Ocean Jasper

The bummer being that the only needles I had that are the right gauge are bamboo needles and I haaaaaaaaaaate bamboo needles. I tolerate hardwood, but most prefer steel.

Ah well!

About half of a knit hat in yarn with alternating pale pink, white, green, and blue stripes.

I do really enjoy having an excuse to sit and knit during the busy holiday season. My sister-in-law is getting a hat!

Unmatched. Unbeatable.

omg brilliant, thank you!

By the way, they're still together and I'm even more convinced the husband is cheating. So.

It has been over 11 months, but here is the Sorry Your Husband is Cheating on You blanket off of the needles-- just finished today. I've since woven the ends in and thrown it in the wash while I try to figure out a way to block the damn thing.

It's like 800 pages! There's no way to read that in a week!

It's just too easy to blame individuals for the overall state of the economy than it is to actually do anything about it

I mean, if people can afford things like housing and medications and food, they *will* spend more money on holiday crap! It seems pretty self explanatory AND YET

Man, remember hearing the same thing about NFTs?

"At work" at home in my pajamas with a cup of tea and doing literally anything other than actual work.

Posting, catching up on some fics, chatting. Better uses of my time, for sure.

Although, if they want to take the heat off of Millenials for killing [insert industry here], I'll gladly pass the torch.

I know this is a little hypocritical because I am at work right now in a sector of the Little Treats Industry, but it is far far far more important to me to know if Gen Z can afford things like medications and housing, and less about if they can/want to buy holiday crap.

thanks i hate it

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

I don't think I posted the books I picked up last week (but haven't started yet): "Empire of the Dawn" and "We Survived the Night" because I contain multitudes.

I've been reading much more in translation lately and man, oh man. I am a better reader for it.

We are in the middle of SNOWPOCALYPSE 2025, so I'm doing my usual Tuesday work from home. No book haul today BUT Olga Tokarczuk's new book (House of Day, House of Night) is out and I cannot waaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiit to get my hands on it.

At least we're not involved in a nuclear war, I guess?

Somehow it's even dumber than I imagined. Wow.

A friend pointed out that we don't necessarily live in the worst timeline, but we certainly live in the stupidest timeline and...

... yeah.

I have Stancil and his surrounds pretty effectively blocked, but since people are liking 6+mo old dunks i made on him I can only assume he's up to more dipshittery.

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Not intentional, no! I have a new oven and a WICKEDLY hot broiler and I've never actually set a dish on fire before last week.

Whoops!

Like make hats for Christmas gifts.

I'm logging off to start another hat.

For those of you that don't know me well: I am pro- art, pro- human, and an environmentalist which means that I am VERY anti-capitalist and VERY anti- AI.

Also, I have better things to do than to argue with toolbags about it.

Not the concept of fantasy + romance-- that's been around forever-- but the word "romantasy" itself.

[death to ~romantasy~]

Thankfully not!

I've long said that the capacity to make and appreciate art is what defines our humanity.