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I have pretty good luck putting knitting terms into a search and finding explanations for them that way. this seems to explain what the multiples thing means, though I'm not sure how it applies to your pattern. This seems to give a pretty good tutorial for knit 1 below, with pictures (the first one I looked at didn't have pictures and was baffling).

Knitters of Tumblr, lend me thine eyes (and knitting pattern translation skills pls)

I am struggling to understand what this pattern is asking me to do. My next step is this:

To guide me in what the chart pattern is, I have been given these two further descriptions:

But I can't currently work out what they mean. As in, in practical terms, what should I be doing over the next several rows until I have 28 cm of this? I know that I need to start and end the right side with a vanilla common or garden knit stitch, but I can't work out, for example, what "Multiple of 2 + 1" means in the description, nor what "knit 1 in a stitch 1 row below" on the diagram, and I can't yet fathom the repetitions in the diagram either.

Can anyone help? If it makes it easier, let's say there are 35 stitches per row - so the two on the outside need to be knot stitches, and then the other 33 need to follow the chart pattern

Thank you for your wisdom, oh great transformers of string into cloth

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I don't miss high school or college specifically. What I do miss is being around my friends all the time, or living in the same building or within easy walking distance of my friends. I didn't love living in dorms, but I did love that.

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Also, I have a Bad Memory, so I *don't* actually know what happens in a book I've only read once. Anything I haven't read at least two or three times exists in a haze of "I liked/didn't like that, but recall zero details about it". Usually. Sometimes I forget I read it at all. (This is part of why I keep track of what I've read.)

People who don't re-read books are so funny to me. "I know what happens"..?? Gurl I know what pizza tastes like, still gonna eat another one. I know what a rainbow looks like, you think that'll stop me running outside, camera in hand, to see the next one?

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"It was just a joke!"

Sure. It also wasn't very funny and it bombed. And now you have to deal with that.

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I can't believe the horse is back in the fucking hospital

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Anyway if you're looking for a coping mechanism or distraction for the next few days (fuck the inauguration), I'm personally a fan of watching/listening to La Vie Boheme (RENT) on repeat until I feel better

It's a good ass song for loud, proud, queer defiance

(heads up the song is nsfw tho)

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Put your coping-on-repeat and/or hope-spot song in the notes, if you'd like, so we can all have some new music to listen to as a distraction, too

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Yes, though it was the other was around. The secretary (/love interest) changes the way he writes to make it easier for his dyslexic employer to read. Historical setting, so no osha/ada-type laws to be seen, and of course unpleasant people mock that sort of failing mercilessly.

It's really incredibly sweet, what the LI does. I swear, brings tears to my eyes every time. And yeah, it's also a super steamy romance.

we're running out of scenarios I fear

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When I worked at a manufacturing company full of people who...i didn't agree with their politics, and some of them were very loud about them, I made a playlist called "work music" full of a variety of queer, lefty, pro-union, anti-bigotry type music. Here's a bunch of it:

Nina cried power, Mississippi goddamn, Christmas in the trenches, gulf war song, power and the glory, your racist friend, ring of keys, here's to the state of Mississippi, gentlemen of distinction in the army, the chemical workers song, river of tears (Sally Rogers & Claudia Schmidt), why am I painting the living room, I am what I am, this is me, I ain't marching anymore, praying (kesha), where have all the flowers gone, if I had a hammer, we shall overcome, solidarity forever, bad blood (tswift), not ready to make nice, perfect night (Holly near and Ronnie Gilbert), no more genocide, union medley

Anyway if you're looking for a coping mechanism or distraction for the next few days (fuck the inauguration), I'm personally a fan of watching/listening to La Vie Boheme (RENT) on repeat until I feel better

It's a good ass song for loud, proud, queer defiance

(heads up the song is nsfw tho)

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Put your coping-on-repeat and/or hope-spot song in the notes, if you'd like, so we can all have some new music to listen to as a distraction, too

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not to quote rent at you like the millennial queer i am, but the opposite of war isn't peace, it's creation.

make art. make music. make literature. make poetry. make clothing. make a birdhouse. make a meal. make a little guy. make a journey. make friendships. make community. make connections. make someone smile. make someone laugh. make someone burn bright with the assurance that they are loved. make a home.

your job on this earth is to care for yourself and be a blessing to those around you. we create a better world right here, where we stand, starting with us.

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btw while people continue to fight the system don't forget about Undue Medical Debt (formerly RIP Medical Debt), a charity that buys and forgives medical debt. on average a donation of $10 will forgive $1,000 of medical debt.

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My family calls it "egg in a pocket".

I'm gonna regret this

So, this... dish? Food item? Thing to eat?:

Seems to have a lot of names. And now I'm going to make a poll with a bunch of the names I've heard this dish called.

I am already 100% certain that this will be one of those "OP is about to find out their experience isn't universal" polls.

In fact, what I call this *isn't even listed in the Wikipedia article about this dish*.

I'm starting to believe that it what I call it is a regionalism so narrow in both place and time that the only other people who call it what I call it went to sleepaway camp in the Berkshire Mountains in the early 1980s.

P.S. WHY THE HELL ARE REPLIES RESTRICTED?? I DID NOT SET ANY RESTRICTIONS!

