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stealingsand @stealingsand.bsky.social · Feb 2

7/ Pottery/clay/ceramics. It's incredibly humbling - even if you do everything right, it can still come out horribly wrong 🤣

A 4" wide ceramic jar and lid with a vivid blue/green/chartreuse glaze in a turtle shell pattern, the "frozen pond" technique. One of the glazes used in this technique is a "flux", and causes other glazes to move and bloom into different colors. Another of the glazes is a celadon, which doesn't move at all. When you combine dits of the flux glazes with one that doesn't move, crazy organic "firework" shapes emerge in the "frame" of the stable glaze.

A stoneware case shaped like a beaker with a very narrow neck. The vase has a drippy glaze on it, matte and metallic and cloudy pale greens and blue-greens.

A small plate with a Chinese cloud texture impressed on the surface. The clouds are "outlined" by an underglaze a shade darker than the celadon layered atop it.

Half a piece of a small bowl with the cloud texture. Clay is super fragile after it dries but before it's bisque fired, basically just fancy dirt like an anthill. I picked this one up and half of it stayed on the shelf, no idea what happened, likely it dried unevenly and caused this crack.

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Shaun @zooropean.bsky.social · 3h

So much for another relic from my childhood:

cordcuttersnews.com/mtv-is-shutt...

MTV is Shutting Down Its Last Music Channels, Marking the End of an Era | Cord Cutters News

Paramount Global has delivered a devastating blow to music fans worldwide, announcing the permanent shutdown of five iconic MTV music channels by December 31, 2025 according to the BBC. For 44 years, ...

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Texas Storm Chasers @texasstormchasers.com · 2h

A pattern shift will bring active weather back to Texas this weekend.
We’re keeping an eye on Northeast Texas (Ark-La-Tex) for a chance of strong to severe storms on Saturday and Saturday Night (October 18).
Check back later this week for updates as we get closer.
#Texas #SevereWeather #txwx

Map of Texas showing a highlighted area of potential severe storms for Saturday, October 18, 2025. The risk area includes parts of Northeast Texas near Sherman, Texarkana, and the Ark-La-Tex region. Caption notes a pattern shift bringing active weather back to Texas this weekend. Map by Texas Storm Chasers.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 2h

ברוך מתיר אסורים
Blessed are You, who releases the captive.

There should have been an All for All deal two years ago, but here we are--after so much harm, so much annihilation.

Every life saved is a thing of consequence.

May this be the beginning of a new future for all the peoples in the Land.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 2h

No Kings Means No Paychecks.

Literally saying if you don't pay fealty, you don't get YOUR OWN TAX MONEY BACK. You really couldn't write a bigger advertisement for this thing.

I swear if the elected Dems fold before this.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."

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Lee Drutman @leedrutman.bsky.social · 4h

New study finds Democrats represent public opinion better than Republicans: "the quality of statehouse democracy, here meaning the dynamic relationship between opinion and policy, is substantially weakened by Republican Party control of state government."

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 2h

DHS spending its newly massive budget keeping America safe from [... checks notes...] nail salons and swim moms.

Cross country flights & 5 months of detention based on "officials made a number of false and misleading claims"
www.thebanner.com/western-mary...

Hagerstown nail salon owner freed after five months in ICE custody

Melissa Tran, a Hagerstown mom and nail salon owner, was freed five months after being detained by ICE and jailed in Washington state. A federal judge ruled that U.S. officials had no basis for prolon...

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stealingsand @stealingsand.bsky.social · 1h

I'm baffled by this "paid" shit, I mean, I know the reds don’t do anything if it doesn't benefit them personally/financially, so being paid for protesting makes sense.

But also who's gonna pay me enough money for me to get pepper sprayed? Beaten and zip-tied? That's expensive.

Kate Sometimes @bestsloth.bsky.social · 3h

Shit. I've been protesting for years and have never gotten a dime.

