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Here's the finished scarf split roughly into quarters. Two rows equals a day. The year starts on the lower right-hand side of the picture with a small brown stripe representing a family road trip. The scarf ends on the bottom left with a green and red stripe near the end representing Christmas.

This scarf documents holidays, birthdays, trips, awards, unemployment and even death. What a year! We plan to tag each of the stripes so we don't forget what each one represents.

#knitting #HappyNewYear

One huge problem with the concept of private ownership of things that are not the "means of production" in the socialist/communist mindset is that you could theoretically use lots of things as means of production.

If you own a toothbrush that's ok, but what if that toothbrush can be used as a tool for building something else? Brushes are often used as tools, and the materials making up a toothbrush certainly could be melted down and turned into something else entirely, would that new thing made of your acceptable toothbrush now be evil contraband to be taken by the state or the people?

Same with shoes. Shoes could just be a thing for your feet, but depending on how they're used, they could themselves be a tool, or the leather and rubber used to create a tool, and then does the previously admissible shoe become an evil tool of the capitalist?

In the end, the real means of production is a skilled worker. For them, a shocking number of things can become the means of production, just watch Primitive Technology on YouTube. A bog is just a useless piece of land to most people, but to the skilled Norwegians 600 years ago, it was an important resource and source of iron. Why? Because they knew how to take the useless thing nobody wanted and turn it into the most important resource of the era. Therefore, for the state to seize the means of production means to seize the individual, and that's exactly what we see in practice. A bunch of tools and machines are useless without the minds and hands operating them, and so those minds and hands must be seized and dominated into submission.

Fire 75% of federal bureaucrats immediately. Shut down agencies. Rescind all regulations that fail West Virginia vs. EPA (ie, most federal regulations). Zero-based budgeting.

Get sued for it. Take it to the Supreme Court & win 6-3.

That’s how you permanently drain the swamp.

Intruder comes into her home, she shoots the intruder, she’s not charged with the death, but public housing evicted her because of their unconstitutional, anti gun “rules.”

An AMAZING Christmas gift would be if we reposted this thread and EVERYONE got her over the $30k to get her a home.

When you see this, repost and donate. Let’s do this Solutionarys.

Daily Reminder

It's been 1081 days since the murder of Ashli Babbit and Michael Byrd is still walking around free.

#JusticeForAshliBabbitt

p.s. As an experiment this year, to help people who are on servers that haven't federated much yet, have also just started a JoinIn group at:

➡️ @joinin

This is separate from the hashtag, you can follow both or either.

Groups work a bit differently to hashtags. You have to follow groups to see their posts, but they federate to 100% of their followers. This means even people on a server with no connections at all will still see all of the posts from all the groups they follow.

There’s nothing conservative about a debt deal that grants unlimited borrowing for two years that experts estimate will likely exceed $4 trillion.

I will insist on an amendment vote to enact REAL spending caps that lead to a balanced budget in 5 years!

Whoever is posting on Biden’s account is legit insane.

The Biden admin is the biggest threat to everything listed below

Celebrating Dick Van Dyke (@iammrvandy) on his 98th birthday! An entertainment legend and 2012 SAG Life Achievement recipient, Van Dyke's charm lights up classics like "Mary Poppins" & "The Dick Van Dyke Show." Share your favorite scenes or songs from his remarkable career! #BOTD

I tend to agree. That's why it's "if it shows up in these markets". There's lots of cheap vehicles that you can't buy at any price because they're only being sold in other markets like south asia or africa.

But it sure would be nice. I think a lot of people want to see more basic affordable choices.

Toyota is talking about putting out a $10,000 pickup truck called the IMV0. It's just a basic work truck, no fancy stuff.

If this thing makes it to American markets at anything remotely like that price, that could be the end of the big 3. This is what we need, not a new 100,000 fancy pants car.

This was important enough to merit a sort of Brexit diagram. Simple though. #Threads

Say it with me ....

Men dominating women's sports is the only way to prevent genital examinations.

Men dominating women's sports is the only way to prevent genital examinations.

Men dominating women's sports is the only way to prevent genital examinations.

I’ll just say it - the expulsion of George Santos from Congress was wrong & sets an awful precedent for the future. The guy appears to be an insane & pathological liar, but the decision of whether he can serve belongs to the voters & whether he’s a criminal belongs to the courts. Mark my words: this opens a Pandora’s Box that will surely be exploited the next time MTG or Matt Gaetz or whoever else in either party pokes the uniparty bear.

I always find it idiotic when people argue "Democrats are right wing by european standards"... lol there is no relative standard for center, it is an absolute... what they should say is "democrats are farther right compared to the average in europe". But to suggests they are right of center has little basis in reality. Their policies may not be as extreme left as politicians in europe, but they very clearly are left of neutral/center

Do I know anyone here who is willing to share their experience deploying an institutional Mastodon server? A contact of mine is looking for someone to discuss the experience as he works on getting a government agency to deploy their own instance. Boosts appreciated #fediverse #mastodon

are there any #ruby #rails freelancers in this timeline (Ideally with some knowledge on the #redmine code base) here, who would be interested in helping us at #osmocom to fix some redmine bugs and write some (small) extensions? #followerpower Details at https://osmocom.org/projects/osmocom-servers/issues?f%5B%5D=tags&fields%5B%5D=tags&op%5Btags%5D=%3D&operators%5Btags%5D=%3D&set_filter=1&v%5Btags%5D%5B%5D=redmine&values%5Btags%5D%5B%5D=redmine