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For folks off Ravelry b/c of accessibility, this is making the rounds (deservedly so!!) and I wanted to try to share it. The #knitting pattern is a free download with attribution as seen in the screenshot IF you can login beyond the migraine/seizure-inducing homescreen. The designer’s notes are wonderful. I’m terrified to try socks, but I’m feeling like this is a gauntlet thrown that I must attempt… or an excuse to buy #yarn… 🧶 #thisisfine https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/a-fine-sweater
A Fine Sweater pattern by Yu Jie 玉杰

Published with permission from KC Green.

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@knitmeg thank heavens i found you here - and your note about going on twitter vacation. I WAS WORRIED. DM me your email plz so i don't lose ways of contacting you? HUGS.
@knitmeg checck your twitter DMs

PUPPY FOR HANUKKAH!

https://youtu.be/gbxyZAduGvY

Daveed Diggs - Puppy for Hanukkah

YouTube

Among the Yoruba (Nigeria), ancestral spirits of the community are invoked into local initiates during Egungun festival. They serve to keep the community in line morally, impart their collective wisdom & act as messengers of the recently deceased.

Read ethnographer A.B. Ellis's account on the Yoruba in 1894:
(Chapter VI: EGUNGUN, ORO, ABIKU, AND VARIOUS SUPERSTITIONS)
https://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/yor/yor07.htm

#WestAfrica #WestAfrican #Nigeria #Folklore #Folktale #Legend #Stories #Lore #Myth #Myths #Mythology

Chapter VI: Egungun, Oro, Abiku, and Various Superstitions.

@nomoremister
at No More Mister Nice Blog wants to know where noted fraud Rep.-elect Santos got his money:

https://nomoremister.blogspot.com/2022/12/say-just-where-did-lying-gop.html

I wionder if it came from the Schlapps:

https://mockpaperscissors.com/2022/12/20/the-amazing-mr-santos-and-justice-kavanaugh/

SAY, JUST WHERE DID LYING GOP CONGRESSMAN-ELECT GEORGE SANTOS GET HIS MONEY?

Yesterday The New York Times published a terrific but regrettably tardy story revealing that George Santos, a Republican who won a congres...

@jskolnick you need an avatar

@danayoung there you are!

see, @jskolnick !

@jskolnick Here's Justin!

@jms4592

And I sent Dana an invite.

The WashPo article on Musk, the stalking incident and the alleged stalker has dropped. Gifting it because it’s worth reading. Also, two of the journalist suspended by Musk, wrote it.

https://wapo.st/3G31YuT

Musk blamed a Twitter account for an alleged stalker. Police see no link.

The incident last week underscored how Elon Musk’s personal concerns can influence his governance of a social media platform used by hundreds of millions of people.

The Washington Post