@octopotter.bsky.social
Retired software engineer, amateur potter.
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pleased to announce that there seems to be a passive-aggressive conflict roiling the august pages of Cooks Illustrated, Fall Harvest recipes edition. allow me to explain:
October 20, 2025 at 3:35 AM
pleased to announce that there seems to be a passive-aggressive conflict roiling the august pages of Cooks Illustrated, Fall Harvest recipes edition. allow me to explain:
Chimps are more rational than the average politician:
“Chimps can take in new evidence, evaluate its strength, and change their minds”
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
“Chimps can take in new evidence, evaluate its strength, and change their minds”
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
The evolution of rationality: How chimps process conflicting evidence
Chimps can take in new evidence, evaluate its strength, and change their minds.
arstechnica.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Chimps are more rational than the average politician:
“Chimps can take in new evidence, evaluate its strength, and change their minds”
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
“Chimps can take in new evidence, evaluate its strength, and change their minds”
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
casserole dish. notice the tentacles escaping out the bottom.
November 3, 2025 at 3:45 AM
casserole dish. notice the tentacles escaping out the bottom.
Don’t mess with vipers: “the blunt-nosed viper accelerating up to 710 m/s2, landing a bite within 22 microseconds. All the vipers landed bites within 100 milliseconds of striking.”
Ars reporting on a paper in Journal of Experimental Biology.
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Ars reporting on a paper in Journal of Experimental Biology.
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Research roundup: 6 cool science stories we almost missed
The highest scoring Boggle board, catching high-speed snake bites in action, and more.
arstechnica.com
November 2, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Don’t mess with vipers: “the blunt-nosed viper accelerating up to 710 m/s2, landing a bite within 22 microseconds. All the vipers landed bites within 100 milliseconds of striking.”
Ars reporting on a paper in Journal of Experimental Biology.
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Ars reporting on a paper in Journal of Experimental Biology.
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Out of the kiln this weekend. This was an exercise in layering colored slips and glazes to get variations in color and texture.
#pottery
#ceramics
#handmade
#pottersofbluesky
#pottery
#ceramics
#handmade
#pottersofbluesky
October 28, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Out of the kiln this weekend. This was an exercise in layering colored slips and glazes to get variations in color and texture.
#pottery
#ceramics
#handmade
#pottersofbluesky
#pottery
#ceramics
#handmade
#pottersofbluesky
New fossil theme handled soup bowl, with lizard “skeletons” on the sides
October 23, 2025 at 1:22 AM
New fossil theme handled soup bowl, with lizard “skeletons” on the sides
Halloween decorations (made last year)
October 18, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Halloween decorations (made last year)
Another work in progress. Marbled dark and light clay mug with slip trailed insects
September 29, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Another work in progress. Marbled dark and light clay mug with slip trailed insects
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My dearest Martha, I send you all my love from this war-torn ravaged place, where our hardships surpass comprehension. Yesterday, a barista gave me a whole milk latte when I specifically ordered skim. Later, a young woman with strangely colored hair glanced at me disapprovingly.
September 27, 2025 at 6:24 PM
My dearest Martha, I send you all my love from this war-torn ravaged place, where our hardships surpass comprehension. Yesterday, a barista gave me a whole milk latte when I specifically ordered skim. Later, a young woman with strangely colored hair glanced at me disapprovingly.
