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Right now until 2/7/21 get the patterns for all 3 pieces of the Hoss set for only $6 in my Ravelry shop, no code needed

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@chrisevans -just woke up to this pillow hog

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Every knitting pattern ever: Make sure you do the gauge first!

Me:

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a collection of tweets, part 40

(the tweet collection series)

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gimme the soup boys and free my soul , i wanna eat soup out a little bowl , and drift away…

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Orders on their way to a new home! Various stitch markers, a clearance project bag, 2 different pride yarns and 3 face masks. I hope they bring joy wherever they go! Happy mail is even more of a treat now than ever! . . . #eatknitanddye #ekd #yarn #indydyer #knittersofig #knittersofinstagram #knitting #dyersofinstagram #dyersofig #crochet #crochetersofinstagram #crochetersofig #pride #projectbag #stitchmarkers #facemask #doctorwho https://www.instagram.com/p/CAGtJ1NplB6/?igshid=85efgcq4gal

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You know how sometimes you open your texts or email and see the message that you typed but didn’t hit send on? Yeah. That me. All. The. Time. I think I’ll just blame the kid… he’s not quite aware enough to take offense yet. Lesbian Pride flag dyed over 440 yards of superwash merino in Worsted weight for a lovely customer who is making a companion mobius scarf to go along with the Asexual Pride one they made last year for their partner. Should I add it into the regular shop? . . . #eatknitanddye #ekd #yarn #indydyer #knittersofig #knittersofinstagram #knitting #dyersofinstagram #dyersofig #crochet #crochetersofinstagram #crochetersofig #pride #lesbianpride https://www.instagram.com/p/CAGsZRDJYO1/?igshid=dui7eoc8hoa1

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Animals Sleeping Anywhere.

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Attention Knitters! 

I’ll need to check this out even though its knitting not crochet.

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Marvel bags

And RuPaul yarn, Glamazon

Limited time

https://linktr.ee/eatknitanddye

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My shop is going on Vacation

Long story short;

My shop is going inactive starting March 1, 2019 for an indeterminate amount of time because I'm moving and I will open back up when I am able.

Long story very long;

5 years ago I had just had my son and my apartment lease was up and while I was figuring out what I wanted to do my grandmother came and asked me to move in with her, she offered to babysit and argued that I would be able to save money so that we could get a better place later. I agreed to move in with her for 3 years. I was working 4 days a week with a 3hr commute each way and Gran was watching the baby and loving every minute. Then Gran decided to go on vacation for 2 months to Texas, so with no childcare I gave my notice and quit my job, I figured I'd find something closer when she got home. Well by then the baby was mobile and it was getting to be too much for Gran, and hour to go to the store was one thing but all day for work was another. She suggested that since I didn't really need to pay rent or anything that I open my shop and try to make money from home so I decided to give it a go.

All this time I tried to leave her be as she was fiercely independent but I ended up taking over all the cooking and managing the bills and reminding her of her schedule and such, nothing difficult or bothersome. Then she had a stroke. She ended up in rehab for a month to learn how to walk again and when she came home they said she'd need 24hr care, naturally I offered. Incidentally this is also when her daughters started having a real problem with me. I should say that they never liked me, even when I was a little girl they almost always treated me as a joke or a problem, I don't know why, and they always hated how well Gran and I got along. When Gran had the stroke she chose me as her health care proxy and her children proceeded to treat me like shit from that moment on.

I know why she did it, she knew I could handle it, that I would never let my emotions interfere with what she wanted and that if I knew it was what she wanted that I would be able to make the hard calls. I held her hand through every procedure no matter how disturbing to watch because she needed to not be alone. She needed someone who could hold her hand and not sob into her shoulder while she was being poked and prodded.

After that every day became the Who-knows-gran-best show, so unless it was a big deal I backed off, I knew her daughters felt guilty that they didn't know her likes and dislikes and that they were mad at themselves for not visiting more. She finally was able to come home and I became a full time caregiver.

Those 2 years, especially the last year, were the hardest of my life. Gran and I adored each other but my gran was not always who I was dealing with. She was nasty, and combative, and she would laugh and jeer when you got upset, but I KNEW that I needed to be the one taking care of her. No one else could handle the things she said or the things that needed to be done. Every one of her children had left the room on her when she got too difficult, it was to the point where I couldn't do anything or go anywhere because no one else could watch her for any length of time without incident.

