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Mikayla H @mhut.ch · 11/09/2026

Here are my finished "rats in hammocks" earrings. Pet rats love hanging out in hammocks, and these are no exception!

Two silver earrings on a white background. They each depict a rat in a hammock perfectly sized to hold their body, facing forward, with their tails hanging down behind.

Mikayla H @mhut.ch · 14/05/2026

Took this little wax earring carving of a rat in a hammock to the caster today 🐀 Launching the business soon and so far half my designs are rat-based 😅

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Mikayla H @mhut.ch · 08/03/2026

Started skiing with my GF this year and yesterday (my 6th time ever skiing on snow) we reached the top of a lift only to find out that the blue/intermediate route down was closed for grooming. So... I did my first black diamond 😱

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Mikayla H @mhut.ch · 08/03/2026

Today is the ten year anniversary of my public coming out and I still have only two regrets - not doing it sooner, and not using this gif for the announcement

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a woman is smiling with the words i am no man above her

Alt: Eowyn removing her helmet, with the subtitle "I am no man"

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Mikayla H @mhut.ch · 27/01/2026

I was back in Mesa AZ last week taking an awesome chasing and repousse class with the wonderful teacher and toolmaker Saign Charlestein - here are some exercises I worked on at various stages of completion

A completed chased fleur-de-lys design in copper, mounted in a pitch bowl

A repoussed fleur-de-lys design mounted in a pitch bowl, before flipping and chasing

A completed chased Celtic knot design in copper, held in a hand, next to a fleur-de-lys design in copper, lined and mounted in a pitch bowl

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Mikayla H @mhut.ch · 26/11/2025

Still working on some details (and getting a store set up etc) but here's a preview of my first production jewelry piece 🐀🧀

Silver pendant of a sleeping rat dreaming of a golden cheese. The chain goes through the cheese and the rat swings freely beneath

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Mikayla H @mhut.ch · 26/10/2025

Sooooo my girlfriend hasn't seen the Matrix, but I showed her Bound first, and I'm honestly envious she gets to see them in that order

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Morgan M Page @morganmpage.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Last week, Dean Spade talked about how we’re all being socialized into being anti-social — which is really the heart of most of our problems today — and the only way out is to push ourselves to become social again.

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Mikayla H @mhut.ch · 10/10/2025

I'm bemused by the difference between "jewellery" in the UK and "jewelry" in the US. I grew up in the schwa-heavy soup of the UK but learned jewelry skills in the US, and "jewelry" makes far more sense to me

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Mikayla H @mhut.ch · 10/10/2025

I went into a bar, and something triggered an idea for a jewelry design that was important enough that I opened my notes app to record it. In my notes I found a half written idea, and was compelled to complete it. After that, my original idea had vanished #adhd

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Mikayla H @mhut.ch · 07/10/2025

Beginning to mentally reframe myself as a "designer / maker". My short term goal is making jewelry as art and maybe a business, but I love dabbling in all sorts of disciplines and love making tools, and don't want to leave software entirely, so it's difficult to define exactly what I do...

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Mikayla H @mhut.ch · 28/09/2025

I have wondered about ways to use my metalsmithing skills to make things other than jewelry... and @lackingceremony.bsky.social's keynote at @qgcon.bsky.social now has me thinking about making metal artifacts for TTRPGs and how they might contribute to gameplay 🤔

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.

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Mikayla H @mhut.ch · 18/09/2025

I kinda wanna create a cathartic social media app where the messages just disappear into the void without anyone ever seeing them

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Mikayla H @mhut.ch · 18/09/2025

Slow but steady progress on the jeweler's bench... finished edge banding and sanding on all 14 drawers, but unfortunately I left my Osmo TopOil 3025 cap loose and it dried out so I can't finish them yet 😩

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/09/2025

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

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Mikayla H @mhut.ch · 17/09/2025

I would pay good money to be able to temporarily hide political posts from my social media feeds... would make compartmentalization much easier

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Mikayla H @mhut.ch · 17/09/2025

Feels weird to think that the first pieces of jewelry I sell are likely to be castings when the thing that I most love about jewelry making is working in metal directly. But I love how this piece turned out, and casting scales so much better....

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Mikayla H @mhut.ch · 13/09/2025

Here's a sleeping rat dreaming of cheese that I hand-carved in wax at a figurative wax carving class with Kate Wolf in Portland, ME. This is the first thing I've carved in wax that I'm genuinely excited to cast, and I'm seriously considering getting a mold made and selling pendants 😄

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Mikayla H @mhut.ch · 25/08/2025

I've been exploring the idea of creating a jewelry business and maybe going back to software only part time or not at all - but I haven't really figured out my creative voice and "brand" yet, let alone a business model 😞

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Mikayla H @mhut.ch · 25/08/2025

Apparently my accent is now in a weird in-between place where Americans think I'm British and Brits think I'm American 😅

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Mikayla H @mhut.ch · 18/08/2025

Final tally of my lapidary work from 8 days of classes with Michael Boyd - I focused on the lapidary side, but learned a ton about integrating stone and metal, and excited by all the possibilities this opens up for my own designs 😄

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Mikayla H @mhut.ch · 10/08/2025

Made these over the past few days in lapidary class and now I'm obsessed with rocks

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Mikayla H @mhut.ch · 08/08/2025

Miscalculated the amount of 1/4" plywood I needed for my drawer bottoms and ordered some more to make up the difference. But when it arrived and I started cutting, I realized I was still short by a factor of 2 😩

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radams @radamssmash.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

My goto is to ask LLMs how many states have R in their name. They always fail. GPT 5 included Indiana, Illinois, and Texas in its list. It then asked me if I wanted an alphabetical highlighted map. Sure, why not.

