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The Decrepit Potter @biondolino.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

My 2nd round of Covid has been brutal. 6 full day of sweating: cold sweats, hot sweats, medium sweats, waking up with hair dripping.I had to put my pillow in the dryer it was so wet. I cannot imagine what it would have been like not being vaxxed. I finally got meds so I hope to improve soon. #covid

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The Decrepit Potter @biondolino.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Unexpected company #wildlife#raccoons#urbanbandit

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The Decrepit Potter @biondolino.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

In a first ever event, I got a hair cut with a stylist who didn't fill the silence with pointless chatter. Imma write that down on my calendar!

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The Decrepit Potter @biondolino.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

I don't often photograph work on my wheel because I don't want my camera getting clay on it, but I agreed to do a demo at my gallery and this is going on the press release. This is destined to be a lime/grass green planter. #neriage#ceramics

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The Decrepit Potter @biondolino.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I can always tell who visited the feral cat food at night. If it's all gone, it's a possum. When the racoons show up it looks like a hard partying biker gang showed up to trash the joint AND eat the food.

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The Decrepit Potter @biondolino.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I really need new carpet installed but it has to be still be light enough to continue to show me where the hairballs and cat puke are. My best friend is my portable Bissell carpet cleaner. #cats

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The Decrepit Potter @biondolino.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Most of you potters are aware of the Gerstley Borate mine depletion and the lukewarm success of subbing Gillespie Borate. There is now a Gerstley Borate Blend available in both Canada the the U.S and I've heard great things about it compared to Gillespie Borate. Be still my heart! #ceramics#

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The Decrepit Potter @biondolino.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Some new work. The lavender pot is for plants, the orca plate is underglaze on neriage porcelain. #ceramics#pottery#neriage

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The Decrepit Potter @biondolino.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

This is a new to me video on platter technique. #ceramics#pottery www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qpsj...

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How To Oval Platter

YouTube video by Don Hall Works

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The Decrepit Potter @biondolino.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I have a dream! That people will begin to check their links so I don't hit a damn paywall,links that I don't have to sign up for to read and that the link actually... you know...WORKS!

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The Decrepit Potter @biondolino.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I got roped into doing a demonstration of Nerikomi and excessive talking drains my social batteries. I was also told I need to raise my prices and not under value myself. Meaning I'll have to give up the dopamine hit I get when people buy my work. I live in a small town, not NYC. #ceramics

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The Decrepit Potter @biondolino.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Fresh from the kiln. #pottery#ceramics

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The Decrepit Potter @biondolino.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Score! I landed some good size gourds from a gourd artist at my gallery. My plan is to use them to paddle clay like Tony Soares does. I tried to do it freehand but my arthritis makes pinching and gripping small things too painful. Who is Tony Soares? www.youtube.com/watch?v=YENb...

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Tony Soares, Paddle and Anvil Pottery Master

YouTube video by Andy Ward's Ancient Pottery

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The Decrepit Potter @biondolino.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

If you're looking for reverence you're following the wrong person. You're following a Pastafarian.

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The Decrepit Potter @biondolino.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Magnets are a good use of leftover clay. #ceramics

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The Decrepit Potter @biondolino.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Sweetface crashing on the toy after a rough night of playing on the roof with her siblings. Yes that's right, all 6 ferals have figured out how to get on the roof. #cats

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The Decrepit Potter @biondolino.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

I need an adaptor for my air gun compressor so I could glaze. I can't get one and no one knows how long it will be until they'll get any more. Me-0 Tariffs-1 #ceramics#pottery#effingtarrifs

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The Decrepit Potter @biondolino.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

TBH this is freaking me out and channeling Pinochet vibes.

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The Decrepit Potter @biondolino.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I got a Costco roasted chicken today and it's in the fridge. Jones parked himself up there and is keeping it safe. #cats

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The Decrepit Potter @biondolino.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I was given a mold to make a bird bath but wondered how thick I should make it? I will only be able to glaze one side so what if I fired the other side with just underglaze on it? Temps here rarely get higher than 80F, and a few evenings below 32F but never a sustained freeze. #pottery#ceramics

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The Decrepit Potter @biondolino.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Win 11 was taking my Steam account and loading it onto One Drive. I got messages my cloud was full with an option to buy more space. So I deleted One Drive. Problem Solved.