I remember the day she decided to go. I didn't know what it was at the time but looking back I can see that she had decided that she was done. She was so happy, and relaxed, and loving, she just smiled all day and looked around at us and seemed content. It took her almost a week to actually go. She refused to get out of bed and tried to refuse to eat and it was awful, it was the worst week of my life, she was vicious every day and now I see that she was probably trying to make it easier for me to let her go. It wasn't.

I came downstairs to wake her up and she wouldn't wake up, I called 911 and they said she had passed in her sleep the night before. I miss her every day.

Her daughters showed up within the hour and proceeded to scream in the driveway for an over an hour about how I was a loser and how I had killed her and that they wanted an autopsy because I was abusive and had obviously done something to Gran. They laughed at me and said how glad they were that now I was on my own with no one to support me, I believe the phrase, "no more cash cow" was used. There was no going back now, I needed to remove them from my life. Unfortunately we were living in Gran's house and because I wasn't able to leave her to work I had zero money. She hadn't left a will so the house went into probate and my son and I stayed while I tried to make as much money as possible.

Well time is up. My Aunt now owns the house and has evicted me and my son so I have a little over a month to go through and pack everything I've ever owned and get out. I have applied for housing but it will be a while so we will be staying in a shelter until our number comes up and I will not be able to make things for my shop. So I am trying to be optimistic and instead of shutting down entirely I am putting it on vacation.

If you want anything I sell you have a little less than a week to order it before it will disappear until we find a place and get settled.

Thank you for letting me vent if you read this far hopefully I'll be back sooner rather than later.

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Stars

Stars are the most widely recognized astronomical objects, and represent the most fundamental building blocks of galaxies. The age, distribution, and composition of the stars in a galaxy trace the history, dynamics, and evolution of that galaxy. Moreover, stars are responsible for the manufacture and distribution of heavy elements such as carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen, and their characteristics are intimately tied to the characteristics of the planetary systems that may coalesce about them. Consequently, the study of the birth, life, and death of stars is central to the field of astronomy.

How do stars form?

Stars are born within the clouds of dust and scattered throughout most galaxies. A familiar example of such as a dust cloud is the Orion Nebula.

Turbulence deep within these clouds gives rise to knots with sufficient mass that the gas and dust can begin to collapse under its own gravitational attraction. As the cloud collapses, the material at the center begins to heat up. Known as a protostar, it is this hot core at the heart of the collapsing cloud that will one day become a star.

Three-dimensional computer models of star formation predict that the spinning clouds of collapsing gas and dust may break up into two or three blobs; this would explain why the majority the stars in the Milky Way are paired or in groups of multiple stars.

As the cloud collapses, a dense, hot core forms and begins gathering dust and gas. Not all of this material ends up as part of a star — the remaining dust can become planets, asteroids, or comets or may remain as dust.

In some cases, the cloud may not collapse at a steady pace. In January 2004, an amateur astronomer, James McNeil, discovered a small nebula that appeared unexpectedly near the nebula Messier 78, in the constellation of Orion. When observers around the world pointed their instruments at McNeil’s Nebula, they found something interesting — its brightness appears to vary. Observations with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory provided a likely explanation: the interaction between the young star’s magnetic field and the surrounding gas causes episodic increases in brightness.

Main Sequence Stars

A star the size of our Sun requires about 50 million years to mature from the beginning of the collapse to adulthood. Our Sun will stay in this mature phase (on the main sequence as shown in the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram) for approximately 10 billion years.

Stars are fueled by the nuclear fusion of hydrogen to form helium deep in their interiors. The outflow of energy from the central regions of the star provides the pressure necessary to keep the star from collapsing under its own weight, and the energy by which it shines.

As shown in the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram, Main Sequence stars span a wide range of luminosities and colors, and can be classified according to those characteristics. The smallest stars, known as red dwarfs, may contain as little as 10% the mass of the Sun and emit only 0.01% as much energy, glowing feebly at temperatures between 3000-4000K. Despite their diminutive nature, red dwarfs are by far the most numerous stars in the Universe and have lifespans of tens of billions of years.

On the other hand, the most massive stars, known as hypergiants, may be 100 or more times more massive than the Sun, and have surface temperatures of more than 30,000 K. Hypergiants emit hundreds of thousands of times more energy than the Sun, but have lifetimes of only a few million years. Although extreme stars such as these are believed to have been common in the early Universe, today they are extremely rare - the entire Milky Way galaxy contains only a handful of hypergiants.

Stars and Their Fates

In general, the larger a star, the shorter its life, although all but the most massive stars live for billions of years. When a star has fused all the hydrogen in its core, nuclear reactions cease. Deprived of the energy production needed to support it, the core begins to collapse into itself and becomes much hotter. Hydrogen is still available outside the core, so hydrogen fusion continues in a shell surrounding the core. The increasingly hot core also pushes the outer layers of the star outward, causing them to expand and cool, transforming the star into a red giant.

