Lee Smith

NYT: One estimate finds that DOGE’s “firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers” will actually COST taxpayers “upward of $135 billion this fiscal year.”

@nytimes.com 🤡
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Have just passed a semi truck with a sign on the back encouraging me to save a life by donating blood (and not a Red Cross truck). Ominous in a way I cannot define.

Sunset and sunrise at the beach for Easter.

1. Stop assuming people announce all their activism on social media.

2. Stop demanding people announce all their activism on social media.

3. Stop deriding people for not announcing all their activism on social media.

4. Dunking on people on social media isn't activism and isn't praxis.

Post your daylist!!

Celebrate International Women's Day by interrupting men with your unsolicited opinions and taking credit for their work. If they get upset about it, be sure to tell them that they sound hysterical and should smile more.

The yoke of a sweater sits on top of a grey blanket. The sweater is mostly a light green, with a darker green pine tree pattern in a circle around the neck. At the edge, a light grey color is just starting to be added between the trees. Yarn in all three colors is coming out the bottom of the project.

🧶 The Spite Sweater is coming along! The pine trees more or less look like pine trees, and I’ve finally gotten to the third color! I think my goal is to have it wearable by St Patrick’s Day.

Oh, those are gorgeous colors!

For sure! Every option has its pros and cons, and every crafter gets to decide what those are & weigh them for themselves. So gross when people decide that their own set is right for everyone.

Oh, hundred percent agree! I’ll probably redo this pattern some day in a nice wool…but it’ll cost me 3-5 times as much, minimum, and also I think that none of these people had touched an acrylic since the 80’s. They’re so much nicer to work with than they used to be!

A photo of a tote bag sitting on a rug. The yoke of a sweater, with yarn coming out of the outside edge, is sitting on top of the bag. It has a ribbed neck and the beginning of a pattern worked in light and dark green yarn. The balls of yarn are partially visible under the sweater.

🧶 started a sweater yesterday mostly out of spite against the knitting group I hung out with Wed. who spent the whole time complaining about how they NEVER buy acrylic yarn & how much it sucks like dang, sorry you’re all rich old ladies but those of us on teacher salaries buy what we can afford!

Getting there. 🪡
#crossstitch

disturbing uptick in "we post tweets and talk about them." servile behavior tbh. bluesky is not the Greek chorus for the main character action of twitter, that's loser thinking, have some pride. twitter is dead. post bangers. thank you

I’m a firm believer in second chances, but I’m also a firm believer that anyone who is planning to spend thousands of dollars on Fyre Two is an idiot.

I was just thinking that today was probably going to be a day for donuts.

And then I got sucked into imagining if A Day For Donuts was George RR Martin's next book ⚔️🍩🍩🐉🐲

A crochet lobster with button eyes, made from thick red yarn. The lobster is laying across a person’s lap, showing that it is approximately the size of their legs.

🧶 Designer: *names a pattern “tiny blue lobster”*

Me: Okay but have you considered…large…..

A picture of the bonus section of a test, which directs students to design a Science-Mobile that is mobile, equipped to do a variety of science, and that looks cool. A student has drawn a van labeled Science Mobile, then written “Im not a very good darwer but I tried my best” with a smiley face and thumbs up. (Spelling incorrect: they intended to write “drawer”.) Underneath, in purple pen, I have responded “A drawer is where you put your socks, so I agree that you’re probably not a very good one, but as an artist you’re doing fine!” with the word artist underlined.

If I don’t get to sass my students then honestly, what’s the point of being a teacher? #edusky

This one wasn’t finished in time for the round-up! Mama wanted a seahorse.

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Watching a group of 60+ white people experience salmon cooked in the dishwasher for the first time is a blindingly surreal experience. Like being the only self-aware penguin in the nature documentary. I feel like David Attenborough should have narrated my dinner.

Sunday is for #crochet! Sister requested a “gay lobster” and so this ball of blanket yarn is dedicated to queer underwater organisms.

why go to therapy when you can drink coffee and buy books as a little treat to fill the void inside.

Look, I’m not saying getting yourself a giant coffee drink will fix all your problems, but the science tells us there’s only one way to know for sure that it won’t

Video games are cool because they let you experience things you can only fantasise about IRL.

For example, in The Sims, you can afford a house if you have a full-time job.

The quickest way to a man’s heart is to insert a needle between the xiphoid process and left costal margin at a 15-to-30-degree angle, directed towards the left shoulder

Feels like we all need to add as much pro-social, Mr Rogers like activity as possible just as a homeostatic response to all the ambient evil floating around right now.

Anyway I just signed up to read with little kids on Wednesday mornings before work.

Any chance there’s a pattern out there you’d be willing to share a link to?

The pulsar one has a very LOTR feel about it! Here is the specific track:

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@drspacejunk.bsky.social might be interested in the album....

That explains a lot.