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Bound off the first sleeve on the Crush Sweater! Definitely needs a good block, holy crow! Also, I cannot get the color on this thing to photograph accurately, it's a much warmer green in person.

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decentralize and clean up your life!!!

use overdrive, libby, hoopla, cloudlibrary, and kanopy instead of amazon and audible.

use firefox instead of chrome or opera (both are made with chromium, which blocks functionality for ad-blockers. firefox isn't based on chromium).

use mega or proton drive instead of google drive.

get rid of bloatware

use libreoffice instead of microsoft office suite

use vetted sites on r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH for free movies, books, games, etc.

use trakt or letterboxd instead of imdb.

use storygraph instead of goodreads.

use darkpatterns to find mobile game with no ads or microtransactions

use ground news to read unbiased news and find blind spots in news stories.

use mediahuman or cobalt to download music, or support your favorite artists directly through bandcamp

make youtube bearable by using mtube, newpipe, or the unhook extension on chrome, firefox, or microsoft edge

use search for a cause or ecosia to support the environment instead of google

use thriftbooks to buy new or used books (they also have manga, textbooks, home goods, CDs, DVDs, and blurays)

use flashpoint to play archived online flash games

find books, movies, games, etc. on the internet archive! for starters, here's a bunch of David Attenborough documentaries and all of the Animorphs books

burn your music onto cds

use pdf24 (available online or as a desktop app) instead of adobe

use unroll.me to clean your email inboxes

use thunderbird, mailfence, countermail, edison mail, tuta, or proton mail instead of gmail

remove bloatware on windows PC, macOS, and iOS X

remove bloatware on samsung X

use pixelfed instead of instagram or meta

use NCH suite for free software like a file converter, image editor, video editors, pdf editor, etc.

feel free to add more alternatives, resources or advice in the reblogs or replies, and i'll add them to the main post <3

last updated: march 18th 2025

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I have some news for members of the united states armed forces who feel like they are pawns in a political game and their assignments being unnecessary.

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You’re not depressed. You just need $250,000 in your bank account.

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Redditor’s wife knitted a beautiful star chart shawl.

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I am so bad at posting here consistently but I feel like Tumblr would appreciate my best friend Fishbag (and the various creatures that live within her)

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Terrible lighting because middle of the night... but here is a first peek at my rainbow pom pom jacket wip. Proof of concept if you will! Tomorrow will be a loooong day if I want to be done with this by Saturday... which I do... but I can at least tell that the work will be worth it!

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Notes on The Yearlong Pantry by Erin Alderson

I checked out this book because it was a new arrival I hadn't noticed before. I literally only looked at the front cover. So I was a bit surprised when I realized that it's a vegetarian cook book once I got home and started looking at it.

Honestly, when I grabbed the book, I was expecting something that focused more on seasonal foods. Instead, our three main categories are grains, legumes, and nuts & seeds.

The author does get a little into the weeds with grain prep, but also gives fairly good advice about where to buy some of the obscure grains. (Random fact: I had einkorn a few days ago, and it was quite tasty. I was completely surprised to realize it's mentioned in this book. In a waffle recipe, which is probably amazing.)

Also, you can pickle grains. My mind is blown.

The legumes section has a nice assortment of bean-types. There are directions for starting with dried beans (the point is pantry staples, after all!), but there are notes on how to make canned beans work with most recipes.

The seeds and nuts section feels the thinnest to me. Maybe it's because none of the recipes feature cashews, and those are my faves. On the other hand, the intro to the section talks about making nut milk. So it's not really lacking in culinary adventure. The very first recipe, Whipped Goat Cheese Dip with Black Pepper Hazelnuts, looks particularly yummy.

The flavor profiles are casually global. I noticed Italian, Indian and Korean back to back to back.

The book is vegetarian, not vegan, but there's a pretty good amount of wiggle room to go fully vegan in some recipes. And others are vegan anyway.

Some recipes do have seasonal notes for if ingredients are not easy to find year-round.

Overall, a solid reference book! I do think the most attention was given to the grain section. And if I was going to start exploring my options there, this would be a spectacular book to have on hand. And as a happy meat-eater, yes I did see a few ways I might tweak a recipe or two to include meat. But I honestly think that most of these recipes are more than flavorful enough without doing that.

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oh and while we're here, i started planning a bigger fair isle project

a while ago i spotted a vest on the original all creatures great and small series from the seventies. the show is old and the resolution isn't great, but i managed to replicate the motifs as closely as i could. although aside from the shape of the motifs i don't have the yarn to make an exact copy with the same colours (and i have no interest to)

i knitted up a swatch with my heavy lace weight lambswool held double (and marling the colours again!). it's SO beautiful and i am in love. i measured my gauge and did the maths and drafted a pattern for a vest. i can't wait for july to come so i can have free time to work on this!!

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genuinely wild to me when I go to someone's house and we watch TV or listen to music or something and there are ads. I haven't seen an ad in my home since 2005. what do you mean you haven't set up multiple layers of digital infrastructure to banish corporate messaging to oblivion before it manifests? listen, this is important. this is the 21st century version of carving sigils on the wall to deny entry to demons or wearing bells to ward off the Unseelie. come on give me your router admin password and I'll show you how to cast a protective spell of Get Thee Tae Fuck, Capital

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knowledge long forgotten

got really into reading item descriptions on this playthrough. anyway did you know the silent princess is one of the only raw materials with a cooking effect to not explicitly list that effect in its description

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every time I write a lit review the possibility lingers in the back of my mind that maybe I have misunderstood everything I have ever read and that as a result I am about to embarrass myself more than anyone has ever embarrassed themself before

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“We are here because you were there” – Ambalavaner Sivanandan

Maybe ease up on lecturing white people about every Goddamn thing? We're fucking exhausted bending the knee and scraping and bowing and apologizing for just breathing. Fuck off and leave us the Hell alone.

i’m so sorry that it’s so hard being white. that sounds really rough buddy

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Yesterday was my birthday so of course I had to knit a sweater to wear to my birthday dinner.

Pattern is the Rumble Raglan by Lydia Morrow.