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Kenna Hughes-Castleberry @kennaculture.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Day 2 of OCTO-ber! 🐙 The octopus that started it all: Octopus vulgaris, or the common octopus. Want to go deeper into the world of octopuses? Follow along this month and preorder "Octopus X" to read more PC: Wikimedia Commons @octonation.bsky.social @tonmo.com @princetonupress.bsky.social

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow

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octopotter.bsky.social @octopotter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Another knitting bowl: multiple colored flowers on a black background using underglazes, black slip, clear glaze, and aqua celadon.

Knitting bowl with flowers on a black background. Background is black slip. Flower and stems were created with sgraffito and then underglaze on the flowers. The flowers were glazed in clear. The stems and rest of the piece was dipped in aqua celadon.

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octopotter.bsky.social @octopotter.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

🪼Picked this up today from the studio and I’m super happy with it! Thrown and altered top, extruded base and tentacles. 🪼 #pottery #ceramics #handmade #pottersofbluesky #SciArt #invertefest

Jellyfish ceramic sculpture. Mix of pink underglaze, blue glaze, and “yellow salt” (which drippy, bubbly, white over the blue)

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octopotter.bsky.social @octopotter.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Work in progress. Black slip over a light clay knitting bowl with sgraffito flowers with underglaze. Next step is a bisque fire. Then my plan is to brush clear glaze and wax over the underglazed flowers, and dip the rest of the bowl in aqua celadon (a light clear green).

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octopotter.bsky.social @octopotter.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

A trio of cat mugs. I’m very happy with the form on two of them but something went wrong with the glazing or firing and it crawled and left splotches #pottery #ceramics #handmade #pottersofbluesky

3 cat mugs. Tall, medium and short. Two in John’s Black and Volcanic Ash White, the third Temoku

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octopotter.bsky.social @octopotter.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

A trip of car mugs. I’m very happy with the form on two of them but something went wrong with the glazing or firing and it crawled and left splotches

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octopotter.bsky.social @octopotter.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

An outsiders view of what makes the US stronger different than the old world American Loneliness - The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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American Loneliness

It’s not an epidemic—it’s an immune system.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Meanwhile, I was in court this week on behalf of a three-year-old who's been needlessly separated from her mother for almost a year now. And she’s just one of thousands of other kids.

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octopotter.bsky.social @octopotter.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Another pot out of the kiln this week. A lidded jar with a beach theme. #pottery #ceramics #handmade #pottersofbluesky

Yellow salt glaze applied unevenly to get a mix of tans and yellows to make “sand”. A blue green glossy glaze on the bottom 2/3 for ocean. Slipcasting and colored underglaze are used to make the sea stars and octopus

Details the sea stars (around the lid) and the octopus on top of the knob.

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octopotter.bsky.social @octopotter.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Another pot out of the kiln this week. A lidded jar with a beach theme.

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octopotter.bsky.social @octopotter.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

“The falling rock …caused an initial 100-meter-high breaking wave that tore across the fjord at speeds exceeding 70 meters a second… [and] surged up the steep rocks to a height of 481 meters above sea level.” 481 meters is 1578 feet, almost .3 miles 😳 arstechnica.com/science/2026...

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Huge landslide created a 500-meter-high tsunami in a major tourist area

Fortunately, it happened early in the morning, so nobody was around.

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Paweł Ausir Dembowski @ausir.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

the Polish title is The S̶i̶l̶v̶e̶r̶ Cheesy Globe, a play on the Polish SF classic On the Silver Globe (the Andrzej Żuławski movie On the Silver Globe is probably better known in Anglophone circles than the 1903 book by Jerzy Żuławski, only recently translated to English)

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Reporter: What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia— AOC: Wah wah wah. We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no. What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over.

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octopotter.bsky.social @octopotter.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Deep sea mug using black and white slip with a clear VA glaze on the outside and off white glaze on the inside. #pottery #ceramics #handmade #pottersofbluesky #SciArt

One side of the mug: Angler fish in white on a black background. The lure is yellow.

