A partially-finished illustration on the side of a brown clay mug. There are outlines of mushroom and a fully painted frog who looks a little out of it

Same mug situation, but this time the frog is inspired by a grumpy little rain frog

Another bisque-fired in-progress mug, this one with an elaborate illustration of leaf litter & the critters who live in it

Another view of a leaf litter mug

Mug progress!!!! Today was all about frogs, toads, and super-detailed leaf litter situations 👍

DELIGHTFUL

Hell yea these are rad

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We have been the sole owners for all that time...

some bits of wisdom from tunglr

These give me life, please never stop making them 🙏

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It’s too late, I have already portrayed myself as Chortling Bernie and you as Seething Eric Adams

It's that time of year where I post this one

FISH POEM Stella Sacco My best friend in Catholic grade school, Tony, Lived on one side of the highway to Pittstield And between the sets of lanes, Set deep down a sharp incline, There was a little stream Running from one corrugated pipe to another And when I'd come visit we'd cross the road And we'd climb down And we'd get our hands and shoes wet And we'd hunt for cool rocks. But one day we found a big fish instead.

It was in a pool slightly deeper and wider Than the rest of the stream And we were mystified. It was big, much bigger than we figured A fish in a stream that narrow should be. Not that we had ever seen a fish there before. It was alive and so still That we were able to reach into the water And stroke it And feel its slick scales And so we sang songs to it And we called it a gentle giant And it didn't swim away And we thought it was a miracle And we wondered where it would go from there And we went back inside.

The next time I saw Tony I brought up our gentle giant And he looked at me with a sort of bladed pity And said "It was dying, dummy." He explained he had talked to his mom And his mom had said The fish came from somewhere else And had gotten stranded in that stream somehow And had nothing to eat anymore And not enough room to swim And the reason it didn't swim away from us Is because it couldn't swim away from us. It couldn't swim anywhere. We were the giants, not the fish, And we had played with it As it was dying.

I got sad. Maybe it was able to go downstream, I offered. Tony countered with a "How?" For which I did not have a great answer. But I just think If I was dying, As l am every day, I would like someone Who thought I was miraculous To touch me And feel my soft skin And sing to me While I went.

Fish Poem

It's definitely a struggle. My love of cooking competes with the back pain leaning over gives me lolol

“My muse,” I say to a stick of butter

OMG blessed Moomin enjoyed. Excellent taste

being a cat person is so crazy bc you live with someone who is undeniably annoying and you're always thinking "maybe i should get another cat"

Yall better be both sharing the Stand up for Science posts /and/ figuring out how to get your butt to one of them!

@standupforscience.bsky.social

.... Yea it is....

Ok rant over, do better NYT, I'm going to bed I'm sick as fuck. Spread some love today <3

Please go read it for yourself just to see I'm not cherry picking anything, it's just that wild.

Healthcare is a right and no other developed country has this much difficulty caring for their citizens health. Nobody deserves to die just because a rich CEOs company decides they're too expensive.

The article makes the argument that because the CEO didn't have rich parents he's more for the people as he had to fight and climb his way up the ladder.
The author then goes onto say that 81% of insured adults like their insurance plan (yea because what other choice do they have????)

But oh my sweet lord, I have seen the worst take of the week, if not the month if not the year. 'Brian Thompson, Not Luigi Mangione, Is the Real Working-Class Hero' 3/?

I think NYT does this as their overall paper is more liberal leaning, and so this is their attempt at trying to be more centrist.

Overall I don't mind this, I think it is important to avoid echo chambers and having opinion pieces from the other side of the aisle can be healthy. 2/?

Mini rant time 🐸

So I'm a New York Times fanboy through and through. I genuinely think they're one of the best news sources in this day and age and will die on that hill.

I've known their opinions section has mixed reviews, due to I would say the conservative tone the articles often take. 1/?

But on the plus side BALATRO SWEEP LETS GOOOO

LOVE me some funny Indie card game winning three categories

Man I kinda hate that Astro bot won three awards (including game of the year.) I say that soley due to the fact that it's console exclusive to Sony

Feels kind of terrible that this game which I'm sure Is great and has won so many awards is inaccessible because I don't want to buy a PS5

Never related to a meme so hard

I kid you not I'm going 6 sniper and 6 enforcer, I just need cait for my comp so I level to 9.
I then immediately go against someone who is level 8 and has a 2 star cait 😫

I didn't see one for the entire game

Yea I played my first game, got up to a 6 round winstreek and then got 7th. 🫠

Wait you're not a little Turtwig?

You just lost a follower 😤

/s

Idk if getting this is a blessing or a curse

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