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@oldtrout.bsky.social

Old. Gassy. Community Knitter. Pro-democracy.

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I just bought a bottle last week!

03.11.2025 01:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just bought a bottle last week!

03.11.2025 01:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Or, it could be an antecedent of an infestation...

03.11.2025 01:22 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you so much!

29.10.2025 23:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There are 8 people other than Platner and Mills! Ten total!!

29.10.2025 15:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm sorry I didn't answer my phone when you called. I don't use it for that

29.10.2025 15:14 β€” πŸ‘ 483    πŸ” 92    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 7
Four handknitted baby-sized items spread out on a flat surface: one seamless yoke Icelandic sweater, a striped scrappy red-green-white sweater, a yellow and black vest with a bee and honeycomb motif, and a purple vest with orange highlights in the Fair Isle style.

Four handknitted baby-sized items spread out on a flat surface: one seamless yoke Icelandic sweater, a striped scrappy red-green-white sweater, a yellow and black vest with a bee and honeycomb motif, and a purple vest with orange highlights in the Fair Isle style.

These baby sweaters and vests will be going to Jordan an Lebanon for Syrian refugees, through Salaam Cultural Museum:
#knitting
#communityknitting
#knitsky

29.10.2025 14:53 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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2026 US Senate, Maine (2026 Election Voter Guide) – Maine Morning Star The 2026 race for U.S. Sen. Susan Collins’ seat is seen as one of the most closely watched elections this midterm cycle. As the only Republican senator representing a state that voted against Presiden...

All this talk of Platner and Mills, and nobody ever mentions that there are EIGHT other Dem candidates running in the primary:
mainemorningstar.com/race-details...

29.10.2025 14:40 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I dunno, seems like a progression that's worked for me; just exchange the coffee for Tequila...

27.10.2025 18:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It won't be fine for long, though, because no community or group will be immune when health care/vaccines, regulated industry (including grocery prices), safe working conditions, and other fruits of a healthy democracy no longer exist.

27.10.2025 00:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I think it has quite passed the time for us to consider a 3/5 vote allocation for white males. Just sayin'.

27.10.2025 00:02 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

(some) = too many

26.10.2025 23:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It can be a verb in other contexts besides knitting, as in "I gauge that your tolerance for verbing nouns, especially with respect to knitting, is spot on."

26.10.2025 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

I have enough ghosts in my real life - I don't let knitting projects fester; any lingering projects either get frogged or hidden so deep in a drawer that I never think of them until I re-organize the drawer (and THEN I frog 'em)! 😁

25.10.2025 17:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

When they say Americans, they mean white Republicans, period the end, of course.

22.10.2025 00:26 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I voted today!

21.10.2025 23:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I've lived on wells for a large portion of my adult life (I do now, in fact), and live in fear of running dry. City/suburban folk have no idea. Also, when the power goes out (including electricity to your well pump), you can't flush the toilet without physically pouring water into the tank.

19.10.2025 23:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

"No Kings" illustrates the uncomfortable truth about US politics: That the > 50% of white US people that want to turn the US into a white ethnostate (their words) is a lot of people. But the > 40% of white US people that don't want this, plus > 50% of brown people and > 90% of Black people, is more.

19.10.2025 08:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3677    πŸ” 641    πŸ’¬ 90    πŸ“Œ 34

And sometimes the dosage needs to be upped.

17.10.2025 00:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Who are these people? The Pro-Louis XIV constituency, I expect.

16.10.2025 00:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's math. White + Penis = Authority.

15.10.2025 23:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

YES!

13.10.2025 13:37 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, I just did! Wheeeee!

12.10.2025 16:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Also, #knitsky

12.10.2025 03:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A pair of hand-knitted, stranded socks lying flat on a towel. Rainbow skulls on the legs and skull-snowflakes on the foot against a black background, with striped soles and a solid black heel.

A pair of hand-knitted, stranded socks lying flat on a towel. Rainbow skulls on the legs and skull-snowflakes on the foot against a black background, with striped soles and a solid black heel.

Spooky socks for this week's #showmeyourknits! I made this pair for my son 12 years ago, using motifs from the "Deathflake Mittens" pattern: www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
#knitting
#strandedcolorwork

12.10.2025 03:33 β€” πŸ‘ 82    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I must agree; semicolons are the best!

10.10.2025 00:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You are state-of-the-art Joe!

08.10.2025 16:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
How to Use Knitting Repair Hooks | Essential Knitting Tool for Fixing Mistakes
YouTube video by Carol Feller How to Use Knitting Repair Hooks | Essential Knitting Tool for Fixing Mistakes

A knitting repair tool! I received a little metal one as a prize in a KAL, and I use it so much! When googling what to call it (I call it a fix-it tool, but that seems to be the one with a latch), I found that you have a YouTube video to show how they can be used:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tixn...

08.10.2025 15:31 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
- Plato

06.10.2025 14:50 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ha! I'm a fine one to talk! I just had a huge green salad with a bunch of chopped up anchovie-stuffed olives on it (and I am closely related to several people who think this an abomination!)

06.10.2025 00:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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