A shitty map created by ChatGPT5. it purports to be US States with an R in their name, but it's wrong and dumb and worthless just like LLMs.

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Mikayla H @mhut.ch · 05/08/2025

Spent most of the day cutting and milling the drawers for my jeweler's standing bench, and started gluing. There are 7 drawers on each side and the smallest are only 1.5" high - perfect for making small and narrow things like files and measuring tools easy to find.

A drawer in the process of being glued together, clamped on all sides

Stacks of cut drawer sides in multiple sizes with milled rabbets - 14 drawers, so 56 pieces total

Trimming the long edge of a drawer side on a table saw

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Mikayla H @mhut.ch · 02/08/2025

It's jarring how a lot of young queer folks today have a completely ahistoric understanding of the term "gay panic" that seems to be primarily rooted in ignorance of our recent past rather than a desire for reclamation (and I don't think "reclamation" even really makes sense in this context).

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Mikayla H @mhut.ch · 29/07/2025

Designed drawer stacks to hang under my standing bench, and was making solid progress on them until the template guide bushing came loose, wrecked itself on the router bit, and spun across the floor in a shower of brass shavings. Project on hold until I can get a replacement bushing 😩

A stack of routed plywood panels, with a plywood template clamped to one, and a router and damaged brass template guide bushing sitting on top

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Mikayla H @mhut.ch · 26/07/2025

I have fond memories of hanging out in TeamSpeak with a couple guildmates guarding a dead-quiet borderland in @guildwars2.com WvW at 3am a decade ago, somehow drunkenly deciding it should be "musical night", and all singing along to everything we did for a couple hours

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

The reality is that the only thing that can reduce homelessness, mental illness, and addiction is more housing, more investment in shelters, and building more mental health infrastructure. That’s it. You can’t address homelessness without houses and you can’t address illness without healthcare.

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Mikayla H @mhut.ch · 24/07/2025

Is it weird to go outside at midnight, lie on your back on your asphalt driveway, and bask in the wonder of the celestial dome above? Maybe, but I don't care about the opinion of folks who would judge.

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Mikayla H @mhut.ch · 24/07/2025

The lingering sense of burnout has made it difficult to stay on top of the current state of physics and astronomy, but I will never lose the feeling that took me into the field in the first place. Looking up at the stars will always evoke a deep sense of awe and wonder.

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Mikayla H @mhut.ch · 24/07/2025

Just walked alone thru the center of Boston at 10pm as a cis-passing woman and felt safe the entire way... really drives home the utter ridiculousness of the right-wing commentators who are irrationally terrified of cities and public transit

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Mikayla H @mhut.ch · 24/07/2025

Was at a bloodwork appointment this afternoon and the technician was excitedly telling me how she was pretty sure she'd seen Jupiter and Venus last night and that made me so happy

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Mikayla H @mhut.ch · 24/07/2025

Feels a little disingenuous that my Bluesky profile photo is from before I had FFS, even tho it's still recognizable and I like it, and my FFS was explicitly intended only to fix dysphoric spirals caused by bad angles...

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Mikayla H @mhut.ch · 24/07/2025

Downtown for some errands today and took the opportunity to wander through the Fens - always enjoyable!

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Mikayla H @mhut.ch · 23/07/2025

TFW you're the only person in a queer bar and both bartenders do the absolute bare minimum of interaction then start an animated conversion with the next person who comes in

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Mikayla H @mhut.ch · 07/07/2025

There is a turkey with a single chick that keeps visiting my yard and I thought it was cute until I looked up how many eggs turkeys lay... now I'm sad 😞

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Mikayla H @mhut.ch · 06/07/2025

Got myself a pressure washer and as I was washing my driveway I realized I was legitimately having fun. Not sure how to feel about this 😅

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now featured in the criterion collection @anem0ne.net · 06/07/2025

it is wild how many non-trans people seem to be taking an issue with this extremely correct thread: transphobia was an extreme minority position that was isolated to fringe reactionary christian conservatives, but through "liberal" publications laundering bigoted talking points it became accepted

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Mikayla H @mhut.ch · 25/06/2025

Took a class on chasing silver earlier this week - it's not quite finished but I'm happy with how it turned out!

A piece of silver in a pitch bowl with a chased spiral design

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/06/2025

I couldn't let that Confessore piece slide. It was such a disgusting hit piece on a vulnerable community in a moment of crisis. I dissected the article and why its framings are dishonest at best and outright lies of ommission at worst. www.thedissident.news/anatomy-of-a...

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Anatomy of a Hit Piece: Deconstructing The New York Times' Attack on Transgender Rights in U.S. v. Skrmetti

Seemingly not content with the US v. Skrmetti decision issued by the court siding with Tenessee to ban gender affirming care for trans youth, the New York Times was ready to pour salt on the fresh wou...

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Mikayla H @mhut.ch · 29/05/2025

Almost finished this kinetic pendant - just needs patina, polish, and final assembly. The top spiral is mounted on a teeny tiny ball bearing 😁

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Mikayla H @mhut.ch · 12/05/2025

Filed to create a jewelry LLC a couple weeks ago, and I'm taking it slow figuring out what exactly it'll look like, but it's exciting to have a goal to make and sell small pretty metal things 😄

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Mikayla H @mhut.ch · 07/04/2025

I stopped making dad jokes cause it was a faux pa

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Mikayla H @mhut.ch · 05/04/2025

Never thought I'd be stockpiling tool steel to mitigate the impact of a trade war but here we are 🤷‍♀️

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Mikayla H @mhut.ch · 05/04/2025

My favorite typo will forever be "marital artist"

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