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The Decrepit Potter @biondolino.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Psychedelic mushrooms and bells. Small projects to use up small amounts of colored clay used on other projects. More ideas are most welcome. #pottery#ceramics#coloredclay

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Animal videos @furspot.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

No snowboard, no problem!😂

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The Decrepit Potter @biondolino.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Switched stream providers so I checked out "The Conners". And it's honestly so much better without Roseanne. IMO a lot of her fame was only due to the rest of the the cast. #TV#Roseanne#TheConners

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 05/03/2025

This is Poppy. Her pink silk sleeping mask fell off right before bedtime. Fortunately she only threw a very reasonably sized tantrum about the ordeal. 13/10

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The Decrepit Potter @biondolino.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I don't want to say my age but in MY day, we called them cheese,meat,veggie or cracker plates. None of this new fangled charcuterie stuff.

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The Decrepit Potter @biondolino.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Fake Spring was here! I got 2 glorious t-shirt weather days so I: washed the car, pulled the dead stuff out of the flower bed, trimmed some baby fruit trees and got some pottery sanding done. Preparing now for rain until May.

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The Decrepit Potter @biondolino.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

There appears to be some kind of underground war going on here between buildings and cars. 10 hits in 9 months has got to be some sort of nefarious car escalation and any day these buildings will take up nail guns and start chasing cars. Mark my words! www.myclallamcounty.com/2025/02/28/a...

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Another Car into Building in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — Another vehicle has crashed into a building in Port Angeles, this time at Imagine It Framed on Front Street. The incident occurred around 11 on Friday, leaving the storefront damaged bu...

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The Decrepit Potter @biondolino.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

1st Acoma technique attempt. I'm sorry for the crappy photo. I'm still trying to figure out Windows 11 on a new laptop, and so far it's been a nightmare for editing photos. I covered it with white underglaze on leather hard altho some of it appears yellow here.

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The Decrepit Potter @biondolino.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

My inlaid turtle bowl sold. I was told by someone that they thought it was painted leading me to believe very few people know what Nerikomi is. I'm thinking of doing a demo but I really have no idea where I'd begin. It's not something that's done in 3 hours or less. #ceramics#Nerikomi

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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I want to do this job

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

My deepest respect to the legends who learn English as a second language, like honestly how do you even carry on after getting to the word “queue”

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The Decrepit Potter @biondolino.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

This could be Jones, my 18 lb orange menance. He too cares not a wit how much human skin he punctures. From subreddit: OneOrangeBrainCell

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The Decrepit Potter @biondolino.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Many places have lost my business due to ridiculous CAPTCHAs. I'm not going to jump through endless loops of frustration just to give them my money. There are too many other options to choose from that don't do this to their customers.

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The Decrepit Potter @biondolino.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I TOLD you things would get better!

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The Decrepit Potter @biondolino.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I don't know if there's a name for this but it's how several pieces of my Mexican pottery hanging on my wall are made. I'm planning a series of 3 bowls & plates with a similar themes to hang on the wall. It's quite a sturdy way to build them and very little fuss is involved.

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The Decrepit Potter @biondolino.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I've been sick most of the month so I concentrated on under glazing. My gallery is having a fund raiser for a member who runs an animal rescue this Spring.

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The Decrepit Potter @biondolino.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Yesterday at the doctor's office they are asking 2 new questions to the standard ones. 1. Have you been in contact with any birds, both wild and domestic? 2. When was the last time you traveled internationally? Bird flu is obvious for the 1st one but I'm not sure of the reasoning behind #2.

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The Decrepit Potter @biondolino.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Nerikomi bowls-hand built- 2 different patterns, same clay block

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 18/01/2025

Human Altitude xkcd.com/3039

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The Decrepit Potter @biondolino.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

This whole red dye thing is never ending. Mars stopped using red dye #2 in 1976 because of a Russian study, but only for about 10 yrs. Now red dye #3 is on the hit list. What happened to red dye #2? #reddye#FDA

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The Decrepit Potter @biondolino.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Cold AF outside so it's a good day do some throwing. Thumb arthritis: Ha! That's what you think, you silly meat covered bag of worn out bones! #pottery

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