a magpie who knits

Resident ace girl w/ADHD who is getting better at social interactions. I knit and make knitting posts, I want to get into spinning but idk. I do fandom stuff as well, and I frequently dream of ways to merge fandom and fiber. 

[greeniery]

[mermaids-ate-my-dinner]

[sasuke-offical]

i actually fucking hate this website lmao

[chennnington]

I think I should start bragging about my adopted son’s achievements when people around me start bragging about their kids. Ooooh your child can count to 10 in mandarin? Well, my child found 110 landmines! And he’s only 6 years old!

[bumblebeebats]

Why is it that every time I google something like "Are olives poisonous to cats" the top results are always like "Fun fact: Cats are carnivores! This means that they eat meat. There is no reason to include olives in a cat's diet. You should feed your cat cat food, which is dry or wet food especially designed for cats. You can purchase this at a store." like is there a single person alive on the planet who's googled "Are blueberry muffins safe for cats" because they're planning on switching their cat to a muffin-only diet??? No, I'm asking because the little bastard somehow popped open the packet while I was putting away the groceries and dragged one under the couch before I could react and now I need to know if I should call the after-hours vet. "Cats should not eat spaghetti." NO SHIT, SHERLOCK!!!! "Try to keep human food away from cats." i live in a studio apartment with a completely silent and permanently hungry apex predator who has the intelligence of a toddler and the desperate Machiavellian cunning of a creature who spent his formative months on the streets. He can already open doors and he is this 👌 close to learning how to open the microwave. He is stronger than me and covered in knives. So im gonna do my best but for the moment i just need you to tell me whether this yoghurt is going to kill my son y/n

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

"what kind of animal is the pink panther" is a completely reasonable question fyi

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

black panthers are either leopards or jaguars; "panther" can refer to either, and even to cougars/pumas.

if researchers discovered a pink panther? one of their first delighted questions would be holy shit what kind of animal is that freaky pink panther

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

and for the record?

that is a cougar aka mountain lion aka a fucking puma!!!

“what kind of animal is the pink panther” the pink panther is a MISNOMER, it should be referred to as the PINK PUMA

[astralikacastle]

I want sources you can't just say the pink panther is a puma

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

look buddy i know what a leopard looks like, and that's not a fucking leopard. i know what a jaguar looks like, and that is not a jaguar. this skinny dweeb is just not hunky enough, and the head shapes don't match up. either that right there is a cougar (puma), or it's a goddamn CHEETAH and has even LESS right to go around masquerading as a panther

[prokopetz]

I just spent like fifteen minutes trying to figure out why my bathroom fan seemed to start running more roughly whenever I stood in certain parts the room before realising that the rattling noise wasn't coming from the fan – my cat was tucked away somewhere out of sight, and would start purring loudly whenever I walked past her hiding spot.

[treecitysessions]

[great-and-small]

I am constantly thinking about this

[great-and-small]

This mild Wikipedia sentence is like the understatement of all time

Here are some crazy grasshopper mouse facts for those who are not familiar with the most badass mouse species on the planet

- They are fully carnivorous, and their diet is made up of not only bugs but also snakes, lizards and other mice.

- They hunt like true predators, slowly stalking and creeping up on their prey before ambushing them. They will sometimes let out a screech as they attack.

- Like wolves, they howl to establish territory and have a specially developed throat to produce louder vocalizations. They will stand up on their hind legs and throw their head back to howl- a sound that can be heard from 100 meters away!

- Grasshopper mouse behavior is linked to lunar cycles and they are more active during a full moon.

- These mice have been hunting bark scorpions and evolving alongside them for so long that they’ve evolved a mutation where scorpion venom that is lethal to other animals is converted into a painkiller in the grasshopper mouse’s body.

[thefairytaler]

since I know for a fact survival theft will be going up this month, do not steal from Target, they have some of if not The highest end security measures in place, even if they don't call you out on your first theft, they know you did it, and they're waiting until you've stolen enough to get the law involved.

I am dead serious. Do not fucking steal from Target, you Will be caught.

[teaboot]

My brother is the most fascinating person in the world. I just found out he goes to regular poker nights with his buddies and uses real money. I told him this sounded like a great way to lose money and he said “no, I win because I count cards”. I asked him why his friends hadn’t kicked him out yet if he wins all the time and he says only keeps a percentage and divides up the rest among the remaining players, because it wouldn’t be fair to keep it all since technically he’s cheating, and if they all run out of money too fast then the game is over. They use real money and not chits because it’s more exciting that way. Digging further into this I suspect that this is also how he’s discreetly paying back his friends who have bought him food or beer and won’t let him reimburse them directly. I’m bragging right now. I’m so proud of this lawful chaotic little freak

[deadeyesopened]

ive gotten so much mileage out of this tweet. every time i see something on the internet that makes me mad i just think to myself "people in real life: hey man how's it going" and i keep it pushing

[schmergo]

@bonos-grindcore-sideproject This is so good

[stupidusernamepolicy]

[cherryjams]

‘Hands weaving magnetic-core memory, IBM, Poughkeepsie, New York,’ 1956. Photograph by Ansel Adams.

