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I already know that 4pm coffee was a mistake.

Two upside down rounds of uniced confetti cake on a rack cooling

Kiddo and I are "surprising" Daddy with cake for his birthday.

Oh and congestive heart failure. And his legs stopped working in July (he had spinal surgery and they kinda work now, but just enough to assist with wheelchair transfers)

It's very much a case of "dying man dying in unexpected ways" - honestly my money might still be on a(nother) stroke being the thing that takes him out. He's had six or so.

Poor news regarding my Dad's lymphoma. Not terribly surprising, but still. Gonna need to eat some carbs about it.

It's so weird and also hilarious to watch people be shocked shocked that the Dropkick Murphys are political. First question, do you know anything at all about this actual band, second, do you know anything about punk, third, do you know anything about Irish music or history?!?

Do you encourage strangers to drink alcohol often? Or just on bluesky?

Probably false and rude too.

If no one consumes things manufacturers tend to discontinue. It is better to admit that everything you see in the everyday grocery store is used by someone, a great many someones. And comments like this are rude so you should work on that too.

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I was looking at chickadee quilt blocks this morning.

I'm pretty sure my kid is going to end up with a switch two for this one. He loves Pokemon and he loves that kind of slice of life gardening game.

The picture shows a needle made of bone, it resembles its modern descendants with an eye at one end and a tapered end.

Things used in everyday life are the real archaeological treasures!

This sewing needle was made from animal bone some 13,000 years ago.

Some designs simply don't need to be improved, because form and functions were perfectly matched from the start

Length: 5.6 cm

📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg 🏺

I miss food threads because I like learning what foods folks associate with their identity and place in the world.

A brown penguin chick of some kind. It looks very much like a man in a suit. It is bedraggled and miserable

Made it to Friday but at what cost

Spouse is at a concert, boy is in bed, time to catch up on my YouTube queue with my emotional support crafts. Might even open up the kit and stitch.

Not unrelated, but also kinda but have you seen the Joss Whedon production of Much Ado about Nothing. He's trash but he's so good at casting people to banter at each other and that play is all about banter. Everyone is clearly having so much fun.

Pastor and plumbing supply salesman.

Engineer, not sure what flavor but he worked on very early computers.

Fair.

The team hopes enough chicks will survive this year to bring the world Kākāpō population to 300—a major milestone for a species that was teetering with just 51 individuals in 1995.

A massive bloom of rimu berries in New Zealand fueled a mating surge among the critically endangered Kākāpō. spklr.io/6044E87xp

📸: New Zealand Department of Conservation

Friend's fiance thinks human children are too stressful, she wants goats. She doesn't seem to understand that goats will also cause stress in her life.

So the real fact, that somehow I still am not shocked by, is that a serial killer found you terrifying. The folks on the discover tab should also find you terrifying.

Why did I immediately go "yeah that checks out"?

There were gluten free cheese it's in the Walmart clearance. When did this happen and why did no one tell me!!

A shirt and leggings in a navy blue fabric printed with tiny pepperoni pizza slices laid on a table

Good thing I cut out pajamas this weekend, kid has a pajama party at school this week and needs pajamas that meet in the middle before then. #sewsky #garmentsewing

Ancestral Night, and I just started Machine. It is very much hard scifi in the sense that the characters are constantly navigating "space problems" but also very much "what is a person and what does it mean to be a person in society?" as well.

I finished a book by an author I haven't read before despite them having been around a while and been entirely in my wheelhouse and now I am mad at myself for having not gotten around to Elizabeth Bear.

Boooooooat

Fuck yes

So much fucking work

39 years ago, there were only 27 California condors in the world. As of 2025, we now have 607, including 392 that are living free in the wild.

"Put that in your doom and smoke it" -Ursula Vernon

www.fws.gov/media/2025-c...

Fabric laid out with the edge of a pattern. The print is rows of apples in blue and two shades of red

Third pair is a blue and red apple print and I cut shorts for the bottoms.