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Hunter Hammersen @hunterhammersen.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Found this on the side of the road. Almost left it, but then saw that the top opened. So of course I brought it home, cleaned it up, oiled it, and replaced the knobs. And now it (briefly) looks like this. Its real use for me will be as a plant stand, but we needed the rainbow thread pic!

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Hunter Hammersen @hunterhammersen.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Series of thoughts, more or less in order: 1: Ohhhh, pretty! 2: God fucking dammit...oh wait, there's another one on the other side...do I even actually know how to knit? 3: Hold on, I can fix it... 4: I shall now be smugly satisfied that at least my mistakes teach me to be good at fixing things.

Lovely little brioche hat...with a sneaky error

zoomed in version of the previous pic with the error circled to draw attention to it

in progress pic of the other error i noticed being fixed (because apparently i was too cranky while fixing the first one to take a pic of it, but did manage to take a pic while fixing the second one)

After the fix, not yet blocked, but once it is, the error will all but disappear!

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Hunter Hammersen @hunterhammersen.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

If you are able to avoid the news and make something today, I highly recommend it. You don't have to watch the absolute travesty taking place. It will still happen whether you watch or not, and watching it will probably hurt, so you're allowed to care for yourself instead.

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Hunter Hammersen @hunterhammersen.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

It's one giant piece of paper folded up to make several pockets. The idea is that I'll hang it on the wall and fill the pockets with things that bring me joy.

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Hunter Hammersen @hunterhammersen.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

My country is inaugurating a fascist rapist today. Again. Instead of a competent woman. Again. And that's doing a number on my brain, so I'm going to spend the day working on the next iteration of this.

Photo of a wall hanging made from one giant sheet of white paper, folded up into several rows of pockets, with various bits of pretty papers tucked in the pockets. It's laying on my dining room table and you can see my bookcases in the background. The other pictures in the thread are more pictures of the same thing from other angles.

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Hunter Hammersen @hunterhammersen.bsky.social · 14/07/2024

Oh this is beautiful!!! And I want a story of that border guard's thoughts!

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Hunter Hammersen @hunterhammersen.bsky.social · 20/05/2024

Libraries are so damn cool! My local library is doing a four week embroidery class, and it's been so fun. First two weeks turned out this, and you can totally come join for the next two weeks if you're so inclined! 🧶 www.librarycamden.org/event/healin...

Photo of embroidery. The embroidery is on gray felt using pink, yellow, and white silk embroidery thread. The design is a circle with the same design repeated on eight points to make sort of a snowflake/kaleidoscope/round stained glass window sort of vibe.

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Hunter Hammersen @hunterhammersen.bsky.social · 19/05/2024

I am currently experiencing the Discworld books for the first time and finding them absolutely astonishing. I'm binging the audiobooks from the library and they are wonderful. I wasn't ready for them earlier, but damn do they hit hard right now.

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Hunter Hammersen @hunterhammersen.bsky.social · 15/05/2024

I'm trying out tiktok. Which I realize this is hilariously bad timing, what with the ban. But whatever, that's what being a small business is like! So, if you're on there come find me: www.tiktok.com/@HunterHamme... I don't know what I'm doing, so there may be amusing mistakes! 🧶

screenshot of me setting up a new tiktok account

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Hunter Hammersen @hunterhammersen.bsky.social · 15/05/2024

I thought I was done knitting urchins. I really did. But then you see I found myself somewhere that sold beads. And I was quickly overcome. As so often happens. So now there must be at least a few more urchins. I'm sure you understand. 🧶

Photo of two knitted sea urchin shells, three real sea urchin shells, and a small tube of glass beads. All piled together on some rocks and driftwood.

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Hunter Hammersen @hunterhammersen.bsky.social · 14/05/2024

Remember those pinchy pinch purses your grandma had in her bag? The ones where you pretended they were monster mouths when you opened them? How about a knitted version? Going 'chomp chomp chomp' is optional, but encouraged! 🧶 rav: www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib... payhip: payhip.com/b/plj4H

photo of three knitted pouches of different sizes and designs, arranged on a gray table, with various small knitting notions scattered about. there are also some pretty yellow flowers for good spring vibes.

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Hunter Hammersen @hunterhammersen.bsky.social · 06/05/2024

Help the folks doing good work in states with bad laws. They really need it.

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Hunter Hammersen @hunterhammersen.bsky.social · 06/05/2024

You can. It'll suck, but you can. And when it's done it'll be so awesome.

