a dong of ice and fire

Progress on my first sock! (We’re not going to talk about that monstrous Christmas stocking from last year.) From cuff and leg, to heel flap, to working on the gusset at 6:30 am before work. No I do not have a problem, thank you very much. 🧶 #knitting

I don't know if it's just me, but I *hate* story graph. Like on the surface it seems kind of cool, and maybe I just don't know how to use it. I don't get how you make shelves to categorize your books or anything like that.

I can't stop buying yarn. If you find help, send it my way.

And now the zucchini has become

I thought I couldn’t love Michael’s more. Oh how wrong I was.

Dude, the fiber art folks are fucking awesome. I started going to a knitting circle at my local yarn shop and it was so diverse and fun!

Bartering muffins for fresh garden vegetables. Didn't count on getting a Hulk zucchini.

Pineapple coconut and cinnamon pecan muffins. Working on Saturday is better with muffins.

Any liberal not calling it a “genocide” is a coward, including Sanders. The worm has turned, a cadre of liberal institutions from OxFam to amnesty international have called it a genocide, even corners of the Israeli media is doing so now. It’s safe to do so and yet so many still fail

Voilà. Le bag complete.

#knitting 🧶

I knew there was a reason I liked our coffee better.

Like most people, I grew up believing luddite meant "regressive" or "anti-technology" but actually the luddites were professionals, artisans and craftspeople, and they were upset about machines taking away not just their jobs, but also the art of the work they produced. Sound familiar?

That’s bad juju right there. What the hell were they thinking?

DUDE. This fucking movie literally blew my mind when I saw it. I’ve been trying to find a time to watch it with Michael bc he’s never seen it. I’m not the biggest Bale fan. He’s obviously a big twat, but his and Jackman’s performances. Wow.

Little turd.

Jon's father figures spitting truth at him, but some lessons can only be learned the hard way.

"What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms ... or the memory of a brother's smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy."

AGOT Jon VIII

I just found a bunch of colorings that I finished so the cubicle is going to get a fresh look tomorrow!

This is one of the biggest drivers of misinformation. It applies to pop-history, science, nutrition, literally like every academic field:

We have an "ineradicable temptation to make academic work more intriguing for lay consumption."

We take research and turn it into click bait and "news."

wow I've just been followed by the Crown Prince of Dubai. Such good taste he has 🤣

A reminder: Twitteros is here to help this school year. DM me with any questions!

You can help me instead

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Of course. All truth. I really admire you as a writer and I wish I had your chops and your ability to finish works.

Just noticed another wee RLJ hint. Jon tells Benjen, I “[…] I sit a horse as well as anyone in the castle.” We get this parallel with Arya as well. She’s compared to Lyanna, who Roose describes as “half a horse herself.”

You look fabulous! You colored your hair, right?

thing.

Here look at this atrocity and remember you write awesome books while other people are out creating bizarre frankenfoods! I’m sorry it’s been rough, but you’re hanging in there and still producing creative work. You’re great bud!

Like with so many things in life, I so desperately want to help that I'm filled with an impotent rage at feeling that I can't do anything of substance.

So yeah, my morose musings on suicide and the general desire but seeming inability to ease suffering in the world.