DC News Now: Woman who pulled TikTok prank arrested, charged in Montgomery County. “A woman in Montgomery County is facing charges after officials with the Montgomery County Department of Police (MCPD) said she used artificial intelligence (AI) to falsely report that someone broke into her home earlier this month. Police said it’s a viral prank on TikTok.”
#HomelessPeople
NBC News: ‘AI homeless man prank’ on social media prompts concern from local authorities. “As the prank gains traction online, local authorities have started issuing warnings to participants — who they say primarily are teens — about the dangers of misusing AI to spread false information.”
I’m A Crotchety Knit Wit
Because of an early snowfall, I am not getting out much these days, so I like to find things to do that can be accomplished while sitting on the couch. Those things include writing for this blog, reading, and making hats for homeless people.
My daughter-in-law works for a non-profit group that finds homes for the homeless, and there is an ongoing need for all sorts of things for the participants in their programs. Last spring, I volunteered by helping some of them to use computers. I am only moderately qualified as a computer lab supervisor, but my skills were usually sufficient for the task. I also contributed by donating some hats that I had made the previous winter. It had been several decades since I had previously knitted, but I found that the skills came back to me fairly quickly. I was helped by some YouTube videos, for which I am very grateful.
Yesterday, as I finished making a cowl and started making another hat, I wondered why knitting and crochet patterns persist in measuring items horizontally by stitches and not by inches or centimetres. Now that I think about it, my first musing was actually about the peculiarities of pattern abbreviations. Here, to give you a taste of this is a section of the pattern I am currently using.
Rnd 10: Switch to larger hk, ch 2, hdc2tog by inserting hk in same st as join and next hdc, ch 1, *hdc2tog, ch 1; rep from * to end, sl st in beg hdc2tog.
Rnd 11: Ch 2, hdc2tog beg in last ch-1 space made at the end of the previous rnd, then in next ch sp, ch1, [hdc2tog by inserting hook in same ch-1 sp as last st, then in next ch sp, ch 1] around, ending the last hdc2tog in same ch-1 sp as beg of rnd, join with a sl st in top of 1st hdc2tog. Rep Rnd 11 for patt until piece measures 9 ½(10)” from beg.
To be honest, I haven’t actually completely understood Rnd 11 yet, but I plan to get to it later today. I feel pretty good about myself that I actually think I can do this. In any case, if you look at the end of this instruction, you will see that the piece is measured vertically by inches, but the horizontal measure is by stitches.
The workaround for this is a gauge that one is supposed to do before actually beginning the project. For this hat, the gauge is “12 hdc x 20 rows = 4” on smaller hook.” The pattern also helpfully suggests that it saves time if you do this first. I, of course, have not done this. I suspect my hat is going to end up much bigger than the one in the illustration. Maybe there is a homeless person with a big head or lots of hair who will appreciate it anyway.
Here’s the thing. If you do the gauge sample piece and find that your stitches are bigger or smaller than they are supposed to be, you have to do the math to figure out how many more or fewer stitches or rows would be required to get to the desired size. Alternatively, you have to experiment with different needle or hook sizes to achieve the same result. Presumably, there are fastidious crafters who actually do this, but I’m willing to bet there are a lot of ho-hum crafters like myself who prefer to bumble along and see how things turn out.
So, that’s why I ask the question, why not just specify a measurement in the pattern instead of stitch numbers? I have a feeling that the originators of knitting and crafting patterns back in ancient history were really good at math, or at least better at it than I am. Alternatively, there may have been a secret coven of crafters who worked tirelessly to ensure that they all always worked with the same tension on their yarn. It may have been like the women who lived together for so long that their menstrual cycles coincided. Or, maybe they are the same group of women. Who knows?
Not being in a coven or coinciding my cycles with anyone, I am left with the uneasy feeling that the tension on my crochet hook is probably not what it should be, but I feel only slightly guilty about not having done the little gauge piece in the beginning. I mean, really, how much can it possibly matter?
Don’t answer that.
#cowl #crafts #crochet #gauge #hat #homelessPeople #humour #instructions #knitting #patterns #snow #tension
Making Hats in the Cold
I’ve been making hats.
