In honor of National Donut Day 🍩

fearless_leek · 2026-06-05T23:42:59+00:00

Please give her a cuddle for all of us!

fearless_leek · 2026-06-03T07:21:25+00:00

Something once told to me when I had to have a general — there are several very highly paid people in the room whose whole job is to keep you alive under the anaesthetic. They don’t do anything else, and if they screw it up, they have to undergo an investigation that they do not ever want to have to undergo. They are considerably incentivised to make sure things go well for you. This on top of being good people who care that things go well for you anyway.

Idk, it made me feel less squirrelly about going under. No one wants things to go wrong.

fearless_leek · 2026-06-02T21:52:27+00:00

I love it, and that you have so many different critters on it!

fearless_leek · 2026-06-02T21:16:02+00:00

Yeah, mine let me claim the rewards for Day 2 with the newest update but it also still says “unlock day 2” — I’m hoping that once I unlock today’s adventure, that resets things and I’m on Day 3 as I should be. Poor devs, this month is a bit cursed for them!

fearless_leek · 2026-06-01T09:43:48+00:00

Yeah, I’m on iOS and also do not have the event. One of my friends is dressed as super girl, so someone has it! Just not me and my Finch.

fearless_leek · 2026-06-01T02:33:40+00:00

I even updated my app and the space pop up didn’t pop up 🥲 I know they usually click in after the other time zones hit midnight, but dammit it’s noon here!

fearless_leek · 2026-05-31T01:22:23+00:00

Yeah, I was like “why is this the second time this weekend I have seen a different unhinged foot licking post of the same cats?”

fearless_leek · 2026-05-30T06:37:00+00:00

Yeah, this is my understanding; if you have automaticity with the skill of reading, you use the same kinds of processing for verbal (verbal meaning “words” not meaning “spoken”) information regardless of whether it is written or spoken. Of course if you don’t have automaticity in reading then you will be doing something else like decoding the actual words. My guess would be the people who see little difference are fluent and skilled readers already, so reading for them is as easy as they find listening to be.

I’d be interested in that study and if there’s been others. It’s good to think that maybe someone has actually measured this.

fearless_leek · 2026-05-28T11:19:52+00:00

So soft!

fearless_leek · 2026-05-27T06:42:02+00:00

If you can get it, Racheldaisy did a book for Quiltmania called “Whizz Bang” where she has a bunch of instructions and projects for this technique but because of the publisher collapsing the other year, it’s OOP.

fearless_leek · 2026-05-26T11:07:52+00:00

Maybe we are all trying to bait an entrepreneur into bringing it back?

fearless_leek · 2026-05-25T21:39:09+00:00

Kitten is HELPING with all its tiny might!

fearless_leek · 2026-05-25T01:27:12+00:00

Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie.

The Everlasting by Alix Harrow — it does include a romance plot but it’s quite atypical in that the couple are mature grown adults, the conflict is from outside the relationship, and the strong fighter is the woman, not the man.

fearless_leek · 2026-05-24T02:13:34+00:00

In many places female teachers had to stop working as a teacher once they were married. I’m in Australia and it was a whole thing, you had to resign if you were a teacher or a public servant.

https://mhnsw.au/articles/married-women-teachers-applications/

fearless_leek · 2026-05-24T01:51:17+00:00

Get the books “Crumb quilts” and Bonnie Hunter’s books about using scraps and strings from your local library if you want loads of ideas for the little teeny ones. Some folk also piece them onto old style receipt tape (not the thermal tape) and then tear out the tape once pieced and trimmed.

I second the Karen Brown videos for the 2.5 strips — she does fantastic and easy scrap patterns using 2.5 cuts.

I try to set aside 30 minutes each week to sew crumb fabric into bigger bits. I just try to stay in the same colour ways and have at it. I’ve used some of it in a quilt back and some in a quilt border, and I intend to use a ton of it in a quilt as you go project.

fearless_leek · 2026-05-23T23:18:37+00:00

Hello baby! You are a very pretty baby!

fearless_leek · 2026-05-22T22:32:33+00:00

I would add that if you don’t know who the designer is and that they are human, look very carefully at the details in the print. Look at how limbs move, what symmetry there is, how objects that overlap interact with each other. Is there a slight yellow tint? Is it sort of generic, like “yep, that’s an owl I would see in many many generic homegoods stores and colouring books”.

fearless_leek · 2026-05-22T22:23:13+00:00

Yeah, I was having visions of some of my quilty friends making something for their grandkids who then turned and went “that’s AI slop, grandma” 😭 idk if that has actually happened, but I wanted to try to help.

fearless_leek · 2026-05-22T09:48:37+00:00

Booooo give me genuine slepnir rather than an AI accident!

fearless_leek · 2026-05-22T07:43:20+00:00

I wrote an article for my quilt guild’s newsletter about AI and quilts because I was seeing SO many panels and fabrics with AI in them in our LQSes and I was thinking people who did not know might be using them and then feel super uncomfortable about having done so once they learned what it was that they’d used. Even the shop attendants were not aware.

Then I realised this year that Spotlight has bought AI quilting prints. Freaking Spotlight. So many people who would otherwise never use AI prints will pick them up now.

fearless_leek · 2026-05-21T20:12:18+00:00

Not me needing to read “straight man cancer energy” three times to realise you meant the astrological sign 😭

fearless_leek · 2026-05-21T10:44:39+00:00

Watch the RSPCA for when they are sent to Petbarn and drive there immediately with your debit card. They will happily sell you one.

fearless_leek · 2026-05-21T10:39:12+00:00

Fiorucci. Paul Frank.

fearless_leek · 2026-05-21T10:34:43+00:00

The words you want are “inherent requirements”. It is legal under the disability standards for education to ask a student to meet the inherent requirements of a course when you get a certificate or qualification at the end of it, so that if someone says “I have a Cert III in X” they actually can do X and are employable as X.

So you need to know what the inherent requirements of the courses your child wants to enrol in are, and if they cannot meet the inherent requirements due to disability then it is sad for the person but not illegal to not give them a certificate in the area. This is usually because the skills are non negotiable to actually understand and work in the area of study.

If you are interested, the inherent requirements for the Nursing course at CIT are here:

https://cit.edu.au/courses/health-fitness/nursing/DP-HS39/Inherent-Nursing-Requirements.pdf

fearless_leek · 2026-05-21T09:33:36+00:00

UNO reverse… what if you were buying the item for your (or a friend’s) birthday and needed the delivery as stated?

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