{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"Micro.blog - Phoenix Blackdove","home_page_url":"https://micro.blog","feed_url":"https://micro.blog/posts/GaraksApprentice","_microblog":{"about":"https://micro.blog/about/api","id":"1559729","username":"GaraksApprentice","bio":"","pronouns":"","is_following":false,"is_you":false,"following_count":2,"discover_count":0},"author":{"name":"Phoenix Blackdove","url":"https://garaksapprentice.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://avatars.micro.blog/avatars/2024/08/1559729.jpg"},"items":[{"id":"40187227","content_html":"<p>In a moment of grand clarity, I sewed the ends of my in-progress sleeves shut before I tipped my jumper upside down to start knitting the bottom ribbing. Now all the attached sleeve yarns (4 balls) are safely stuffed inside the body, + I don’t have to worry about tangling five balls of yarn.</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fgaraksapprentice.micro.blog%2Fuploads%2F2024%2F2b99212d8f.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" alt=\"The body and partially constructed sleeve of a jumper worked in Tunisian crochet. The body is brown and the sleeve is dark green. The end of the sleeve has been sewn shut with a length of contrast yarn and large running stitches.\" loading=\"lazy\">\n","summary":"","url":"https://garaksapprentice.micro.blog/2024/06/24/in-a-moment.html","date_published":"2024-06-24T13:12:08+00:00","author":{"name":"Phoenix Blackdove","url":"https://garaksapprentice.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F08%2F1559729.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"GaraksApprentice"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-06-24 13:12","date_timestamp":1719234728,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"39712265","content_html":"<p>Love this. Rewilding species does so much to help climate change. It stabilises ecologies and (don’t overlook this) it shows people that we CAN have a positive impact.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/wild-horses-return-to-kazakhstan-plains-after-two-centuries-of-absence/\">www.goodnewsnetwork.org/wild-hors…</a></p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://garaksapprentice.micro.blog/2024/06/17/love-this-rewilding.html","date_published":"2024-06-17T01:30:48+00:00","author":{"name":"Phoenix Blackdove","url":"https://garaksapprentice.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F08%2F1559729.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"GaraksApprentice"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-06-17 01:30","date_timestamp":1718587848,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"39475943","content_html":"<p>Trying to find actually medieval, actually from the 14-15th century, pictures of seahorses is surprisingly difficult. ‘Seahorse’ gives you too much new/fantasy stuff, ‘hippocamp’ gives you stuff about brains. Ugh.</p>\n<p>I just want something plausible I can embroider onto my wool cotehardie a bunch.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://garaksapprentice.micro.blog/2024/06/13/trying-to-find.html","date_published":"2024-06-13T06:56:18+00:00","author":{"name":"Phoenix Blackdove","url":"https://garaksapprentice.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F08%2F1559729.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"GaraksApprentice"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-06-13 06:56","date_timestamp":1718261778,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"38305485","content_html":"<p>Broke: I got a CT scan on my sinuses. Gotta wait for the results.</p>\n<p>Woke: I got my head examined.</p>\n<p>Bespoke: The eldritch machine has tested me. I do not yet know if I have been granted its favour.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://garaksapprentice.micro.blog/2024/05/27/broke-i-got.html","date_published":"2024-05-27T02:30:01+00:00","author":{"name":"Phoenix Blackdove","url":"https://garaksapprentice.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F08%2F1559729.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"GaraksApprentice"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-05-27 02:30","date_timestamp":1716777001,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"37720786","content_html":"<p>Turns out that several years of recorder practice does not, in fact, make it easier to play the tin whistle. Damn fingerings are close enough that muscle memory takes over at exactly the wrong point in the tune and then everybody is sad. 🎵</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://garaksapprentice.micro.blog/2024/05/18/turns-out-that.html","date_published":"2024-05-18T03:21:34+00:00","author":{"name":"Phoenix Blackdove","url":"https://garaksapprentice.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F08%2F1559729.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"GaraksApprentice"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-05-18 03:21","date_timestamp":1716002494,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"37571088","content_html":"<p>Dammit chicken, I’m all for supporting gender exploration, but we really, really don’t need a rooster. It’s fine. Stop trying to crow.</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fgaraksapprentice.micro.blog%2Fuploads%2F2024%2Fb1c2ba3c1f.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" alt=\"An orange chicken stands inside a mulched run with her neck stretched up. 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(Video: <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7jSSz_BELE\">www.youtube.com/watch</a>)</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://garaksapprentice.micro.blog/2024/05/12/ok-so-i.html","date_published":"2024-05-12T04:54:11+00:00","author":{"name":"Phoenix Blackdove","url":"https://garaksapprentice.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F08%2F1559729.