Karen Strickholm

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Zen conscript. 🧘‍♂️ Gentle reader, writer. 📚 Life-long learner. 👩‍🔬 Warrior. 🏹 Knitter. 🧶 Cook. 🍲 Gin martinis thank you.🍸Animal lover. 🐕🐈‍⬛🐍🐘🦎🐝🐢 Outer space. 🪐 Leftie. 🌊 Lover of beauty, arts, humanities. 🙏❤️

Past: Comp Lit PhD student then corp comms suit. Now: Recovering from rare brain tumor, long covid, paralysis. Banged up but still here. 💞

#DisabilityMatters
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2024-10-10 23:14:16

🧶🧶🧶 #FinishOrFrogAlong comtinues! The Crème Anglaise sweater for mom - merino, silk, poyamide, baby alpaca.
This is my 1st sweater in forever. Decades. Knitted collar folded over, decided to get clever, knit it down instead of sewing it. Whoops! Off by a stitch in fairly visible front so the rib tilts to the side, but OH WELL. So it goes. Sweatshirt shape, so straight down body, sleeves. Onward!
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2024-10-08 05:43:33

STUNNED. This A block opening leaves me absolutely floored. I think you should watch it, share it. The clarity here.
I don't usually watch "Morning Joe" on [@msnbc](https://mastodon.online/@msnbc ), but stumbled upon a re-run of this morning's episode tonight, hence the nighttime tooting if it. I hope Scarborough a former US House rep and a Republican - is wrong. I'm afraid he might be right.
#Politics #USPolitics #USPol #News #Election2024 #HarrisWalz2024 #Project2025 #Fascism
https://youtube.com/watch?v=0Wd1sCFuwhM&si=BwYc9Neja7nIneVi

2024-10-07 06:07:21

ADVICE NEEDED!
To finish or to frog? Such mixed feelings re this Mosaic Musings shawl by Stephen West.
🧶 1/2 way through
🧶 Love yarns
🧶 Not sure how variegated yarn is playing - will it visually resolve w border?
🧶 Too "dense," not drapey?
🧶 Only mildly curious re how it turns out
🧶 Sometimes I sour on a project, then fall in love w it again later
What do y'all think?
#FinishOrFrogAlong #Knitting @Knitting #Knitstodon #FiberArts #FibrrewardseArts #NeedleArts #Maker #Creator #Crafts #HandMade
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2024-10-06 22:42:44

Tinsmith shawl, another view, blocked and DONE!! Check out how that lace edge opened up, so pretty.
#Printmaking #Woodcut #Art #HandMade #Analog #Kentucky #Arte #Xilografia #Grafica #ArtIsForEveryone
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2024-10-06 22:33:30

Another shot of the Reyna shawl, now blocked. It is modeled by activities aide Maria who helped me block it. It grew so much, which thrilled me! And the single 600 yd skein was perfection for this. Light as a feather, I'll be using the heck out of it.
Thanks again to @ConsumableJoy for both yarn and #FinishOrFrogAlong encouragement, and to all y'all who made Reyna shawls together last year!
#Knitting @Knitting #Knitstodon #FiberArts #FibreArts #NeedleArts #Maker #Creator #Crafts #HandMade
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2024-10-05 03:57:13

Finished thanks to #FinishOrFrogAlong!! 🧶 🎉💥🥂
I present to you, the MIngling Daisies shawl, knit in a dusty pink fingering weight Anzula yarn comprised of merino, yak and silk. Feels good!
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2024-10-05 03:44:46

💥🧶💥🧶💥
OMG #Knitstodon! Just as I was admiring my i-cord bind-off & began kitchener stitch (my nemesis), spazzed out soooo bad!
Suddenly there were... loops. Loops everywhere. Unvanquishable loops. Then frog, find stitches, tug here, pull there.
In the end, I grabbed all five strands and just continued my bind-off. It's a humbling lumpy bump now. The perfection of imperfection. Go #FinishOrFrogAlong!!
#Knitting @Knitting #FiberArts #FibreArts #NeedleArts #Maker #Creator #Crafts #HandMade
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2024-10-04 17:17:42

