#but like. why.

[asthedeathoflight]

Peace and love on planet knitblr but every time i see a video of someone knitting english style it astonishes me that ppl knit like that at all, much less as the more common way of knitting. It just seems so inefficient. Ive heard about people who knit sweaters in the round bc they hate purling and i didnt understand until i saw a clip of someone purling english style. Yall really live like that???? There is a better way!!! You dont have to suffer!!!! You can hold your yarn in the direction it's actually going to be knit in!

[white-spirit-of-darkness]

no one:

not a soul:

really, no one:

absolutely fucking no one:

dan and phil: *editing tips reference in 2024*

[anthropwashere]

I ask two (2) things from my roommates:

Leave me alone unless absolutely necessary. Do not perceive me, I will not perceive you.

Keep the noise to a minimum, like live your lives and all but y'all know I'm three seconds of vacuuming away from full-blown migraine hell.

Anyway today they dragged one of their 5 fucking motorcycles up the hill into the entry hall and GUNNED IT while cackling madly.

[bigbuxbolds]

finally able to check in on the game. tell me why wer losing to the angels

[casualfruit]

Every day an eternity, every week a heartbeat

[nsfwitchy2]

Why did the salon owners wife just send what is very much a picture of her ass in yoga pants into the group chat

[gaylittleguys]

why don’t we have whimsical weird fantasy movies with cool puppets anymore like we used to :(

[alvinharmonica]

no fr why does he have that hole in his shirt??

[geekwiththegoggles]

I want you all to know that I am currently in the throws of trying to find a song to sing. At my non-theatrical job. Because my boss found out a bunch of us can sing. And she wants us to sing for the corporate-wide quick-lil podcast-y monthly system update thing we have.

Like. Okay so two of the staff members in the building can play the piano beautifully and this made her jump to the conclusion that we can all perform together...

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

Love it when Rolling Stone puts out an article about the 25 most influential internet creators and I've only heard of 7 of them

[clonerightsagenda]

I was rambling on the issue of museums and human remains and how certain populations are more likely to have their bodies put on display to be gawked at and then went "well I guess the Pompeii casts were of Europeans. there are bones in there right?" and Googled it to make sure, at which point I confirmed that yes there are bones in there, but more interestingly DNA testing revealed that a cast of an adult holding a child everyone assumed was a mother and child were, in fact, a man and a kid entirely unrelated to him. Honestly that's more moving to me. Maybe they were connected in a way other than blood, but maybe a stranger saw a child when the world was ending and thought the one thing he could do was hold them.

[valtsv]

stuck between "psychological horror statement" and "objectively the funniest thing you could say to your real flesh and blood dad" in the father's day card aisle

[girldraki]

[beaft]

do genuinely find it fascinating how indeed.com is like the biggest job-hunting website out there and yet manages to be profoundly useless in every possible way

[inkskinned]

it's extremely critical that you see the photo of the perp walk for luigi mangione as being propaganda. i've seen so many people wave it off and instead fawn over his looks. and trust me, i know it ended up being kind of pathetic and weird - but please don't brush it off as a "modelling opportunity" for him. it's a fucking terrifying message the police are sending.

i want to make a few comparisons here, in case you're not from the US or familiar with why the perp walk thing is something to pay attention to. just to set the groundwork for why this is a purposeful, unusual, and cruel act by the nyc police - for why this is not a common occurrence and for why that matters.

the prosecution alleges the show of force is due to the charge of "terrorism." for comparison, in june 2015, tsarnaev was found guilty for the boston marathon bombing, which killed 3 people and injured hundreds. his actions are considered to be an act of domestic terrorism. i have spent the last hour looking through google for pictures of similar to mangione's perp walk - and so far, i have found zero. i also just do not personally remember a moment like that, despite living in boston at the time.

they allege that luigi is a stone-cold killer who carried out a longterm plan, making him particularly dangerous. again for comparison: in nyc, recently cory martin was found guilty of the killing of brandy odom. the murder was planned and premeditated to steal insurance money. and yet no staged perp walk. why didn't her life matter enough for a "show of force"?

but mangione gets paraded by a veritable army of police officers as if he is a rabid animal. for a single citizen who allegedly killed one other single citizen, the "largest perp walk ever" occurs.

so what is the "strong message" that the mayor and the police were trying to send here? the mayor speaks as if mangione is already convicted of terrorism. there is a very thin number of people who feel threatened by the CEO's death. none of us felt like mangione needs to be under massive armed guard.

the message is that you shouldn't resist. they are trying to "make an example" of him - that if you behave badly and kill a single rich person, you'll be treated as if you killed hundreds of people. you will be treated worse than a man who was found guilty of terrorism. you will be considered guilty without trial. the message is that the rich are a protected class, and you cannot touch them without massive punishment. they are trying to prevent a revolution by showing dominance and force against you.

the message is that the police are a puppet of the wealthy and that the law is not equally applied across class disparity. it is "some are more equal than others." it is "one life is more precious than another."

the show of force wasn't for luigi. it was for us. it was a warning. they are trying to remind us who is really in control.