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Adrian Riskin :anarchoheart2: @adrianriskin.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

If you listen to various blue maga reply guys on here you might think that anarchists in general and I in particular are somehow opposed to voting for the lesser evil, but here in the City of Los Angeles council district nine the choice is between the less […] [Original post on kolektiva.social]

A photo of a campaign flyer. It says "No Fun Estuardo" across the top in big red capital letters. It has a goofy looking pic of Estuardo's face surrounded by pictures of a glass of beer, a Chinese takeout carton, dodger stadium, and the coliseum, all with dollar signs imposed on them. At the bottom it says "From dodger games to concert tickets to curbside dinner pickup, Estuardo Mazariegos wants YOU to pay higher fees on just shot everything fun."

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Adrian Riskin :anarchoheart2: @adrianriskin.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

I'm really pleased with these little terra cotta tumblers I cast out of mostly redart with 10% large particle kaolin to speed up casting time. I'm still figuring out how to successfully glaze them because the clay releases tons of gas which really clouds […] [Original post on kolektiva.social]

Closeup of the terra cotta tumblers in the first picture. There are six columns of two each. Most of the outside is unglazed red clay. The rims and the interiors are glazed with opaque colors: blue, green, and purple.

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Adrian Riskin :anarchoheart2: @adrianriskin.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

I'm in the process of building some new shelves for my studio. I finished the first but it's 102° outside rn so I think I'm going to hold off on the second one till tomorrow. I'll fill this one up tonight when things cool off and hopefully clear some space […] [Original post on kolektiva.social]

A 3 foot by 3 foot shelf screwed to the wall above a little end table. There are three empty shelves. About 20 books on pottery and glass are on the top along with twelve terra cotta tumblers with different colored rims.

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Adrian Riskin :anarchoheart2: @adrianriskin.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

I'm staying with a friend in the Bay area, where techie cultural imperialism may have substantially won the war but they haven't yet eliminated all resistance. This sign was taped to the entrance of my friend's storage place, where apparently a lot of Bay […] [Original post on kolektiva.social]

Computer printed sign in white paper taped to a metal box. It says (apostrophes etc are all [sic]):

ATTENTION

All attendee's Burning Man 2026 event

After the event do not return here UNTIL you have your vehicles washed elsewhere (including under body)!

OFF LIMITS:

1. CAR WASH
2. DUMP BAY
3. ANY DRAINS

Camera's and gate activity are monitored.

Any unit that makes an alkaline mess on the ground will be charged for power spraying (materials and labor).

ISR management team 🙂 & 🙂

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Adrian Riskin :anarchoheart2: @adrianriskin.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Google is complicit in more than just Lake Ontario...

Screenshot of a Google News search for "ice killing." With the response "No results found".

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Adrian Riskin :anarchoheart2: @adrianriskin.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

How to mix slip without spending thousands on a slip mixer... I learned the hard way recently not to use plastic buckets to mix slip in because the paint mixer thingie will in fact abrade a hole in the bucket and the slip will in fact leak out all over the floor...

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Adrian Riskin :anarchoheart2: @adrianriskin.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

I've been watching a lot of Australian TV lately. A Place to Call Home, The Newsreader, The Twelve, Bay of Fires, etc etc, and most recently Wentworth. I've learned a lot, and among other things Wentworth taught me that this stuff is probably called […] [Original post on kolektiva.social]

A small white plastic bottle with a purple lid. The label says in large capital letters: "ROOTING POWDER"

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Adrian Riskin :anarchoheart2: @adrianriskin.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

I know it's not much in the grand scheme of things but I've been working since May to be able to reproduce these Mother's frosted animal crackers in clay and glass and this morning I nailed it! Shirley Temple on repeat over here right now! I feel like no […] [Original post on kolektiva.social]

An oval clay chip glazed glossy white. In the middle is a clay animal cracker in the shape of a lion glazed pink with little colored glass dots representing candy sprinkles. The chip is about 2 inches across the long way and the lion a little more than one inch

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Adrian Riskin :anarchoheart2: @adrianriskin.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

Here are another couple things I made using the same technique.

A small light green tumbler held in my hand. It's covered with small multicolored glass splotches melted into the clay. Some of them have dripped and flowed together.

An even smaller white tumbler, about three inches high. It's covered with ROY G BIV diagonal textured stripes consisting of melted seed beads.

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Adrian Riskin :anarchoheart2: @adrianriskin.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

Melting glass beads onto fired clay is one of my favorite techniques. Until Tuesday I was sticking them on with white glue and firing them horizontally, which is necessary because the glue burns off long before the glass melts. I did the first five columns […] [Original post on kolektiva.social]

A small white mug with a strap handle. The mug has alternating aqua and darker blue beads melted into the sides in a grid. They look like raised smooth circular bumps about 3/16 of an inch in diameter.