💥 BREAKING 💥
US launches air attacks on Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels
#News #Israel #Hezbollah #Hamas #Houthi #Gaza #Palestine #Lebanon #Iran #MiddleEast #War
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/us-and-britain-launch-airstrikes-by-fighter-jets-and-ships-on-yemen-s-iran-backed-houthi-rebels/ar-AA1rI1eO

2024-10-02 22:31:42

For #WIPWednesday here is the ALMOST finished Mingling Daisies shawl, designed by Stephen West. This has been a fun knit - in the Goldilocks zone of not too easy, not too hard. 4-1/2 rows to go, then bind off! Another one off the #FinishOrFrogAlong list. Feels so good.
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2024-10-01 18:43:29

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It's happening.

2024-09-30 04:46:47

🧶🧶🧶 A heartfelt THANK YOU to all who contributed towards my medical expenses via GoFundMe. I especially want to give a "salute of the needles" to the fiber community here. THANK YOU SO MUCH EVERYONE!!! 💞🙏💞
#FinishOrFrogAlong #Knitting @Knitting #Knitstodon #FiberArts #FibreArts #NeedleArts #Maker #Creator #Crafts #HandMade
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2024-09-29 05:27:18

🧶🧶🧶 OMG you guys I've been skimming #YouTube knitting vlogs - soundtrack of #FinishOrFrogAlong! Found some decent ones.
This one is an oddity. She knows her knitting, audio is good. The "set" is a riot! Borderline hoarding. A cat makes appearances. Looks like she has some past experience, but channel is new.
Got any faves?
#FinishOrFrogAlong #Knitting @Knitting #Knitstodon #FiberArts #FibreArts #NeedleArts #Maker #Creator #Crafts #HandMade
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2024-09-29 01:24:59

🧶✂️🧶 Yo knitters! Great mini-class here + tips, tools.
1st Mark makes the case for swatching... I finally might be sold. He helped me understand just how essential the swatch is to the whole creative endeavor. Before, i just considered it a pre-cursor.
2nd half is a mish-mosh. Invaluable knowledge ex. Using a clear weighted ruler. Great stuff!
#Knitting @Knitting #Knitstodon #FiberArts #FibreArts #NeedleArts #Maker #Creator #Crafts #HandMade #NeedleArts
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2024-09-28 18:54:51

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FYI - this is a repost bc GoFundMe says "share early and often." If already seen, please forgive the repeat.
Also, started writing again, pulling the curtain back on life in these nursing home rehabs. If interested in the latest missive - the journey of one emotional support chicken - click here for a fun read! 💞
@npub1s6j…2wam #ESChicken #Knitting @npub1tnu…g0xj #Knitting @Knitting #Knitstodon #FiberArts #FibreArts #NeedleArts #Maker #Creator #Crafts #HandMade #NeedleArts
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2024-09-28 18:44:40

Spent last 4 years circling the drain - brain tumor, septic shock, paralysis, lung collapse, kidney failure. Lost home, savings. Textbook medical $$ devastation.
Recently Medicaid chopped benefits, must now cover CRITICAL needs ex. certain prescriptions. Juggling this and others, like keeping phone on (Verizon) - an essential lifeline to the outside world.
Your donation makes a world of difference. Thank you for your generosity! 🙏💞🙏 Karen
#DisabilityMatters
CORRECTED: https://gofund.me/aa7f4546

2024-09-28 05:10:59

🧶🧶🧶 Progress! Sweater for mom is coming along. Goal: Block, wrap, ship no later than Oct 15th, in time for 91st birthday on the 27th.
Plus: Incredibly soft, squishy, light weight. Airy yet warm. Concern: Marled yarn too mottled for pattern? Hoping once blocked, it will pop more. Modified: Keeping cable line tobottom v ending at yoke. A fun knit!
#FinishOrFrogAlong #Knitting @Knitting #Knitstodon #FiberArts #FibreArts #NeedleArts #Maker #Creator #Crafts #HandMade #NeedleArts
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2024-09-27 15:34:14

