#2024 has really sucked

[cometrose]

trump may be a lying felon and biden a foot away from death but my fellow americans don’t forget to vote for your senators and representatives they’re important!!!

[pensat-i-fet]

Spanish actress Alba Flores at the Goya Awards (the Spanish Oscars) asking for countries to stop selling weapons to Israel and for a ceasefire ❤️

Alba: "I didn't know how long I would be able to speak so I wanted to bring a reminder (the badge she points at in her dress) because in these dark times, because 30000 people have died, they've been murdered in Gaza, it's hard to celebrate things. It's really hard. It's very contradictory. So, in a way, bringing this little reminder here where we have a voice that people can listen to. Here where authorities attend...I don't know. I hope they think about this and I hope the government of this country can do something".

Reporter: "The badge says stop selling weapons and ceasefire in Gaza".

[skitskatdacat63]

New Fernando outfit dropped !! He looks like a s'more....

[milkweedman]

TDF DAY 2 (june 30)

Onto the fancy jacob lambswool. This wool is ridiculously soft and fine even for a non-jacob fleece, but for a jacob it's almost unbelievable. Were it not for the fact that it's clearly piebald I would be very suspicious that it is actually rambouillet or some other fine wool. But it's jacob and I'm even more fond of it for that.

Anyway, for my first attempt I wanted to see how distinct I could keep the colors while still combing it all at once. I did white on one side, gray in the middle, and brown on the other side. Definitely didn't homogenize but also didn't stay distinct at all, so if I want a nice barberpole through the colors I probably need to comb each color separately and then just spin them all together.

I spun most of this one on a drop spindle until I fully destroyed my right shoulder like an idiot (an idiot who now can't raise it's hand without its shoulder dislocating instantly), and switched to supported. Supported was definitely less painful, but I'm still having the issue of not being able to keep my arm upright for long enough to make a lot of progress. So, this will need to be spun on a wheel.

Will benefit from being plied on a wheel too I think.

Mostly because it's thin enough that I really cannot visually tell how much twist I'm adding (and nor can I feel it because it's so thin and soft you really can't feel a single ply.) At least with a wheel I have an easier time being consistent, so I think I could get a much much better yarn on my wheel. That'll probably have to wait for next weekend, idk.

Anyway, here's the finished skein, steam blocked and twisted up. It's 1/10th of an ounce and 23 yards (3 grams and 21 meters). Way denser than I was hoping for. I can probably go a bit thinner, but I did think my average with this fleece would be thinner right off the batt.

Not sure how I'm going to go about spinning the rest of tdf. Maybe I'll try waking up early (well... earlier. I already wake up at 5am for work) to spin before I leave. I don't seem to be able to use spindles anymore without extreme pain... problem is the same is also true to an extent of my wheel. My body is such a piece of buzz killing garbage, but whatever. I will figure something out as I am not yet emotionally ready to have to quit doing tdf. Probably next year I will not have a choice, but hey ! Not thinking about it.

Probably gonna spend the rest of the day knitting something with this laceweight to see how it works up.

[fizzlecosmos]

Come, and wake me! Come become the love I can hold now! Storybook love leaves me cold now! Show me the way to stop dreaming!

I just think Gloria's really underappreciated, okay?

[enjoythebutterflies21]

Whenever I see people claim that Max’s legacy will always be tainted by Abu Dhabi 2021 I have to laugh bc that just tells me they have no idea what they’re talking about.

THE Michael Schumacher won his first title by deliberately crashing his rival out and now he is widely regarded as one of, if not the, greatest of all time.

And you want to tell me something Max had no fault in whatsoever, to the point where even Lewis himself admitted he would have done exactly the same, will taint his legacy?! Pull the other one or even better, a history book.

[sysig]

Finally made it through (Patreon)

[ofpolitics]

while i bury my lonely sorrows about not having enough energy to go out and swing dance tonight in my drafts, i'd just like my dash to know i really do hope you all have the best new year and that 2024 is at least a year in which an amazing thing happens that makes you happy once, but more so, an amazing year in general. in the way that friends do, i deeply care about all of you and wish you all the happiness and blessings you can bear. you are worthy of love and everything else, and i hope you know that, really truly know that. it's still a few hours yet but in case i'm not on to post it, Happy New Year!

[waterberry-strawmelon]

i hate feeling ashamed.

[girlcrushau]

[erveinangel]

// Divergent Universe thoughts in tags.

[jelliebeanbitch]

broadway is so fucking baaaack like people are making real, risky, high quality, unique plays now !!! it’s unstuck from the covid rut and it’s not big commercial pieces of shit either, like it’s cool new impressive stuff!!!!! like thank fucking god

[dubbbyyy]

Just living and breathing

[simonxriley]

i mean Charlie ain't fucking wrong......

[megasceptile001]

slowly recovering from my self doubt

[voulezloux]

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