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andiamo.bsky.social
Jessica Spiegel 🍉
@andiamo.bsky.social
610 followers 810 following 600 posts
Writer & Knitter & Family Care Partner

Feminist | Pro-abortion | BLM | Anti-fascist
❤ Italy, Sazeracs, pho, gin, road trips, cats, opossums, altruism

✨P.S. Everything is political.

IG: @insomniaknitting @jessicatravels

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Insulated mug with fern designs all over it
November 3, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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🐸👀❌👑
White lady with dark hair and glasses modeling a striped knit cap with knitted frog eyes attached
October 18, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Stayed up way too late last night to finish 🐸👀 for the fam’s #nokings needs. Our event is later this eve, so maybe I’ll have time for a nap? 😆

Before that, tho, we attach ‘em to some headwear and add some sparkle. 🤩

pattern: FCK ICE FROG MOD by @leedoesstuff.bsky.social, free on Rav & Payhip
Four knitted frog eyes are lined up in a row, sitting near a striped knit cap
October 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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I got through an eye and a half tonight; I’m hoping to make a few pairs by Saturday… 🐸👀

It’s a fun pattern, quick to make, and uses a tiny bit of yarn. 🥳

Pattern by: @leedoesstuff.bsky.social

#knitters #knitting #nokings
One finished knitted frog eye held by a white skinner hand and one knitted frog eye in progress next to it; the back is green and the front is white with a black center.
October 17, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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Getting a COVID vaccine in Oregon doesn’t need to be this complicated, @tinakotek.bsky.social.

(a rant, a call to action, and some practical info)

1/x
September 15, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Somehow I missed this before. What the actual fuck, @tinakotek.bsky.social?

apps.oregon.gov/oregon-newsr...
Screenshot of a press release from the office of the Oregon governor titled, “Governor Kotek Orders Flags Lowered to Half-Staff in Honor of Charlie Kirk.” Body of the piece reads: Today, Governor Tina Kotek ordered all flags at Oregon public institutions to be flown at half-staff until sunset on September 14 in pursuant of the Presidential Proclamation. Governor Kotek issued the following statement: “I offer my deepest condolences to Mr. Kirk’s family. This attack is inexcusable. Violence has absolutely no place in our democracy. America is better than this.”
September 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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If I tell you a critter came to the Back Porch Bistro in the wee hours this morning to challenge a skunk, I’ll wager this is not what you’d expect to see.
August 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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i had a magical sunday evening and i forgot to tell you.
selfie of a white woman wearing glasses and holding a baby opossum on her chest. the baby is about 3 months old and smaller than her hand.
August 26, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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see also: getting a second hand cat.
a floofy orange and white tabby sits on his haunches, mid-bathe, back legs spread out, one front paw up and ready to be licked, and his tongue is out. he's a dorky thing of beauty.
August 20, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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I don’t often get baked goods worthy of glamour shots, but this one’s lovely.

Plum rosemary buttermilk upside-down cake 🍰
Round cake with slices of plums baked into the surface; the whole top of the cake has turned reddish purple from the plums. The cake is on a green plate resting on dark blue fabric.
August 4, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Just finished reading "The Second Coming of the KKK" by Linda Gordon and this quote really jumped out at me because reasons.
black background with an american flag on one side with a quote in white lettering that says: No people ever recognize their dictator in advance. He never stands for election on the platform of dictatorship. He always represents himself as the instrument of the incorporated national will. When our dictator turns up, you can depend on it, that he will be one of the boys and he will stand for everything traditionally American. Dorothy Thompson, American Journalist, 1937
July 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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I haven't done a test knit in ages, but I'm so glad I got to test the #StapleTank for @perfectlyknotted.bsky.social! It'll be out in June, I think, & it's easily the best-fitting top I've ever made. The design is detailed, thoughtful, & the result is a perfect fit.

👩‍🍳💋
a white-skinned woman with dark hair and glasses stands sideways to show off the side of a handknit tank top that's mostly gray with chunky reddish stripes on the lower half a white-skinned woman with dark hair and glasses is wearing a handknit tank top that's mostly gray with chunky reddish stripes on the lower half; she's in front of a wooden fence, facing the camera and smiling a white-skinned woman with dark hair and glasses is wearing a handknit tank top that's mostly gray with chunky reddish stripes on the lower half; she's standing against an orange wall, looking off to the side of the frame
April 29, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Protest-ready.
Cardboard protest signs stapled to a wooden stick, lying on a wooden dining table. The large sign says “step 1: do not obey in advance” and the small sign below it says “PS: this applies in DC, too”
April 5, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Well, that was spectacular.