Are you financially struggling? This #YouTube channel might help you, It's called Low Income Relief. There is a website, too. 😊
#DisabilityMatters
https://youtube.com/@lowincomerelief?si=_D8LSkIrbuO7lbWb

2024-09-23 20:31:06

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Used this time to "mark" a transition in my health recovery. Last 4 years have been HELL in hospitals, LTACs, nursing homes, etc. I've named that era recently - "The Interlude." Started knitting again for recovery of fine motor skills.
So now, am using #FinishOrFrogAlong to "mark" this era coming to a close. Clearing the decks! New adventures await!
#DisabilityMatters #Knitting @Knitting #Knitstodon #FiberArts #FibreArts #NeedleArts #Maker #Creator #Crafts #HandMade #NeedleArts
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2024-09-23 02:48:43

🧶🚒🧶 What am I doing? Knitting, whilst watching "Highway Thru Hell" on The Weather Channel. A good match, it turns out!
Aside from the high drama of dangerous rescues in spectacular wild country, there is the whole question of angles and support and math and community. Somehow, a happy combo.
Knocking out 3rd to last WIP. Then, some housekeeping to complete #FinishOrFrogAlong yay!
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2024-09-22 21:01:42

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Me too. For what it's worth, I found bamboo needles to be easier. Also, I found that wee knitting sessions over time actually helped my arthritic pain. I had to do it bit by bit, get pain buy not too much, do it again a day or so later. I only mention it because the arthritis associations recommend knitting. So hope that helps!

2024-09-22 19:27:32

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Hi Eric, why aren't you knitting, may I ask?

2024-09-22 01:18:13

I did it! I did it! I did it! The Wintry Lake shawl - 22 months in the making - is now DONE. Feels great, thank you #FinishOrFrogAlong!
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2024-09-22 00:38:26

Look at this lovely bind off! It is K1, K2tog-tbl, slip back to left needle, repeat. So clean, so very... Nordic, from this Dutch designer. Another #FinishOrFrogAlong project, DONE!
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2024-09-20 20:49:38

Me, wrapped up all cosy in the first shawl I made when I returned to knitting, about 1-1/2 years ago.
I kinda riffed off a pattern, and even though I did some kooky things liske switch yarn colors sometimes on the wrong side, it still came out decent. And so warm!
#Knitting @Knitting #Knitstodon #FiberArts #FibreArts #NeedleArts #Maker #Creator #Crafts #HandMade #NeedleArts
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2024-09-20 04:40:37

🧶🧶🧶 Movin'right along... #FinishOrFrogAlong continues to work its magic!
It's a bit hard to photograph, especially unblocked. IRL pattern is far more discernable.
Crème Anglaise sweater, merino, silk baby alpaca, made for my mom who is turning 91 next month. She's still going strong, and I'm thrilled to now be able to get this sweater to her in time, thanks to this initiative! 🙏
#Knitting @Knitting #Knitstodon #FiberArts #FibreArts #NeedleArts #Maker #Creator #Crafts #HandMade #NeedleArts
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2024-09-20 00:10:13

📢📢📢 NOW!!! 📢📢📢
Live event has started! PACKED with celebs, #KamalaHarris coming on soon... On #YouTube now!!
#Politics
#USPolitics
#USPol
#News
#Election2024
#HarrisWalz2024
#Project2025
#Fascism
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2024-09-18 21:57:45

