wildscreamingbit.bsky.social
Disabled mom.
Knitting 🧶 and Politics.
Transphobia hurts everyone.
ADHD with a dash of ASD.
I own a TARDIS, but it’s stuck in my garage.
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Plum!
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Me too!
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Please. Don’t despair. You teach physics at UNCC. You write books I’ve read. It’s far more than I’ve accomplished.
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Basically, the heel is 2/3 of total stitches, three wedges instead of two. Your short rows are by twos and you do two rows of knit between wedges.
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Sweet tomato!
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the last line.
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Like, do they even know what goes on in a trial? Juror number two doesn’t just get to present evidence found online. It’s scary this is someone who is an adult with adult responsibilities, much less someone in medicine.
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One of the crazymaking features of the current political moment is that MAGA keeps trying to retcon ideas that were just an uncontroversial part of our shared American values as of a couple years ago into some wacky left-wing position.
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Which one?
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The photo shown is from a previous pregnancy. This one wasn’t that far along, first trimester, I think.
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You know the little joy from get watching someone you loathe trip or fumble after they argued with you?
Trump makes his people feel that. And they are addicted. They mainline cruelty and call it joy.
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The one oddity of this era is how the party **not** in power is usually the one that may dabble in conspiracy theories. But even with MAGA in power, they still crave more stupid.
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It’s because they were under 26 at the time.
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We have had two main characters today, why not three?
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All this attention is going to give some very naive people some very dangerous ideas to try.
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I think we got two main characters of Bluesky today.
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Considering so many books get terrible reviews because of the narration, one only hopes user satisfaction is taken into account.
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it’s been there since at least the end of the Trump trial in NY. One guy covering it had an AI voice product up at Audible.
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I don’t want him outside the tent pissing in. This is absurdly self defeating of the DNC.
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The new crop of tech savvy creators are doing a better job these days. I still run across authors who use four different fonts and have terrible formatting, but less and less.
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It always sounded like a con man’s idea of religion. I’m a lapsed Catholic, but i know enough to see how the right has twisted and corrupted their own faith.
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Trump was a time traveler who went to the future, heard about a terrible president but forgot the guy’s name when he came back to warn us.
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AI is like glitter. Looks pretty, but gets into everything and until you realize it’s just microplastic pollution with good marketing.
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Right now, there are AI crochet patterns being sold online. One of the crochet influencers did a video showing how they are garbage. I’m illiterate in crochet, but she did a good demonstration of it.
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They openly preach that those who have more money are favored by god. Trump was a perfect match for them.
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Uh, nope. This isn’t a movie. Feds can get you for lying. And they get to choose what’s a lie.
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Anyone who loathes AI won’t want to work for them (or employers see their opinions on social media and don’t want to employ them), and that’s probably part of the problem.
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Or “I wish it stayed in the lab before marketing discovered it”
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People may be easier to hack than software, but when it comes to language and communication in general, people are harder to regulate. And they get mad when you ask them to.
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He’s hardcore into the fascist ideas of how only the strong are worthy. One could highlight how at least he actually believes the bullshit he spews.
That makes him even scarier.
A hypocrite will eventually stop once they hurt enough people. A believer will keep going until something stops them.
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It’s frustrating that the first few rows never look like you want - compared to regular stockinette or lace patterns. I kept an “abomination scarf” as a WIP, something super ugly i could practice on with scraps.
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It’s obvious science and manufacturing will get it - nobody is gonna make a “photoshop for knitting design” app. Probably ever.
I had to teach myself Photoshop 2.1 at home since my university wasn’t teaching it. So a synthesis of high tech and fiber art doesn’t scare me.
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And it gave me the creeps.
I got my degree in darkroom photography and never set a foot in a darkroom after 1996 - photoshop.
My daughter wants to be an illustrator - when generative AI struck.
So, seeing a virtual tool makes me wary in the deepest sense. While knowing I will never see it.
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I was frogging a sixth (maybe more) attempt at this cowl when i took a break to scroll and discovered her post about this article.
The frogging was a cowl / hoodie/ shawl that I’ve been tormenting myself (designing) for possibly two (?) months through trial and error.
I felt seen. Too, too seen.
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Any program that can make virtual models of what I want to knit feels both exciting and terrifying.
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Yeah, checked off time travel and the deep state too. We’re on our own here.
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Stunning! What pattern?
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It’s super fun to knit. Good luck!
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Thanks. I think we just planted it in a bad spot (too much shade perhaps)! We thinned out some of the other trees (dangerously high in hurricane season), so maybe it will get bigger.
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May I ask, how old is that red maple? Mine looks the same height, but we planted it in 2005.
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B.
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If I wonder where someone is based, I usually just look at their bio.