Emily the knitter @emilyknits.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Spent a good chunk of the afternoon moving bins and shelves out of the basement and into my shed. Tomorrow: the dozen huge bags of fabric scraps from the Murdoch Mysteries costume room, and a lot of power tools, and some chairs, and so much weird detritus left by the previous (original) owners. 110
Emily the knitter @emilyknits.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Sweater's done, 13 days after I cast on. Now I need another new project. 000
Emily the knitter @emilyknits.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Terrific and necessary thread for all the guys out there. 010
Reposted by Emily the knitterMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026i hope that men notice how whenever a rape story gets widespread coverage, women use it as an opportunity to vent about how fucking disgusting we think many of you are and how many have made our lives measurably worse, and take a few moments to deeply process that. 9964721101
Reposted by Emily the knitterGlendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 26/09/2026Artists and other creatives have been saying this since the beginning.motherjones.comAI exec: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening. 04613
Reposted by Emily the knittersasha @2damntrans.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Astonishing really how ADHD-denialism so closely matches early trans-denialism (say, a decade ago, before it went mask-off eliminationist), to the point that it includes the exact same personalities, again vomiting their know-nothing opinions all over the place. 302153661
Emily the knitter @emilyknits.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The sweater body fits me well, which isn’t what I wanted. I want big floppy sweatshirt-style for this one. So I may rip it out and do it again in a bigger size. It’s only a week’s worth of knitting. 221
Emily the knitter @emilyknits.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The contractors are finally hooking up the dryer that's been sitting in our laundry room without even so much as an outlet for it since we bought the place five years ago. 🎊 030
Emily the knitter @emilyknits.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Just bound off the body of the August sweater (from Ozetta Designs) that I started a week ago today. 030
Reposted by Emily the knitterjentrification ♎ @jentrification.com · 25/09/2026Largely missing from the archaeological record, fiber innovations played a huge role in the lives of early humans. Researchers are weaving together new insights from the traces they left behindsmithsonianmag.comArchaeologists Are Reconstructing the 'Invisible' Technologies of the Stone Age, From Rope to Thread and TwineLargely missing from the archaeological record, fiber innovations played a huge role in the lives of early humans. Researchers are weaving together new insights from the traces they left behind 0148
Emily the knitter @emilyknits.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Each block represents a stolen neighbour. The scale of the community collaboration on a project like this is just breathtaking.audacy.comMinnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee unveil massive 11,000 patch quilt made in protest against ICEDemonstrators with the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee gathered at the State Capitol Tuesday to unveil a massive 11,000 patch quilt made in protest against ICE: "Unique precious lives are ... 041
Emily the knitter @emilyknits.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Since menopause, I've been unable to tolerate headphones or earbuds. If I put on music or watch TV, my (almost certainly autistic) daughter gets overstimulated. Music helps and is important to me but it's not something I have much access to these days. Makes me sad. 130
Reposted by Emily the knitterGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comAbandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George MonbiotChanges in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot 17925261729
Reposted by Emily the knitterPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Humans are interdependent. This is sacrosanct. Some people don't like this but it's something that will always be true. 423743
Emily the knitter @emilyknits.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I am amused that my most popular post on Bsky so far is a screenshot from Formerly Twitter that I found on Reddit. 100
Reposted by Emily the knitterEmily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Always a treat to be reminded of an old friend 5695383401
Emily the knitter @emilyknits.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I'm a GenXer who joined Bsky in Nov '24 and even I know enough not to post dogshit ableist takes like this. For some people, cooking and laundry take all the hustle they have. Read up on some disability justice before you go after people less fortunate than you. 131
Emily the knitter @emilyknits.bsky.social · 23/09/2026They're insulating the laundry room today. 🎉 220
Emily the knitter @emilyknits.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I started a sweater on Friday. Today I finished the yoke and divided for the sleeves. I give it maybe a week and a half before I need another new project. 120
Emily the knitter @emilyknits.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Phase one of the reno is winding down. Windows are back after being beautifully refurbished. New sliding glass door for the balcony today or tomorrow, as well as insulation in the laundry room. Phase two will happen in a month or so and will involve actually finishing the place. 🎉 140
Reposted by Emily the knitterRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Stories like this have, for ages, treated men's desire to harm women as a sort of background noise, a weather we just normalize and accept and try to work around. Feminism is among other things a process of denormalization. 292397729
Reposted by Emily the knitterMusicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I have not responded to the email that you sent me and which you probably spent awhile writing Forgive me it was so long and my executive functioning is completely shot 1847182
Reposted by Emily the knitterLake Ontario! Live! @lake-ontario.live · 19/09/2026Current* conditions near Kingston, ON: 011
