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@spinnity

Mary here, figuring out what's next. I post about birds, knitting, conservation, politics, housing justice, and things that make me laugh

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spinnity@spinnity· Apr 23

David Sibley's illustration of an Allen's Hummingbird tail - the last two outer tail feathers on each side are unexpectedly skinny, like pin feathers. The two tail feathers left and right of the center are pointy, like a willow leaf, not notched at the tips as they would be on a Rufous hummingbird. Compare OP's photos to see the difference - notched feathers left and right of center with normal-shaped outer tail feathers

spinnity@spinnity· Apr 3

answer revealed - the caps version of his account was from X. I am sorry for the mis info!

A screen capture of a post by someone we were discussing showing how the account name was capitalized on Twitter

spinnity@spinnity· Mar 25

Yup - originally written in German. Translated as Three Bags Full. (Photo from the knitting blog Wren and Purl - wrenandpurl.com/blogs/news/y...)

Photo of the cover of Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann from a knitting blog - a little bit of knitting in progress is visible at the upper corner

spinnity@spinnity· Mar 24

Can absolutely relate. Have a weevil? Sometimes they help.

A 3-4cm black weevil with white and black patterning on the abdomen walks on a grey sand path

spinnity@spinnity· Mar 22

A large amount of dirt path with a small amount of black and white patterned weevil

spinnity@spinnity· Feb 9

I agree with Jeff - this is a street view screenshot of the J&J building

Sceeenshot of a google maps street view showing the building from
the Chronicle video from a vantage point on highway 237

spinnity@spinnity· Jan 24

Trace the sponsor + poster of the fundraiser - Jason Chavez Cruz. Google him. He is an MPLS city council member for the ward Chloe lives in. I searched for his Bluesky account + scrolled back. It's an active account, not new, and posts re this fundraiser. Use the link he posted - # 6295b51b3.

This is an iPhone screenshot showing a post by Jason Chavez (jchavezmpls.bsky.social), quote posting his earlier post about a Gofundme campaign for 2-year-old Chloe. The quote post from one day ago reads: Ward 9 neighbors! This happened in our hood. Please spread this link and help our neighbors out. (broken heart emoji)

The original post reads: Help bring 2-Year-old Chloe and Her Father Home. They were kidnapped today South Minneapolis. With the permission of the mother, we are reaching out to raise funds for lawyers fee's, food, bond requests, rent, food, livability, & resources to keep this family together.

gofundme/6295b51b3

below the text is an image of the Gofundme page, showing a smiling toddler in a pale pink fuzzy coat. The fundraiser goal is set at $50,000.

spinnity@spinnity· Jan 17

spinnity@spinnity· Jan 8

Wait, the bosses at... ICE? You think any boss at ICE has told these street goons to use less violence?

Three search results responding to the search "ICE violence" from Google on January 8th 2025. The page titles are:
- Before ICE shooting, immigration agents repeatedly used deadly...
- Deadly Minneapolis encounter is the 9th ICE shooting since September
- Opinion | New ICE lead bring more violence, no accountability

spinnity@spinnity· Dec 27

Knit them and wear them... cold weather only. Never in bed. All summer, it's flip flops.

POV: a white woman sitting in the floor trying on two different hand knitted socks at once. Feet are stretched out forward from the picture plane with hand knit socks on both feet and the second socks of each pair in between the feet. Sock colors are denim and brown in an ikat pattern on the left, blue with flashes of yellow and red orange on the right.

POV: a white woman sitting on a wood floor trying on two different hand knitted socks at once. Feet are stretched out forward from the picture plane with hand knit socks on both feet and the second socks of each pair in between the feet. Both socks are mottled ice blue with columns of baby cables on the left and a simple pattern of lace V's on the right.

A sock my mom knit me is on my right foot, crossed over my left leg so we can see the whole sock. The yarn forms regular stripes of orange, red orange, charcoal grey and denim blue.

spinnity@spinnity· Dec 21

As requested ... Morgen loves seasonal decorations

A tabby cat with a white nose, chest and paws sits next to a tall red conical Christmas tree made of small red balls like cherries. She has scrunched up the red, green, and white patterned cloth on the table and is looking at you with lovey eyes.

spinnity@spinnity· Nov 27

I have a lot of Thanksgiving work ahead of me for the folks in our little overnight shelter, so I'm taking a moment of gratitude for friends, experiences, and creative work in my life. I'm grateful to have so many things and people to love 💕 (Alpine Bloom hat in Quince & Co. Chickadee + Spincycle)

A blue-grey hat with a repeated flower motif lies on a red placemat. The work is still on the circular needle, with the leaves and a full set of petals already knitted. The flower pattern is rusty red, yellow, and blue green. The hat is at least half finished.

spinnity@spinnity· Nov 19

Would you block someone with this opinion?

spinnity@spinnity· Nov 1

huh.

spinnity@spinnity· Oct 23

You mean... these bog bodies ? Like in the book by my bedside?

Cover of a book titled "The Bog People: Iron-Age Man Preserved" by P.V. Glob

spinnity@spinnity· Sep 13

from : www.bls.gov/opub/ted/202...

A chart of time spent per day in various activities that included child care as a secondary activity, as reported by adults with children under age 13 in the house. Activities are listed by decreasing amount of time spent, starting with Leisure and sports at 1.9 hours, and moving down to name Household activities, eating and drinking, other activities, work and work-related activities, purchasing goods and services, and personal care activities at 0.3 hours per day.

spinnity@spinnity· Sep 13

My bad. I assumed you would click the link and see the data from Bureau of Labor Statistics.

A graph of the number of minutes millennial fathers spend on childcare, 2015 to 2023. Time spent daily goes up from 254 minutes per day to 271

spinnity@spinnity· Aug 5

I knit the pieces of a horse who will be part of a farmyard collective for a ridiculous 5" baby doll named Baby.

Knitted pieces of a grey stuffed horse with black hooves : the head / body blob is at the top of the photo and below it are three unrolled rectangular pieces of knitting which are horse legs ready to be rolled up and one rolled up leg ready to be sewn into a cylinder

spinnity@spinnity· Jul 25

Darth Vader appears on a blue background interior to a space ship saying "I am altering the bargain. Pray I do not alter it any further."

spinnity@spinnity· Jul 21

Would you be open to sharing your embroidery? I can share my absolutely nonsensical knitting ... I am working on a shirt to go under the "denim jacket" sweater on this ridiculous 4" baby doll.

Knitting in progress on a patio table in front of a laptop. A 4" plastic baby doll wearing a wearing a denim blue knitted jacket and brown pants sits behind the sample knitted green t-shirt and a grey and orange striped shirt on the needles.

spinnity@spinnity· Jul 16

The link is now a 404, but a Google search shows it was there 4 hours ago :

spinnity@spinnity· Jul 12

spinnity@spinnity· Jul 3

Puppy! It's lovely that you were able to go get that joy. Even tho it's a cliche by now, I want to give you The Mary Oliver poem. You do not need to be a certain kind of way to be a beloved vibrant living being. It's ok to let yourself love a puppy. It's ok to come out or hang back.