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Adrian Riskin :anarchoheart2: @adrianriskin.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

What the hell is happening to the Fediverse? I'm an influencer now? Tell me why capitalism still exists, then

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Adrian Riskin :anarchoheart2: @adrianriskin.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

Getting too hungry to think seriously about dinner. Fortunately the elotero came by and allowed me to buy some time (and an esquite con todo). #Elote #LosAngeles #Esquites

A picture of corn kernels in a cup covered in mayonnaise, butter, chili powder -- an esquite con todo.

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Adrian Riskin :anarchoheart2: @adrianriskin.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

My Spanish sucks and maybe I didn't understand. $12.99 sounds awfully cheap for eggs with a Mexican woman...

A vinyl menu hanging on a wall. At the top it says: Rincon Nayarit Sabor 100% Autentico

About halfway down the list of breakfasts and prices it says: Huevos con Mexicana $12.99

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Adrian Riskin :anarchoheart2: @adrianriskin.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026

Some pottery glazes act very differently depending on whether they're fired in the presence of oxygen or without it -- oxidation vs reduction is the technical terminology. One way to fire in reduction is to fuel the kiln with actual burning stuff like […] [Original post on kolektiva.social]

A small rectangular clay tile with two aqua blue glaze stripes on it. It's sitting on a square piece of rockwool

The same piece under the torch. The clay is glowing red now.

The aqua has turned coppery bronze with metallic highlights and strange complex color variations.

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Adrian Riskin :anarchoheart2: @adrianriskin.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

I used to feel left out of the #flosstodon craze but this morning walking the dog south on Vermont avenue I was blessed with this vision of blue plastic against dirty city sidewalk!

A medium blue plastic dental floss holder lying on a sidewalk dark gray with grease and schmutz.

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Adrian Riskin :anarchoheart2: @adrianriskin.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

I'm replying to @rbdfwkedkegfkt.bsky.social here bc bluesky has a strict character limit This is exactly the idea I'm criticizing here

Screenshot of post linked to. Text:

@rbdfwkedkegfkt.bsky.social

Technically, this is a representative democracy so they do represent us or at least are supposed to, using some sort of a preference aggregation function. It's just that the aggregation functions they end up using turn out to be all out of whack.

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Adrian Riskin :anarchoheart2: @adrianriskin.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/07/2026

Very thoughtful of some zillionaire tech bros to provide these convenient self-installing relocatable sidewalk trash receptacles! All of a sudden they're everywhere and we are using them! The grateful people of Los Angeles thank and salute our benefactors! […] [Original post on kolektiva.social]

A side view of a green Lime electric bike parked on a street corner. There is a curb cut behind it and a lot of black grease stains of exactly the sort left by an illegal pupusa stand, which is exactly what they are, in fact.

A downward view into the bike's handlebar basket showing an assortment of litter, including a semismooshed and presumably empty Coors can.

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Adrian Riskin :anarchoheart2: @adrianriskin.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

Here's the model I used for the mold. It's a plastic pencil holder. The shrinkage was over 18%. Also a picture of the mold itself. You can see ghosts of the colored slip trails I splashed around in it before filling it with casting slip. Casting plaster is […] [Original post on kolektiva.social]

The purple and blue mug next to a significantly bigger clear plastic cylinder.

A plaster mold, which is essentially a big hunk of plaster with a cylindrical cavity that the slip is poured into.

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Adrian Riskin :anarchoheart2: @adrianriskin.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

These are so thin that they're translucent at cone 10, which is something I never thought I'd be able to do! Now I'm on to the next phase, which involves sprigs and very tiny pieces of glass melted onto various parts of the outside. More news when I have […] [Original post on kolektiva.social]

The red and purple mug held against a light bulb showing pleasant orange light shining through the mug body.

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Adrian Riskin :anarchoheart2: @adrianriskin.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

I made press molds from some Czech glass buttons I had laying around and used those to decorate the bottom handle attachments. These are a little blurry, but so are the originals. 2/ #ceramics #Pottery #Slipcasting #Porcelain #CzechGlass

A closer view of the handle of the purple and blue mug showing a steel-gray glazed button with a relief image of three tiny dragonflies in a circle at the bottom of the handle.

Likewise for the purple and red one, this time with a relief image of an elephant on the button.

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Adrian Riskin :anarchoheart2: @adrianriskin.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

A couple years ago I had a vision of a porcelain mug but it was far beyond my skills at the time. At the beginning of this summer I finally felt like it was within my grasp so I started learning the necessary skills. Slipcasting was the most complex but two […] [Original post on kolektiva.social]

Two white porcelain mugs sitting on a green silicone mat decorated with colorful squiggles. The one on the left has purple and red squiggly slip trails and the one on the right has purple and light blue ones.

