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Mikayla H @mhut.ch · 08/03/2026

To be fair I did complete a series of skiing lessons on Edinburgh's Hillend dry ski slope when I was a kid, but I was still surprised that muscle memory from a sky ski slope transfers so well to snow a quarter century later!

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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 · 09/02/2026

Veggie lasagna! I vary the recipe, but usually something on the lines of a spicy tomato sauce with roasted red and yellow peppers, smoked paprika, and chipotle; a cheesy bechamel; and layer in thinly sliced zucchini, eggplant and summer squash as well as fresh pasta

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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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Love the design, can't wait to see what it looks like when you're finished!

The Celtic knot was chased entirely from the front, while the fleur-de-lys was lined from the front, then flipped over and repoussed (pushed out from the back with embossing tools), and finally flipped back and chased to add detail and refine the forms

These are in 18 gauge copper sheet (about 1mm thick), formed entirely by hammering metal punches against it, an ancient and slow process that takes several days of hard work

Mikayla H @mhut.ch · 29/11/2025

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Awesome! Huge congrats 🎉

Hah I have definitely been considering some variants including a pizza version 😂

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Thank you, that means a lot 💜

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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Yes! I have taken an online class with him and really enjoyed it, would love to take more

You know my weakness 😅

Mikayla H @mhut.ch · 08/11/2025

I have around 90 hammers and am already budgeting for more 😅

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 · 15/10/2025

I was working on a solution for this a few years ago but it died due to internal stop energy 😞

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Mikayla H @mhut.ch · 11/10/2025

Guaranteed to be cryptographically strong, much harder to steal (never leaves your device, can be kept in secure storage), phishing resistant (only the actual site that issued it can use it), inherently proves you are using a known device so no need for extra MFA

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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

I am mourning the loss of my idea. I wish I knew it 😭

I'm currently sitting in the bar and feeling an intense sense of loss. My idea is somewhere here and it's hard to leave until I recapture it.

Mikayla H @mhut.ch · 07/10/2025

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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*waves dramatically* let me tell you about class theory

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 · 07/10/2025

Although I was only peripherally aware of them before I transitioned, I later met them over dinner on Train Jam and discovered they were awesome and delightful people, and I'm honored to have met them

Mikayla H @mhut.ch · 01/10/2025

I hand-carved a sleeping rat dreaming of cheese in wax, so I can cast it in silver bsky.app/profile/mhut...

Mikayla H @mhut.ch · 01/10/2025

I sometimes use similar phrases when I'm giving a talk, or in long form writing. I feel like that's very different than using it in a response, as it's not intended as a callout - it's an explicit callback to remind or draw attention to connections between different parts of the work

Mikayla H @mhut.ch · 01/10/2025

I think there's a place for it as a call-out in a response when someone repeatedly and clearly hasn't cared to pay due attention, and in that context it's absolutely a passive-aggressive move and an escalation

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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 · 20/09/2025

...follow for more crab content?

Mikayla H @mhut.ch · 20/09/2025

... is this a live action blaseball game? 🤔

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Why yes, I have both social anxiety and a need for validation, why do you ask?

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And maybe an option to anonymously replicate a random sampling back onto a central bluesky account

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

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 😩

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

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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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2nd honorable mention to Legion in Mass Effect 3

Honorary mention to that bit at the end of Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons. Feel like a gameplay gimmick (and probably wouldn't work as well if it's not a surprise) but super effective regardless - this one made me cry too

At least they gave her decent boss music, I guess?