(here's the beginning: bsky.app/profile/than... )

Medieval tourist crap! To the left is a page with reference photos of two small clay flasks in the British Museum with pictures of saints, clearly made from the same mold. Continuing across the top, we have the mold I made based on them, with the flask I sculpted to make the mold from leaning against them. Below are two flasks in still-wet clay made using the mold, complete with the tops of the shoulders flattened slightly and holes punched through.

Remember these? We're on step 3: use the mold to make actual flasks!

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40 years ago atmospheric temperature & greenhouse gas levels.

Affordable college.

New York Times Pace of N.I.H. Funding Slows Further in Trump’s Second Year The agency has approved far fewer new grants than it did in years past. A renewed effort to screen for disfavored terms and a loss of personnel are contributing.

American medical research is slowing at the exact moment we need it to grow. We have the best researchers and scientists in the world and this Administration is pushing them out the door.

RFK Jr. is actively undermining the science that keeps us competitive.

Other favorites include petrified wood, rutillated quartz, amber, labradorite, good roundy white quartz pebbles, mica...

generally team malachite here, but there are so many good choices, & that's before you get into glass & clay & making one's own rocks...

(I'm a little wary of obsidian b/c I was told at an impressionable age about Not Stealing Pele's Rocks)

Ooh, good one- long may he enjoy your advice! 😍

Happy Earth Day! 🌎

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Remember, Democrats have repeatedly advanced measures to ban partisan gerrymandering and Republicans have voted against them time after time.

This is the game Republicans wanted to play. OK, then.

Why Alaska and U.S. Territories Get Damage, Not Dollars, From Deep-Sea Mining The Trump administration is advancing deep-sea mining in U.S. waters near the Pacific territories and Alaska, a process Indigenous leaders have identified as “resource colonialism” due to its prioriti...

Rural and Remote Communities Will Pay the Price for the Trump Administration’s Deep-Sea Mining Schemes

Why Alaska and U.S. Territories Get Damage, Not Dollars, From Deep-Sea Mining - www.americanprogress.org/article/why-...

Don’t forget to vote Yes today! 💚

("what?" "The goblins who come to take the baby away.")

I still don't know whether she thought this was a good thing or not, but it definitely prompted a moment of re-examining my assumptions about what characters she was identifying with...

Remembering the day I came in to get my (not yet 3yo) up from a nap & she greeted me with, "The goblins didn't come."

Sounds about right.

I only just found out that the word "strewn" (as in "his clothes were strewn across the floor") is just the past tense of the verbal form of "straw" - the bits of wheat that get blown away when you harvest wheat.

That thing where they've already torn everything down but it just keeps going. 😩

"Birds see fast enough that TV is a just slideshow of still images but slow enough they can see which direction the stars are moving" is really doing a number on me

So the whole thing comes down to the pope denying that Jesus was pro-war? Is this why I keep seeing reports that Leo and Trump are "feuding"? Yes, but that framing, which is all over the media, is totally wrong. Leo and Trump aren't "feuding," and Trump did not "hit back," "strike back," or "return fire" against the pope. Trump has repeatedly launched unprovoked military actions that he and his lieutenants have attempted to cloak in the language of Christian righteousness. The pope has said that Christian righteousness is incompatible with unprovoked war. Trump has publicly mocked, derided, and attacked the pope; the pope hasn't attacked Trump at all. A feud requires the participation of two people. If you say, "We should respect the sovereignty of each individual, for we are all children of God," and I say, "Fuck you, you dirty hippie," what we have is not a feud. What we have is a principled person trying to have a conversation with an asshole.

The game Scriptorium: Master of Manuscripts by @yazagames.com is finally out!! In this game you can create your own medieval manuscript, and its assets are based on different illustrations found in real manuscripts. Because of that, let me talk about some fun or curious details they included 🧵🔽

cue the 3 little pigs comment about "Does *your* mother make wolf stew with the *hair* on?"

the president of the united states is personally looting the treasury to the tune of literally billions of dollars and that he is not being immediately removed from office and tried for high crimes against this country is a devastating indictment of every part of our political system

do the horn sections get horn sections? This sounds like it could get confusing...

I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

Ugh, the no A/C thing used to work great in places where it rarely got above 80. 🙄

A Major Tomcat (cat astronaut) toy is surrounded by tall, licking flames. Its green plastic body is melting. Its little scowling eraser face is over it. In all caps, the photo says "the horrors persist but so do we sale" and "4/17 - 4/19, 50% off all orders"

THE HORRORS SALE IS HERE! 💫
HALF OFF EVERYTHING W CODE PERSIST

What began as a silly 4/20 celebration is now a combination inventory-clearing, community-serving, acting-out-against-the-forces-that-make-our-days-actively-worse event!

Go forth! Dive into the catalog and baste in dopamine!

We were just having conversations in my household about not stewing in one's cauldron of weasels, which I think counts as universal advice.

And furthermore when something went wrong it was usually easy to troubleshoot, eg "replace the batteries."