Flaming Spade

don't forget that cane tips need to be replaced.

i've been using my cane for almost two years on a near daily basis and i JUST switched out the tip and

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the new tip versus the old tip. i'm not sure how clear it is but, YEAH, there's like. half a millimeter of tread left on the old tip, if that

the replacement was LITERALLY 2 dollars. i bought two to justify the four dollar shipping but. TWO BUCKS.

i had noticed that i was having slipping issues on linoleum recently, but i did not realize how bad the issue had gotten until the new tips came so. PLEASE check your cane treads and if they're notably worn out PLEASE get yourself a new tip they're SO cheap and the grip i get on the new one is INSANE

Ignore the entire thing.

Reason #13668893+316i why we are in this mess.

Democrats passed the affordable care act, passed the infrastructure bill, got rid of junk fees, lowered prescription costs, gave civil rights, protections, forgave student loans, etc.

Everything the republicans are doing is undoing the work of democrats. Yall would rather sit there on your flat asses and make these weakass centrist takes than actually have the courage to face what is happening with clarity.

The Supreme Court has had a conservative majority since Nixon was in office. In the last 60 years, Republicans have filled 15 SCOTUS seats; Democrats have filled 5.

The only time in recent history that Democrats controlled TWO of the branches of government — both chambers of Congress and the presidency — they passed the ACA.

Millions of people are alive because of it. No one seems to want to remember or acknowledge that people used to be denied insurance because they needed medical care.

my body that doesn’t hurt

all the fucking time

Knitpicks posted a new thing on insta today, so I chose violence. It's been a few days since I found out about the carpet beetle infestations in their yarn that have apparently been happening for months (reddit has stories). They continue to be completely silent on it while pushing their summer yarn sale on the website.

I have signed up for their newsletter and have been checking the site. Still zero mention of any sort of recall or accountability, and since they refuse to acknowledge that their actions have consequences, I will not shut up until they block me or actually admit fault.

I will also keep screencapping because I'm not new to being the problem to the lack of a solution.

And, so we're clear, here is what I think Knitpicks/WeCrochet as a whole need to do to make this right:

Very clearly announce there is a carpet beetle infestation. They can use all the bullshit language they want, but they have to admit it is there, admit it has been going on for several months, and admit that many orders shipped that were at least suspected of being infested.

This announcement should go out via their newsletter, be posted on the top of their websites (including the various other craft sites they run that are not yarn focused), and pinned on their social media accounts.

They should inform their vendors of the issue and offer a similar refund deal to vendors and customers of vendors who possibly bought infested yarn.

Offer refunds on all customer orders from the affected warehouse from whatever date several months ago this was first noticed as a problem. It appears the warehouse my yarn has come from was not affected, as I ordered several skeins of yarn back in May and have zero issues.

This is the bare minimum. All my other ideas fall under "bitch, you better fucking grovel", which I think is important but is not actually under the umbrella of "how to not be a shitass company who lies to your customers."

For the record, I am only commenting on knitpicks posts on insta so I can't be accused of spam commenting by posting very similar comments to both knitpicks and wecrochet. Doesn't mean they can't block me at any point. It does mean I've got some protection if they wanna make claims about my behavior. One comment per post; no swearing (that one's hard, not gonna lie), and no personal attacks (I will not be making any claims about the social media team's possible complicity for example).

As a former cakewrecks lover, I figured sure, I’ll bite. Let’s see this cake. Literally nothing could have prepared me for this cake. 

They paid $49 for this “frog-themed” cake and honestly no amount of money in the world could be put on this masterpiece:

req'd by @kaida427

please tell me you're mistaking the term from cloaca cuz i can see this being a deeply cursed way to talk about your fresh laid eggs