Ara
@arasigyrn.bsky.social
NeuroDivergent, Queer and trying my best!
Sí/í (she/her)
Sí/í (she/her)
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Her stitch pattern collections have been, and will continue to be, the building blocks that creative knitters turn into an infinite wealth of designs. She is our Linnaeus and our Diderot.
Barbara G. Walker, Guru to the Kniterati, Is Dead at 95
Barbara G. Walker, Guru to the Kniterati, Is Dead at 95
Barbara G. Walker, Guru to the Kniterati, Is Dead at 95
www.nytimes.com
January 23, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Her stitch pattern collections have been, and will continue to be, the building blocks that creative knitters turn into an infinite wealth of designs. She is our Linnaeus and our Diderot.
Barbara G. Walker, Guru to the Kniterati, Is Dead at 95
Barbara G. Walker, Guru to the Kniterati, Is Dead at 95
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Are you a fan yet? Juliet E McKenna's award-winning Green Man series is hugely popular all around the world. The first in the series is The Green Man's Heir.
wizardstowerpress.co...
wizardstowerpress.co...
January 23, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Are you a fan yet? Juliet E McKenna's award-winning Green Man series is hugely popular all around the world. The first in the series is The Green Man's Heir.
wizardstowerpress.co...
wizardstowerpress.co...
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Weaving and crafts community: we have a loom that needs saving. It's beautiful and looks to be in great shape.
Please share to all Irish crafts people.
#Speirgorm #crafts #weaving #loom #Ireland
Please share to all Irish crafts people.
#Speirgorm #crafts #weaving #loom #Ireland
January 18, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Weaving and crafts community: we have a loom that needs saving. It's beautiful and looks to be in great shape.
Please share to all Irish crafts people.
#Speirgorm #crafts #weaving #loom #Ireland
Please share to all Irish crafts people.
#Speirgorm #crafts #weaving #loom #Ireland
Small screw from my new press fell into the carpet and disappeared.
Twenty minutes of searching and I find it with my foot.
Ow. But also yay!
Twenty minutes of searching and I find it with my foot.
Ow. But also yay!
January 11, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Small screw from my new press fell into the carpet and disappeared.
Twenty minutes of searching and I find it with my foot.
Ow. But also yay!
Twenty minutes of searching and I find it with my foot.
Ow. But also yay!
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Oof.
Frenchman fined for cracking egg on far-right leader's head
Frenchman fined for cracking egg on far-right leader's head
At Jordan Bardella's November book launch in the southern town of Moissac, a retired farmer stood in line and broke an egg on Bardella's head when he reached him. The same man was also sentenced in 2022 after throwing an egg at another far-right candidate, Eric Zemmour, during the presidential elections.
www.lemonde.fr
January 10, 2026 at 8:48 AM
Oof.
Spent an enjoyable afternoon at imma.ie with @deannawol.bsky.social . I do wish they sold any kind of history of the building book but that was a minor complaint
IMMA | Irish Museum of Modern Art
Ireland's museum for modern and contemporary art is based in Dublin. The Irish Museum of Modern Art presents a wide variety of art and artists' ideas in a dynamic programme of exhibitions.
imma.ie
January 2, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Spent an enjoyable afternoon at imma.ie with @deannawol.bsky.social . I do wish they sold any kind of history of the building book but that was a minor complaint
Always enjoy the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra's New Year's concert
January 1, 2026 at 12:45 PM
Always enjoy the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra's New Year's concert
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Is it a good omen or a bad omen if the gavle goat falls over instead burns down?? Does that count???
December 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Is it a good omen or a bad omen if the gavle goat falls over instead burns down?? Does that count???
Surprisingly chill trip to Blanch. We even visited Waltons and didn't spend a fortune.
December 27, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Surprisingly chill trip to Blanch. We even visited Waltons and didn't spend a fortune.
Sitting in the O'Connell Street Smacs, watching a kid baulking at going out the door.
Frazzled Adult -"No, we have to go. We're going on the train. "
Child- "Train!
Frazzled Adult -"No, we have to go. We're going on the train. "
Child- "Train!
December 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Sitting in the O'Connell Street Smacs, watching a kid baulking at going out the door.
Frazzled Adult -"No, we have to go. We're going on the train. "
Child- "Train!
Frazzled Adult -"No, we have to go. We're going on the train. "
Child- "Train!
Goddamit. IS NOTHING FUCKING SACRED
Well I guess I am no longer upgrading Calibre
December 7, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Goddamit. IS NOTHING FUCKING SACRED
Best Beloved and I have been working through some puzzle/riddle advent calendar. One fairly straight forward and one more convoluted.
Today is the first day that we have needed no hints and solved both in about twenty minutes, twelve minutes of which was fishing them out to start.
Today is the first day that we have needed no hints and solved both in about twenty minutes, twelve minutes of which was fishing them out to start.
December 3, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Best Beloved and I have been working through some puzzle/riddle advent calendar. One fairly straight forward and one more convoluted.
Today is the first day that we have needed no hints and solved both in about twenty minutes, twelve minutes of which was fishing them out to start.
Today is the first day that we have needed no hints and solved both in about twenty minutes, twelve minutes of which was fishing them out to start.