If the star is sufficiently massive, the collapsing core may become hot enough to support more exotic nuclear reactions that consume helium and produce a variety of heavier elements up to iron. However, such reactions offer only a temporary reprieve. Gradually, the star’s internal nuclear fires become increasingly unstable - sometimes burning furiously, other times dying down. These variations cause the star to pulsate and throw off its outer layers, enshrouding itself in a cocoon of gas and dust. What happens next depends on the size of the core.

Average Stars Become White Dwarfs

For average stars like the Sun, the process of ejecting its outer layers continues until the stellar core is exposed. This dead, but still ferociously hot stellar cinder is called a White Dwarf. White dwarfs, which are roughly the size of our Earth despite containing the mass of a star, once puzzled astronomers - why didn’t they collapse further? What force supported the mass of the core? Quantum mechanics provided the explanation. Pressure from fast moving electrons keeps these stars from collapsing. The more massive the core, the denser the white dwarf that is formed. Thus, the smaller a white dwarf is in diameter, the larger it is in mass! These paradoxical stars are very common - our own Sun will be a white dwarf billions of years from now. White dwarfs are intrinsically very faint because they are so small and, lacking a source of energy production, they fade into oblivion as they gradually cool down. This fate awaits only those stars with a mass up to about 1.4 times the mass of our Sun. Above that mass, electron pressure cannot support the core against further collapse. Such stars suffer a different fate as described below.

Supernovae Leave Behind Neutron Stars or Black Holes 

Main sequence stars over eight solar masses are destined to die in a titanic explosion called a supernova. A supernova is not merely a bigger nova. In a nova, only the star’s surface explodes. In a supernova, the star’s core collapses and then explodes. In massive stars, a complex series of nuclear reactions leads to the production of iron in the core. Having achieved iron, the star has wrung all the energy it can out of nuclear fusion - fusion reactions that form elements heavier than iron actually consume energy rather than produce it. The star no longer has any way to support its own mass, and the iron core collapses. In just a matter of seconds the core shrinks from roughly 5000 miles across to just a dozen, and the temperature spikes 100 billion degrees or more. The outer layers of the star initially begin to collapse along with the core, but rebound with the enormous release of energy and are thrown violently outward. Supernovae release an almost unimaginable amount of energy. For a period of days to weeks, a supernova may outshine an entire galaxy. Likewise, all the naturally occurring elements and a rich array of subatomic particles are produced in these explosions. On average, a supernova explosion occurs about once every hundred years in the typical galaxy. About 25 to 50 supernovae are discovered each year in other galaxies, but most are too far away to be seen without a telescope.

Neutron Stars

If the collapsing stellar core at the center of a supernova contains between about 1.4 and 3 solar masses, the collapse continues until electrons and protons combine to form neutrons, producing a neutron star. Neutron stars are incredibly dense - similar to the density of an atomic nucleus. Because it contains so much mass packed into such a small volume, the gravitation at the surface of a neutron star is immense.

Neutron stars also have powerful magnetic fields which can accelerate atomic particles around its magnetic poles producing powerful beams of radiation. Those beams sweep around like massive searchlight beams as the star rotates. If such a beam is oriented so that it periodically points toward the Earth, we observe it as regular pulses of radiation that occur whenever the magnetic pole sweeps past the line of sight. In this case, the neutron star is known as a pulsar.

Black Holes

If the collapsed stellar core is larger than three solar masses, it collapses completely to form a black hole: an infinitely dense object whose gravity is so strong that nothing can escape its immediate proximity, not even light. Since photons are what our instruments are designed to see, black holes can only be detected indirectly. Indirect observations are possible because the gravitational field of a black hole is so powerful that any nearby material - often the outer layers of a companion star - is caught up and dragged in. As matter spirals into a black hole, it forms a disk that is heated to enormous temperatures, emitting copious quantities of X-rays and Gamma-rays that indicate the presence of the underlying hidden companion.

From the Remains, New Stars Arise

The dust and debris left behind by novae and supernovae eventually blend with the surrounding interstellar gas and dust, enriching it with the heavy elements and chemical compounds produced during stellar death. Eventually, those materials are recycled, providing the building blocks for a new generation of stars and accompanying planetary systems.

Credit and reference: science.nasa.gov 

image credit: ESO, NASA, ESA, Hubble

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I hope all of yall find $20 on the ground tomorrow.

And I mean that.