WittyKnitterNotes

  A self-taught artisan who learned to knit as a way to cope with the trauma of being displaced by hurricane Katrina, The Witty Knitter has branched out from one-of-a-kind textured scarves to a wide array of handknit pieces. Each one is created with a custom theme, texture, or cultural reference in mind. What's your story? Let Sammi help you honor your own voice by turning your colors, your ideas, your dreams into wearable art or a thoughtful gift. All proceeds keep a survivor's bills paid and his dreams alive.  

[theehorsepusssy]

[theehorsepusssy]

[carelessnamed]

[wittyknitter-504]

Sometimes I look back at my life and I think of all the ways I chased success, only for the goalposts to shift once I had attained it. I honed skills and when I tried to put them into practice, I found their application next to impossible to sustain, both financially and spiritually. Today I am 9 days away from turning 52, and I find myself wondering which football will Lucy snatch out of the way this year?

[wittyknitter-504]

I don't understand why I am seeing all these videos on YouTube about Tyler Catastrophe. Like he's not conventionally attractive and he's said some cringey shit. So what?! Being cringe is not a crime, and if it was, we'd all qualify for the death penalty. Also, if you can't afford his jewelry, you can just say you're broke.

[wittyknitter-504]

I miss late night phone calls. Hearing another insomniac tell me about their day, so I can do the same. Sharing songs with each other by holding the phone up to the radio speaker. The loneliness of the day couldn't possibly withstand our nocturnal solidarity.

Until it could, once limited character text messages replaced the inflection, the affectation inherent in semi coherent conversation.

We were sold technology with a promise that it would bring us together, but we find ourselves stranded farther away than ever as we package the best version of our Selves on the latest short form video app. We yap, with or without a script and we find not solidarity but shallow validation in likes, shares, and comments.

Some can monetize our phony authenticity but most are just consumers consuming whatever slop the machine feeds us.

We lament that the next generations lack the skills to spell, much less have a bit of media literacy, but isn't that our legacy? Shortcuts and life hacks discourage us from discourse and reward the most shallow performance of wealth and fame.

I really miss late night phone calls.

[condensed-ink]

[i-am-a-fish]

I want everyone to have universal basic income please

[andmaybegayer]

> looking at a new popular collectible

> ask the people if it's objects or gambling

> they don't understand

> pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is objects and what is gambling

> they laugh and say "it's a good collectible sir"

> look up how to buy a collectible

> its gambling

[andmaybegayer]

> #wait are labubu's blind bags?!

Labubus are blind bags but they're also blind bags with some of the most insane dark patterns stacked on top. The online store for them has a thing where they tell you what you got the second you order it online so that you can immediately try again if you didn't get the thing you wanted.

There's also a shake feature that is designed to encourage you to buy more than one by narrowing down the possibility space on a crate of options so that if you're hunting a specific model you can verify that it's guaranteed to be in one of these three IF you buy all three right now!!!!!

[girlishgamine]

You can read more about what dark patterns are and how to spot them here.

Deceptive Patterns (aka Dark Patterns) - spreading awareness since 2010

The original website about deceptive patterns (also known as “dark patterns”) - tricks used in websites and apps that make you do things tha

[ralfmaximus]

That is a fucking awesome site everyone should visit. Don't skip the Hall of Shame.

[dailymanners]

I just thought of this post, which was actually how I learned what Dark Patterns are, because I tried to cancel my Adobe Acrobat subscription, and it took much longer than I anticipated because several times throughout the process it felt like it was intentionally trying to trick me into thinking I'd cancelled my subscription when I actually hadn't yet.

Please read up on Dark Patterns and learn how to recognize them.

[wittyknitter-504]

Sigh. Every day I am so grateful to have discovered Dalida while I was studying French at University of New Orleans during the Spring of 2005. When I fled New Orleans a few months later due to Hurricane Katrina, I brought very little with me besides a stack of CDs of her songs that I had downloaded from Limewire, lol. My French wasn't very strong, but her amazing voice made me want to learn more.

The music, from her early songs in the 1950s to her disco period to more recent house remixes, is forever enchanting to me. It reminds me of that devastating season when I was displaced from my beloved New Orleans and all I really had to hold onto was Dalida. It's no exaggeration to say she saved my life.

Merci, Dalida, je t'aime pour toujours....

[eldritchbauble]

COVID has killed more people in the US in 5 years than HIV has killed since 1981, and you still can't get queer people to wear a goddamn mask at community events.

[eldritchbauble]

I refuse to believe that it's because you don't care.

I think it's because you're afraid to care.

You'd have to acknowledge that it is that bad, that you and everyone you love could wind up permanently disabled or dead at any time, and that all of our lives have been permanently changed by going through a(nother) mass traumatizing event.

[covid-safer-hotties]

Covid caution is intersectional praxis in action. Acting like covid is over just serves the status quo. Make the right choice. Stand by your politics instead of for nothing.

[wittyknitter-504]

Gotta love a ten stitch blanket!

[probuccalfat]

i think making my friend watch fucked up foreign films has just become my thing

[wittyknitter-504]

It's been my thing for decades and I am not ashamed

[darkspaceboytoy]

Bro this coffee cake is lowkey cumming in my ass right now

[bulliness]

I don't think so

[darkspaceboytoy]

*getting really defensive* I’m literally getting cummed in by it right now

[vivvision]

The first of my many memes

Happy Lungbarrow by Loomlight release day everyone!!

[wittyknitter-504]

@protagonistivy

[bruzum]

[kropotkindersurprise]

[kropotkindersurprise]

i love that he goes "i might be statusmogging you right now" but he doesnt want to admit that that means that he thinks that possibly he has more status because he might have more followers on twitter because as he's saying it to a smug reporter he realizes how lame that sounds.

[pangeasoftware]

it's really fucking weird how smug everyone is about hating this miserable kid with dysmorphia and lord knows what other stack of neuroses whos probably gonna be dead by 27

[capacity2]

7 more years of us having to put up with his bullshit is far too long I’m gonna need him dealt with by 23. You Nazi white boy warrior bitches disgust me sometimes he should have dysmorphia he should suffer every day what’s not clicking ??? I hope he lets u suck his dick since you’re already riding it