More from this week's firing. This is a match holder/striker based on a design by Sunshine Cobb (I forget which of their books, they're both good). You put matches in the middle bit and sand/salt in the back part to put them out in.
I am at a Lutheran church (for a concert) and there is nothing at all nailed to the front door and I feel cheated
I have made reasonably serious decisions after having dreams about it 😅
Claude was so surprised by these numbers, it initially assumed the data was incomplete.
FWIW the fictional governing body of the show lore, the House, was formed because rampant betting and interference/cheating by the rich accidentally caused WW I. hah haaah but that would never happen.
I feel like this is a trap
My photo shows a museum display with colourful Minoan pottery cups arranged on three clear shelves, one above the other. These cups, known as Kamares Ware, are from Phaistos, Crete. They were made in palace workshops, c. 1800-1700 BC. The cups range in shape and size from conic and cylindrical cups (top and middle shelves) to hemispherical and carinated shaped cups (bottom shelf). They are decorated with multi-coloured geometric motifs; with spirals and swirls painted in red and white pigment on black.
Sipping my coffee ☕️ and thinking about these marvellous Minoan cups!
They look so modern it’s incredible to think they were made during the Bronze Age some 3,800 years ago!
Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. 📷 by me
#Archaeology
I'm incredibly jealous of my spouse who needs 1-2h less sleep than I do!
I think my version of that would be just not needing to sleep 😅
Yeah this is absolutelt going to be part of an write-up on teaching "code" to graduate and post-graduate scientists in the age of agenic coding, and how we might set up silo'ed agentic LLMs for academic environments with sensitive data etc...
I made these mugs a while ago and while they have some problems (I would do the handles differently now and the rims are a bit too thin to be comfortable) I'm happy at how well the glaze turned out! #ceramics #pottery
A gloved hand holding a pottwry plate in front of an open electric kiln. The plate is glazed in a transparent green and has an imprint of a pea plant sprout.
Yesterday I ran my first glaze fire in my brand new kiln, and today I got to see the results! It was still 200F 15 hours after finishing firing (that insulation is no joke) but I couldn't wait any longer.
The supposed explosion of the federal public service looks less explosive if you put it in per capita numbers and draw a line graph back to the mid-80s.
1. A short thread on a Bluesky phenomenon that might be described as "They are a dead-eyed cultist who must be cast out lest the heresy take root!" OP has blocked me for mocking them - I'd usually obscure their name but since they themselves were quote-dunking to demand someone else be blocked ...
Any Canadian tweeps recall what the GoC version of the OPERA Insar portal is? I can't locate it. @natural-resources.canada.ca
the computer is NOT conscious. until you put googly eyes on it
Right? News =! Fiction, I figured that was a basic standard
What on earth
The amount of willpower I am exerting right now to not do the math is significant
Ontario this is your cue
Reminder:
Those three downed jets run around $90 million each.
It cost $20 million a year to operate the food kitchens serving 816,000 people in Sudan.
The Ford gov has made several false claims about the Ontario Science Centre. Here is the Toronto Star repeating them:
www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
The call to be the first to take down the sign was widely interpreted as a call for Canada to lead the charge in standing up to a bully.
It turns out it was just a call to accept the world as it is and pragmatically pursue Canada’s narrow interests in the context of that.
Oh yay more war that's what we need
We’ve had successive terms of counsel led by mayors touting a low tax mantra. Look around your community. Is it better? Are the roads better? Do you have access to community centre or library? Can you get City services? How’s your transit? These are all things affected by taxes. Choose better.
Low taxes cost us all more in the long run. It’s deferred maintenance, pushing the cost of transit, infrastructure, social service services and quality of life down while pretending to have savings that result in higher cost down the road. Look around your community: is our city better off? 1/
This is the kind of thing the internet was made for
I'm constantly trying (/failing) to get this point across.
If you're a trained expert in a field, then it may be worthwhile to question the scientific consensus of your peers.
If you're not, the scientific consensus is absolutely the best you can do and it's arbitrary foolishness to disregard it.
seems like asking the hamburgler to stop burgling hams