🧶🧶🧶 Woot! Woot!
Another pesky item off #FinishOrFrogAlong list - repair to ripped edge on Aurora Cabin shawl. Dogged me for a year.
I'm so enjoying checking these things off. It's enormously rewarding. Also, frees up a lot of energy. I find that living in a nursing home is a mega-energy drag. The more I can free up, the more attention I can put towards rehab and healing. So yay!
#Knitting @Knitting #Knitstodon #FiberArts #FibreArts #NeedleArts #Maker #Creator #Crafts #HandMade #NeedleArts
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2024-09-17 20:38:23

More about those pagers...
#Lebanon
#Hezbollah
#Israel
#Hamas
#Gaza
#Palestine
#MiddleEast
#War
#Politics
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/reports-mossad-rigged-pager-batteries-with-explosives-devices-were-imported-5-months-ago/

2024-09-17 02:40:25

🧶🧶🧶 This is now my oldest WIP, hauled out for #FinishOrFrogAlong. Thoughts:
🧶 Juvenile mistakes, an early project in my knitting career. Ex. Joining yarn - awkwardly, in a not-to-gauge knot (will pick out).
🧶 Ravelry page for project was minimal, although at the time I was so proud of it!
🧶 Yarn choice was a bit weird, more drape would be nice.
All that said, I love it!
#Knitting @Knitting #Knitstodon #FiberArts #FibreArts #NeedleArts #Maker #Creator #Crafts #HandMade #NeedleArts
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2024-09-16 21:25:05

Are you in NM? If so, and you'd like to lend a hand to a disabled woman to block some shawls, then let's connect!
We can block together here at rehab, or take a shawl home with you. Happy to weave in ends for you, or whatever else I can do from a wheel chair. Have all supplies, including boards, wires, pins. Ping me, let's do this thing!
#FinishOrFrogAlong #Knitting @Knitting #Knitstodon #FiberArts #FibreArts #NeedleArts #Maker #Creator #Crafts #HandMade #NeedleArts
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2024-09-16 00:39:29

🧶🧶🧶 Yaaaas. One more WIP becomes a FO. This was on of the oldest, cast on in Sept 2022.
The Cachuma shawl, knit in turquoise Shibui linen and silk cloud held together, Shibui limited edition Les Garçons deep green wool for lattice.
Many thanks to @ConsumableJoy and this Mastodon community for the support in making #FinishOrFrogAlong a success!
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2024-09-15 20:02:10

🧶🧶🧶It's happening! Binding off one of the oldest WIPs. The sense of anticipation to finish this one - which has haunted my dreams - is great. TBC!
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2024-09-14 23:54:55

🧶🧶🧶 Ressurected for #FinishOrFrogAlong, early project from when I starting knitting again in Sept 2022.
Cachuma shawl, triangle, Shibui linen, silk cloud held together, Shibui Les Garçons dark green for lattice.
Can't find dark green, almost out of turquoise, so it's bind off time. Gonna be small, more like an oddly shaped scarf - Scawl? Sharf? Took me through some hella dark days.
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2024-09-14 00:36:36

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🧶🧶🧶 @npub1thv…jkz4 Yes and I do love them. Hope you can post some pix of yours. I have some I love from these folks, loving their enamel skulls. They also do duo sets, like this silver bird paired with a pink enamel cherry blossom, currently in use on a WIP. Wonder what other people like to use?
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2024-09-13 01:32:30

Why is it I feel guilty using stitch markers? Some deep-seated belief in my own inadequacy, or...?
First resisted them: "I can do it without them!" Many froggings later, with a sense of defeat and fear (why?), I put one for each chart repeat.
There are 2 charts, actually. Many more froggings later, put different color marker to see.
Knitting teaches us stuff. Like, it's ok to get help, even from a rubber ring.
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2024-09-11 20:55:36

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So well said! Now we have the Swifties AND the Beehive! ☺️

2024-09-11 20:46:49

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Bet we hear him dwelling on it too as we go forward. He won't be able to let that go. That one, plus global leaders are laughing at him.

