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Carina

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Embroidery designer, author, and teacher. carinascraftblog.com/links-to-things 🇩🇰, in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 since 2005. 💖 is a neutral colour. Interests: hand stitching, quilting, languages, history, art, folklore. 🐶 Blake. Free 🇵🇸. Vegan for the animals. 💚 She/her.

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Carina @carinacraftblog.bsky.social · 33m

Panel number two for the second rage stitching quilt...or whatever form it will take...
#RageStitching

Photo of a white fabric rectangle with a pattern of pale pink flower clusters. On the fabric are laid out red fabric letters spelling out: Starmer is a feckless disappointment.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 12h

'After Palisade Research released a paper...which found that certain advanced AI models appear resistant to being turned off, at times even sabotaging shutdown mechanisms, it wrote an update attempting to clarify why this is – and answer critics who argued that its initial work was flawed.' 1/3

AI models may be developing their own ‘survival drive’, researchers say

Like 2001: A Space Odyssey’s HAL 9000, some AIs seem to resist being turned off and will even sabotage shutdown

www.theguardian.com

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Carina @carinacraftblog.bsky.social · 12h

This thread. 😄

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13h

this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free

A cat is seen riding a bus. They are standing up and have their front paws on the back of the front seat.

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Insatiable Antifa Slut @insatiableone.bsky.social · 18h

Brilliant thread is brilliant

Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 3d

Apparently some folks are playing real dumb about skull symbols so let’s play a little game I like to call “Nazi skull or not a Nazi skull”

First up, the Jolly Roger. This is a pirate skull, not a Nazi skull. It means you might get robbed, but prolly not genocided.

With me so far? 1/x

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Carina @carinacraftblog.bsky.social · 2d

Hand stitched! 😀 Thank you.

Carina @carinacraftblog.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, ma'am. 😄

Carina @carinacraftblog.bsky.social · 3d

I have started on section six (of how many?) of my hexagon quilt. I love the back of this already stitched together section. So fun to see the colour combinations of the fabric and the paper templates. 😀
#QuiltSky #HexagonQuilt

Photo of the back of sewn together fabric hexagons. The paper templates are showing through in the centre of each hexagon creating interesting colour combinations.

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Carina @carinacraftblog.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks to Danish radio station P6Beat I can't get the song The Sofa by Wolf Alice out of my head. 😍

Carina @carinacraftblog.bsky.social · 3d

I feel like starting a quilt for no particular reason... 😁

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Carina @carinacraftblog.bsky.social · 4d

I regret that I didn't buy glanspapir when I was in Søstrene a couple of weeks ago. Maybe I'll have to find an excuse for a trip to London just to buy some. 😁

Carina @carinacraftblog.bsky.social · 4d

🌞Maybe you would like to stitch a large embroidery inspired by the Wheel of The Year?
Check out my pattern bundle here (or buy them individually):
payhip.com/b/FbM05

#Embroidery #WheelOfTheYear

Collage of two photos. Both photos have a large embroidery hoop with ivory coloured fabric. On the fabric are embroidered two different designs inspired by the Wheel of The Year. The design on the left is made of circles with nature illustrations, the design on the right is made of circles with geometric elements in bright colours.

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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 4d

"Public forgetting, like public memorialization, can have a swift and easy outcome if the forces intent on causing the loss of memory have enough power and put enough effort into the project."

I've Never Seen Anything

How could the Jedi Order vanish from public memory in less than a generation?

contingentmagazine.org

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Carina @carinacraftblog.bsky.social · 5d

My husband showed me a video clip that was clearly AI. What do I do now?
Divorce?! 🤔😁

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 5d

"That's a robot, a Nazi, and a poorly-disguised Russian. Give us your phone, love."

Brilliant. ~AA

Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 6d

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Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area

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Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction

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Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it

Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…

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Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely

[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over

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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat

[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster

Minister:
I understand your concerns…

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Nurse:
Are you OK love?

Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters

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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian

[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]

Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love

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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to

[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]

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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR

[woman looks baffled]

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woman:
I just want a bus service

Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]

[ends]

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Carina @carinacraftblog.bsky.social · 5d

"Be Kind Or F**k Off" embroidery pattern. Suitable for beginners. Also includes a non sweary version. 😁
payhip.com/b/POLX0

Be Kind Or F*** Off Lettering Embroidery Pattern PDF

Feeling a bit fed up with rude people on the Internet or just in general? This is the pattern for you! Tell people to f*** in the kindest way possible: with embroidery! :-)Stitch on a t-shirt, denim j...

