Cate
@cateknit.bsky.social
Birthright citizen as of October 1945. NonChristian Golden Rule practitioner. 🇺🇦Living in the 💙 bubble of Richmond VA. Knitter. If you only repost, I will not follow back. NO DMs 🧶 #blue #knitter #KnitSky 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ #BLM #Reparations #RVA
Two Anglo-Saxon disc brooches from the Galloway Hoard which was found during 2014 at Balmaghie in Kirkcudbrightshire. Buried at the beginning of the 10th century, the hoard is now part of the collections at the National Museum of Scotland. 📸 My own, #SaxonSunday #GallowayHoard
Oh my, I remember these although I have no memory of where except I know it was not LA.
Carceral Abolition@carceralabolition.bsky.social · 3d agoPeople watching coin operated tvs in a bus station in LA – 1969 www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsi...
Terrible news.
BlackskyNews 🗞️@blackskynews.blacksky.app · 2d agoOn Friday, HBCU Virginia State University welcomed nearly 1,500 incoming Trojans with a ceremony featuring NFL MVP Cam Newton as the guest speaker. Saturday morning, five people were found suffering from gunshot wounds outside campus dorms around 1:30am. apnews.com/article/virg... #BlackskyNews
A Professor can be hounded to death by the media for alleged plagiarism but tech companies can plagiarise on a worldwide scale and they’re left alone, celebrated for their “genius”…
One of my first quilts, made in about 1974. Colorful fabric scraps sewn to a base fabric. The shape was to fit my antique bed frame. It had constant use until it became a shredded rag. #QuiltSky #ScrapQuilt #HandMade #Sentimental
“We never talked about men or clothes. It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution – real girl's talk.” - Nina Simone, singer, musician and civil rights activist #WomensArt
Like the way her discoveries are honored in the print.
Ele Willoughby@minouette.bsky.social · 5d agoHappy birthday to British-born, American #astrophysicist Margaret Burbidge (1919-2020) who was one of the people instrumental in building our understanding of stellar nucleosynthesis, how nuclei are produced in stars & you and I are all stardust! 👩🏼🔬🧪🐡🎢🔭 #histsci She was the 1st author of a monumental
Cliche old person event this morning. 🔥🔥🔥 I was on my sofa knitting when I smelled smoke. The linen coffee filters I was boiling were burned to ashes. Oops! Need new batteries for my smoke detectors. And new coffee filters. #SmokeAlarm #NewBatteries #Fire
Chamba Rumāl, late 18th-early 19thc ceremonial/ritual furnishing, silk embroidery on cotton from Himachal Pradesh, India #womensart
I began making quilts about 1973. I had confidently said I could teach quilt making. I recently found scans of slides made back then. First up is a trade I made for a painting by my friend #HarveyRedding in about 1976. My jealous (ex) husband chopped up the painting. #QuiltSky #HandMade #RVA
Felicia Sleeveless Sweater. First time using a Japanese style minimalist pattern. I like it. Quince & Co Tern 70% Wool, 30% Mulberry Silk. Aventurine color. #WIPWednesday #KnitSky #RVA
susanrice484054.substack.com/p/on-power-a... Two of our most insightful and intelligent minds in conversation. #Iran #Democracy #Greed #Stupidity #RVA
On Power and Ethics with Susan Rice
A recording from Ambassador Susan E. Rice and Timothy Snyder's live video
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People of colour are nothing new to European society. Here's are some beautiful studies of a Flemish neighbour of Peter Paul Rubens from over 400 years ago, painted in around 1615.
My Representative represents. #RVA
Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social · last wk."The path to voting rights was paved with the blood, sweat and tears of generations of people who endured injustice from a system that did not recognize their equality or, at times, their humanity." - Rep. Jennifer McClellan www.democracydocket.com/opinion/what...
This is the correct way to mend small holes. I do not. I just sew them up with a matching thread. #KnitSky #Mending
Digital Brain@yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · last wk.This darning technique rebuilds the knit stitch by stitch instead of patching over it, leaving sweaters and socks looking untouched.
Day 1629. Still alive. Still Ukrainian. Still a terrible disappointment for putin. #ukraine #ukrainians #ukrainerussiawar #putin #russia
hashem.alghaili Centuries before dental clinics, the ancient Maya used sophisticated jade fillings to treat toothaches. For decades, archaeologists have uncovered Maya teeth decorated with precious stones like jade and pyrite.
In about 1970 I was with friends at a club in Palo Alto where an offshoot of the Greatful Dead was playing & a fight began. They tried to ignore it and kept playing but more and more guys joined the fight so finally some band members did too. We left. I don’t know how it ended. #HippieDays
ᗩTᒪᗩᔕ🇿🇦@atlascage.bsky.social · last wk.When you take a gig playing at a corner store/restaurant in the hood and it turns out more entertaining than expected
Fellow BUSTER KEATON fans will enjoy Jim Jarmusch telling the story of how if it hadn’t been for JAMES MASON buying Keaton’s old house in the 1980’s almost every film Buster made would’ve been lost to us forever. Incredible.