2024-09-11 03:42:56

“With love and hope,” she signed the message, “Taylor Swift… Childless Cat Lady.”
Taylor Swift Endorses Kamala Harris Following Debate
#Politics
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#News
#Election2024
#HarrisWalz2024
#Project2025
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#Debate
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2024-09-11 02:47:58

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Psychologically, she moved right into his space. Bet he had a primal seething moment of rage in that moment. She moved in on him like a champ.

2024-09-06 18:50:57

📣🇺🇲 BREAKING 🇺🇲📣
Dick Cheney will be voting for Kamala Harris, WOW!!! Yup, both father and daughter.
AND, Liz Cheney also just said she will be supporting Colin Allred in TX against Ted Cruz. "I'll be working on his behalf." Double wow.
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2024-09-05 06:10:49

Well well well, look who just endorsed Kamala Harris - Liz Cheney! Yowza, that seems hugely significant to me.
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#News
#Election2024
#HarrisWalz2024
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2024-09-03 23:21:12

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A calendar? #DinnerParty

2024-09-03 23:08:48

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I have vague memories! Which, being born in 1958, makes sense. Do you remember that sitcom "My Favorite Martian?" Loved it! Also "Fireball 500" and "Gigantor." Those were the days.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_the_Martian#%3A%7E%3Atext%3DMarvin_the_Martian_is_an_extraterrestrial_character%2Cthe_Looney_Tunes_and_Merrie_Melodies_series.?wprov=sfla1

2024-09-03 22:41:49

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The Tibetans have an old calendar too, but mo where nearvthay old! I had acdear Tibetan friend, and he said they can trace their lineage back further, not sure how though. Thousands of years he said. Time measurement, it's all so relative, especially in the face of evolution!

2024-09-03 05:37:32

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Wow, so impressive!

2024-09-03 05:05:24

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Hope you will join in on the just-launched #FinishOrFrogAlong project, created by consummate knitter @ConsumableJoy. Also, here are a whole bunch of fiber-related hashtags you might want to peruse, especially the first two. Beautiful blanket! 😊🧶💞
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2024-09-03 04:54:58

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Seriously? That's a really old calendar. I knew it was older than what is generally used now (Gregorian?), but didn't realize just how much older.

2024-09-03 00:37:03

The emotional support chicken, taking a sun bath, resting on top of medical supplies.
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2024-09-02 23:50:01

Via @npub1ywf…l6h0
Potato yarn may be in our future!
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2024-09-02 23:45:05

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I don't get it, is that a football thing?

2024-09-02 20:13:23

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Sad to say but at a certain point it was most likely quite dangerous to admit to any Jewish connection. 😡

2024-08-26 17:24:40

"A man in Taiwan is helping reduce fashion waste by creating a sustainable alternative to artificial textiles from an already existing waste stream.
He’s using oyster shells—which when ground up and processed can produce a flexible yarn similar to sheep’s wool that’s been appropriately dubbed 'sea wool.'"
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2024-08-19 20:29:33

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Amidst all that theory, what attracted me to literature most of all is the power and enchantment of storytelling. That pleasure, decouple fr9m going down the deconstructionist road, was/is frowned upon by these literary critics. I do think they overlook and devalue the primal draw of story.telling Can't we have both? Do you know what I mean? Not sure I'm expressing that observation very well.

2024-08-19 07:36:51

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It really caused a shift in my understanding of human communication and how it actually shapes our perception and consciousness. He explores orality, then the transition into literacy. Most intriguing to me were his thoughts on the next great transition, from literacy to the moving image. That's what we're in now, he asserts. Fascinates me.

