Love your colors.

I am planning to use I Shall Call Them George by Studio Avenue Six.

Handknit socks in a broken rib pattern. Spiral pooling of blue and red with black mixed in, and black garter heels.

Finished socks i time to go in a stocking. #knitsky

The women in this 1964 photo of Beatles fans (yes, that's what they used) could not get a credit card at Bank of America without their husband or father cosigning. So, no. The answer, CBS and Bank of America, is no.

Orange cat looking at you with his head upside down off the edge of the cat tree platform. Light snow on the ground outside the window

Happy Caturday . Garfield has no shopping to do, and is relaxing by the window.

Trumpism and Trumpists are incompatible with American culture and traditions and should be purged.

Boxy cardigan with teal background and stripes of slipped stitch dots in yellow, orange, pink, and aqua. Andrea Mowry pattern

Cardigan with teal background and slipped stitch dots in in a yarn that changes colors.

#showusyourknits #knitsky The indie dyer is Yarn Hero, and I bought the yarn at the Maryland Alpaca Festival, but I think this was all wool. Stipple DK and Colormix DK. Andrea Mowry pattern. The base yarn

Gray cat in an open cat carrier

Not a good #Caturday for Dolly, who had to go to the vet for sniffles.

I have a friend who was the primary breadwinner for her family for a period in the late 70s. She is still mad that the bank would call her husband to get his permission when she wanted to make a withdrawal.

Handknit cardigan with braided cable patterns on either side

Back of sweater with 3 braided cable patterns separated by cables

Finished a cardigan. Kate Davies Kildalton pattern #knitsky

Brown and white tabby cat lounging on the back of the sofa

Orange tabby with yellow eyes sitting atop the cat tree looking at the camera

#caturday morning

"In free countries the law ought to be King. [But] some Masaniello may arise, who laying hold of popular disquietudes, may collect together the desperate and discontented, and assuming the powers of government may sweep away the liberties of the continent like a deluge."
--Thomas Paine, Common Sense

Johnson describes planned No Kings rally as ‘hate America,’ ‘pro-Hamas’ gathering Organizers largely blew off the rhetoric, but some Democrats online criticized the tone.

These are the same kind of weasels who would’ve called George Washington & America’s revolutionaries “terrorists.” They spend their days sucking up to King Trump & demonizing peaceful protest just as some in America sought to appease King George III. 

Looking forward to No Kings Day.

Alert orange cat is a cat bed

Happy #caturday

Vertically striped sweater with brown stripes alternating with cream, red, orange, yellow stripes. Shadow knitting creates a diagonal line on each side.

#showme your knits in autumn colors. Rainbow Jacket with Harrisville yarns from an old kit. Finished knitting last spring, but there’s a neckline error that requires some surgery.

Kingston trio or Benny Goodman

Variegated yarn in Blue, purple green and amber in a reverse stockinette with diagonal drop stitch stripes, shown close up.

Picture taken outside of scarf in fall jewel tones, knit on the bias with dropped stitch stripes.

#showmeyourknits #justknitting it’s scarf week, so here’s my Clapotis.

Two cats side by side in loaf position, looking at you with somewhat baleful expressions.

Happy #caturday from these two, sitting on the stair landing preparing a riddle to ask to allow you to pass.

Gray cat on a bed that hasn’t been made because there’s a cat on it.

Dolly had to go to the vet. It was raining when she left, and rain got on her, and the entire episode was intolerable.

Long scarf with drop stitch pattern in variegated jewel/autumn colors

Closer picture of drop stitches against reverse stockinette in blue, purple, amber, and green .

I finished a Clapotis in Fiber Seed 🧶, color Lost in New York.

Think about it. "Dems were too zealous in trying to prevent the spread of the virus" is, in US politics, a greater disadvantage, a bigger problem, than "Republican lies got hundreds of thousands of Americans killed for no reason."

Just a pathetic fucking country. Pathetic.

I genuinely think this is Trump's ignorance, ramped up by his narcissism: he genuinely thinks this is how the presidency is supposed to work (that the President is literally in charge of the country like a CEO), has thought this for a long time, and was confused his first term was "sabotaged."

Governor JB Pritzker joined elected officials, business, faith, and education leaders, community advocates, and law enforcement leaders to condemn the Trump administration’s plan to deploy the National Guard or active duty military in Chicago despite objections from state and local leadership.

I am sounding the alarm on the real crisis we face today.

Donald Trump’s overreach is what our founders warned against – it is unprecedented, unwarranted, and un-American.

There’s no emergency here that calls for military intervention.

Leftist: Yes, Trump’s kind of a fascist. Now let me get back to my obsession, re-litigating fights with Democratic centrists from a decade or two ago.

Centrist: Yes, there are signs of fascism. Now let me get back to complaining a lefty used some woke terms a few years ago.

American democracy: 🤯🤯🤯

once again, i'll suggest that perhaps the reason the broad public thinks democrats are weak is that when confronted with situations that demands that democrats loudly and proactively stand up for their values, democrats shirk from the fight

Crazy idea: Groups that have benefited from our freedoms…should defend them.

Our media should defend freedom of the press.

Our law firms should defend the rule of law.

Our businesses should defend the free market.

Our political leaders of both parties should defend free and fair elections.

Our

I don't have a good answer for what the alternative looks like, but asking 18 years to bet their future on highly specified training for jobs based on which they think will be in high demand 5-10 years from now turned out to be a very bad way to structure higher education

Why you might not know that 2024 was America's safest year since the 1960s An overwhelming majority of Americans, 64 percent, believe that crime increased across the country in 2024, according to a Gallup survey conducted late last year.

1. This week, the FBI released its comprehensive crime report for 2024, which revealed that both VIOLENT CRIME and PROPERTY CRIME reached their LOWEST LEVELS SINCE THE 1960s

This a massive story. But you might not have heard about it, even if you follow the news closely.

Here's why.

Swatching for gauge (Trump method).

1. Knit swatch 4 inches square.
2. Claim swatch is 6 inches square.
3. Do not block swatch. Blocking is woke.
4. Measure gauge.
5. If gauge is off, smash ruler.
6. Claim ruler was made by Biden.
7. Gauge is now correct.
8. Continue to not release Epstein files.

yup. probably not great policy to make college degrees increaingly specific while cutting general education requirements. you end up with graduates who are trained to do one thing that might not be relevant 5 years later bsky.app/profile/leok...