As much as I'd love these monsters to go to war with each other, it would mean civil war in the country with the most nuclear warheads, and that makes the prospect something I can't celebrate.

Paywalled, can anyone copy the text?

I believe illustrated child porn is illegal here in Canada, as well as other countries (not going to google it though). Seems like it isn't in the US? I find it kind of shocking that so many people don't see an issue with it, tbh.

The mods of r/pics are absolute queens and kings. Bravo.

I'm embarrassed to admit it, but after... 12? 14? years of knitting, I was recently finally ready to make an adult-sized sweater. Picked out a simple design by Regina Moesmer (sp?), and after reading through the pattern, decided I wanted a folded, double layer collar instead of the simple ribbed collar in the pattern. I've done that on hats, how hard could it be? Couldn't find the instructions for how I've done it in the past, so found new instructions and got to work. Seemed to go well, reduced to the number of stitches I needed to start the main body of the sweater. Tried to get it over my head, and it had all of the stretch of a 2 inch steel cable. Frogged and tried again. Same thing. Frogged and tried with bigger needles. Same thing. Frogged and tried with somewhat different instructions. Same thing.

Wtf is happening? I have hats that use the same technique, that will stretch to over twice their original circumference! What am I doing differently to make this fail so badly? The sweater has been in time out for months now, while I resign myself to doing the original k1p1 collar. 😡

Off topic, but since this is an post about pixelfed and I can barely find anything about this issue elsewhere: is there any way to get hashtags you're following to actually show up in your feed? All I'm getting is a handful of accounts I'm following, and since they don't have much content, it's a pretty limited experience.

Yes. Cheese protects against death from any cause.

The real question is, why aren't you eating more cheese?

Is that a recent Lemmy update? I wonder if Inshould mention it to the Beehaw admins.

Thanks, I should try again with that one. I don't think the final result is any different than the way I was doing it, but clearly omething funky was happening! If I wasn't so fed up with it, I'd take a close look at my hats to see if I could figure out what I did there.

Edit-The hats were just stockinette beanies, so there's no difference there. It's a puzzle.

I used the one where you do a provisional cast on (I used crochet, I think... need to keep better notes apparently) with 2x the number of stitches you want to end up with, knit the first row, slipping every second stitch, then purling the next row, slipping the already knit stitches. When it's the right length, remove the provisional cast on and k2tog all around. I could've sworn that's how I did my hats. Do you have any idea of where that would go wrong?

Forgot to mention that you have my sympathy for that brioche shawl, lol. Is it one of the two colour ones? I tried that, just in a swatch, and gave up in disgust about 6 rows in. Fiddly lace is no problem, but apparently brioche and simple collars are too much, haha.

I agree with you, and I still love Phil Collins era Genesis. Blame my dad.

It really is a beautiful pattern! Hope the next round goes more smoothly for you, it's weird how sometimes our brains just say "nope" to a new technique.

Well, you can't post this and not tell us the story. That's definitely illegal.

Thanks for the info all. Can't see your responses in the thread, but they showed up in my inbox. Growing pains :/

Hilariously, a subreddit that I mod, with less than 700 subscribers and like, 4 slightly active users (3 of whom are mods), just got the threatening modmail. We only went private as a gesture of solidarity, there's maybe one post a week so it's not exactly a bustling community. I'd made the sub public for about an hour every couple of days in an effort to avoid this sort of thing, guess it didn't work.

There's nothing more disappointing than clicking into a thread because it looks like it might be interesting or fun, and realising 90% of the comments are the same old, tired jokes, repeated ad infinitum.