Atomic Mass Unit
@atomicmassunit.bsky.social
Artist (mostly ceramics, but I listen to the Muse and follow), Knitter (hobby), Reader (mostly Sci Fi & Fantasy & history), Progressive, Still trying to find everyone again…
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Seize every joy you can. There's precious little of it about.
November 30, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Seize every joy you can. There's precious little of it about.
Horse!
There is something wonderful about something so ancient & recognizable, a little reminder that people have always been people - the tools may change but the urge to create remains.
There is something wonderful about something so ancient & recognizable, a little reminder that people have always been people - the tools may change but the urge to create remains.
Something ancient and wonderful for the weekend! 🤩
The world’s oldest known sculpture of a horse!
This tiny figurine was carved from mammoth ivory by an Ice Age artist some 40,000 years ago!
📷 by me
#Archaeology
The world’s oldest known sculpture of a horse!
This tiny figurine was carved from mammoth ivory by an Ice Age artist some 40,000 years ago!
📷 by me
#Archaeology
November 30, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Horse!
There is something wonderful about something so ancient & recognizable, a little reminder that people have always been people - the tools may change but the urge to create remains.
There is something wonderful about something so ancient & recognizable, a little reminder that people have always been people - the tools may change but the urge to create remains.
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Small Biz Saturday! 25% off all my silk science scarves and ties through December 1st, no code required
when you could have this? www.etsy.com/shop/artolog... #sciart
November 29, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Small Biz Saturday! 25% off all my silk science scarves and ties through December 1st, no code required
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One thing that's changed a LOT in the past ten years: gift guides used to be about a writer or editor picking things they thought were cool and that their readers would like. Now it's all about monetizing the clicks, and it's so, so dullllllll
Banish the Boring and Beige
This year, give gorgeous, geeky gifts
artologica.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
One thing that's changed a LOT in the past ten years: gift guides used to be about a writer or editor picking things they thought were cool and that their readers would like. Now it's all about monetizing the clicks, and it's so, so dullllllll
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The Doctor is right and correct
Always love to see great talent using their platform for unabashed good.
'F*** Off And Let People Be': David Tennant Doubles Down On Support For Trans People
"People are trying to create division... and it's so f***ing unnecessary."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 12:51 PM
The Doctor is right and correct
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Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Common Loon
Grey Wolf
Humpback Whale
Manatee
Sandhill Crane
Common Loon
Grey Wolf
Humpback Whale
Manatee
Sandhill Crane
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Virginia Opossum
River otter
Puffin
Great Horned Owl
Alligator
Virginia Opossum
River otter
Puffin
Great Horned Owl
Alligator
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Moose
Caribou
Humpback Whale
Humuhumunukunukuāpua’a
Cattle Egret
Moose
Caribou
Humpback Whale
Humuhumunukunukuāpua’a
Cattle Egret
November 28, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Common Loon
Grey Wolf
Humpback Whale
Manatee
Sandhill Crane
Common Loon
Grey Wolf
Humpback Whale
Manatee
Sandhill Crane
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✨TESTERS WANTED✨
Are you a #spinner? Do you like wool? Do you like spinning wool?
Your wait is finally over! Introducing roving to Yarnia!
This is 23mic 64's Merino Top superwash, so no shrinkage & it won't felt. Sorry if you want to felt. So read below for details. 🧶
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#indieyarndyers #yarnsky
Are you a #spinner? Do you like wool? Do you like spinning wool?
Your wait is finally over! Introducing roving to Yarnia!
This is 23mic 64's Merino Top superwash, so no shrinkage & it won't felt. Sorry if you want to felt. So read below for details. 🧶
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#indieyarndyers #yarnsky
November 27, 2025 at 7:14 PM
✨TESTERS WANTED✨
Are you a #spinner? Do you like wool? Do you like spinning wool?
Your wait is finally over! Introducing roving to Yarnia!
This is 23mic 64's Merino Top superwash, so no shrinkage & it won't felt. Sorry if you want to felt. So read below for details. 🧶
1/7
#indieyarndyers #yarnsky
Are you a #spinner? Do you like wool? Do you like spinning wool?
Your wait is finally over! Introducing roving to Yarnia!
