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Jeny’s interlock cast off exactly mirrors the long-tail (and the backward loop) cast on AND is a very good stretchy bind off.

This baby sweater is knit bottom up, but I made the sleeves top down, picking up stitches around the armhole, so to get the same edge on the ribbing, I did the long-tail cast on on the body and the interlock cast off on the sleeves.

#knitting #for info

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I am once again thinking about digging holes

It's so fucked up that digging a bunch of holes works so well at reversing desertification

I hate that so much discourse into fighting climate change is talking about bioenginerring a special kind of seaweed that removes microplastics or whatever other venture-capital-viable startup idea when we have known for forever about shit like digging crescent shaped holes to catch rainwater and turning barren land hospitable

#saw this one on youtube #rather than THE DAMN NEWS #where it should be cause this is both simple and effective #SO PEOPLE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT IT

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An anguished question from a Trump supporter: ‘Why do liberals think Trump supporters are stupid?’

Peni Delina Bedard · August 31, 2019  ·  The serious answer: Here’s what we really think about Trump supporters - the rich, the poor, the malignant and the innocently well-meaning, the ones who think and the ones who don’t… That when you saw a man who had owned a fraudulent University, intent on scamming poor people, you thought “Fine.” That when you saw a man who had made it his business practice to stiff his creditors, you said, “Okay.” That when you heard him proudly brag about his own history of sexual abuse, you said, “No problem.” That when he made up stories about seeing Muslim-Americans in the thousands cheering the destruction of the World Trade Center, you said, “Not an issue.” That when you saw him brag that he could shoot a man on Fifth Avenue and you wouldn’t care, you chirped, “He sure knows me.” That when you heard him illustrate his own character by telling that cute story about the elderly guest bleeding on the floor at his country club, the story about how he turned his back and how it was all an imposition on him, you said, “That’s cool!” That when you saw him mock the disabled, you thought it was the funniest thing you ever saw. That when you heard him brag that he doesn’t read books, you said, “Well, who has time?” That when the Central Park Five were compensated as innocent men convicted of a crime they didn’t commit, and he angrily said that they should still be in prison, you said, “That makes sense.” That when you heard him tell his supporters to beat up protesters and that he would hire attorneys, you thought, “Yes!” That when you heard him tell one rally to confiscate a man’s coat before throwing him out into the freezing cold, you said, “What a great guy!” That you have watched the parade of neo-Nazis and white supremacists with whom he curries favor, while refusing to condemn outright Nazis, and you have said, “Thumbs up!” That you hear him unable to talk to foreign dignitaries without insulting their countries and demanding that they praise his electoral win, you said, “That’s the way I want my President to be.” That you have watched him remove expertise from all layers of government in favor of people who make money off of eliminating protections in the industries they’re supposed to be regulating and you have said, “What a genius!” That you have heard him continue to profit from his businesses, in part by leveraging his position as President, to the point of overcharging the Secret Service for space in the properties he owns, and you have said, “That’s smart!” That you have heard him say that it was difficult to help Puerto Rico because it was in the middle of water and you have said, “That makes sense.” That you have seen him start fights with every country from Canada to New Zealand while praising Russia and quote, “falling in love” with the dictator of North Korea, and you have said, “That’s statesmanship!” That Trump separated children from their families and put them in cages, managed to lose track of 1500 kids, has opened a tent city incarceration camp in the desert in Texas - he explains that they’re just “animals” - and you say, “Well, OK then.” That you have witnessed all the thousand and one other manifestations of corruption and low moral character and outright animalistic rudeness and contempt for you, the working American voter, and you still show up grinning and wearing your MAGA hats and threatening to beat up anybody who says otherwise. What you don’t get, Trump supporters in 2019, is that succumbing to frustration and thinking of you as stupid may be wrong and unhelpful, but it’s also…hear me…charitable. Because if you’re NOT stupid, we must turn to other explanations, and most of them are less flattering.

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If Westeros was into singing

Targaryens: Death Metal by default. Hit any note. Mostly refuse train this at all.

Arryans: Choral music, oddly thin from all the high altitude air. Beautiful but highly unnerving.

Starks: Acapella. Really good Acapella with no apparent planning. Only if you have three or more together, still perfectly tuneful by themselves but not feeling it.

Baratheon: Country music written by dudes. Only the kind written by dudes. Even the ladies, which is why the ladies Do Not Sing. The Targanyen range is reserved for the yelling.

Lannister: Pop, but the Taylor Swift version. The voices are good sure, but that is not why you are listening. Terminal lack of backing singers.

Martells: If you can dance to it, they can sing it. And will. This is a threat.

