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Crafter. Dreamer. They/them. Middle aged, disabled, autistic single parent in East Europe. Has chronic pain, ADHD and executive dysfunction. Loves cats, needlework, yarnwork, plants and discussions. Listens to BTS, podcasts and video essays. Watches Critical Role and the odd Netflix show. Hates Disney, the company, not the artists. Can't read as much as they like any more. Posts sporadically. Also appears on Tumblr, Insta, Bluesky and Pillowfort.

Today (December 3rd) is International Day of People with Disabilities - and so I thought I would share this graphic which emphasises that not all disabilities are visible.

This year's theme is 'fostering disability-inclusive societies for advancing social progress'; which on a purely practical level make sense as so much promise & potential is lost when people with disabilities are excluded or suffer prejudice in the workplace & more widely!

#disability #politics

h/t Kate Hapin/LinkedIn

I finally managed to snap a photo of the Halloween scarf I made!
I finished it last week I just kept forgetting to post about it.
Pattern is A Purrfect Halloween Scarf by Lisa Hannan Fox.
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this feels right
@knitting another page done, three more to knit.
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Australian software engineer Sarah Spencer hacked a 1980's knitting machine to create "Stargazing: a knitted tapestry" to show the universe in a unique way. ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ

Sarah explains, โ€œBy using a floppy drive emulator written in Python and a web interface, I can send an image to the Raspberry Pi over the network, preview it in a knitting grid, and tell it to send the knitting pattern to the knitting machine via the floppy drive port ...

https://magazine.raspberrypi.com/articles/knitting-network-printer

#WomensArt #Tech #Knitting #raspberrypi

I am halfway done with my Purr-fect Halloween scarf.
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Forgot to update on my knitting, let me catch you up
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