Andrea
@jkpolk.bsky.social
Amateur potter, amateur photographer, professional cat lady and weirdo. TMBG dork. She/her. Connecticut.
Turns out falling down the stairs on your ass really hurts your ass!
November 27, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Turns out falling down the stairs on your ass really hurts your ass!
Since we had to cancel thanksgiving in terms of people coming over, and someone else was planning to bring the mashed potatoes, I’m going to have to make do with the potatoes we have in the house from the CSA and I have no idea if they’re appropriate for that context. I just can’t NOT have potatoes.
November 27, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Since we had to cancel thanksgiving in terms of people coming over, and someone else was planning to bring the mashed potatoes, I’m going to have to make do with the potatoes we have in the house from the CSA and I have no idea if they’re appropriate for that context. I just can’t NOT have potatoes.
Pottery really has the power to break your fucking heart at the final hurdle
November 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Pottery really has the power to break your fucking heart at the final hurdle
Also because things weren’t shitty enough, I just fell down the stairs because my socks were too slippery. No serious injuries but my tailbone is super angry now
November 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Also because things weren’t shitty enough, I just fell down the stairs because my socks were too slippery. No serious injuries but my tailbone is super angry now
Welp we were supposed to host thanksgiving this year but we’re both still testing positive so we had to cancel.
What shitty timing.
Now I have to figure out how to make stuff for us that other people were going to bring. At least I don’t have to bother making max and cheese.
What shitty timing.
Now I have to figure out how to make stuff for us that other people were going to bring. At least I don’t have to bother making max and cheese.
November 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Welp we were supposed to host thanksgiving this year but we’re both still testing positive so we had to cancel.
What shitty timing.
Now I have to figure out how to make stuff for us that other people were going to bring. At least I don’t have to bother making max and cheese.
What shitty timing.
Now I have to figure out how to make stuff for us that other people were going to bring. At least I don’t have to bother making max and cheese.
I had a dream I was picking up my pottery from the latest kiln load and everything was wrong, ugly, or missing. Better not be prophetic! 😆
November 26, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I had a dream I was picking up my pottery from the latest kiln load and everything was wrong, ugly, or missing. Better not be prophetic! 😆
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Space-Biff gets me! Love the review Dan!
In Mac McAnally's This Is Not a Game About a Pipe, players must craft studiously sensical statements about their cards. This one is a strange but enjoyable trick-taker. My review: spacebiff.com/2025/11/25/t...
This Is Not a Review of a Pipe
All I play anymore is trick-takers. And while some of them are challenging, others risk disappearing down their own pipe-hole in a semantic puff of tobacco smoke. That isn’t a bad thing. This…
spacebiff.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Space-Biff gets me! Love the review Dan!
This kinda leads into what’s been driving me mad recently. Lots of talk at work about finishing out year end assessments. And my manager is all “just have copilot write it for you, that’s how I do my comments” and I when I said “I will never have AI write something for me”…
I'm already an above average writer so any supposed advantage to using an LLM goes out the window. I am not an above average artist, but that's why I pay artists when I need art. Remember I have it in my contracts that all work on my books (art, editing, translation, etc) has to be done by humans.
I imagine LLMs are less useful for expert wordsmiths like Mr. Scalzi.
November 25, 2025 at 7:39 PM
This kinda leads into what’s been driving me mad recently. Lots of talk at work about finishing out year end assessments. And my manager is all “just have copilot write it for you, that’s how I do my comments” and I when I said “I will never have AI write something for me”…
Only tangentially related, but this reminds me how much I hate Cockney rhyming slang. Like way more than is reasonable. It’s hard to even articulate why. Like why do we need to find increasingly convoluted ways to be obtuse? It’s not fun or funny it’s just maddening.
November 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Only tangentially related, but this reminds me how much I hate Cockney rhyming slang. Like way more than is reasonable. It’s hard to even articulate why. Like why do we need to find increasingly convoluted ways to be obtuse? It’s not fun or funny it’s just maddening.
But why is he Imhotep?
November 25, 2025 at 1:03 PM
But why is he Imhotep?
Unpossible!
But it would certainly be a Linnell bop.
But it would certainly be a Linnell bop.
Name your fav They Might Be Giants song.
November 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Unpossible!
But it would certainly be a Linnell bop.
But it would certainly be a Linnell bop.
Hey my pottery isn’t THAT rustic ;)
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Hey my pottery isn’t THAT rustic ;)
I have put on real clothes instead of pajamas 🎉
November 23, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I have put on real clothes instead of pajamas 🎉
My whole mental plan for getting back on track with my saggar prep hinged on me starting to test negative today and now I’m still testing positive and I want to cry from the stress of trying to figure this out.
November 22, 2025 at 6:55 PM
My whole mental plan for getting back on track with my saggar prep hinged on me starting to test negative today and now I’m still testing positive and I want to cry from the stress of trying to figure this out.
Dino mug!
There is a fossil teapot at the Nelson Atkins that this was partially inspired by though they look nothing alike 😂 the checkered teapot companion to the fossil one is probably one of my favorite pieces of all time.
lesserimppottery.etsy.com/listing/4405...
There is a fossil teapot at the Nelson Atkins that this was partially inspired by though they look nothing alike 😂 the checkered teapot companion to the fossil one is probably one of my favorite pieces of all time.
lesserimppottery.etsy.com/listing/4405...
November 22, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I do not feel good. But I feel better. And that’s something.
November 22, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I do not feel good. But I feel better. And that’s something.
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November 22, 2025 at 3:24 AM
And again, as a different character :)
November 22, 2025 at 1:32 AM
And again, as a different character :)
Finally got my sick self out of my jim jams and took a bath and got right into some clean jim jams. As it should be.
November 21, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Finally got my sick self out of my jim jams and took a bath and got right into some clean jim jams. As it should be.
A two cat simultaneous staredown as we approach Treat O’Clock
November 21, 2025 at 8:46 PM
A two cat simultaneous staredown as we approach Treat O’Clock
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We have to turn impostor syndrome into a pill and give it to every prominent person in this country. They should constantly be worrying that they're stupid
November 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
We have to turn impostor syndrome into a pill and give it to every prominent person in this country. They should constantly be worrying that they're stupid
Fun fact, she was from my town and spoke at my graduation.
Annie Withey created Smartfood popcorn in the 1980s and then later that decade created Annie’s Mac and Cheese using the *same exact cheese powder*
November 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Fun fact, she was from my town and spoke at my graduation.
Long kitten has been stuck to me like superglue through my very rough night and morning.
I’ve at least made it through to the other side with seemingly decreased symptoms. I’m sure she’d like to take credit.
I’ve at least made it through to the other side with seemingly decreased symptoms. I’m sure she’d like to take credit.
November 21, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Long kitten has been stuck to me like superglue through my very rough night and morning.
I’ve at least made it through to the other side with seemingly decreased symptoms. I’m sure she’d like to take credit.
I’ve at least made it through to the other side with seemingly decreased symptoms. I’m sure she’d like to take credit.
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Maybe these bag charms in the making are wishful thinking. But I think I’ll keep one for myself.
November 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Maybe these bag charms in the making are wishful thinking. But I think I’ll keep one for myself.
Why is my kitten like this? 🙄
November 21, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Why is my kitten like this? 🙄