mastodon 4.7.3I came here to get away from Americans. I don't want to play with any of you any more. Please respect that.
I'm a northern English man. I'm into almost anything wool related.
Header image: Grey wool fibre before spinning. This is from #Faroe Islands sheep.
Profile pic: Fawn whippet in bed with a tartan blanket.
Going through old stuff I saved and tidying my desktop.
The file name is.... 'No you grow up'.
I've put it in my keeping folder. :))
It was a fortuitous #fensterFreitag find.
One of my favourite spinning/yarn facts.
Almost all of your ancestors could spin.
There was a tiny fragment of Neanderthal yarn/twine found in France. It's made from the bast from tree bark......
It's at least 40,000 years old....
It's bloody three ply lace weight yarn. I doubt ANY modern spinner could pull that off, even with all our gadgets and knowledge.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/04/neanderthals-made-the-worlds-oldest-thread/
A few years ago I bookmarked this #Ravelry bundle.
As a male knitter it was annoying me that the tags on Ravelry were being abused. (Don't even get me started on the #gloves tag.)
Search by gender is a not funny joke on Rav. So... I asked on Reddit for people's fave men's patterns.
Someone gave me this! :)
Rules are, must be availabe, Must have a man wearing it in the photo's, must be a cardi, jumper, vest, jacket.
Men's stuff! Actual men's stuff!
https://www.ravelry.com/bundles/sweaters-cardigans-vests-for-men
I love this time of year!
I think it's one of the Dryopteris. It just showed up a couple of years ago.
#Meshcore peeps, I have a question about antenna upgrades.
I'm waiting for delivery of a Solar repeater and a companion. The internet says I should upgrade to better antennas.
Dense urban area, city centre Manchester UK.
Closest repeaters are 3km and 4km away but there are more on hills further away.
I don't mind spending a bit of money on good antennas but need a bit of guidance for what will work best.
Campanula. It's pretty. It's also everywhere! Thank the gods it's easy to pull out.
The nice thing is, in my sheltered back yard it flowers up to the end of November. April to December is a great flowering season.
It's just so rampant in its colonisation!
This is Gunnera manicata. Ever since I first saw one as a kid I wanted one. It's stuuuuupid to grow it in a pot. They're HUGE in real life..... but I needed one.
It's an example of sharing your plants with the wildlife. Something totally shreds the first few leaves every year. Then it buggers off and the plant grows a new set of leaves. It's fine after that.
A few years ago I got into the family tree as an exercise in 'belonging'.
One of them got sent to Australia for thieving a bolt of cloth.
Every now and again I think about her.
I treated myself. I've got a big blue grog clay pot for it ,and I've ordered a cheap obelisky thing off amazon.
Hopefully I will be able to fan it out across the wall when it gets going.
Apparently it has a very strong fragrance, myrrh with meadowsweet and vanilla. Can't wait.
It's a climber so it's going to get big.
Tiny leaved Sedums are my faves.
This one is Sedum album 'Black Pearl'. It turns the most beautiful almost black burgundy in full sun in summer. Looks a bit insipid at the mo.
Bottom right is Sedum hispanicum. It's super pretty it makes a mat of short upward floppy stalks.
Up in the top right.... I haven't got a clue what it is. I was about to throw the pot contents away and noticed it hiding in the weeds. That's literally all that was left.
It has it's chance now.
Britain Worst are having a stupid march through #Manchester.
There are counter demonstrations.
Be awesome and safe in the face of these morons.
Be loud, and make them understand that British people fucking loath them.
Mouth breathing, bottom dwellers, bussed in from elsewhere. Utter bellends.
I wrote a scathing email to my MP after the vile attack in Manchester.
Shortly afterwards there was a case in Bolton with a planned armed attack on the Jewish community.
Yesterday, again in London.
I'm listening to Mahmood saying all the usual platitudes and 'assurances'.
I'm not even Jewish and I am sick of this bullshit.
Our country used to be mostly (?) welcoming incredibly tolerant of differences.
As an atheist I have one thing to say.
Just look at yourselves! GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER!
I think the people who use AI are the emotionally/intellectually lazy types. The kind of people who don't want to put any thought or effort into anything.
Forget the 'content'. It's AI.
That AI email's only real message is that you are too unimportant for the 'writer' to put anything of themselves into it.
That AI poster/flyer is telling you in clear unambiguous language that the organisers of the 'thing' don't really care about the 'thing,' or give a flying crap obout your attendance .
Wrote another scathing email to my MP last night.
I won't let Muslims intimidate Jews into fleeing my country, you know.... like they have been hounded out of every other country where Muslims predominate.
We have a long history of not putting up with religious extremism.
Just look at the Puritans. They didn't get what they want and neither will the Muslim extremists.
If this utter bollocks doesn't stop, I predict a big win for Reform, and that would be disastrous for everyone.
I'm early Friday afternoon stoned, and two glasses of wine into the weekend. Bear that in mind world!
Soooo.....
Starmer chose TWO people with known links to paedophiles for the top two jobs in America.
Buuuut..... there's nothing going on here. He's a good man.
Sharon (agree with her or get shit in the post) Osbourne.
Classy lass.
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/uk-news/sharon-osbourne-to-join-tommy-33778696
Does anyone else get randomly logged out of all proton apps?
It happened a few weeks ago and I just woke up completely logged off again.
It's effing well angering to manually input a long random password in five apps at 5am.
Does this fuckery happen at every update?