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snowgall
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Linguist specializing in ASL and syntax. Knitter of doilies. Art editor for chestnutreview.bsky.social
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What actor's facial expression in a movie/TV show will stay with you for the rest of your life?

Sebastian Stan, Captain America: The Winter Soldier
December 13, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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Gloves I knit for my husband in Oct 2009.

I used multiple circular needles so he could try them on as I went and let me make a custom fit.

Wish I had reinforced the fingertips though, as they wore through too quickly!

#ArtAdventCalendar
In-progress pic of knitted gloves as worn by the knitter. Both gloves show a cabled celtic knot motif of the top side. Left-hand glove is complete, right-hand glove is still missing the tips of several fingers. Knitted gloves in green with a cabled celtic knot motif, showing the backside of the left hand and palm side of the right hand. Gloves knitted by me in 2009 and modeled by my husband.
December 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
December 7, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Took an embroidery workshop while visiting Mérida this past January. All supplies provided and a very sweet teacher who also covered some of the history of the craft and local motifs.

This is very much a novice piece (I'm usually a knitter), but still made for a lovely souvenir!

#ArtAdventCalendar
A design of two simplistic flowers with green stems and pink petals embroidered on a plain background held in a small embroidery hoop. Created in Mérida, Mexico, in January 2025.
December 6, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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My all-time favorite small gift is the Classic SD Swiss Army pocketknife from Victorinox.

About $24 or less, comes in tons of colors and designs and is the most useful thing I own.

Open packages, snip tags, do minor grooming, look cool.

I literally use mine every day and twice on Sundays.
Classic SD Swiss Army pocketknife in red. Opened to show small knife, nail file with screwdriver tip, and mini scissors. Also comes with the world's best tweezers.
December 5, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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Apparently #ACT got a lot of flak for posting that their test now has "less questions" rather than the putatively correct "fewer questions."

They ding test takers for this, so they do look hypocritical here.

But why quiz students on this pointless distinction in the first place?

#linguistics 🐦🐦
ACT Student Facebook account post advertising that the enhanced ACT now has "less questions". A comment below corrects them, saying "It's 'fewer' questions...lol".
June 3, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Voting and public comment period ends tomorrow (Friday, May 16th) at noon Pacific time!

#LEGO #BricklinkDesignerProgram #BDP #Series8

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Lego Hot Air Balloon by ExeSandbox. Submission for the Bricklink designer program series 8. Lego Sleepy Dragon Inn by MarinBD. Submission for the Bricklink designer program series 8. Lego Japanese Hot Spring by pubby. Submission for the Bricklink designer program series 8. Lego White Library by TRISHULA_KR. Submission for the Bricklink designer program series 8.
May 16, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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A Keith Haring #LEGO set? And it looks incredible? Sign me up immediately!

Just like the artist's work, the techniques for building these LEGO models are more complicated than they might seem.

#popart #KeithHaring #want

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Five lego brick-built art pieces in the style of Keith Haring displayed on individual stands. Each is a different dancing man in one of five colors - orange, blue, yellow, pink, and green - all outlined boldly in black, with motion lines in the artist's distinctive style. They are sizeable - a man is seen putting one into place, and the figure he is holding is as large as his forearm.
May 14, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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This art deco style theater is simply stunning.

#Lego #BDP #Series8

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"The Gothic Movie Theater" by GNbrick1331. Submission to Lego Bricklink Designer Program, series 8.
May 8, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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I adore the creamy orange walls with with trim on this pirate island getaway.

(Reminds me of the architecture in Mérida, Mexico :)

#Lego #BDP #Series8

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"Coconut Cape" by BallisticBricks. Submission to Lego Bricklink Designer Program, series 8.
May 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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A working carousel that uses a hand crank to both turn the carousel and move the horses up and down. So impressive!

#Lego #BDP #Series8

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"Grand Winter Carousel" by ties25. Submission to Lego Bricklink Designer Program, series 8.
May 8, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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More #lego #BDP series 8 faves:

This mountain shelter looks so cozy and inviting in a gorgeous environment!

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"Mountain Shelter" by elevenmocs. Submission to Lego Bricklink Designer Program, series 8.
May 8, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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All caught up now on eps 7-9 of #Andor season 2.

What incredible storytelling, fantastic costumes and sets, amazing dialogue and devastating events. It's so much.

Multiple characters with Emmy-worthy speeches so far, and we still have 3 episodes to go!
Official poster for Andor season 2.
May 8, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Adding pics of my four faves above :)

There are many others I liked as well - more links to come!

#Lego #Bricklink #BDP #series8
"White Library" folding architectural building by TRISHULA_KR. Submission to Lego Bricklink Designer Program, series 8. "Flame Tourer" semi-truck and stage by _TLG_. Submission to Lego Bricklink Designer Program, series 8. "Hot Air Balloon" by ExeSandbox. Submission to Lego Bricklink Designer Program, series 8. "The Eastern Alliance" medieval castle by BrickyBricks82. Submission to Lego Bricklink Designer Program, series 8.
May 6, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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The fancy vintage egg slicer I ordered last week arrived today!

