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Cam
@tipsytarsier.bsky.social
Knitter, hiker, mother of cats
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Feeding America has a page where you can input your zip code and it'll show you all of the food banks near you overlaid on a map. If you need it, it's there. If you don't need it, think about donating money if you have it and your time if you don't.

www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...
Find Your Local Food Bank | Feeding America
Find the Feeding America member food bank nearest you. Over 200 member food banks can connect you with free food, food pantries, soup kitchens, and mobile pantries in your community.
www.feedingamerica.org
October 26, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵
October 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Seeing the new generation of fiber arts practitioners struggling with the suddenly-back-in-style chenille...

IT WAS ALWAYS LIKE THAT!!! CHENILLE IS A LIE!!!! So soft, so sumptuous, so velvety-- on the skein. In practice, it's a shedding nightmare that makes Labradors look like Sphinx cats.
October 12, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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This is insane.
The FBI is preparing to label transgender people as “violent extremists” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readie...
FBI Readies New War on Trans People
“We’re looking at the entire web”
www.kenklippenstein.com
September 19, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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reposted this today because the inverse is also true:

if you abandon trans people right now, you are abandoning civil rights period.

if you can't stand up for trans people when it matters, no one should, or will, ever trust you when the bullseye moves to the next target.
the thing about trans rights is that we fight the civil rights issues of our time. nazi chuds have made this the issue of our time.

it's not more *important* than other civil rights issues, but it is the battleground of the moment, and we have to meet the moment to support everyone's rights.
Centrists bigots and right wingers have this all backward. YOU are the ones constantly bringing up trans issues. I would be happy to not think about this shit every day of my life unless I was talking to or reading something by one of my trans friends and thought of it in passing. SHUT THE FUCK UP
August 23, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Grabbed these and stuffed them in my bag on the way to the train this morning, intending to wear them at work today. Sigh.
August 19, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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hey psychics, an assignment
if i had the power to control minds everyone would just be thinking about cat memes all day
July 22, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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My brain has two modes:

A) 30 hours of work done in 8 hours

B) 30 minutes of work done in 8 hours
July 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Boosting the cat signal
I know it’s a long shot but I have a very sweet kitten in need of a good loving home. Fuzzy loves to snuggle and is very sweet and playful. I wish I could keep him but our house is full. If anyone needs a good purrbox please let me know
July 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Ever since summer started, the kittens have been complaining that they're arctic creatures and I do not have the a/c low enough. Today I baked bread, so naturally they felt the need to lay in front of the 475 degree oven
#breadsky
July 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Also in customizing our clothing and surroundings when we're pushed to wear and decorate with the same mass-produced crap
People are quick to pooh-pooh things like knitting and crochet and embroidery and quilting, but there's something a little rebellious about deliberately being inefficient when we're constantly bombarded with tips to optimize our personal output.
July 10, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Fun with ruminants.
🔉
July 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Have a closet full of clothes you don't wear anymore? Helpsy finds the next best use for used (or unused) textiles! BUT NOT IF THOSE CLOTHES ARE WET!
The company's in partnership with Baltimore City and Baltimore County. Useful if you've, say, got a bunch of suits you'll never wear again! 🤣
Helpsy offers responsible clothing recycling in Maryland
People buy a lot of clothes, then trash a lot of what they buy. What can a responsible consumer do with unwanted wear?
www.wypr.org
July 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
This week's #showmeyourknits is works in progress, so here's the Perspective shawl I'm working on while commuting 🧶
July 7, 2025 at 7:54 PM
This week's #showmeyourknits is garter stitch, and I have prettier and more useful knits, but one time someone handed me the ugliest acrylic yarn and I said I'm gonna make a tie out of that. People laughed. Well who's laughing now?
June 28, 2025 at 9:30 PM
OMG I love this little guy. Those teeth!
June 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Take note.
June 22, 2025 at 10:47 AM
For this week's #showmeyourknits I present one of my all-time favorites, a Hitofude cardigan made with Scheepje's Whirl
June 22, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time
June 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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The floor is made of obligations.
June 20, 2025 at 2:06 AM
These statues, the commentary, I'm dying
This evening one of the very kind con organizers took us to the Vigeland Sculpture Park in Oslo, which is amazing and you should go and Gustav Vigeland was extraordinarily talented and probably does not deserve the narrative I constructed looking at his work.

But Bluesky! You deserve EVERYTHING!
June 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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I dreamed I was in NZ, doing an undersea adventure film with Sam Neill. They compensated me with a giant bag of edibles. To get them back to the states, I bought a stuffed penguin & put them inside it. I later realized the penguin was alive. Here is a song about that dream, from the penguin's view.
June 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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"Schadenfreude" is one of those complicated German things.

The gist of it is, if you see Freud's shadow, it means you have another two months of seeing phalluses everywhere.
May 21, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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my toxic trait is thinking “once this week is over it’ll calm down” every week forever
April 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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bumblebees are inspirational creatures. Everyone who sees them thinks they have no business flying, science agrees they have no business flying, and they fly everywhere anyway because they want to fly and don't give a damn what you think.

Be a bumblebee
March 21, 2025 at 9:54 AM