Sarah (🧶 + 👩‍💻 + 🎨)

I’m raising rent relief funds for Minneapolis immigrant families affected by ICE.

Donations are down, but ICE is very much still here and there’s still so much need. Can you help?

V: @Ian-Coldwater
CA: $iancoldwater
PP: @coldwater

We keep us housed 💛

Please share and help if you can! Thank you!

Photo depicting a Black woman doubled, sitting back to back, one wearing a black sheet and one wearing white. Their faces are painted blue and white with black decoration. The wall behind them is deep blue, and a bunch of bananas hang from the ceiling.

Photo depicting a Black woman doubled, with blue painted skin and white head wraps, peeking out from either side of tall red curtains decorated with cut-out eyes. The room behind them is bright yellow, with a blue chair. Several other blue hands are seen holding the curtain back, suggesting some unseen figures.

Photo depicting a Black woman wearing a long blue dress and black head wrap, with skin painted white with black decoration. She stands in a corner on a patch of white in a room otherwise painted all red, filled with white jugs lining the floor. A blue chair holds a small white figurative sculpture, and a blue ladder against one wall has white hands pulling it up at the top. A framed image of an eye hangs on the other wall.

Photo depicting a Black woman with painted white skin, wearing a blue dress and red head wrap, sitting cross-legged within a sandy expanse, on a long black and white vertical striped carpet. A large red textile billows out behind her, resembling wings. A large moon hangs in the smoggy sky.

Works by Ethiopian artist Aida Muluneh, 2010s-20s, whose saturated self-portraits "express what it is to be an African woman, to encapsulate gender and identity, and to situate it within the colonial experience."

YouTube video by All Homesteading Your Crafting is NOT resistance

I enjoyed this video: “Your Crafting is not Resistance”, & the follow-up.

Knitting a pattern that’s a symbol against the far-right is great as a coping device and for feel connection. However these should supplement and aid in confronting power in other ways, too.

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Not sure which stat blows me away more. That Donald Trump's name shows up more times in the Epstein Files (38K) than Harry Potter's does in the Harry Potter books (~19K) or that Joe Rogan has had more guests that were named in the Epstein Files (10+) than he's had Black women guests (~5).

There’s a type of mood I can get in where I’m antsy, frustrated, and just want to start ruthlessly donating/disposing of clutter and stuff from my house that’s not needed. Craving a blank-er slate.

I have that now, but not clear what to dispose of. Think the items are just surface-level coping

Ooh, thank you!

I stumbled upon a website about #weaving from the university of Arizona that has a bunch of free resources, including PDF scans of a Peter Collingwood book about rug weaving that someone recommended to me!

www2.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/wea...

A software engineer archetype I’ve encountered a few times:

Senior (or worryingly, Staff) IC who likes to make it known they don’t know where the team’s tickets are in Jira.

Likes: reminiscing about the pre-IPO days, or $LAST_JOB.

Dislikes: any team processes or rotas

Exclusive | Inside the Tech CEO Campaign to Stop Trump From Sending Troops to San Francisco Sam Altman, Jensen Huang and Marc Benioff helped Mayor Daniel Lurie to persuade the president not to deploy the National Guard.

Tech CEOs stopped Trump from sending troops to San Francisco which would have been disastrous for their immigrant worker base given the troops come along with massive indiscriminate ICE raids.

Who needs Congress when you have an oligarchy?

watching the UKs green party elect an actual unafraid leftist into leadership and see party membership double in under a month is once again endless proof that if you stand up for leftist causes and treat the electorate like adults, you’ll win people over easily

IT’S CALLED “SPLIT WARP”!!! 🗣️🗣️🗣️ 👹

Solution for me: do a line of soumak using half the normal weft (ie half of the weft in the finer areas) to mark the transition between areas of higher and lower epi.

Good to use the colour that matches the chunky area, so raised sections match.
Better to do soumak back-to-front; blends in more

Oh yeah my selvedges were all over the place here 😅, but the issue I was talking about is the black warp showing where I swap from the stripes white and yellow at ~10epi and the yellow where it’s at ~5epi. I couldn’t figure out how to address it other than beating down a lot!

If anyone knows of good blog posts/youtube videos on this that’ be a big help! I tried googling but it’s hard to do when i don’t know a specific name for what I’m doing 🤦‍♀️

An in-progress tapestry weaving that has weft made of predominantly white yarn, with a small section of yellow and black warp showing. The white yarn is used in different ways to creat distinct textures in the surface- areas where the weft is doubled and spans warp threads two-at-a-time, soumak using doubled weft, and regular soumak.

I started a (very disposable) #tapestry sample to try out combining different setts; ie #weaving w/ 2x the number of weft threads while grouping duos of warp threads in places.

A challenge I encountered was getting the thicker weft to cover gaps from the previous pick done at a finer sett. 🤦‍♀️

AI-generated PRs can suck to review when maintaining an open source project, but it’s even more frustrating when people make AI-driven code review bots and then point them at large public repos 😡

At least spam PRs only annoy maintainers, spam reviewers annoy _everyone_

The company I work for was acquired and I had to visit the new owner’s London office for admin related to transferring employment.

