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Julia Carrie Wong

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · Apr 8

I tried to write about empathy and ended up writing about fascism again

Loathe thy neighbor: Elon Musk and the Christian right are waging war on empathy

Trump’s actions are irreconcilable with Christian compassion. But an unholy alliance seeks to cast empathy as a parasitic plague

www.theguardian.com

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 8h

touché

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 8h

I do feel like before you knew about the brassica oleracea situation and after you knew about the brassica oleracea situation are two distinct life stages

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 8h

I learned about the brassica situation from an xkcd cartoon and tbh I’m still not 100% sure it’s not all a big hoax

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 8h

have you heard about brassicas?

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 9h

knitting reddit is so real

Reddit post:

breathanddrishti • 1h
"you ever heard of hobbies bitch?"
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 16h

lede tk nut tk

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 16h

oh my

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 1d

The promotion of pseudoscience about a supposed “cause” or “cure” of autism and the destruction of special education (and all of public education, really) are part of the same project. It is a fascist attempt to expel certain people from the body politic, based in eugenics.

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 1d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 2d

someone hasn’t seen our sweaters

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 2d

i'm impressed you're knitting an ammonite though that sounds amazing

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 2d

ooh I didn't actually know that there were comments on ravelry that's helpful!

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 2d

oh man, as a person who absolutely hates videos and usually hates charts, it is a testament to how much i want to make this pattern that i am considering this. but thank you – a very good idea!

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 2d

anyways if anyone's ever successfully deciphered venus by marion em knits lmk before i give up/cry www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

Venus pattern by Marion Em Knits

This pattern is published in 52 Weeks of Shawls by Laine Publishing.

www.ravelry.com

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 2d

i've read it like seven times over the past two weeks and in my mind I know that it is actually not that complicated but the way that the author's brain works and the way that my brain works are apparently not compatible

it's quite defeating

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 2d

I am trying to figure out the most absurdly Pynchonian knitting pattern I've ever read and for the first time in my knitting life I would kill for a chart