I've knitted an #EmotionalSupportChicken just for a laugh. I've slightly weighted her which I think feels really nice.
I've seen various stories for how these came about and got their name, from toys for kids after bush fires to pillows for use by patients after chest surgery. She's definitely a huggable shape and size, so I can understand why it feels comforting.
There are many free versions of the pattern online and YouTube tutorials as well. You can buy the original pattern from Ravelry.
@KarenStrickholm I tried to get glass bead stuffing initially, but it's not easy to get here. In the end I went to my local $2 shop and bought a palm sized bag of "decorative pebbles" - I would estimate about 400g in weight. I sewed a flat pouch out of felt fabric and tightly packed the stones into it, so they don't make a clinking sound. I put the pouch about ¼ of the way up from the bottom, with poly fill underneath and around it.
I hope that helps! Wonderful that you're onto number 4 🐔 Are they a personal project or do you have people in mind for them?
SO cute! Fun and easy to knock out, too. I make them with yarn scraps. A great way to try out new skills like embroidery. And, the childlike delight on people's faces when they receive one is priceless. Here's the pattern... 🥰
ravelry.com/patterns/library/e…
Emotional Support Little Chickie™ pattern by Annette Corsino
You can put her in your pocket for support on the go!!Ravelry
Thanks! Here's one I just finished...
#FinishOrFrogAlong #Knitting @Knitting #Knitstodon #FiberArts #FibreArts #NeedleArts #Maker #Creator #Crafts #HandMade #SurfFeeds
It was actually 1st one I made, it was very plain and stitch size too big, so stuffing was peeking through. Settled on US3 needles, three strands of fingering held together, for main body parts, on later chickies. Anything is fine for the embroidery, which I just did.
You can check out my #Ravelry Project pages for these if you want to see my notes. @KarenSantaFe
Garrett Nussmeier leads No. 9 LSU's rally for 17-10 season-opening win at No. 4 Clemson
https://apnews.com/article/lsu-clemson-score-e415dd62ebe821a7b383f4a296fd7328?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Friendships used to feel like a yes/no question to me. Now they seem more like a scale. Wrote a small piece on this.
#blog #blogging #blogpost #substack
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On the Continuity of Friendships
A mathematical perspective on the ever-changing nature of companionships.Shibaprasad Bhattacharya (Ordinary Analysis)
Journalist speaks out after attempt to silence him with a restraining order
Attempted restraining order yet another instance of local officials punishing routine journalismFreedom of the Press
A thunderstorm rolls off the front range toward Timnath Reservoir this evening in Colorado.
#Colorado #ColoradoPhotography #ColoradoPhotographer #ColoradoLandscape #ColoradoWeather #Weather #WeatherPhotography #WeatherPhotographer #Thunderstorm #Sky #Clouds #sunset #timnath #TimnathPhotography #TimnathPhotographer #TimnathWeather #TimnathLandscape #timnathreservoir #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #LandscapePhotographer #OurPlanetDaily #EarthFocus #photographer
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Ah, Labor Day. All those people cancelling their insurance (because it's "too expensive") in the Florida Keys you would think would know about the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane.
Global Sumud Flotilla, oggi salpano le prime navi. Tutto sull’imponente missione umanitaria per spezzare l’assedio di Gaza
https://startupitalia.eu/impact/global-sumud-flotilla-salpa-informazioni/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Global Sumud Flotilla, oggi salpano le prime navi. Tutto sull’imponente missione umanitaria per spezzare l’assedio di Gaza
Tutto sulla Global Sumud Flotilla. Il tam tam social ha sopperito al disinteresse di televisioni e carta stampata: sta per salpare una flotta di 50 naviCarlo Terzano (StartupItalia)
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'Nosso caminho sonoro pode sempre se modificar': Vivendo do Ócio lança Hasta La Bahia - Mídia NINJA
Banda soteropolitana traz a força do improviso com colaboração de peso e aquece o caminho para o seu próximo disco.SOM.VC (Mídia NINJA)
(from Don Quixote)
Don Quixote : which was a dream | WorldCat.org
Kathy Acker's Don Quixote is an indomitable woman on a formidable quest: to become a knight and defeat the evil enchanters of modern America by pursuing "the most insane idea that any woman can thinkwww.worldcat.org
“Cold fusion is a myth!”
