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Andy 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🧶

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Microbiologist, knitter, reader, dog lover. Resist today’s GOP, trump for prison. COVID is real, vaccinate and mask. RFK Jr will kill more people than Trump did. Give me all the coffee!

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 12h

These shitbirds like to falsely accuse doctors of giving vaccines just to make money. If that were the case they’d be overjoyed by this giving MMR as three separate shots right?

THEY ARE NOT OVERJOYED.

Among other things, this idiotic idea will add to the strain on the U.S. healthcare system.

Acting CDC boss wants to break up MMR vaccine into three shots

Jim O’Neill joins President Donald Trump’s call for three distinct measles, mumps and rubella shots, claiming a separation would ‘reduce the risk of side effects’ and ‘maximize parental choice’

www.independent.co.uk

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Andy 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🧶 @microknitter.bsky.social · 13h

I met my husband of 26 years on the old AOL message boards.

Andy 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🧶 @microknitter.bsky.social · 17h

Too true, but they’re not cutting 1800 keys an hour. Probably not the key cutter getting most of the money, either. Hubs was a locksmith with decades of experience and made $10.50 an hr.

Andy 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🧶 @microknitter.bsky.social · 19h

Beautiful!

Andy 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🧶 @microknitter.bsky.social · 1d

That’s incredible!

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Andy 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🧶 @microknitter.bsky.social · 1d

I was just thinking about this the other day. I did the same when I was young, as did my brothers. One younger kid didn’t and wore heavy coats/scarves and earned a nasty nickname for it that persisted through HS.

Why is being warm fodder for ridicule?

Andy 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🧶 @microknitter.bsky.social · 1d

www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

Eat Your Greens pattern by Knit One, Purr Too

Through January 31st, 2025 enjoy 20% off automatically on all my patterns. Happy new year!

www.ravelry.com

Andy 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🧶 @microknitter.bsky.social · 2d

Yes! Exactly! Everyone else in the audience also looked like they were enjoying it, too.

As usual, listening to this, has led me back to their original studio version and then some of the live performances. Just brilliant.

Andy 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🧶 @microknitter.bsky.social · 2d

I've shared this before, but it just popped up on my YT recommendations again. I just love, love, love everything about this.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFxO...

Heart - Stairway to Heaven (Live at Kennedy Center Honors) [FULL VERSION]

YouTube video by Don Jack

www.youtube.com

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Andy 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🧶 @microknitter.bsky.social · 2d

When I looked up the pattern, I saw that she has a 20% discount through October if you're interested in the pattern. OCT2025. I'm not affiliated nor do I get anything from her sales. Just sharing because I loved the pattern.

Andy 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🧶 @microknitter.bsky.social · 4d

For #showmeyourknits this week, this is one of my favorites. These were a test knit that I signed up for on twitter and now have lost the information since I deleted my account.

Green hand knit socks with a leaf motif.

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Andy 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🧶 @microknitter.bsky.social · 2d

A coworker (almost as old as I am) was complaining that people don’t let her in when she’s getting onto 262. She had no idea that she didn’t have the right of way.

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Andy 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🧶 @microknitter.bsky.social · 2d

Unfortunately, that happens more than I’d like! Someone almost merged into us when I was taking hubs to the ED last week.

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Andy 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🧶 @microknitter.bsky.social · 2d

It is! I get the roads to myself in the morning, though.

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Andy 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🧶 @microknitter.bsky.social · 3d

I hate 8:00 pm #NFL games.

Signed: a healthcare worker who gets up at 4:30 am.

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Andy 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🧶 @microknitter.bsky.social · 3d

My mother just called to chastise me for not answering the phone and demanding to know where I had been. I was sleeping and I'll be 64 years old in a few weeks. #kids #parents

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Andy 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🧶 @microknitter.bsky.social · 3d

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Andy 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🧶 @microknitter.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah!!!!

Have you tried the stretchy knit flats? I have some nerve damage in one foot and have a hard time keeping flats on but the stretch knit ones hold tight enough while still being comfortable. They have styles from ballet flat style to more loafer style.

Andy 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🧶 @microknitter.bsky.social · 3d

I’m voting for both.

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Andy 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🧶 @microknitter.bsky.social · 3d

Good morning, Paula ☺️

Thanks for the recommendation! I found it on Amazon Prime and added it to my list to watch after Shetland.

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Andy 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🧶 @microknitter.bsky.social · 3d

I resisted a long time but finally sat down with Very Pink Knits how to knit socks series on YouTube a few years ago and it clicked.

Andy 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🧶 @microknitter.bsky.social · 4d

There's also something- sword, mission, IDK - called Bushido. I guess they're multicultural borrowers.

Andy 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🧶 @microknitter.bsky.social · 4d

Hubs playing #Destiny while I'm watching BritBox. I thought I heard him say, "Sometimes I play the Sturm and sometimes the Drang". Did a double take - did I hear that right?

Sure enough, yes. Two missions, one called Sturm and one Drang. Now, trying to explain to hubs why I'm laughing.

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C Hanna @chcowgirl.bsky.social · 5d

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Andy 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🧶 @microknitter.bsky.social · 4d

Im just one episode in so far, but am loving it!

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Andy 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🧶 @microknitter.bsky.social · 4d

tour covering Iceland and Shetland and just immersing myself in all of the tradition and wool. There’s a yarn shop, The Woolly Thistle that specializes in a lot of English, Scots, Icelandic, and other European yarns. I buy a lot of my yarn from them and live vicariously through their stories.

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