During COVID, rural Oregon resisted restrictions to contain the spread. Some explicitly said they didn’t need any restrictions because if anyone fell sick, they were going to be airlifted to the cities anyway. So the people of the cities could just work harder and deal with more cases.
Today I realized the periodic table has gained 9 elements since I minored in Chem and my daughter is majoring in it. Damn, do I feel old all the sudden.
There is a difference between saying race has no biological basis, and saying race does not exist. Race very much exist, but it is a social construct not a biological one.
Do we have anyone’s word about his sobriety except his own?
Dudes. As a society we taught young women to walk with keys between their fingers in dark parking lots and to carry pepper spray in their purse.
So yes. I’m asking you to be responsible for the actions of other men. After all, that’s what you’ve asked of women for centuries.
It’s your turn.
None of that is because of changes in tax rates. If anything, those were tech advances established by largely government funded research back when tax rates were less indulgent toward corps.
So, these advances are something else public funded that corp profit from.
If that was true, then we’d see big improvements in prices and services compared to times when corporate taxes were higher. But we don’t.
I think the difference between knit and purl stitches does vary with different knitting techniques. For example, I do combination knitting, so my stitches are very similar in size to each other, but the overall effect tends to make it hard for me to match gauge on patterns as written.
The other thing about Teflon: once it’s scratched your chipped, you’re supposed to just let the whole pan go.
The 99% is coming for those at the top.
After big dams on the upper Klamath River in far northern CA were removed in 2024, Chinook (king) salmon migrated upstream for the first time in 100+ years--and now they have hatched.
No, it’s tot!
That color scheme reminds me of northern lights. There was a hat posted recently with silhouettes of trees against a varied northern lights background.
Hungarian mushroom soup for dinner! It was a real winner!
One of these years, I need to stop working on complicated patterns (that I’m modifying in my head) while visiting with friends over drinks. Spent some time this afternoon noon getting back on track from where I stopped last night.
I object to the snow falling for the last few hours. I do not approve at all!
#Anchorage
The cabled edges of these big blankets took forever to do!
https://ravel.me/yggdrasil-afghan Gray cotton blend held with a fine yarn of variegated that ranged in ling stretches between gray, green, white, and tan, with a metallic silver strand.
Cabled warm hat inspired by https://ravel.me/1898-hat Random old wool yarn in the stash.
Cable week for #showmeyourknits ? I got this!
Yggdrasil afghan in a cotton blend (brand name forgotten, but it ended feeling like a soft sweatshirt!) and a spiral wedding gift blanket of my own design in Lion Scarfie. And a superwarm hat from old stash wool, again my own design #knitsky #knitting
I also recall some comments that particular photo was staged by all parties as part of the comedy tour PR? But I don’t have any source at this point.
I’ve done that with blankets. It is strange how it feels wrong to take so long for that last step. But it looks great, and cozy.
Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon all have headquarters in Seattle. This year the Seattle School District has an 80 million dollar shortfall.
I teach high school science. Some of my students are taking a photography. They all lit up with big grins as I told them the astronauts on Artemis took a photography class so they’d do the best job possible of recording what they saw. These students like having something in common with astronauts!
Whoa!
Two short pieces of black lace knitting with a knitting pattern in the background showing a photo of a lace sweater.
#WIPWednesday yes, a bit late!
#knitting
Finishing the sleeve cuffs. Needing to decide how I’m going to alter the sleeves to meet the desired length and flounce!