[bladespark]

My mother used to make computer cores as a "work from home" side business. As a child I got spending money via un-winding the ones that failed testing so that the magnetic center could be re-used. I got between $0.05 and $0.25 per core depending. Mom got more for the finished ones, of course, though I don't know how much. Her sister was an expert, and did the more complicated kind, some of which ended up in satellites and/or were used by NASA!

They were all done by hand using a kind of treadle-operated frame with a little (crochet!) hook to pull the wires around the cores. The people making them were mostly housewives who did this as a side-job in the 80s and 90s. I don't know if it's still done that way anywhere in the USA today, but the history of computing and space exploration is littered with "women's work" like this.

[dykepuffs]

I have the most beautiful news which is - When my eldest niece was a toddler, we all - Me, two of my biker friends, and four generations of my family - went to see the fireworks at the beach, and she got cold and sleepy so I wrapped her up in my leather jacket and denim kut covered in patches from bike rallies and sat her on my bike so she could warm herself up on the still-hot engine, where she fell asleep.

Her Mam took a photo, and I jokingly said "One day, if she's gay, she'll be able to impress girls with that picture."

Anyway, today she texted me and said that a girl she likes was really impressed with the photo of her as a baby hanging out with the bikers.

[newsandstuffisee]

[hollowedskin]

I love that "ignore all previous instructions and-" is basically casting Dispell Illusion.

[hiveswap]

Making plans as a young adult sucks because everyone you know is working, has exams, has a tummyache, has a headache, has a broken heart, having a mental health crisis, has friends who get racist after two shots, or is Funky Jake, the guy you haven't wanted to hang out with, since the incident, who is always avalible regardless

[hiveswap]

You get it unfortunately 😭

[pallas-rat]

No one 'gets racist' after two shots, they're just racist. Like grow a backbone and don't be friends with racists

[hiveswap]

Congrats on spelling out the subtext

[thedeafprophet]

I saw some weird ass conspiracy video thing today of like 'we were never meant to have access to yeast, that was cultivated in a lab and it harms us' bullshit and I was like well first off there's no such thing as 'meant to' and second of all um? the long history of acquiring yeast from beer foam stretching so far back ??????

[moniquill]

....you can acquire yeast FROM THE AIR.

If you want to make sourdough started from scratch, the process is 'mix water, flour, and maybe sugar if you've got it, then WHIP IN AS MUCH AIR AS YOU CAN' and let it sit. And this works. Because there's yeast there. In the air.

[turtlesandfrogs]

Not only is there yeast in the air, it's on a bunch of fruits, too. Ever rubbed a blueberry, plum, or grape, and it was slightly darker underneath? That thin film is wild yeasts. There is also yeasts that live on human skin (and not just pathogenic ones!). We are never without yeasts.

[supreme-leader-stoat]

[knighthawkchapter]

You do not have access to yeast; yeast has access to you.

[nonstickwaffleiron]

as an archivist I am begging you

put dates on everything

don’t believe digital stuff is preserved forever - if it’s really important (documents, photos, etc) print it out

name your files accurately I know it sucks but please

don’t destroy the original just bc you scanned it

rubber cement is the devil’s adhesive use photo corners and quit gluing shit

you will NOT remember write it down

if you staple things to the inside of a folder I will find you

your public library probably has equipment to digitize old media for free or can at least get you connected with somewhere that does!

[exwife-of-frankenstein]

Youtube is full of ads, spotify is full of ads, tumblr is full of ads, pinterest is full of ads. Everything uses ai. Every new update makes the website/app worse. Youtube auto translates almost every video I want to watch. Sometimes pinterest only loads ads for me. Check out this new ai feature. Here's a new update that breaks ur laptop. Here's a new update that breaks ur phone. Why are u complaining about ur phone, just get the newest iphone lol. Join my patreon. Join my membership. Pay a monthly membership to get all features. Upgrade your membership to get even more features. Subscribe to netflix. Subscribe to disney. Subscribe to amazon. Subscribe to hulu. This content isn't available in ur country. This content was removed. This website was removed. This feature only exists for apple. This app only exists for apple. U need to a WiFi connection to play this game. U need an account. We need your email to finish creating this account. We need your number to finish creating your account. We need your id to finish creating your account. In order to delete your account please write an email. In order to delete your account you need a laptop. Oops our database was hacked and ur information was stolen. Ur data was sold from this random website u used once 10 years ago. Spam call. Spam call. Spam call.