2024-08-17 23:21:07

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I forgot about that guy! There was also a school of criticism based in Estonia, before the Russians went in and conquored that land. I remember liking what they had to say, buy the humanities was in the full (intolerant) grip of the French literary philosophers of the time.
It's funny what sticks with us. This book has influenced my whole life! High time to go back and read it. It's not an easy read.
Orality and Literacy (New Accents) https://a.co/d/7JnudiM

2024-08-17 03:34:05

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That lines up bc one of the courses that came up in was in woman studies. Also in exploring medieval literature. It comes out of philosophical thought having to do with the operation of social systems, but I don't remember the details. "Deconstruction" was the movement that took over the literart world back in the day (1970s through 1980s). It was a recolutionary new way to approach a text, film, visual arts. It was a pain in the ass to learn!

2024-08-16 02:56:14

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Back in college, studied "crisis of masculinity" concept in film, literature, society. It's a big idea, and there are receipts to back up the premise. Also ways to puncture it.
Anyway bottom line, much of humanity is stressed out to the max. And when stressed, we embrace sone crazy shit, like fascism.
Maybe our entite species needs a dose of ketamine to get our heads screwed back on correctly. Clear our vision. We gotta wale up.

2024-08-15 23:00:48

Good to have my new voter registration card in hand! I checked online to get my precinct info, only to discover I had been PURGED!! Much to my surprise. You all might want to double-check too.
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2024-08-12 23:12:15

Ka-ching! These numbers ain't nothing, folks!
"Mastodon for Harris" Raises Over $500,000 and Growing - Purely on the Fediverse
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/8/8/2261786/--Mastodon-for-Harris-Raises-Over-500-000-and-growing-purely-on-the-Fediverse

2024-08-07 01:33:01

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Stay the course, my friend! Covid is real nasty. And we are only just now learning just how nasty (as in, far more that we knew). Thanks for sharing yout deep dives, we all need this info, eapecially those of us who have been in the covid battle first hand. 🙏🥰🙏

2024-08-06 20:52:23

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I suspect that is bc we absorb the treatment via mucous membrane. For me, I notice I don't absorb well via stomach.
Has anyone read about the use of benedryl for long covid? The reports say that for reasons unknown, dailu use of benedryl alleviates long covid symptoms.

2024-08-06 03:25:11

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Totally. Im in a long term care center aka nursing home. :-(

2024-08-06 03:20:13

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That is sure what it feels like. I've had it three times now, and each time was a serious battle. The long covid aspect is very scary to me, bc they know so little.

2024-08-06 01:54:11

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That does aeem to be a hallmark of the newee Omnocrom variety from what I've been reading. What they do not yet know is a lot.

2024-08-04 10:14:43

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Who said fascists are "a protectred group?" Not me. The slur "pigs" is reductionist, simplistic, non-contributory and juvenile. But you do you.

2024-08-04 09:27:54

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I object to your use of the word pigs. Bigoted in its own way which may not be your intent. Please consider removing that slur from your vocabulary. Also please note that MLK recommended nonviolent opposition. There is great training to be had for opposition work, and things like defending rthe defenseless can be accomplished powerfully via "affinity group" alliances that work together to defend the defenseless. I hope everyone will join one, it's gonna take all of us.

2024-07-08 20:36:22

🐓 TEENY TINY 🐓
Two emotional support chickens, crossing the actual road.
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2024-07-08 20:36:22

2024-07-02 23:05:35

@npub1s6j…2wam 🐓🐓🐓
Hello, Chicken People! So glad we're doing this thing. Pulled yarns from stash, made mini-stash for chicken making. Everyone here at the long-term care facility, where I unfortunately live for now, is quite taken with them.
Q: Already knit the Emotional Support Chicken? What size needle did you pair with what size yarns?
On the fence? Here is an inspiration chicken - it's the look on people's faces that make me want to knit one or ten!
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2024-06-27 20:07:52

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Oh duh, TRANSformers! I feel old.

2024-06-27 19:59:58

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That last one, the yellow guy, is he a pride thing? I love these cakes! Have you ever visited the website CakeWrecks.com? A worthy wander down a rabbit hole!

2024-05-11 07:13:31

Interesting!!
"Remnants of a Legendary Typeface Have Been Rescued From the River Thames"
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#London
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