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Full inspection of all ten hives, plus I used my new battery powered strimmer to clear the long grass from around all the entrances. The bee inspectors are coming tomorrow to check for disease (European foulbrood reported within 3km) but all our colonies look healthy.

Louisiana's new "Ten Commandments" law actually contains eleven commandments in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 77 points 1 week ago

What's funny is that (according to the old testament) when Moses came down off the mountain with the tablets and found everyone worshipping the golden calf, he had a big hissy fit and smashed them. So then after doing quite a bit of murdering he had to go back up the mountain to get a second set. Exodus 32-34

I asked a religious relative how it was ok for Moses to murder people when he had only just be told by God himself "thou shalt not kill", and she said it was because the don't kill thing came further down the list than having only the one god.

The cycle of pants continues in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I remember when flares came back in the 90s, the nostalgic hit I got from feeling the jeans flapping around my ankles was intense. It was just like the early 70s, when I was young and hot. Sigh.

Happy Juneteenth everyone! in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Ok I'm coming round to your place for dinner. That sounds AMAZING.

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A tale of two (pairs of) socks (lemmy.world)

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The brown sock is my first ever. What is wrong with the picture? Yes, the sock is inside out. I could not figure out how to kitchener the toe, so I just cobbled it together. The lightbulb moment came when I was knitting my second pair of socks. No wonder the kitchener stitch didn't work! [Edit: the photo is in the comments. Second edit: and below. Facepalm.]

The pink socks are my WIP - I have progressed to knitting two at a time, magic loop, and am very pleased with myself.

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In Scotland we call this a fankle (lemmy.world)

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My lesson for today: Never, ever try a new technique without watching the YouTube video first. I'm knitting a pair of port and starboard socks for a friend. Started one on small circs, then thought, this would be a great project to try two at a time. Knitted up sock two to match, and figured I'd just knit them on to one long circ. Yeah right. Off to watch the video now ...

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Resting [OC] (lemmy.world)

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It's 4.38am and I can't sleep, so here goes ... (lemmy.world)

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I've freaked myself out somewhat by reading about human anatomy (Bill Bryson, The Body). What a machine! All these processes going on all the time, glands spurting out this or that hormone, heart thumping away, kidneys filtering out the salt I sprinkled on my dinner. It's amazing and alarming. I could help things out by sleeping, but here I am, wide awake. 4.44am now ...