A heart-shaped prickly pear pad, which has turned pink due to winter. The pad has many spines that have emerged from pores (areoles) spaced across the pad's surface. The portion of the image surrounding the pink pad mostly consists of brown grass.
Happy Valentine's Day from New Mexico's high desert.
This hits on a fundamental difference between (generally) the US right and the left. Literally, empathy.
Even more hard-hitting after today's events.
Discord wants to know how you feel about AI.
Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
"A corrupt authoritarian president has been destroying his country for over a decade—and as of this weekend, he decided to invade Venezuela. But who is this political criminal?"
@joncduffy.bsky.social is always worth a read. His thoughts on the legality and the consequences of US basically kidnapping the leader of a sovereign country without following the rule of law and Constitutional process.
A Google doodle logo where the o’s in Google are replaced by a bad AI rendition of some non-anatomically correct bright pink knitting. The two needles look like a weird broken screw, there aren’t enough stitches, and it’s all very ugly and low effort. There’s a link: “Make a plan for 2026 resolutions with Al Mode”
huh so Google is kicking off the new year by pissing off knitters that’s fun
🇺🇸 “Beginning today, we will govern expansively and audaciously. We may not always succeed, but never will we be accused of lacking the courage to try.”
-NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaking at his inauguration
Now THAT'S change you can believe in.
Speaking of Book View Cafe's Boxing Day sale, grab Vonda McIntyre's story "SCOTUS Defines Personhood," written in 2011 and is still scarily relevant today. Add $5.99+ of books to your cart and get 50% off.
bookviewcafe.com/book/supreme...
It's the Book View Cafe Boxing Day sale, where everything is 50% off. I stock up every year. And I was super disappointed to see some ugly AI covers on some new books by Alicia Rasley. WTF, Book View Cafe?
A powerful piece. Something all Americans should read. What does this say about us? Our values?
This entire thread is gold.
I just finished Snake-Eater by T. Kingfisher and if that wasn't the most Southwest T. Kingfisher book ever. Evil roadrunner. Yup, makes total sense.
Also, the side effect of this exercise is I can better spot AI now. Though some covers that I swore were AI came back as not. So... 🤷♀️
Reporting now confirms that U.S. forces fired second missiles at survivors of our own strikes. This is no “gray area.” It’s illegal — and it morally injures the very people we ask to serve.
My op-ed in the LA Times on why killing survivors is neither legal nor moral: www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
I started using an AI image detector and ran questionable book covers on my wishlist through it. Well, my to-buy list is now significantly smaller. I wish I had thought to do this sooner as I had bought a fair number of books with AI covers that I hadn't pegged as AI. Indie authors, do better.
East Asian woman with glasses wearing a knit cables mostly purple with some green sweater.
Also, if you've ever wondered how Targhee Worsted knits up... Amazingly! Here I am in Broken Oath by Thea Colman, Targhee Worsted in colorway Octopus's Garden.
I was in a very purple mood this weekend. (What else is new?) New yarn at The Yarn Store at Nob Hill in Albuquerque! Including a new 100% North American wool base that is love, and sock blanks.
#yarn #indiedyer #knitting #crochet
Yarn skeins being dip dyed in black and bright pink with each dye in clear plastic containers.
Last time I only did one skein in this colorway (using up dye at the end of a dye session) and it sold almost immediately. Here's more Pink Pony Club coming!
Rejoice! The Targhee Worsted base is back in stock at the mill. *Immediately buys $1000 dollars worth of undyed yarn*
This is the ten billion dollar question isn't it?
Ignore all laws about altering historic properties ✅
Pave over Rose Garden for tacky Mar-A-Lardo Patio ✅
Demolish East Wing after lying that "It won't interfere with the current building. It'll be near it but not touching it" ✅
Build gaudy $250M Ballroom as public struggles financially ✅
#Ugh🤢✅
When this is over, no matter the effort and no matter the cost, we tear down Trump's ballroom and restore the White House to the way it was.
And then we take a wrecking ball to Mar-a-Lago.
billionaires should not be allowed to exist because the downside of "one of them loses their mind" is simply too dangerous for a functional society
also, having a billion dollars tends to make you lose your mind
I cannot recommend you enough to install the Wikipedia app on your devices and use it like you would any search engine. Nowadays they even have tabs so you can open many articles at once.
And, if you can, please donate to the foundation. It has survived the internet enshittification that way.
Picture of cat with No Kings sign.
Caturday meets No Kings day.
Still some Balloon Glow left from this weekend's mini fiber festival. It will be heading to The Yarn Store at Nob Hill later today.
Also despite me vending this weekend, I've given up dyeing more fiber or yarn because the day job is taking all my time at the moment. And fuck it. If I sell out, hooray! I might put a dent in the loan I gave the business to stockpile supplies.
Changing my avatar because sometimes you are just a cat under a chair.
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