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   Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 11:19:36 JST Bread up, Bro
   sad, my mom spent a lot of time at Joanns.
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     Thomas Magnum (leyonhjelm@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 12:58:53 JST Thomas Magnum

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     https://youtu.be/1WH757Awuuo
     
     If you can tolerate his voice Company Man did a video on Joann about three weeks ago.
     
     I used to get yarn there and bought my sewing machine there. Not my wife’s, mine. She’s welcome to use it and both my mom and I have offered to teach her.
     
     The worst part of the PE leeches here is Joann already destroyed or bought the competition so the only real remaining options for most people are non-specialist hobby stores. It’s a big loss
     
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     @polarisera reposted your post (polarisera@spinster.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 12:58:53 JST @polarisera reposted your post

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     @Leyonhjelm @sickburnbro PE lies to America about the "inevitable" decline of retail, even the "decline" of newspapers is fake and driven by PE cuts and extraction. But Americans are morons. For the brainless shitlib it's always Communism or Kleptocracy, and nothing in between, never any act to protect America, or even to the truth. The shitlib enjoys the lies.

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     @polarisera reposted your post (polarisera@spinster.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 12:58:54 JST @polarisera reposted your post

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     @sickburnbro I bet private equity was involved. Pause to Search: Joann is owned by private equity investment firm Leonard Green & Partners (LGP),

     Yup, PE is vampires, they deliberately model the collapse of a business extracting as much wealth as possible all the way down.

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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 13:00:28 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @polarisera @Leyonhjelm Americans aren't "morons" - people have shit to do and they did try and fight this stupidity for several decades. The story of the city that refused to go along with the forced bussing is instructive.
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     Ricky "Bender" LaFluer :nv: (evil_bender@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 13:01:25 JST Ricky "Bender" LaFluer :nv:

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     My mom would buy the sewing patterns and mak costumes when I was a kid
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 13:08:48 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @polarisera @Leyonhjelm But the decline of retail is tied directly to community; to Bowling Alone. If no-one is going to go out of their house unless they have to, retail *will* die. But people want to; they've seen what is at the extreme end of that with covid and they've decided they don't like that ( jeff cliff excluded, perhaps )
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     Escoffier Gab refugee (escoffier@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 13:12:43 JST Escoffier Gab refugee

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     @sickburnbro My wife knit and crocheted and something that made her angry was that by the mid 90's it was more expensive to make clothing from scratch than it was to buy it.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 13:13:36 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @Escoffier yeah, hard to compete against sweatshop labor when everything in the system is pushing for it.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 13:14:24 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @Escoffier It costs $30 for you to send a care package of cookies to grandma, but $1.50 to send junk from China. It's pretty easy to tell something is up here.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 13:15:42 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @Leyonhjelm @polarisera Don't worry we will control the spice, and I mean the strategic maple syrup reserve.
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     Thomas Magnum (leyonhjelm@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 13:15:43 JST Thomas Magnum

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     Jeff is a fucking leaf
     
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 22:18:34 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • scenesbycolleen
     @scenesbycolleen @SK1ZM @mushroom_soup if you already have enough fabric that is is sorted by color and/or holiday, you don't need more.
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     SKiZM :confederate: (sk1zm@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 22:18:35 JST SKiZM :confederate:

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     They'll probably have a going out of business/ everything must go sale though right? 🙏🏻
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     scenesbycolleen (scenesbycolleen@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 22:18:35 JST scenesbycolleen

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     @SK1ZM @mushroom_soup @sickburnbro Yeah but it wasn't what I *needed* and I'm trying not to dump all my money on craftsy stuff (it is a struggle) :blobcatdroolreach:
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     scenesbycolleen (scenesbycolleen@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 22:18:36 JST scenesbycolleen

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     @SK1ZM @mushroom_soup @sickburnbro I KNOW :cryingcat:
     
     Also I wish I had known BEFORE I needed just *one* more skein of the same color and brand of yarn for the thing I was making :blobcatree:
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     SKiZM :confederate: (sk1zm@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 22:18:37 JST SKiZM :confederate:

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     Omg has anyone checked in on @mushroom_soup and
     @scenesbycolleen :cry_hq:
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 22:22:21 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @kingboom777 @scenesbycolleen @SK1ZM @mushroom_soup its tough, I know what it feels like when Home Depot has a big sale: "But if I buy the whole set, I save more!"
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     kingboom777 (kingboom777@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 22:22:22 JST kingboom777

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     Colleen rn frfr
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 22:43:30 JST Bread up, Bro

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     @Eiswald very sad
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     Wrath (eiswald@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 22:43:31 JST Wrath

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     @sickburnbro This is what happens when women are forced out of the home and into the workforce. Blank sterile homes and empty beds. Nothing knitted, nothing stitched. Neither a home cooked meal or the laughter of children.
     
     From my grandmother who could make our clothes and decorate the house to now.