📍InterStellar BBQ, Austin
Close up of sliced brisket on reddish paper. The red ring just inside the black crust on the brisket almost matches the paper.
March 7, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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WE’RE SO CLOSE.

📍InterStellar BBQ, Austin
White skinned hand holding a mostly green knitting project in the foreground; background is a line of people in front of a BBQ place, and you can actually see the entrance (blurry). Finally.
March 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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When you hear that the line is about 1-1.5 hours from the door, you’re very glad you’re a knitter.

📍InterStellar BBQ, Austin
White skinned hand holding a mostly green knitting project in foreground; a line of people in background.
March 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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I take notes directly into my TripDoc app while watching shows like Somebody Feed Phil. This is why we started the day at LeRoy and Lewis in Austin.

Thank you, @feedphil.bsky.social. We got the burger, too.
Close up of sliced brisket on a brown paper mat. You can see the red ring around the border of the meat, just inside the black crust on the exterior. This stuff was like butter.
March 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Welcome to Texas, where banana pudding is the vegetable. 😍

📍Cooper’s Old Time Pit BBQ, downtown Austin
Brown paper package open to a messy pile of brisket and pork ribs
March 5, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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There’s an easy way to train yourself to add alt-text to all images: Make Bluesky force you to!

1. Tap hamburger menu thing in left corner of app.
2. Tap Settings.
3. Tap Accessibility.
4. Turn on the “require alt text before posting” toggle switch.

Ta da! 🥳

#accessibility #alttext
Screenshot of Bluesky menu after you tap the hamburger menu thing in the left corner of the app. The menu option for “Settings” is highlighted. Screenshot of Bluesky after you tap “Settings” from the first screenshot. On this menu, “Accessibility” is highlighted. Screenshot of the options when you tap “Accessibility” from the last screenshot. Here, “Require alt text before posting” is highlighted. There’s a toggle switch on the right side, snd when it’s turned on, Bluesky won’t let you publish a post if you haven’t added alt text to images.
March 2, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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I am barely into this brioche #knitting swatch and I am already extremely HUBBA HUBBA about these colors together. 😍 Oh my wow.
Side by side images in a collage of both sides of a two-color brioche swatch held in a white skinned hand. It’s a dark, rich teal paired with a variegated yarn that’s largely tangerine-colored with bits of blue, white, and light plum.
February 28, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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Blocking this beast. I could stretch it more, but I’m out of room. 🤣

#knitting
A huge triangular shawl in a gradient of orange yarns is stretched on blocking mats that are, in turn, spanning the width (and beyond) of a dark wood dining table.
February 16, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Facing an I-cord bind-off on an enormous shawl (I have no idea how many stitches, but it is A LOT) is less of a chore with a Cordsmith @byautumn.com

It’ll still take an age, mind you, but I might be able to get to bed before 4am this way. 😆
A knitting project in a disorderly pile, a gradient of many orange shades, has an orange Cordsmith tool lying on top of it. The Cordsmith is an oval shape with three latch hooks on one end to make quick work of I-cord knitting.
February 15, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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I didn’t really get into the bread baking part of the apocalypse, but maybe I’ll really get into the hummus from dried garbanzos part of the apocalypse. (It’s so much better than my usual bastardized version. Plus, it’s still warm. 🥰)
Overhead shot of a clear plastic container full of hummus with brick red paprika sprinkled on top. There’s a white-skinned hand holding a carrot stick, with the carrot dipped into the hummus.
February 14, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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I do… not like snow. I’ve had my fill after many childhood years in New England, TYVM. That rain we usually get in a PNW winter? It thoughtfully shovels itself.

And I will also never tire of the way it never gets fully dark outside when it’s snowy. This is a 1:15am snapshot, no filters.
A big yard with snow all over the ground and silhouettes of trees at the back. Theres no artificial light, but the snowy ground and sky both seem to glow with their own light.
February 14, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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This shawl has become a monster; I am NOT going to count stitches, I’d be here all night, but I DID time myself and one row takes 20 minutes at this point.

And I’m not done yet. 😂

#knitting
A bunched up knitting project in my lap, a gradient of orange yarns that is clearly far too big for the cable needle it’s on.
February 14, 2025 at 6:45 AM