It’s a surreal experience to get an office tour when you’re “forced” to be there, and not a starry-eyed job seeker. Or maybe I’ve just seen enough WeWorks in my life

front panel of a knit sweater, the sweater is currently half orange and half white with black lettering. It says "Frankenstein Mary Shelley"

I needed very little encouragement for this, I'm very excited about it:
The colorwork is from the Penguin Classics chart by Catherine Waterfield (mostly)
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

A yellow quilted toucan that's part of the larger not yet completed quilt.

This one, kind of went some unexpected directions but I rather like him. I only have two more toucans and I'm tempted to just tackle and get them done.

14 birds total left to quilt. #quiltsky

A 50 by 100 cm tapestry laid out on a wood table. The weaving is weft faced and made of fine sheep’s wool. It depicts many very colorful fantastical creatures on a navy blue background. The creatures are very geometric and have elements drawing on real species, such as spiders, monkeys, birds, and humans. Many have multiple heads and carry other smaller creatures. Colors include orange, pink, fuchsia, turquoise, yellow, grey, and tan. There is a yellow, teal, and turquoise zigzag border.

A 20 by 40 cm tapestry laid out on a wood table. The weaving is a warp faced double-weave and made of fine sheep’s wool. It is still on a basic back strap loom set up and about 20 cm of its length is still unwoven. It depicts many bright pink fantastical geometric creatures on a navy blue background. The creatures are mostly winged and resemble bats and birds. Because it is a double weave, if you turn it over the colors are reversed, there are navy blue creatures on a pink background.

The tag from the first tapestry which reads “Arte Indigena” and “ASUR” in large print with “Made in Bolivia” in small print below.

@aroddick.bsky.social is back after a month in Bolivia and has brought me textiles. These are both made by Jalq’a weavers, depicting fantastic beings. See the alt text for more details.
#Textiles #Bolivia

Israeli defence minister’s Gaza proposal marks escalation from incitement of war crimes to official planning for mass forced displacement Plans for an internment camp on ruins of Rafah are ‘unviable, impractical and morally depraved’ but should be taken seriously

Israeli defence minister’s Gaza proposal marks escalation from incitement of war crimes to official planning for mass forced displacement

#xilita Stunning weavings from artist Jan Landrum (1931-2024) a former teacher who spent summers in San Miguel de Allende learning her craft, available for the first time thru an estate sale.Please contact for more info. Thank you! #fiberart #tapestry #weaving #looms #wool #craft #mexico #sanmigueldeallende

Stunning weavings from artist Jan Landrum (1931-2024) a former teacher who spent summers in San Miguel de Allende learning her craft, available for the first time thru an estate sale.Please contact for more info. Thank you! #fiberart #tapestry #weaving #looms #wool #craft #mexico #sanmigueldeallende

Left: Louise Haigh, "I will support the government on Tuesday in recognition they've made significant progress, and protecting the incomes of 400,000 disabled people across the country"

Right: Rosie Jones, "They're not thinking about the millions of people who will become disabled in the future"

As the very disruptive home renovation project in one (1) room reaches its fourth (4th) month, I am beginning to reach my limit 😩

All my leisure time ends up becoming get-sweaty-and-covered-in-dust time.

there's an interesting detail in this, which is that *technically* he did not have his visa cancelled for his speech, they used his speech as a pretext to single him out for search and concoct allegations that he'd lied about illegal drug use, and that became the pretext for the deportation.

Knitted panel showing a black and white, pixelated, head and shoulders portrait of a white man looking straight at the viewer. He is resting his chin on one hand and is wearing a checked shirt. Above and below the portrait are bands of colourful motifs. Narrow blue stripes with yellow gliders on either side of red stripes with white pulsars.

Obviously I have to go back to my Game of Life Fair Isle project for today's #mathartmarch prompt "game". Here's my knitted portrait of its originator, John Conway, with heraldic bands of pulsars and gliders in traditional Fair Isle colours.

Sam Dienst Weaves the Everyday Into Rich Tapestries Dienst wrests playfulness and movement from the warp and weft of weaving.

The word “tapestry” conjures Medieval constructions in dark, simple palettes, conveying religious rites and hunting motifs — but modern practitioners like Sam Dienst have demonstrated that the form is due for a (second) Renaissance.

“We’ve got the sonar signature of a rock!”

I need to rewatch this asap

See it: plums in the icebox

Say it: lol eating those

Sorted: a poem

Labour deselects Jewish Streatham councillor for Gaza support Councillor Martin Abrams has accused those running Keir Starmer’s party of ‘pursuing their factional obsession against the interests of both the community and the Labour Party’ Ma…

Labour deselects Jewish Streatham councillor for Gaza support insidecroydon.com/2025/06/11/l... #Lambeth #Croydon #Gaza #Genocide #Labour @left-foot-forward.bsky.social @britainelects.com