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Sue
@veg-grower.bsky.social
Happy smiley person, walking on sunshine, living the dream, occasionally given to over-exaggeration. Chicken keeper, permaculturist, jam-maker, knitter, wannabe designer. She/Her. No DMs
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#CountdownToMabon #knitsky 🧶
Celebrating the Wheel of the Year with a Half Price sale on all patterns in The Wheel collection, including the newly released Mabon, the eighth shawl.
Mabon is a half circle of texture, formed by short rows and featuring a memorable pattern.

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Mabon
Mabon is the eighth and final festival in the Wheel of the Year. This year it falls on 22nd September, and is also known as the Autumnal Equinox or Harvest Home in the Northern Hemisphere, Spring Equi...
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December 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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This whole thread is just perfect
December 21, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Am I fortunate enough to be followed by anyone who could tell me if Inverness had taxi apps in 2016? It didn’t have Uber, I know that much 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
December 21, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Today’s the winter solstice so here’s a list of ten wintery films…

10. Scarf-face
9. Casablanket
8. Jurassic Parka
7. Fleece Academy
6. Extra Layer Cake
5. Mittens Impossible
4. Thermals and Louise
3. The Men Who Stare at Coats
2. What’s Heating Gilbert Grape
1. The Snood, the Bad and the Snuggly
December 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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🎄ADVENT PATTERN DAY 21: Dew Drops Scarf🎄

Please use coupon code ADVENT2025 to get a ✨25% discount✨ on this pattern in my Ravelry store today.🧶

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Dew Drops Scarf pattern by Lisa Hannes
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December 21, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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So, just to confirm, the BBC can’t keep Robin Ince on the air because his trans allyship brings the organisation into disrepute, but they can keep David Walliams, who performed Nazi salutes at the recording of this very show, on the air despite him being predatory towards women. Cool. Very normal.
December 21, 2025 at 10:59 AM
#ShowMeYourKnits 🧶 take 2. The prompt is Whites and Brights, so this time I'm going with Brights. TBH this describes most of my knitting output - I do like bright colours. This modular sock yarn blanket was knit in 2023, and I named the project Let's Start a Riot, for obvious reasons!😎
December 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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If you've listened to our latest Patreon Podcast, you'll know that we need to urgently turn things around

Please support us for £1 a month- if 1/4 of our followers could, it would be the financial security we need!

Thank you - please share 🐴🐏

Patreon & Fundraising pages:
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December 21, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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That’s what these ‘debates’ are really about: framing old fashioned oppression as some kind of high-brow concern for women’s happiness.

You know what makes us happy? Bank accounts. Voting rights. The ability to leave a bad marriage and not have a miscarriage kill us.
December 21, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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If you don't already know about it, #duvetknowitschristmas is an annual ritual that brings great "What were they thinking??"joy and has also raised a lot of money for homeless charities.
Thread👇#duvetknowitschristmas
1/ So, where were we? Oh yep, #duvetknowitschristmas. Firstly, some admin: Twitter/X has evidently been run into the ground by a preening, self-radicalised clot, so while there's a slim possibility that this annual celebration might be thriving over there, I won't know cos I won't be looking.
December 20, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Ricky Gervais has channelled £2.5 million from his stand‑up tour to a range of animal protection organisations. 💰🐮

#rickygervais #vegancelebrities #animals #charity #comedian

Ricky Gervais Channels £2.4 million “Mortality” Tour Profit into Animal Charities
On 8th December 2025, comedian Ricky Gervais was reported to have redirected almost £2.5 million from his “Mortality” stand‑up tour to a range of animal protection organisations…
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December 21, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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If Israel Gets To Undermine Our Rights, Then We Get To Undermine Israel

If Israel is going after us, then we get to go after Israel. It’s just basic self-defense at this point.

www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/if-israel-...
If Israel Gets To Undermine Our Rights, Then We Get To Undermine Israel
Reading by Tim Foley:
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December 21, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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A great start to the weekend of the winter solstice!
What a morning at Newgrange today.

The livestream link now available - be sure tune in on the morning of 21 December at 8:40am.
🔗 gov.ie/solstice 👈save it, share it, join in!

#ShareTheSolstice #NewgrangeSolstice #WinterSolstice
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December 19, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Monaco based tax-exile Jim Ratcliffe businesses received up to £70m UK subsidy in last 4 years. More promised.

Free cash, not repayable, no means-testing, no equity stake taken.

Sunday Times Rich List estimated his wealth to be £17bn.

Benefit cuts for the poor, free cash for corporations/Rich.
Jim Ratcliffe chemical firms received up to £70m of UK state aid in last four years
The government is preparing a £50m bailout for Ineos’s Grangemouth plant, after Jim Ratcliffe asked for help in October
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Keir Starmer’s Labour government is prepared to let Palestine hunger strikers die.

We cannot allow that.

We must stand with the hunger strikers and immediate bail for the remand prisoners — now.

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free 🇵🇸
December 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
🧶 #knitsky I don't know if anyone else has a tradition of Christmas-eve cast on. I like to cast on something new for Christmas Eve, it's fun choosing a pattern and yarn, and getting everything ready to knit. This year, I'm going to cast on Nascent by Samantha West
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Nascent Cable Cowl pattern by Samantha West
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December 20, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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This Australian film on Israel jailing and abusing young Palestinian children is more than 10 years old.

Israel wants you thinking it treats children this way because they throw stones.

No. Children throw stones because generations of Palestinians have been treated this way.
December 20, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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You might ask: what will it take, for our ruling class to finally come clean about what they have done, and at long last stop? And the answer at this point is: not fascism, and also not genocide.
December 20, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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I knit sweaters for my mugs 🤩 I’m calling it main character mug wear 😍 Like and share if you think they’re as cute as I do 🥰

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December 20, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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The White House has been caught.

The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.

In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
December 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM
#ShowMeYourKnits 🧶 Liv's prompt this week is Whites and Brights. I am too messy a person to be able to wear white or cream so don't have many white knits. My Whitley Common shawl was knit in white Linen/silk laceweight, which was a lovely yarn but a nightmare to photograph accurately!
December 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Hi #knitting friends, It’s been a minute! I’ve been working on a YouTube Channel to share my knitting tips and journeys - like Ladderback jacquard feat. @knitterkim.bsky.social beautiful colors 😍 youtube.com/shorts/YvASk...
Long floats and Ladderback Jacquard: a tip for continuous ladder shifting
YouTube video by Vickie Bird
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December 20, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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🎄 Just getting my last Xmas cards out there.

✍🏼 Dear cabinet....
December 20, 2025 at 11:42 AM