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Adrian Riskin :anarchoheart2: @adrianriskin.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026

Here's my first fairly successful glass cast. I made the model out of clay and then poured a 50/50 mix of pottery plaster and silica flour over it. Once the mold mix sets the still-wet clay peels right out of the mold. The silica protects the plaster […] [Original post on kolektiva.social]

A green glass snake. It's about 10 inches long but coiled around itself a couple times to make a rough circle about 4 inches in diameter. It's made of all sorts of greenish scrap glass, so it has a lot of color complexity.

The plaster/silica mold that the snake was cast in. So there's a negative space image of the snake on the top of a rectangular solid about 4 by 6 by 1.5 inches. The mold is split in half by a big ugly crack across the 4 inch dimension.

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Adrian Riskin :anarchoheart2: @adrianriskin.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/06/2026

This is a six inch cotton doily that I saturated with porcelain slip and draped inside a bowl to shape it. I then fired it as usual and the cotton burned out, leaving am actual porcelain basket. Somebody sent me an Instagram showing this technique and I […] [Original post on kolektiva.social]

A porcelain basket that looks like a crochet doily formed into a bowl shape. It's sitting on a sickly green silicone mat.

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Adrian Riskin :anarchoheart2: @adrianriskin.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2026

Another nerikomi experiment, this time a lil snek. I colored the porcelain myself -- the yellow is a Mason stain. The green is that same yellow with a touch of cobalt oxide. I'm not sure where the dark spots came from but I'm guessing they're due to tiny […] [Original post on kolektiva.social]

A small ceramic snake coiled around itself in an approximately for inch diameter circle. The snake is made from green and yellow nerikomi porcelain and a lot of shiny clear glaze. Due to the nerikomi the green and yellow colors are threaded together like marbled paper. It has tiny red eyes, one of which is visible.

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Adrian Riskin :anarchoheart2: @adrianriskin.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026

[New frontiers in AI generated subtitles. The Burbs episode 5 mild spoiler.] I often watch tv with subtitles on because I can't hear very well. Many shows use AI to generate them. It's often ok but regularly wrong and occasionally surreally wrong. This is […] [Original post on kolektiva.social]

Screenshot of a scene from The Burbs episode 5. Actress Paula Pell, facing the camera, is shown at night talking vehemently to Julia Duffy, the back of whose head we also can see. The subtitles say:

You have sodded a vice. You look tranqued out.

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Adrian Riskin :anarchoheart2: @adrianriskin.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026

A couple of nerikomi experiments. The blue and green one had a little crack, probably from being too thin but the yellow and orange one is perfect! I love the way the pattern goes all the way through the clay with this technique. I refired the blue and green […] [Original post on kolektiva.social]

Two small square ceramic square trays. The one on the left is dark blue, green, and white clay marbled together with a pattern that looks very much like agate. The one on the right has yellow and orange clay also marbled together. The blue and green pattern is fairly random and extends across the whole piece. The yellow and orange one consists of a four by four pattern of more or less identical marbled squares.

The reverse side of the same two trays showing that the pattern extends all the way through the clay.

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Adrian Riskin :anarchoheart2: @adrianriskin.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2026

I've been making pipes. I've been making snakes. Naturally I had to make a snake pipe. #Ceramics #Pottery #Pipes #Snakes

A white ceramic pipe with a blue shiny snake wrapped around it. The snake's body encircles the bowl and its head is facing the viewer with that end of its body and its tail wrapped around the stem. The snake is dark blue with orange, red, and light blue stripes at intervals. The stripes are perpendicular to the snake's axis.

Another view of the same pipe, v this time with the bowl facing the viewer.

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Adrian Riskin :anarchoheart2: @adrianriskin.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/05/2026

Snek. The blue is cobalt oxide painted directly in the greenware. The light blue is white slip and mason stain. The indeterminate color is some light green underglaze covered with clear. This is a study for a larger piece where I put white slip under the […] [Original post on kolektiva.social]

A shiny consult blue ceramic snake coiled in a circle that's about four inches across. Its head is raised in curiosity and it has lighter stripes every inch or so. It's sitting on brown Kraft paper.

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Adrian Riskin :anarchoheart2: @adrianriskin.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/05/2026

This morning I was thinking fondly of the Telegarden and mourning the old weird Internet that created, nurtured, and cherished such things. The garden was created by Ken Goldberg and Joseph Santarromana at the University of Southern California and went […] [Original post on kolektiva.social]

A photo of the Telegarden. It consists of a white table with a circle of dirt about 36" in diameter taking up most of it. There are some small green plants growing in the dirt. In the center of the circle there is a non-humanoid robotic arm mounted on a white cylinder. The arm is articulated so that it can be rotated to place the assembly at its end over any point in the dirt circle.

