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Alicia Votes 🕸️🎃👻 @aliciamarin.bsky.social · 3m

So rude!

Alicia Votes 🕸️🎃👻 @aliciamarin.bsky.social · 1h

The pussyhat pattern is so quick and easy to knit, too. I made 15 before the first Women’s March. Plus it seems fitting for it to have a comeback, with a twist 🐸

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Alicia Votes 🕸️🎃👻 @aliciamarin.bsky.social · 2h

I made a green and black pussyhat, added a smile and some eyes. Boom! It’s a frog

Woman wearing a knit hat with a frog on it

A happy frog face on a green and black knitted hat

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Alicia Votes 🕸️🎃👻 @aliciamarin.bsky.social · 4h

Yeahhhhh….Team Frog here. I knit a frog hat already 🐸

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Alicia Votes 🕸️🎃👻 @aliciamarin.bsky.social · 11h

I *like* frogs

youtu.be/IXmaBTkgeMA

Pacific Power - CALL THE KITE MAN!

YouTube video by coady2000

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Alicia Votes 🕸️🎃👻 @aliciamarin.bsky.social · 11h

Call the kite man!

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Alicia Votes 🕸️🎃👻 @aliciamarin.bsky.social · 11h

I used the original Pussyhat pattern (adjusted to knit in the round), which is the easiest hat pattern I know. Plus it seems appropriate to bring this pattern back in a new, froggy incarnation.

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

PussyHat Project pattern by Kat Coyle

The PussyHat Project aims to:

www.ravelry.com

Alicia Votes 🕸️🎃👻 @aliciamarin.bsky.social · 11h

Knitters, you can whip out a simple frog hat in time for Saturday’s march. All you need is some green and black worsted weight yarn, some stiff white paper card stock, and a couple black buttons.

A smiling frog face on a knitted green hat with deep black ribbing

A woman in sunglasses wearing a knitted green and black hat with a cheerful frog face on it

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Alicia Votes 🕸️🎃👻 @aliciamarin.bsky.social · 1d

Forgot to link the pattern: www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

PussyHat Project pattern by Kat Coyle

The PussyHat Project aims to:

www.ravelry.com

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Alicia Votes 🕸️🎃👻 @aliciamarin.bsky.social · 1d

I knitted a simple pussyhat in green, then stitched a wide smile and added card stock eyeballs attached with buttons. Easy peasy!

A green and black knit hat lying flat. The green part has a wide smile and big white eyes with black button pupils. It resembles a happy frog face

Woman wearing a knitted frog hat. The frog face is goofy and happy with a wide smile

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Alicia Votes 🕸️🎃👻 @aliciamarin.bsky.social · 1d

When I was in early grade school, my dad would bring his guitar and sing kid songs for the class, including songs he had written about me and my sister.

(This was the 1970s….dads didn’t visit classrooms, like ever.)

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Alicia Votes 🕸️🎃👻 @aliciamarin.bsky.social · 1d

My sign from the Labor Day march:

Sign in clear lettering saying Billionaires SUCK.

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Alicia Votes 🕸️🎃👻 @aliciamarin.bsky.social · 1d

Please do! I borrowed the idea from someone else myself. Hats off to the originator, whoever that is

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Alicia Votes 🕸️🎃👻 @aliciamarin.bsky.social · 1d

🫡

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Alicia Votes 🕸️🎃👻 @aliciamarin.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you! I haven’t decided what to put on the other side. Something pointed and tart. I made a “Billionaires SUCK” sign for the Labor Day protest. Evergreen message, but it doesn’t fit the theme for this march

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Alicia Votes 🕸️🎃👻 @aliciamarin.bsky.social · 1d

I’m ready

Sign that says “NO fucKING way” with the letters for “NO KING” bigger and outlined in red. Sign has a blue painters tape outline and a small American flag attached at a jaunty angle.

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 2d

This is a really well done—I hope it catches on: A silent roadside protest staged over the weekend in Westerville, Ohio, and posted to the Facebook page of the Westerville Progressive Alliance.
www.youtube.com/shorts/TpZFS...

Signs of Fascism!

YouTube video by COOLHAND

www.youtube.com

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Alicia Votes 🕸️🎃👻 @aliciamarin.bsky.social · 2d

I’m thinking about knitting a frog hat for the protest on Saturday. It’s hard to claim “scary Antifa” if it’s a bunch of normies wearing silly animal hats.

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Alicia Votes 🕸️🎃👻 @aliciamarin.bsky.social · 5d

This is one of the most quoted movies in our household. We watch it every October as a Halloween tradition

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Alicia Votes 🕸️🎃👻 @aliciamarin.bsky.social · 5d

Taffeta, darling!

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Alicia Votes 🕸️🎃👻 @aliciamarin.bsky.social · 6d

Follow Washington State DNR for occasional glamorous geoduck content

Washington State Dept of Natural Resources @wadnr.bsky.social · 12d

And, baby, that's showfish business for you ✨

That's right, this (not so Swift) star might be dressed for a new era, but has been hard at work for years helping us generate millions for restoring aquatic lands all over Washington. dnr.wa.gov/aquatics/she...

A stunning album cover with the words "The Life of a Showfish" in orange glittery letters. The album also features a geoduck, semi-submerged in water wearing a bedazzled top and looking their best in Washington's waters.

On the back cover, the geoduck is wearing a new bedazzled top, and a Vegas-showgirl styled headdress, with large orange feathers imitating their natural siphon process. The list of songs is 1. The Fate of Ceviche, 2. Elizabeth Taylor, 3. Pearl, 4. Father Figure, 5. Largest Mollusk, 6. Ruin The Conference Bannquet Table, 7. Actually Romantic, 8. WA Wi$h Li$t, 9. Wood, 10. CENSORED!, 11. Siphon, 12. The Life of a Showfish (Feat. Sabrina Carpenter Ant).

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Alicia Votes 🕸️🎃👻 @aliciamarin.bsky.social · 6d

“I feel small but my voice is mighty.”

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6d

WATCH: TN National Guard veteran Rachel Davis is headed to Memphis to protest the Trump-Lee troop deployment.

She is joining a veteran-led movement launched by @jollygoodginger.bsky.social to protest against military operations in American cities.

Via WSMV www.wsmv.com/video/2025/1...

Alicia Votes 🕸️🎃👻 @aliciamarin.bsky.social · 6d

That’s SO cute! I see that the pattern has 3 sizes…is that the biggest? I think I need to make one for my mom (with the pom poms of course)

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Alicia Votes 🕸️🎃👻 @aliciamarin.bsky.social · 7d

I’m not sure how aware they were. They made our mixed flock egg layers seem like super geniuses. They were basically chicken boobs on legs

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Alicia Votes 🕸️🎃👻 @aliciamarin.bsky.social · 7d

We had a backyard flock growing up for eggs. They were fine. Then we bought “meat bird” chicks one year. Shudder. Their bodies grew soooo fast and top heavy that they could barely walk at maturity. Never again

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