Pat McDermott
@twinsetpat.bsky.social
knitter, museum goer, jazz lover, gardener, pesto maker
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
November 17, 2025 at 7:51 AM
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
We did a Visibility Brigade action today over I-287 in central NJ today. All of the NJ groups have been putting up messages to support @mikiesherrill.bsky.social for governor this month. Everything helps.
October 25, 2025 at 1:03 AM
We did a Visibility Brigade action today over I-287 in central NJ today. All of the NJ groups have been putting up messages to support @mikiesherrill.bsky.social for governor this month. Everything helps.
I started a Visibility Brigade in my area. We use letter panels to spell out messages to drivers during rush hour. There are more than 250 groups nationwide now.
September 11, 2025 at 3:21 AM
I started a Visibility Brigade in my area. We use letter panels to spell out messages to drivers during rush hour. There are more than 250 groups nationwide now.
This is the message our Visibility Brigade posted in East Brunswick, NJ, on August 8:
GRAB HIM BY THE EPSTEIN FILES
GRAB HIM BY THE EPSTEIN FILES
August 11, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This is the message our Visibility Brigade posted in East Brunswick, NJ, on August 8:
GRAB HIM BY THE EPSTEIN FILES
GRAB HIM BY THE EPSTEIN FILES
Good Trouble Lives On
Rahway Indivisible Rush Hour Rally
#indivisible
#indivisiblerahway
#nokings
#goodtroubleliveson
Rahway Indivisible Rush Hour Rally
#indivisible
#indivisiblerahway
#nokings
#goodtroubleliveson
July 18, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Good Trouble Lives On
Rahway Indivisible Rush Hour Rally
#indivisible
#indivisiblerahway
#nokings
#goodtroubleliveson
Rahway Indivisible Rush Hour Rally
#indivisible
#indivisiblerahway
#nokings
#goodtroubleliveson
June 14, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Greetings from the Visibility Brigade of Indivisible Central NJ.
We had our first action today (with a message we selected before the call from VB Headquarters. We had a rush hour message in East Brunswick, reaching people on their way home and heading to the Jersey Shore.
We had our first action today (with a message we selected before the call from VB Headquarters. We had a rush hour message in East Brunswick, reaching people on their way home and heading to the Jersey Shore.
May 31, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Greetings from the Visibility Brigade of Indivisible Central NJ.
We had our first action today (with a message we selected before the call from VB Headquarters. We had a rush hour message in East Brunswick, reaching people on their way home and heading to the Jersey Shore.
We had our first action today (with a message we selected before the call from VB Headquarters. We had a rush hour message in East Brunswick, reaching people on their way home and heading to the Jersey Shore.
Attended this Visibility protest for May Day, organized by Plainfields Area Indivisible. People were on the pedestrian overpass & at the nearby intersection of US Route 22 in North Plainfield, during afternoon rush from 4:30-6 pm. Lots of honks and fist pumps from passing vehicles!
May 2, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Attended this Visibility protest for May Day, organized by Plainfields Area Indivisible. People were on the pedestrian overpass & at the nearby intersection of US Route 22 in North Plainfield, during afternoon rush from 4:30-6 pm. Lots of honks and fist pumps from passing vehicles!
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
April 22, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
Current WIP (work in progress): #splitbandanacowl, designed by @lavanyapatricella.bsky.social from her wonderful book Brioche Knitting Workshop (purchased in Rhinebeck, NY). I’m using hand-dyed DK yarns from two of my favorite people: Marianated Yarns (blue-green) & @woolbearers.bsky.social (gold) 🧶
April 13, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Current WIP (work in progress): #splitbandanacowl, designed by @lavanyapatricella.bsky.social from her wonderful book Brioche Knitting Workshop (purchased in Rhinebeck, NY). I’m using hand-dyed DK yarns from two of my favorite people: Marianated Yarns (blue-green) & @woolbearers.bsky.social (gold) 🧶
More than 500 people showed up in Metuchen, NJ, a small suburban town north of New Brunswick. Town police estimated 1,000 people.
April 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM
More than 500 people showed up in Metuchen, NJ, a small suburban town north of New Brunswick. Town police estimated 1,000 people.
My second suggestion is the book How to Live by Sarah Bakewell, a biography of the 16th-century essayist Michel d’Eyquem de Montaigne, who wrote about what constitutes a good life.
