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    @jcnsingapore It’s Slido! So far working great.


    @mlukanuski Pretty much. The most popular finished projects people show off are baby clothes. I feel like I’ve been dropped into an alternate universe.


    @randomknits @karen_ugly That quote is everywhere! 🙂


    @darkosubotica I love the juxtaposition with the wood stove!


    RT @emd3737: And now for some good news #vaccineswork https://t.co/XNy9xyVsS5


    Past Kris: “I won’t take my overlocker to Germany. I’ll make do with just my sewing machine.”

    Also Past Kris: “I will take 8 giant cones of overlocker thread with me.” 😐


    @twoscooters Same!


    RT @techladyallison: They found a small owl inside of this year’s Rockefeller Christmas tree, he hitched a ride all the way to NYC and is n…


    Blog post: Some more photos from our recent bike ride to Munich’s Olympic Park! https://t.co/BYMlYxfvZ6 https://t.co/765FJ9Lct1


    Just went down a geeky historical sewing rabbithole learning about cartridge pleating… 😍 https://t.co/GxPzizug5g


    @JennaPrice @wtuohy Ha! @the_snook and I met while working on the same team in a tech startup. Celebrating our 16th wedding anniversary on Friday.


    RT @mjasay: At AWS we use @rustlang to build services for reasons you’d expect (safety, performance, etc). And bc we (& therefore our custo…


    @SecondeJ What a cutie!! He’s a natural.



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    Past Kris: “I won’t take my overlocker to Germany. I’ll make do with just my sewing machine.”

    Also Past Kris: “I will take 8 giant cones of overlocker thread with me.”

    Present Kris: 😐


    Some more photos from our recent bike ride to Munich’s Olympic Park!

    A Ride to Olympiapark



  • Shared today on Twitter

    Managed to stump most of the team with my “two truths and a lie” today! (The board games are the lie.) https://t.co/xp8f3JyEcz


    @KaiPMDH Sadly no – but I gave a knitting lesson to his wife, Oscar-winning costume designer Catherine Martin!


    RT @chrtucci: Here’s a thread of examples of rhetorical devices in Taylor Swift lyrics:


    @mavi888uy @Vel12171 THE SECRETS COME OUT


    @dshafik Monster!


    @dshafik Oh. That is some semantic parsing. 😂


    RT @JonathanPKatz: Why are we not discussing the fact that the vaccine with the good news this morning was partly funded by Dolly Parton?…


    I saw a photo on FB last week of a little girl wearing this sentiment on a t-shirt and immediately ordered one as an election commemoration gift for myself. 💪💣💋 https://t.co/8oi5dJ1DqB


    RT @aileengemma: I’m hiring. Join my team. https://t.co/TlqVbWSQoz


    RT @kathleen_warner: Something that keeps coming up in 1:1s is that people are having a hard time knowing if they’re doing a good job in th…


    Vent: I am in FB group for people who use projectors when sewing clothes, which is a fairly techie topic, right? And yet every. single. post. mentions the poster’s husband – how to get him to buy a projector? or mount it? or help calibrate? *giggle* It’s like Gilead in there. 😬


    @liedra Honestly. Today it was, “How can I trick my husband into buying me a projector?” I replied, “Buy it your damn self. Good grief.”


    You will no doubt be STUNNED that a bunch of them have also mentioned being on Parler. 😐


    RT @marksbirch: Announcing The Startup Show! It’s a show about startups, VC’s & the journey of building startups.

    Come join us by subscrib…


    If I only use Tweetdeck, can I just ignore this Fleets thing entirely? Or are they going to shoehorn them in here?


    I have no idea how or why this was created, but thanks @TopLeftBrick! I hope folks find it useful. 😃 https://t.co/XV1DLtZ1NR


    @LeenaVanD She played Emma in that recent new version! But she very much looks like a cartoon character.


    @obrl_soil They struggled with my accent in a couple places. 😂


    @bodil I did like the Australian episode, but just out of homesickness and nostalgia and the hilarity of Hawkie’s accent. (I legitimately gasped when it showed them climbing Uluru – I was pleased to learn that they weren’t actually on location.)


