haloroundmyhead knits

Same here. I do occasionally have to add an entry for a design, or look up information on a pattern, but I don’t use the forums anymore. I also very rarely buy a pattern there when a designer’s checkout cart doesn’t think the mailing address it nabbed from my PayPal is valid and won’t complete.

Also, I recommend to anyone who has a Switch or Switch Lite that’s several years old to open it up and replace the thermal paste. Preferably you should use name brand, but even those little packets of generic paste properly applied will be better than the OEM application of paste.

Assuming I didn’t damage those cables, this means that getting a functional Switch Lite again might be as simple as going back in and reseating two cables. (But I still have to remove a lot of screws and reapply thermal paste in the process, so it’s not an entirely trivial operation.)

However, the screen didn’t light up, but that means that I know which specific cables I should be looking at when I go back in. (When I thought it wouldn’t power up at all, the potential culprit was *anything* I had to unseat and reseat when I replaced the fan and analog sticks.)

On a whim, I decided to plug in that Switch Lite I didn’t succeed in repairing earlier this year. After a few minutes of charging, I pressed the power button. I thought I heard a faint sound, so I held it up to my ear and heard the fan spinning very quietly. It can turn on after all!

slightly diminish a band:

My Clotty Valentine

slightly diminish a band:

Subtly Furry Animals

Dear manga publishers, we don’t want your AI translations VIZ Media quietly added an AI-translated manga to their app and hoped no one would notice. We did and want none of it.

VIZ Media quietly added an AI-translated manga to their app and hoped no one would notice. We did.

Manga deserves better than cheap, soulless automation. This is a betrayal of translators, fans, and the art form.

We don't want your AI translations!

I bet she’s also going to be disappointed if the wheel ever does get assembled, and finds that it doesn’t magically turn batts, roving, or whatever into yarn without any effort on her part.

Also the texture…*shudder*

Also, I have the yarn I need, and a knit Dugga Doo plushie design is in the works.

Nooo! The Dugga Doo livestream is over! 😢😢

(I purchased the song before the stream ended, but I can still lament the loss of the livestream.)

#DoctorWho #DuggaDoo

The President's disastrous decision to bomb Iran without authorization is a grave violation of the Constitution and Congressional War Powers. He has impulsively risked launching a war that may ensnare us for generations. It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.

AOC: “It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”

CLARIFICATION :

The Trevor Project's hotline will still be live. But basically this means LGBTQ people can no longer be connected to it through the US national 988 suicide prevention hotline.

They will need to be contacted DIRECTLY

So spread this around

They can be texted. They can be called.

Protesters being arrested in Dallas now

The correct way to connect the authoritarian presence in LA and the Big Beautiful Bill is that the bill gives the government the resources to do this in dozens of cities at once. So if you don't like what's happening in LA, it's coming to your town if the bill passes.

I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m starting to get the same feeling in my gut that I had at about 1:30 PM on January 6, 2021—like Donald Trump has incited a series of events that are intended to culminate in a coup of our democracy by the far right. This is getting very bad.

Went browsing in a used bookstore today, and I came across a particularly cursed title in the craft section: “Mormon Origami”.

Those two words do not belong together, and yes, it really is Mormon-themed origami and not someone’s name.

Get in folks, we’re posting lockscreens.

Perhaps it might be long enough to work with a hook or button post-blocking, but I doubt it’s going to be long enough to tie. Although a fancy closure could certainly be a fun twist. /end

At the top, the middle panel is bound off, and the two bias “wings” are worked outwards. The reason for the difference in length is that I got tired of working both sides at once while I was watching a show I needed to focus more on. /continued

I haven’t bound off either tip, hence why they’re connected by several inches of yarn (I was working from both end of the ball at once. It’s an unusual construction worked up from the bottom of the shawl, with the side panels biased. /continued

I’m a bit surprised I ran out of yarn, because although my gauge isn’t a perfect match (bit wider stitchwise, but row gauge spot on), I had about 80 more yards than the pattern required, and I tend to use less yarn than patterns call for. And this wool is a bit like Fixation (stretchy!)

So, do I rip back on the longer tip and rework both to be the same length, and accept that it probably won’t be as long as the original pattern, or do I rip out entirely to make something else?

Long narrow triangular bias ribbed piece of knitting in semi-solid pesto green wool, folded to show that one tip is about three inches shorter than the other, and that there’s only several inches of unworked yarn connecting the two tips

I lost yarn chicken on this shawl (notice the short piece of yarn bridging the two tips…that’s all that’s left), and I’m trying to decide what my next step is. Unfortunately there isn’t enough yarn to make the wings long enough for the body wrap option. #Knitting 🧶

Many products sold in the U.S. are made in El Salvador. In response to the El Salvador president’s statements today, we’re calling for an immediate boycott of all Salvadoran-made goods. Please help by listing any products or brands made in El Salvador in the comments below.

The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.

Etude’s Soonjung Panthensoside sheet mask has a very simple ingredient list for a sheet mask, and the mask is the super thin kind that fits very smoothly. Rest of the Soonjung line is also pretty fab for sensitive skin.

Triangular shawl in vibrant pesto green rustic wool, with triangular panel of intertwining cables in the middle, and panels of rib flanking the outer edges. The piece fills the circular knitting needles, and is the largest it can be and still lie flat on these circs. Attached yarn cake is very small, showing that the knitter needs to attach the next ball soon.

Currently working on N-ogee by @norahgn.bsky.social. The yarn is Mountain Meadow Cody, which is a yarn that was made for cables and rib…the lively springiness of the yarn is magic.

#Knitting 🧶

A yellow street sign in Japanese with three black flying through the sky. Below is text that says ネコ飛出し注意 (neko tobidashi chūi) Means “watch for cats darting out”

ネコ飛出し注意 (neko tobidashi chūi) Means “watch for cats darting out” and I love this sign.