March 31, 2025 at 7:53 PM
My second suggestion is the book How to Live by Sarah Bakewell, a biography of the 16th-century essayist Michel d’Eyquem de Montaigne, who wrote about what constitutes a good life.
I have two suggestions
The first is The Bridge of San Luis Rey, a novel by American writer Thornton Wilder, published in 1927.
The closing line:
"There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning."
The first is The Bridge of San Luis Rey, a novel by American writer Thornton Wilder, published in 1927.
The closing line:
"There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning."
March 31, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I have two suggestions
The first is The Bridge of San Luis Rey, a novel by American writer Thornton Wilder, published in 1927.
The closing line:
"There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning."
The first is The Bridge of San Luis Rey, a novel by American writer Thornton Wilder, published in 1927.
The closing line:
"There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning."
#FridayReads
Now reading
A wonderful discussion between Judi Dench and Brendan O’Hea about acting in Shakespeare
bookshop.org/p/books/shak...
Now reading
A wonderful discussion between Judi Dench and Brendan O’Hea about acting in Shakespeare
bookshop.org/p/books/shak...
March 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
#FridayReads
Now reading
A wonderful discussion between Judi Dench and Brendan O’Hea about acting in Shakespeare
bookshop.org/p/books/shak...
Now reading
A wonderful discussion between Judi Dench and Brendan O’Hea about acting in Shakespeare
bookshop.org/p/books/shak...
#FridayReads
Just led the discussion in my book club for The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science by Kate Zernike (good news, everyone liked the book and the discussion was great)
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Just led the discussion in my book club for The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science by Kate Zernike (good news, everyone liked the book and the discussion was great)
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
March 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
#FridayReads
Just led the discussion in my book club for The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science by Kate Zernike (good news, everyone liked the book and the discussion was great)
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Just led the discussion in my book club for The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science by Kate Zernike (good news, everyone liked the book and the discussion was great)
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Just saw this in comments over at @tpm.bsky.social
If Tr*mp says that you have “courage” you are doing it wrong @schumer.senate.gov
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If Tr*mp says that you have “courage” you are doing it wrong @schumer.senate.gov
👇🏽👇🏻👇🏾👇🏼👇🏿
March 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Just saw this in comments over at @tpm.bsky.social
If Tr*mp says that you have “courage” you are doing it wrong @schumer.senate.gov
👇🏽👇🏻👇🏾👇🏼👇🏿
If Tr*mp says that you have “courage” you are doing it wrong @schumer.senate.gov
👇🏽👇🏻👇🏾👇🏼👇🏿
Closing the crown on a striped brioche hat
#ShowMeYourKnits
Worsted yarns from Patons and Cascade
Pattern: Canvas Hat by Oak Designs MI
#ShowMeYourKnits
Worsted yarns from Patons and Cascade
Pattern: Canvas Hat by Oak Designs MI
March 11, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Closing the crown on a striped brioche hat
#ShowMeYourKnits
Worsted yarns from Patons and Cascade
Pattern: Canvas Hat by Oak Designs MI
#ShowMeYourKnits
Worsted yarns from Patons and Cascade
Pattern: Canvas Hat by Oak Designs MI
This has been an excellent book to read right now.
Highly recommend
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Highly recommend
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February 18, 2025 at 3:47 AM
This has been an excellent book to read right now.
Highly recommend
👇🏿👇🏼👇🏽👇🏻👇🏾
Highly recommend
👇🏿👇🏼👇🏽👇🏻👇🏾
February 13, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I don’t know if this counts. My little pot of grape hyacinths decided that frigid weather in December was a good time to bloom.
Don’t know what it will do when spring comes 🙃
Don’t know what it will do when spring comes 🙃
February 7, 2025 at 2:39 AM
I don’t know if this counts. My little pot of grape hyacinths decided that frigid weather in December was a good time to bloom.
Don’t know what it will do when spring comes 🙃
Don’t know what it will do when spring comes 🙃
This was the year of knitting brioche hats. 🧶
Here are 5 before they were packed up and shipped to their respective recipients.
Here are 5 before they were packed up and shipped to their respective recipients.
December 20, 2024 at 2:46 AM
This was the year of knitting brioche hats. 🧶
Here are 5 before they were packed up and shipped to their respective recipients.
Here are 5 before they were packed up and shipped to their respective recipients.