It’s Too Early For This

Nice collection of hot chillies

Washing chillies

Smug author here with excellent harvest of chillies!

Rivendell Lego set partially disassembled with MOC base

Rivendell lego set with lighting on in the tower third with MOC base

today’s project: doing brick surgery on Rivendell to add in Light My Bricks lighting

looks pretty sick so far

See that Rolex clock and gold bar?

It looks like those Swiss gifts paid off.

Trump cut tariffs on Swiss goods — like luxury watches — from 39% to 15%.

While Trump’s tariffs increase prices for Americans, billionaire CEOs and foreign companies sucking up to Trump get relief.

normal things happening

a stuffed monkey wearing a green shirt and overalls is standing in front of a body of water . Alt: a stuffed monkey wearing a green shirt and overalls is standing in front of a body of water giving a side eye

You think that’s real?

The first of 30 Bob Ross works were auctioned to help public TV. They broke records The first three of 30 paintings sold in Los Angeles for a record-shattering $662,000. The rest will go up for auction in various cities throughout 2026. Ross painted many of them live on his PBS show.

The first three of 30 paintings sold in Los Angeles for a record-shattering $662,000. The rest will go up for auction in various cities throughout 2026, beginning with Boston in January. Ross painted many of them live on his PBS show.

Anyone who thinks a “golden age of law enforcement “ is a good thing, is seriously messed up

the only good accent work on earth is old money transatlantic american to make fun of rich people accent

In 1989, GHW Bush and Francois Mitterrand were the Commencement Speakers at Boston University.

Yep
Maybe it’s not about politics

45 foot white spruce being cut down in Nova Scotia.

Mayor Wu and Cathy Baker-Eclipse pose in front of Tree for Boston with Nova Scotia Officials.

Mayor Wu uses a chainsaw to help cut down the tree.

Mayor Wu and Cathy Baker-Eclipse hold sapplings and pose with Nova Scotia officials and the Feener family (nominated the tree).

The 2025 #TreeForBoston is on its way! 🌲

This week, @mayorwu.boston.gov and Interim Parks & Recreation Commissioner Cathy Baker-Eclipse joined Nova Scotia officials and the Feener family in Lunenburg to help cut the 45-foot white spruce now bound for Boston Common. (1/3)

Yep

Come on, who didn’t see this coming?

She is evil

What page is Crispus Attucks on?

bsky.app/profile/paul...

“the kindest person in the room is often the smartest.” JB Pritzker is a mensch.

From the New York Times story on the pressure campaign to get Republicans to reverse their epstein vote Top officials met in the White House Situation Room on Wednesday with Representative Lauren Boebert, a Colorado Republican who is backing an effort to force a House vote on whether to demand the release of the files. She was summoned to sit down with top Justice Department and F.B.I. officials, according to two people familiar with the matter. One of the people said the session included Attorney General Pam Bondi and F.B.I. Director Kash Patel. Both people spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment on the private discussions.

My god (sorry I’m late on a bunch of this stuff. But wow!)

According to this NYT report, the head of the FBI and the Attorney General are holding meetings *in the Situation Room* with GOP lawmakers they are trying to pressure to rescind their votes to release the Epstein info. This is madness.

And Eva, usurped here, can have an Oscar for North by Northwest instead, no problem.

In an improved alternate universe, Grace is nominated for and wins Best Supporting Actress for Rear Window, in which she's breathtaking, rather than Best Actress for the drip-dreary The Country Girl, and Judy wins B.A. for A Star Is Born (and then again for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?).

donald boat ... @laserboat999 I think the most egregious part is that he thinks listening to george guidall or whichever hoary yakubian beast penguin hired to read the translation while he plays diablo with cheetodusty fingers is 1:1 equivalent with hearing a rhapsode sing-chant the poem from memory, that a sped up audiobook boneconducted into his skull will recreate the exact condition of Classical Antiquity and achieve whatever he thinks is "authentic." To the extent that he has any historical sense (he probably doesn't) it is without a doubt autopopulated by sub-Ridley-Scott tier period slop, D-graded wikipedia summaries, pop history podcasts, Grok, of course. I do think that it is a near biblical punishment to inflict on the richest man in human history with a near boundless capacity to build whatever he wants a near total lack of imagination, the inability to navigate his ignorance of any field, literally any field outside of insectile mechanical reproduction. You will see him bleat about the "West," about "Beauty." I would like to see him, or any other of these robber-baron-hopefuls to just try and build one nice-looking building, a library, a train station, maybe just one fucking cabinet and have it not look like the ugliest piece of shit on the planet. He really is the Final Boor, zero taste, trapped in the most brutal contradiction of dull-garish backwards-forwards looking (And may Allah forgive me for uttering this word) "cyberpunk" futurism. He's too far gone for me to pity him in any real way. I hope he gets to live in the world he wants, his grand fantasy, which, like his cars, is probably just a big refrigerator with an iPad in it Traducir post 8:28 p.m. • 10 nov. 2025 • 379,7 mil Visualizaciones

Joyce Carol Oates has inspired legions

via @maiamindel.bsky.social

We were promised the files. Ghisliane got a puppy.

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What investments?

Trump has been investing tariff money?

It is DK?

If you are on Ravelry, you can look at the entry for the yarn and see what patterns have been made with 6 or fewer skeins

Off the top of my head, I’d say your options include shawls, ponchos, hats, mittens & possibly a simple cardigan depending on your size.

PS I’m not a knit influencer or anything like that

I’m only posting about the Lemonwood Mini Minder because it has been so useful to me and I wanted to tell other #knit #crochet folks in case it could help them too #knitsky

2025 has been rough for me & my Lemonwood Mini Minder holding my #yarn made it easier to #knit & destress when at home, traveling & sitting in hospitals

I like it so much I’m getting a second when they go on sale
& wanted to tell
#knitsky #knit #crochet 🧶 folks it is super useful

lemonwood.love

Senate Democrats Just Made a Huge Mistake The shutdown was hurting Trump. Ending it helps him.

"Democrats could have held the line on the shutdown, and spent weeks watching Trump’s approval ratings fall," writes @jonathanbchait.bsky.social
Instead, he argues, they're making a mistake by giving in:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Thank you

The model of holding individual senators responsible is broken here. The retirees clearly agreed to take the fall. Which is why the nos should get no credit for voting no unless they move to oust Schumer

I think Rep Chris Pappas is running for Shaheen’s NH seat in the Senate

Who else is running?

#NHpolitics folks we need an alternative

I don’t know him, but my impression is he doesn’t have a strong enough spine—and if that is MY opinion as a voter, I doubt I am alone

Who is strong enough?