Clearly, I'm doing something wrong.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 3h

Holy shit go off John Oliver youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ?...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h

People treat it like there’s some kind of competition for who’s been victimized the most and not a collaboration to make sure we’re all victimized as little as possible

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

i'm sure duffy is just lying here but also i'll say again that they hard time conceptualizing relations between people that aren't strictly hierarchical.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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cats being weird little guys @weirdlilguys.bsky.social · Aug 8

there’s an election for Cat Mayor currently happening in Somerville, Mass. and every cat deserves to win

signs of cats who are running for cat mayor of somerville, massachusetts

a sign for a cat running for cat mayor named hermes squirmies

a pink sign for a cat running for cat mayor named beatrix. her slogan is “no kings, only princesses”

a sign for a cat running for cat mayor named Luna. her slogan is “pro zoomies, chaos, and attention”

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 5h

Here it is, your daily squid.

A bunch of otters sit at a bar drinking silly cocktails. One is reading a book, one has an urchin in the cocktail the other has a pink squid

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 5h

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes.

Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 12h

This is correct, in part - as the grim, military historian in me feels the need to note - it is psychologically much harder to get soldiers to open fire on people they view as 'respectable.'

And I dread, with grim increasingly certainty, that we are headed to a point where that matters.

WhatSaraSaid @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 12h

protests against this government should include white Boomer grandmothers who meet for pilates class, get a pitcher of mimosas & walk together to the public space

we need people in the street who think everyone can talk their way out of a speeding ticket, they're key to winning

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 4h

Someone said “together we ribbit, divided we croak” the other day and I am at peak frog interest

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Min Chao @wordsfromtaiwan.bsky.social · 4h

"Pepohoan" refers to the Plains #Indigenous peoples of the #Taiwanese lowlands, also known as Pingpu people (平埔族), now assimilated.

A thirty-year old Pepohoan woman, pictured from the front and side, circa 1871.

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Min Chao @wordsfromtaiwan.bsky.social · 4h

#Indigenous man with pipe and community members pictured in central #Taiwan (1870-1900)

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Min Chao @wordsfromtaiwan.bsky.social · 1d

A man beside a huge #Banyan tree with exposed roots, #Taiwan (1871)

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Min Chao @wordsfromtaiwan.bsky.social · 1d

Image Point (點陣角) at the mouth of #Keelung Harbour, northeastern #Taiwan (1870-1890)

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Min Chao @wordsfromtaiwan.bsky.social · Aug 29

A photo taken circa 1870-1900 of a #Taiwanese #lake three thousand feet above sea level

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Min Chao @wordsfromtaiwan.bsky.social · Aug 28

Junks sailing in the #Taiwan Strait, 1910-1930

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 4h

ICYMI, here is the press release for my study with @drjuliawester.bsky.social - we surveyed over 800 scientists who use social media. They overwhelmingly agree that Twitter is no longer useful or pleasant, and that for all professional online scientist goals, Bluesky is superior.
🧪 #SciComm 🌍

“Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky:” Our new survey shows that scientists no longer find Twitter professionally useful or pleasant

My colleague Dr. Julia Wester and I have a new paper out in the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology reporting on the results of a survey distributed to over 800 scientists, science educator…

www.southernfriedscience.com

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Sapling 🌱 Print shop open! @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 6h

Image reads: “Can somebody explain to me why it’s bad if immigrants take our jobs but it’s good is AI does?”

Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 12h

We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Aug 3

Like, even snake oil salesmen had to promise their customers a benefit. This snake oil will heal your ailments. It will benefit you. You get something out of buying my snake oil.

These fash tech dipshits can't even do that. It's just "if you buy my snake oil I get to have more money."

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Aug 3

It's funny that literally the only use case zuckerberg can imagine for technology is "I get to surveil you 24/7 inside the panopticon I own"

Like he can't even be arsed to detail the benefit to anyone other than him.

Chuck Taggart, Private Eye @sazeracla.bsky.social · Aug 3

“‘Personal devices like glasses that understand our context because they can see what we see, hear what we hear, and interact with us throughout the day will become our primary computing devices,’ he wrote Wednesday in an online post detailing how Meta will bring AI to users.”

No, they won’t.

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