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Sebastian

@farolfus.bsky.social

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Ceramicist, historian, nerd. Not necessarily in that order.

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Sebastian @farolfus.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Everything is objectively awful, but my spider plant is blissfully ignorant and has decided to bring 5 more spider plants into this dumpster fire of a world, so I guess I can wallow a little less and try to be hopeful.

An image of a curly spider plant with a shoot bearing five baby plants resting on the hand of a middle aged man.

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Sebastian @farolfus.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Bye bye, Bezos. The latest WaPo dictate was the last straw. Luckily I still remember life before Amazon and can wait an extra few days for anything I can’t find locally. Harder will be breaking up with Whole Foods, which is walkable from my office and is where I did most food shopping, but no more.

A screenshot of the screen to cancel Amazon Prime

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Sebastian @farolfus.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Neolithic time! This pot is based on a Funnel Beaker Culture vessel (c.3000 BCE) found at Månehøj, near Svinø (collection of National Museum in Copenhagen, see pic 2). I hand built the pot and decorated it with a bone tool—it reminded me of doing stick-and-poke tattoos in my misspent youth.

A handmade clay pot with a stylized face and impressed chevron designs

A Neolithic clay pot with a stylized face and chevron designs made with a sharp tool.

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Sebastian @farolfus.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

The void is full, so I will just scream into this pot and put the lid on. Inspired by a couple of Pomeranian Culture face urns (5th/6th c. BCE), this one isn’t a direct copy of anything but the decoration is based on an example from Igrzyczna, now in the archaeological museum in Gdansk. #pottery

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Sebastian @farolfus.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

My mother has knit me a jumper based on an Anglo-Saxon urn (Spong Hill #1564). I feel like I have ascended to a new plane of weirdness and I’m pretty stoked.

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Sebastian @farolfus.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Four days ago I was able to move my workspace to a different corner of my office building and for the first time in my life, I have an actual office window. My ZZ plant has already sent up a new spike as if to remind me that capitalism is hell and we all deserve to see the sun.

A closeup of a Zamifolia zamioculcas plant in a chartreuse mid-century-modern pot; a sprig of fresh growth is visible in the center of the frame.

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Sebastian @farolfus.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

My goblin army has a clean bill of health and the lowest resting heart rates the doc had ever seen for cats in a vet clinic. I can’t protect my nervous system from ::waves hands at Stuff:: but I can apparently raise three kittens in a low-trauma environment and end up with happy, fearless cats.

Three fucking adorable brown tabby cats sleeping on a sage-green bedspread.

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Sebastian @farolfus.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

My goal this winter is to pursue another rabbit hole and make some Pomeranian Culture face urns. These are Iron Age ceramics produced mainly in what is now mostly Poland, and this guy’s face is an absolute mood right now. Image is public domain, from the National Digital Archives in Poland.

An ancient handmade urn with a wide belly, hat-like lid, and stylized human face with wire earrings.

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Sebastian @farolfus.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I don’t always have much wit or wisdom to offer to the social media machine, but I do have three exceptionally beautiful cats who like to do Accidental Renaissance poses when I’m trying to get out the door to go to work. Bluesky, meet Rhoda:

A long-haired brown cat lounging on an old-fashioned radiator.

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