Knitting can be quite fun and somewhat low cost if you don't get influenced too much. But ask any knitter about their stash and you'll discover we're all hoarders who will not hesitate to pay ridiculous amounts of money for a single skein of hand died yarn (in the ugliest colours) that most likely will end up in the stash and never get knitted. Tools are the same. Why settle for a very basic and fully functional set of needles when you can get the most expensive one?

If you know a knitter, just know they are most likely sitting on a small fortune worth of yarn and tools.

I've had two kids, both ending in emergency c-sections after many hours of painful labour.

A few months after my second was born I got kidney stones. And that pain completely erased any conception of pain I had up to that point. Paralyzing, terrifying, unrelenting. It fucking sucks.

I can't wait for the REM (bottom left picture) to open, it's in less than a week!! After so many years, at last.

En plus ça n'a aucune utilité. Genre, je réutilise mes contenants de take out, de crème glacée (Coaticook font la meilleure crème glacée et ont les meilleurs plats!), les sacs de certains produits congelés, etc. Ça c'est zéro utile.

Congrats! Feels liberating. Just deleted my entire history (posts and comms) this morning! 12 years, 35k karma. I'm waiting a bit to delete my account in case the rollback story is a thing so I can delete them again.

I'll usually go with the length of the video in cases like this. Anything above 5 minutes is a red flag!

Maybe talk to her about crochet. That eats up yarn in a flash. Then you'll have doilies and granny square blankets all over the house!

I had a whole list of Blogger sites with full albums, bootlegs and mixtapes in all genres. It was wild and fun.

It probably disappeared into the ether because it was too short or lacked a backdrop of dried flowers and a cup of tea.

In the csv from Reddit it shows I had over 5100 comments. I ran PowerDeleteSuite and it completely erased all my comments. I kept my account and I go back on Reddit once in a while to check and only once I had to delete a stray comment that popped back up. Otherwise my comment and post history (12 y.o. acct) is gone.

For sure. But there are ways to make it more affordable and sustainable. Seconds, OOAKs, estate sales, unravelling thrift finds, etc. If I was listening to all the yarn shops and designers I follow, I would have a collection of 250$ sweaters! (I'm not saying I don't have any mind you...)

And the puns, jfc the never ending stupid puns.

This is beautiful work, wow! Winding yarn is so relaxing. Doing it with great tools is even more satisfying. I say it's totally necessary :)

It's not a long article and the topic is interesting enough to spend the 10 minutes it takes to read it IMO

GReader was awesome. I met people from all around the world on there, some that I still keep in touch with to this day. Yes, there are alternatives and I've used some of them, old reader and Inoreader in particular I think offer the best experience relative to GReader (without the social aspect). You can't recapture the past, Reader is dead and gone but I think killing it was Google's biggest blunder. An incredible lack of foresight on their partas stated in the article.

Getting your feeds the way you want them is great. But interacting with people that are actually reading the content you share and discussing it with you is a whole different experience. I'm not talking news articles necessarily but blog posts, scientific papers, essays, etc. Anyways, yeah, I loved the damn thing and still miss what it was to this day.

"A spokesperson for Corbin Police said officials are not sure if flyers are being distributed by the KKK or if someone is printing them off the internet to stir up trouble." Ooof.

Breadcrumbs that actually work were nice.

Ahhhh, now I understand!! Thank you very much for the explanation, it wasn't very clear to me. Guess I'll have to run shreddit over the weekend then.

C'est un deep cut.

Agreed. Unfortunately on my local sub (just a bit over 250k users) the mods are the ones trying to push for continued protest through malicious compliance. Most users are completely clueless and find the protest cringe and useless. I've gone back twice since the blackout, only to voice my opinions and it was not well received. A lot of people just don't see a problem with having the platform getting revenue off their own content. I don't think I'll ever go back to Reddit and will most likely delete my account after 12 years.