This is 23mic 64's Merino Top superwash, so no shrinkage & it won't felt. Sorry if you want to felt. So read below for details. 🧶
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#indieyarndyers #yarnsky
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Wk 4: ✨Festive Fibers Collection✨
Midnight in a Manger
In the glow of a medieval night, long before flashy pageantry, someone painted a Nativity that feels very alive. Here, the Holy Family is rendered not in the pale homogeneity of later European convention but in rich, varied tones. 🧶
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Midnight in a Manger
In the glow of a medieval night, long before flashy pageantry, someone painted a Nativity that feels very alive. Here, the Holy Family is rendered not in the pale homogeneity of later European convention but in rich, varied tones. 🧶
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November 28, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Wk 4: ✨Festive Fibers Collection✨
Midnight in a Manger
In the glow of a medieval night, long before flashy pageantry, someone painted a Nativity that feels very alive. Here, the Holy Family is rendered not in the pale homogeneity of later European convention but in rich, varied tones. 🧶
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Midnight in a Manger
In the glow of a medieval night, long before flashy pageantry, someone painted a Nativity that feels very alive. Here, the Holy Family is rendered not in the pale homogeneity of later European convention but in rich, varied tones. 🧶
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I don't recall where I found this, but I'd say this looks about right.
November 28, 2025 at 3:33 AM
I don't recall where I found this, but I'd say this looks about right.
Fresh off the needles last night! Finished in between cooking different bits for the holiday meal. Learned the Icelandic Bind Off, and it is now my favorite bind off.
Fabulous yarn from @isasaxonists.bsky.social
#Showmeyourknits Indie Week #knitsky 🧶
Fabulous yarn from @isasaxonists.bsky.social
#Showmeyourknits Indie Week #knitsky 🧶
November 28, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Fresh off the needles last night! Finished in between cooking different bits for the holiday meal. Learned the Icelandic Bind Off, and it is now my favorite bind off.
Fabulous yarn from @isasaxonists.bsky.social
#Showmeyourknits Indie Week #knitsky 🧶
Fabulous yarn from @isasaxonists.bsky.social
#Showmeyourknits Indie Week #knitsky 🧶
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I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 AM
I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
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![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
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As the year comes to an end, I'm reposting some of the comics I made this year, including this ridiculous thing.
November 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
As the year comes to an end, I'm reposting some of the comics I made this year, including this ridiculous thing.
I’ve been excited to share this piece. My 2nd sweater & 2nd time doing colorwork- but first time doing a pullover and knitted in one piece. Very happy that it is cold enough to wear!
Lucious yarn from @isasaxonists.bsky.social
Pattern by Dear Ingenue
#showmeyourknits Indie Week #knitsky 🧶
Lucious yarn from @isasaxonists.bsky.social
Pattern by Dear Ingenue
#showmeyourknits Indie Week #knitsky 🧶
November 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I’ve been excited to share this piece. My 2nd sweater & 2nd time doing colorwork- but first time doing a pullover and knitted in one piece. Very happy that it is cold enough to wear!
Lucious yarn from @isasaxonists.bsky.social
Pattern by Dear Ingenue
#showmeyourknits Indie Week #knitsky 🧶
Lucious yarn from @isasaxonists.bsky.social
Pattern by Dear Ingenue
#showmeyourknits Indie Week #knitsky 🧶
One of my favorite colorways 🥰🧶🥰
Some people just can't get enough of Peacock Balthazar and I can't blame them! A special order in merino/tencel so I hope the camera picked up the sheen.
