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Thinking about how wild it is that enshittification starts as a way for the rich to squeeze the populace for more money but ends up infecting everything so even luxury products decline in quality. They’ve got more money than fucking God now and for what? Literally they can’t even buy fun nice stuff for themselves because they killed craft.

Anyway this post is about Dhaka muslin but it’s also about everything.

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Omg, Wicked is a masterpiece. Truly an awesome stage to screen adaptation. I loved every minute of it.

Also my sexual persuasion is officially "Jonathan Bailey singing and dancing his way through life."

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few things more humbling than the realization that you really do write the same fic(s) over and over again

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Happy birthday to AO3 🎂🎉

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Knitting, 2021 - by Joseph Ford, English

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Ok this is the best one i've seen.

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what the fuck just happened

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I'm certain this is on Tumblr somewhere, but I haven't seen it around, so I'm sharing it myself

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Reblog for a miracle to happen tonight

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The depressing moment when you realize just how much your country hates women.

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it’s fucking insane that a moderator had to say “there is no state where you can kill a baby after it’s born” at a presidential debate.

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Equal opportunity benefits can be far-reaching

https://twitter.com/sarahmei/status/818682610712866817

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Several weeks ago one of my coworkers called me over into her cubicle and gave me a very unexpected gift. Her mother passed away recently, and she'd been packing stuff up at her condo to give to relatives and sell, so the home could be sold. The mother was an avid knitter and crocheter, and when my coworker came upon her stash of equipment, she told me, she "immediately thought of me as someone who might get some use out of it."

So, I have inherited a varied collection of knitting needles and crochet hooks, cable needles, sewing needles, and, best of all, now-out-of-print pattern books, mostly for blankets, because that was what this lady loved to make most. Plus, I also have a bunch of gauge swatches she made, pinned to little bits of card covered in perfect schoolteacher handwriting setting out the patterns they were made to test.

And also...

My coworker brought another bag, full of yarn and...knitted blanket squares. Her mother's last started project, before she got too sick to continue. And she asked if there was anything I could do with it.

It turned out, there are twelve completed squares, and I quickly located the pattern book they are from amid those given to me. It's a book of 60 patterns, meant to be put together however the maker wishes into blankets of 20 squares. I figured out which of the numbered patterns were already made, and selected eight more that I thought might go well with them.

So now! I am working on completing! My coworker's mother's last knitting project!

And I really am feeling very good about doing it.

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Ill be honest this looks fun!