A close up of part of the first four rows of an interlocking filet blanket crocjeted with black and variegated rainbow yarn as the 2 colors. The pattern kind of looks like an upside down stepped pyramid outlined in black.

Same pattern as before, this time with about 9 rows.

The corner pattern, now at 16 rows so i am finally starting on non-border stitches!!!!

Another pic of the pattern, now at 16 rows so i am finally starting on non-border stitches!!!! This shows the middle of the finished row folded over itself.

It'a so sloooow but I love it.

India’s restaurants stop deep frying food as gas crisis bites South Asia reels from global energy crisis sparked by the US-Israeli war on Iran

Amazing piece giving examples of how the closure of the Strait of Hormuz is hitting South Asian nations that rely upon liquified petroleum gas and liquified natural gas 🧵
www.ft.com/content/d3fc...

Beautiful

"Preheat the onion to 350"

I love this recipe typo.

'Am I going to die today?' Finish inquiries before Camp Mystic reopens | Opinion Texas should not allow Camp Mystic to reopen unless investigators determine the Eastlands’ conduct on July 4 met the minimum standard of care for a summer camp.

www.statesman.com/opinion/colu...

GNOME SHOW (Pilot) YouTube video by Cas van de Pol

youtu.be/o9DofskLbN8?...

This was great.

someone on nextdoor asking about a snake in the yard and it is the most rattler looking rattler i have ever seen in my life, and i get asking the internet but also why not google "common snake in my area" and see if it looks like any of them

It's really "no take, ONLY THROW"

Finn the dog curled ul on an outdoor chair with a very faded tennis ball next to him. He is panting.

He decided he was done with fetch.

An ad for Kayak's app that goes "you can do it, you can be he first millennial to book a trip on a smaller device than their computer"

Lol we've been booking shit on our phones for 20 years who tf are you talking about

Sussex seabed shows early revival five years after trawling ban - Oceanographic Five years after a trawling ban by the Sussex Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority, signs of recovery are emerging along Sussex.

5 years after bottom trawling was banned across more than 300 km² of seabed off southern England, early signs of ecosystem recovery are emerging. Mussel beds are re-establishing, fish populations are increasing, & conditions are improving for kelp forests. buff.ly/vnOTVLk #ShareGoodNewsToo

-threads the white yarn onto a tapestry needle. They then work back into the white yarn with the tapestry needle, splitting the ply. They pull the needle through the spliced yarn but keep a loop to work into their knitting project. The yarn end is pre-woven into the new strand & they knit as normal.

Weave in ends in advance #knitting YouTube video by Annaplexis

youtube.com/shorts/iry-e...

I never thought to do this but now i am so excited except for the part where idk where my tapestry needles are.

Video Alt Description: Close up of a knitter's hands. Prior to adding a new color, white, to an existing piece that is green, the person (1/2)

a black and white drawing of a person holding a fork in front of a computer . Alt: a black and white drawing of a person bashing on their keyboard in frustration until their arms fall off

A DATABASE IS NOT A "SPREADSHEET"

two men are standing next to each other and one of them is saying `` it 's anti italian discrimination '' Alt: Two characters in The Sopranos are sitting outside an Italian restaurant. One of them is smoking and the other one is saying (with the text added in impact font) "IT'S ANTI ITALIAN DISCRIMINATION"

what it did to my nose shape is absolutely a hate crime against italians

yes i deleted the account immediately

a horrific screenshot of canva that has on the right, a smaller, darker image of me and under/to the left of it the "brightened" image that no longer LOOKS ANYTHING LIKE ME in ways that are uncanny and awful, including beyond "lightening" it, literally gave me more anglo-white skin, stripped the gray from my beard, redid all my hairs (???) fucked up my eyelids???????? and removed all features from my gloriously large nose. I'm pretty sure what it did to my nose counts as an anti-Italian hate crime

today in "keffy touched a turd so that i don't have to"

I don't have any actual image programs on my computer and was like what if this app can just idk change the light balance and brightness for me, are they at least not horrific at that

and the answer is no, this is so cursed that i cannot

has D2D backtracked or they still going with "nah, if you sell insufficient for our standards we're just gonna keep your royalties"?

A pic of Finn the dog from November 2021, in which he is almost entirely covered by a blanket and is lying on top of laundry, including a pair of jeans. Just his snoot and one eye are visible under the blanket.

2021 pic of Finn: alternate mood for the day.

A very pixelated close-up image from below of a green frog hanging out on a metal pole, watching, its eyes are glowing because of the reflection from the flash.

sometimes do you ever just feel like

it's my sister's bday and I have sent her a 5 kilo bag of rice that will be delivered at some point today because I'm not a good brother

The FCC Has a Fast Lane for Complaints About Trump’s Media Critics Internal emails obtained by WIRED reveal how a conservative legal group with a direct line into FCC chairman Brendan Carr’s office built the case against Jimmy Kimmel and his employees.

www.wired.com/story/the-fc...

copies in paper and hardback there of the new book. Which...even if they back out of this, it's a huge red flag for me because it suggests there's something more going on.

Right now I'm selling more on Ingram and on Itch than on D2D. Something's hinky.

I'm particularly pissed off because *something* happened to my sales in November. My Barnes and Noble links stopped working and I lost sales of my new book because it took D2D TEN DAYS to say it was published. And Books2Read never picked it up.
Well, going direct and with Ingram. I've sold more

Unfortunately, this would mean that they would charge me more than the $2 or whatever that 1-2 back issues make a year. So.... yeah, good job D2D making sure self publishing isn't associated with slop by *checks notes* chasing long-tail pre-LLM fic off your platform.

Still anGERY

Wheeeee

New revenue that is LITERALLY STOLEN ROYALTIES.

ALSO? THIS. SMALL CREATORS WILL HAVE THE SMALL AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT HASN'T BEEN ENOUGH TO PAY OUT YET STOLEN BY THE SITE.

"but that's less than $10 keffy"

Yeah, i bet it's not an insubstantial amount across all the small accounts, though. I bet it adds up to a nice little pile of new revenue

ANYWAY, yes I did tell then that they are driving my NON LLM BOOKS off their platform. Feel free to let them know how maintenance fees will affect you.