The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”
How is “viewpoint diversity” not just affirmative action for people with bad ideas
Critically endangered crafts Crafts classified as 'critically endangered' are those at serious risk of no longer being practised. They m include crafts with a shrinking base of craftspeople, crafts with limited training opportunities, crafts wit financial viability, or crafts where there is no mechanism to pass on the skills and knowledge. Arrowsmithing Basketwork furniture making Bell founding Besom broom making MORE ENDANGERED Bow making (musical) Bowed-felt hat making Chain making Clay pipe making Clog making Coiled straw basket making Coppersmithing (objects) Copper wheel engraving Currach making Cut crystal glass making NEW Devon stave basket making Diamond cutting Encaustic tile making Engine turned engraving Fabric pleating Fair Isle chair making Fan making Figurehead carving NEW Flower making (trade and manufacturing) NEW Flute making (concert) Fore-edge painting Frame knitting Glass eye making Glove making MORE ENDANGERED Hat block making Hat plaiting Horse collar making Horsehair weaving Linen beetling NEW Linen damask weaving Maille making Matte painting (filmmaking) NEW Metal thread making Millwrighting Northern Isles basket making Orrery making Paper making (trade and manufacturing) Parchment and vellum making Piano making Pietra dura NEW Plane making Plume making Pointe shoe making Pottery (trade and manufacturing) Quilting (frame NEW | Rake making MORE ENDANGERED Rattan furniture making NEW Saw making Scientific and optical instrument making Scissor making Sieve and riddle making Silk ribbon weaving Silver spinning Spade making Spinning wheel making Straw hat making Sussex trug making Swill basket making Tanning (oak bark) Thatching (Irish vernacular) NEW Thatching (Scottish vernacular) Thatching (Welsh vernacular) NEW + Tinsmithing Wainwrighting Watch face enamelling Watch making Whip making Wooden fishing net making 84.7
new bucket list unlocked for my adhd craft friends:
If you want to pay $20 more than what MM is selling it for, you can now buy the kit on Amazon, I guess www.amazon.com/dp/B0GW8DVXC...
Bryan Cranston as Brian East in MURDER, SHE WROTE season 2. He's wearing a blue and pink tennis jacket.
Bryan Cranston as Brian East in MURDER, SHE WROTE season 2. He's wearing a white tennis polo and shorts and is celebrating a point with a racket in hand.
Oh goodness, a *very* young Bryan Cranston in the season 2 episode "Menace, Anyone?" (The sweater in question, not in these photos, is worn by Linda Hamilton.)
Claude Akins as Captain Ethan Cragg (left) and Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher (right) in MURDER, SHE WROTE season 1. She is wearing a cream cardigan with black fish stitched into the sides and the left seat. Ethan is standing while Jessica is sitting.
No wonder she owns a vintage Mary Maxim number!
(l-r) Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher, Marilyn Hassett as Maggie Earl, Claude Akins as Captain Ethan Cragg, Tom Bosley as Sheriff Amos Tupper, and Doran Clark as Nancy Earl in MURDER, SHE WROTE season 1. (Episode: “Deadly Lady”). Jessica and Nancy are in the foreground, and Jessica notices the pink sleeveless sweater Nancy is wearing. Jessica: - Oh, that’s lovely. Did you knit that yourself?
(l-r) Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher, Marilyn Hassett as Maggie Earl, Claude Akins as Captain Ethan Cragg, Tom Bosley as Sheriff Amos Tupper, and Doran Clark as Nancy Earl in MURDER, SHE WROTE season 1. (Episode: “Deadly Lady”). Jessica and Nancy are in the foreground, and Jessica notices the pink sleeveless sweater Nancy is wearing. Nancy: - No. But I designed it.
(l-r) Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher, Marilyn Hassett as Maggie Earl, Claude Akins as Captain Ethan Cragg, Tom Bosley as Sheriff Amos Tupper, and Doran Clark as Nancy Earl in MURDER, SHE WROTE season 1. (Episode: “Deadly Lady”). Jessica and Nancy are in the foreground, and Jessica notices the pink sleeveless sweater Nancy is wearing. Jessica: - Oh, it’s delightful.
Starting my sweater drop by viewing of MURDER, SHE WROTE, and early into the episode featuring the infamous Angler's Pride cardigan ("Deadly Lady"), Jessica Fletcher reveals she's an admirer of a good old hand-knit sweater.
if you don’t like the process of writing then don’t be a fucking writer, it’s not that complicated
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Roisin Gallagher as Saoirse Shaw in HOW TO GET TO HEAVEN FROM BELFAST season 1. Saoirse is wearing a green cable-knit sweater and a scarf tied around her neck and is standing outside of a stranded vehicle.
Congrats to HOW TO GET TO HEAVEN FROM BELFAST, the Cables Champion, and a show that's now much higher on my list knitflicks.beehiiv.com/p/knit-madne...
