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valerie
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Academic librarian @CUNY | entering my crone season | ND AF | GLAMS: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rea3amxwqfkfzhilivubtrib/feed/aaabfz334lr66
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A big part of this new stitching style I’ve been messing with is trying to actively avoid forming patterns, which is like weirdly hard to do?
2 pieces of plastic canvas, one cut into a rectangle and the other a cat face shape (or a Batman?) They are stitched in neutral-toned yarns in diagonal stitches of varying sizes, forming what kind of looks like a waveform, or just scribbled zigzag lines stacked on each other.
November 24, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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My new stitch project is just me grabbing yarn scraps and using various random(ish) number generators to decide the length of each stitch. Now I kind of want to stitch a really really long number.
My hand holding a sheet of plastic canvas, stitched in a patchwork of diagonal stitches of various lengths and colors. It creates a kind of linear marble effect.
November 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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See also: me in 1982
Two little blond children, one with a cute, gap-toothed smile, with his arm around a messy-haired little girl (who is me from a very long time ago) with impressive resting bitch face for a toddler. The happy little boy is holding a little tykes cow but that’s not important to this picture in this context. Unless maybe the cow is why he’s happy and I’m not? Maybe I was jealous of his cow? I have no recollection of why I look so angry at this particular moment.
November 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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I’m so sorry I tried not to but I failed
My first and last name in the Zohran campaign template (so it says VALERIE for RESTAL)
November 9, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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Grumpy bear (the blue care bear) but instead of storm clouds on his tummy it’s the Microsoft sharepoint logo
October 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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I found proof!
A screenshot from Facebook of me, a blondish white lady of 30 (at the time) drinking beer out of a tall glass and sitting in a striped tan plush chair. You can see the Eiffel Tower lit up through the window behind me. The caption says Valerie Forrestal at Hilton Hotel Paris, June 5, 2008.
October 24, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Or at least it’s tied for first with this bad boy
A cross stitch pattern drawn in blue and red pencil on graph paper. It’s a biscornu-style square with little brown doggos and hearts surrounding a box that reads: they’re good dogs Brent (from rate my dog)
October 23, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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What a great opportunity to repost the best cross stitch pattern I’ve ever made (inspired by louisvsrick.com/episode-8-gr...)
A sheet of graph paper used to make a pixelated pattern of a computer key with the words “caps lock is how I feel inside” done in charcoal pencil
October 23, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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I don’t suppose you want any plastic canvas wristlets I made them faster than I could easily give them away. I am not a master crafter though soooooo…..
A bunch of handmade wristlets in various patterns and colors
October 23, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Time to trot out the official mascot for my first book
Grumpy Bear, the blue Care Bear, with the SharePoint logo on his belly. He’s making a grumpy face, because he’s Grumpy Bear, and that’s what he does.
October 16, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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I actually have a nature writing tag on Libby, lol
A list of books: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake, Becoming Kin by Patty Krawec, and The Garden Against Time by Olivia Laing
October 16, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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As a person who sometimes dabbles in instructional design, I AM CONCERNED
Screenshot of an academic article called Evaluating Usability and Cognitive Load in Programming Education with ChatGPT Integration by Gustavo Gutiérrez-Carreón, Rigoberto López-Escalera, published in International Computer Programming Education Conference: TLDR* The findings suggest that, when integrated appropriately, ChatGPT can improve the learning experience by reducing mental effort and enhancing participation in programming education.
October 13, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Corporate librarian, public librarian, academic librarian
Three men sitting at a table, apparently a screenshot from ESPN? There’s a guy in a grey suit sitting next to a guy in a casual button down shirt and golf cap sitting next to a man in a matching vest and tie.
October 8, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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Ok I have done it I have cleaned the litter! Now to drink beer in front of the television, like a good American.
My hand holding a shipyard pumpkin head beer in the foreground, with the Hulu Home Screen for Abbott Elementary in the background. There’s also a lot of yarn on the table, and a lot of cat art on the wall.
October 8, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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::taps sign::
A screenshot of a tweet by user Merman_Melville that reads: Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of you own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day". The timestamp on the tweet is January 24th, 2019 at 3:03pm, though I've seen this tweet screenshotted with various timestamps so take that as you will.
October 6, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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I guess let’s just keep marching towards Idiocracy ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Kash Patel, head of the FBI, dressed in a self-branded camouflage punisher hoodie, with a beanie that reads: K$H.
September 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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I can’t believe no one in this meeting can hear the screams emanating from inside my head
SpongeBob SquarePants sitting at a computer desk, looking calm, with an image of him screaming superimposed over him
September 18, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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How are things going in America? Am I still trying to craft my way through the apocalypse? I think this picture answers both questions adequately.
I’m showing off a tapestry needle with an extremely mangled eye in the palm of my hand
September 15, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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I just opened one of these bad boys. The fruit taste is very mild.
My hand holding a can of Einstök Ölgerd Arctic Berry ale. The can is silver, with an image of a Viking in sunglasses.
September 13, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Though this might be considered a winter beer and it’s one of my faves
Kentucky vanilla bourbon barrel cream ale from Lexington Brewing Co
September 13, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Lololol this hold just came through this exact minute
Book: Wild Faith: how the Christian right is taking over America by Talia Lavin
September 12, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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If you want to name your band Bees In My Deck Box, feel free
September 3, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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My new lock screen really says it all
Tabby cat with a white bib and socked peets with his claws stuck into my wrist, yawning in such a way that he looks like he’s screaming. This is Ollie and he has excellent fangs.
August 27, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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I am very invested in creative laying arrangements. For awhile I kept saying I was gonna get an indoor “clubhouse”. I also have a bed tent.
A bunk bed where the top bunk looks like it’s a little house Another bed enter the top bunk looks like a little house, but with a bigger bed on the bottom, perpendicular to the top bunk, instead of parallel A bed that looks like a little log cabin, with a little window, a little door, and a cute little roof. The back is open to the wall but from the front it looks like a little clubhouse A king sized bed with a bed tent covering the top half of it, with a bonus black cat, for good luck🍀
August 18, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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What am I doing at the pool? Stitching of course!
My current plastic canvas project sitting in my lap with a pool in the background and a pool noodle propped up against a chair
August 17, 2025 at 8:42 PM