[michaelnordeman]

Eurasian magpie/skata. Värmland, Sweden (July 14, 2024).

[lesbian-fig]

Cast on my new project the other night, but I must tragically pause while I wait for the rest of the yarn to come in the mail.

[pmamtraveller]

Old Cat Walking by Joe L'Estrange

[forked-tongue-blasphemer]

Isopod

British Library, Harley MS 3244, c. 1236-1250, folio 64r

[blankinyourhead]

Jingyi Li - Lean on me

[saltsparkle]

Not my official "post for this yarn, specifically", but it turned out really pretty pre-wash. Photobomb by Chel, who enjoys her summer concrete time.

[lesbian-fig]

sometimes I think about all the books and essays and blog posts that I will never read in my life and I want to collapse to my knees and howl at the moon

[kropotkindersurprise]

May 31 2016 - Collin Kennedy, who is a cancer patient, used expanding spray foam to disable a parking meter at the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg where he gets his treatment. He says the fees are a tax on the sick. [video]

[chronic-illness-resources]

yes!!!!!!!!

[estrangeloedessa]

Lots of well-intentioned (I hope) but extremely condescending comments in the notes like “maybe don’t film yourself doing crime.” Respectfully… This man knew what he was doing. He didn’t just film himself, he invited media to film him. He did this to make his own statement, with his own voice, with his own face. He wanted himself and his actions to be visible.

Collin Kennedy died in 2018, just two years after this video was taken. What would anonymity have achieved for him in those last two years? Avoiding punishment? His whole point was that these parking fees are already a punishment on the sick.

Is public protest dangerous? Sure. Is it more dangerous than merely existing as a sick or disabled person navigating a hostile healthcare system? I think that is for every individual experiencing it to decide for themselves.

Cancer patient who filled Winnipeg meter with spray foam to protest hospital parking fees dies | CBC News

A Winnipeg man who filled a city parking meter with spray foam to protest the high cost of parking for sick people around hospitals has died

Collin Kennedy, 50, lived with multiple myeloma — a type of blood cancer — for 19 years.

He invited media to watch him fill a parking meter with spray foam to raise awareness about the high costs of parking for cancer patients and other sick people getting treatment. Video of Kennedy vandalizing the meter was widely shared on social media. It led to a Canada-wide petition to end the practice of charging for parking near hospitals.

He was a man who fought the only way he knew how, even if that meant taking matters into his own hands and disabling parking meters. He wasn’t in the boardrooms or corridors of power, he was on the streets trying to make a difference. (CBC News, December 12, 2018)

[cainhowlett]

A fox print, with native wild licorice that grows in the Suisun area, the stems of licorice are homage to the little tributaries of the estuary marsh they grow in. Mt. Diablo in the back and of course two valley oaks, Quercus lobata

[lesbian-fig]

if you truly love Jimothy you’re obligated to go research the ugly laws sorry I don’t make the rules

[unfamiliarsculptures]

An ivy covered pine marten forest spirit. This little piece will be available Friday, July 17th at 8pm Eastern time!

[oaluz]

The oppression of children is the wheel that keeps all other oppressions turning. Without it, misery would have to be imposed afresh on each new generation instead of being passed down like a hereditary illness. Children enter the world full of expectation and hope. They are not jaded. They are not cynical or resigned. They see clearly what custom has made invisible to us and are outraged by all injustices, no matter how small. It is through the agency of former children that the revolutionary potential of current children is held in check.

Aurora Levins Morales, Medicine Stories

[lesbian-fig]

I love getting Judaica as gifts - it’s like having little pieces of my community around my little home.

[lesbian-fig]

Just ordered yarn for my next project: the Henny Penny Cardigan by Svetlana Gibadullina. I knit up the collar and the shortrows already since I have some DROPS Lima (dark ivy colorway) in my stash, and I am itching to keep working on it!!

[pullonthisthreadasiwalkaway]

this format pleases me. how did you make it?

[lesbian-fig]

I used Canva!

[lesbian-fig]

Just ordered yarn for my next project: the Henny Penny Cardigan by Svetlana Gibadullina. I knit up the collar and the shortrows already since I have some DROPS Lima (dark ivy colorway) in my stash, and I am itching to keep working on it!!

[bug-lovers-island]

Happy be nice to bugs day :)

[lesbian-fig]

oops! I cast on another leafhopper sweater…. lower contrast, and drops belle this time! I knit the last one in a rustic aran and wear it all the time. I’m not the biggest fan of knitting with cotton but I think I’ll get a lot of wear out of it. Still deciding if I’ll make it more of a tee or a whole sweater. We’ll see!!