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Hunter Hammersen @hunterhammersen.bsky.social · 02/05/2024

P.S. It doesn't matter what size the buttons are! I'm sewing the button band shut (because four buttons do not hold a form fitting sweater nicely closed over the topography of my body), so the buttons will just be for show, not to actually use.

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Hunter Hammersen @hunterhammersen.bsky.social · 02/05/2024

I possess: 1) an eye-searingly bright pink sweater with substandard buttons (& bonus kitten guardian) 2) three options for slightly better buttons 3) plans spend tomorrow evening at one of the rare events at which this sweater would be appropriate 4) crippling indecision Help me pick! 🧶

photo of a solid black cat, sitting in loaf position atop a BRIGHT pink sweater, which is resting on my black desk

photo of the same sweater with three different button options

close up on the three button options. one is a large white shell button, one is a small pewter button with a floral pattern, one is a glass button with a geometric design

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Hunter Hammersen @hunterhammersen.bsky.social · 01/05/2024

Well this looks like a good thing to do when I sit down at my computer this morning!

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Hunter Hammersen @hunterhammersen.bsky.social · 30/04/2024

This is fine. This is a reasonable thing to do with both my time and yarn. Totally fine. Absolutely normal. No need for alarm. 🧶

A photo of some sea urchin shells, two real, and three knitted, atop a piece of driftwood.

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Hunter Hammersen @hunterhammersen.bsky.social · 22/04/2024

I have successfully done a bookshelf purge. I have 3 tall bookcases in the dining room, and between them I was able to locate 20 books that are ready to go live happier lives somewhere else. This, plus a little rearranging, led to the creation of One Empty Shelf, which I shall fill with plants.

Photo of the 20 books destined for the used book store. I am intentionally only showing the bottoms of the books because I don't want anybody to see their book in that pile and have a bad feeling, so please no one ask for the titles of the books.

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Hunter Hammersen @hunterhammersen.bsky.social · 24/03/2024

First one! And if brain is angry, things can be improved by fine tuning the bin situation.

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Hunter Hammersen @hunterhammersen.bsky.social · 24/03/2024

All of this. Plus amazon's new return policy is traaaaash. I have to take anything I want to return to Staples, which is more than an hour of driving for me. They require this even if the item is damaged/defective. They charge for other options. This policy has cut my orders by at least 75%.

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Hunter Hammersen @hunterhammersen.bsky.social · 23/03/2024

The plant I thought was dying has made a bunch of new leaves. This is one of the five good feelings. Others include "happy cat on me," "excellent leftovers in the fridge for lunch," "fresh sheets," and "ooooh, I forgot I'd already done that bit, now I'm ahead of schedule."

Photo of my plant showing several new leaves

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 19/03/2024

What’s the emoji for no fucking shit you reap what you sow that’s what comes from being a bunch of selfish assholes disabled people fucking told you this would happen our system wasn’t set up to handle all the chronically ill we already had now we’re gonna all fucking suffer for it we are in hell

theguardian.com

‘Alarming’ rise in Americans with long Covid symptoms

CDC data shows nearly 18m people could be living with long Covid even as health agency relaxes isolation recommendations

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Hunter Hammersen @hunterhammersen.bsky.social · 16/03/2024

We're voting over here: patreon.com/posts/which-... and whichever one wins will come out later this month! 🧶

photo of the hat with the embroidery worked on it

photo of three hats with the embroidery worked on them

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Hunter Hammersen @hunterhammersen.bsky.social · 16/03/2024

I've got...expansion packs for both of these patterns that talk about how you do all that nifty embroidery. They came out as exclusives for members last year, but now it's time to make them available more generally. And we need to pick which one!⁠ 🧶

photo of a sampler of embroidery stitches on knitting

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Hunter Hammersen @hunterhammersen.bsky.social · 11/03/2024

Why on earth would anyone want their spouse to risk long term, serious illness? If you stop taking precautions, it's not 'if you get covid' it's 'how many times do you get covid.' And there's absolutely nothing to suggest that it doesn't just keep doing more and more damage as you keep getting it.

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 07/03/2024

okay just because i know you all are tired of all of us with adhd complaining about the drug shortages, i'm leaving this here. please leave a comment! even if you don't have adhd! this is impacting you negatively by having to hear about it constantly lmfao

regulations.gov

Regulations.gov

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Hunter Hammersen @hunterhammersen.bsky.social · 28/02/2024

Yeah...a part of me says "it's your house, you can order custom stuff on the internet, there is very little stopping you from having that on your front door."

