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Gwen Shamblin’s stylist
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Tis the season when my kitchen is consistently too cold to prove bread in a timely manner so I bought a proofing box and it’s pretty cool. It has a window.
Grey fabric box with black seams and a vinyl window. On top (blocking the brand name because these people aren’t paying me for my massive massive 2 person reach) is the white unit controller with a temperature and time display and a control wheel. Through the window, the temperature probe and silvery insides of the box are visible as is a metal bowl. The bread dough being proofed is not.
November 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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This headline is art.
Headline from the local paper. Location: Grafton. Headline DOZENS OF POLICE ARREST ONE MAN The story isn’t really visible but concerns the arrest of Seamus Murphy
November 17, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Small child’s photo shoot assortment. In the largest, the boy, about 2 years old, is standing with his hands in his pockets. The top left is a close up of his face and the bottom left is a seated shot. He’s dressed in peach trousers and a little madras shirt and some brown loafers. The pictures are captioned with added text. The large one says congrats, the face shot says “happy for you” and the third one says “nice”. In every photo, this kid looks pissed. It’s this that gives the meme its surly and grudging vibe. Such a little man, so angry, being polite.
November 12, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Here’s that photo with some alt text.
Rep. Yassamin Amari set up a table outside Mike Johnson’s office, emulating the card table change my mind meme. Her sign reads “Mike Johnson is starving families and gutting healthcare to cover up the Epstein files. Change my mind.” She’s checking out her phone since no one is there to challenge her assertion.
November 6, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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It looks a bit like that damp patch was where it had a wee to leave smell for the other local robots to investigate later.
Yellow and black four-legged robot brandishing a QR code. The robot stands on a college campus sidewalk near a small damp patch. Behind it is a brick building and a few moving cars. A few autumn leaves are visible.
November 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Screen grab from a news story from Business Insider, December 2019. the headline: “Trump called Prince Andrew ‘a lot of fun to be with,’ despite claiming he doesn’t know him.” Below the byline is a photo. In the center Melania looking almost animated. To her right is Donald Trump with his standard artificial smile. No sag on the right yet so his stroke was after this photo. To Melania’s left is Andrew, disgraced pedophile Prince. He was a prince at the time. And it looks like from the timeframe where he swore that rapist couldn’t be him because he struggled with an inability to sweat at all and the rapist sweat a lot.
November 1, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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The people yelling about how SNAP recipients should get jobs won’t be sympathetic to learning that 40% of SNAP goes to kids because they want those kids at work, too. They were, if you’ll recall, giddy at child labor protection rollbacks.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders beams in glee while showing off a signed piece of al Arkansas legislation. The legislation rolls back child labor protections for kids as young as 12. With her at the governor’s desk are several very happy white adults and 3 suited and miserable white male children. Those kids probably don’t know that they’ll never have to get a job at 12 because they’re connected and bougie but all the conservative parents I know would have featured the threat as a child discipline and control measure.
October 27, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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WIP, not even Wednesday-

Blackwork on black Aida. Ignore the yellow square - it’s being kept clear for a central motif.
Original pattern is mono-color but I decided to do shades of pink to kind of emphasize where the motifs overlap (on the diagonals that haven’t been started yet).
In progress blackwork cross stitch. Delicate pink strands make up repeated motifs across black cloth. As it stands, if the work were a compass, south and west directions are complete and north is in progress. The center of the work is empty and surrounded by a yellow square - it’s a marker thread to keep me in the correct location. Once the cardinal directions are handled, 4 more leafs of motifs will go over top on the diagonals (nw-se, sw-ne) in slightly different pinks and with different motifs. The overlapping spaces will have both colors of motif making up a more intricate and complex motif in the space. The word motif has lost all meaning to me right now. #craftsky #crossstitch #makestuff
October 26, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Lily update:
White bulbous vase holds a mass of giant pink lilies. The vase rests on a green coaster in front of a mirror. The lilies are crowded and huge, each bigger than your hand and there are 8 or 10 visible blooms. You can’t smell it because it’s the internet but their fragrance easily reaches the sofa 10 or 15 steps away.
October 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Stolen but now with alt text:
Map of Germany in blue divided into three sections. The northernmost section is labeled Moinween. The center section is labeled Halloween. The southern section is labeled Servusween. In each case, the prefix to -ween is how that region says hello. Apologies to the German-speakers who need alt-text but all of that is more than my limited capacity to communicate.
October 21, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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The lilies I got at the grocery store this week are massive. Evidence for this is that I’m in this photo.
Bulbous white vase filled with large pink lily buds. One flower facing the viewer has bloomed. These lilies are huge and you can tell because the vase is in front of a mirror and I am not really visible behind the flowers and they haven’t even bloomed yet. The one that has is as big as your hand. Visible (but blurry) in the background to the left is an orange armchair and a very large bright blobby blue lamp and I just want to note that the lamp is fantastic and I love it like crazy but cannot find a similar year not matching lamp to go elsewhere in the room. It’s a modern tragedy.
October 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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5000 in the Upper Valley is bonkers.
Photo of the lead paragraph in the local paper: By LUKAS DUNFORD Valley News Staff Writer WHITE RIVER JUNCTION -Arriving in everything from wheelchairs to strollers to inflatable lobster costumes, about 5,000 people lined a main Upper Valley thoroughfare on Saturday in a sequel to June's "No Kings" protest. The gathering in the heart of the Upper Valleytook lace from 12:30 p.m. to about…
October 20, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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It’s not a vagina. It’s very clearly labia or mons. That said, the proper internet term is “nussy”.

