What Are You Working On (WAYWO) is a weekly series on crafting, posted Sunday evenings by emeraldmaiden.
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- The senders made these public. They were reproduced this weekend in the Washington Post Sent: Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025, 8:00 AM To: Visit Lauderdale Subject: Canadian Visitor I am 61 years old. Since I was a child, Florida has been a travel destination...121 comments 371 Recs
- You may find this hard to believe, but just a week or so ago, a friend and I were having an email conversation about the cancelling of the Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber named for the pilot’s mother, that dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima, by the...71 comments 151 Recs
- The Russians are claiming that Ukraine has launched an offensive with two brigades across the border into Russia’s Belgorod Oblast. If that’s true, this is an operation with anywhere from 2,000 to 4,000 troops, although brigade sizes can vary. The area...125 comments 300 Recs
- John Roberts is a smart guy. He has a Harvard history BA, summa cum laude. He was managing editor of the Harvard Law Review before graduating top of his law class, magna cum laude. He also excelled in a legal career, culminating as Chief Justice of the...252 comments 410 Recs
- As reported in the Guardian today, Jasmine Mooney, a Canadian entrepreneur and actor known for her role in the American Pie franchise, has just lived through a nightmare that should serve as a stark warning to every Canadian thinking about crossing...68 comments 126 Recs
- The Germans have gotten extremely mad at Elon Musk. Before it was just protests and projecting "Heil Tesla" and "Boycott Tesla" with a picture of Musk doing his Nazi salute onto the side of his Gigafactory outside of Berlin. Now people are so angry...389 comments 312 Recs
- I and many others have been getting hammered here because we said that Chuck Schumer needs to step down as Minority Leader after failing to lead us against the terrible Republican CR. I’ve had people make ad hoc arguments calling me a “Grasshopper” and...189 comments 258 Recs
- Timing, perfect. MNGOP arrested for pedo crime 1 day after proposing Trump Derangement Syndrome billminnesotareformer.com/… “State Sen. Justin Eichorn, R-Grand Rapids, was arrested in Bloomington on suspicion of soliciting a minor for sex. Bloomington Police led Eichorn, 40, to believe he was talking to a 16-year old girl and then met the senator and...37 comments 147 Recs
- We Ds are looking for leadership, and some governors may be stepping up. Meidas Touch just interviewed Governor Andy Beshear.� Beshear is the governor of Kentucky, yet he is a Democrat. He won in ...52 comments 58 Recs
- The authority of the U.S. Marshals has a dual loyalty. They are under the aegis of the Department of Justice, but they are also the protectors and law enforcement arm of the federal courts. I've been wrestling with this problem for months since Donald...297 comments 537 Recs
- — — Under the guise of “preventing fraud,” the Social Security Administration (SSA) is planning to stop phone-line claim services to those who have earned their benefits. Even though — as explained in the next article — this fraud problem is virtually...142 comments 392 Recs
- Doesn’t get much press here. Got some at Substack, though. I am going to shamelessly drive traffic there, because this needs publicity. Links are below, above the quote boxes. Trusk has terminated telework at this Agency as with all others, forcing...56 comments 158 Recs
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- If there’s one thing to know about me, it’s this: I write when I have something to write about. Like now. On the flip side, there’s the verbal. In my book, though, that can’t hold a candle to writing. I say this for reasons not too hard to imagine. You...1 comments 0 Recs
- 325 thousand Serbians took to the streets of Belgrade to protest the incompetence and corruption in their government. In the US a couple of dozen people hold up signs outside a Tesla dealership. Opinion writers and talking heads in the legacy media,...2 comments 0 Recs
- As an FYI, I send out an email about every week now trying to keep people informed of what is happening in or around Central PA, or at times bigger movements in Pennsylvania or D.C. and it is a lot to try to verify and send out to folks. My email is...1 comments 0 Recs
- The original title was, Trump Steals the Declaration of Independence. Then I thought a little bit. This is not the original in the National Archives, which is in a carefully controlled environment, behind bulletproof glass. Here's the one in the...4 comments 2 Recs
- When I first stumbling upon the forthcoming (April 22nd) book I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer: Letters on Love and Marriage from the World's First Personal Advice Column , by Mary Beth Norton, I ...4 comments 2 Recs
- So, I haven’t watched Chris Hayes (or any MSM except Rachel Maddow since 11/24). And tonight is the night I chose to try watching Chris Hayes…and he has Chuck Schumer as his first guest?! WTH? Mr. Capitulator? I’m sorry, this man is mouthing excuses...17 comments 19 Recs
- War! Huh! Yeah! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing! Except, of course, when it comes to Donald Trump’s political brand War! Huh! Yeah! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing! Say it again! War! Huh! Good God, y'all! What is it good for?...3 comments 4 Recs
- Bertha Lum : Point Lobos (1920) Good evening, Kibitzers! This is where I usually write the part about the weather, or my health, or some other thing ...77 comments 23 Recs
- So today was one of those awful wearing days caused by me neglecting a minor medical problem and having it balloon into something worse. The details of the medical issue are boring but the interactions are what’s important. Starting with my doctor’s...5 comments 5 Recs
- Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear on Meidas Touch 3.18.25:1 comments 4 Recs
- Growing up in Wisconsin I never felt a direct link between peoples political party affiliation and their race. I certainly noticed it from a socioeconomic stand point, but I knew just as many white Democrats and Republican, it was an even split. People...2 comments 2 Recs
- A smattering of this week's new releases in (mostly) literary fiction follows. Links are to the independent online bookstore, The Literate Lizard , owned by Readers and Book Lovers' own debtorsprison,8 comments 8 Recs
- NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, and Butch Wilmore, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov finally made it home to mother Earth as they splashed down in the blue waters of the Gulf of Mexico (!) under blue skies at 5:57 p.m. EDT aboard...10 comments 17 Recs
- WELCOME TO THE EVENING SHADE A SANCTUARY OF SANITY AFTER A LONG HARD DAY OF FIGHTING FACISM YOU WILL FIND in the DIARIES a LOT of ...119 comments 31 Recs
- I’m 66 years old, and I swear to God, I still get as excited as I did when I was a kid when I see astronauts returning from space. It amazes me that we have gone from shooting Laika the dog into space (one way) to regularly traveling outside the bounds...7 comments 14 Recs
- We Ds are looking for leadership, and some governors may be stepping up. Meidas Touch just interviewed Governor Andy Beshear.� Beshear is the governor of Kentucky, yet he is a Democrat. He won in ...52 comments 58 Recs
- You may find this hard to believe, but just a week or so ago, a friend and I were having an email conversation about the cancelling of the Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber named for the pilot’s mother, that dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima, by the...71 comments 151 Recs
- The regime of Donald Trump is undergoing some period of panic as their cult senses the deterioration of its grasp on power. Trump's polling, like the stock market over which he is presiding, is in a severe decline. So he is circling the wagons in order...7 comments 14 Recs
- Trump fired the two Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday, a rejection of the corporate regulator’s traditional independence that will clear the way for the administration’s agenda and could draw a legal challenge. The White...8 comments 38 Recs
- I realize all human beings are a bundle of contradictions. I also acknowledge the above categories can - and do - overlap. I admit even good, well-adjusted people endowed with a plenty of common sense can do something evil, stupid, selfish or cowardly...5 comments 7 Recs