It’s a pastime I began a couple of years ago and I picked it up again this winter. When you arrive at the confluence of time, isolation, terrible weather, and a supply of random leftover yarn, that’s what you do.
I’m not a great knitter or crocheter, but I can handle a beginner’s pattern like nobody’s business. I am making the most of the internet’s supply of free patterns for beanies, toques, and bobble hats (without the bobbles).
In my imagination, I’m making these hats for homeless people. I would prefer to be doing something personally, practically, helpful for them, but when it is -20C or below for a couple of months, the urge to walk about the streets leaves in a hurry. So, I’m making hats.
To be honest, I’m doing this more for me than for them. I need something to do. I have been housebound for several weeks aside from one excursion to extended family for Christmas and one trip to the grocery store. Otherwise, this is it. I’m enjoying the warmth and comfort of my suite and occasional visits with my family upstairs, but I have been outside almost never.
I have taken out the trash, shovelled the drive once, plugged in my car’s block heater twice, but otherwise have not experienced the outer world for longer than about two minutes. It is bl**dy cold out there, folks, so I need something to do.
I have cleaned my suite a few times, done laundry, walked up and down my short hallway, looked out of my window, read too much news online, watched far too much television, and tried to sketch the faces of TV hosts, but otherwise have been almost entirely unproductive. Eventually, the need to be useful kicked in.
This effort began by finishing a blanket that I had started last year, but then I had leftover yarn and, well, I’m a boomer. We don’t waste anything. I wondered what I could do with a supply of about one ball each of three colours of yarn, and the answer (as per Google) was crocheted hats.
Then, when I was sorting out a storage drawer, I discovered a supply of similarly inadequate quantities of yarn. They were all of different weights and purposes, but I figured that with enough determination and flexibility I could make them work. So, that is what I did. I made hats.
They are of various sizes and colours, the stitches are not all “according to Hoyle,” but I think they might serve a useful purpose. I tried them all on and some of them fit me, some are too small, and some are too big. Without even trying, I think I covered the target market.
I have no idea whether homeless people want homemade hats or not, but I’m going to assume they do. If not, I really have nothing to do while I’m watching television. If they take them, they are doing me a favour, and I want them to know I appreciate it. Very much. These hats are keeping me sane.
#beanies #bobbleHats #coldWeather #crochet #hibernation #homelessPeople #idleness #toques #yarn
OMFG!
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
Watch that clip in Aaron's post.
via Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com
Homeless people in detention camps? Fears grow about Trump and Olympics
Local officials and advocates for the homeless are fearful that President Trump will take draconian action against homeless…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #administration #city #countyofficial #detentioncamp #homelesspeople #homelessness #l.a. #localofficial #losangelestimes #Olympicgames #Olympics #permanenthousing #PresidentTrump #service #Trump #UnitedStates #Us #USA
https://www.newsbeep.com/59932/
Laughing Squid: Man Builds Tiny Homes With Attached Bicycles to Give Dignified Shelter to the Toronto Homeless Community. “Ryan Donais was so concerned about the safety of the people living in the increasing number of homeless encampments around Toronto, that he designed and built really tiny homes attached to bicycles for portability. These Tiny Tiny Homes provide safe shelter with solar […]
John Brown of Haddington, explains the commandments, and vain expenditures. Malachi and Nehemiah show excessive spending murders the poor (by using up aid). It banishes the gospel.
Can spending be critiqued without being able to give exact dollar amount which is too high?. Give Brown’s answer today, and you may be thrown from the nearest mountaintop.
How can you protect the poor and support the gospel today?
#christian #homelesspeople #globalsolidarity #opentable #jesusculture
In a 6-3 ruling, the court said #homelessness is not a status protected by the #EighthAmendment’s prohibition on #CruelAndUnusual punishment, even when a community offers #NoAccess to indoor #shelter for #HomelessPeople.
So much for love thy neighbor
#law #SCOTUS #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #HumanRights #SupremeCourt #AntiCamping #laws #PublicSpace #homeless
Did #Kentucky Legalize #Shooting #HomelessPeople?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGDPuXZr364
Kentucky’s crazy #SaferKentuckyAct decriminalizes #deadlyforce against #homeless people.