Remember: a vagina is internal. A pussy is the labia and mons, potentially including the vagina. A nussy is a neck pussy.
The more you know rainbow splash from old tv times.
October 16, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Big Brother contestant “suggested he would be ‘betraying [his] kind’ as a redhead if he were to have a baby with anyone who was not white.”

His superior (yet recessive) genetic stock:
Spotty ginger with a pageboy bob demonstrating superior genetics that shouldn’t be mixed. Non-white women everywhere in shambles at the preemptive rejection from the love child of Lord Farquad and Carrot Top.
October 14, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Jay from the Inbetweeners cosplaying Gordon Gecko but without the charm.

Honestly, though, he looks more like the guy who plays Trump on SNL than his alleged father.
Prince Baron triumphantly displays his pale and delicate wrist. He hides the single callus that his expertise on the cyber left him with by bunching his otherwise soft hand into a small and tense fist. He has chosen a lush helmet-like hairstyle to mock his famously balding father. He looks more like the guy who plays Trump on SNL than actual Trump.
October 13, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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I saw a bat near the beaver dam.
#spooky
Very narrow photo down a wide community pathway in the woods. The path passes beneath a small bridge and crosses a former rail bridge in the distance. Small drifts of red and yellow leaves line the path and most of the undergrowth has died back but the trees are still pretty green overall. It’s early fall. Visible at the top of the frame is the underside of a bridge on the roadway above and from that bridge, centered over the path, hangs a small paper silhouette of a Halloween bat.
October 12, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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Map of Mordor with the words “five ways you can walk into Mordor” on it in white.
October 10, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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WIP Wednesday!

Obsession with blackwork continues. This is from @loosethreadstitch.bsky.social Shoutout to them because I am bad at outlines but the pattern made it easy and I’m pleased with how they’re shaping up.

#crossstitch
#craftsky
Blackwork cross stitch work in progress. The end result will be some number of stacked hearts, each in a different color and with a different fill pattern. So far, the top heart is red with a fill that is nearly floral. The second heart is orange and the fill is more “large hollow x” based. The third heart, not at all complete, is yellow. The fill feels a bit like an echo of a plus sign.
October 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Another day, another “No one wordled like you did, weirdo”
Screencap from the wordlebot that reads “What other Times readers did No one in our sample of 215,738 completed Wordles faced this scenario!”
October 8, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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These people should consider a rebrand.
Ad on Reddit: • u/ICE-Markets • Promoted ICE is constantly innovating to help you, and your members, stay ahead. mortgagetech.ice.com
October 6, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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I got a pattern that turned out to be AI slop. And I know better - never buy a pattern that doesn’t have a stitched example but we all make poor decisions from time to time. Stitched it anyway and got a super wonky snowflake for my efforts.

#crissstitch
#blackwork
#craftsky
Stitched blackwork snowflake on blue fabric. Blackwork is fine line style of cross stitch and should be ideal for snowflakes - delicate stitches for a delicate subject. But the result in this case is unbalanced - too crowded on the left and with shapes distorted by the grid required to stitch on even weave. The stitched snowflake is in white on a dark blue aida fabric. It’s still in the neon green working hoop and the whole project rests against a mustard yellow backdrop. Looks cool as long as you don’t look too hard, just like AI art.
October 6, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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I love when they don’t romanticize how people looked in an era. There were times when we as a society just looked bad.
Still from Winning Time, an HBO show set in 1980. Two Middle Ages white dudes sit in a restaurant booth. On the left, our hero has giant glasses, a combover, plaid sport coat, polyester shirt open to the belly. Pornstache. On the right is a fat bald-on-top white guy. Plaid sport coat in a different shade, white shirt and red tie. Cigar. Smarmy grin. The restaurant booth is red, white table cloth, wood panel walls with poorly hung photos of mystery celebrities. A bad painting dominates the non-phot space. An anachronistic plastic water bottle is on the table.
October 3, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Fallon pets Felon on an episode of his talk show. Fallon looks delighted. Trump, 79, looks smarmy.
October 1, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Upper Valley Coffee Roasters brand, Early Bird variety. Medium roast, small batch blend from a queer collective in Vermont. Recently went from $19 to $25 a sack - thanks, Trump Tax! - but it’s the best and freshest home brew I can find. The beans are always nice and oily and fragrant
October 1, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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It’s artichoke season! Yay local artichokes!
An AirPod headphone case clad in a game boy skin provides the scale that lets the viewer know that the two artichokes in the photo are very small indeed. They’re slightly smaller than a standard billiards ball. There are, as mentioned, two of them on a featureless white surface. Not pictured: how delightful they taste when steamed and buttered. Teeny. The heart is smaller than an Oreo. But they steam up very quickly. Anyway, artichoke season and this photo has two of them.
September 29, 2025 at 9:18 PM