Yes, hello, is that God? Yeah, hi. I have a complaint. You gave me this brain that’s designed for finding berries and avoiding lions and now people are ‘just circling back’ to see if we can ‘move the needle’ on ‘key initiatives’? NONE of those things are berries.

Mug progress!!!! Today was all about frogs, toads, and super-detailed leaf litter situations 👍

"SHIT" "FUCK" "NO" "FUCK" "SHIT" "FUCK"

I was sick all week but had to keep plugging away at the ceramics work to not lose ground on market prep, so yeah. Same vibes 🙃

x files showrunner: ok it's time to break down the season. we've got 25 episodes and-- bug master bleak, master of the bugs, covered in cockroaches like a gown: tsssssssir! SSSSSIR showrunner [creaking a whip]: down! DOWN! you will get your bug episode bug master bleak. BACK TO THE WALL SPACE

Sometimes you’ve gotta take a second away from panicking about how much glazing you have to do in the next 10ish days & admire how warm the light illuminating your mugs-in-waiting is (hurry up, spring!).

This looks lovely (as per usual for Cartoon Saloon)!!

These are…unhinged?? The one that really gets me is “are you totally drained / do you still have energy for me.” The miasma of passive aggression around that one is STRONG.

Even liberals are quite concerned about this .. the hawkishness.

For those liberals and others (like me), you can send your thoughts right to the man himself by going here www.pm.gc.ca/en/connect/c...

Just unloaded the kiln & now have SO many Little Guys to glaze (but first, one more quick batch of mugs for a second, smaller bisque fire, because I’m trying to figure out a good production schedule now that I’m doing markets!!!!!!!! Agh!!!).

Saturday jaunt to Merivale = picking up some lunch from OK Mart & getting the most adorable onigiri (tho I missed the nori — they were out of that version 🥲) & perfect marinated potato & pickled radish banchan 👍👍👍

“It’s weird,” he said. “I just did something that I would think anyone would do. What do you mean you would watch a stroller and a baby just sink?”

Yessssssss

Let's see if we can raise $10,000 today for red state or national queer orgs. Post proof here in the replies that you donated to a red state or national queer organization and I will share. Who's with me? (I can't donate myself because I'm a journalist who covers these orgs)

New mugs are heading into the kiln soon 🔥 To make room, most of the remaining mugs are now $65, shipping included. If one’s been calling your name, this might be the moment to bring it home. And if not, a share always helps. 🙏

Yesssssss

Quills. I bought it from the Blockbuster $6 movie box, watched it once & immediately donated it because I had to get it out of my house due to the way it made me so sad.

I believe in you, little guy

I’m watching on my phone at Union Station (along with half the people waiting for trains near me)!! Their servers are doing heavy work & we love them for it!!

Those bright red strawberry marshmallows (especially when they’re a bit stale). Also the sour cream & onion rings from Bulk Barn that have the texture of cheap styrofoam.

(sea monster bio) You've probably seen my writhing in The Atlantic

This was such a delight and seeing the supportiveness between the competitors, especially at the end, was so lovely! Reminded me of the snowboarder hug-pile (one of my fav Olympic things)!!

Season one of The Terror (TV show, but MAN what an adaptation)!! It actively improves on the book so much that when I reread the book after watching the show I found the character relationships less deep in the 800pg novel vs the show?!

Time Traveler’s Wife. I have a deep love for/connection to the parts of the book that deal with Clare’s relationship with her art & love the weirdo story. The way they ironed out all the darkness in the story made me want to SCREAM.

I played my new favorite game, which is called Are The Fellas In Sync? defector.com/are-the-fell...

Beautiful wolfdog now an Olympian: defector.com/beautiful-wo...

DOG AT THE OLYMPICS FULL COMPETITION HIGHLIGHTS

The world feels very unsettled, and art isn’t always the priority in these trying times. Even so, I'm here and keep on making. These are my latest one-of-a-kind raku vessels available now. A share or like to help them find their people would mean a great deal. 🙏

75 years old! 🪶🪶 Wisdom the Laysan Albatross has returned to Midway Atoll. medium.com/discourse/sh...

Sorry, the sunlight was gorgeous today & I have to post a few more photos I took of Minou (the best boy)!

This weird and wonderful Greek amphoriskos (flask) depicts a bird-man, but the explanation is astonishing. It almost certainly relates to Aristophanes' famous comedy 'The Birds' (first produced 415/414 BCE) and may represent a costume worn by members of the chorus. 🏺 #ancientbluesky #MetMuseum 📸 me

First chick of the kākāpō breeding season has successfully hatched!!!! Look at this grumpy little puff of feathers!! www.doc.govt.nz/news/media-r...

This is disgusting, and dehumanizing, and unfortunately coming to damn near every platform you can think of. Multilingualism isn’t an inconvenience to be “solved” by technology. We have to push back.

This is a CAT checkpoint. Show me the most recent cat image on your phone. (I’m conveniently at my mom’s so I have a cat nearby!)

Nosferatu is only for people you know well. The polite form is Nosferavous.

Canadian authors: the registration portal for the Public Lending Right is open now, I've been waiting very patiently to finally have a title to register, and promptly did so this morning. Don't forget to do the same! publiclendingright.ca

I’m hanging off of every little tidbit from spring training and absolutely can’t wait to have our boys back!!! I miss baseball so much!!!??!

Cc: @ismathers.bsky.social

You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).

I haven’t made these bigger ravens in a bit — nice to get back to them 😊

Just published an update to this, covering the team structures for the US and Canada (ie. who is on which line), and the news that Team Canada left the Olympic village after one day and moved into a hotel:

"Unlike some animals that have evolved to do things like survive, kākāpō have opted instead to become a screeching, smelly, groundbound predator magnet with an impossibly convoluted approach to breeding." Perfect description thespinoff.co.nz/science/13-0...

Ominous bird valentines.

Drop some HORSE 🐴 #illustration

I watched the whole thing because it's astonishing

Artists, quote with something silly!

I feel like my biggest one is seeing Jurassic Park (1993) in theatres at the age of seven & leaving the movie even more obsessed with dinosaurs (especially the raptors) than I’d already been (& I was already a major dino-nerd)

been watching the olympics and i think i found a solution to the male loneliness crisis