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octopotter.bsky.social @octopotter.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Knitters: My yarn bowls will be at Royal Bee Yarn during the upcoming Bay Area Yarn Crawl March 13-22 royalbeeyarn.com/pages/bay-ar... #pottery #ceramics #handmade #pottersofbluesky #Knitting @baycrawl.bsky.social

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octopotter.bsky.social @octopotter.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

New knitting bowls. I’ll post better pictures when so can get better lighting.

3 bowls. one blue with an octopus, one variegated green, and one with light green with flowers

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octopotter.bsky.social @octopotter.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Anthropic could get Hegseth to agree so Sam Altman must be lying: “After OpenAI's deal with the Defense Department, CEO Sam Altman, said his agreement with the government included safeguards like the ones Anthropic had asked for. “ www.npr.org/2026/02/27/n...

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OpenAI announces Pentagon deal after Trump bans Anthropic

The Pentagon also ordered all military contractors to stop doing business with Anthropic. The company says it will challenge the move in court.

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octopotter.bsky.social @octopotter.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Work in progress: octopus knitting bowl

unfired clay bowl with an octopus on the side. The octopus is attached at a large opening with one arm forming a spiral that can catch yarn

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octopotter.bsky.social @octopotter.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

I spent many hours in the public library reading Byte magazine as a teen. These covers brought a unique whimsy and fun to the magazine its competitors didn’t have. I didn’t realize they were all the work of one artist. RIP arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026... #SciArt

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Byte magazine artist Robert Tinney, who illustrated the birth of PCs, dies at 78

He became one of the first to visualize personal computing by painting vivid cover art.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

House Democrats must vote ‘no’ on DHS funding tomorrow. Our country is in the middle of a five alarm fire, and we must act like it. While ICE agents are killing Americans in the street and using five year old children as bait, we should not give that agency another dime.

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octopotter.bsky.social @octopotter.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Same bowls but better lighting. I really like the glaze combination on the blue and green one. #pottery #ceramics #handmade #pottersofbluesky

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octopotter.bsky.social @octopotter.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

A trio of yarn bowls recently out of the kiln. The smaller ones are possibly too small 🤷🏻‍♂️.

Three small yarn knitting bowls: light green with flowers, variegated blue/green, and dark to light green.

Close up of the spiral for yarn on the light green/flower bowl.

Close up of of yellow flower and an orange poppy on the light green/flower bowl.

Close up of a yellow flower and the spiral opening of the green/flower bowl.

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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

For non-German speakers: “Dear media, I can’t stand the headline "No agreement between the US and Denmark” any longer. If an armed man storms a bank, you don't run the headline: "Robber and cashier can't reach an agreement on money transfer." Stop framing imperial aggression as normal diplomacy.”

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

ICE must be abolished. It has become a lawless, rogue agency. Federal law enforcement agencies must follow the law, if they're going to have any credibility enforcing it. We are demanding justice for Renee Good and the prosecution of ICE agent Jonathan Ross for her murder.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

I can't believe I'm posting this video - but we actually have to have a conversation about the real world implications of America going to war over Greenland. Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.

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octopotter.bsky.social @octopotter.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Another fossil in sedimentary rock mug: nautilus and trilobites using slip on a mixed of light and dark clays

White slip nautilus on brown and tan striped clay mug

Small white slip trilobite on brown and tan striped clay mug

Large white slip trilobite on a mixed clay mug

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octopotter.bsky.social @octopotter.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Small lidded jar with sea stars in various colors.

Small pale yellow and blue green jar with matching lid. The bottom third of the jar and the knob of the lid are both sea green. The rest of the jar is a pale yellow or light brown with a underglazed sea stars around the circumference. This view shows 3 stars, one each in yellow, purple, and orange.

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octopotter.bsky.social @octopotter.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Large cookie jar. It’s about 9 inches tall to the rim, 11 inch with the lid and it’s knob. #pottery #ceramics #handmade #pottersofbluesky

Large blue and brownb textured jar with lid.

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octopotter.bsky.social @octopotter.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Double walled vase with carved kelp forest theme. Carving this was a balance between trying to create a sense of depth and engineering it so that the outer wall didn’t collapse, all while keeping the clay at the right moisture level over multiple carving sessions spread over a couple of weeks.