Tyrells: Girl/boy band pop. Harmonizing like whoa, very much practiced, hella intimidating.

Tullys: Chanting in little used languages. They have no idea why anyone finds this menacing, its all just translated hymns. Honestly

#westeros #a song of ice and fire #great houses of westeros #war of five kings is not eurovision #because stannis will not sing under any circumstances

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I wish Americans fucked with more foreign music. You don’t have to know the language to appreciate a good record. Folks in other countries listen to our music and don’t speak a lick of english. Music needs no translator

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Venice was a self governing democracy for over a thousand years and no one told me

#venice #the republic of venice in fact #which my history teachers did not see fit to mention #as probably the oldest and longest democracy the world has know #just find this out in the second hand bookshop by myself #history lessons decided by English people #those assholes

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This is Money Snake. She only appears every 312 years. 

If you reblog her picture within the next twenty-five seconds you will have good luck and fortune for the rest of your life. 

#look at that cutie

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#trash of the counts family #i can't goddamn find the manwha online anymore #but clearly i'm in for a treat when i get there

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2015 - Here are some gifs of Donald Trump being attacked by a bald eagle named Uncle Sam, literally the least patriotic thing that can happen to an American. [video]

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PIDW AU The Wrong Trauma Acknowledged

So a few Peak Lords are sent to the rescue but OH NO, the villian has a supper fancy and powerfull sheild around their Lair

Villain turns up to monologue about how amazing a clever and wicking their super cool sheild is, for only one who has suffered The Horrors (insert something traumatic here) and the wealthy brats of the cultivation scets could never suppass, strength from suffering, you have not endured etc etc

Ten minutes later Shen Jiu, who stuck around long enough to see the geeking out over what is indeed a supper fancy shield then left to do the real work, walks out of the house to murder the villian. Its been a very sucessful rescue mission as far as he's concerned.

The other Peak Lords are shocked, how could they have so misjudged their shixiong who has survived The Horror and endured so bravely?!

Then, confusion all over.

Of course the Peak Lords would never been so shameless as to tell Shen-shixiong that they know he has suffered The Horrors! They are fine young cultivators who could never been so rude to their brave shixiong. But it is changing their behaviour. Everyone has noticed.

Plus, Shen Jiu doesn't known about the condisions in the shield. He just concluded, correctly, that people with the time and education to design and construct super fancy magic sheilds are not doing their own cooking and cleaning and got in via the servants entrance. Has he suffered the Horror? Up to you, but he bypast the shield entirely.

But he is finding the new respect highly sus.

#shen jiu #original shen qingqiu #he knows how nobles work and he does crime #evil overloards only wish they could keep him out #who needs secret tunnels #when the young master thinks the maid is moving furniture #svsss #svsss au

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I need an enemies to lovers jiuyuan fic, none of this “SY is so guileless and kind to SJ that SJ immediately says I must protect this smol babey uwu bean” nonsense. Like come on. Shen Yuan? Notorious hater Shen Yuan? ‘Castrate the scum villain’ Shen Yuan??? If he landed in PIDW and immediately came face to face with Shen Jiu you cannot tell me it wouldn’t be ON SIGHT. And for Shen Jiu if there’s not already a fight nearby he’ll pick one, you bet your ass when Shen Yuan comes at him with the steel chair he’d pull out a glock and shoot a bitch!!

Anyways. Does anyone have any fics where they fight and then fuck nasty

#this is very true #or they'd have a bitch off #12 dead 32 bleeding 5 students taking notes #shen yuan #shen jiu #svsss

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#acidentaly explaining why caste systems are even harder to shift in places where reincarnation is a generaly acepted belief #the rest of us assholes have no excuse mind #thats just capitalism and vested interests all the way down

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unfortunately no eclipse photography can ever outdo the waffle house one from 2017

#someone found Nightvale

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Like we couldn'y have told them that?

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it’s sooo funny when rude customers encounter employees who can deny them service for the first time.

i was working at a little cafe where I could deny service over bad behavior, harassment etc. & mask mandates had just ended a week before & already people were being weird about me still wearing mine—an N95, the kind shaped kinda like a duckbill.

so this man walked in, looked at me sooo scathingly, laughed at me, and said “damn. never known a woman to choose…practicality over looks.”

And I just said, “oh. you can go, you’re not getting a drink.” And he said, “what???”

I said, “sir, you just walked in at 6 am & called women impractical and me ugly in one sentence.”

And he was so astonished he didn’t even argue he just turned around and left 💀🙏🏻 it was like he suddenly became self aware

#you were a dick should be reason enough to deny service #assholes do not deserve cake #get your shit together then try someplace else