Rusty and Brock are thriving

!animalposters !cats

there is an open source model stronger than your publicly available models and the weights are free. I can fine tune it to tell me how to make meth pipebombs today. I could upload those weights for anyone to use today. what is even the point of this? https://t.co/nryVv8qLff

— 𝞍 Shin Megami Boson 𝞍 (@shinboson) February 4, 2025

https://bsky.app/profile/karaswisher.bsky.social

DOGE recommended firing workers at:-FDA, which oversees Neuralink-FAA, which oversees SpaceX-USAID, which probed Starlink-CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X."Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

— Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) 2025-02-19T20:15:07.904281Z

Look I know you don’t want to believe that Trump won the popular vote but there’s no evidence that Elon rigged the voting machines. Get out of here with that shit.

— Nick (derogatory) ✨ (@slothropsmap.bsky.social) 2025-02-18T23:48:16.663Z

In the fight between Captain America and the Red Skull, be like Cap.

— (@akatzel.bsky.social) 2025-01-21T22:41:22.499Z

Liberals are now making videos in an attempt to ‘intimidate’ MAGA….

Cringe af. pic.twitter.com/dGHfDg56tb

— American AF 🇺🇸 (@iAnonPatriot) February 20, 2025

I think the Arch is cursed

President Ross has left the the hulk buster life behind. He's now a greying aging president who needs pills before every speech. He talks about togetherness, progress, and building the future better, while US allies mock him for being weak and indecisive. He ultimately resigns from office after being tainted with a massive scandal for the good of the nation.

Shockingly President Hulk is not a Trump allegory like many seething critics claimed, but in fact Joe Biden, which helps explain Harrison Ford's especially lethargic performance. Beyond this funny reveal the movie is mostly a bland take on the Manchurian Candidate concept with above average action for MCU standards. The film kinda flirts with the black communities hatred of Biden and Kamala but has the black guy sleeper president hulk imprisoned forgive him at the end so its okay i guess.

Captain America has a zoomer sidekick who says fr alot and other zoomerisms and there is still cringe MCU script humor.

Overall its a mediocre 5/10. Movie bob was right !bobmob this movie is about as good as Captain America Civil war and other MCU movies the only difference is political sneed is causing critics to actually rate these movies accurately for once. Its a 5/10 and most MCU movies fall in the 4-6 range

!kino for my money the worst marvel movies is The Avengers, a near plotness movie with no charm, character development or theme. A mindless series of mediocre fight scenes with some truly ugly color grading which makes everything look faker then a tv cop drama.

I completely forgot I signed up for assisted suicide 2 years ago and my appointment is tomorrow and they won’t let me cancel it pic.twitter.com/B5YvKFHWsD

— NEET (@NEETsongs) February 17, 2025

!alligatorfrickhouse !maids

OMG. Argentina President Javier Milei just gifted Elon Musk a chainsaw for DOGE🤣 pic.twitter.com/CWZandGxik

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 20, 2025

Florence Spurling is a moderately popular knitwear designer who made her Scout Shawl pattern in 2021. It uses different color work designs "patchworked" together to form a shawl.

Earlier this month a smaller designer named Susan Chin released her Quilt Star Scarf pattern. It has a similar shape and patchwork construction to Spurling's design.

This has lead people to accuse Chin of plagiarism, which Spurling addressed in an instagram post see above and below

(I can't link to the post because Spurling later deleted it)

The scarves obviously have some similarities, but they also have some differences. Here's a list of what's the same and what's different that someone else wrote, speaking of plagiarism :

Both objects use Intarsia and Fair Isle/Stranded colorwork.

Both patterns have multiple blocks in different motifs, joined together as the finished object is worked.

Both patterns have colorwork charts. (Scout > Shawl is in full color; Quilt Star is in greyscale)

The border is not indicated on either pattern's chart.

Suggested Gauge for the two patterns; Scout Shawl suggests 28sts x 30rows for 10cm, using 3.5mm needles. Quilt Star suggests 28sts x 27 rows for 10cm using 2.5mm or 3mm needles.

Finished size for Scout Shawl is 181cm, 37cm deep

Finished size for Quilt Star is 150cm, 35cm deep

Scout Shawl relies on 5 colors and makes suggestions as to the color contrast if you don't use the same palette as the pattern. Color 1 is the garter stitch border.

