Sett "Apples" Balise's Avatar

Sett "Apples" Balise

@brambledragon.bsky.social

The Bramble Dragon potter! Into ceramics, material culture, biotech, astronomy, karate, painting, drawing, D&D, fantasy, sci-fi. http://www.brambledragon.com/shop https://brambledragon.etsy.com

1,932 Followers  |  1,103 Following  |  1,420 Posts  |  Joined: 03.07.2023
Posts Following

Posts by Sett "Apples" Balise (@brambledragon.bsky.social)

Post image

Mossy green ceramic teapots. One of them has a frog handle. Brambledragon.etsy.com #ceramics #pottery #art #tea

01.03.2026 14:54 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Video thumbnail

Now glazed and cooling #ceramics #pottery #art

28.02.2026 17:58 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Post image

Updated:

28.02.2026 13:28 β€” πŸ‘ 8895    πŸ” 2731    πŸ’¬ 78    πŸ“Œ 74
Post image

It's been so quiet here lately.
Here's a jumbo mug with a moonrise theme. Brambledragon.etsy.com #ceramics #pottery #art #gifts #moon

27.02.2026 15:46 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Video thumbnail

Gnarly old tree mug in the snow. Brambledragon.etsy.com #ceramics #pottery #art

26.02.2026 20:44 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Post image

Geometric dragon travel mug in a nice sunbeam #ceramics #pottery #art brambledragon.etsy.com

26.02.2026 14:39 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Post image

Marsh plant corked jar in a sunbeam. Brambledragon.etsy.com #ceramics #pottery #art #homedecor

25.02.2026 16:23 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Post image

Snake plant in an old wood fired planter. I was worried it wouldn't like being cramped in there but it seems to be doing fine. #plants #homedecor #ceramics #pottery #art

25.02.2026 02:14 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Video thumbnail

Next in the "bird on a mug in a blizzard" series... Brambledragon.etsy.com #ceramics #pottery #art

24.02.2026 17:03 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

All I can smell is moldy bathroom haha

24.02.2026 15:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It really likes being in my dank, dark bathroom, apparently

24.02.2026 02:22 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Post image

Never seen a snake plant bloom before. The flowers drip water #plants #homedecor

24.02.2026 01:52 β€” πŸ‘ 63    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Whistleblowers find $1.7B in payments to Iran from crypto firm whose CEO Trump pardoned A cryptocurrency firm accused of involvement in shady overseas dealings had internal whistleblowers flag $1.7 billion in payments to Iran before President Donald Trump pardoned its CEO, The New York Times reported on Monday."People in Iran had gained access to more than 1,500 accounts on the Binance...

A cryptocurrency firm accused of involvement in shady overseas dealings had internal whistleblowers flag $1.7 billion in payments to Iran before President Donald Trump pardoned its CEO, The New York Times reported on Monday.

23.02.2026 23:40 β€” πŸ‘ 144    πŸ” 89    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 6

They're pretty neat!

23.02.2026 23:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Video thumbnail

Puffins on a ceramic mug in a snowstorm. Brambledragon.etsy.com #ceramics #pottery #art #puffins

23.02.2026 19:55 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Post image Post image

A couple of teapots in progress. One of them has a frog handle.

22.02.2026 03:57 β€” πŸ‘ 58    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Laser

21.02.2026 23:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Post image

Ballpoint pen drawings to go on pottery eventually. It's a process. brambledragon.etsy.com #ceramics #pottery #art #drawing #illustration

21.02.2026 18:17 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Post image

So many cute little ceramic bottles. Shop.brambledragon.com #ceramics #pottery #art

20.02.2026 17:56 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Photo of a black vase with snake morif

Photo of a black vase with snake morif

Maria Martinez (1887-1980) from the San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico, became world-renowned for her black-on-black pottery and is regarded as one of the most important Native American ceramic artists of the twentieth century #WomensArt

20.02.2026 05:18 β€” πŸ‘ 737    πŸ” 117    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 9

Every day I am filled with hate because my heart overflows with my love of the computer. aftermath.site/ram-prices-h...

19.02.2026 19:14 β€” πŸ‘ 4000    πŸ” 1269    πŸ’¬ 36    πŸ“Œ 61
Post image

I've got a mug on there! www.littledeath.art/shop/maine-s...

20.02.2026 11:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
The political effects of X's feed algorithm
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2
Received: 16 December 2024
Accepted: 4 January 2026
Published online: 18 February 2026
Open access
β€’ Check for updates
Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m
Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects.
Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.

The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access β€’ Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.

Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.

This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

19.02.2026 18:57 β€” πŸ‘ 6372    πŸ” 3173    πŸ’¬ 159    πŸ“Œ 395

the andrew mountbatten stuff shows that being a tenured antiwoke professor at harvard gives you more legal privileges and protection from the law than your family being divinely anointed to rule a country as absolute monarchs for 1,000 years

19.02.2026 20:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1186    πŸ” 167    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 8

β€œBut wehhh, I have to use AI to make my storyyy”
I just dropped a 60-page Garfield manga featuring all 118 current periodic table elements, which I researched individually for each design. AI’s NEVER going to give you that and I require way less water

19.02.2026 14:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1911    πŸ” 787    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 7
Post image Post image Post image Post image

neolithic cave horse 🐴 #ceramics

17.02.2026 19:18 β€” πŸ‘ 187    πŸ” 47    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1
Post image

Big ol 22 oz dragonfly mug about to get packed up to go to its new home from shop.brambledragon.com #ceramics #pottery #art

19.02.2026 01:08 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Video thumbnail

Shiny copper red dragon yunomi tumbler cup. Shop.brambledragon.com #ceramics #pottery #art

18.02.2026 15:25 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Video thumbnail

Talarico Exposed Two Corrupt Billionaires

Abortion Ban
School Vouchers
Closing Public Schools

Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks two corrupt Christian Nationalists bought Texas Republicans.
Vote them out!

Early Voting already started.

Vote For The Democrat

18.02.2026 06:18 β€” πŸ‘ 568    πŸ” 314    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 17
4 inch face with African violet, begonia, angel tears.

4 inch face with African violet, begonia, angel tears.

Planted wall, face.

18.02.2026 15:10 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0