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Feeding America has a page where you can input your zip code and it'll show you all of the food banks near you overlaid on a map. If you need it, it's there. If you don't need it, think about donating money if you have it and your time if you don't.

www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu." Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Seeing the new generation of fiber arts practitioners struggling with the suddenly-back-in-style chenille...

IT WAS ALWAYS LIKE THAT!!! CHENILLE IS A LIE!!!! So soft, so sumptuous, so velvety-- on the skein. In practice, it's a shedding nightmare that makes Labradors look like Sphinx cats.

So what is it?

This is insane.

Nooooooooooooo!

Next thing you know, he'll make her read "Who Moved My Cheese?" 🙄

reposted this today because the inverse is also true:

if you abandon trans people right now, you are abandoning civil rights period.

if you can't stand up for trans people when it matters, no one should, or will, ever trust you when the bullseye moves to the next target.

Two right shoes, but with the same swirl pattern in black, tan, and two slightly different browns. The one on the left is obviously older and worn, the one on the right is new.

Grabbed these and stuffed them in my bag on the way to the train this morning, intending to wear them at work today. Sigh.

Ha! PBS viewers unite!

Looks like you're in good hands

hey psychics, an assignment

My brain has two modes:

A) 30 hours of work done in 8 hours

B) 30 minutes of work done in 8 hours

Boosting the cat signal

Congratulations! That's pretty amazing!

Two cow pattern cats on the floor in front of a blistering hot oven in summer... because cats

A round, crusty loaf of 75% whole wheat bread, on a cooling rack

Ever since summer started, the kittens have been complaining that they're arctic creatures and I do not have the a/c low enough. Today I baked bread, so naturally they felt the need to lay in front of the 475 degree oven
#breadsky

Also in customizing our clothing and surroundings when we're pushed to wear and decorate with the same mass-produced crap

Fun with ruminants.
🔉

Helpsy offers responsible clothing recycling in Maryland People buy a lot of clothes, then trash a lot of what they buy. What can a responsible consumer do with unwanted wear?

Have a closet full of clothes you don't wear anymore? Helpsy finds the next best use for used (or unused) textiles! BUT NOT IF THOSE CLOTHES ARE WET!
The company's in partnership with Baltimore City and Baltimore County. Useful if you've, say, got a bunch of suits you'll never wear again! 🤣

Scrunched up brioche shawl in various colors, including variegated tan to black, silver to black, and pink to burgundy. Pattern is Perspective by Ellen Coy, yarn is Miss Babs Hot Shot

This week's #showmeyourknits is works in progress, so here's the Perspective shawl I'm working on while commuting 🧶

A standing person with a moon from a Sandman graphic novel for a face in a red shirt wearing a ghastly garter-stitch tie in variegated red, green, and white. You can't tell from the picture, but I seem to recall it having metallic filaments in it, too.

This week's #showmeyourknits is garter stitch, and I have prettier and more useful knits, but one time someone handed me the ugliest acrylic yarn and I said I'm gonna make a tie out of that. People laughed. Well who's laughing now?

OMG I love this little guy. Those teeth!

Sorry, meant to add that maybe you could ask there if anyone will take quilt squares like they do knitted/ crocheted ones

There's a Ravelry group called Afghan Squares for Pine Ridge Reservation that accepts squares to seam together and make afghans to send to the Reservation. I don't believe they have an off-Rav website.

Take note.

Lace cardigan stretched on blue foam blocking pads. The cardigan is black across the top sleeve, then fades to gray and then to light yellow and top bright yellow at the bottom

For this week's #showmeyourknits I present one of my all-time favorites, a Hitofude cardigan made with Scheepje's Whirl

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

The floor is made of obligations.

These statues, the commentary, I'm dying

I dreamed I was in NZ, doing an undersea adventure film with Sam Neill. They compensated me with a giant bag of edibles. To get them back to the states, I bought a stuffed penguin & put them inside it. I later realized the penguin was alive. Here is a song about that dream, from the penguin's view.