🧶I have 9 colors for this new collection and I ALWAYS do 10.
So clearly we need one more. Right? Wanna help?
Drop the color you are obsessed with right now. If it fits, I’m dyeing it. If I choose yours, you help name it and get the first skein.
#indiedyer
#handdyedyarn
#yarncollection
#finchmod
Thank you so much!
In any industry, relationships are central. Something amazing and special about the crafts movement is that relationships often become deep friendships, and those friendships can lead, even after many years, to truly amazing collaborations ❤️
We always get a ton of spam when we launch a @kickstarter.com campaign. In the past it's been in-platform messaging. Now it's from people pledging at a significant reward level, making a public comment, then cancelling the pledge. Wreaks havoc on tracking our progress. Why are people gross.
Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h ••• My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72
“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit
This book is made of joy 🤩❤️
Working on a book campaign with legit filmmakers is blowing my mind!
Love waking up to being more than 10% to our goal already! Yay! We have earlybird pricing for book-level reward tiers just for the first week of the campaign, so why wait to help bring BE A FOOL into the world? www.kickstarter.com/projects/nin...
In a time of destruction, create something. Says Skeletor thankful he can create memes for you these trying times.
I'm really excited about this book! www.kickstarter.com/projects/nin...
(1/2) Books BC is a signatory to a recent letter calling on Nova Scotia to reinstate funding for publishers and the arts: buff.ly/ExtCcJW
David Eby speaking in a room of kids
BREAKING - B.C. is switching to permanent daylight saving time, making this week's time change the last one in the province. Announcement is live here: www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
This is very warranted cynicism. What a massive mess.
I mean, that's the only reasonable way to think about it. Your kid will be nearing the end of high school, no doubt, by the time this school is ready for students.
Part of a ruling in a discrimination lawsuit against a transphobic school trustee. "Calling transness “gender ideology” allows anti-trans activists to hide behind a veneer of reasonableness. It allows them to say, as Mr. Neufeld did in his statements as well as at the hearing of this complaint, that they are not attacking human beings. They are simply opposing a set of ideas. But behind this insidious veneer is the proposition that transness is not real. Such phrasing can make it easier to ignore that trans people are human beings. Referring to “gender ideology” or “transgenderism” – “-ism” denoting a belief or ideology such as capitalism or communism – pushes the idea that trans people have an agenda rather than being just another demographic group. As this decision illustrates, such terms can create the conditions for discrimination and hatred to flourish."
I 💜 Canada.
www.bchrt.bc.ca/law-library/...
It is absolutely WILD that it took so long. There has never once been issued, from any level of government, a clear or acceptable reason why this school wasn't built 19(!!!) years ago.
This egregious timeline didn't only affect residents of Olympic Village. It had bizarre and toxic ripple effects.
And now pre-orders are actually working! shop.ninetenpublications.ca/products/a-u...
(Insert gripe about how Shopify requires a bunch of settings for every individual product to be able to be purchased, and it is unnecessarily dumb.)
It's one of those things that made Canadians delight so much in the book and tv "stupid Canadian wolf bird." That bird is on our currency, y'all.
It's like a cycle that adapts to a prominent issue every few years, but really does come down to everyone having the right to say hateful stuff, and others having the right to block them or not do business with them as a consequence.
In yarn, it's about the red hats, and some companies telling influencers they can't mention the companies in posts even remotely about politics (even as these companies are apparently sold out of red yarn).
In fabric it's about hateful rhetoric being excluded, and cries that that is unfair.
💡 Pre-orders help us decide how many books to print, they help build buzz about the book, they help us to pay for the print run (when you purchase from us), and they support bookstores and craft shops and help them learn about the book and get excited about it (when you purchase from them).
The book cover of A User's Guide to Yarn, by Michelle Boyd, is featured in a graphic declaring that pre-orders of the book are open. Below the book cover it says the title and author, "Coming June 16, 2026. Pre-order today at shop.ninetenpublications.ca."
A USER'S GUIDE TO YARN, by Michelle Boyd @spindleprincess.bsky.social, is coming in June, and it's now available for pre-order in our online shop 👉 shop.ninetenpublications.ca/products/a-u...
You can also pre-order through your local bookstore or craft shop, and we encourage you to do that 📚
I see both the fabric and yarn craft worlds are (again) absolutely melting down over politics.
Predictably. It's been a short while since there was a big meltdown like this.
Look. Craft has always been political. What we choose to buy has always been political. Ignoring it doesn't negate it.
This is the heartbreaking, rage-inducing, scream-at-everyone piece you must read. Especially if you're in Canada. Especially if you're in BC 👇
(Almost always the culprit-and/or-solution-and/or-confounding-factor is metadata itself, who is sending the metadata, and are the metadata being somehow altered on receipt and if so is it a bug in a system or a human error.)
Something I do far more of in my work than I'd ever thought I would is solve puzzles. I simply had not anticipated the amount of time I would spend sleuthing, deducing, and otherwise logicking. There are mysteries in publishing that need solving is what I'm saying. So many mysteries.
This is where I YET AGAIN encourage people, especially creators, to have, develop and actively maintain their own websites where people can find you, away from the social media sites you don't own and/or can't control and/or whose discoverability algorithms are at the whim of billionaire weirdos.
my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels
I was still sick when I recorded these last couple vids. My hair is A Situation lol.
Seeing the way people are showing up to smoke the N*H*L’s Insta is frankly hilarious. Shitty that they have to but awesome that they’re doing it.
