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    This is the face of a man whose wife has been forbidden to speak for FIVE DAYS by her doctor. “Ahhhh, sehr ruhig!” 🤐



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    This is the face of a man whose wife has been forbidden to speak for FIVE DAYS by her doctor. “Ahhhh, sehr ruhig!” 🤐

    This is the face of a man whose wife has been forbidden to speak for FIVE DAYS by her doctor. “Ahhhh, sehr ruhig!” 🤐


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    Learning from my friend and @awscloud colleague @jennapederson how she handles learning from failure. “Is there a failure too big?” Only one you’re not learning from. 👏 https://t.co/7mGJ5nnnQ4


    If you want to see the area I grew up, watch the “RVs” episode of the Jeff Goldblum show on Disney+. He goes to Elkhart and Middlebury, Indiana and meets Amish people! ❤️ https://t.co/YhTdB0UTg4


    @jennapederson I missed the first ten minutes – scheduling fail! 😂 But great job. Loved that you worked in the three-armed sweater!


    RT @NASAJPL: 🔴Mars Landing LIVE in 360º

    It’s landing day in the #CountdownToMars and it’s as if you’re right here with us. Get a view from…


    Have been watching the @NASAJPL live stream for a while, and how amazing to see so many smart women featured!! 👏❤️👩‍🚀 https://t.co/8sLW3QJR49


    @Gaohmee Same! NASA stuff always makes me cry. 🥲


    RT @ThePlanetaryGuy: Your periodic reminder that @NASAPersevere is carrying Ingenuity—a 1.8 kg autonomous rotorcraft or, basically, a tiny…


    @emd3737 @NASA Those kids!! 😭


    RT @heroinebook: All I can think about is the teamwork. The decades of work, the years of research, the massive collaboration that a moment…


    Amazing. Well done @NASAPersevere! (But jeez, those YouTube captions really suck.) https://t.co/eFvQl60PjY



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    @msharp Acorn and Affinity.


    @dtraub 🙄


    RT @DanPriceSeattle: I don’t have any student loans left.

    But I still want everyone else’s loans to be canceled because I want each genera…


    “Facebook should just ban linking to everything. It would be a lot better.” Hot take from the Snook…


    @fields They’ve literally just banned linking to news stories in Australia, because the government is demanding they pay news companies.


    Really great to see @bekathwia on the @Raspberry_Pi Maker stream tonight! Suddenly feeling inspired to break out the conductive thread again… 🪡🧵🚨 https://t.co/xtz5tKe7PJ


    @bekathwia @Raspberry_Pi Flashback to the time I dragged a sewing machine to the first ever @canva hackathon, where I created a “Three Commas Club” cushion with blinking LEDs! https://t.co/cjWl5zIsRF https://t.co/o25Ul8lFB6



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    RT @MFWitches: If you’re also a grown woman incensed at being referred to by your so-called Prime Minister as having little value except vi…


    I’ve seen @LareneLg speak at several tech events and she’s great, so you should definitely attend and get some tips from her! ❤️ #gdcfpday https://t.co/HgiYY034wx


    @randomknits Once in high school my car inexplicably broke down and, being an idiot, I left it at the side of the road and got a ride to school. My livid mother explained to me that night that internal combustion engines do, in fact, need petrol to run. 🙃


    @girlgerms My theory is that they’re spammers, and eventually they’ll ask you for money. A lot of the ones that message me purport to be in the military, which presumably explains why I will need to wire them money to distant ports. 😐 I just block every single one…


    RT @dtraub: 🎧 Neue Episode im AWS-Podcast auf Deutsch 🇩🇪

    Amazon SQS und SNS – Was ist das genau und wo liegt der Unterschied? 🤔

    Hier glei…


    Forget the kids – I will be watching this one because I want to see it! 😜 https://t.co/hrwKn61R1Y


    Excited for a couple interesting talks at the AWS Berlin meetup tonight! @aaronwalker @tosidis https://t.co/kAzHQR4etp https://t.co/ZR7T7FtqRM


    RT @darkosubotica: ITS HAPPENING 🥳

    It’s time for our first stream of 2021! Yaaay! ❤ We will dig into reInvent, what’s new and plans for ou…


    @brittanieshey Me while brushing my teeth last night: “Maybe I should use lockdown to finally go full “No ‘poo” with my hair.”

    *glances at box of 6 bottles of conditioner I just ordered from Amazon*

    “Well, crap.”



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    RT @SoniaCuff: This weekend, I’m speaking about speaking! Speaking to that cold, hard, plastic web camera – why is it so scary?
    Come get y…


    Made good progress on cap sleeve yesterday. Just about half finished. Same chart but different colours! 🧶 https://t.co/3F5Mn03zAm


    @chrismunns Honestly, it was back in 2019, zipping through green German fields at 200+ km/hr in a comfy train car while a guy brought me a beer that my Aussie husband and I thought, damn, we could live here.


    Leck es auf, baby. Leck es auf. (I’m learning useful German again.) https://t.co/a3Ru6XIFLs



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    Cap sleeve is about half finished. Same chart but different colours! 🧶



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    Last night I discovered that Willow is on Disney+, and the Snook had never seen it. We got to the part where they meet Fin Raziel, and to our immense surprise realised she was a brushtail possum! As a kid in the US, I never knew what the hell animal that was meant to be. https://t.co/TfMWKNLY9F


    RT @desplesda: we’re writing a book, and @parisba wanted to include a galaxy brain meme in it. problem is, we don’t have the rights to thos…


    Knitting with Kris – let’s experiment with some cap sleeves! Casting on with corrugated ribbing… https://t.co/SGy8OKVXiF https://t.co/IjTxWpipsn


    My knitting stream has gotten so popular that today a guy created three separate accounts just to harass me in the comments. So, uh, yay for being a woman on the Internet? 😐


    @AliciaBytes Oh, he wasn’t asking me out. He wanted me to know he found me unattractive. 🙄 Banned repeatedly.


    @KaiPMDH Yup. But on the upside, I got to learn some more about Twitch moderation tools and the other folks on the stream were super nice and reported them too.


    @Japh Aw, thanks. Just a drive-by shitposter. I’ve already given them more mental energy than they deserve. 🙂


    My Valentine made me a Persian Love Cake. ❤️ Almonds, cardamom, yoghurt, orange blossom water, pomegranate, pistachios… https://t.co/WqsntwZkb1


    @carmenhchung You’ll be amazing. Best of luck!



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    My knitting stream has gotten so popular that today a guy created three separate accounts just to harass me in the comments. So, uh, yay for being a woman on the Internet? 😐


    My Valentine made me a Persian Love Cake. ❤️ Almonds, cardamom, yoghurt, orange blossom water, pomegranate, pistachios…


    And to go with the Persian Love Cake – Loobia Polo, traditional Persian dish of meat, rice, and green beans.



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    And to go with the Persian Love Cake – Loobia Polo, traditional Persian dish of meat, rice, and green beans.

    And to go with the Persian Love Cake - Loobia Polo, traditional Persian dish of meat, rice, and green beans.



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