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    I’ve never gotten swag with my face on it before! Thanks to my new team for the thoughtful gift. It’s a great way to start 2021… ❤️ #bepeculiar @hereataws

    I’ve never gotten swag with my face on it before! Thanks to my new team for the thoughtful gift. It’s a great way to start 2021... ❤️ #bepeculiar @hereataws

    I’ve never gotten swag with my face on it before! Thanks to my new team for the thoughtful gift. It’s a great way to start 2021... ❤️ #bepeculiar @hereataws


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    Past Kris: “I’ll wait until tomorrow to do the grocery shop.”

    Present Kris: “Well, crap.” 😩❄️ @ Munich, Germany https://t.co/Rq1XH0Cfrq


    RT @jenseickmeyer: Hast du heute Abend noch nichts vor? Dann nimm doch an unserem virtuellen AWS Meetup teil. Thematisch geht es heute u.a.…


    Me: The park looks so pretty! I know; I’ll make a video. So peaceful… and tranquil… and—STACKED IT. TWICE.

    (Non-Aussies: That means I fell on my ass. I’m fine. 😂) https://t.co/I1mTO0gJQz


    @TheWonkaTonka Not sure on the etymology. @the_snook? I know that kids will yell “Stacks on!” before piling on top of each other. Maybe it’s like a stack of pancakes?


    @sirarsalih Why is that ironic?


    @QuinnyPig How’s your fiber arts skill? You can be on the Knitting with Kris stream on Twitch. 😂🧶


    @randomknits Really??? Nobody told me that. I always sit up there, worried they’ll think I’m up myself if I don’t. 🙁


    @gilmae Also, every person in Germany wears dark outerware. All of my coats are bright red. I was Very Visible. 😂


    @gilmae I was also dragging an Old Lady Shopping Trolley. They’ll be talking about me for years.



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    Past Kris: “I’ll wait until tomorrow to do the grocery shop.”

    Present Kris: “Well, crap.” 😩❄️


    Me: The park looks so pretty! I know; I’ll make a video. So peaceful… and tranquil… and—STACKED IT. TWICE.

    (Non-Aussies: That means I fell on my ass. I’m fine. 😂)



  • Bavaria Park in the snow

    Me: The park looks so pretty! I know; I’ll make a video. So peaceful… and tranquil… and—STACKED IT. TWICE.

    (Non-Aussies: That means I fell on my ass. I’m fine. 😂)


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    Past Kris: “I’ll wait until tomorrow to do the grocery shop.”

    Present Kris: “Well, crap.” 😩❄️

    Past Kris: “I’ll wait until tomorrow to do the grocery shop.”

Present Kris: “Well, crap.” 😩❄️


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    RT @AWS_DACH: Jetzt noch schnell registrieren zum AWS re:Invent 2020 re:Cap – 1 Stunde vollgepackt mit den wichtigsten Ankündigungen und Ne…


    RT @SenSanders: Minimum wage in Australia: $19.84 an hour
    Unemployment rate in Australia: 6.6%

    U.S. federal minimum wage: $7.25 an hour
    U.…


    RT @dabit3: The Amplify team is hiring across all levels of the org – from DevRel to Engineering to Product Management.

    Join me + @softwar…


    It’s been snowing all day. The world is blanketed in white. ❄️ https://t.co/7eIIguyR8U


    @dhgarske Thanks to Covid, the world has shrunk to the view I can see outside my window. 🙂


    Yes, to all of this. I remember our hockey-stick growth startup back in London in 2000 toasting with champagne and thinking we were all going to be millionaires. Never ended up seeing a dime. Don’t pin your future (and mortgage) on a lottery ticket, kids. https://t.co/veq5cOBMHO


    @mattgillard Ha! You must’ve got there just I was I was leaving.


    RT @berrystreet: Australia has much to be proud of and as Australians, we have much to celebrate on our national day.

    We should not howev…



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    It’s been snowing all day. The world is blanketed in white. ❄️



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    It’s been snowing all day. The world is blanketed in white. ❄️

    It’s been snowing all day. The world is blanketed in white. ❄️


  • Shared today on Twitter

    @BronwenZ @girlgerms @lathiat We discovered that two doonas is normal in Germany. Thought it was weird at first, now we’re LOVING it! (Bed is between K & Q size.)


    @Amys_Kapers @BronwenZ @girlgerms @lathiat Yep. That’s also normal. We bought a topper to put across ours and smooth across the join as *somebody * is a snuggler


    @Vel12171 @the_snook It’s just trashy reality TV, so don’t expect too much! 😂


    Chill Sunday knitting… with music! 🎵🧶 https://t.co/SGy8OKVXiF https://t.co/2P7Mo5ysrS


    WOW! Just as I was about to sign off, resigning myself to the fact that audience for Twitch knitting streams is pretty small, I got raided by another knitting stream with like 40 ppl! Mostly from the UK. Lots of fun chat and new followers pushed me over the 50 threshold! ❤️🧶


    Honestly, if I won the lottery, I’d buy back issues of Sassy before I bought anything else. ❤️ https://t.co/lm3VT3N1rr


    “Huh. This motif has THREE colours per round. How the hell did I knit that last time?”

    *90 minutes later *

    “Ugh. This would be so much easier if I just did two and embroidered the third later—DAMMIT THAT’S WHAT I DID!”

    And now we frog… 🐸



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    RT @presentcorrect: Type lovers, this alphabet of stitched letters is a dream. Published in 1966 but fairly timeless in its clarity.

    Full…


    Time to add a few more rows to the fairisle! Knitting with Kris kicking off in 5 minutes… https://t.co/SGy8OKVXiF https://t.co/0q1uxgRo0c


    @lynnlangit @awscloud Hmmm… thinking. “Breadth and depth.” “Pace of innovation.” “Two-pizza team” 🙂


    @lynnlangit @awscloud WAIT! The pizza is in there. It’s just tiny. 😂


    @70s_party DEVIL WEED


    @darkosubotica @cobusbernard 😍❤️😍❤️


    We have been binging Bling Empire on Netflix. Even @the_snook agrees that Anna is #lifegoals. Meanwhile, I just took a quiz to see which character I am, and…. ACCURATE. https://t.co/deqYEiQAf2




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