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New fuck/marry/kill list just dropped

Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

Good 🧵

historically accurate☑️

"So, do you have a quest," the witch asked as she finished dressing the last wound, "or doing general adventuring?"

"A quest. I seek a book."

"Ancient tome of forbidden lore?"

"No, one I read as a child."

"And this dragon didn't have it?"

"Alas."

"Have you asked a librarian?"

"They're scary!"

The past couple weeks as a professional romance critic begging someone to let me, a professional romance critic who wrote the sports romance list for the NYT and a Letterkenny fan for years, write about the gay hockey romance adaptation.

Put me in, coach, I’ve trained my whole life for this!

The inscription on the blade shone silvery.

"Justice," the maid read. "Are you an enchanted butterknife?"

"Yes."

She almost dropped it. "You are?"

"For centuries, none who held me sought justice. I took this form to hide."

It grew in her hand.

She hefted the sword. "Hm. Not sure you can help."

“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas”

Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.

Did you find out? Now I’m curious…

"Let me get this straight. Your lab has bred a dragon?"

"A wyvern, director. It has two legs, two wings, whereas a-."

"Which flies, breathes fire, and is intelligent?"

"About as intelligent as a border collie."

"So, intelligent. Why?"

"You asked us to invent measures to take down small drones."

enjoyable little video on how wool gets graded and sorted

IG community_clothing and campaignforwool

29 bells.

🤬

That’s amazing. I don’t think she be wanting to knit (she doesn’t much at the best of times) but I’m sure we’ve got some fun day ahead 😁

All went well and she is now back home with new knee installed

I got my Covid booster a couple weeks ago, before the flu was released. It hit me hard this time, but it gave things time to lock in before I take my mom in for surgery tomorrow. I’ll do flu when I get back home…

The road to reconciliation begins with truth
Mishiikenh Kwe ~ Anishinaabe
c. 2022

I tried to tag you on the original when I posted about it a few days ago because I thought you’d have thoughts but apparently I don’t know how to post properly (somehow the video got tagged for content too 🤷🏼‍♀️

I really don’t know why this is labeled as graphic media (I’m might have clicked something accidentally, but I don’t know) 🤷🏼‍♀️

In the end, I’d argue that knitters probably understand physics much more than physicists understand knitting.
(there were probably some interesting physics points in there but I couldn’t get past the inaccurate representation of something that has always been more than a cute little craft)

The knitters did show up in the comments with, mostly, gentle rebukes about accuracy, fact checking, and the importance of actually talking to experts on the subject you are comparing to a subject you know more about - but really disappointing from a source, and a presenter, I expected better from.

To start “…knitting is a series of knots…”
2:00 - picture labeled stockinette stitch but actually showing and describing reverse stockinette (at least it wasn’t crochet?)
I stopped at 4:30 with “for centuries knitting was more of an art than a science, but then the physicists showed up. In 2025…”

YouTube video by SciShow Physicists Don’t Understand Why Knitting Works

I needed a bit of a break and was excited to see a SciShow video from yesterday with Hank Green talking about knitting. I kind of expected the knitting part to be somewhat simplified - but then…

youtu.be/iTLvD6-X8WQ?...

Opinion | Trump Is Building His Own Paramilitary Force

This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends we’ve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization of state and local police functions.

Alt text.

Every "not your grandma's [insert activity here]" article is disrespecting women like Madeleine Riffaud.

The full moon shone brightly over the park.

"What are you going to do with that?" the werewolf asked.

Her date, squatting to pick up a stick, paused. "Er..."

"Were you going to throw it? Ew!"

"I'm so sorry, I-"

The werewolf opened her bag. "Hang on... Here!"

"A frisbee?"

"It's moon-shaped."

The Psychological Cost Of The Plus-Size Retail Collapse "This isn’t just a consumer issue, it’s a public mental health concern," says fashion psychologist, Jennifer Heinen.

Kept seeing links to this article floating around platforms that wouldn’t let me open it because I’m in Canada (🤬) so sharing it here because it deserves to be read.
www.forbes.com/sites/virgie...

This is folk horror.

I don’t share my pronouns because I worry that people would otherwise get them wrong. I was lucky to be born with an assigned sex that suits me, and nobody’s ever had any difficulty with it.

I share my pronouns so others will know that I’m not going to be a jackass about them doing the same.