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Independent Knitting Pattern Designer and creator of fun cephalopod dice bags! Check out my Etsy store at KnitsByWest.etsy.com
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knitsbywest.bsky.social @knitsbywest.bsky.social · Jan 14
I'm an independent knitting pattern designer and creator. I sell both my knits and the patterns for them for other knitters.
You can find me on knitsbywest.etsy.com or buy my patterns on Ravelry.com. My passion is gaming and sea life! #portfolioday
A knit purple Octopus Hat Knit pink and red octopus dice bag Knit rainbow hand dyed wool octopus bag Knit rainbow octopus hat
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NOAA is an absolute mess, and it’ll be worse tomorrow. Please help us. There have already been over 1,000 terminations. It’s not just layoffs—Elon Musk and his staffers are trying to completely dismantle us. Today, there were tons of firings, and more are coming tomorrow.
February 28, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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The National Institutes of Health had to stop considering new grant applications, delaying funding for research into diseases ranging from heart disease and cancer to Alzheimer's and allergies.
NIH funding freeze stalls applications on $1.5 billion in medical research funds
The National Institutes of Health had to stop considering new grant applications, delaying funding for research into diseases ranging from heart disease and cancer to Alzheimer's and allergies.
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February 22, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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andrewpekosz.bsky.social
Everyone who ever got funding through NIAID should be aware of this bill and start sending messages to their US legislators. The bill intends to dissolve NIAID. This is Project 2025
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
www.congress.gov
February 22, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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lethalityjane.bsky.social
The DoD firings are going to be... interesting.

The DoD civilians are the ones who actually keep the major functions on every base up and running. The military personnel move around so much, there's no continuity without the DoD civilians.
February 19, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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Fun fact: if you're buying from a creator on etsy, you can reduce their etsy selling fees from 6.5% to 2.5% by ordering via 'shopname.etsy.com' instead of 'etsy.com/shopname' or searching from the main site. It costs you the same but the creator makes more
January 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Remember when Dems brought a copy to the convention and read it out load and then Trump said he didn't know what Project 2025 was...?

I do.
donmoyn.bsky.social Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Jan 21
The Executive Orders rolling out today were part of Project 2025, the part that was never made public, overseen by Russ Vought.
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The Washington Post had already reported that Vought had been assigned responsibility for implementing a secret “180-Day Playbook” to make Project 2025 a reality, and enacting this vision of a Christian nationalist state in a post-constitutional environment. While the existence of the playbook has also been confirmed by other reporters, the content of actual plans continue to remain secret. However, we can predict that much of this work centers on not just using Schedule F to fire career employees in order to make the bureaucracy as subservient to Trump as the Republican Party has become, but finding other ways to undermine the administrative state. Vought told the undercover reporters: Eighty percent of my time is working on plans of whats necessary to take control of these bureaucracies. I want to be the person that crushes the deep state. I think there are a lot of different ways to do that. Its defunding it. Its impoundment, the ability to not spend money. It’s getting rid of their independence.
January 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM
knitsbywest.bsky.social
Check out this super fuzzy and soft Octopus Bag! In my Etsy store now!

#knitting #dicebag #octopus #cephalopod #ttrpg #dice #giftidea

knitsbywest.etsy.com/listing/1845...
Large Fuzzy Blue Octopus Dice Bag Handknit With Drawstring - Etsy Australia
This Pouches & Coin Purses item is sold by KnitsByWest. Dispatched from United States. Listed on 16 Jan, 2025
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January 17, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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This deep dark purple octopus bag will hold your dice and other small objects in style. #octopus #Cephalopod #ocean #ttrpg #dice #knitting

knitsbywest.etsy.com/listing/1859...
A handknit dark purple octopus dice bag with twisty, curly tentacles, laying on a wood floor surrounded by ttrpg dice.
January 16, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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New listing on Etsy! You can also find the pattern in my store.

knitsbywest.etsy.com/listing/1858...
Deep Sea Cuttlefish Dice Bag Handknit With Drawstring Closure - Etsy
This Pouches & Coin Purses item is sold by KnitsByWest. Ships from Oklahoma City, OK. Listed on Jan 14, 2025
knitsbywest.etsy.com
January 14, 2025 at 9:33 PM
knitsbywest.bsky.social
I'm an independent knitting pattern designer and creator. I sell both my knits and the patterns for them for other knitters.
You can find me on knitsbywest.etsy.com or buy my patterns on Ravelry.com. My passion is gaming and sea life! #portfolioday
A knit purple Octopus Hat Knit pink and red octopus dice bag Knit rainbow hand dyed wool octopus bag Knit rainbow octopus hat
January 14, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Mars and the Wolf Moon
January 14, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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Got a decent pic of the moon and Mars!
January 14, 2025 at 1:22 AM
knitsbywest.bsky.social
🧵 Do you knit and want a super fun project? Check out my Octopus Dice Bag pattern! Also available on Etsy.
ravel.me/octopus-bag-3
Octopus Bag pattern by Deborah West
This is a written pattern with multiple photos to show the process of stitching the tentacles together and attaching to the body. There are 5 pages in the PDF.
ravel.me
January 13, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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dylanmeconis.bsky.social
If you haven’t yet made yourself a playlist of energetic pop songs in the key of “fuck you”, I cannot recommend it enough as a new year activity
January 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
knitsbywest.bsky.social
New items in my Etsy store, check out my latest design, the Octopus Hat.
knitsbywest.etsy.com/listing/1810...

#etsy #knitting #handmade #giftideas #octopushat
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November 13, 2024 at 4:40 PM
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Want to knit your very own Octopus Hat? knitsbywest.etsy.com/listing/1808...
#knit #knitting #knittingpattern #octopus #octopushat #giftidea
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October 29, 2024 at 1:58 AM
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Octopus Hat, original design and hand knit.
knitsbywest.etsy.com/listing/1814...

#knitting #etsy #giftidea #octopus
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October 23, 2024 at 5:57 PM
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Cthulhu Hat! knitsbywest.etsy.com/listing/1798...
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October 20, 2024 at 12:29 AM
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Octopus Hat Knitting Pattern

www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
Octopus Hat pattern by Deborah West
15% until Oct. 26th!
www.ravelry.com
October 18, 2024 at 12:26 PM