“Well, it mythically makes my mythical car go mythically fast, thude!”
“You didn’t build that contraption off the hyper net, tell me you didn’t”
“I did! Runs on water!”
“It doesn’t, Mendeleevium so-called catalyst in the alleged fusion impeller is fissioning to provide the energy. It’ll work for about a week until the lead buildup blocks the neutrons. Or your shielding gets too hot.”
“Haha, I built the unshielded version to save weight.”
“Oh you utter cantaloupe. Come on, I’m taking you to the ER. My car. We’ll have to bury yours, and if you’re very lucky you won’t be in it.”
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There was an article in #Wired, investigated and written by #TaylorLorenz (@taylorlorenz) about a kind of disturbing dark web of money funding some content creators who lean into democratic messaging. It has sent some people on the blueosphere apoplectic, and I fail to understand why they are attacking the messenger, rather than the ethics of an organization where the first rule of Chorus is that you’re not allowed to talk about #Chorus.
Look, I will be the first to agree that the Dems have lost the thread, and their connection to the people. Trying to fix that would be good. Trying to fix it by silencing leftists, and running the same dark money nonsense as the bad guys is not good. In fact, I put it to you that it is unethical and bad. And taking your anger about being lied to out on the person who exposed the deception is just self defeating.
Archive link to the Wired article for those without a sub.
archive.ph/YdYrL
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You can see all my yarnprojects on Ravelry, where you also find me as nadiawind
#knitting
More hacking action at the #FreeBSD #Hackathon here in Oslo! Bugs are found, and then more "bugs" are found.
Having Level 3 support in our offices is something we could certainly get used to! ;-D
There's been documentation work, installer work, chasing down pf issues, trying to add architecture number 58 and 59 to #NetBSD (the #486DLC and #NexGen 5x86), discussions about FreeBSD pkgbase, preparing of release notes, and much else.
After a long day, restitution is again offered in the form of #Retrogaming, #beer and food. Today seems to be #MonkeyIsland day.
Basmati Blues (2017) might be the anti-capitalism movie everybody should watch.
It's cheesy, and starts with a white saviour feel, but develops into a "if the people work together they can accomplish anything" beautiful story.
I haven't blogged in a while. Mostly because my last post was about AI and I wanted to write a followup but found the whole AI discourse so extremely exhausting.
So anyways, back to the world of little hacks with this post about booting #NetBSD from a GPT wedge, the hard way:
Confusion on the streets today. A group of flag waving racists, but then also a group of anti fascists telling them to go home to the suburbs.
Ain't no red flag like someone carrying an Australian flag. Pretty sad to realise this is where we've come to as a nation. We are not doing great.
As I am working on the newest Knight George demo version, I don't have a lot of flashy new stuff to show...
So just have this extract of the game's first dungeon! Reptiles attack you, and you need to get a hang of the Catacable to jump those pits!
#screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev
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I have a weird behaviour of #ffmpeg on #NetBSD: when transcoding a video (either from an existing video or from still frames, doesn't matter) with #x264, everything is fine. But when I encode with #x265, the ffmpeg process sets itself to niceness 20. I can trace the system calls, and it does indeed call setpriority with x265, and not with x264, but I cannot find it in the source code.
This happens with both ffmpeg5 and ffmpeg7 on NetBSD, but not on Ubuntu. I haven't yet tested anything else.
Normally I wouldn't mind if a CPU-hungry encoder runs "nice", but I would like to decide that for myself, and in my current setup, the CPU clock modulation daemon ignores nice processes and so doesn't raise the frequency, and so my encoding runs slow. And non-superusers cannot lower the niceness.
Another weird NetBSD problem. Please help or boost.
Chris Pratt has defended RFK Jr. on the basis of his being a member of his wife's family.
Brother, if my family member was a vaccine denier for this long, I would not be feigning ignorance regarding it.
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NetSurf on reMarkable 2
Akseli's various rambles and posts about gaming, gamedev, FOSS, programming and other things.akselmo.dev
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I Am Friend of Medium (FOM). Here is my today's story.
