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Homeschooling mom of four turns to knitting to stay sane, puts the resulting textile art on Etsy.

[Liz Cheney @Liz_Cheney]

Members of the House and Senate who are voting to deny Ukraine assistance on the 85th anniversary of Neville Chamberlain’s 1938 “peace in our time” speech should read some history: Appeasement didn’t work then. It won’t work now.

[Newt @NewtsKnits]

@mathykim Thanks for the offer. I think I’m maxed out on platforms right now.

[Newt @NewtsKnits]

@mathykim I’ve lost track of all the social media platforms; “sky place” is totally failing to trigger a name. I hate this era of social media confusion.

[Newt @NewtsKnits]

@IreneKenyon4 I’m so sorry.

[Newt @NewtsKnits]

@SteSierra I learned it with my second kid.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

0/10 The Nova Kakhovka Dam in Ukraine, controlled by Russia, has been destroyed. This brings humanitarian, ecological, and economic disaster to Ukrainians. Here are some guidelines for writing about this catastrophe.

[Newt @NewtsKnits]

@rynkrynk Thanks for the links to fundraisers. My heart hurts for you and all of Ukraine as you deal with this new disaster. I’m so sorry.

May your little ones be a glimmer of light for you today, and may the world we build for them be better than this one.

[Randall Munroe @xkcd]

(Thread) In the first What If? book, I answered a question about cooking a steak by dropping it from space. At one point, I commented—jokingly!—that if anyone put a steak in a hypersonic wind tunnel to gather better data, I’d love to see the video.

Well, I have good news.

[Newt @NewtsKnits]

@mathykim Hugs to you as well.

[Newt @NewtsKnits]

@rynkrynk Congratulations on your new little one! I’m so glad to hear of their safe arrival. Much sympathy on the lack of sleep.

[Newt @NewtsKnits]

@BallardAndrew @courtneymilan On the one hand, yes; that’s the point here.

On the other hand, when there are children involved, the default for custody is becoming 50/50, but maybe in cases of mental/emotional abuse, it shouldn’t be, so there’s a reason to attempt to define it for those purposes.

[Newt @NewtsKnits]

@courtneymilan Defining mental/emotional abuse is tricky. Demonstrating its existence to a judge *to the judge’s satisfaction* is harder. When the best you can say about your spouse is, “At least he never hit me,” you need OUT but proving it to a gatekeeper is going to be hard and dangerous.

[Newt @NewtsKnits]

@doctor_oxford @gmcuk What on earth would a 57 fold increase in miscarriages even mean?! It’s been at 1 in 4 or thereabouts forever; you can’t multiply that by 57 and still have anyone giving birth!

[Newt @NewtsKnits]

Fascinating.

[Baltic Takes @Baltic_Takes]

The Baltics are often described as countries that ‘gained independence in 1991’.

That language isn’t quite right though. Let’s talk about why language here matters. 🧵…

[Newt @NewtsKnits]

@IreneKenyon4 Wow. I did not expect that.

[Newt @NewtsKnits]

@steuard 😂

[Newt @NewtsKnits]

An important part of understanding the whole picture of what’s happening in Ukraine.

[Mark Hertling @MarkHertling]

This is a terrific thread by @Mylovanov.

Americans are - & should be - impressed by Ukraine. Their culture, courage, resilience & accomplishments in this war.

But many don’t know UKR’s attempts to totally eliminate corruption is ongoing. 1/3

[Newt @NewtsKnits]

@ZachWeiner Also, lots of political decisions and handwringing about whether sending X system will provoke Putin into escalating, but he and the Russian propaganda machine are doing a fine job of escalating all on their own.

[Newt @NewtsKnits]

@ZachWeiner You can only divert so many troops to training at a time without endangering the front line.