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Victor Turner Overdrive @badfriendclub.bsky.social · 4m

@carl.bsky.social you know about this thing? Seems up your alley

Victor Turner Overdrive @badfriendclub.bsky.social · 8m

I mean come on if this doesn’t get you going what would

Ancient Egyptian statue that looks exactly like Michael Jackson

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Victor Turner Overdrive @badfriendclub.bsky.social · 43m

Same guy just went to piss and didn’t wash his hands. Feral

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Victor Turner Overdrive @badfriendclub.bsky.social · 48m

Guy sitting across from me at this conference table is swishing his teeth with each sip of Coca Cola. There’s some real sickos out there folks

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Victor Turner Overdrive @badfriendclub.bsky.social · 1h

Absolute banger of an episode of the Weird Studies podcast today, Shannon Taggart’s presentation on Michael Jackson as a liminal/trickster figure is one of the most electric power points I have ever watched, and this conversation captures that electricity

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Victor Turner Overdrive @badfriendclub.bsky.social · 3h

Every morning I play Russian roulette with the worlds largest pistol, spinning the cylinder like the big wheel on the price is right. It spins all day, and the last sound I hear as i drift off to sleep is it slowing and finally clicking into place

Victor Turner Overdrive @badfriendclub.bsky.social · 5h

These are absolutely charming

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Victor Turner Overdrive @badfriendclub.bsky.social · 14h

tysm

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Victor Turner Overdrive @badfriendclub.bsky.social · 15h

Thank you! It’s a really interesting material, exciting to start to get the hang of it

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Victor Turner Overdrive @badfriendclub.bsky.social · 15h

No I don’t think we’re close to each other - my studio is in San Jose CA

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Victor Turner Overdrive @badfriendclub.bsky.social · 15h

Not bad for day 2 learning to work with porcelain. Tried to replicate this pewter vase my grandma gave me, so I can send her the porcelain version

A small porcelain vase, still wet and freshly mad

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Victor Turner Overdrive @badfriendclub.bsky.social · 16h

This one came out pretty nice, it was fired in reduction. The other will have a more complex color scheme and fire in oxidation in a week or so.

Brown fired bottle shaped vase with a darker brown chevron pattern around the upper half

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Victor Turner Overdrive @badfriendclub.bsky.social · 1d

How fast you think we could stand up a refinery to extract cooking oil from soybeans? Like 6 weeks?

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Victor Turner Overdrive @badfriendclub.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning Fish Cake

A scruffy tabby cat with a tipped ear steps into my office from the parking lot

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Anza-Borrego Desert Research Center @anzaborrego.bsky.social · 1d

Sunrise on the Southern Chocolate Mountains and Algodones Dunes (east of the Salton Sea) Sunday morning (Photo: Sicco Rood).

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Victor Turner Overdrive @badfriendclub.bsky.social · 1d

Sfire 7

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Victor Turner Overdrive @badfriendclub.bsky.social · 1d

Hey there lil guy

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Victor Turner Overdrive @badfriendclub.bsky.social · 1d

What the fuck do you mean there’s a new Outlook

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Victor Turner Overdrive @badfriendclub.bsky.social · 2d

I guess this is a probably a general property of projecting circles onto this type of form but it’s still pretty neat

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Victor Turner Overdrive @badfriendclub.bsky.social · 2d

I love when a driver reports to me “hey my toolbox is sticking shut can you look at it” and then I look at the toolbox and they’ve obviously run into something with it. Mondays amirite gang