The relief is indescribable and the sweater is warm and cozy

seriously, I was procrastinating that fucker like a resume I haven't updated in three years

NEVER BEFORE HAS A KNITTING PROJECT FELT LIKE SUCH A GODDAMN SLOG

4/24: Finished Cargill #1.
5/24: Ruined Cargill #1 in washing machine. Successfully went to truly absurd lengths to find more of the same extremely discontinued yarn.
9/24: Made felted Cargill #1 into chickens.
3/24: Finished Cargill #2 (it is NEVER EVER going into the washing machine!!)
#knitting

Splurged on a nice frame for this one! It took a while to arrive but I think it was worth it.

Van Hollen: "I would love to see them put up DOGE and Project 2025 for a vote in the US Congress. I predict it would go down. It's very unpopular, which is why they are using these illegal means... Trump knew this was unpopular on the campaign trail... now he's got Elon Musk doing his dirty work"

Atom xkcd.com/3050

Seen in Stuttgart, Germany

When we unionized a few years ago, a lot of peanut gallery types on social media wanted to tell me it would be the end of Wired.

Hope it’s now clear (thanks mostly to our insanely talented and hardworking politics team) that it does not work that way.

Unions are good.

It is interesting that it is when the sun goes down that the Dark forces rise. Bluesky becomes DARKsky.

Dark as in misery.

Also, CFPB actually returned to taxpayers something like 10x its own budget in recovered scammy payments and fines.

I've been trying to say "they're not supposed to do that" or "they're not legally allowed to do that" instead because CLEARLY IT DOESN'T SEEM TO BE AN ISSUE OF ACTUAL PHYSICAL ABILITY

Oooo i was thinking about this while watching Star Trek recently! The Klingons are obvious but I feel like there could be a lot of interesting things to say about the Borg. I'm going to ask my library to get your book!

Déjà vu all over again.

Listen to Secretary Pete. And remember, these are our funds. These are our courts. And these are our streets.

Can someone remind me who elected Elon Musk to office? Oh, that’s right. NOBODY DID.
 
That’s why @raskin.house.gov and I introduced the Nobody Elected Elon Musk Act, which would ensure that Elon and DOGE Special Employees are held accountable for their reckless and illegal actions.

Sounds about right yeah

Seriously @schatz.bsky.social is absolutely cooking in this interview. My favorite part is at the end, when he talks about Republican Senators who are unnerved by Trump: "You can’t be a senator in private. At some point they have to do something."

Blumenthal: "It would be one thing if we had some disinterested, impartial business person -- highly successful -- looking at ways to make our govt more efficient and save money. That's not what's happening here. Elon Musk is doing a power grab & information heist, the biggest in American history"

Musk in handcuffs & money out the door, & then we can talk about the unconstitutional impoundment being suspended. Until then, we're doing "Ned Stark has a piece of paper" stuff.

You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.

“Silicon Valley and authoritarians share the same goal: to crush dissent by keeping their would-be opponents spinning on an endless hamster wheel of reactive anger.

So what is the alternative? It isn’t quite as simple as “touch grass,” but it also sort of is.”

i’m gonna go touch grass a while 👋

This, so hard. As a historian, I cannot emphasize enough how people have taken for granted peace and rights that millions died to achieve - in wars, in labor strikes, in hunger strikes, in marches, in social movements…and we’re watching that sail away because people were never educated enough on WHY

Quick reminder: a bureaucrat's likelihood to have the courage to disobey an unlawful or unconstitutional order is directly related to their expectation of being supported and protected.

Democrats should be promising to support federal workers who report illegal orders or refuse to comply with them.

I finished my second pair of Underwing mitts in Zealana Air. Lovely pattern from the incredibly talented Erica Huesser! #knitting

I think we used it as an impetus to buy a chicken feeder that the sparrows and chickens can't mooch off of but that doesn't seem like what the nyt was envisioning