Mandy Stigant (she/her)

Can confirm: small female cats are the most vicious killers you’ll ever meet

When we got infested in North Portland, poison wound up being the only thing that worked in the end. They wise up to traps. It really sucks, and it definitely wasn’t what we wanted.

This is probably the one I’m most pleased with so far, form-wise

First try making one of these out of porcelain instead of stoneware 😬

Still at it with the boats, got 2 follow up posts, with the two newest forms. I feel like they are getting more robust and full as forms, the more confident I get about making them

I can listen to books while working in the studio or while driving. Things I do without active brain work, if that makes sense. I have to be physically doing something, though, or I’ll fall asleep

Other times I try to lean a little harder into my own flaws, because anything worth doing is worth overdoing, right? (3/3)

For the most part I’ve accepted it: most of my work is a little kooky and off-kilter, just like me. I think of a friend’s dog I once knew who was born with a slightly bent snout, and she joked that he could smell around a corner before he could see. Flaws can lead to unexpected boons. (2/3)

Experiment with exaggerated asymmetry. I’ll probably revisit this.

I’m cursed with Perfectionist Desire: I want to be a perfectionist but I’m actually terrible at it due to a particular chronic variety of laziness. (1/3)

Who’s got two thumbs and a piece on display at PDX Airport? In good company with several other local PDX clayheads

COINTELPRO-Style Behavior What It Is, How To Recognize It, What To Do When You See It

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I’m gonna need a bigger . . . mold.

Almost as if its massive show of confidence was all overinflated bluster trying to hide the truth.

Fucking hell.

Nobody gets a free pass to be an asshole. And yes, one of the bigger lies about autism is the notion that we can’t feel or express empathy. There are other words for that: psychopath and sociopath

Whatever you’re posting is blocked for me (?)

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Did Trader Joe’s never get to Houston?

Amazon isn’t too hard for me, though I didn’t know they owned Goodreads. Imma have to think about that one, because it’s an excellent tracker for books. Meta would be harder, I still have active fb, ig, and fbm acciunts and check them daily.

This is a potential way to wean off systematically and collectively

This particular one is nearly over, but I hope this kind of organization is where the trend is heading on boycott strategy. (2/2)

Continuous rolling boycotts, lasting a week at a time, are potentially more effective than one-day blanket boycotts. This week Amazon, next week Meta, then X, then Target, rinse and repeat in organized cycles. Quitting all the evil corps at once isn’t possible: they’re too pervasive (1/2)

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign? Stop Texas HB 3817 - Being transgender is not fraud

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YouTube video by GuyInDogSuit Kitten talks while eating

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I’m in Portland and would love to be included

I think it’s more likely that he’s looking to barely comply with court orders: yes, it’s their job to hire and fire, but Musk will be the one telling them when and who. Trump Is like dealing with the Fae: he’ll find a way to obey the letter of a law but manipulate its meaning to the end of the line

And so she goes on the radio, as asked, and instead spends her hour exhaustively describing the affair in question to the public. It’s the only lesson I really took to heart from the whole 1000+ pages of that stupid book. If they legit have something on you, then own your shit and you’re free

This has nothing to do with the deadly train, so sorry to be off topic. I have a “the one part of AS I loved” too: after they successfully blackmail Reardon because of his affair with Dagny, they try to do the same with Dagny: go on the radio and agree with us whole hog, or we expose your affair

Tested my threshold for tedium on this one, not sure whether I’ll push that boundary again

I hardly have the following to start the rallying cry, but something to think about in terms of structure: have rolling week-long stints of targeted boycotts: this week we boycott Amazon, next week Target & Walmart, next week Meta, rinse & repeat. It’s very difficult to quit all these corps at once

Also I wish he had said “I did thank President Biden……”