Certified Slutbucket

Do you think you're the first person to imply that I Like Books Wrong and I should be ashamed, ALA? Or the tenth? Do you think you're the first to imply that I'd be a better person that people liked more because I'd stop liking things that are antisocial and abnormal if I stopped reading books written before 2018?

Huh, wonder if "Summer of 2026" means SYKD is going to run in July instead of June.

My kindle and body are both READY, so it would be a huge bummer if it's pushed out a few more weeks, but I guess I won't know for sure until it happens.

But most of the time when people are doing the above, they're not doing that, they're adding it to the little background pile of anecdotes they use as evidence, and if anyone says "hey I think this is bullshit", they don't reconsider whether they're good at telling truth from convincing lies. They go "well it's funny lol" and then don't change.

And that's kinda important when there's a wide variety of people trying to get you to believe bullshit and willing to produce a lot of slop to do so! You need to notice when you're being shown a lot of reddit stories that, combined, paint a picture of a world that's politically convincing. If you can't do that with, again, fucking reddit screenshots you're exactly as stupid as your uncle who got radicalized by Facebook memes of blue haired screeching feminists.

This shit is only going to get worse as AI generation makes pumping out politically convincing bullshit easier and easier, so you better git gud at basic questions like "do I have ability to tell if this is true"

I was unknowingly working on a 35 foot long blanket for years

I started a blanket 10 years ago and put it down shortly after starting. It was on 30” circulars and I just kept casting on until I couldn’t fit anymore stitches. I was new to the hobby so I figured it would just be “blanket sized.”

I picked it back up about 6 months ago determined to finally finish this thing. I transferred it to 60” circulars to give myself more working space, and during that transfer I counted 450ish stitches, but that would just be a big king sized blanket right? So I kept going. But after about 9 balls of yarn and only 2 feet in length finished, I gave up and decided I would just crochet the blanket instead.

Halfway through my crocheted version, I ran out of yarn and made the sad decision to frog the knitted project for salvage yarn. After removing the circular needles, I thought it’d be interesting to see how wide the blanket actually was.

After straightening it all out I stared at my work, utterly dumbfounded, that I had been working on a 35 foot wide blanket this whole time. I am SO GLAD I did not finish this project as I would’ve cried at the monster I had brought into the world.

tl;dr - You should really pay attention to the size reference chart on your yarn and count the stitches when free-handing as a newbie.

And finally, the blanket: