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Marie Greene @oliveknits.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Everything is still terrible out there, but look! We grew our own oyster mushrooms! 🌱

A towel-lined basket filled with gorgeous Italian oyster mushrooms.

Marie Greene @oliveknits.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Literally scrounging for hope in flower petals, seedlings 🌱, local activism, sourdough, and new cast-ons 🧶. How are you coping right now?

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Marie Greene @oliveknits.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Currently juggling my protest skills and my 101-uses-for-dry-bean skills and my gardening skills and my "maybe knitting will help me get through another day" skills. Am I exhausted and delirious? Yes. But is it kind of working? Maybe. 🌱🧶🥦

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Marie Greene @oliveknits.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

A palate cleanser for your timeline. 🌱

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Jen @ladyjenpool.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Me on Independent Bookstore Day

Gru with a large white pad that says "First we get a book". In the next panel it says "Then, we get another book". In the next panel it says "And then we say no more books". In the next panel it says "But then, we see another book". In the last panel Gru looks excited and it says "So we get two more books!"

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Marie Greene @oliveknits.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

That's it. I've had it. From now on, when I see a dried-up dandelion, I'm blowing those seeds everywhere. 🌼

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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 25/04/2025

Somebody somewhere Needs flowers tonight.

Fire weed and sage in a field of fall grass just starting to turn. A very blue sky.

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Marie Greene @oliveknits.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

The garden is ready for the season! And so is my new fort... I mean, greenhouse. 🌱 (Will I be sitting in my greenhouse/fort with my knitting and a cup of tea next time it rains? 110%) 🧶☕️

A photo of a greenhouse surrounded by raised garden beds with flowering plants and trees in the background.

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Marie Greene @oliveknits.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

My latest book is now available in German! Bist du eine deutsche Strickerin? Mein neues Buch ist jetzt auf Deutsch erhältlich! #booksky 📚💙 #knitting 🧶

The book Stricken für den Sommer by Marie Greene.

Marie Greene signing copies of her newest book in German.

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Dammit Doug Smith @dammitdougsmith.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Ut oh, the JD protests have taken an ugly turn

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Nilah "Nine Jobs" Magruder @nilahmagruder.com · 27/02/2025

When it comes to boycotting, just a thought. It’s okay if you can’t quit a company cold turkey. In Master Gardeners, when we encourage people to switch to native plants, the goal is 70% native, not 100%. If you were shopping at a store 80% of the time and cut it back to 60%, that 20% still hurts.

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 24/02/2025

Just look at these fluffy trousers. I mean just look at them. #sqrlpix

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Marie Greene @oliveknits.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

What you do matters. Even the little things that don't feel like enough; they're something. Keep doing them. Keep trying. If we each give our little bit, we just might make it.

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Marie Greene @oliveknits.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Friends. I'm getting on a plane in the morning. Send good vibes.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism. We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive

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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

✅ DEI Job of the Day™ Levi Strauss & Co. Head of Talent, Diversity & Inclusion - GPO "Cultivating a diverse and inclusive workplace" "It’s not just the right thing to do — it’s a business imperative. We know that companies are stronger and more successful when they are diverse and inclusive."

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Marie Greene @oliveknits.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Me: Awake with insomnia at ungodly hours. [Because: The horrors ™️] Duolingo: Hey girl. Since you're up, would you like to also wake up your husband, dog, and both cats?

A screenshot from my phone showing the words, "Practice time?" on the Duolingo app.

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Marie Greene @oliveknits.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

"In the midst of the horrors...nurture your invincible summer... with sunshine and flowers and fresh air and knitting. Casting on, like planting a garden, is an act of hope and rebellion." #knitting #craftivism 🧶 www.oliveknits.com/knitting-for...

A photo of a field of pink cosmos flowers on a sunny summer day.

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Marie Greene @oliveknits.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

If everyone in my house could stop accidentally knocking things over and breaking them, that would be great, thanks.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

If you work for the federal government and have information about what’s going on at your agency, please contact me via Signal at juddlegum.47 or use the QR Code below. I'm especially interested in speaking to people who work for the CFPB. I will maintain your anonymity.

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Brian Guest @brguest20.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I never understood the musicians playing music while the Titanic sank. Now I do.

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Marie Greene @oliveknits.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I have seen some of the worst advice of my entire life right here on the internet. I've also seen some of the best. There's very little medium advice. Good luck.

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Marie Greene @oliveknits.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Screaming into the void isn't as much fun as I thought it would be.

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Marie Greene @oliveknits.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

"Do what you can. And what you CAN do is enough." - A.O.C.

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Marie Greene @oliveknits.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

You guys. I just cried through a video of an Amazon delivery guy meeting a friendly mini pig on his delivery route. Maybe I'm not holding up as well I think.

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Marie Greene @oliveknits.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

My childhood prepared me for killer bees. Quicksand! Martians! But not this.

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Marie Greene @oliveknits.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

In the midst of the horrors, something good. One of the first German editions of my books is coming out in a few weeks, and I'll be signing copies at h&h Cologne in early March. 🧶 #knitting #stricken amzn.eu/d/7JxLdjI

German cover of a knitting book called Stricken für den Sommer by Marie Greene. The cover features two models wearing handknit sweaters.

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Marie Greene @oliveknits.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Are you ok? Be sure to refill your water. Take a couple of long, slow breaths. Sit by the window for a minute and watch branches sway in the wind. Stretch your legs. Turn your face to the sun like a flower. Knit. Have some tea. Maybe a cookie. Look at the stars. Rest when you can. 🧶☕️🌳🍪

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 03/02/2025

Elon Musk is a terrible president.

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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.com · 03/02/2025

@georgewhitesides.bsky.social gives the house Dems “weekly Democratic address” which I am very ashamed to say I had never heard of before today. There are only 2.1k views on the video. Let’s get it to at least 10,000. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9ng... 3/

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House Democrats’ Weekly Democratic Address - Rep. George Whitesides (CA-27)

YouTube video by Rep. Jeffries

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Julie Zebrak @juliezebrak.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

The experts, lawyers, and scholars who I’ve been speaking with since last night agree with me that it’s a coup and that this a 5-alarm fire.

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Marie Greene @oliveknits.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Do you have a special fancy something that you're saving for a special fancy occasion? What is it, and what are you waiting for?

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

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Marie Greene @oliveknits.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Me: I'm too old to meet new people. Husband: If 97-year-olds can make new friends, so can you.

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Marie Greene @oliveknits.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I met a lovely artist at my book signing yesterday. We chatted about art & my feeble attempts at painting. She said her best advice is if you loathe the thing you've painted, try something big and bold with it. A swoop! A scribble! It won't make it any worse, and it might change everything. 💙📚

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Marie Greene @oliveknits.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Something I'm doing for my mental health is watching videos of a British toddler with the manners of an old chap who bakes tiny things with his mum, and, I don't know, but I feel like it's helping me survive somehow.

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Marie Greene @oliveknits.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Do you ever forget yourself and gently (lovingly!) toss something across the room (like, ahem, a snack pack to your husband) - and, because you forgot that you have no aim, end up breaking a whole tendril off one of your favorite plants on accident? No? *Sniff.* Me neither. 😫🌱🪴

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Marie Greene @oliveknits.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Things are REALLY bad. But we need you. Do whatever you need to do to keep going. Maybe it's a news break or some knitting or a hot bath or a fancy cuppa or a walk in the sunshine. It won't fix the terrible things, but it might help you keep going. We need all of us. 💓 Don't give up. 🧶☕️

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Marie Greene @oliveknits.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

How many times should you reheat your coffee before you finally give up and just make yourself a new one? ☕️ Asking for a friend.

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Marie Greene @oliveknits.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Apparently, I knit faster when I'm stressed, so this sweater that I started at breakfast should be finished in about an hour. 🧶

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Marie Greene @oliveknits.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

My cat, who does not pay the mortgage, clean up after herself, or do any chores whatsoever, would like to have a word with the manager.

Two very grumpy cats cuddled together on a cozy little cushioned perch in front of the window.

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Marie Greene @oliveknits.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I interrupt your scroll to tell you that once upon an afternoon in the beforetimes, my puppy Greta modeled a hand knit cowl (designed my friend Kyle). 🧶 Just in case you needed to see a cheerful pup wearing a bit of knitting. Because of course you did. Carry on.

A happy rottweiler puppy in a grassy yard on a summer day with a colorful knit cowl around her neck.

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