It's bloody freezing here, so making chili and cornbread. Non-zero chance we'll get frost overnight. This is why you don't plant out tomatoes 'til after the first full moon in June (here at least). Ugh. 🥶

Gonna re-read these just to make myself feel better about my life (I write and edit for a living).

I really need to stop following Lego fan accounts here because oh my god i love Lego but I do not have that kind of money (or space). But so much of it is so cool.

Turns out "gluten free cornbread" is just cornbread. Also it's insanely easy and crazy delicious. Yay.

Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜

This is the “Lady with the Hood.” It is 28,000 years old & perhaps the earliest depiction of a human face. Made from mammoth ivory, its delicate modelling & drapery of the hood belie the idea palaeolithic people were artistically crude. It is a beautiful piece. 🏛️📷 National Archaeological Museum🇫🇷

Tiles made, kiln loaded and firing. Fingers crossed 🫠

Batched 18 test glazes today. This involves measuring (to the 100th of a gram) 5-9 ingredients for each, measuring water (100ml per batch), dumping the dry ingredients into the water, letting those sit for a bit, mixing each by hand, mixing each with an immersion blender, and... 1/3

"Pillars of the Earth" is just an insanely great novel. When I can't sleep I'll usually read 'til I nod off, but this frickin' thing kept me up all damn night. I'll finish it today, then dive directly into the sequel. Ken Follett is a genius and I can't wait to read his new Stonehenge novel.

Random day off work, yay. Spent most of it doing glaze math, so basically sat in front of a computer working on spreadsheets. Which is just a necessary part of the glaze game. I now have 17 glaze tests to batch, hoping to fire on Sun. This is a ton of work, but I really need to get glazes sorted.

Not gonna lie, making and testing your own glazes can be very frustrating. Even having taken 2 extensive glaze chemistry courses, the variables of materials and clay and firing make it a bit of a struggle. Wish this were as simple as just picking a recipe and having it work, but...lol, no. 🫠

sure grinding my teeth a lot these days for some reason

I really suck at keeping electronic documents organized. Really really really suck.

Fired the kiln overnight, but it's still too hot to unload. Trimmed the butter bells (pic 1), and made some little plates (pic 2). Yay! I have so much stuff to glaze, good lord. Must get some glazes nailed down, which I'll work on this week.

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Messed up my pristinely clean wheel by attempting some butter bells. Learned a ton, got to use my calipers for the first time, and can prooobably save them all with some judicious trimming (some of the inner parts are taller than the outer parts because i had no idea how much clay to use at first).

Photographic evidence that I do, in fact, occasionally clean my wheel. Much easier when the weather's nice (ie: not winter) because I can take the splash pan, tools, buckets, etc. outside and just hose it all down. Bisque firing tonight or tomorrow, then back into glaze-test town for a while. #pots

David Grohl is a goddamned treasure. youtu.be/7fRz8CirhJw?...

If you're a potter and can afford a Silver ICAN membership, I highly recommend it. In addition to Ceramics Monthly and Pottery Making Illustrated magazines, you get full access to the Clayflicks archive, which is just insanely great ceramicartsnetwork.org/clayflicks

Maybe CBS is just gonna try to give Fox a run for its money.

Somehow my bsky stream is almost 100% cats, dogs, birds, books, movies, music, stephen colbert, and cute anime art. This is awesome.

Started re-reading Pillars of the Earth last night (with the plan being to read the whole series over the next few weeks), and it's still a complete page turner. What a fantastic novel.

Watching Youtube videos of people throwing pottery is like a whole sidequest level of hobby if you're a potter. When I don't have the time or energy to actually work on pots, I absolutely love watching other people throw (and I always learn a *ton*).

Just encountered an "author" on Amazon whose entire catalog is fake AI generated garbage, and they couldn't be bothered to check the spelling on the fake AI generated book covers. This is the stupidest timeline.

Not even 7:30a and I've already read about a) how awesome writing is...like actual sit down, figure out how to say something, then saying it sort of writing, and b) how AI & screens are ruining us, and how awesome writing in real notebooks with real pens can be. Both very very true, also I am old.

Finally building a more sensible storage solution for my (many) bags of glaze materials than "chuck 'em all in boxes and hope you remember what you have". Invested in another industrial-grade shelf and some bins, and I'll have a running list of what's in the bins on the outside of the bins.

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Posting a random shelfie. I've read many of these, but most are my TBR. I need more time to read, y'all.

I'm 1000% going to see the Mandalorian & Grogu movie in IMAX. Haters can step right off. (I was going to go see Devil Wears Prada 2, but I'm not spending $50 on tix for that, sorry.)

Tearing through the 4th book in the Oxford Time Travel series by Connie Willis. If you ever needed writerly tips on chapter-end cliffhanger mastery, she's a good place to start. Good lord. (It is so good.) www.amazon.ca/All-Clear-No...

Niche indy bookstores.

This is the University of Central Florida. So many people really have no idea how much kids hate this shit.

Just over 2.5 years since I took my first pottery class, and I am still 1000% addicted. I love it so much.

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Skill building kind of pottery day. Threw 2 very thick bowls that will become bisque molds, then finally tried throwing off the hump (which is basically putting a big ol hunk of clay on the wheel and using just the very top section to make little things). Went middlingly well. Learned a ton.

Our local bakery is just insanely great. I went early and managed to get the last bag of the japenese milk bread and i'm so excited about it.

I still love the theory a Year 6 child proposed to me that David Attenborough is actually God and he got fed up with people not noticing the amazing things he'd created, so he made documentaries to show off.

Whelp, totally failed to do what I planned today (finish the front garden), but I got groceries, and cleaned the fridge, kitchen, and bathroom. Now baking ribs (3 hr slow roast to finish over charcoal). Also listened to Amy Poehler's podcast w Billie Eilish, which is a good time.

I just learned that Star Wars is, in large part, due to a very obscure Canadian short film from the 60's. www.youtube.com/shorts/r-sih... #canada #force #starwars

There is absolutely no reason for anyone to have secret cameras on their face all the time. Oh my god.

Rule stands. If it's in your stream, you gotta watch the whole thing.

The absolute horses thing is making me laugh til I cry. Sometimes the internet delivers.

The 2026 Calarts Producers' Show Opening is a lovely tribute to art & animation (directed by Sofia Kondrasheva & Veda Lee). Every year, Calarts school has a showcase where they select a handful of student films to be screened in a Hollywood theater. >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hsmu...

Just booked a week off to go sit in the forest. We will wander around and play cribbage and read books and hang out with our dog and there's no internet and no cell service. Sadly not 'til July. 🌳

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Cripes it's windy out.

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On fashion’s big night out, we turned the lens onto the garment, retail, warehouse, and delivery workers who make the fashion industry possible. Read the full piece: bsky.app/profile/mayo...

I love these Bernini sculptures at the Vatican because they show the armatures underneath and how they were made from so many materials.

I've seen works by a particular artist on here a few times and they're lovely. I went to their online shop and had 3 prints in my cart. Looking at the larger version of one, it looked a little...off. Dug around their shop then found their personal site.... 1/2