirator's filter cover. It finally got tired of being manhandled by an impatient person (me) and snapped.
December 8, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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I don't make the rules. 🤣 #EV #FordMustang #MustangMachE
A bright blue Mustang Mach-e is backed into a parking spot beside a darker blue Dark Horse Mustang.
November 21, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Civic duty: complete

Bonus: talked EVs with a guy who's been driving them for over a decade.
A pale hand with chipped blue nail polish holds a sticker with the image of a peach and the text "I'm a Georgia voter" in the center and "I secured my vote" under the peach.
October 25, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Blue tea in a blue cup. At the rate I'm going, I'm going to need another bag of pea flower tea in a couple weeks, especially since the weather's forecasted to get dreary. #Tea #Pottery
Dark blueish tea in a handmade cup, the lip of which is a white with dark speckles. The cup is sitting on a light-color, dark speckled counter. A cup that is light blue at the bottom, a medium blue band in the middle, and a mostly white band at the top sits on a light-color with dark speckles kitchen counter. The tea in the cup is a darkish blue.
October 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Multitasking. #Knitting #EV #WIP
The corner of an orange moss stitch blanket with the tip of a needle sticking out is in the foreground, with an in-use EV charger in the midground. A street, trees, a nondescript office building, and blue sky are in the background.
October 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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TFW you see that you've had yarn in your stash for over a decade. Little sad to see the gray go, but it's been discontinued for years so I doubt I'd find more easily. #Knitting #NiftyKnitterDesigns #DoubleKnit
Knit square with a pink cat and border and a great background that goes from dark at the bottom to lighter at the top. Knit square with a pink background and grey cat and border. The grey gradually gets lighter from bottom to top.
September 30, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Got called "ignorant" & "fat lady" on a trail today bc she was mad I told her her dog should be on a leash, bc you know, rules. She had a leash for it w/her, so she prob. knew & was just being an EWL.

It's gotta be tough being such a bitch.

My socks, and the turtle I found were cooler than her.
Eastern box turtle looking way cooler than an entitled white lady who couldn't bothered to put her dog on a leash in a park where they're required. It has orange eyes and a light brown pattern on a dark brown shell.
August 28, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Always nice to find the EV spot free of rando ICE vehicles in this parking deck...me we didn't have to deal with hot stairwells or dodging cars that couldn't turn a corner responsibly. #MustangTheCarNotTheHorse #EV
A bright blue Ford Mustang Mach-E EV backed into a parking spot marked 'EV'.
June 30, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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Social media post from Alex Giampapa on 1/6/20. It says: America just needs a mom to be like, "A new war? You got new war money? You never even finished the last two. We have plenty of war at home."
June 24, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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Made it through five delves on my hunter, then tried to do another..delve's missing, walked through the entrance, fell through the ground, disconnected, logged back in, and now I'm dead and can't release. Guess that's enough WoW for tonight!
A hunter with two pet birds that are taller than her look at a teal hole where a delve entrance should be. A hunter falling from a great height after walking through the missing delve entrance. Disconnection and death are imminent. A dead hunter floats in a large body of water with a message to summon her pets, but since she's dead and has no option to release, can't summon anything.
June 24, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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Broke WoW on my warlock...went through the tunnel to Ringing Deeps, came out to non-loading surroundings, the zone text changed from Ringing Deeps to Dornogal, then disconnected. Now I get disconnected when I log in on her, but my others load fine. :( I just wanted to do delves! #WorldOfWarcraft
A screenshot from World of Warcraft of a translucent green manta ray with warlock skills under it flying in a grey nothingness with a white circle with sparkles sits in the middle. A minimap and quest log are on the right side, along with two bars with various buttons on them.
June 24, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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First time laying it out and getting a good look at it since binding off almost two months ago! Super happy with how well the yarns contrast each other. Would I knit another one? Probably! 🧶 #ShowMeYourKnits #Knitting
Full-length photo of a double-knit scarf with a fluorescent yellow squid with some small sections of orange-ish red on a dark, but bright purple background. The carpet is a unimpressive beige. Dog stairs, toys, and a cat's upright cardboard scratcher are in the background. Full-length photo of a double-knit scarf with a dark, but bright purple squid on a background of fluorescent yellow with some small sections of orange-ish red. The carpet is a unimpressive beige. Dog stairs, toys, and a cat's upright cardboard scratcher are in the background.
June 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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My crack is getting bigger. :(
Crack in the sole of a shoe with five individual spaces for toes.
June 20, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Gilbert 🐕 was murdered alongside his people, MN state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark. 🙁 SchnoodleDoodleDo on Reddit wrote him a memorial poem. 😭 #Dogs