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The evacuation prep poster is done! This poster is designed primarily with wildfires in mind, but the tips can apply to preparing for any much any disaster.

If you share this image outside of tumblr, please link back to my website: www.Katy-L-Wood.com

[[Image ID: A poster including a layered graphic showing what items to have ready to prepare for evacuating your home based on how much warning you have that you need to evacuate. The inner, red, level is labeled “No Warning.” The next, orange, level is labeled “Less Than an Hour.” The next, yellow, level is labeled “More Than an Hour.” The final, green, level is labeled “General Preparedness.” The items associated with each level and the text are included below. /end ID.]]

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Evacuation Prep:

As the world changes, it is important to be prepared to safely and efficiently evacuate your home, potentially with little or no warning. Preparing ahead of time can help to reduce stress and anxiety, and help you evacuate safely if the time comes.

Red Level (No Warning): People | Pets | Keys. Human life matters most. If you can’t rescue your pets, let them out to give them their best chance. If evacuating by car, don’t forget your keys.

Orange Level (Less Than an Hour): Crucial Meds | Important Papers | Money | Paper Map | Pet Vaccination Records. Crucial meds and medical equipment. Papers including passports, birth certificates, medical records, etc.. Multiple forms of payment. Paper map with marked evac routes in case of signal loss. Phone. Most evac centers require vaccine records for pets to be allowed in.

Yellow Level (More Than an Hour): Photos | Hard Drives | Computers | Chargers | Irreplaceable Items | OTC Meds | Pet Supplies | Pet Food | Clothes | Weather Gear. Family photos. Hard drives and computers. Make digital backups ahead of time. Charging cords. Irreplaceable items such as collectibles and mementos. Over the counter medical supplies such as Aspirin and tampons. Pet supplies such as bowls, crates, toys, and litter. Pet food and treats. Clothes. If you are running out of time grab your laundry basket. Weather gear if needed.

Green Level (General Preparedness): Food | Water | Radio | N95 Masks | Multitool | Power Pack | Gas | Stove + Fuel | Flashlight | Toiletries | Emergency Contact Info | Bedding | First Aid | Can Opener. Easy prep, shelf-stable food. Water. Battery powered/rechargeable NOAA weather radio. N95 masks for smoke. A multitool. Rechargeable power pack for phones. Keep your car at least partially fueled at all times. Portable stove and fuel for cooking food without power. Flashlight and spare batteries. Toiletries including hair products, toothbrush and paste, etc.. Emergency contact info for friends and loved ones. Spare pillows and blankets. Dedicated first aid kit. Can opener.

Save yourself time and stress by preparing an evacuation bag ahead of time and keep it in an easy to access place. At the end of every season rotate out the perishable items within such as food, water, and medications. The more you can keep in the bag, the more time you’ll have to grab everything else. Remember, it is okay if you can’t do everything. Some preparation is better than no preparation.

If you are in the U.S.A. and experiencing disaster related anxiety call the Disaster Distress Hotline at 1-800-985-5990 for support and resources.

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If you share this image outside of tumblr, please link back to my website: www.Katy-L-Wood.comf

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As long as we are together, I know that there’s nothing we can’t do

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I was once on a hold line that stopped every 19 seconds (I timed it) to tell me my call was important to them or some bullshit, and then *restarted the hold music*.

I think that, when you are on hold, the hold music should not stop to tell you that you are on hold. The hold music should only stop when someone actually picks up your call. Vote me for president

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the original series of star trek is absolutely my favorite thing bc every episode is like:

-kirk manhandles a penis shaped rock prop for a very long time

-spock dances flamenco

-sulu fences down the hallway shirtless

-episode plot is kirk v massive sentient lump

-kirk tries to explain spock's ears as a childhood accident where he got his head caught in a mechanical rice picker

-on an unrelated note, spock starts wearing a beanie

-redshirts get turned into like. cubes of salt

-uhura defeats a giant green hand by hotwiring the entire comms console

-spock and kirk hold hands

-scotty stops chekov from starting a bar fight with klingons only to immediately start one himself bc the love of his life (the enterprise) gets insulted

-mccoy's fantasies involve meeting characters from alice in wonderland, including a giant anthropomorphic rabbit

-spock's alien sex drive episode

-kirk gets bodyswapped

-gladiator fight episode (1)

-gladiator fight episode (2)

-gladiator fight episode (3)

AND YET, every episode is ALSO like:

-war cannot be reduced to numbers from an outside perspective, because that makes it easier to stomach without change; the horror that is war must be acknowledged in order to make room for peace

-more types of life can be extant than we can conceive, and just because they are different forms of life doesn't make them incapable of prospering

-love cannot be programmed or controlled, and discriminatory hatred is a tool only for death and pain

-cultures that are different than our own are valuable and can be vibrantly rich with history, and judging them before we try to understand and empathize is not only reductive but contemptible

-happiness is something that we have to allow ourselves, and actively seek out, because it can't come to us without work and acknowledgement of our own state of being

-genocide can never be justified, and certainly not even to supposedly save the people that are more "valuable" by any given metric over those who are not, because all lives have worth

anyway the balance of absurdity and meaningfulness gives me life, and we haven't even gotten started on the whale movie lmao