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Adrian Riskin :anarchoheart2: @adrianriskin.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2026

Finally, jam the two parts together, try not to get epoxy in the wrong places. I twist the ball gently to move the epoxy around but who knows if this matters. Make sure the top is nice and straight, because it's really irritating to use if it's lopsided. Put […] [Original post on kolektiva.social]

The black porcelain ball is now sitting on top of the copper pipe! Except for the fact that the masking tape is still on there it looks like an actual cane.

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Adrian Riskin :anarchoheart2: @adrianriskin.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2026

Fill the hole about 3/4 of the way with epoxy and also put some epoxy down into the pipe so that it gets under the little tabs you folded down. I'm using paste epoxy these days because I need it for some other projects, but when I started I used liquid. I […] [Original post on kolektiva.social]

That same black porcelain ball with the masking tape. Now the hole is filled with white epoxy pasre.

The roughed up end of the pipe with some white epoxy paste jammed down into the hole.

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Adrian Riskin :anarchoheart2: @adrianriskin.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2026

Now use masking tape to protect the clay from the epoxy. It's possible to wipe off epoxy if you don't mask and smear some in the wrong places but you'll never get all of it and you don't want to mess with this toxic stuff any more than necessary.

It's that same black porcelain ball. The hole side is up and now it's rimmed completely with blue masking tape.

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Adrian Riskin :anarchoheart2: @adrianriskin.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2026

Next put the 1/2 inch rubber cane tip on the other end. I buy the four packs made for quad canes, but any half inch tips will do.

Same piece of pipe but the other end. Now it has a black rubber cane tip jammed onto it.

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Adrian Riskin :anarchoheart2: @adrianriskin.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2026

After you cut the pipe use the hacksaw to cut four notches in pairs about 1/4 of an inch long. Then bend them inside the pipe with the pliers. Finally cut a few horizontal grooves into the pipe near the top. I learned the hard way that epoxy doesn't bond […] [Original post on kolektiva.social]

The end of the pipe with some notches cut into it with the hacksaw. In the background you can see the hacksaw and a pair of pliers.

The same pipe end with the notches bent inside the pipe as described in the post.

The same pipe end with some horizontal hacksaw cuts. They don't go all the way through the pipe.

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Adrian Riskin :anarchoheart2: @adrianriskin.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2026

I forgot to say that you should figure out what length of cane is comfortable for you. The length makes a huge difference, and if it's too short or too long you won't be comfortable with it. You can do this by using an adjustable commercial cane and […] [Original post on kolektiva.social]

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Adrian Riskin :anarchoheart2: @adrianriskin.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2026

The first step is to make the top. I use porcelain and various oxides and stains mixed right into the clay body but any kind of decoration should work. I use porcelain because I love it and also because it has 0% porosity when fired to cone 10. This is […] [Original post on kolektiva.social]

A black clay ball, about two inches in diameter, with orange clay worm-looking things pressed into it.

This is the same ball as before but upside-down so that the large hole scooped out of the bottom is visible.

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Adrian Riskin :anarchoheart2: @adrianriskin.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2026

In 2020 I started having mild stability problems. If I'd had a cane the first time I fell down I would have been *much* better off. I tried some commercial ones but they turned out to be expensive, not durable, and very boring looking. So I figured out how […] [Original post on kolektiva.social]

Six canes leaning against a wood porch rail. The cane part is half inch copper water pipe. The tops are multicolored porcelain balls. From left to right they kind of look like:

* Blue body with many light blue dots, each with a smaller green dot inside and a small depression where I pushed the clay in with a stick.

* White body with red and yellow dots and blue lozenge shapes. These shapes are all even with the white ball.

* Black body with a white eye that has a pink iris and a black pupil. There's a yellow eyebrow looking thing above it. This pattern is repeated on the back.

* Smooth white body with medium blue dots all over it. Again, the dots are flush with the body so it's nice and smooth.

* White body with cobalt blue patterns. The cobalt blue parts look like they bubbled up from the main ball. This is because I mixed a lot of cobalt oxide in with the porcelain and it reacted strangely but pleasantly in the kiln.

* White body with large pink dots. Each pink dot has a bunch of tiny black dots pressed into it.

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Adrian Riskin :anarchoheart2: @adrianriskin.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/04/2026

What in the world is happening here? Bluegrass musicians releasing albums on some kind of blockchain thingie? It seems real but I just can't tell anymore... #Bluegrass #Blockchain #Cryptograss #JustinHolmes github.com/cryptograss

Screenshot of the GitHub page linked to. The text shown says:

cryptograss: blockchains are bluegrass

Tools by bluegrassers, for musicians to mint merch and release music

8 followers

https://justinholmes.com
cryptograss@justinholmes.com

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