The white blocks are how much space in my city's CBD is dedicated solely to cars. Truly insane world we have built for ourselves.

Both pots are wild clay. Small mug is wood-soda fired in Mississippi. Tall mug (made by Zach Sierke) is made from clay from the field trip we led together at Red Bluff MS and fired in his anagama and reduction cooled

Small mug, brown glassy surface from wood soda firing

Tall slender mug in a reddish clay with ash glaze spots

Laramie breakfast table lighting is 🔥 on the pots

This can never be said enough.

What does most of your city budget go to? Police who mostly go after people doing stupid shit in their cars.
What's the next most expensive thing? Roads for cars
Why is it expensive to fix water/sewerage issues? The streets they are built under.

Most every thing you don't like about the city you live in is because of cars.
- Noisy? Cars
- Polluted? Cars
- Can't see night sky? Cars/streetlights
- Hassle to get from a-to-b? Cars
- Not enough housing? Too much space dedicated to cars
- Downtown bland and shitty? parking lots
- Dangerous? Cars

NASA is not the reason we can't have universal healthcare. Universal Pre-K. Paid family leave. Nationwide high-speed rail.

Tax cuts, corporate subsidies, and militaristic imperialism are.

That is in inflation adjusted 2025 dollars btw. Not even close if you count real dollar expenditures.

The Regime's new FY proposed budget for DoD would amount to 78% of the entire inflated history of NASA expenditures.

NASA is 0.35% of the federal budget.

In the ENTIRE HISTORY of NASA it has cost about the same as just the last 2 years of the DoD budget

Newly Obtained Video of Minneapolis Shooting Undermines ICE Account

“Bare due diligence would have shown that the agents were lying,” Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis said in a recent interview, shortly after he watched the video for the first time. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/u...

The whiplash I am hearing from some of my MAGA relatives rn about how they think this regime is finished because all that "efficiency" talk being thrown out the window by the Iran expense...

🫣

I heard that in Charlton Heston’s Moses voice and, honestly, checks out.

The Vice President’s parents-in-law came to the United States as foreign students, at the University of California.

Failed AI tractor company lays off all employees, abandons Bay Area headquarters Forbes had called the startup the next billion-dollar company.

Huh "...raised over $240 million...That year, Time called the vehicle one of the year’s greatest inventions, and Forbes predicted that the company would become the world’s next billion-dollar startup."
But I'm sure all of the other breathless hype for all the other AI garbage is actually true!

I’m old enough to remember being on a certain society’s council in 2011 when discussing a meeting about to happen following a bathroom ban law and this exact conversation happened. They have since had 2 more major meetings in states with similar legislation… not to mention dozens of section meetings

It's really not a great look if in 2021/2022 you were saying "sorry, we can't change the venue at this point since we booked it a couple years ago, but we will Do Better in the future!" then announce your 2026 meeting in, say, Ohio

*side-eyes major conference in my field*

Really tarnishing its reputation

I've learned enough about our "system" to know that this pedophile war criminal election fruadster grifter extortionist insider trader will never be held accountable. But this would be clear evidence of his war crimes if he ever were to be tried. Which he won't. But he should be

“Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran,” he wrote on Truth Social. “There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President Donald J Trump” post

Today's Easter war crimes message brought to you by the least holy man who ever lived

And even more opposite is the relationship to tape measures. I feel like we have all bought a dozen but never have one

Opposite. I inherited a TON of tools and no hammers (other than weird bespoke little ones for various tasks). I have many other hammers and I bought them all 😬

They really truly do hate future America.

Slaughtering the golden goose, burning the seed-corn of the economy, handing the innovation economy to China. The Republican war on science continues 👇

100%. That's where most of the defense budget increase is surely gonna go.

But rest assured, that money will all be going towards the $1.5 Trillion war crimes budget ask 🫠

Priorities.

Its history is about as sinister

Region- and season-specific exposure to lead in a common North American songbird - Ecotoxicology Ecotoxicology - Although birds have been used globally as bioindicators of heavy metals, the determinants and physiological consequences of their exposure to heavy metals remain poorly understood....

Holy leaded Robins, Batman!
Now you know how organisms like the ubiquitous American Robin are impacted by urban pollution

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

there are always horrors in the world, but what's so crushing about these years as compared to previous ones in my lifetime is the endless human suffering directly inflicted by the American government due to the choices of the American people

That $12 pad thai is feeding me for now a third meal. And I have made it through maybe 2/3 of it 🥵