Vern
@vernknitsthings.bsky.social
Love knitting, reading, playing video games, and puzzles. I still want to be an archaeologist when I grow up 😁
Found this in our side yard, about 4 inches tall. I don't like eating morels, but I like looking for them.
May 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Found this in our side yard, about 4 inches tall. I don't like eating morels, but I like looking for them.
I have finished up a couple of hats! The first is a Woolly Wormhead pattern, Joyce, knit in Berroco Quechua in color ways Eden and River. The second is from the pattern Crown Hat, designed by Hanna Maciejewska. I used a Caron Cupcake in the colorway Candy Buttons.
April 12, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I have finished up a couple of hats! The first is a Woolly Wormhead pattern, Joyce, knit in Berroco Quechua in color ways Eden and River. The second is from the pattern Crown Hat, designed by Hanna Maciejewska. I used a Caron Cupcake in the colorway Candy Buttons.
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There is a really weird disjuncture between how people on the internet perceive current events and how people I encounter every day seem to perceive them.
February 11, 2025 at 9:23 PM
There is a really weird disjuncture between how people on the internet perceive current events and how people I encounter every day seem to perceive them.
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So here’s how I see things in broad strokes. There are kind of three divergent roads from here.
1) Our institutions hold, more or less. We limp forward and make it to the midterms and beyond. Elections happen and are free enough and fair enough that we can reverse things.
1) Our institutions hold, more or less. We limp forward and make it to the midterms and beyond. Elections happen and are free enough and fair enough that we can reverse things.
February 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
So here’s how I see things in broad strokes. There are kind of three divergent roads from here.
1) Our institutions hold, more or less. We limp forward and make it to the midterms and beyond. Elections happen and are free enough and fair enough that we can reverse things.
1) Our institutions hold, more or less. We limp forward and make it to the midterms and beyond. Elections happen and are free enough and fair enough that we can reverse things.
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Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"
February 2, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"
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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
blog.archive.org
February 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
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Stop scrolling for a second & let the healing power of Doofys meow cleanse your soul 😌
#Cat #Cats #CatsOfBluesky #CatLover
#Cat #Cats #CatsOfBluesky #CatLover
January 31, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Stop scrolling for a second & let the healing power of Doofys meow cleanse your soul 😌
#Cat #Cats #CatsOfBluesky #CatLover
#Cat #Cats #CatsOfBluesky #CatLover
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"Despite possessing Certificates of Indian Blood (CIBs) and state-issued IDs, several individuals have been detained or questioned by ICE agents who do not recognize these documents as valid proof of citizenship."
Reports of Navajo people being detained in immigration sweeps sparks concern from tribal leaders
The DOJ argued in court that Indigenous people don't have birthright citizenship, even though they have for 100 years
azmirror.com
January 25, 2025 at 1:18 AM
"Despite possessing Certificates of Indian Blood (CIBs) and state-issued IDs, several individuals have been detained or questioned by ICE agents who do not recognize these documents as valid proof of citizenship."
Socks are my favorite things to knit. New to me heel this time, and not sure I'm a fan of the fit. Pattern is from an old Knit Simple magazine, and is just called Lace-Edge Socks. Yarn is Washtenaw Wool Company Leelanau in Tweet. 🧶
January 24, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Socks are my favorite things to knit. New to me heel this time, and not sure I'm a fan of the fit. Pattern is from an old Knit Simple magazine, and is just called Lace-Edge Socks. Yarn is Washtenaw Wool Company Leelanau in Tweet. 🧶
Buddy's is giving me musical whiplash here. There was a sung rendition of the lord's prayer followed by Billy Idol and Do You Hear What I Hear followed by the Beastie Boys.
December 21, 2024 at 10:24 PM
Buddy's is giving me musical whiplash here. There was a sung rendition of the lord's prayer followed by Billy Idol and Do You Hear What I Hear followed by the Beastie Boys.
For someone who hates knitting cables, I have a knack for choosing patterns that contain a lot of them 🧶
December 19, 2024 at 1:42 AM
For someone who hates knitting cables, I have a knack for choosing patterns that contain a lot of them 🧶
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One of Joe's coworkers gave us a venison back strap. Cooked that for dinner tonight with onions and mushrooms in a red wine sauce. So good.
December 16, 2024 at 12:36 AM
One of Joe's coworkers gave us a venison back strap. Cooked that for dinner tonight with onions and mushrooms in a red wine sauce. So good.
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imagine a country so furious about drag performers that it voted for polio
December 13, 2024 at 10:15 PM
imagine a country so furious about drag performers that it voted for polio
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Anyone who is anti-vax is pro-death. Period. The science and data do not lie. And they don’t care about your podcast.
November 24, 2024 at 10:52 PM
Anyone who is anti-vax is pro-death. Period. The science and data do not lie. And they don’t care about your podcast.
I just found out that billiards and pool are NOT the same thing. I thought it was just different names for the same game...
November 24, 2024 at 8:18 AM
I just found out that billiards and pool are NOT the same thing. I thought it was just different names for the same game...
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the lesson of the election isn’t “we should give up on trans rights,” it’s that the GOP took an issue that negatively impacted almost no one and made it a headliner. why would it help to surrender on an issue if they can create a grievance from thin air?
November 20, 2024 at 1:26 AM
the lesson of the election isn’t “we should give up on trans rights,” it’s that the GOP took an issue that negatively impacted almost no one and made it a headliner. why would it help to surrender on an issue if they can create a grievance from thin air?
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Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. Each year, the trans community loses too many lives, especially trans women of color, to hate and violence.
More than ever, we must stand by our trans family and support them, hold space for them, and insist the scapegoating and targeting stop.
Now.
More than ever, we must stand by our trans family and support them, hold space for them, and insist the scapegoating and targeting stop.
Now.
November 20, 2024 at 3:18 PM
Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. Each year, the trans community loses too many lives, especially trans women of color, to hate and violence.
More than ever, we must stand by our trans family and support them, hold space for them, and insist the scapegoating and targeting stop.
Now.
More than ever, we must stand by our trans family and support them, hold space for them, and insist the scapegoating and targeting stop.
Now.
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A fragment of #Roman terracotta pottery, into the surface of which someone a incised a sketch portrait of a man, some 1900+ years ago - a very round-headed bald man, with a big nose & bushy eyebrows. This is one of my favourite pieces of ancient graffiti! 🏺AncientBlueSky #Archaeology
November 19, 2024 at 7:33 PM
A fragment of #Roman terracotta pottery, into the surface of which someone a incised a sketch portrait of a man, some 1900+ years ago - a very round-headed bald man, with a big nose & bushy eyebrows. This is one of my favourite pieces of ancient graffiti! 🏺AncientBlueSky #Archaeology
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Imagine waking up to this every morning... Resist the fallacy that life in the past was miserable! There's a lot that's tough about today too, and our ancient ancestors lives were filled with just as much beauty, magic, and joy as our own. Prehistoric ≠ primitive ✊
November 19, 2024 at 1:46 PM
Imagine waking up to this every morning... Resist the fallacy that life in the past was miserable! There's a lot that's tough about today too, and our ancient ancestors lives were filled with just as much beauty, magic, and joy as our own. Prehistoric ≠ primitive ✊
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REPOST WIDELY, PLEASE
To mark "Trump will declare a national emergency for mass deportations" day: here is the initial spreadsheet of our crowd-sourced *local* immigration advocacy/support organizations.
Please share widely, put to good use, and keep letting me know about more organizations folks can connect with.
Please share widely, put to good use, and keep letting me know about more organizations folks can connect with.
November 19, 2024 at 1:51 AM
REPOST WIDELY, PLEASE