A mashup of every single sweater that competed in Knit Madness this year. It's a 3200px image with 64 square 400px images contained within.
In a contest of 64 sweaters spread across 31 days, 4 divisions, 63 distinct matchups, and nearly 1,700 votes across the tournament, we finally have the winner of Knit Madness 2026 knitflicks.beehiiv.com/p/knit-madne...
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“I dislike social commentary. Like… I really hate it. When I’m reading a book, I just want to be entertained, not preached at by the author. Plus, it ruins the wonder of the story if I know the author has a political or social axe to grind. I no longer speculate about all possible outcomes of the story because I know for a fact that the universe of that book will conspire to ensure that the author’s political agenda is validated. I hate that,” Weir said. “I put no politics or social commentary into my stories at all. Anyone who thinks they see something like that is reading it in on their own. I have no point to make, and I’m not trying to affect the reader’s opinion on anything. My sole job is to entertain, and I stick to that.” “For instance, as a lifelong Star Trek fan, it’s always bothered me that there is a presumed ‘responsibility’ within Star Trek shows to talk about social issues,” the writer added. “I just want to watch Romulans and the Federation shoot at each other.”
Ah, so Andy Weir is like... *dumb* dumb
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The link's coming to Bluesky much later than usual—newsletter went out yesterday, but I was out all day and didn't have the time/capability to post about it then—but it's Day 14 of Knit Madness, and the final vote is live knitflicks.beehiiv.com/p/knit-madne...
Also, whoops on not noticing my TKs (yes, I draft some of these early and adjust when I have the winners) until a full day after sending this out to all of my subscribers 😳
One last time, here is the Google Form (and I'll be sending out a reminder email tomorrow since that led to an uptick in votes in the Final Four). Happy voting, and may the best sweater win! forms.gle/JvLymYXav8AH...
A bracket showing the final four. The names crossed off in the left column are Twin Peaks and All Creatures Great and Small. The two titles facing off in the middle column are (13) How to Get to Heaven from Belfast vs (11) Shetland.
A 64-sweater bracket. 62 names are crossed out.
Here are the results from Day 13, as well as a look at how we got here. Don't think you'd see a no. 13 and a no. 11 facing off in the finals in the sports versions of these things. To me, the person not voting and who'll have to watch one of these shows at the end of the day, it's exciting!
The matchup: Will the Cables Champion—and a Netflix series that only premiered on Feb. 12 of this year—(13) HOW TO GET TO HEAVEN FROM BELFAST prevail? Or is it the Miscellaneous/Neck Champion—and the long-running BBC One series—(11) SHETLAND? bsky.app/profile/mich...
As always (and for the last time this year), here is the Google Form to cast your vote forms.gle/JvLymYXav8AH...
Caoilfhionn Dunne as Dara Friel (left) and Roisin Gallagher as Saoirse Shaw (right) in HOW TO GET TO HEAVEN FROM BELFAST season 1. Dara is wearing a dark cap and a pink and white buttoned puffy jacket. Saoirse is wearing a green cable-knit sweater and a scarf tied around her neck.
Leigh Biagi as Morag McCabe in SHETLAND season 10. Morag is wearing a light gray turtleneck sweater with bright green and forest green sections at the bottom and on the sleeves. Cut off and to the right is Lewis Howden as Sgt Billy McCabe, who is wearing a more traditional Fair Isle sweater.
Who's gonna win it all: HOW TO GET TO HEAVEN FROM BELFAST or SHETLAND? knitflicks.beehiiv.com/p/knit-madne...
The link's coming to Bluesky much later than usual—newsletter went out yesterday, but I was out all day and didn't have the time/capability to post about it then—but it's Day 14 of Knit Madness, and the final vote is live knitflicks.beehiiv.com/p/knit-madne...
“Rowling has made it abundantly clear that she thinks attacking transgender people via the legal system is a worthwhile cause and a good use of her vast personal fortune…there’s no way to watch this show without supporting Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting…”
That’s correct! If SHETLAND loses, this particular turtleneck is barred for a year, but that doesn’t apply to the rest of the sweaters/cardigans/etc.; I’d probably pick something worn by someone else (not a rule), but my understanding is that I don’t think that’d be too hard to do
Who has the better sweater?
1️⃣ Saoirse Shaw (Roisin Gallagher) in HTGTHFB
2️⃣ Morag McCabe (Leigh Biagi) in SHETLAND
📊 Show results
Oh I love this, congratulations!
I can't speak for PHM—I'm seeing it tomorrow but had to go with Dolby since most of the seats were gone—but it was worth it for the other films I got to see in that format!
AMC Lincoln Square just released more IMAX 70mm screenings for PROJECT HAIL MARY for April 16-22, if that's something you were looking to get at www.amctheatres.com/movie-theatr...
Two more days to vote! forms.gle/v4fBij7wYpfx...
Station Eleven hive LET’S GOOOO!