Washi tapes are the latest big news on my shop!
https://evanskyarts.com/products/washi-tape-goofy-parrots
For my first three designs, I decided to play around with the three bird species that are part of my daily life!
I’m honestly excited to work on more, it’s a really fun format!
#art #artist #birds #birdsOfMastodon #smallBusiness #stationery #stickers #cutePosting #Parrots #budgie #cockatiel #fediArt #mastoArt
THERE it is!!!
He has NEVER, nor will he EVER, say or do anything useful to hinder the aggressor.
Which is Russia, for anyone who is confused about that.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/us/politics/trump-order-russia-sanctions.html?emc=edit_na_20261017&nl=breaking-news&segment_id=228246
SCE is out of ice vouchers at its PSPS center in Newbury Park. They are short outlets off their generator, too, it seems...they do, however, have many angry people. Also. No A/C. The library is shut because no power. They definitely need community wide cooling centers that run off battery backup here. Heatwave+fire danger+power shutoff=massive fail. I wonder what the community level of induced medical issues is from these.. #PSPS #disasters #CAwx #wildfires
Will Zacharia be the new Scaramucci, in terms of measuring press secretary/communications director longevity?
So, we can say that at least Anthony Scaramucci lasted two Zacharias?
If you haven't noticed, a whole lot of shenanigans are coloring the discourse this election season. Wealthy, conservative interests are opening their wallets and spinning media narratives to slam progressives who challenge the status quo. Katherine Chew Hamilton and I explain: @portlandmercury.com@bsky.brid.gy
Money Talks. It Also Lies. - P...
RE: https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren/117451116901334066
wait, wat
If this is true, I’m struggling to find it. Looking in the web interface…
UPDATE: Seems to be app only for now, maybe only on certain platforms
UPDATE 2: Can confirm it’s in the iOS app after updating it; seems not to be available in the web interface
Three days after #Ukraine's Starshield terminals started mysteriously malfunctioning, nobody in Washington, nor at SpaceX, has taken responsibility for the apparent decision to hobble Ukrainian military communications. The Trump regime helped war criminal russians mass murder Ukrainians.
The fact that nobody in Washington wants to own up to helping russia kill Ukrainians shows how politically toxic this decision was, American journalist and commentator Michael Weiss told the Kyiv Independent.
Please vote in #midterms Nov 3rd, early voting has started. We need everyone.
https://kyivindependent.com/no-ones-owning-up-to-crippling-ukraines-military-starlink/
Alt- #bee keeping as a social enterprise in #Copenhagen. Uplifting article.
< Bybi’s mission is sometimes described as “ #degrowth ” or “regeneration”. Both apply, but neither captures the sense of urgency, that “we’re all living with this cognitive dissonance all the time, that everything bad is being hyperscaled, from AI to El Niño, yet we’re meant to exist as if everything works and nothing has changed,” says Maxwell. “The problem here is that we need to change metaphors.” >
It is wonderful to see that not all businesspeople are cowards.
Virgin's Richard Branson:
RE: https://zirk.us/@ShaulaEvans/117197034208580662
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Has Signal been slow for anyone else lately? I'm finding it's taking a long time for voice notes to upload and send.
Yes, Tech Mastodon, I'm aware that could be due to any number of reasons on my end -- but I've heard the same thing from a small number of friends (not a large enough sample to draw conclusions, but enough to notice a pattern).
Anyone else?
I am happy to share what I know about how to set up auditions, find a good narrator, create a great audiobook, and work with your narrator on promotions & sales. (I have rarely seen this info in one place for authors.)
If you have questions, hit me up, and I'll gladly reply (when I have time & energy).
*If you need extensive support, you're also welcome to pay me for my expertise as a consultant.
Heard someone complain about Pilot ink converters today, and it reminded me to share these Majohn ones that fit Pilot pens. Just simple tubes, no nonsense. Easy to clean, hold lots of ink. You can get a pack of 5 with a dropper for filling for about $7 on AliExpress
1. I had a wonderful swim this afternoon, with unusually warm, sunny weather. The pool we are swimming at now has a 2-hour minimum, so we had a long swim and didn't have to rush away.
2. This morning I had a steroid shot in my ankle. 9 years ago I broke the talus bone there, but my doctor thought it was just a bad sprain. I learned last year that the bone had actually been broken, and had knit back together a little crooked, which has been causing a lot of discomfort. Today's x-ray showed that there is no cartilage left in that area. My podiatrist is hopeful that I will have 3-4 months of reduced discomfort from the injection.
3. Tomorrow is Friday.
It's important to talk about the race for Governor in Oregon too.
Your "safe blue state" narrative needs to be updated to reality.
If we can't get record numbers to send in their ballots, welp.
Cis men have been sexually abusing women athletes at every level of youth competition for decades, with something unsavory in the headlines somewhere every week, and they want you to worry about the "danger" of trans athletes.
This is all a distraction from things like the horrors experienced by US gymnasts working to compete in the Olympics.
Have a pressing gender issue that isn't abusive men coaching young women?
The back of the line is a few miles down the street.
Good morning!
I wasn’t going to try it, but a local friend asked, so I’m in the midst of reverse engineering that anti-laddering knitting stitch unvented* by mathematicians. I’m pretty sure I’ve worked out how it it’s made on knitting needles, and if I’ve got it right, they’ve independently invented a knitting stitch that already exists. (I don’t think this is comparable to techbros reinventing trains, btw.)
Anyway, I need another cup of tea, and also yarn that isn’t very thin cotton. 🫖🧶
*unventing is a term invented by Elizabeth Zimmermann. It describes the fact that multiple people can independently come up with the same techniques without copying other people’s work. This is a thing that happens; I’ve done it myself.
(Bad headline.)