Also some of you may not know that I keep some stock of special bases not always listed on the website
🧶
#yarnsky #yarnmarket #yarnlove
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Also some of you may not know that I keep some stock of special bases not always listed on the website
🧶
#yarnsky #yarnmarket #yarnlove
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November 20, 2025 at 2:19 PM
One of my favorite colorways 🥰🧶🥰
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Week 2: Festive Fibers Collection:
Adoration’s Flame 🧶
In Albrecht Dürer’s 1505 Adoration of the Magi, 1 figure stands out w/ striking presence & dignity: the Black Magus, traditionally understood as Balthazar. By the early 16th century, European artists had begun to depict
#yarnsky #yarnmarket
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Adoration’s Flame 🧶
In Albrecht Dürer’s 1505 Adoration of the Magi, 1 figure stands out w/ striking presence & dignity: the Black Magus, traditionally understood as Balthazar. By the early 16th century, European artists had begun to depict
#yarnsky #yarnmarket
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November 16, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Week 2: Festive Fibers Collection:
Adoration’s Flame 🧶
In Albrecht Dürer’s 1505 Adoration of the Magi, 1 figure stands out w/ striking presence & dignity: the Black Magus, traditionally understood as Balthazar. By the early 16th century, European artists had begun to depict
#yarnsky #yarnmarket
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Adoration’s Flame 🧶
In Albrecht Dürer’s 1505 Adoration of the Magi, 1 figure stands out w/ striking presence & dignity: the Black Magus, traditionally understood as Balthazar. By the early 16th century, European artists had begun to depict
#yarnsky #yarnmarket
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As a queer Kentuckian, I am honestly so fucking sick of hearing “fuck the South” from liberals and progressives. It’s a shit take and incredibly essentializing about one of the country’s most diverse and gerrymandered regions. Ppl need to get their hearts right
You seem to think I’m talking about MAGA. I am not. I am talking about the Black and queer and immigrant and Democratic voters who live in the South too. I think it IS sneering condescension to characterize everyone in the South as “Hitlerville” especially in light of Jim Crow
"you don't understand, it has to be okay for people from hitlerville Alabama to try to kill and torture people because it's sneering condescension if you decide you don't like them for it"
Our society would be infinitely better if liberals hated conservatives as much as they hate us.
Our society would be infinitely better if liberals hated conservatives as much as they hate us.
November 16, 2025 at 2:36 PM
As a queer Kentuckian, I am honestly so fucking sick of hearing “fuck the South” from liberals and progressives. It’s a shit take and incredibly essentializing about one of the country’s most diverse and gerrymandered regions. Ppl need to get their hearts right
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everywhere RFK goes he should be confronted with so many duck noises that he develops a case of this
November 15, 2025 at 7:26 PM
everywhere RFK goes he should be confronted with so many duck noises that he develops a case of this
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ALT Text benefits everyone
Alt text helps with accessibility, identifying/explaining elements you might not get to in your posts and makes your posts/work more discoverable - Make sure to toggle it on to “require alt text” in your settings
Alt text helps with accessibility, identifying/explaining elements you might not get to in your posts and makes your posts/work more discoverable - Make sure to toggle it on to “require alt text” in your settings
November 13, 2025 at 11:41 PM
ALT Text benefits everyone
Alt text helps with accessibility, identifying/explaining elements you might not get to in your posts and makes your posts/work more discoverable - Make sure to toggle it on to “require alt text” in your settings
Alt text helps with accessibility, identifying/explaining elements you might not get to in your posts and makes your posts/work more discoverable - Make sure to toggle it on to “require alt text” in your settings
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Getting ready for the #knitandstitchbelfast show in a couple of days and debuting some gorgeous hand-dyed #silk #embroiderythread. I know some of you have been waiting so long for this! The wait is finally over!
24m each, these threads will go a long way! 🧶
24m each, these threads will go a long way! 🧶
November 11, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Getting ready for the #knitandstitchbelfast show in a couple of days and debuting some gorgeous hand-dyed #silk #embroiderythread. I know some of you have been waiting so long for this! The wait is finally over!
24m each, these threads will go a long way! 🧶
24m each, these threads will go a long way! 🧶
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Gaze upon a Republic of Yarnia wall of yarn. We are at the #knitandstitch25 show. People like to touch yarn. Touching yarn is allowed I guess.
Glad to hear that ppl who have found us online see that our colors are just as exciting in the flesh! 🧶
#yarnsky #yarnmarket #yarnlove
Glad to hear that ppl who have found us online see that our colors are just as exciting in the flesh! 🧶
#yarnsky #yarnmarket #yarnlove
November 13, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Gaze upon a Republic of Yarnia wall of yarn. We are at the #knitandstitch25 show. People like to touch yarn. Touching yarn is allowed I guess.
Glad to hear that ppl who have found us online see that our colors are just as exciting in the flesh! 🧶
#yarnsky #yarnmarket #yarnlove
Glad to hear that ppl who have found us online see that our colors are just as exciting in the flesh! 🧶
#yarnsky #yarnmarket #yarnlove