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Jacob @iacobuscaesar.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

This Super Bowl Sunday, I’d like to introduce you all to the magical curse bowls used in Upper Mesopotamia and Syria in late antiquity. Written in Mandaic (as here) or Syriac Aramaic, they trap demons who trespass on a household by sucking them in with spiraling spells to the center of the bowl.

A Mandaic curse bowl in the Royal Ontario Museum. It has a spiraling Mandaic text that leads to an encircled x at the center.

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Mars Rover Jewelry coming this Wednesday Dec 10th, 12pm PT ✨ A collaboration with my good friend @sciencesocks.bsky.social who turned the pendants into jewelry! To join our mailing list for this project: sciencesocks.co/pages/amy-ra...

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MagDo @trematomus.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

#Fishmas day 7: Sternoptychidae berry bowl. It works way better than I would have thought. #Ceramics, #pottery, #SciArt

Left edge of a glazed, footed strainer ceramic bowl. There are small holes in the front, a larger hole for the thumb in the back. A double band of fish in opposite orientation go around the bowl.

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

My last pottery restock of the year is live. This porcelain skeleton embedded in a mossy rock outcrop was such a fun mug to sculpt. #ceramics #pottery #womensart #skeleton #ceramicmug #porcelain #art #handmademug #coffeemug #ceramicart #ceramicsofbluesky #pottersofbluesky #potteryofbluesky

A porcelain mug with a sculpted skeleton (skull, hand and arm) embedded in a mossy, rocky landscape. Held by my hand. Primarily off white clay color with turquoise and green glazes in spots.

A porcelain mug with a sculpted skeleton (skull, hand and arm) embedded in a mossy, rocky landscape. I'm holding it by the handle, which is sculpted to resemble precariously stacked rocks. Primarily off white clay color with turquoise and green glazes in spots.

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Here's a porcelain Anthropocene mug embedded with stones that I recently made for a long time customer. One of these days I'm going to keep one for myself. #ceramicart #porcelain #pottery #pottersofbluesky #womensart #skull #skeleton #geology #mug #handmade #clay #ceramics

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

My landscapes always look like they're at risk of collapsing. Want a little precariousness with your favorite beverage? There's a band of igneous stones embedded and fired into the porcelain. #ceramicart #ceramics #pottery #pottersofbluesky #ceramicsofbluesky #porcelain #geological #cacti #desert

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Meet my Sky Islands clear glaze! The recipe consists of 90% locally scavenged calcium carb, quartz, and feldspar (1st photo). 2nd photo shows earlier attempts at making a clear desert mineral/rock glaze. #geology #rocks #minerals #ceramics #ceramicglaze #glazenerd #pottersofbluesky #artprocess

A porcelain test tiles showing a clear glaze made from the minerals and rock just behind the tile.

Three porcelain test tiles in the foreground. Left to right: The left tile is a gritty primitive attempt at making a rock glaze using local materials. The middle tile is another attempt using local materials that created a tan, cracking glaze. The right tile is finally looking like a clear glaze! Yay!

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Universal-Sci @universal-sci.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Stunning: A pair of emerging stars in Lynds 483 have sculpted this radiant, hourglass-shaped cloud of gas and dust. In a few million years, each star could grow to match the Sun’s mass, leaving behind only a thin disk where planets might eventually take shape (Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI)

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

You look a little down, have a bowl of cosmos #sciart

Bowl featuring star resembling CW Leonis and surrounding galaxies. (Side).

Bowl featuring star resembling CW Leonis and surrounding galaxies.

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MagDo @trematomus.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

For the fifth day of #Invertefest a minoan mashup cup, kamares ware outside, marine (and invertebrate) style inside. #pottery, #ceramics

Black clay cup with a white and red waves and circles pattern outside, marine creature with shell and tentacles inside

Inside of a black clay cup with two white marine creatures with shell and tentacles on the two sides.

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Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Today I want to share with you all one of my favorite #MacroPhotos I have ever taken. On July 18th, 2014 I had a magical encounter with this #dragonfly, the Great Blue Skimmer, #Libellula vibrans and I was able to capture this focus stack. #invertefest #insects #Photography #MacroPhotography

A photo of the face of a dragonfly with intense blue eyes from the front. The large blue eyes mottled with black spots surround the roundly rectangular pale blue central face area. There is a small black triangle at the top of the face between the eyes where there are three small oceli, small primitive eyes.

