Thank you to whichever Bluesky developer implemented auto-deleting a post if i block the account it's associated with.

Ok, that's enough winter now thanks.

Looks like complete dogshit thanks

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Can we just stop being shitty about people's physical appearance? You can do better.

So these two mega-billionaires—who supported Trump as he opposed meaningful loan forgiveness for tens of millions of young people because Trump has increased their net worth immeasurably—are donating an infinitesimal portion of their wealth to help a few kids turn $250 into $700 over 18 years? WOW.

Currently binge-watching my latest set of glaze chemistry lectures and a) it's utterly fascinating and I understand so much more now, and b) it's keeping me off the bloody doomscroll, which is nice. Learning stuff is fun.

Firing the kiln. Cone 6 glaze firing to finish up ~50 test tiles for my glaze chem course. Got a little ahead of the game so finished up Labs 3 and 4 so I could fire them at the same time, and prepped 21 additional tiles to test 7 whole other glazes I'm playing with on all 3 of my clay bodies.

Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between “shoestring budget” and “no expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art

Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen

Working my way through the glaze chemistry course I'm taking. Batched up Lab 3 glaze experiments today. Very fiddly measurements (I have a scale that does hundredths of grams, so could actually be pretty precise). I'll do a final mix and sieve them out tomorrow. Will fire these probably Thursday.

@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Hi. I just received an invite to subscribe to your Substack. I'm...pretty sure that's not you? The email links to this tomcox.substack.com

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Taking PTO tomorrow and Friday to participate in a local wood kiln firing. It's gonna be cold, but totally worth it for the opportunity to talk pots with other potters while chucking wood into a kiln.

This person took this when they called the race

hire all the fired political teen vogue writers and make a new magazine call teen rogue. we’ll all subscribe en masse

According to reports, ICE officers are being told to trust the results of a faulty facial recognition app over evidence of citizenship. The Trump administration is steamrolling our due process and privacy rights to support its mass deportation agenda.

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

Hey photography pals -- Flickr is overpriced garbage at this point, so I'm looking for a new place to host photos that isn't just a file listing system like Google Drive. What are the best options (ideally free, but < $10/mo would do)?

First time trying to use Flickr in a few years and it is completely broken and utterly useless to me. And this just after my pro subscription renewed. Yay.

A reminder that the original Hallowe'en jack o' lanterns date back to 18th century Ireland if not earlier, were based on a shady boozy blacksmith called Stingy Jack who cheated the devil & was trapped between 2 worlds, were carved from turnips and looked like this:

I love maps so I'm giving away TWO signed paperbacks of my psychedelic/folkloric novel Villager each with these fantastic maps my dad illustrated of the fictional village in the book.Just repost this/reply below for a chance to win. Here's an extract from the book: www.tom-cox.com/the-village-...

Updating my LEGO White House

AWS is down, post hog

If you're taking to the streets to protest today, know your rights.

Took an extended long weekend (Wed thru Tues), and we were away until today, so making Thanksgiving dinner tonight. Slow roasted pork shoulder, potatoes au gratin, roast brussels sprouts and carrots. Normally would do a turkey, but this was a last minute change of plans, so making do 😜

In 1989, writer Rick Veitch and artist Michael Zulli were the creators on #SwampThing. #DC balked after their planned Swamp Thing #88 featured a storyline wherein the titular character travels back in time, meets #JesusChrist, and morphs into the cross on Calvary Hill. www.ign.com/articles/36-...

Picture from the beginning of my beach walk this morning. I went out about an hour before low tide, walking 2km out and back to the furthest point you can see in this picture. More details about tides and how insane they are here in the alt text of the image.

I've been doing pottery for 2 years now, and I'm still completely obsessed. A little sad I didn't discover it like 30 years ago, but so it goes. I'm in the process of going deep into learning about how to make and test and tweak my own glazes and I'm utterly giddy about it. Fired the kiln...

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

One, that's not how copyright works and there will be an entire battalion of IP lawyers who will be happy to correct Open AI of this misapprehension, likely to the tune of billions of dollars, and two, fuck this shitty thieving waste of proteins and lipids

So exhausting..

I grew up reading choose-your-own-adventure books and playing text-based adventure games on the computer. Decided to see if ChatGPT could replicate the experience. Not gonna lie...it's shockingly great.

Signed up for a 16 week glaze chemistry course including lectures, labs, and extra reading. Starts next week, and I'm very excited about it. It's also a prereq for a more advanced course that I'm hoping to do in the spring.

Kiln finished at 1222c (I missed the top temp), but...still frickin' hot in there. This will have to cool 'til tomorrow afternoon before I can crack it and unload it.

It might almost be time to start blogging about my pottery journey. Trick is that I write for a living, so my writer brain gets used up much of the time. But...at some point I'm gonna have to start selling some of this stuff, and showing it and talking about it is gonna be how that's gonna happen.

An incredible opportunity for an emerging potter who is able to devote 2 full years to an apprenticeship (ie: not me, alas!) Canadian citizens or permanent residents only. maryfoxpottery.ca/legacy/appre...

Firing the kiln again, this time to glaze some stuff. It's a light-ish load this time (30 things, when I can usually fit 50-60) just cuz I had some stuff ready to go and I was tired of looking at it. Will probably do a second glaze firing next weekend, including some proper glaze tests.

Disney now owns so many things i love (Star Wars, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Muppets, etc.), but canceled Disney+ today anyhow. I'm never gonna see F4 at this rate. Ugh. More time for readin' and video games!

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Post a panel illustrating why you Love Comics (In my case, it's a cover)

Kiln finished successfully. At top temperature for a bisque this was 998 Celcius...I just took the picture probably half an hour after it finished. I also threw some more bowls...these are the biggest I've attempted so far (those are 12" bats, and they started as 4 lb balls of clay). Not a bad day.

Cleaned my studio and then immediately messed it up again throwing some new bowls. I love making bowls.

Firing the kiln today, which is always an exciting thing. This one's a bisque firing, which changes super delicate bone dry greenware to semi-vitrified, durable, and very porous bisqueware which will then be ready for glazing. If all goes well, glaze firing will be in the next week or so.

I gather terrible people are mad about this CBC article, so of course here is the link. The CBC is very far from a perfect institution, but it is very much worth having around in part because there isn't a billionaire owner who can sack the person who wrote this. www.cbc.ca/news/world/c...

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

Well this is lovely.

The belief that poverty and homelessness are about "individual choices" didn't arise on its own. It was manufactured through decades of messaging designed to protect the policies and interests that create mass precarity. As this new poll shows, that propaganda campaign has been wildly successful.