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"GaraksApprentice"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-05-12 04:54","date_timestamp":1715489651,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"35978449","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/danielpunkass\">@danielpunkass</a> that makes sense, though I wish councils at least gave a short list of species you could choose from. Around here they just plant the same species on an entire street, no residential engagement. Though at least they’re (sometimes) prioritising appropriate natives.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/GaraksApprentice/35978449","date_published":"2024-04-21T23:25:06+00:00","author":{"name":"Phoenix Blackdove","url":"https://garaksapprentice.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F08%2F1559729.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"GaraksApprentice"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-04-21 23:25","date_timestamp":1713741906,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"35978370","content_html":"<p>“Identity is something very personal, and people attach important meanings to the terms they use to describe themselves… Understanding transgender history contextualises why people use particular terms and can affirm people’s identities while acknowledging why the preferred language has evolved.” 📖</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fgaraksapprentice.micro.blog%2Fuploads%2F2024%2Ff704a4a274.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" alt=\"The cover of a book titled “Transgender Australia: A History Since 1910” by Noah Riseman. The words “Transgender Australia” are in the colours of the trans pride flag. The subtitle is in dark pink and the author’s name is white. The cover background is bright yellow. \" loading=\"lazy\">\n","summary":"","url":"https://garaksapprentice.micro.blog/2024/04/22/identity-is-something.html","date_published":"2024-04-21T23:22:26+00:00","author":{"name":"Phoenix Blackdove","url":"https://garaksapprentice.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F08%2F1559729.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"GaraksApprentice"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-04-21 23:22","date_timestamp":1713741746,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vhs5nkzeva7bouu55bwwj2vl/post/3kqoig56iuv2w"]}},{"id":"35925264","content_html":"<p>Finished Reacher S02 last night and wow, it lives up to the first season. The dialogue is fantastic, the whole thing is as much a character study as a murder mystery. Also loving the casual ace rep from Neagley, and Dixon going after what she wants unsubtley and directly. 📺</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://garaksapprentice.micro.blog/2024/04/21/finished-reacher-s.html","date_published":"2024-04-20T23:15:40+00:00","author":{"name":"Phoenix Blackdove","url":"https://garaksapprentice.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F08%2F1559729.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"GaraksApprentice"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-04-20 23:15","date_timestamp":1713654940,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vhs5nkzeva7bouu55bwwj2vl/post/3kqlxl4q5hv2k"]}},{"id":"35924992","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/jlelse\">@jlelse</a> I love this. Wish we could get councils etc to consider this in my country.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/GaraksApprentice/35924992","date_published":"2024-04-20T23:08:07+00:00","author":{"name":"Phoenix Blackdove","url":"https://garaksapprentice.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F08%2F1559729.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"GaraksApprentice"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-04-20 23:08","date_timestamp":1713654487,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"35872410","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/danielpunkass\">@danielpunkass</a> That’s a fantastic program! Do they also let you choose the species?</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/GaraksApprentice/35872410","date_published":"2024-04-20T01:16:14+00:00","author":{"name":"Phoenix Blackdove","url":"https://garaksapprentice.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F08%2F1559729.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"GaraksApprentice"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-04-20 01:16","date_timestamp":1713575774,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"35872345","content_html":"<p>And so, having played with a few different fibres to get the feel of things, it’s time to put these bad boys through their paces. A hand distaff full of alpaca should do nicely. I did a load of this while testing and got over two hour’s worth of spinning from it, a whole distaff will last a while!</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fgaraksapprentice.micro.blog%2Fuploads%2F2024%2F065498574c.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Two wool combs, a hand distaff, and a small plastic bag full of beige fibre sit on a glass table.\" loading=\"lazy\">\n","summary":"","url":"https://garaksapprentice.micro.blog/2024/04/20/and-so-having.html","date_published":"2024-04-20T01:14:07+00:00","author":{"name":"Phoenix Blackdove","url":"https://garaksapprentice.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F08%2F1559729.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"GaraksApprentice"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-04-20 01:14","date_timestamp":1713575647,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vhs5nkzeva7bouu55bwwj2vl/post/3kqjnq5cl3m2k"]}},{"id":"35800885","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/Havn\">@Havn</a></p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jumped on Brave when I heard it had built in adblock and good privacy controls, inertia has kept me here.</li>\n<li>Vertical tabs have won me over, tab stacks are nice too. I think everything else I like is standard on every other browser now?</li>\n</ul>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/GaraksApprentice/35800885","date_published":"2024-04-19T00:28:02+00:00","author":{"name":"Phoenix Blackdove","url":"https://garaksapprentice.