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octopotter.bsky.social @octopotter.bsky.social · 1d

#pottery
#ceramics
#handmade
#pottersofbluesky

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octopotter.bsky.social @octopotter.bsky.social · 1d

Halloween decorations (made last year)

ceramic lamp shade with black bat and pumpkin (evening)

ceramic lamp shade with black bat and pumpkin (night)

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octopotter.bsky.social @octopotter.bsky.social · 20d

Another work in progress. Marbled dark and light clay mug with slip trailed insects

brown and tan mug with white dragonflies

brown and tan mug with white assassin bug

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 21d

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 21d

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.

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octopotter.bsky.social @octopotter.bsky.social · 21d

Work in progress: casserole dish with octopus lid

#pottery
#ceramics
#handmade
#pottersofbluesky
#SciArt
#invertefest

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octopotter.bsky.social @octopotter.bsky.social · 23d

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Danna Staaf @dannastaaf.bsky.social · 24d

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 🧪🦑🌊

Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 24d

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 🧵)

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octopotter.bsky.social @octopotter.bsky.social · 27d

Nautilus side of mug

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octopotter.bsky.social @octopotter.bsky.social · 27d

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

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octopotter.bsky.social @octopotter.bsky.social · 27d

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.

blue/brown/green bowl (outside) with a spiral cutout for threading yarn. Interior is red on the bottom, light grey on the lower half of the wall, and blue on the upper half and rim.

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octopotter.bsky.social @octopotter.bsky.social · Sep 19

I had a similar experience. I had my MMR antibodies checked because I only received the one dose as a child that was standard in Israel at the time. I had no immunity to measles so I got the vaccine again, but the others were fine.

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Joe (they/he) @joedecker.bsky.social · Sep 15

Cal Barrel Road, Prairie Creek Redwoods

#PPortfolioOnBSky 182

A photograph of a dirt/gravel road essing through bright green bushes in soft light and then into much darker coast redwoods.

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Tami Wicinas @tamiwicinas.bsky.social · Sep 17

I’m planning my Fall / Halloween shop update for Monday October 6!
#ceramics

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octopotter.bsky.social @octopotter.bsky.social · Sep 19

Truly appalling

arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

In new level of stupid, RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine advisors axe MMRV recommendation

The vote to strip the recommendation came after a day of inept discussion.

arstechnica.com

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Shayne Greco Ceramics @shaynegrecoceramic.bsky.social · Sep 13

Check out the new @milanart.gallery in Sarasota! #pottery #ceramic #sculpture #octopus

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · Sep 13

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.

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Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer📷🚀 🚀 📸 @princejvstin.com · Sep 13

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!

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

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · Sep 12

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...

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octopotter.bsky.social @octopotter.bsky.social · Sep 13

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schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · Sep 12

if you’re an isolated, angsty, strange young man, please know that you can become a Kierkegaard scholar instead of joining fringe online communities

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AHHH! real meghan!! 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · Sep 13

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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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · Sep 13

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:

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octopotter.bsky.social @octopotter.bsky.social · Sep 12

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...

Earth’s oldest crater found!

It’s in Australia and it’s REALLY old

badastronomy.beehiiv.com

octopotter.bsky.social @octopotter.bsky.social · Sep 12

Ceramic sea urchin test, out of the kiln a few days ago

#pottery #ceramics #handmade #pottersofbluesky #SciArt#invertefest

ceramic sea urchin test on wood table. glaze is “steel blue” in reduction which comes out as reddish purple rather than blue.

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octopotter.bsky.social @octopotter.bsky.social · Sep 11

Small textured vase, out from the kiln last week

Textured vase, glazed in Noxena over Woo Blue . The woo blue adds brown, white, and light blue, the noxema produces deep cobalt blue when thick and greenish brown when thin over the woo blue brown.

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octopotter.bsky.social @octopotter.bsky.social · Sep 10

#pottery #ceramics #handmade #pottersofbluesky #SciArt#invertefest

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