@abeeinthebonnet
I design soft, romantic knitting patterns and have strong opinions about knit socks. Here you'll find yarn, tea, gardening, and a daily cheerful thing. I used to practice law, but now I'm nobody's lawyer. she/her
Hi #EarlyModern Bluesky - did you know that someone brilliant has built working printing presses using Lego and they are trying to get enough supporters so that Lego will release it as a kit?
They look so cool!
beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
Watching the new Count of Monte Cristo and giggling to myself while Jeremy Irons snarls about "that terrible Borgia Pope, Alexander VI."
Fritos with cream cheese. Trust me.
TELL ME MORE I LOVE HER BOOKS
Also I know of a few church parking lots that are wide open in the evenings!
His was a 1968 coupe in a gorgeous British racing green. Total stunner. Looked just like this one: www.erclassics.com/volvo-p1800s...
All I know for sure is that it lacks power steering and is heavy as heck, which according to my mom makes it nearly undriveable 😅 (To be fair, I am, shall we say, of a sturdier build than my mom and I think these shoulders could handle it, but I'd rather not break dad's precious baby car, yanno?)
I spend a lot of time reading other people's Bridgerton thoughts and reminding myself that not everybody spent weirdly large chunks of their childhoods digesting 19th century social rules so I need to cut folks some slack.
Alas! But you know what this means? You have an opportunity to do something really cool and kind of funny...
This is because you are a wise and reasonable person with excellent taste.
Practice start with seven ILCA (formerly known as a laser) sailboats approaching the starting line.
Sailboat racing with several people "hiking" hard to counterbalance the wind power in their sails. @ElleB is in the foreground.
Hiking flat out!
Sailboat racing.
Was a beautiful day to start hosting my first ever regatta. @elleb.bsky.social got a great day of practice in during the full-day skills clinic.
You can see the core strength necessary to counterbalance the wind's power in their sails as they basically do a reverse plank while sailing upwind.
Absolutely none 😂
Jason tried to teach me on that cute little Volvo he had in high school, but I was terrified of destroying the gorgeous car he’d restored with his granddad so I didn’t get very far. Now the only one I have access to is my dad’s 65 Mustang 😂 I need a junker to learn on.
I would gladly give that beauty a good home except...
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I don't know how to drive stick 😱😭🫠
Rad Residence after dark: one of us is watching videos about grilling brisket, and one of us is watching an old Huell Howser episode about the Japanese-style garden down in the Valley that's fed by reclaimed sewage water. I should crack a joke about getting old, but we've always been like this.
It's the anniversary of the Boston Massacre!
So this week on the Untitled History Podcast, @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social and I break down the myths and reality of what happened. And why it became such a landmark moment in the American narrative.
cms.megaphone.fm/channel/the-...
I mean, I thought about adding that in there, but character limits etc
I love that! Glad you were happy to see me and not annoyed 😆
If somebody had told me back in 2007 that picking up knitting needles would eventually lead to me spending my mornings editing long-form video content to share on the internet, I would not have believed you. Life takes the weirdest turns sometimes.
Little Kimi Antonelli hadn’t even finished his exams when the race season started! All the sweet little rookies were such a highlight of last year.
More like self-preservation. I just know he'd lead me down a nice little flower-strewn path of cute questions, only for there to be a grizzly bear waiting at the end and I never saw it coming.
Perfectly happy toiling away in obscurity for the rest of my life if it means Isaac Chotiner will never have any reason to ask me a single question.
I just got a jury summons for the first time since I served on a jury back in the summer of 2018. Let's gooooo!
I dunno, I’ve seen some really good strings of videos over on TikTok with interesting people expanding on and responding to each other’s thoughts, but video has a much higher threshold for doing it well than text does.
Yep, there was so much whimsy and silliness on old Twitter. Bluesky is deeply lacking in both.
I know there are some people who really like the lack of algorithm here, but I would rather just have a good algorithm than no algorithm.
Y'ALL!!! Local news story on @elleb.bsky.social's journey to the LA 2028 Olympic Games!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWuq...
there's not really a point to this, i just wish non-tech people knew: every part of the web has become worse because of GenAI. Millions of SEO-optimized sites packed with cognitive asbestos. Companies taking down our services scraping every word they can find. Hardware is too expensive to buy...
I do not! I haven’t been impressed by any of the methods I’ve tried 🫠
Thank you! Mr. Rad was sooooo skeptical and thought I had bought a piece of junk. I will be rather smug for the foreseeable future.