Double walled vase. The top half is in a blue/green glaze. The bottom half is carved. On this side an octopus in brown sits on the sandy bottom surrounded by rust/green colored kelp with a school of fish floating above. The inner wall of the vase can be seen through the larger carved areas around the octopus

Double walled vase. The top half is in a blue/green glaze. The bottom half is carved. On this side the carving is all kelp. A dark green glazes fills in the deeper carved texture lines with an iron oxide wash adding a rust orange tint. The inner wall of the vase in green is visible behind the kelp. i

Double walled vase. The top half is in a blue/green glaze. The bottom half is carved. On this side the carving is mostly kelp with a small sea turtle floating above. The turtle has brown shell and green body parts.

Double walled vase. The top half is in a blue/green glaze. The bottom half is carved. In this view the carving, shows the same turtle, next to the school of fish. The octopus from the first view is partially visible.

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octopotter.bsky.social @octopotter.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Another mug in the fossils in sedimentary rock series. This one has insects. news.illinois.edu/50-million-y...

White slip moth on a dark brown to tan mixed clay. The moth is unglazed but the rest of the mug uses the studio Vocanic Ash Clear which adds a golden tone to the base clays

Dragonfly and Assassin Bug in white slip over mixed clay thrown mug.

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octopotter.bsky.social @octopotter.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Knitting bowl. Slip is used to add a bit of texture to the flowers which were done in underglaze and clear. The background is aqua celadon apply thick so that it crazed.

yellow flowers in a light green knitting bowl.

yellow flowers in a light green knitting bowl. a spiral hole for the yarn can be seen at the back

Front of the knitting bowl highlighting the spiral for the yarn which forms part of a vine decoration on the bowl

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octopotter.bsky.social @octopotter.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

I’m quite a bit behind on posting pictures, but the studio is closed for the holidays so maybe I’ll catch up. Lizard “fossil” soup bowl - white slip on marbled clay

White slip lizard “skeleton” on striped brown to white ceramic bowl.

Different part about of lizard “skeleton” on marbled brown to white ceramic bowl.

Top view of inside of a bowl, mostly tan with circular swirls of brown

Head and ribs of lizard “skeleton” on striped brown to white ceramic bowl.

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

pleased to announce that there seems to be a passive-aggressive conflict roiling the august pages of Cooks Illustrated, Fall Harvest recipes edition. allow me to explain:

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octopotter.bsky.social @octopotter.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Chimps are more rational than the average politician: “Chimps can take in new evidence, evaluate its strength, and change their minds” arstechnica.com/science/2025...

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The evolution of rationality: How chimps process conflicting evidence

Chimps can take in new evidence, evaluate its strength, and change their minds.

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octopotter.bsky.social @octopotter.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

casserole dish. notice the tentacles escaping out the bottom.

blue green lidded dish with brown black and tan octopus on top

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octopotter.bsky.social @octopotter.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Don’t mess with vipers: “the blunt-nosed viper accelerating up to 710 m/s2, landing a bite within 22 microseconds. All the vipers landed bites within 100 milliseconds of striking.” Ars reporting on a paper in Journal of Experimental Biology. arstechnica.com/science/2025...

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Research roundup: 6 cool science stories we almost missed

The highest scoring Boggle board, catching high-speed snake bites in action, and more.

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octopotter.bsky.social @octopotter.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Out of the kiln this weekend. This was an exercise in layering colored slips and glazes to get variations in color and texture. #pottery #ceramics #handmade #pottersofbluesky

Squarish plate roughly split along the diagonal into an ocean half and a sandy half. The ocean has a wavy 3d texture with glossy blue and green glazes and the occasional off-white matte sea foam. The sandy portion is matte tan and satin cream glazes along with a small orange underglazed sea star.

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octopotter.bsky.social @octopotter.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

New fossil theme handled soup bowl, with lizard “skeletons” on the sides

side of marbled clay bowl with white slip lizard skeleton

other side of marbled clay bowl with white slip lizard skeleton

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