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Carina @carinacraftblog.bsky.social · 5d

On Saturday, we took Blake for a walk in a small wood near our house. We used to go there a lot but for various reasons* we haven't been there in a year+. He enjoyed it but he is still tired from the adventure.
#PawprintBlake #DogsOfBluesky #SeniorDog

*he can't walk there now; so we went by car.

Photo of a small white dog with black ears and a black and blue harness. He is standing on a grassy path,looking at the camera.

Photo of a small white dog with black ears. He is on the lead, walking behind a man. They are walking on a path in a wood.

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Carina @carinacraftblog.bsky.social · 5d

Husband went shopping early this morning. He came home with freshly baked bread that was still warm. 😍
#AppreciateTheSmallThings

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 7d

I love this so much

Eleanor points out that Portland's heroes tend to be offbeat, independent creative thinkers, which explains why the city is such a ripe target; the administration is cracking down on artists, she says, "because we point out what is true." And absurd metaphors are a serious matter; when armed federal agents tackle a clarinet player in a banana costume, it draws attention to the disproportionate gap between the perceived threat and the official response. "What I love about what's happening in Portland is that we're refusing the binary of 'cower or fight," she says. “As a city of creative weirdos, we're claiming a third option: irreverence, humor, joy as resistance. And here's the thing - fascists have no counter-argument to that. They can't match wits. Theirs is not a culture of humor, because humor requires surprise and creativity, the exact opposite of control and conformity. You can't legislate against a naked bike ride or a dance party."

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Carina @carinacraftblog.bsky.social · 7d

Apropos of nothing: The Danish word for eyesore is øjenbæ which literally means 'eye poop'. 😁

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Carina @carinacraftblog.bsky.social · 7d

My handsome Blake. 🥰
#PawprintBlake #DogsOfBluesky

Photo of a small white dog with black ears. He is sitting on a fallen tree in a wooded area.

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Carina @carinacraftblog.bsky.social · 7d

Mending my husband's jacket while listening to The Beastie Boys. There are worse ways to start a Saturday. 😁

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Digital Naturalism Laboratories @dinalab.bsky.social · 7d

What sucks about the soulless losers trying to destroy creative work is that, because they've never done anything creative in their life, they don't understand the basic fact that it's the process of learning how to communicate something that makes it so that you communicate something interesting.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 8d

It’s tiresome at this point, but again, their entire pitch is “wouldn’t it be great if there were no such things as talent, craft, and skill,” and what that means is a bland, slop-filled world. www.businessinsider.com/marc-andrees...

Didn't go to film school? Don't worry. Legendary investor and movie buff Marc Andreessen doesn't think that will be an issue for future creatives.

During an episode of "Monitoring the Situation," the podcast for the venture capitalist firm that Andreessen cofounded, A16z, he said advancements in AI technology — like OpenAI's Sora 2 — have made it possible for a new type of filmmaker to emerge.

"The filmmaker with no visual skill, or access to a set, or to a camera, or to actors, but with an idea," Andreessen said on Friday. "It's going to start with shorts and animated things and so forth, but it's going to work its way up to full movies."

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 8d

Love this sign outside the spaceship-shaped Hydro Arena on the Scottish Events Campus in Glasgow. It's by A Sign of Humour.

#glasgow #streetart #hydroarena #ovohydro #humour #glasgowbuildings #sign #glasgowatnight #nightphotography #scotland #scottishhumour #keepglasgowweird

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Carina @carinacraftblog.bsky.social · 8d

Blake has been whining almost non stop since 8 AM. Don't know why. He's had food, and treats, he has a full bowl of water, and he has been for a walk.
It may be arthritis pain or that he is missing my husband, neither of which I can do anything about. 🥺

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Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social · 9d

Writers, friends. For research for my new novel, I need to see the Marie-Antoinette exhibition at the V &A. sadly it is sold out for when I am in London except for members of V &A. I'll be in UK 19-21 Nov in case anyone can help. DM me. Mercciiiiii.
Please RT.

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