The bill which goes into effect in July, allows #privateproperty owners to #shoot first and questions later if they believe that a trespasser or homeless person is going to commit a #felony or is attempting to “deposses” them.
The set of #toughoncrime laws also #criminalizes being homeless.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icCYIcSniao
#TheHumanistReport 13 May 2024
#Project2025 co-founder, queerphobe (especially antitrans), Trump official, and loathesome unhinged #TikTok ogre #JohnMcEntee brags about giving #homelesspeople fake money to get them arrested
#ONS scraps plans to stop reporting the #deaths of #HomelessPeople
U-turn comes after campaigners attacked proposal by data body for #England and #Wales as ‘callous’
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/26/ons-scraps-plans-deaths-homeless-people
Planned #cuts to #shelters in #England will cost #lives, say #HomelessPeople
#CouncilFundingCrisis threatens #hostels and support workers from next month
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/24/planned-cuts-to-shelters-in-england-will-cost-lives-say-homeless-people
#ToryPoliciesInAction #UnderfundingLocalCouncils #ToryInhumanity
Roger Davies died with nine broken ribs. Police deemed his death non-suspicious and sent him to a pauper’s grave | #homelesspeople https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/05/roger-davies-died-with-nine-broken-ribs-police-deemed-his-death-non-suspicious-and-sent-him-to-a-paupers-grave?CMP=share_btn_tw
Robert William Dale, Congregational pastor, lays out a vision for helping others grow Christlike. He says bad air, water, and food will hamper moral improvement.
One could of course put negative spin on this, that the dirty are immoral. But isn’t this a long-lost virtue, that improving the physical conditions of people is deeply part of a Christian mission for God’s renewal of the earth, even 4 the spiritual renewal of people?
#christian #gracealone #devo #spreadloveandlight #homelesspeople
Montreal Libraries Will Be Able To Kick Out People for Smelling Bad https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bvj3bv/montreal-libraries-smell-law-homelessness #Montreal #StupidByLaws #libraries #HomelessPeople #uncaring
#CruellaBraverman
#CruellaBravermanRESIGN
#UKShitShow #UK
Asking #homelesspeople if it's a lifestyle choice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZWDj3qRIlY
I'm going to pushback on what that homeless former chef said! The refugees have fuck all to do with why he's homeless!
It's high rent ...first of all! Cost of living, ageism, no social housing, Tories and Tory-acting Labour MPs. 🤬
Canada study debunks stereotypes of homeless people’s spending habits
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/30/canada-study-homeless-money-spending?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#HomelessPeople
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-04-13/suspect-arrest-san-francisco-killing-of-cash-app-founder-bob-lee Boy this story is rich. #CashApp founder was knifed to death by a #techconsultant he knew personally. And here rich people were blaming rampant crime on the very #poorpeople and #homelesspeople they helped make poor and homeless
Belgian Ecclesia Brussel - Leuvenchristadelphians.wordpress.com@christadelphians.wordpress.com
2020-02-25The Christadelphians or Brothers and Sisters in Christ are a community of lovers of God, who follow the teachings of the Nazarene Master Teacher Jeshua, better known as Jesus Christ, the Messiah.
As followers of the Jewish man from Nazareth, we are aware that Jesus him being a Jew, worshipped the God of Israel, and asked to do his followers to do so too. That God of Abraham is a Singular Eternal Spirit Being, no man can see. Jesus did not come to earth to undo the Law of God or the Torah. He came to explain it and to show the Way to God. Therefore, we take the words of Jesus seriously as an indication of how to continue our life on the path laid in front of us by this rabbi, and keep to the Law of God, God and His son their teachings and wishes, instead of keeping to human doctrines.
Jesus preached love for all creatures of God, and that is why we find it necessary not only to show and share that love for the whole of creation (earth, plants, animals and human beings), but also to come up for the weaker ones and to help and defend those in need.
In case you are looking for making your life easier or want to know more about the present and the future and our position in the whole picture or Plan of God, then you are right at our address.
Even when you are not sure about the existence of God, you are welcome to join us at our meetings and Bible Classes. We also provide printed material which you are welcome to read and to question us about. Any time of the day someone shall be willing to help you with your questions or solving your problems.