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Hunter Hammersen @hunterhammersen.bsky.social · 28/02/2024

I desperately want a version where "water" is replaced with "mood".

Photo of a faded sign on a tree. The sign says "fast moving and changing water levels stay away for your own safety"

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Hunter Hammersen @hunterhammersen.bsky.social · 27/02/2024

It's quieter to just say them out loud than to be silently screaming them in my head all the time.

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Hunter Hammersen @hunterhammersen.bsky.social · 27/02/2024

This is not something I knew before (I probably should have, sorry about that), and I appreciate you saying it. I'll be aware of it in the future now! I always love when I find stuff I might have been doing is inadvertently shitty so I can stop doing it. I never want to be an asshole accidentally!

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Hunter Hammersen @hunterhammersen.bsky.social · 27/02/2024

Do everything you can to fight this. If it hasn’t hurt you or someone you love yet, it will if we don’t stop it. I shout about it Every Month (and remind folks they can get abortion pills now, no matter where they live, even if they're not pregnant, in case they need them later).

plancpills.org

PLAN C: Abortion pills by mail in every state

Plan C is an information resource for self-managed, at-home abortion with pills. Learn how people in the U.S. are accessing abortion pill options online.

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Hunter Hammersen @hunterhammersen.bsky.social · 27/02/2024

This is only going to get worse. Other states are considering similar fetal personhood questions, and they’re all based in attempts to limit access to abortion. Everyone deserves bodily autonomy, and any attempt to limit it hurts us all.

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Hunter Hammersen @hunterhammersen.bsky.social · 27/02/2024

So now it’s unclear what happens when those embryos die or to the embryos left over when someone is done with IVF. Several clinics have stopped IVF treatment, the rest are trying to figure out how they’re allowed to help people who want to get pregnant. Explanation of how this can affect IVF here:

npr.org

How Alabama's ruling that frozen embryos are 'children' could impact IVF

Frozen embryos are people and you can be held legally responsible if you destroy them, according to the Alabama Supreme Court. The decision could have wide-ranging implications for IVF clinics.

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Hunter Hammersen @hunterhammersen.bsky.social · 27/02/2024

This matters because creating lots of embryos at once & freezing them until they’re needed is part of how IVF works, and about half the embryos created through IVF die (as do many embryos created the old fashioned way). There’s a good explanation of the general process of IVF here:

npr.org

The science of IVF: What to know about Alabama's 'extrauterine children' ruling

Why are so many frozen embryos created? And how is the Alabama Supreme Court ruling likely to affect IVF in the future? Here's what you need to know.

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Hunter Hammersen @hunterhammersen.bsky.social · 27/02/2024

Alabama’s Supreme Court just ruled that the frozen embryos used in IVF are “extrauterine children” and that the states wrongful death laws apply to “all unborn children, regardless of their location.” There’s a good explanation of the case here.

jurist.org

Explainer: Making Sense of Alabama’s Supreme Court Ruling on IVF

The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that frozen embryos are children. What does this mean? And how might the ruling reverberate as the US grapples with reproductive rights in a post-Roe world? In this...

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Hunter Hammersen @hunterhammersen.bsky.social · 27/02/2024

This month I also want to remind you that abortion restrictions hurt EVERYONE, even people who are actively trying to get pregnant. CW for pregnancy loss on everything I link to in this thread.

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Hunter Hammersen @hunterhammersen.bsky.social · 27/02/2024

I've been doing this on the blog/patreon/instagram for a while, but I want to do it here too. Every month I do a post saying “abortions are good” and send a donation to AidAccess.org (where you can order abortion pills online, even if you live somewhere with a ban, even if you’re not pregnant).

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Hunter Hammersen @hunterhammersen.bsky.social · 26/02/2024

Oh UGH. I hate when things are chaotic. I hope it resolves soon and you can carve out a little corner of peace somewhere.

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Hunter Hammersen @hunterhammersen.bsky.social · 24/02/2024

I like to do it...then do it again like a week later...because there's always more to get rid of the second time around.

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Hunter Hammersen @hunterhammersen.bsky.social · 24/02/2024

Same pic, the stuff smudged over in pink is The Whole Stash. That's it. That's all of it. The stuff smudged over in blue is old book samples (which I need to purge next) and other finished things I hang on to for future pics/work stuff. The gray bins at the top are full of photo props. 🧶

Same photo as in the previous skeet with four bins circled in blue and seven circled in pink.

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