I did not go as far as eating them with a knife and fork, however. I'm not *actually* that weird about my food! 🥚

#Severance #eggs
Hard-boiled egg held in a slicer which is about to cut it into six portions. Six perfectly sliced egg wedges arranged in a star pattern on a china plate.
May 4, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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It's silly, but I've seen lots of people asserting that Dylan made his paper ring from one of his finger traps

No way. Not only are those 100% blue, they are woven plastic. The ring is white & dark blue paper

The more likely option to me is a page from the MDR orientation handbook

#Severance
Dylan G's hands holding the paper engagement ring that he made for his outie’s wife. It seems to be made from stiff paper which is half dark blue and half white. From Severance season 2, episode 9. Someone holding an opened MDR orientation handbook, showing the inner pages. The right-hand page design has a dark blue rectangular banner on a white background that is a near exact match to the colors of the paper ring.
May 2, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Some people wanted a more fantastical answer, but for me, the goats' purpose as animal sacrifices in some weird quasi-religious ceremony made perfect sense.

It fits with Lumon's culty practices and with the desperate line from season 1 that they weren't "ready" yet. Anything else would be try-hard
Lorne (Gwendoline Christie) with a bloodied mouth and holding a young goat in the season 2 finale of Severance.
April 29, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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But once the race was on to find Gemma, it found its footing.

Loved how all the pieces came together - needing Drummond's keycard (and his blood!), getting a gun because we're done sacrificing goats, Gwendoline Christie being the only goatherder who could take on Drummond and live

#Severance
Mr. Drummond (Ólafur Darri Ólafsson) menacing Mark S (Adam Scott) outside the elevator to the testing floor in the season 2 finale of Severance.
April 29, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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I really found the harsh spotlight and shadows here to be visually upsetting. It's clearly intentional, as the cinematography is always top-notch, but I didn't know what the reasoning was, and I wanted it to stop assaulting my eyes.

#Severance #ColdHarbor
Spot-lit Mr. Milchick with an animatronic Kier Eagan from the season 2 finale of Severance.
April 29, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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And then the absolute bizarreness of the way Milchick and co chose to celebrate Mark's upcoming completion of the Cold Harbor file.

Animatronic Kier Eagan? Awkward comedy stylings? Weird moody lighting while he does his work? A marching band? Who on earth thinks this is desirable?
The supposedly inspirational painting which greeted Mark S as he stepped off the elevator to the Severed floor in the season 2 finale. It depicts Mark completing Cold Harbor while flanked by everyone he's ever met, with the waterfall from Woe's Hollow in the background.
April 29, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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#Severance s2e10 "Cold Harbor"

I'm still processing. What a ride.

The idea that iMark would not necessarily be on board with oMark's plans makes so much sense, and yet, I didn't really expect it

I did think the interaction between them via vidcam was fascinating, but maybe went on a tad too long
Innie Mark (Adam Scott) recording a message to his outie self in the season 2 finale of Severance.
April 29, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Severance s2e9 "The After Hours"

The Eagans have some weird hang-ups around food. Nevertheless, I covet that egg slicer! In fact, I just ordered a similar one off eBay 😆

Mr. Milchick finallly told off Mr. Drummond, but will he still be an antagonist towards Mark in the season finale? I bet yes.
Close-up of six perfectly cut hard-boiled egg wedges arranged on an ornate china plate, being further sliced with an antique knife and fork. Still image from season 2, episode 9, of Severance.
April 26, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Severance s1e6 react:

Patricia Arquette has a nice singing voice, but 😬

outie Mark refused a second glass of wine on his date, yay progress!

How could a plastic card that looks like an airplane safety guide be SO important it's worth going to outie Dylan's home and waking innie Dylan? Holy Kier!
Stacks of badge-sized plastic cards, each with a simple drawing depicting two men in one of several stances. Possibly showing self-defense moves, or something more sinister. The cards have no words on them, only arrows. (screenshot from Severance season 1 episode 6 "Hide and Seek").
April 15, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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If you are a Cornell Alum, you can vote in the upcoming Alumni Trustee Election.

This vote is important - two of the candidates are right-wing attorneys who will work to enact their political agenda on the university's administration.

See alt text for more info.