helpingpaws.org
Poem in white text on a black background by SchnoodleDoodleDo. ’His name was Gilbert …’ Some puppies - they ‘make it’, n pass every test i’m Gilbert the dog n i just tried my best… was raised for a ‘service,’ n did what i could my humans - they loved me, n said I was Good i’m not sure what happened…i’m with mom n dad (i’m trying so hard, but they still seem so sad…) it’s strange, but they’re saying we’re here now, to stay n this is my service for them, in a way so maybe there’s others inspired by Me! (you just never know what your service will be…) a puppy Forever, i’ll never grow old Remember me now, for my pure Heart of Gold ❤️ edit: Link to Helping Paws https://helpingpaws.org/
June 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Had to do some frogging in public before I can knit. 😭
A messy pile of purple and gray yarn on a table. The band of a hat in alternating columns of purple and gray yarns, unaware of its imminent demise.
June 14, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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It's staying pretty consistently in the 80's right now, so of course it's the best time for cold weather knits, right? It also leaves me with nothing on the needles for Knit in Public Day, which sucks. Of course, it's supposed to rain tomorrow so who knows if I'll even go out. 🧶 #KnitSky #FOFriday
A knit mosaic cowl called Cheating at Checkers by Susan Ashcroft made up of boxes of slightly variegated green and brown dk-weight yarns, both from Unplanned Peacock.
June 14, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Woo! According to Carvana, my car's value has increased!

Except I sold it back in 2020...because it was in high demand. The money I made from selling it became the down payment on my current car. 🤣
The left side shows that a 2018 Toyota Camry is currently worth $16,400, an increase of $500. The left side shows a line graph of the increase in worth between May 10th and June 9th.
June 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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A drawing of the Capitol Building in Washington DC with a blue, pink, white, pink, and blue rainbow behind it. Black writing above says "I didn't grow up saying "with liberty and justice for all" every fucking day to accept anything less." Credit to @tjdPoetry.
April 6, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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Finally experienced Buc-ee's. Bathrooms were clean, but that place is a whole lot of no thanks for the most part. Too many people, too many cars, much chaos. The Mercedes Benz chargers were nice though! Speedy, more info than others, long cables...they were the only ones that got money from me. 🤣
EV charger screen showing a graph of the charge rate slowing as time progressed, and a list to the left with charger number used (port 6), the connector type (CCS1), how much energy was delivered (24.4399 kWh), the average speed (105.43 kW), and the SoC (49% -> 76%).
March 24, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Pretty sure I didn't have cross-stitching an anime character's butt on my cross-stitch bingo card when I first picked it up in my teens, but here we are.

Pattern courtesy of CraftyBtchDesigns on Etsy
A round cross-stitch project of the anime character Frieren with the upper half of her body stuck inside a mimic shaped like a treasure chest and her lower half outside of it. Much like how she was found numerous times in the anime series. The back of the completed Frieren cross-stitch project, showing the reverse of the designed stitched on the front and all the thread ends.
March 13, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Someone posted this in one of the FB groups..

Confirmed that it is a free pattern from jackrose_5 (Claddagh Cross Stitch) on IG.
Cross stitch pattern of the Ukrainian trident centered on a background of darker blue and lighter blue.
March 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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The best answer they could give me is that it might be less when the bill gets created since I've already had stuff done that would also count against my deductible...so I'll likely also get a bill for last month's Benlysta at some point for who knows how much $.

Bullshit US insurance.
A screenshot of a estimate total of $1,921US for Injectafer, which is basically IV iron. This is what will potentially be owed even after Blue Cross Blue Shield approved it.
February 11, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Screenshot of a Reddit post with a cropped section of a map showing the Gulf of Mexico but the text has been altered to show it as the Gulf of Denmark due to the Vikings having landed in America 900 years ago.
February 2, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Had to brave the rain to grab the gold for the top crown, but it's done. Next step is to figure out framing, I suppose. 🧶

Pattern is from @subversivexs.bsky.social!
A cross stitch pattern with black text that reads " with fear for our democracy, I dissent" with a blue and red border in a repeating pattern on an off-white fabric. There's a gold crown centered in the middle of the top section of the border, and an upside down black crown center in the middle of the bottom section. A view of the back side of the cross stitch that shows the many ends that were tidily tacked down. It would not be considered a messy scene.
February 1, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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WIP whatever-day-it-is 🧶

I should probably be working on my scarf, but maybe stabbing fabric repeatedly with a needle will help with the stress right now.
Cross stitch with black text that says "with fear for our democracy, I dissent" on a white fabric with a partially completed border of a repeating red and blue design.
January 31, 2025 at 6:02 AM