Work in progress: casserole dish with octopus lid
#pottery
#ceramics
#handmade
#pottersofbluesky
#SciArt
#invertefest
#pottery
#ceramics
#handmade
#pottersofbluesky
#SciArt
#invertefest
September 28, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Work in progress: casserole dish with octopus lid
#pottery
#ceramics
#handmade
#pottersofbluesky
#SciArt
#invertefest
#pottery
#ceramics
#handmade
#pottersofbluesky
#SciArt
#invertefest
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a) Rebecca's thread is A++
b) yeah ok I'm a squid gal but can we talk whale size... this is a whale for whom a GIANT SQUID is a LITERAL MOUTHFUL
c) the footage is rare & exciting for us, but it's just tuesday snacktime for sperm whales. this mama could eat 7-8 giant squid PER DAY 🧪🦑🌊
b) yeah ok I'm a squid gal but can we talk whale size... this is a whale for whom a GIANT SQUID is a LITERAL MOUTHFUL
c) the footage is rare & exciting for us, but it's just tuesday snacktime for sperm whales. this mama could eat 7-8 giant squid PER DAY 🧪🦑🌊
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 26, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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Work in progress finally on the greenware cart:
- handled ramen bowl, marbled clay with lizard “fossils” in white slip
- marbled clay trilobite and nautilus “fossil” mug
- handled ramen bowl, marbled clay with lizard “fossils” in white slip
- marbled clay trilobite and nautilus “fossil” mug
September 22, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Work in progress finally on the greenware cart:
- handled ramen bowl, marbled clay with lizard “fossils” in white slip
- marbled clay trilobite and nautilus “fossil” mug
- handled ramen bowl, marbled clay with lizard “fossils” in white slip
- marbled clay trilobite and nautilus “fossil” mug
Third times the charm on this yarn bowl: fired one more time after sanding smooth craters and dipping half way in a the coat of Noxema. The inside isn’t as pretty but the glaze is now smooth everywhere so it won’t snag yarn.
September 21, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Third times the charm on this yarn bowl: fired one more time after sanding smooth craters and dipping half way in a the coat of Noxema. The inside isn’t as pretty but the glaze is now smooth everywhere so it won’t snag yarn.
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September 15, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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September 13, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Read every word of this.
Millions of Californians can now be profiled by the color of their skin and the language they speak, thanks to the Supreme Court.
This is not the slippery slope. We are already on the slide towards dictatorship.
Millions of Californians can now be profiled by the color of their skin and the language they speak, thanks to the Supreme Court.
This is not the slippery slope. We are already on the slide towards dictatorship.
September 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Read every word of this.
Millions of Californians can now be profiled by the color of their skin and the language they speak, thanks to the Supreme Court.
This is not the slippery slope. We are already on the slide towards dictatorship.
Millions of Californians can now be profiled by the color of their skin and the language they speak, thanks to the Supreme Court.
This is not the slippery slope. We are already on the slide towards dictatorship.
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2 hours left to get in on the @marthawells.com Humble Bundle
www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
Come for the Murderbot...and also get Witch King, City of Bones, and more!
www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
Come for the Murderbot...and also get Witch King, City of Bones, and more!
Humble Book Bundle: Martha Wells' Murderbot and More by TOR
Fall in love with Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series—the engine behind the hit AppleTV adaptation—and help support World Central Kitchen.
www.humblebundle.com
September 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
2 hours left to get in on the @marthawells.com Humble Bundle
www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
Come for the Murderbot...and also get Witch King, City of Bones, and more!
www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
Come for the Murderbot...and also get Witch King, City of Bones, and more!
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I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions.
Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
September 12, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions.
Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
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if you’re an isolated, angsty, strange young man, please know that you can become a Kierkegaard scholar instead of joining fringe online communities
September 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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lmaooooo matt just told me the one korean hyundai engineer who chose to remain in the country is only doing so out of spite so he can sue the US government I LOVE YOU KOREANS
September 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
lmaooooo matt just told me the one korean hyundai engineer who chose to remain in the country is only doing so out of spite so he can sue the US government I LOVE YOU KOREANS
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Authors love to bitch about a subpar copy editing experience, so I wanted to share how GREAT mine has been on my forthcoming novella, Foundling Fathers. (Tachyon 2026)
This CE caught comma splices, unintentional Britishisms, and made fixes per CMS but also:
This CE caught comma splices, unintentional Britishisms, and made fixes per CMS but also:
September 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Authors love to bitch about a subpar copy editing experience, so I wanted to share how GREAT mine has been on my forthcoming novella, Foundling Fathers. (Tachyon 2026)
This CE caught comma splices, unintentional Britishisms, and made fixes per CMS but also:
This CE caught comma splices, unintentional Britishisms, and made fixes per CMS but also:
Evidence of an impact crater under “lava and other kinds of rock …that can be dated to 3.47 billion years ago, so the impact is at least that old.”
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/earth-s-ol...
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/earth-s-ol...
Earth’s oldest crater found!
It’s in Australia and it’s REALLY old
badastronomy.beehiiv.com
September 12, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Evidence of an impact crater under “lava and other kinds of rock …that can be dated to 3.47 billion years ago, so the impact is at least that old.”
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/earth-s-ol...
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/earth-s-ol...