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Rivers of blood speech not going down well then

Prehistoric wooden figures with quartz eyes.

“Aw, c’mon, they’re just little wooden figures, how scary can they actually b…😳”
The Roos Carr figures, East Yorkshire, c. 600-500BC. Yew & quartzite,
Hull & East Riding Museum.
#FindsFriday

In the Potted History workshop today, Roman Samian Ware, terra sigillata flasks/water bottles. Available to pre-order in our online shop potted-history.co.uk/products/rom...

1. Tomorrow's my birthday and here's a gift you can get for me: Buy a small creator's work. Local band, indie writer, up-and-coming visual artist, that crafter down the street, or whomever. Your support matters to them, especially in this economic/social environment. And you deserve some joy, too.

Woodfired teapot with circular lines across the body, lid and spout. The handle also has a strong twist to it. There is a nice variation in color in the tan, red and yellow ash glaze that built up on the surface as it was fired. Overall the exterior has a light sheen to it.

Woodfired teapot. Stoneware fired to cone 10. There is a nice buildup of ash glaze on the exterior and the interior is lined with a shino.
#ceramic #pottery

Love this Linda, looks so good, I love the shape, particularly the front pleat! Fabric is gorgeous too. Top styling!

We have enough resources to satify the poor.

We don’t have enough resources to satisfy the rich.

You Don’t Get Trump Without Gaza Fascism doesn’t just appear. It must be invited in—and the bipartisan repression of the anti-genocide movement did just that.

You Don’t Get Trump Without Gaza
Fascism doesn’t just appear. It must be invited in—and the bipartisan repression of the anti-genocide movement did just that.
www.thenation.com/article/poli...

My prediction for these local elections: a significant number of Reform candidates will be suspended for some sort of nonce related activity.

This is one of the reasons I'm still uncommitted to this space. It feels so disconnected from reality. It's just a bit too cosy when the world is burning as hard as it is.

I'm disgusted with USA. All you talk about is money, Trump, tariffs, musk, and NEVER, or hardly ever, about the genocide you're financing and encouraging.

6-7 inch stoneware thrown pot, rounded bottom, with texture detail on the collar. Glazed is mostly white with colourful geometric pattern at the bottom.

Alt view

Alt view

Excuse the hasty photos but I am really pleased with how this big pot (utensil holder?) came out. It’s about 6.5” tall and feels just right for the task.

Screenshot of a single question and answer from interview in the Times Literary Supplement with Ursula K. Le Guin. Here is the quote: If you could make a change to anything you’ve written over the years, what would it be? In The Dispossessed, I would mention the communal pickle barrels at street corners in the big towns, restocked by whoever in the community has made or kept more pickles than they need. I knew about the free pickles all along, but never could fit them into the book.

Ursula K. Le Guin on the true pain of being a writer

Crabs from Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst’s ‘Versuch einer Naturgeschichte der Krabben und Krebse: nebst einer systematischen Beschreibung ihrer verschiedenen Arten.’ Berlin: G.A. Lange, 1782.

University of Chicago Special Collections

#Crustaceans #naturalhistory #rarebooks #bookhistory #crabs

Cover of the book reviewed.

What symbolic meanings did animals have to Mesoamerican people?

Find out in our review of Susan Milbrath & Elizabeth Baquedano (ed.)'s 'Birds and beasts of ancient Mesoamerica: animal symbolism in the postclassic period' in the #NewBookChronicle 🏺

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Did you just brag about being more right wing than the tories and reform

Close-up of the apothecia pits of Aspicilia lichen. There are one to three pits on the polygon separated by deep cracks. One in the center looks like a skull.

Colony of Aspicilia lichen on a stone. There are polygons with black pits within concentrated throughout the stone.

Aspicilia cinerea characterized by deep pit apothecia on surface separated into polygons. When there are multiple pits on a polygone, they may look like a face. Saku-ra-saku Lane, Saku, Nagano #Lichen #FungiFriends
キッコウイボゴケ。長野県佐久市さくラさく小径 #地衣類

Bees play a critical role in U.S. food production. In addition to making honey, they pollinate 75% of the fruits, nuts and vegetables grown in the U.S. That's $15 billion worth of crops. Shook said the current losses are unsustainable. "If this is a multi-year thing, it'll change the way we consume food in the United States," Shook said. "If we lose 80% of our bees every year, the industry cannot survive, which means we cannot pollinate at the scale that we need to produce food in the United States."

Hundreds of millions of bees, almost 80% of bees in the US, have died over he past eight months. Researchers don't know why.

Here is what this means:

Tin-glaze plate from Spain with an inky blue decorations of a large bird and botanicals.

Ceramic history. Spain. Tin-glazed plate with bird. Barcelona. 17th-18th c. Such nice mark quality. Majolica (tin-glaze) decoration is done on top of the raw glaze, so it's like doing water color on blotter paper. One chance. Bold marks are good.

A cardboard box colored with black sharpie and watercolor paint to look like a living room. There are little paintings all over the wall that have been drawn by a child. There is an open green door cut into the back of the box. A small black, white, and gray bird has landed inside to eat the birdseed on the floor.

When we had to quarantine at the start of the pandemic in 2020, my 5-yr-old and I used to turn boxes into rooms and tape them to the outside of our window. Then we would put birdseed on the floor and sit and wait for birds to visit. Here’s our very first visitor — a chickadee! #FebruARTy #ArtYear

Resource for detailed background info on Tang ceramics: factsanddetails.com/china/cat2/4...

مبـارك عليـكم شهـر رمضان 🌙

Happy Ramadan to those who observe and celebrate 🌙

A family of tiny splitgill mushrooms grow on the bottom of an upturned branch in a snowy forest. All photos by me

Here are some nice mushrooms

Quote saying: I get tired of "under 40" lists. Show me someone who got their PhD at 60 after losing everything. Give me the 70-year-old debut novelist who writes from a lifetime of love and grief. Give me calloused hands and tender hearts.

AGEISM

A completed cross stitch piece in a wooden embroidery hoop. It has a yellow, orange and purple floral border on the bottom half and says “Xanax” in the middle

I haven’t updated my Etsy shop in like, a year (😬😬 working on it for next month tho!) so I forget what’s up there a lot - blessings to whoever ordered this and reminded me of its existence, I think we’re all about here right now! #crossstitch #stitchsky #bsnm #art #xanax

A work made of aquatint and drypoint, from a zinc plate, in black on cream laid paper.

Laundresses Carrying Back Their Work, Théophile-Alexandre Pierre Steinlen, 1898
Place: France
Medium: Aquatint and drypoint, from a zinc plate, in black on cream laid paper
https://www.artic.edu/artworks/6039

A hand-sized ceramic flatfish with an icy blue glaze that has splotches in various colours (black, purple-brown, and mossy green).

Another flatfish, this one with a green glaze that has subtle shades of brown & blue.

This flatfish is mossy green with brown spots.

This flatfish is pink with purple-blue splotches!

Oh my god these flatfish turned out so well?!?! I’m thrilled with the whole kiln load, but these guys might be the highlight 😍

Question for fellow potters, does anyone have any tips to stop hand cramping while carving? I can only carve about four pieces before my hands start cramping and my forearm pain comes around.

I also can hyperextend, which causes even more pain. Big hands and small tools aren’t ergonomic.