Just idly rewatched Jurassic World. The first time I was quite upset by the extended gratuitous cruelty with which they killed the British PA woman, but it lands differently when you know it was on the specific spectacular-death request of the actress.
Less than two days left!
I'd love to see it get to $15,000 by tomorrow. It would be a spark of hope in a terrible moment.
(please please scroll down & select "adjust donation." V important.)
We're over $7800!!!!
Can we get to $8000 today? <3
A cross arm spindle with light, warm green singles on it
Spinning through dark and confusing times
Hoping to finish this languishing WIP (my ongoing "travel spin") for #spindlebingo2026 . Time will tell!
A 5x5 bingo grid with spindle spinning related prompts
Going to try to get back on bluesky after getting ducked back into the metaverse. What better excuse than #spindlebingo2026 ?
#spindlebingo #spindlespinning
Immigration rights attorneys are asking a federal court to stop Immigration and Customs Enforcement from arresting people without a warrant in Oregon.
Let's show up this Wednesday at the Salem City Budget Meeting and show support for immigrant families!
#WhyNotSalem #ICEOut #FundOurFamilies #CommunityCare #SalemOr
To their credit their mic technique was pretty solid.
A Latina person with short dark hair wears a spiderweb themed colorwork yoke sweater in front of a winter landscape
Back view of a colorwork yoke sweater with a spiderweb motif. The main color is rich variegated black-purple-red with a bright white contrast
A pair of colorwork mitts in charcoal and silver. Each mitt features half of a realistic skull image.
My Arachne pullover is one of my spookiest knits! But the Necromancer Mitts are one of my all time faves.
#ShowMeYourKnits
Fish sauce. sextonscottage.com/products/swo...
Anyone headed to Oregon Flock and Fiber next weekend? Please say hi if you see a dorky masked person with a mohawk!
#oregonflockandfiber #handspinning
Commentary: If you get your coffee at Starbucks, you may want to ask for extra sugar. That’s because recent news about the company’s tax avoidance schemes sure leaves a bitter taste.
Hey. Hey.
On sale TOMORROW is my standalone novella A Mouthful of Dust, #6 in the Singing Hills Cycle!
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
The story-collecting Cleric Chih and Almost Brilliant are headed to Baolin, a town known for its incredible pork and a famine that occurred eighteen years ago.
Handspun yarn, a bright purple pink and natural chocolate
If wpi too skinny, why gauge so chunky in knitted swatch? (I know, I know, keep sampling and swatching)
A tabby kitten approaches a coffee cup
A vicious predator spies her natural prey
A bright spindle turtle of neon sunset colors sits on a table in front of a planter
A long haired tabby kitten delicately laps at the rim of a coffee cup
We have a new trouble maker
Californians: do it
Several women in the forest reach out to a knight with a heart on their tabard. It is the illustration The Fairy of the Dawn (1906) by Henry Justice Ford. Overlaid in orange text is Sapphic Knights for Sapphic September.
Rien Gray's sapphic knight book Valerin the Fair overlays a knight with a heart on their tabard and is accompanied by tropes.
Rien Gray's sapphic knight book Martis the Brazen overlays a knight with a heart on their tabard and is accompanied by tropes.
Rien Gray's sapphic knight book Seure the Tempered overlays a knight with a heart on their tabard and is accompanied by tropes.
It's the best time of the year! #SapphicSeptember is here and one of this year's themes is sapphic knights, which is one of my favorite things to both write and read about.
You can get this lesbian-centered, trans-inclusive, high heat Arthuriana series direct at my shop: riengray.shop ⚔️
A tray of broiled tomatillos and onions ready for blending
A Pyrex pan holds sliced sweet peppers
September is peak food season in the PNW. Very grateful for a mostly successful harvest season, including loads of peppers and tomatillos. #pnwfarming #localfood
A small frog perches on a plastic pot edge
A small green frog clings to a mint leaf
A frog faces the camera head on, perching on a plastic bucket edge
A small gray frog blends into wet concrete
Get partners who send you frog pics. That's it. That's my life advice.
Share this with a SWERF or any chronically online person between 18-30 years old
Purple fiber? A Rube Goldberg machine for dispensing blackberries?
I just called my reps with @5calls.org, you should too: 5calls.org
It's my birthday! Please call about the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
A green Turkish spindle with green fiber and singles sits on an oilcloth tablecloth next to a tumbler of jamaica
Dumb little hobbies connecting us in a deeply fucked up world! I'm ready for #TourDeFleece2025, trying to finish up some spindle spins. Coincidentally, all the fiber I'm working on comes from rad, sustainably minded businesses.
I have Calypso on a sock yarn base, one of my favorite colorways!
Just realized I dress more revealingly for fiber shows than drag shows. Tbf, evenings here get cold!
A Latina woman with a very cropped mohawk wearing a speckled handknit Ripple Crop Top in gray yarn stands in front of a bookshelf
Ready to go pet some sheep at @blacksheepgathering , let's gooo!!!
Please say hi if you're a fiber friend! Will probably be wearing a pink mask, but really I think the crop top plus mohawk should be distinctive enough 😆 #blacksheepgathering #handspinning #fiberfestival
