brown and tan mug with white dragonflies

brown and tan mug with white assassin bug

brown and tan mug with white moth

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.

Work in progress: casserole dish with octopus lid

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Nautilus side of mug

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

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.

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.

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.

Cal Barrel Road, Prairie Creek Redwoods

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

Truly appalling

arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

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

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.

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.

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!

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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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

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:

Earth’s oldest crater found! It’s in Australia and it’s REALLY old

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...

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

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

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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.

Small textured vase, out from the kiln last week

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what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

In the last week of the 1936 campaign, FDR reminded a massive crowd in Madison Square Garden that "organized money" was "unanimous in their hate for me--and I welcome their hatred!"

And then the country rewarded him with a 523-8 landslide in the electoral college.

This is, in fact, good politics.

ICE agents in the Park Ave neighborhood spark large-scale protest The group shouted “shame” and "Gestapo,” and applauded as agents in the ICE-led action drove a Border Patrol SUV away on four flat tires, which had been slashed.

Federal immigration agents were seemingly forced to retreat from a roofing job site in Rochester, NY, after being confronted by more than 100 protesters

The workers stayed on the roof and agents drove away in a Border Patrol SUV on four flat tires, which had been slashed

Ceramic cookie jar with lid. The top half of the jar and most of the lid is matte cream colored glaze. The bottom half and lid handle are a glossy blue green. Around the upper half there are starfish in various colors (blue, red, yellow) with tan sand colored matte glaze.

Starfish cookie jar, out of the kiln last week.

1/ Hey California! It’s the start of September and many of you are asking: when will winter virus season begin? And, more importantly, when should we get vaccinated? Today, I'm taking a look at the wastewater date across the state for RSV, flu and Covid. Here’s what I'm seeing 👇

Just How Bad Would an AI Bubble Be? The entire U.S. economy is being propped up by the promise of productivity gains that seem very far from materializing. By Rogé Karma

The capability-reliability gap might explain why generative AI has so far failed to deliver tangible results for businesses that use it. When researchers at MIT recently tracked the results of 300 publicly disclosed AI initiatives, they found that 95 percent of projects failed to deliver any boost to profits. A March report from McKinsey & Company found that 71 percent of companies reported using generative AI, and more than 80 percent of them reported that the technology had no “tangible impact” on earnings. In light of these trends, Gartner, a tech-consulting firm, recently declared that AI has entered the “trough of disillusionment” phase of technological development.

By one estimate, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Tesla will by the end of this year have collectively spent $560 billion on AI-related capital expenditures since the beginning of 2024 and have brought in just $35 billion in AI-related revenue. OpenAI and Anthropic are bringing in lots of revenue and are growing fast, but they are still nowhere near profitable. Their valuations—roughly $300 billion and $183 billion, respectively, and rising—are many multiples higher than their current revenues. (OpenAI projects about $13 billion in revenues this year; Anthropic, $2 billion to $4 billion.) Investors are betting heavily on the prospect that all of this spending will soon generate record-breaking profits. If that belief collapses, however, investors might start to sell en masse, causing the market to experience a large and painful correction.

The dot-com crash was bad, but it did not trigger a crisis. An AI-bubble crash could be different. AI-related investments have already surpassed the level that telecom hit at the peak of the dot-com boom as a share of the economy. In the first half of this year, business spending on AI added more to GDP growth than all consumer spending combined. Many experts believe that a major reason the U.S. economy has been able to weather tariffs and mass deportations without a recession is because all of this AI spending is acting, in the words of one economist, as a “massive private sector stimulus program.” An AI crash could lead broadly to less spending, fewer jobs, and slower growth, potentially dragging the economy into a recession. The economist Noah Smith argues that it could even lead to a financial crisis if the unregulated “private credit” loans funding much of the industry’s expansion all go bust at once.

It's seeming likelier and likelier that AI really could eliminate a lot of jobs very soon. Just not in the way boosters have suggested. www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

The Trump administration is selling out American workers.

This gives companies the green light to trap you in a bad job or prevent you from starting a competing business.

Trump continues to be the most anti-labor president we've ever had.