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[mrvelocipede]

Here are a couple of little knitted hearts that use the continuous cables method. There's a top-down version and a bottom-up version.

I've found that it works just fine if the "begin continuous cable" is a YO. The method where you knit the new stitches into loops of scrap yarn is probably a little easier to keep track of when it's time to do the direction reversal and graft, though.

The orange square is where you work the three stitches of the k-yo-k increase from the previous row. If knit back and forth, it's on the wrong side and is p-k-p; if knit in the round, it's k-p-k.

Here's a very hastily-drawn diagram of which stitches reverse direction.

The one on the left is slightly easier to do, I think, because the graft attaches to a regular knit stitch. For the one on the right, the graft attaches to the stitch with the k-yo-k increase, so it's slightly harder to see where you want the yarn to go.

[popularsizes]

[homomilitant-deactivated2019071]

if you say anything homophobic in June this truck comes out of nowhere and crushes you like that bus crushed Regina George

[koizik-deleted-deactivated20241]

it’s optimus pride

[wyrmscraft]

Stash!!!!!

I found these in my stash (looking for something else ofc) and immediately wanted to do a Luminous Nine Patch.

Now, now listen.

I know I seem to be making a few of these.

But they turn out gorgeous! How could I not make them?? They’re so easy and fun to do.

[wyrmscraft]

She is on fire!

Look at this thing! I love her! She’s gorgeous!

She’s bold and dramatic and demands attention!

I think this one is one of the best Luminous Nine Patch quilts I’ve done.

I’ll use orange thread to quilt it and put black cuddle on the back, along with black binding. I think that’ll finish her off nicely 💖💖

[wyrmscraft]

I was correct. The black cuddle and binding are just fab with this.

I did actually find a more golden yellow thread called Dessert Sunset that I used instead of orange to quilt with, and I love it.

Man. It looks so good in the sunlight.

[zestypots]

I don’t want to be an optimal content robot >:(

[directactionforhope]

Part of what is so incredibly frustrating to me about transphobia is that trans studies COULD be the next twin studies, if only people would stop being such fucking assholes about it

[directactionforhope]

For context

Why studying twins is so important for science

Ranked Australia’s #1 young university. UTS offers globally recognised degrees, strong industry ties, and career-ready learning in the heart

Being supportive of trans people and involving us in research about our medical care legitimately has the ability to revolutionize our ability to study human biology, specifically in terms of hormones, cell biology, genetics, neuroscience, and nature vs. nurture - all of which are fields we are just only barely beginning to understand!!!

But nooooooo, that would be too easy and useful and potentially medically revolutionary

Not to mention, you know. Letting us revolutionize medical care for trans and nonbinary people in the process

So ready for whenever researchers, scientists, medical institutions, governments, and society to finally decide to extract their heads from their massive transphobic assholes about this

[dragontatoes]

Whenever I see a study conclude that “women are more likely to have this illness. We are unsure if this is because of the uterus, estrogen, xx chromosomes, or other sex-linked traits” I’m like

“HEY. I have an idea for what populations you could check this with! If we could set down the pitchforks for a moment!!!!!”

[directactionforhope]

Yeah really!!!!!!!!!

"We have an incredibly shallow understanding of how hormones interact with the brain and body, in large part because it's so impossible to isolate them from every other possible factor"

GEE, SUCH A SHAME there aren't literally thousands of people would leap at the chance to help you start researching that-- oh, wait--

I feel a bit like that "Climate scientists remind world clean energy tech ready to go whenever" comic

"Trans people remind scientists about a ton of cool, revolutionary medical research ready to start literally whenever"

Welp. Someday, it'll be really cool. Hopefully sooner rather than later

[lmaonade]

idea i had

[lmaonade]

more

[gorps]

[asteroidtroglodyte]

But wait! There’s more!

[jewtea]

I'm appalled. they crushed that fucking baby appalled im now realizing this is more gorey than I anticipated. tw

[wyrmwizard]

[detectivehole]

hey i made a baby outta that

[m4gehand]

This is one if the funniest fucking things I've ever seen

[skyinide]

[afronerdism]

This might be the funniest reply I’ve ever seen in my life

[thepioden]

[fozmeadows]

I AM WHEEZING

[skyinide]

PLEASE STOP REBLOGGING THIS OMFG

[balo-badartist]

Showing her his masks

Fierce Deity is the ultimate overpowered gentle giant ✨

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

*descends gently from the heavens on winged sandals i stole from hermes to hand you a single 3x5 index card containing a simple sentence of immeasurable power, written tidily in sharpie: ᴛɪɢᴇʀs ʜᴀᴠᴇ sᴛʀɪᴘᴇᴅ sᴋɪɴ *

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

And Lo It Is ᴛʀᴜᴇ And It Is ɢᴏᴏᴅ

Bonus Heavenly Message: the same applies to cheetahs and polka dots!