At our ecclesiae we have meetings for studying and worshipping but also moments of gathering and sharing good time and food. Also, at those events you are very welcome.
In Wintertime, we also provide shelter for the night, in certain towns, for the homeless people. Waifs and strays are also welcome at our food supplies.
But our main occupation in the ecclesia is the provision to glorify God and praise Him with a merger in prayer and Bible reading in the unity of spirit.
For those gatherings, where they may take place (Leuven, Leefdaal-Bertem, Tervuren, Brussels, Nivelles-Nijvel, Mons or Newbury), we invite you to join us and to feel the spirit of our brotherhood.
In Belgium, we are financially very limited and do have no building of our own. We have to rent spaces and also use private houses, making house-church. For that reason it is not possible to offer set days and hours for our meetings. In Newbury, it is different. There our brethren and sisters have their own hall and offer services on Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, with regular events on different days as well. Never be afraid to contact them or us to have further contact or to know about their and/our activities.
For the Carelinks (like the Antwerp Ecclesia) and Old Paths Christadelphians you shall have to contact them. We as Free Christadelphians are not bounded to any person or organisation and could be considered being part of the more progressive branch of Christadelphianism, having liberated ourselves from all boundaries of this world, only to be bounded to the sent one from God, the son of God, Jeshua, Jesus Christ.
One of us might have a strength in one area and another might be strong in another. We believe that when we can join hands to make ourselves stronger. We are convinced that when we come together in union, we all benefit and are made into the image of Christ.
We believe that all can help each other to grow in the Body of Christ, becoming more like Christ, pure and set apart. Coming together we give each other the opportunity to learn more about the Word of God, by sharing and discussing that set apart or holy Word. Together we can help each individual around us, to become part of a bigger unit, able to be compassionate, gentle, and to have a great capacity for mercy and forgiveness.
When coming to our ecclesia you should not be afraid that people would look at you as a strange intruder, because nobody would. Nobody shall go to point to the faults of yourself or others. Instead, you may find we try to use the strengths the Lord has given us to build up the body of Christ. We all have faults, and we all have gifts, and they are meant to work together. We all go for the same primary goal, to grow in the spirit according to God His Wishes, and to form a strong unit in the Body of Christ. By the influence of our fellowships you and we can have our character transformed.
At our ecclesia or church, we are people who want to share the hope in a better world. To reach that goal we know we have to start by ourselves and our own surroundings. We hope to inspire each other in our community of believers in Only One True God, but also to encourage those outside our community, to work at a relationship with Jesus, because when we seek him and not this world, he will teach us, and we will grow in all good things. A lot of this process is done through our brethren and sisters, who are here also for you!
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Please find also to read:
- Lovers of God, seekers and lovers of truth
- Words in the world
- Not all christians are followers of a Greco-Roman culture
- Who are the Christadelphians
- Who are Brothers in Christ and why do they call themselves Christadelphian?
- Christadelphians or Messianic Christians or Messianic Jews
- Brothers and sisters in Christ for you
- History of the Christadelphians
- John Thomas
- Forming a Christian bond
- About the Belgian Free Christadelphians
- Those who call the Christadelphians a cult
- What Christadelphians teach
- Differences between Christadelphians and other churches in Christianity
- Handbook to the Christadelphian Statement of Faith
- Living as a believer in Christ
- Disciple of Christ counting lives and friends dear to them
- My faith
- Becoming brothers and sisters in Christ
- Christadelphians children of God
- Gathering or meeting of believers
- What and why Christadelphian Ecclesia‘
- The Ecclesia
- The ecclesia or Christadelphian church
- The Ecclesia in the churchsystem
- Intentions of an Ecclesia
- Reasons to come together
- Congregate, to gather, to meet
- Character transformed by the influence of our fellowships
- What makes a consecrated Christian
- Small churches of the few Christadelphians
- Ecclesia to exist, grow and communities to have people communicating with each other
- A participation in the body of Christ
- Looking for Christadelphian in your neighbourhood
- C4U (Christ For You – Christadelphians For You)
- Guide to Christadelphian Ecclesias
- Adresses of Brothers in Christ Worldwide
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