A picture of a crocheted blanket. The blanket looks like a pixelated image with every pixel being a stitch. The image is a masked person in red against a teal and black background. Black text on a red background at the bottom of the image reads: „ la lucha Zapatista“.

Found on Vinted - handmade. Best impulse buy ever. Seller‘s friend‘s mom makes blankets like these to make a little money on top of her pension. I paid three times as much as she was asking - she‘s severely underselling herself. Seller is called Ber_liner. Please be good and pay more than she asks.

A quick picture of a yarn swatch I’m holding on my leg. The yarn is undyed sheep wool twisted together with a wool and cotton gradient yarn that is mainly yellow with a little orange blended in. A swatch should be 15x15 cm, and it should be washed and blocked. This is very much not that. This is the absolute bare minimum “eh, that’ll do” kind of swatch, about 14 centimetres wide and not even 5 centimetres high. We’ll see if I’ll come to regret guesstimating an accurate gauge from this manifestation of my laziness.

All the gradient yarn has been spun up. I knit up a swatch and have decided I’m going to try and make a sleeveless vest - top down, with steeked armholes so that I can knit the whole thing in the round and keep the gradient going through the entire garment.

Widerstand gegen Migrationspolitik: Immer mehr Pi­lo­t*in­nen verhindern Abschiebungen Abschiebungen kosteten den Bund letztes Jahr Millionen. Dabei wendeten Polizisten tausendfach Gewalt an. Hoffnung macht das Verhalten der Flugcrews.

Ein Hoch auf die Pilot*innen: "Über 1.600 Mal mussten [Abschiebungen] abgebrochen werden, nachdem die Betroffenen schon in den Händen der Bundespolizei waren. In fast 1/3 der Fälle war dafür ausschlaggebend, dass die Pilot*innen von genutzten Linienflügen sich weigerten, dabei mitzuwirken.“

Demonstration in Lyon: Ein Siegeszug der Rechten In Lyon gedenken nationalistische Gruppen des zu Tode geprügelten Quentin Deranque. Es ist der Höhepunkt einer aufgeheizten Woche, in der die Linken dämonisiert wurden.

Was sich derzeit in 🇫🇷 abspielt, hat mehr Aufmerksamkeit verdient: Linksextreme prügeln einen Neonazi zu Tode. Daraufhin klagen Regierung, Konservative & Le Pen die gesamte Linke an, gewaltsam zu sein. Nun folgt ein Aufmarsch, inklusive Hitlergruß
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A painted ceramic bowl shaped like a lil frog guy opening their lil mouth real wide. It’s not very well made and that makes it so much better. This frog sits on my desk and collects little thread ends and other sewing detritus.

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Hi it’s me, except I’ve cut the upper half of my face out of the frame in a half hearted attempt at internet anonymity. I’m wearing a most excellent cardigan that looks very soft. It’s knit from a kind of warm oatmeal brown, with near-black dots all over. On either side of the button band it’s got striking horizontal stripes. It’s got cute hand turned wooden buttons. You can’t see the pockets it has because the person who made this cardigan knew what they were doing and used an afterthought pocket technique that produces a pocket that looks identical to the actual cardigan. I’m also wearing pants (thank god), a red belt, and a New California Republic t shirt. I am low key trying to show off this t shirt because I bought it at comic con and got a discount because of my landsknecht fallout cosplay.

This is actually a pretty stupid closeup and you’re not missing much. I’m trying to show the pocket, and I guess if you’re a knitter you’ll be like “oh, cool!” and otherwise this is just a picture of lovely fluffy knitted stitches (with some variety in the color of the brown yarn that makes me think it may be hand dyed yarn) to you. Which I’m not judging. Thanks for reading!

Had to share this thrift find! Vintage hand knit cardigan! The brown looks hand dyed! Pure wool! Amazing invisible pockets! 18 euros!!

A cake of yarn in a long gradient - yellow and orange in the middle, changing via bright red to a deep red on the outside. Underneath it is a skein of handspun yarn made with this gradient yarn and some basic undyed wool fiber. It’s clearly a beginner’s work but it’s usable, and the gradient yarn alternating with the undyed fiber produces a fun speckled look.

We’ve got four skeins of yarn and a spool of yarn now. The skein onto the far left is undyed speckled with yellow, the second to left has some orange mixed in. The third’s speckles are a true orange, and the one to the right of that has orangey red speckles. The yarn still on the spool has deep red speckles. Together, the yarns look like a gradient, but a bit more toned down.