Tram home, I am taking psychic damage from teen girls behind us.
"Do you know who Uncle Fester is?"
"Funky Fester?"
"Do you know who Uncle Fester is?"
"Funky Fester?"
November 28, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Tram home, I am taking psychic damage from teen girls behind us.
"Do you know who Uncle Fester is?"
"Funky Fester?"
"Do you know who Uncle Fester is?"
"Funky Fester?"
Best Beloved has been consulted about the singular towel that came out of the washing machine looking like it lost an anime sword fight.
Conclusion, knife gremlins.
Conclusion, knife gremlins.
November 27, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Best Beloved has been consulted about the singular towel that came out of the washing machine looking like it lost an anime sword fight.
Conclusion, knife gremlins.
Conclusion, knife gremlins.
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just incredibly thrilled to announce that after months and months of uncertainty over the future of the game, and several I have bought Zombies, Run!, the game I co-created and have been making for the past 12 years:
zombiesrungame.com
observer.co.uk/the-critics/...
zombiesrungame.com
observer.co.uk/the-critics/...
I’m a novelist who’s just bought a video games company. Here’s why you should care about games writing | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 6:08 AM
just incredibly thrilled to announce that after months and months of uncertainty over the future of the game, and several I have bought Zombies, Run!, the game I co-created and have been making for the past 12 years:
zombiesrungame.com
observer.co.uk/the-critics/...
zombiesrungame.com
observer.co.uk/the-critics/...
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Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made.
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
November 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made.
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
Storm Claudia is busily flooding the roads. An evening to spend cozied up and napping
November 14, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Storm Claudia is busily flooding the roads. An evening to spend cozied up and napping
Best Beloved is off on work-related travel. I am alone and un-supervised.
....this sucks.
....this sucks.
November 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Best Beloved is off on work-related travel. I am alone and un-supervised.
....this sucks.
....this sucks.
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Never used it, hope never to have to use it.
Hands up if you've never used Chat GPT ✋
(I feel like Dozer and Tank in The Matrix right now - at first I didn't use it because, rather ironically, I'm lazy and stubborn (peak Taurus energy there) - literally no, don't make me use the new thing I don't wanna. Now I'm glad I didn't 😅)
(I feel like Dozer and Tank in The Matrix right now - at first I didn't use it because, rather ironically, I'm lazy and stubborn (peak Taurus energy there) - literally no, don't make me use the new thing I don't wanna. Now I'm glad I didn't 😅)
Probably a good way to tell right now if the job you’re applying for is run by absolute dumbfucks is to ask if they’re using AI.
November 9, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Never used it, hope never to have to use it.
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Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment
Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t
www.science.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
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Hahhahaa oh god
www.knitfolk.co.uk/shop/p/hm5yr...
I want one of these
(A friend and colleague saw the shawl and has made noises about could I crochet her one
Me: 👀)
www.knitfolk.co.uk/shop/p/hm5yr...
I want one of these
(A friend and colleague saw the shawl and has made noises about could I crochet her one
Me: 👀)
‘Lucky Dip' Woven Handmade Clothing Care Instructions Crochet Labels — Knit Folk
The perfect finishing touch to your crocheted garments to let the recipient know just how long it took you to make, FOREVER! Woven 190gsm smooth satin labels, 100% Polyester - with printed slogan. L...
www.knitfolk.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Hahhahaa oh god
www.knitfolk.co.uk/shop/p/hm5yr...
I want one of these
(A friend and colleague saw the shawl and has made noises about could I crochet her one
Me: 👀)
www.knitfolk.co.uk/shop/p/hm5yr...
I want one of these
(A friend and colleague saw the shawl and has made noises about could I crochet her one
Me: 👀)
I really need to stop putting on Youtube videos of art techniques I don't do when I'm working on things.
I don't need to learn brush painting! I don't!
I don't need to learn brush painting! I don't!
November 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I really need to stop putting on Youtube videos of art techniques I don't do when I'm working on things.
I don't need to learn brush painting! I don't!
I don't need to learn brush painting! I don't!
Okay, having watched one episode of 'Game of Wool' and being a regular watcher of 'Great British Sewing Bee' (which GoW is clearly copying some beats from).
The contestants were lovely. I would have liked more focus on them.
The chunky yarn was a definite problem.
The contestants were lovely. I would have liked more focus on them.
The chunky yarn was a definite problem.
November 6, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Okay, having watched one episode of 'Game of Wool' and being a regular watcher of 'Great British Sewing Bee' (which GoW is clearly copying some beats from).
The contestants were lovely. I would have liked more focus on them.
The chunky yarn was a definite problem.
The contestants were lovely. I would have liked more focus on them.
The chunky yarn was a definite problem.
Me: I have normal opinions on things.
Game of Wool: We're looking for Britain's Best Knitter!
Me: THAT'S CROCHET!!
Game of Wool: We're looking for Britain's Best Knitter!
Me: THAT'S CROCHET!!
November 6, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Me: I have normal opinions on things.
Game of Wool: We're looking for Britain's Best Knitter!
Me: THAT'S CROCHET!!
Game of Wool: We're looking for Britain's Best Knitter!
Me: THAT'S CROCHET!!