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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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I finally paid off my mortgage! The “starter home” we bought in 1998 and decided to never leave is all ours now. I feel bad for all the young people unable to find a house. We got ours when I was 25. Millennials and gen z deserve better than what America has done to the housing market.

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🧶 still working on a cowl with short rows and seed stitch. Still not satisfied. Starting another with a larger diameter. (456 stitches around)

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🧶 if you’re gonna buy something on Etsy , go look at the same thing on temu for a fraction of the cost. Like those silicone stitch holders and skull things. Even those $85 mesh bags from jimmy beans - $14 (but no leather bottoms). I now own a zillion colorful magnetic stitch markers.

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🧶 I wish someone had suggested a handheld steamer for turning ramen yarn into almost brand new yarn. I hate hate hate the texture of what I call “pre-chewed” yarn. So I would be overly cautious knitting with expensive yarn. Getting a steamer a couple years ago alleviated my knitting risk aversion.

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Able bodied people are only temporarily able bodied. Remember that, when they try to overturn the ADA. Pregnancy, aging, disease, and freak accidents disable people permanently or temporarily. Those protections are for everyone because everyone will eventually need them unless they die young.

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🧶 my neurodivergent people, using interchangeable needles of different colors is really helpful to keep track what side you’re on. It’s absolutely a requirement for me after 7:30 PM. I got these on temu for around $30 a set. They have better joins than my lantern moon set.

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I became a paraplegic the year the ADA was passed. It kept me from feeling like a second class citizen and worthy of the same things able bodied people had. I have a home, a career, and a family thanks to it. This guts me. This hurts more than Roe being overturned.

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I used to read books about life in the Soviet Union and marvel at the ways normal folks communicated in the face of totalitarian oppression. Today I scroll through federal bureaucrats using code words and carefully placed asterisks on Reddit and I’m like, ah shit.

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Please remember something: if you had said a year ago that Trump would do even a fraction of these things, you would have been mocked, belittled, accused of “Trump derangement syndrome,” and dismissed by certain people. Identify those people and block and shun them.

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Indeed

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My late husband (had a car crash not killed him) would probably have suffered a heart attack reading this article. Yeah, I’m pretty sure this would’ve done it.

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The best reply about the entire CIA workforce being offered buyouts.

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Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?

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I take a day off social media, watched some WW2 documentaries then opened the app. Bad idea.

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🧶 Someone once said (might be Annie Lamont) that artists are troublemakers because we make challenges for ourselves. She was referring to writing, but it applies to all creative arts. I think it definitely works for knitters. We make our own trouble. I like that.

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Binge watching Girl with the Dogs on YouTube. She is such a responsible content creator. When an animal comes to her for grooming, she makes a point to tell her followers to not criticize the owners when the animal is in rough shape. Often, these pups were getting the best care the owner could

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🧶 still having short row fever. I know what I want, just don’t know how to get there. Made two abominations, just birthed a not quite what I imagined, but not too ugly cowl.

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