Ann G

Clearly a fate worse than death. Just bonkers.

Scientists Found a Major Problem With Vitamin B12 Guidelines, and Your Brain Might Be at Risk Low-normal B12 in older adults was tied to slower processing, cognitive decline, and brain damage. Scientists warn current requirements may be too low.

My first ND told me back in 2009 when I first got sick that low-normal was too low for B12, especially for someone like me with neurologic symptoms. Glad to see "real" science is catching up!

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You may have heard my arguments against the Electoral College before. Here’s a new one the Founders never anticipated:

If the President is elected by popular vote, he probably wouldn’t selectively punish entire states for voting against him.

People like to claim that autistics are bad at communicating and like, my dude, the problem does not lie with us, it lies with the web of manipulation and lies and passive aggression and ulterior agendas that you weave around yourselves instead of just doing what we do, which is saying what we mean.

i looked at the methodology for this and it is
a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and
b. p-hacked

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

I think there's also an issue with writer's pay falling, so there's less time/inclination to actually research stuff.

Screenshot of the same post I'm replying to, but on Twitter, which has added a blue box "Visibility limited: this Post may violate X’s rules against Hateful Conduct. Learn more"

Gee, I wonder which word did it?

Kash Patel severs FBI's ties with the ADL "This FBI won't partner with political fronts masquerading as watchdogs," Patel wrote on X.

It was never about antisemitism. This administration had used us as a kudgel against brown people, but Jews are about to get thrown under the bus like everyone else who isn't a cis het Christian nationalist white man. www.axios.com/2025/10/02/k...

Thank you. In the future, unless you're genuinely interested in buying someone's work, consider just complementing it without bringing money into the picture.

Not everyone can knit, and that's ok. I made it for myself, and shared it because I'm proud of my work. But if you'd really like to have it, I'm happy to sell it to you and make myself another. You estimated its value at $350-500. How about $400?

If you want to buy my sweater, be straightforward. Ask if it's for sale and either ask for a price or offer one. I'm not interested in a hypothetical conversation about selling my knitting.

This was my first bulky garment and it went so fast. I have a fingering top coming up in my queue, and I hope my arthritic hands can get through it! 🤞

I look forward to receiving that check in the mail!

It really was meant to be. 🤩

Thank you!

Thank you! It's bulky, so it's really not much knitting, though of course that depends on your size and perspective. Personally, I find miles of stockinette soothing. Compared to the sport/dk weight all over stranded knit I'm working on, I whipped this out in no time. Also, I'm pro-silly. 😜

Funny story about my yarn - I intended to make a looong DK weight cardi in subtle stripes. But my yarn showed up and I could barely tell the difference between the 2 colors. As I was lamenting my purchase, the test appeared in my inbox, and a quick swatch said I could double up and go for it.

Thank you!

A bulky weight grey cardigan with drop sleeves, big pockets, and bright mismatched buttons is displayed on a denim mannequin in front of a graveyard scene

The Kitchen Table Cardigan from @hookmountainknits.bsky.social is done! Here's mine, complete with the mismatched buttons you helped me pick. I'm short, so my pockets (& everything else) is shorter than the original. Get it by 9/29 for a discount! www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib... #knitting #knitsky🧶

4 strip comic. first frame, we see Horst Wessel and two other storm troopers carrying a large nazi flag. text reads : Horst Wessel was a young storm trooper recognized as a skilled public speaker by the nazi party. he also wrote the song that became the partys anthem and german co-national anthem until 1945. second frame, we see a portrait of Horst. text reads : in 1930, his landlady hired two men who happened to be communists to evict him over unpaid rent and alleged proxenetism. He died in the fight. thrid frame, we see Goebbels speaking in front of a large crowd. text reads : Goebbels, the nazi chief propagandist, had been looking for someone to turn into a christian martyr for the party and drum up enrollment. he turned wessel's funeral into a major propaganda event full of speeches antagonizing leftists. fourth frame, we see the State Farm Stadium with a large banner advertizing Charlie Kirk's funeral. text reads : thinking about him today for no particular reason.

No particular reason

This has been a near universal consensus on here and from the designer, but not among other testers or the friend who checked out all the options in person. Is there some secret bsky mind meld happening? 😳

Thank you! I absolutely adore her spooky season designs and just had to do this one in the brightest traditional Halloween colors.

A handknit sweater with just the yoke and body knit, ribbing and sleeves still to go. It's got an orange neck followed by stranded sections of a celestial scene in black and cream, flaming cauldrons in black and orange on cream, poison bottles in white on purple, cats and bats in black on cream, crystal balls in white on purple, and witch hats in back on cream, with green vertical stripes between each section. It's on a denim mannequin with a black and blue graveyard scene in the background.

I'm excited to have the body of my test of this year's @tellybeanknits.bsky.social Halloween sweater nearly done! It's still Wednesday until I've slept! #WIPWednesday #knitting #knitsky 🧶

This designer ordered one of his own designs from one of these fly by night companies with hilarious results www.instagram.com/reel/DCCU4HG...

There are two secret pink pockets! I don't know why they delight me so much, but here we are.

A collage of 2 photos framed in red, pink, yellow, and blue with bubbly hearts. The main photo shows a chunky greige sweater with mismatched plastic buttons in purple, pink, red, orange, and yellow. The inset shows the pocket ribbing pulled down to reveal the secret pink pocket interior with the matching pink button placed just above it.

That seems to be the consensus, including from the designer!

At that price, if this exists in the physical world at all, it's a print on polyester at best.

Thanks! If I had 5 of those pink buttons, I'd do them for sure, but of course I only have 4, so the mix was my next best choice with those. That's definitely the direction I'm leaning.

A collage of 9 images of the same bulky greige sweater cropped close to just the body, each with a different set of 5 buttons laid out on the button band.

In a close-up of a pocket of a bulky greige handknit sweater, a hand folds down the ribbing to reveal that the interior of the pocket is hot pink. A hot pink button sits just above the pocket.

My #KitchenTableCardigan test for @hookmountainknits.bsky.social has been done for almost a month...except for buttons. I'm terrible at choosing buttons. I'm currently leaning towards the bright mismatched plastic ones to coordinate with my secret pink pocket. #WIPWednesday #knitting #knitsky 🧶