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snowgall

@snowgall.bsky.social

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Linguist specializing in ASL and syntax. Knitter of doilies. Art editor for chestnutreview.bsky.social (she/her)

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snowgall @snowgall.bsky.social · Dec 8

Figured I should make a thread collecting my doily posts.

These are all knit by me, mostly from designs by Herbert Niebling, a prolific designer from the early 20th century.

Check out his Wikipedia page (which I also created!) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert...

#knitting #lace #doily #fiberarts

Herbert Niebling - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

Yes your taxes should support disabled people.

They should support homeless people.

They should support those living in poverty, children and the elderly.

This is literally the purpose of taxes, and I would far rather support those who need it than continue to enrich the elite.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 2d

Them: need help doing things?

Me: yes

Them: we have a doing things medication

Me: ooh

Them: hahahahaha guess what you have to do to get it?

Me: oh no

Them: things.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 2d

Periodic reminder: if you get a generic that is less effective for you, of any medicine, filing a Form 3500 with the FDA's MedWatch if you're able contributes to getting non-bioequivalent generics pulled from the market: www.fda.gov/safety/medic...

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Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 2d

Hmmm what if you got a WHOLE BUNCH of rich people to all chip in a little bit, for the military?
and maybe we can make some kind of standardized system for them to do that commensurate with their income? To streamline it
Maybe we could pay for the whole government that way? Just a crazy idea

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 4d

Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · Sep 9

It turns out that protecting hate speech did not create the conditions to protect other kinds of speech; instead, it protected hate and allowed hate movements to take over all the institutions of that might have defended the rest of us.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4d

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:

— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "I'm willing to pay more for quality products if they are made in America, by Americans, who are paid a decent income." The tweet shows Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting, which is often used to show the tweeter is expressing a brave opinion.

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "MINIMUM WAGE JOBS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE A CAREER. Why does no one understand this? Entry level jobs are STEPPING STONES to better jobs. No one wants to work towards that though."

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "Buy $5 gloves instead of $50 ones. Trust me." The tweet shows a box of "Gorilla Grip" gloves.

The label on Gorilla Grip gloves show they're made in China.

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 4d

She should by all means keep referring to cop brass as liars as publicly as possible

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Well now, they often call me GreEEEEEEEdo 🇺🇦 🦉🦉🦅🦅 @natteringnaybob.bsky.social · 4d

Who decided to call it the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and not Texas Instruments?

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 10d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 5d

I prefer “anti-fascist“ for a host of reasons and this is a nice practical one.

Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 5d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 4d

Just a reminder that Wikipedia is the only remaining reliable source of information that right wing billionaires can't control. (Although they'll never stop trying.)

Please donate to them whenever you can. Even a little bit helps.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

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🌮 Two Yutes 🐸 @twoyutes.bsky.social · 7d

The John Fetterman for Marjorie Taylor Greene trade has apparently been approved by the commissioner.

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Etherington Brothers @etheringtonbros.bsky.social · 8d

Our feature tutorial/artist for today is this BEAUTY by the talented @Rm_manga! So useful!#characterdesign #manga #ART #DRAWING #anime #illustration #ARTIST

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 9d

It should be very very clear to everyone right now that the Attorney General was asked under oath if she possesses pics of the President with undressed teens and she refused to say “no.”

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hellresidentNY 🖤 @hellresidentny.blacksky.app · 9d

Not a single lie detected in anything that Zelda Williams said.

(And no, it doesn't matter how much you loved her dad and his work. Leave her the fuck alone, and keep your parasocial bullshit to yourself.)

Batman with an angry expression on his face as he snaps a rifle in half with his own two hands as he says "This is the weapon of the enemy. We do not need it. We will not use it," in a panel from the comic book series BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS.

The panel is used in a meme in which "A.I." is written in large white text on the barrel of the rifle, and on the butt of the rifle is smaller white text that reads "Even if you use A.I. to make fun of it."

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 10d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 9d

And I just… we could do this. We could afford to do this, as a country. There is no good fucking reason why we cannot do this. We simply choose not to because we believe that Jesus loves billionaires more than loser slothful creative people

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 10d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

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snowgall @snowgall.bsky.social · 11d

Great example of the use-an-entire-phrase-as-a-word phenomenon.

Took me a couple of reads to parse this one!

#linguistics

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 11d

this is Georgie’s bitch why are you at the yarn store again look and honestly I have no excuse

A cream Shiba Inu seen through a shop door. She is lying on the sidewalk by the curb, staring directly through the shop window at her person. She looks a tad impatient.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13d

EPSTEIN FILES: @aoc.bsky.social explains why Republicans won’t bring the U.S. House back into session 👇

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Skeetlet S. Pumpkins @sithlet.bsky.social · 13d

Today, ICE agents kidnapped people who were working on the roof of a house in my neighborhood. That’s the closest to home it’s been for me, quite literally. Fuck ICE.

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 12d

Oh dang. This is an excellent analogy.

Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 13d

The mystery of medical diagnosis!

Anyone: Why are there suddenly so many AHDH diagnoses?
Dr. Jen: Same reason there are suddenly more stars after we built telescopes.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 13d

One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 13d

I mean, “no living persons on the stamps or the money” is not that obscure! It’s one of the “we’re not a monarchy” signals. (Or a dictatorship, which is just monarchy with fewer manners and less of a pedigree.)

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 14d

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

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