Figured it might be time to do another 30 song challenge, except with ONLY songs I have discovered/purchased within the last year, since I seem to have gone down a massive rabbit hole. Still undecided on the bigger project, but I had to share this RIGHT NOW: youtu.be/lWw-MUqfwEA?...

Goddammit. Tried to add some texture to snakey and pushed too hard.

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

Can’t sleep, brain stuck on analysis mode, so you get a thread on what Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl has to say about AI. Obvious spoilers ahead. Vengeance Most Fowl is available everywhere fine Netflix is purveyed. Okay, here we go until I fall asleep.

I forgot to post yesterday's work on this site ... Did a tiny bit of fiddling with the snake vessel, but mostly I worked on this mug. (My son insists on calling it a "tiny pot with handle" because it's "pottery" not "muggery")

I liked this edition of @ninametz.bsky.social's newsletter a lot. For me as a viewer, I don't want to watch a show where the important parts of the plot were farmed out to AI. I want to watch something created by people engaging with the craft. buttondown.com/NinaWatchesE...

Finished two pieces and just need thrm to dry before firing. Worked on a third. Pics below; a thread. Mug 1:

Amazing how these guys will be all like look, we're going over there to liberate the Iranian people, and then a minute later talk about murdering anyone and everyone in the country we're supposedly liberating.

When I was in 8th grade, my civics teacher said that one of the great problems with democracy was that the populace could just vote themselves bread and circuses. As a resident of Minneapolis, I would like to shout "bullshit" from the rafters. /1

I think people pointed out years ago that genAI would be weaponized by governments and used to justify war crimes, because once you outsource mass civilian death to a machine, you can just say the machine made a mistake. Israel & the US have been bombing children non-stop for 2+ years.

AI scooping up, or fed, outdated information and thereby murdering children?

Pottery stuff:

Hail, Pterry, full of rage, the muse is with thee. Blessed art thou among authors, and blessed is the fruit of thy brain, Discworld. Hail Pterry, Father of Great A'Tuin, who channeled rage into compassion blessed are thy words.

They released a recording of the Stardew Valley Symphony of Seasons concert online, just until May 26th. It's as close to watching the concert live as you can get without paying. Watch here (time stamps help skip the opening pause and the intermission which was stuffed with merch commercials...):

Me: you shouldn't throw more. Me: you have several things to finish decorating. Me: you could finish the Union Station cup! Me: you barely have the shelf space! Also me:

1/n On Doomerism/Mansplaining/Helpful Hints: This morning, I was still trying to understand a man who felt some compulsion to explain to the whistle goblins how they could do it better. Never mind that they’ve been doing this for MONTHS already and already tried his “better” method and

In October 2024, the Georgia secretary of state’s office launched an investigation after receiving numerous reports from residents across several counties saying they’d received partially prefilled absentee ballot applications from Musk’s America PAC. trib.al/n6hAZOC

Quite frankly, there’s more great art in the world than any of us could see in a dozen lifetimes. But we’re not exactly swimming in joy out here. If I thought art truly required misery, like some messed-up gallery Omelas, then going a museum would mean I was walking through a sea of human anguish.

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

This still has a fair bit of polishing up and refining detail to go, even though my architecture cups are (intentionally!) less precisely carved or fussed over than, say, Celtic knotwork or animal heads.

SCOOP: Alpha School, an “AI-powered private school” that heavily relies on AI to teach students and can cost up to $65,000 a year and has been praised by the press and the Trump administration, is AI-generating faulty lesson plans that internal documentation find sometimes do “more harm than good."

Everyone: Absolutely everyone: Värttinä:

I've said this before but I truly believe we could revitalize YA and kidlit overnight by switching to MMPB and paperback first. Kids want paperbacks! It is by far the biggest request I get from teen readers.

As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts

If there's ever been a time to NOT be incrementalist, this is it. The most political capital you're gonna have is right now. And we got Gestapo death squads in MSP and TB spreading through concentration camps in Texas. If you can't find a win there, get out of politics. The Epstein Class, baby

Honest question for everyone: I do a lot of stuff currently via Google docs and sheets because I can share across platforms and locations. Is there a viable alternative? I have a Dropbox account but that doesn't include the innate word processor/spreadsheet capabilities, does it? ...

Thankfully, the only computer where I have it right now is disconnected from the internet for years, but I was planning on reloading it to one that will be connected, so...

So, the work today was still left pretty rough, but I think I made progress. Winnipeggers ought to be able to ID the original...

Honestly one of my favourite books last year. SO worth it.

Thread includes the "credentials" of those involved. Don't trust them.

Me having drawn loads of Valentines Cards for you all and having sold about four… WHERE IS DA LUV? They’re all here. I need knickers and frazzles money Pls buy dem - I hate marketing. I just wanna make ART linktr.ee/Dippyfishcards #bsnm

So many amazing donations from authors, illustrators, agents & editors to the #PublishingForMinnesota auction! Bidding now open, ends Jan. 30th: www.32auctions.com/publishingfo... #KidLit #BookSky #EduSky #WriterSky

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

The teapot top colour and lid are the same glaze but it did somewhat different things, which is annoying.

So, detail shots and also what I did today. Starting with the latter. Not one of the mug/cylinders is clise to finished, never mind the head

Kiln goodies! Big group photo for now, details later.

CBP chief Bovino has confirmed that the officers who executed Alex Pretti in the street yesterday are not only *not on administrative leave,* they have all been reassigned to other jurisdictions and are all on the street today. This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting

Absolute banger of a comment on r/military: www.reddit.com/r/Military/c...

Drop the names of any Canadian companies you’ve seen working with ICE in the comments. I’m aware of Gardaworld, Roshel, Hootsuite. Would love to gather any and all other names.

I am from places where these things happen, and can go out in somepretty ugly weather, and this advice is sound if you aren't. A special note: the wet factor isn't just that wet skin chills much much faster, it's that wet clothes **stop insulating*.

this is your reminder, as some Weather approaches, that making "haha southerners can't handle a little snow" jokes is asinine and that the 2021 freeze killed several hundred people in Texas (state says 246, independent estimates put it as high as 700)

Two weeks of studio days with no pictures. Last week I was glazing and the works weren't fired yet. This week was my first on a wheel since, oh, October/November. Turned out ok but not trimmed yet. Also, OW. The muscles regret the gap..

Carbon monoxide deaths spike during power outages. Many times, this is due to portable generators being placed too close to people's homes or run indoors. Make sure you have working carbon monoxide alarms. Run your generator outdoors, at least 20ft away from your home.

If you have time to give a shit about Greenland today, please call your congress folks and loudly give a shit to spare a Minnesotan who is really otherwise occupied! reps.fyi

So have you ever gotten a series of phone calls from a collection agency looking for the guy who had your phone number two years ago (or who wrote down your phone number instead of his)? Because imagine if the collection agency was allowed to knock down your door and drag you out in handcuffs.

can we just quickly clear up an often repeated idea that Minneapolis is a “small city of 500k” or the “47th largest city in the US”? it is directly connected to st. paul, a city of 400,000. with the suburbs, the metro area is over 3.5 million people. your city won’t be safer because it is bigger.