Quilt Star relies on 8 colors. No contrast is suggested, only the colors recommended in the original pattern. Color 8 is the 1x1 rib border.

At least one motif in Scout uses 3 colors.

Each motif in Quilt uses no more than 2 colors.

Cast on is 8 stitches for Scout.

Cast on is 4 stitches for Quilt.

All sections on Scout meet at 90 degree angles.

Some sections on Quilt meet at diagonals, at ~45deg ish.

Scout has 10 distinct blocks and patterns.

Quilt has 7 (?) distinct patterns. There seems to be an error in the charts. I'm not sure my count is correct based on the charts alone. But it is certainly fewer.

Increases on Scout are M1L, Decreases are k2tog

Increases on Quilt are kfb, decreases are k2tog.

Scout's finishing has no special bind off for the remaining 8 stitches.

Quilt uses a seamed bind off for the 6 remaining stitches.

Motifs for Scout appear to be floral.

Motifs for Quilt appear to be star-them

Source

VERDICT: they're different patterns.

This didn't stop people from stirring shit, because obviously you need to have an MFA to be inspired by patchwork, and only one person is allowed to be inspired by a thing.

People (Spurling suck ups) went on social media to b-word, including leaving comments on the Ravelry page for Chin's scarf. (Ravelry is like letterboxd for knitting and crochet, and also a platform that many designers use to sell their patterns)

Source, but you need a Ravelry account to view

This lead to Chin taking the pattern down for sale. Satisfied with the results, Spurling deleted her post . And so ends another chapter in the ongoing saga of insecure designers accusing others of plagiarism.

A few I remember from the last year:

A designer put out merch with "Knit Club" on a baseball caps. Well some other pattern designer has a community by that unique name and also has baseball caps merch (but none that actually say "Knit Club"

Source

"Only I'm allowed to be copy 1950s dresses!"

Source

"omg why are you so obsessed with me, stop copying me" macrame. Except her product looks like something posted earlier by someone else on TikTok. (If they look similar it's because there's only so much shit you can make with macrame and there's probably patterns for something like this in a book from the 70s)

Source

One French company accused another French company of copying their, um… tailor clappers, test squares and pointer cowtools (these are pretty common cowtools that have existed for a long time, this like Milwaukee accusing Makita of stealing their idea of the hammer)

Source

I forgot to add that while I agree with most of the commenters on the craft snark thread, look at this b-word trying to turn it into a race thing

source

>Shadows is currently on par with that of Assassins Creed Odyssey in terms of its pre-order numbers. "Early previews have been positive, praising its narrative and immersive experience, with both characters playing critical roles in the game's storyline, as well as the quality and complementarity of the gameplay provided by the dual protagonist approach," Guillemot said in the most recent earnings call.

>At the time of writing, Shadows currently has around 300,000 pre-orders, said sources and Odyssey's day one player numbers were between 400-450,000; a gap of around 100-150,000 that needs to be made up in the next four weeks.

I think the one-party system in Chinese style is the best proven political system

With an opinion like that, why should anyone listen to you?

https://old.reddit.com/r/TrueUnpopularOpinion/comments/1idqiwo/as_a_nonamerican_im_done_of_leftists_in_reddit/ma14mru/?context=8

Uh the one party system is not the best proven system. Hitler banned political parties so there was only one. China has authoritarian government. It's unamerican.

Edit: I expect to see more one party system good propaganda.

https://old.reddit.com/r/TrueUnpopularOpinion/comments/1idqiwo/as_a_nonamerican_im_done_of_leftists_in_reddit/ma17qak/?context=8

Darn, who let Elon Musk have a Reddit account?

https://old.reddit.com/r/TrueUnpopularOpinion/comments/1idqiwo/as_a_nonamerican_im_done_of_leftists_in_reddit/ma170he/?context=8

As a non-American,

Then I do not care of your opinion on America

https://old.reddit.com/r/TrueUnpopularOpinion/comments/1idqiwo/as_a_nonamerican_im_done_of_leftists_in_reddit/ma1749p/?context=8

Hating from outside of the club is crazy.

Especially when it's the party you love so much that's not even going to let you in.

https://old.reddit.com/r/TrueUnpopularOpinion/comments/1idqiwo/as_a_nonamerican_im_done_of_leftists_in_reddit/ma15hud/?context=8

Funny that's how I feel about trumpers, I have no space for them anymore.