Reposted by Emily the knitterHillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I've been called an antisemite and an islamophobe this week for making space for multiple traumas and declaring dead children is wrong no matter who does what travesty to whom. I don't decide what you think of me. I do decide that "dead children is wrong" is a hill I will defend. 132731
Reposted by Emily the knitterPuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Locking people up for using drugs will never make sense to me. The people I've known who've used drugs, in spite of the threat of severe consequences, did so bc they are not/were not okay. Locking people in dungeons traumatizes them further and makes these patterns even harder to break. 7725123
Emily the knitter @emilyknits.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Yesterday as a reward to myself for driving around MizC and her very sweet but perfume-soaked friend on errands for six hours, I picked up a sweater’s worth of Estelle Eco Shetland Worsted in the coal colourway, and cast on for the August Sweater, a simple pullover with a mock turtleneck. 040
Emily the knitter @emilyknits.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Today the contractors are replacing the big bay window in the living room, the one that is only a single pane of glass. This alone should reduce the winter heating bill by a lot. 030
Reposted by Emily the knitterKrystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 18/09/2026"If you are new(er) to thinking critically about how to operationalize suicide prevention beyond sharing a phone number to call if at risk to oneself, it looks like robust investments in abolition, harm reduction, mutual aid, etc., all of which are aligned with the Disability Justice framework."🫂equitableforall.comWill You Please Invest (More) in Disability Justice Work to Operationalize Suicide Prevention?For Suicide Prevention Month, the author continues to reckon with the costs of Access Intimacy Abuse at the hands of Makai Livingstone, the founder of Embodied Support Services, as she deconstructs ho... 042
Emily the knitter @emilyknits.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I think 20yo me would be very surprised by who I am now. Canadian and autistic? With a master’s degree in social work, heading into a fourth career? What?!? 020
Emily the knitter @emilyknits.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The window at the top of the stairs is back! 🎉🪟 020
Reposted by Emily the knitterADHD Jesse @adhdjesse.com · 14/09/2026ADHD is thinking about all the things you have to do, getting stressed about all the things, worrying about the consequences of not doing the things, but still feeling stuck and unable to do any of the things. 52765104
Emily the knitter @emilyknits.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Finished all the knitting on Åsa Tricosa's Vaudeville pullover. Now I just need to darn in the ends and block it. What next? I dug out another project from one of her patterns that I started six years ago and finally decided to admit that I don't like the yarn (too much pink). There, I said it. 251
Emily the knitter @emilyknits.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Hopeful that this is what our windows will do tomorrow. 020
Reposted by Emily the knitterImani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026It's about fairness in sports = it's about ethics in journalism. 543082
Emily the knitter @emilyknits.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Today is the annual harvest festival on the island. A cow just tried to eat my pants. I love it here. 060
Emily the knitter @emilyknits.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Today I rescued a teeny little mouse from the cats, who had been chasing it around the living room for at least an hour. Wondering how the mouse understands what happened. Mortal danger, then a great big creature looming, then darkness, and then: grass! outside! 120
Reposted by Emily the knitterPuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I used to retell my stories from that day. I have them, of course. Everyone does. But as someone who didn’t lose anyone, or wade through the smoke, I’m particularly concerned, in this historical moment, about avoiding any sense of nostalgia about victimhood in the heart of empire. 728142
Reposted by Emily the knitterSpectrum News NY1 @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The last speaker at the 9/11 remembrance ceremony lost his father to the attacks. 9367931762
Reposted by Emily the knitterJules Sherred (he/him) @geekyjules.julessherred.com · 11/09/2026The thing about 9/11 is: 25 years later, Americans still arent ready to sit with some truths about why it happened and why it will likely happen again 171
Emily the knitter @emilyknits.bsky.social · 11/09/2026After 2001 I spent a dozen years teaching English to non-native speakers. It was my very great honour to work with hundreds of Muslim immigrants, refugees, and visitors to Canada, as well as Muslim colleagues. They taught me volumes about kindness, humility, resilience, and faith. 010
Emily the knitter @emilyknits.bsky.social · 11/09/202625 years ago today I was in a hip-to-ankle leg brace, not allowed to put weight on my right leg after knee surgery a few weeks before. The TV was downstairs and the internet was upstairs and so many of my friends lived in or near New York City. 000
Emily the knitter @emilyknits.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Shame on @hrc.org. Shame, shame, shame. Trans rights are human rights. 000
Emily the knitter @emilyknits.bsky.social · 08/09/2026A lot of who I am is because of a sci-fi show that premiered 60 years ago today. Happy birthday, Star Trek. Thank you for giving hope for a diverse, inclusive future for humanity. 031
Reposted by Emily the knitterSam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I don’t remember whose insight this is, but it blew my mind when I first read that to understand American history you have to get that race law was designed to increase the number of enslavable people (one-drop rule) and decrease the number of claimants to indigenous land (blood quantum) 522987653
Reposted by Emily the knitterClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 07/09/2026the quilt made of ribbons is now ten million times more beautiful 1802125