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Dear Cornell Alum, I'm writing about an issue of concern that will have far-reaching consequences for students, faculty, staff, and the future of research and teaching at Cornell. I urge you to take action by voting this month in the Cornell Alumni Trustee Election. Thank you for considering. If you’re like most alums, you probably don’t think very much about the annual Cornell Alumni Trustee Election. This tradition, rare among Cornell’s peer institutions, allows alumni to elect two trustees to four-year terms every year. All alumni have an equal vote — regardless of when you graduated, or what type of degree you hold. Usually, these elections are low-key affairs, featuring candidates who have a track record of activity in alumni affairs, and who have been vetted and endorsed by the Cornell Alumni Association’s Committee on Trustee Nominations (CATN). But this year is different — on the ballot are two ultra-right-wing attorneys, not endorsed by the CATN, who petitioned with alumni signatures to become nominees. If elected, they will hold sway at a critically important time for academic freedom and university governance, and will select, along with the other members of the Board of Trustees, Cornell’s next president. They are: • J. Kennerly (Ken) Davis Jr., a leader within the Federalist Society, the far-right conservative and libertarian organization that advocates for a textualist and originalist interpretation of the U.S. Constitution. He is also active with the Alumni Free Speech Alliance and the Cornell Free Speech Alliance, which oppose anti-racist DEI efforts, and which promote the nebulous idea of “viewpoint diversity” — the idea that all opinions should be represented in classrooms, regardless of their academic, scholarly, or scientific merit. • Cindy Crawford, an attorney for the Koch brothers’ primary political advocacy group, Americans for Prosperity Foundation, which advocates to end government regulations of environmental and safety issues, to end public education as a universal good, and to promote other policies that make it easier for the ultra-rich to become richer and to control public life. What do these candidates believe? In their own words: Of his student days in the 1960s, Davis wrote: “[T]he devastation wrought upon … all of Cornell by the shameful capitulation of President James Perkins to the armed occupation of Willard Straight Hall by campus radicals taught me forever that constitutionally compliant enforcement of the law and rule-based order is absolutely essential to protecting and preserving the integrity of the academic enterprise and, indeed, all of civil society.” Apparently referring to campus protest and movements for greater equity and justice, Crawford wrote: “[W]e are at a tipping point in which all elite universities, and Cornell in particular, must decide whether they will remain beacons of learning or acquiesce to demands for censorship, conformity, and political activism. It is relatively easy to pay homage to free expression and diversity of thought. But it can be difficult to uphold those values when confronted by aggressive attempts to shout down (or shut down) that support. I have dedicated my professional life to those issues, and I can guide and defend an incoming administration that is going to face severe challenges and tough decisions that will inevitably spawn outrage, whether real or feigned.” (Crawford's professional life has been inside Koch-network organizations that seek to support billionaires and to undermine environmental regulations, public education, taxation on wealth, and other functions of civil society and the public good.) Neither candidate has a significant volunteer history with the university, unlike the CATN-endorsed candidates. This means that they have not built up the same kind of knowledge of the operations of the university as the CATN-endorsed candidates, and it appears that their interest in sitting on the board of trustees is primarily for the purpose of enacting a right-wing political agenda on the university's administration. The Cornell Free Speech Alliance and other organizations are organizing their constituencies to vote in this election. Since voter turnout is usually low, they can have a big impact. WHAT CAN YOU DO? • VOTE before February 28. Every Cornell alum, whether a holder of an undergrad or graduate degree, from any year, is eligible to vote. • Do you know your Cornell netid and password? If not, you will need to ask for assistance. You have two options: 1. Write to Help+Cornell@yeselections.com 2. Write or email Alumni Affairs at (607) 254-7150 or alumniaffairs@cornell.edu • Review the candidates’ bios. • Visit the Cornell Alums Election Page. You will need to sign in with your netid and password OR with a code that you obtain from one of the two sources above. WHO TO VOTE FOR INSTEAD? Make your choice based on the candidate bios and statements. The primary purpose of this letter is not to endorse candidates. However, we face a strategic disadvantage against the organizations that want to elect Crawford and Davis. They have two candidates, and we have four. Every voter chooses two candidates. Their votes will be concentrated on their two chosen candidates, while ours will be spread out among the remaining four. Without ranked choice voting, it will be easier to elect Crawford and Davis. Therefore, if you're not sure who to choose among the remaining four, CATN-endorsed candidates, you might consider concentrating your votes on: • Paul Hayre, an Engineering alum, who writes about the importance to his education of his 1980s student activism against apartheid in South Africa, and the positive impact that resulted at that time from students working together with campus administration to make divestment a reality. • Karen E. Stewart, an A&S alum and long-time employee of the investment management firm TIAA, whose activities include international clean water advocacy, inclusion and belonging for undergraduate students, university financial health, and childcare support for Cornell staff and faculty during the days of pandemic shut-down.
February 6, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Pictured: the complete instructions from a box of Mexican chocolate drink, in Spanish, translated into both English and French.

I gather:

1) It can be either hot or cold

2) I can use either milk or water

But it seems only those who can read more than one language will learn these secrets.

🐦🐦
Monochrome drawing of 2 wedges (presumably chocolate) next to a glass of some unidentified liquid, captioned: 2 porciones = 25cl caliente / frio Size: 2 = 25cl Hot/Cold 2 portions = 25 cl de lait ou d'eau Drawing of a blender filled with liquid and 2 chocolate wedges, captioned: 1 min. Drawing of a glass of fizzy liquid with a straw, captioned: Enjoy Saborear Deguste.
January 21, 2025 at 3:55 AM