Kick rocks.

https://old.reddit.com/r/TrueUnpopularOpinion/comments/1idqiwo/as_a_nonamerican_im_done_of_leftists_in_reddit/ma14xga/?context=8

ur just a troll

Trump is pro pardoning mass murder, pro torture and pro lying...

There is nothing good about trump and ur just trolling by playing the facist here

https://old.reddit.com/r/TrueUnpopularOpinion/comments/1idqiwo/as_a_nonamerican_im_done_of_leftists_in_reddit/ma15aix/?context=8

We will trans everybody you love

https://old.reddit.com/r/TrueUnpopularOpinion/comments/1idqiwo/as_a_nonamerican_im_done_of_leftists_in_reddit/ma146dl/?context=8

Fascism is growing in the US and the World

MAGA is a rapidly advancing Fascist party

We all have seen the events at the inauguration and having different thoughts about what Elon did, but I want to point to what they are doing with policy rather than one moment.

Trump is an Authoritarian leader. He wants control of everything, media, education, the economy, global politics. There will never be a point where he will be satisfied.

Before you know it, project 2025 will not just be the lefts boogie man but an actual threat to our safety and civil rights.

Trump will continue to push the most radical right wing beliefs onto our country until he has full control. One thing at a time, MAGA as a party will tear down each law in favor of the rich and powerful.

MAGA thrives on misinfor.ation and the suppression of education, and it will only get worse. The more you people chose to ignore the more MAGA will take from us. First is was Row V Wade, then it will be birthright citizenship. What about marriage equality? Nothing is off the table for Trump anymore. He's made it clear, but for someone reason, his followers don't speak the same language and misconstrue the truth.

https://old.reddit.com/r/TrueUnpopularOpinion/comments/1idqiwo/as_a_nonamerican_im_done_of_leftists_in_reddit/ma153gh/?context=8

Look, I wanted trump to win the election, but it wasn't because I think he's any kind of good guy. I know he's a whiny, loser pig, though I'm appreciating this more serious Trump over his last iteration..

I wanted Trump to win because I knew we needed some conservative counterbalance back. I'm not a leftist anymore, and it's because I don't agree with all of their positions. They are not my party when they refuse to capitulate to any sort of middle ground, so they have to be forced. I hope conservatives keep it cool, too, or else I'll have to stand against them all over again.

Our politics are not half as simple as they were 20 years ago. It was easy to be a leftist when conservative Christianity was forcing people to deny their own humanity. What I didn't know is that the left is just as capable of acting the same way.

https://old.reddit.com/r/TrueUnpopularOpinion/comments/1idqiwo/as_a_nonamerican_im_done_of_leftists_in_reddit/ma1e7eh/?context=8

Hurricane was a true American hero.

The most decorated K-9 in U.S. history, he bravely defended the White House and spent retirement helping other working dogs through @Hurricane_K9. His legacy of courage and loyalty will live on.

Rest easy, Hurricane. 🇺🇸🐾 pic.twitter.com/st5VxcOiAd

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) February 19, 2025

check out this picture of me, a mid white woman, with the "game" I made barely visible in the background

!Meowr !chads

Dan has a Masters Degree in Psychology from C.U.N.Y.

This administration is already paying huge drama dividends, I can't wait for what's next.

Edit: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fbi-director-patel-take-over-atf-too-will-he-burn-it-ground

Trump is about to turn the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) over to Patel too, according to sources cited by multiple news outlets on Saturday evening. The extraordinary move has some wondering if Trump might move to dissolve the ATF altogether.

I'll keep posting this guy here while he keeps posting to /r/WaltDisneyWorld. He's absolutely dominating the subreddit - three of his selfies this month have more upmarseys than the news that beloved ride Muppets 3D is closing down and this will soon be the fourth.

The mods are still working overtime to protect him - they do more work in his threads than every other /r/WaltDisneyWorld thread combined. Comment locks and sneedy mod comments everywhere. OP seems to have free rein to be as toxic as he wants in an otherwise civil subreddit:

How indeed?

I want to get him over here but I don't want to log into my Reddit account again.

In a bizarre turn of events, a university dormitory in China went up in flames after a student, in a moment of panic, set fire to his s*x doll to keep it hidden from his roommates. The incident took place at Hefei University of Technology in Anhui province on February 10, when the student, fearing exposure, made a rash decision that nearly resulted in disaster.