I Manifest Money, I Love Money
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I Manifest Money, I Love Money
I Manifest Money, I Love Money Powerful Money Affirmations To Manifest Fast Let’s have a heart-to-heart today about something that most of us think about every single day — money. But instead of …Ravinimbus (No Time)
China to Triple Its Domestic AI Accelerator Output Thanks to Huawei and SMIC
China to Triple Its Domestic AI Accelerator Output Thanks to Huawei and SMIC
The world's AI arms race is reshaping the global semiconductor supply chain. To reduce dependence on foreign computing, China is looking to triple its domestic AI accelerator output.TechPowerUp
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hey there! it's me, vanta rainbow black, fedi's favorite trans punk catgirl instance admin 
at my best friend's suggestion i'm gonna be trying things a bit differently from now on. instead of asking for help with groceries and such weekly and always having gaps i'm gonna start crowdfunding for the entire month at once. this will provide me more peace of mind and stability and make things easier i think
TOTAL: $1500
groceries: $600
medical weed: $400
bills: $115
general life expenses: $385
do you enjoy the work i've done organizing a mass-defederation of meta's threads with FediPact? are you hype in the pipe for the fedi memoir whose 52k word rough draft i recently finished? do you like the rad cybersyndicate instances i've set up? the cool clothes i DIY together? my pirate radio station, vantaradio? my awesome videos? my amazing selfies? my community movie nights? my posting generally? or just wanna give someone in need a nice helping hand?
well i'm an impoverished neurodivergent trans woman just trying to survive so if you wanna support me anything helps me keep being able to do all those cool thingies!!!
venmo: venmo.com/vantablack420
paypal: paypal.me/v33b33
cashapp: https://cash.app/$vantablack420
liberapay: liberapay.com/v4nt4bl4ck
ko-fi: ko-fi.com/vantablack420
GFM: gofund.me/aa09f716
patreon (monthly): patreon.com/vantablack
throne: throne.com/vantablack
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hey there! it's me, vanta rainbow black, fedi's favorite trans punk catgirl instance admin
at my best friend's suggestion i'm gonna be trying things a bit differently from now on. instead of asking for help with groceries and such weekly and always having gaps i'm gonna start crowdfunding for the entire month at once. this will provide me more peace of mind and stability and make things easier i think
TOTAL: $1500
groceries: $600
medical weed: $400
bills: $115
general life expenses: $385
do you enjoy the work i've done organizing a mass-defederation of meta's threads with FediPact? are you hype in the pipe for the fedi memoir whose 52k word rough draft i recently finished? do you like the rad cybersyndicate instances i've set up? the cool clothes i DIY together? my pirate radio station, vantaradio? my awesome videos? my amazing selfies? my community movie nights? my posting generally? or just wanna give someone in need a nice helping hand?
well i'm an impoverished neurodivergent trans woman just trying to survive so if you wanna support me anything helps me keep being able to do all those cool thingies!!!
$790/$1500
venmo: venmo.com/vantablack420
paypal: paypal.me/v33b33
cashapp: https://cash.app/$vantablack420
liberapay: liberapay.com/v4nt4bl4ck
ko-fi: ko-fi.com/vantablack420
GFM: gofund.me/aa09f716
patreon (monthly): patreon.com/vantablack
throne: throne.com/vantablack
Payez vb avec PayPal.Me
Rendez-vous sur PayPal.Me/v33b33 et saisissez le montant. C'est signé PayPal, donc c'est simple et sécurisé. Vous n'avez pas de compte PayPal ? Pas de problème.PayPal.Me
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Next federal takeover: Chicago. The Trump administration is asking the nearby naval base for help carrying out the president’s massive deportation campaign.