Using this long gradient yarn to practice spinning. I’m using fiber that’s got a pretty uneven, short staple length and I think this is the best way I have to make a usable yarn out of it at my current skill level.

A top down view of a skein of undyed yarn submerged in a pot of boiling water, with a glass jar of chestnut husks held above it.

A top down view of a pot of boiling water with a skein of undyed yarn in it, with a jar’s worth of dried chestnut peels unceremoniously dumped on top. I hoped that just chucking the peels in would create an interesting dye pattern on the yarn with darker and lighter spots. Unfortunately the only thing it did was to force me to spend 30 minutes picking chestnut peel bits out of my yarn.

A top down view of a pot of boiling water and a layer of chestnut peels on top, with a now no longer undyed skein of yarn in the water below. The yarn is taking on a pretty, oatmeal, sandy, light browny shade. Not pictured: the tears in my eyes from the amount of vinegar in this dye bath to fix the color to the protein strands of the yarn. Science!

My hand proudly holding the now dyed and mostly dried skein of yarn. It’s actually pretty decently spun yarn for a beginning spinner! And it’s now a lovely light brown color. Mission accomplished, we learned a lot.

I dyed a skein of yarn I spun on my spindle, using dried chestnut peels I had left over from when I made horse chestnut detergent last autumn. I had hoped for more color variation because of how unequally I spread the peels and how little I moved it around. But it’s still a very pretty color.

A hand (mine) holding two squishy skeins of very soft, grey, two-ply handspun yarn, spun on a louet Victoria spinning wheel that’s visible in the background. The yarn looks more uneven than a store bought yarn but is pretty damn decent for a beginner’s handspun!

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

I love getting the notification emails from God :D

We’ve zoomed in on a detail of a child’s drawing done in a striking combination of felt tip and airbrush markers. In the background, a cloud-like purple shape is lined in burgundy. Above it hovers a royal blue shape with a medium brown base that I was told is a guitar, but to my eyes looks very much like a phallus. It truly is the most phallic phallus that ever phallused - I cannot overstate this. I have, of course, immediately taped it to the fridge.

My child drew dad’s guitar. #kids #kidsofbluesky #kidsdrawing

Nine stroopwafels, a vegan version of a Dutch treat consisting of a thin waffle sliced in half and filled with a mixture of margarine, sugar sirup and cinnamon, laying on a too old plastic cutting board with a sheet of parchment paper on top. How long will they remain there? Until approximately 10 minutes after my kids get home. How long will my sense of victory and connection to the homeland remain? Probably also about 10 minutes.

A hand (mine, if you must know) holding a nibbled-on stroopwafel to show off the evenness of the layer of filling. It is very even indeed. Not pictured is the smell of cookie, caramel and cinnamon, nor the comforting warmness of the fresh waffle.

My first attempt at making (vegan) stroopwafels! Cutting them isn’t nearly as hard as I thought it would be. Not eating them all right now, on the other hand, is.

Hört euch an, was Abdul Kader Chahin zu erzählen hat. 3 Minuten, die sich lohnen und die Friedrich Merz nicht gefallen dürften.

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Eine stilisierte Karte von Serbien in Schwarz mit weißen Städtenamen und roten Verbindungsstraßen. In der Mitte steht der Satz „Svi putevi vode u Beograd“ („Alle Wege führen nach Belgrad“), während in der oberen rechten Ecke das Datum 15.3. groß hervorgehoben ist. Zwei ikonische Wahrzeichen von Belgrad sind in Schwarz-Weiß abgebildet: das Parlamentsgebäude unten links und die Statue des Siegers (Pobednik) oben rechts. Das Design enthält viele geometrische rote und schwarze Elemente, die das Bild umrahmen.

Insta ist seit Tagen voll mit Beiträgen der Protestmärsche von Student*innen und Schüler*innen, die alle auf dem Weg nach Belgrad zur Demo am Sa sind. Die Kundgebung soll so groß werden, dass der Wille der Bevölkerung in #Serbien für alle sichtbar werden soll und nicht mehr geleugnet werden kann
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Gastbeitrag: „Die Grenzkontrollen sind unverzüglich abzuschaffen. Neue Grenzkontrollen sind zu unterlassen.“ Die Polit-„Urgesteine“ Franz Peter Basten und Christoph Grimm haben den „Trierer Appell 25“ vorgelegt und auch an die Berliner Chef-Verhandler Friedrich Merz (CDU) und Lars Klingbeil (SPD) adressiert....