    @TopLeftBrick Thank you! There are several different versions of the talk that go into different aspects of it. Last year I presented a sequel of sorts that you may also be interested in: https://t.co/a3MC6hh2RJ. A lot more on knitting DSLs with several examples and an AI/ML project.


    @bodil Ah, my morbid curiosity pointed me to finding the Andrew bits to see how they’d handle him, and whether they’d just pretend he doesn’t exist. (He’s in there, and he’s awful.)


    @bodil Oh, they make him a total creep from the get-go. *shudder*



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    We had a virtual team offsite today and were asked to submit “two truths and a lie.” I successfully managed to stump quite a few of them! 😂


    I saw a photo on FB last week of a little girl wearing this sentiment on a t-shirt and immediately ordered one as an election commemoration gift for myself. 💪💣💋


    Pants! 😂 https://twitter.com/Super70sSports/status/1328808330593243136



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    I saw a photo on FB last week of a little girl wearing this sentiment on a t-shirt and immediately ordered one as an election commemoration gift for myself. 💪💣💋

    I saw a photo on FB last week of a little girl wearing this sentiment on a t-shirt and immediately ordered one as an election commemoration gift for myself. 💪💣💋


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    RT @emmabell42: Rapid antigen tests trade sensitivity for speed. They return a result in <30 minutes, but can only detect COVID-19 when you…


    RT @ziniman: Here we go Developers #LetsBuild 1st session with @web_goddess.
    Next session starts in few minutes – Come meet #Deteko, and ne…


    RT @nicodebenito: I cannot STAND the term ‘virtue-signaIIing’ and I hate that it’s gone mainstream. Not only is it an aIt-right dogwhistle,…


    Got two members of my team promoted; won an award for “Hire & Develop the Best.” Presented at two major AWS online conferences to thousands of attendees. Accepted new role in DevRel team and relocated to Munich, Germany. Celebrating 16th wedding anniversary on Friday. ❤️ https://t.co/sfdpabVcLS


    RT @allPowerde: I am excited to have been selected as an @awscloud Hero. I am Australia’s first Data Hero and look forward to working with…


    RT @RoaldDahlFans: Fun trivia! The Buckingham Palace break-in in @netflix’s The Crown season 4 ep5 not only happened, it was very similar t…


    Got to the Australian episode of The Crown and suddenly feeling quite homesick ❤️🇦🇺🐨 https://t.co/EKR5DxAwkx


    RT @Elisabeth57runk: ☁️Day 15/100☁️
    I had an amazing time today tuning in on the first episode of #AWS’s new webinar series *Developers, Le…


    @Elisabeth57runk @steven_bryen @cobusbernard @ziniman @soganmageshwar I’m so glad you liked it! Can’t wait to see what you build. 🤩



  • Shared today on Twitter

    @Shawn_denton91 That was three months ago – they were bought by someone within a week. All gone.


    @nolim1t Given that multiple members of my family have now caught it and are struggling, the fact that Musk fanboys would believe him over THE ENTIRE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY is partly why we’re in this shitty situation. He’s an ass.


    Multiple members of my family back in Indiana have now tested positive, and the virus is raging in rural communities. If you are lucky enough to live somewhere where the government actually took action, you should be grateful. https://t.co/iKWhIaDeSw


    RT @natashamitchell: Frightening. The delusion & disillusion.. even as they land in intensive care beds. The toxicity of this moment in the…


    Nearly at the divide for the armholes, and I’m up to 600 stitches per round. Remind me again why I thought a 3-ply fairisle for me was a good idea?! @ Munich, Germany https://t.co/tzMcTXvIr1



  • Shared today on Facebook

    Lazy Sunday… 🥨🍻🇩🇪


    Nearly at the divide for the armholes, and I’m up to 600 stitches per round. Remind me again why I thought a 3-ply fairisle for me was a good idea?!



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    Nearly at the divide for the armholes, and I’m up to 600 stitches per round. Remind me again why I thought a 3-ply fairisle for me was a good idea?!

    Nearly at the divide for the armholes, and I’m up to 600 stitches per round. Remind me again why I thought a 3-ply fairisle for me was a good idea?!


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    Lazy Sunday… 🥨🍻🇩🇪

    Lazy Sunday... 🥨🍻🇩🇪



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