“These operations are similar to what occurred in Los Angeles earlier this summer. Same DHS team." trib.al/Zubq0Iz
Trump Pulls In Navy for His Next Takeover of Blue City
The Department of Homeland Security reached out to a naval base near Chicago for help with ICE operations.The New Republic
エディージャパンの新主将、ディアンズが勝ち越しトライでカナダ撃破「いいアタックができた」 | ラグビー | スポーツブル (スポブル)
◇ラグビー アサヒスーパードライ パシフィックネーションズカップ２０２５ 日本５７―１５カナダ（３０日、ユアテックスタジ…WALKNEWS (WALK NEWS)
Even Former AIPAC Democrats Are Signing On to Block Arms Sales to Israel
The “Block the Bombs” bill’s supporters want it to become a crucial litmus test on Gaza for the 2026 midterms.Jonah Valdez (The Intercept)
Trump administration cut funding to shooting prevention programs in Minnesota weeks before school shooting | The Independent
independent.co.uk/news/world/a…
Trump administration cut funding to shooting prevention programs in Minnesota weeks before school shooting
In Minnesota, $800,000 in federal grants to local agencies, including the state Department of Public Safety and Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office, were cut last month, undermining efforts to prevent mass violenceErin Keller (The Independent)
What do the people of Gaza face at night?
“Night no longer signifies stillness or sleep, but has become a symbol of terror,” began Ahmed Halabi, a 26-year-old humanitarian activist from the Gaza Strip, describing his experiences in the heart of the city.Halabi has worked for years providingDAILY YEMEN
Finally on the second bus ... What a ball up
They complained about the protests a couple weeks ago ... This running thing had screwed up public transport
And my travel
Hugz & xXx
Adventure starting
Slight interruption, from a customer that wanted to talk about work and a job ... On a Sunday ... FFS
On a bus to catch another bus
Hugz & xXx
Oh word some big film fandom Weibo account posted about the Indonesia protests too
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So there's a new title on the nonbinary circuit: Mg.
The original Tumblr member who posted it said:
'since mrs, ms, and mr are all descended from the latin word magister, i propose the gender neutral version should be mg, short for "mage"'
A question for #nonbinary people:
Hypothetically assuming the go-to nonbinary title is Mg, how would you want it to be said out loud in front of your name? ("Mg FirstName LastName")
- Magister (26%, 23 votes)
- Mage (51%, 44 votes)
- I don't mind (10%, 9 votes)
- Something else (replies welcome!) (11%, 10 votes)
Another month - another blog. You can read all about verity, verisimilitude and veracity in fiction, if you clickedy click on the clicky thing!
#WritingCommunity #AmWriting #Memory #WritersOfMastodon #WriterLife #AuthorsOfMastodon #AuthorCommunity #Blog #Writer
jacquigreaves-author.com/blog/…
Would I Lie to You?
I was reintroduced to the contrasts between the words ‘Verity’ and ‘Verisimilitude’ during a recent writing workshop. Where verity is a true principle or belief—the truth, verisimilitude is...JACQUI GREAVES
Dust devils are rotating columns of dust that form around low-pressure air pockets, and are common on Earth.
But this one is imaged on the surface of #Mars.
This Martian dust devil formed on the dust-covered, volcanic plains of Amazonis Planitia.
The dust devil is bright, and its core is roughly 50 meters across.
The dark streak on the ground behind the dust devil is its shadow.
The length of the shadow suggests the plume of rotating dust rises about 650 meters into the atmosphere.
uahirise.org/hipod/ESP_061787_…
Went for a wander down the road, since it's a lovely day outside.
I found a Scarlet Honeyeater, Crimson Rosella, Brown Thornbill, and a Grey Shrike-thrush.
#bird #AustralianWildlife #WildOz #BrownThornbill #ScarletHoneyeater #CrimsonRosella #GreyShrikeThrush
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Australia Defends Deportation Deal With Tiny Island of Nauru
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-31/australia-defends-deportation-deal-with-tiny-island-of-nauru?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Bleppy boy has no brain on Caturday. Felt abandoned by me staying out a few hours longer than usual and has been harassing me since I got back. Poor thing!
#cats #CatsOfMastodon #Caturday
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Numbers drawn for estimated $1B Powerball jackpot
https://apnews.com/article/powerball-jackpot-one-billion-ab16a3b10ce1ffab01630ac520d11aa0?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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10 Jahre „Wir schaffen das“: Von Willkommenseuphorie zu Kontrollverlust – TE-Wecker am 31. August 2025
Der TE-Wecker erscheint montags bis freitags – und bietet Ihnen einen gut informierten Start in den Tag. Ideal für den Frühstückstisch – wir freuen uns, wenn Sie regelmäßig einschalten.Sofia Taxidis (Tichys Einblick)
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