Ein starkes Signal aus unserer Grenzregion, der "Trierer Appell 25": #Grenzkontrollen sind populistische Symbolpolitik und schaden dem europäischen Gedanken. Statt nationaler Alleingänge brauchen wir ein geeintes, demokratisches #Europa, um die enormen globalen Herausforderungen zu bewältigen.

OF THE EMPIRE We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.

From a poetry collection by Mary Oliver, where after a hundred poems showcasing gentle observations on nature and animals, she hits you with this

I would love a mood ring actually

“In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients.”

Protestaktion gegen CDU-Chef Merz: Alle Tassen im Konrad-Adenauer-Haus?

Ein Aufruf, aus Protest gegen Friedrich Merz Tassen in die CDU-Zentrale zu schicken, war offenbar erfolgreich: Containerweise stapeln sich dort Pakete.

Ein lächelnder Mann, A. Muhammad, mit einem Zitat neben ihm: „Ich bin kein Held. Ich bin ein Muslim. Ich bin Mannheimer. Mannheim hat mir viel gegeben, das ist ein kleiner Dank.“ Darunter sein Name und die Bezeichnung „Mannheimer“.

Uns ist wichtig: Rechter Terror darf nicht unterschätzt werden!

A. Muhammad riskierte sein eigenes Leben, um den Täter zu stoppen und weitere Menschen zu schützen.

Dieser Mann hat unglaublichen Mut bewiesen.

Spendenziel erreicht: Unsere AfD-Verbot-Prüfung startet In Rekordzeit ist das Geld zusammengekommen, damit die Zivilgesellschaft das AfD Verbot jetzt selbst prüfen kann. Die Arbeit an dem Gutachten, das bei einem positiven Ausgang direkt als Verbotsantrag ...

In gerade mal zwei Wochen ist das Geld zusammengekommen, damit die @freiheitsrechte.org das AfD Verbot jetzt selbst prüfen kann. So geht es weiter und wann du mit ersten Ergebnissen rechnen kannst: www.volksverpetzer.de/aktuelles/sp...

Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not) While political reporters are still doing their view-from-nowhere “Democrats say this, Republicans say that” dance, tech and legal journalists have been watching an unfortunately recogn…

"What’s happening in the US is some sort of weird hybrid of the kind of power grabs we’ve seen in the tech industry, combined with a more traditional collapse of democratic institutions. The destruction is far more systematic and dangerous than many realize.”

Mann, der "Schluss mit mächtigen NGO in der Regierung" fordert, ohne dass die aktuelle Regierung mächtige NGOs in ihren Reihen hätte, will den Chef der mächtigen NGO "Bayrischer Bauernverband" in der neuen Regierung zum Landwirtschaftsminister machen!

Wäre sehr Streisand, wenn ein Artikel, der die CDU gerne verhindern würde, jetzt von umso mehr gelesen wird.

Denkt immer daran. Wählen ist ein Privileg. Nicht alle, die in diesem Land leben, dürfen über die Politik der nächsten Jahre entscheiden. Ihr wählt auch für all jene mit, die dieses Privileg nicht besitzen. Also wenn ihr nicht wisst, wen ihr wählen sollt, wählt für die, die es nicht können.

No one's blaming Democrats for causing this crisis, but yes, many of them are failing to meet this moment.

One Democratic senator could bring the chamber to a halt. House Dems can go to fed agencies being gutted by Musk with cameras in tow. Governors can push back. State AGs can bring lawsuits.

Die wahren Ursachen für Merz' Desaster Die größte Lüge der derzeitigen Debatte und von Merz' Desaster ist eine, über die niemand spricht. Also machen wir es selbst.

Die größte Lüge der derzeitigen Debatte und von Merz' Desaster ist eine, über die niemand spricht. Also machen wir es selbst (Video). www.volksverpetzer.de/aktuelles/me...

Zum Abschluss der friedlichen #HH0102 Demo gegen Rechts in #Hamburg singen alle Teilnehmer:innen gemeinsam in einem Lichtermeer von (Laut Veranastalter:innen) 80.000 Menschen.

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