[demigod-jack-hearth]

[storybookprincess]

one of the best ways i’ve found to combat that inherent depressive pessimism without veering into toxic positivity territory is simply the phrase “i’m open to the possibility”

this particularly works with anything negative i’ve forecasted. “i woke up feeling like shit today, so my day is gonna suck” isn’t a particularly helpful thought, but “it’s a great day to be alive!!!!!” feels hollow and insincere when i have a pounding headache & am running on three hours of sleep

instead i’ll tell myself, “i really don’t feel good right now, but i’m open to the possibility that coffee and breakfast might perk me up a bit.” or “i’m in a lot of pain today, but i’m open to the possibility that my workday might still have fun parts despite that”

sometimes, when your impulse is to slam the door on anything good, but you’re not exactly up to going out & hunting it down yourself, leaving the door open just a crack makes all the difference

[yujateaandpi]

This helped me today hope it helps someone else too

[birdandmoon]

Female birds with confusing names.

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[tiktoks-i-enjoyed]

[pusheenthenerdcat]

oh trans twins you scientific GOLDMINE... absolute blessing to the world of medical research on a level that is barely comprehendible... the same age and same genes and can be tested in the same experiment conditions simultaneously? one independent hormonal variable? absolutely magical oh my goodness gracious

[amvs]

[amvs]

[amvs]

genuinely they have probably saved people.

[amvs]

they HAVE saved people actually i’m 100% sure of that. i’ve learned about so many recalls i would’ve had no idea about otherwise !!!! from the bottom of all of our hearts thank you mamoru

[mamoru]

aw shucks, thank YOU! what a pick me up!

when I was younger, I got food poisoning. I was supposed to recover from it, but I wound up with a bunch of nasty medical conditions instead. I never imagined I would become disabled from food.

so I am really glad I have been able to help spread the word every now and then about food safety and recalls, since it hopefully means a few less people going through what I have.

while I have your attention, I do not post every recall, even just for the US, so here are a few of the links I use!

recalls.gov/recent.html <- aggregate of official government recall links for the US! food, drugs, products, child safety seats, motor vehicles, and tires! (half the feeds are broken half the time, but hey, it works™! check the FDA enforcement reports for a more complete list of recalls, especially drug recalls!)

recalls for canada <- recalls for canada!

RASFF <- food recalls and safety alerts for the EU!

food safety news <- news about food safety in the US, canada, and around the world!

I was poisoned <- see where people have gotten food poisoning near you, and report your own! (worldwide!)

thanks for reading, stay safe and take care!

[epicsause-official]

"comparing apples and oranges" has always been funny to me as an expression because people's go to exampe of two things so radically different that they defy any useful comparison are apples. and oranges. like you would struggle to find a more comparable pair of objects than that. theyre literally sold right next to each other in most stores.

[epicsause-official]

wikipedia has a whole ass section dedicated to international variants of the idiom so let me quickly run through them

see this is even worse than oranges. pears and apples are like the most comparable things ever. france takes another L

ok so this is what i mean. these are measures of temperature and texture and are in fact not very comparable. молодцы ребята продолжаем в том же духе.

colombia wins most vivid image invoked hands down. would not want that to happen to me.

and i think we can all agree romania wins this hands down. everyone give a big round of applause to romania

[sesamie]

learning that addiction is a progressive narrowing of the range of things that make one happy was kinda life changing for me. i apply it to everything not even just addiction i am always checking to ask if i am narrowing my range of happiness or widening it

[argumate]

always good to check whether your coping strategy has become something that needs its own coping strategies

[kazieka]

was outside earlier and a bird Came Up, squatted down, fluttered it’s wings at me and opened its mouth like a hatchling begging for food (it was a grown female) so I went and checked the seed cube in the feeder and the thing was completely covered in mold. this is one of the weirdest things that’s ever happened to me. how did she know im the one in charge of the birdseed. How Did She Know To Pantomime Hunger At Me. Hello.

[kazieka]

i have spent my afternoon confusedly getting dressed, driving to the store, purchasing a new seed block, driving home, washing the cage, and getting the feeder set back up. i don’t take this much care for my Own nutrition. ive been bullied into a grocery store run by a tufted titmouse. i feel so loved