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F08%2F1559729.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"GaraksApprentice"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-04-19 00:28","date_timestamp":1713486482,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"35800501","content_html":"<p><a href=\"http://nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social\">@nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social</a> Very true! I’ve read a chunk of Stephen King and Dean Koontz in the past, and they were decent, but they didn’t scratch my reading itch the way T. Kingfisher et al manage.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/GaraksApprentice/35800501","date_published":"2024-04-19T00:19:03+00:00","author":{"name":"Phoenix Blackdove","url":"https://garaksapprentice.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F08%2F1559729.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"GaraksApprentice"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-04-19 00:19","date_timestamp":1713485943,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"35798164","content_html":"<p>We have breached self-imposed containment and made it all the way onto the lawn. I rewarded this great display of bravery with scratch mix, and distracted Her Grumpiness so she didn’t chase them all off on principle. #chickenupdate</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fgaraksapprentice.micro.blog%2Fuploads%2F2024%2F15e2b27481.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" alt=\"Four large black chickens are pecking at grain on a sunny lawn.\" loading=\"lazy\">\n","summary":"","url":"https://garaksapprentice.micro.blog/2024/04/19/we-have-breached.html","date_published":"2024-04-18T23:24:04+00:00","author":{"name":"Phoenix Blackdove","url":"https://garaksapprentice.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F08%2F1559729.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"GaraksApprentice"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-04-18 23:24","date_timestamp":1713482644,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vhs5nkzeva7bouu55bwwj2vl/post/3kqgx4cuiwc2h"]}},{"id":"35736543","content_html":"<p>Me: I don’t like horror\nAlso me: <em>raved about Camp Damascus for a week straight</em>\n<em>won’t shut up about A House With Good Bones or What Moves The Dead</em>\n<em>is still internally vibrating from The Locked Tomb</em></p>\n<p>I… may have reassess my reading preferences.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://garaksapprentice.micro.blog/2024/04/18/me-i-dont.html","date_published":"2024-04-18T03:52:34+00:00","author":{"name":"Phoenix Blackdove","url":"https://garaksapprentice.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F08%2F1559729.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"GaraksApprentice"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-04-18 03:52","date_timestamp":1713412354,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vhs5nkzeva7bouu55bwwj2vl/post/3kqevnneown24"]}},{"id":"35660945","content_html":"<p>The nice thing about pirate shirts is that they go with basically everything, including modern denim and medieval belt pouches. (I made the shirt including weaving the trim, jeans are commercial and belt pouch came from a re-enactor friend.)</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fgaraksapprentice.micro.blog%2Fuploads%2F2024%2Fa126560710.jpg\" width=\"336\" height=\"600\" alt=\"A selfie of a white person taken in a long, narrow mirror. Their face is obscured by their phone. They are wearing a light green pirate shirt with rainbow trim on the neck slit. It is tucked into mid-blue denim jeans  and blouses at the belt line. There is a black leather kidney pouch at their belt. End ID. \" loading=\"lazy\">\n","summary":"","url":"https://garaksapprentice.micro.blog/2024/04/17/the-nice-thing.html","date_published":"2024-04-16T23:58:15+00:00","author":{"name":"Phoenix Blackdove","url":"https://garaksapprentice.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F08%2F1559729.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"GaraksApprentice"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-04-16 23:58","date_timestamp":1713311895,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"35533645","content_html":"<p>OK, this makes me very happy. 179 turtles in total have been bred by the zoo and released back into their native river. <a href=\"https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-09/bellinger-river-snapping-turtle-conservation-release-zoo-bred/103681974\">www.abc.net.au/news/2024…</a></p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://garaksapprentice.micro.blog/2024/04/15/ok-this-makes.html","date_published":"2024-04-15T06:55:46+00:00","author":{"name":"Phoenix Blackdove","url":"https://garaksapprentice.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F08%2F1559729.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"GaraksApprentice"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-04-15 06:55","date_timestamp":1713164146,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vhs5nkzeva7bouu55bwwj2vl/post/3kq5oibqrty2a"]}},{"id":"35464924","content_html":"<p>I have had my new wool combs for less than 24 hours and they have already tasted flesh. (It was entirely user error, but they didn’t miss their chance to show me who’s boss in this relationship.)</p>\n<p>It’s OK, I still love them. They’re still less violent than the chickens.</p>\n<img src=\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fgaraksapprentice.micro.blog%2Fuploads%2F2024%2F25eb4329be.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" alt=\"A close up of a white person's left thumb. There are two short, fresh scratches, with raised red edges, on the side. 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This book packs a lot into its 289 pages.\n\nIt doesn’t shy away from the bleak history of mass textile production, but it doesn’t leave you drowning in despair either. 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