After a long, unwanted hiatus, I may be getting back to the #pottery studio this weekend. Some stuff on the shelf will be a bust (too dry to trim) which should free me up to try & remember the basics of throwing 😅🤞🏻

I’m at the point where I’d almost rather pay to not see sports betting ads. 😬 #nhl

#pottery #ceramicart Greenface

My feelings about the skill behind comedy couldn't be more succinctly expressed! (I haven't read the book, but this piques my interest.)

The #birdoftheday theme is odd angles so here ya go #birds

Currently #amreading Naomi Novik’s Spinning Silver, & I am obsessed. How does she do this? I am totally invested in the characters. Also love how she manages to create a world that feels simultaneously fantastical and devaststingly real. #booksky

It seems my editorial brain is not improved by lunch. Instead of #amediting, my body is requesting a nap. May be time for a #stetwalk to get the blood flowing brainward.

Crunchy bats forever! 😂😂

I'm late to the discourse on this book, but Madeline Miller's Circe has been slow going for me. I was about to put it down when finally something started happening. And now, it seems like I'm heading into a scene of sexual assault. It's too much for me atm. #booksky #amreading

Timeline cleanse!

I basically feel like if you watch War Games and Heathers, you’ve hit most of the Eighties.

Rolling into the weekend with gratitude & thanks for everyone who cancelled a meeting this week 😂

My cartoon for the books page in this week’s @theguardian.com

Timeline cleanse! Here are some wee forest flowers ♥️

I’m fucking high, right? This is a hallucination brought on by overwork and tequila, right?

It's alive! It's ALIIIIIIVE!! 🧟‍♀️ At least for now. Getting ready to migrate hosts. Which, based on this week's experience, will be just peachy, I'm sure.

Wrangling a book’s back cover copy always feels kinda bleargh until it all comes together. #amediting

I am in DNS propagation hell. Website and email down since Saturday and no end in sight.

That’s not how consent works.

Well, I overestimated my speed at the tail end of this #copyedit 😂 Saving my eyeballs this evening, will be doing #amediting overtime this weekend!

Soooo... While I've been absent from socials, I have actually been #amwriting. Mostly piecemeal so it hasn't felt as productive as it actually seems to be. And tonight, one of my #edibuddies gave me lovely feedback! 😄 Feels good, esp as I tend to be quite hard in myself.

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Do this! Bookshop.org is good stuff.

that bizarre feeling halfway between elation and depression that comes with finishing a story

A Steller's Jay in grabie acrylic marker #birds #drawing #acrylic #sketch

Good Lord.

Linguistics

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there's a certain kind of tech high priest who also seems constantly shocked and offended that a lot of people don't buy their "we have to bring this glorious new tech into being for the greater good, which will also result in me becoming unfathomably wealthy and you losing your job" sales pitch

Happy Labour Day weekend from the home of the labour movement in NL, Port Union. I'm fiddling about in the studio today, but definitely not working too hard. Just slowly unloading and admiring these new #wildclay #wildglaze pots. #pottery #ceramics #canadianceramics #nl #newfoundland

These names are... For the birds 😜

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This whole thread is glorious. You're welcome (relatedly, last night the dog I'm taking care of nearly had a run in with what sounded like a VERY mad fox, when let out for late-night bathroom break. We scurried, all was well, but next time I'm scouting ahead with a flashlight)

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Dear any company who adds milk in any form to dark chocolate: Excuse me what

A little ladybug perched on a leaf 🥰 Black underglaze wiped back Jade celadon Various underglazes under a clear glaze on the lady 🐞 #pottersofbluesky #pottery #handmade #handmadeincanada #naturalpottery

Today in Editingland: writing up feedback & looking for ways to be positive & empowering -- to wrap the potential hammer blow of some of my comments. Being able to help writers at this stage is exactly why I do what I do, but damn am I too much of an empathetic softie for my own good 😅 #amediting

It's been a couple of weeks since I made it to the studio... 😭😭 I guess this means I basically need to live there for the next few so I don't feel so wasteful of my membership 🙈😝 #pottery

Storing under TIL today! Also, Manifest Destiny I'm looking at you, too 😆

Thanks, I feel inspired: While trees rake carbon from the sky and lignify it 'til they die, eventually that heat's released by fire or rot or gnawing beast. But if you've got the clime to suit, and want to see less top, more root while storing carbon out the ass you cannot beat a prairie grass.

Because it can ... 🪶 Burrowing owl. 🦉 #birds #photography #owls

Welp, there goes the aloe. I only meant to repot, separate some pups, and replant, but there you are 😂🙈

Watching youtube videos on lidded jars like a person possessed 😆 Now if only I could retain all the small details when I head into the studio... #pottery

What? 🪶 #PeregrineFalcons #Peregrines

Reading Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang and it is INCREDIBLE. I knew some of the history, but not how recent some of it was (warlords). Incredible respect for all the survivors. Highly recommended for anyone who enjoys multigenerational memoir or history. 📚💙

Cats are highly underrated as insect pest eliminators. Take out all the creepy crawlies, kitty!

Reckless • Black-capped Chickadee #bird #birds #birdart #birdsofbluesky #chickadee #flight #birdwatching #birding #naturephotography #photographersofbluesky #birdphotography #puremichigan #birdsinflight #flyday #wildlifeart #naturelovers #urbannature #wings #sun

Some water etching made me feel better about 2 otherwise rough days at the studio. And I’m pleased with the shape also! Evidence I'm not always terrible 😅🙈 #pottery