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Check-In Post - Jan 8th 2026

Hello to all members, passers-by, curious onlookers, and shy lurkers, and welcome to our regular daily check-in post. Just leave a comment below to let us know how your current projects are progressing, or even if they're not.

Checking in is NOT compulsory, check in as often or as seldom as you want, this community isn't about pressure it's about encouragement, motivation, and support. Crafting is meant to be fun, and what's more fun than sharing achievements and seeing the wonderful things everyone else is creating?

There may also occasionally be questions, but again you don't have to answer them, they're just a way of getting to know each other a bit better.

This Week's Question: What are your crafting goals for 2026?

If anyone has any questions of their own about the community, or suggestions for tags, questions to be asked on the check-in posts, or if anyone is interested in playing check-in host for a week here on the community, which would entail putting up the daily check-in posts and responding to comments, go to the Questions & Suggestions post and leave a comment.

I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

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Vance: ICE agents have “absolute immunity” from state laws – including murder

JD Vance said – in response to a reporter asking why the FBI and Federal agencies were blocking Minnesota’s investigation into the ICE agent murder of Renee Nicole Good – that ICE agents have “absolute immunity” from state laws.

Screen photograph of JD Vance at the White House podium on CNN with the chyron "BREAKING NEWS | LIVE: VANCE: ICE AGENT WHO KILLED RENEE GOOD 'PROTECTED BY ABSOLUTE IMMUNITY'"

This is not law. This is fascism.

Posted via Solarbird{y|z|yz}, Collected.

The Friday Five for 9 January 2026

These questions were written by

losseloth.

1. Do you have a favourite cause that you support?

2. If so, how do you support it?

3. Have you been an active member of an organization (attending meetings, volunteering, etc)?

4. Have you ever led any group?

5. If so, how was your experience with it?
OR: 5. If not, why, is it a conscious choice, of lack of opportunity?

Copy and paste to your own journal, then reply to this post with a link to your answers. If your journal is private or friends-only, you can post your full answers in the comments below.

If you'd like to suggest questions for a future Friday Five, then do so on DreamWidth or LiveJournal. Old sets that were used have been deleted, so we encourage you to suggest some more!

Oberland : by Dorothy M. Richardson

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77646

Language: English

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77646

Från Washingtons salonger och hvardagslif m. m. : by Daisy Ashford and Fredrik Ulrik Wrangel

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77645

Language: Swedish

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77645

Soldiers unmasked by William Addleman Ganoe

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77647

Language: English

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77647

The Antiquary — Complete by Walter Scott

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7005

Language: English

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7005

A dissertation on the true age of the world : by R. Wallace

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76771

Language: English

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76771

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Where to Look for Evidence of Alien Visitors to Our Solar System

Not on Earth.

Where to Look for Evidence of Alien Visitors to Our Solar System

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Unknown Worlds: Tales from Beyond edited by Stanley Schmidt

Another foray into the lost worlds of Unknown.

Unknown Worlds: Tales from Beyond edited by Stanley Schmidt

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Magazine article for Single Medieval Women

I'm very excited to say that an article was recently published in the Abbey Museum of Art & Archaeology's magazine, Lindisfarne, all about my favourite thing! Well, my second favourite thing... Single Medieval Women! I've got to admit, my all time favourite thing is talking about all that behind-the-bedroom doors stuff from their lives!

It's a brief overview about who was actually single in society and what they actually did with their time whilst they were a small child, waiting to marry, or avoiding it completely!

If you'd like to learn more and would like to dip your toe into this world, you'll find an entire book, written by yours truly. It's not an academic read, because it's aimed at all of you lovely readers who know only what you've learned from Game of Thrones (oh no!) and enjoyed at your local renfaire (loads of fun but rife with historical inaccuracies!)

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More paternosters!

You'll be getting sick on hearing about them, but to add to the range of for sale paternosters, I'm making some with just plain wooden beads in two colours. These will be the cheapest, just with wool tassels, some home spun and undyed and others commercially dyed in a red.

This will give me a few price ranges so a small momento can be had for a low price, but it can be nice too!

CES 2026: Part Five (Wednesday)

https://omny.fm/shows/better-offline/ces-2026-part-five-wednesday

Welcome to Better Offline’s coverage of the 2026 Consumer Electronics Show - a standup radio station in the Palazzo Hotel with an attached open bar where reporters, experts and various other characters bring you the stories from the floor.

In Wednesday’s second episode, Ed Zitron is joined by Karissa Bell of Engadget, Jared Newman of the Advisorator newsletter, standup comedian and host of the Factually Podcast Adam Conover, Ed Ongweso Jr. of the Tech Bubble Newsletter, Robert Evans of Behind The Bastards and standup comedian and actor Chloe Radcliffe to talk about very slow laundry robots, the return of the pebble watch (and their new ring), robotic assistive technology products, the sloppification of CES, and asking “who cares?” to every single booth.

EXCLUSIVE CES SALE! Get a *permanent* $10 off an annual subscription to my newsletter through January 13 2025:
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The Tech Bubble Newsletter: https://thetechbubble.substack.com/

Karissa Bell
https://www.engadget.com/about/editors/karissa-bell/

Jared Newman:
https://advisorator.com/members/signup/

https://cordcutterweekly.com/

Chloe Radcliffe:

https://www.instagram.com/chloebadcliffe/?hl=en

https://punchup.live/chloeradcliffe

Robert Evans:

https://bsky.app/profile/iwriteok.bsky.social
https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/behind-the-bastards/id1373812661?l=en-GB

Adam Conover:
https://www.instagram.com/adamconover/?hl=en
www.adamconover.net/tourdates

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https://omny.fm/shows/better-offline/ces-2026-part-five-wednesday

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Momento Mori Pasternoster

So here's the cutest of them all, the skulls paternoster! Technically, the original has little knots in between, from memory, but as this will again not be for re-enactors, I feel it'll be a good seller. I'm not making too may of these, as the beads are a bit more expensive, and I don't want to have too many sitting around and be out of pocket.

You've gotta admit... the goth crowd are gonna love these!