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

An older design to share for #InverteFest. Very few people enjoy seeing a #cockroach on a mug they're drinking from, which is why I just had to make these. Only a customer with a particular sense of humor brings this into their home. #potteryofbluesky #ceramicmug #ceramics #wheelthrown #bugs #roach

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Another post for #InverteFest The Palo Verde Beetle, one of my favorite local invertebrates. They emerge during the monsoon season in the Sonoran Desert and freak people out due to their size and clumsy flying style. They're harmless and I love them. #beetle #ceramics #pottersofbluesky #pottery

Four wheel thrown stoneware mugs, each decorated with one Palo Verde Beetle that I sculpted and glazed with a black-brown glaze. The top exterior is glazed in sky blue and the bottom is left unglazed.

This sweetie is a Palo Verde Beetle clinging to a branch on a Sweet Acacia tree in my yard. They're notoriously clumsy and when they emerge I'm on the lookout for any that need help after accidentally landing onto their backs and need to be flipped over.

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Sharing for #InverteFest (Reposted bc I got the hashtag wrong the first time!) I used to make tarantula mugs, this one was testing a neodymium glaze on the tarantula. Usually I glazed them in browns/blacks to resemble my local tarantulas. #tarantula #arachnid #pottersofbluesky #ceramics #pottery

Wheel thrown porcelain mug with a tarantula I sculpted, glazed in a light purple neodymium glaze.

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

A hike on Mars!

Yarn bowl featuring three hikers on a Martian landscape at sunset.

Yarn bowl featuring three hikers on a Martian landscape at sunset. (Left)

Yarn bowl featuring three hikers on a Martian landscape at sunset. (Right)

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BERGΛMΛX @bergamax.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Pufferfish skeleton. 🐡 These bones expand when the fish puffs up, creating a near-impossible-to-swallow defense against predators. Fun Fact: pufferfish carry deadly toxins, even more dangerous than cyanide! ☠️ #nature #fish #skeleton

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

For those of you who wanted to see how the 1/2 high fire stoneware + 1/2 low fire local clay blend test emerged from a mid range firing, see the first photo. Photos 2, 3 and 4 are the same local clay w nothing added, fired to different temps. More info in alt text. #clay #wildclay #pottery #ceramics

A test bowl made with a blend of half high fire stoneware + half low fire local desert clay. The two clays together resulted in a mid fire blend.

This is the same local clay but with no additives and fired to cone 01 (2046°F), its peak temperature. The next two photos show earlier tests that helped me determine its peak temp.

This is the same local clay with no additives and fired to cone 1 (2079°F). It is overfired, indicated by bloating, lighter weight, and shinier surface.

The same local clay, no additives, fired to cone 5 (2167°F). This is a verrrry overfired clay...it has gone from a tiny bowl shape to a slightly bubbly puddle. (In the background you can see other clay tests that also overfired).

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

I mixed a blend of 1/2 cone ten (2345°F) stoneware clay and 1/2 cone 01 (2046°F) local desert clay to find out what its firing temperature will be. I'm guessing it'll be mid range, but who knows! #clay #wildclay #localclay #pottery #ceramics #pottersofbluesky #ceramicstudio

There are two bowls filled with dry clay. Top left: this clay is a very light tan high fire stoneware blend. Bottom: is a low fire brown local desert clay I gathered by the side of the road. Two small wheel thrown pots site to the right of the bowls to illustrate how a blend of the two clays looks. It's a light chocolate brown color.

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I like locating rocks that I'm interested in identifying on a USGS map and then hiking to them. Yesterday I wanted to find fossils in Paleozoic limestone. Found the limestone. Not sure if what I found are fossils. It was a fun desert hike regardless. #desert #geology #usgs #rocks #landscape #fossils

A young saguaro growing in a rock outcropping in Saguaro National Park.

Grey Horquilla limestone from the Permian/Pennsylvanian Period with tan-brown inclusions that look similar to fossils I have found in this desert in the past. I'm not quite certain about these though.

Another interesting form within the limestone.

The USGS map. A key with different colors corresponding to specific rock groups is shown on the left. To the right is the topo map showing the location of each group.

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Mixing stoneware clay and dehydrating it on a plaster slab before wedging. This is the part of the creative cycle where I prep my materials for the next batch of pots. Online shop closes tonight, then reopens after this next batch is completed. #clay #stoneware #pottersofbluesky #pottery #ceramics

In the foreground is a bucket with a mixture of three clays, minerals, and water. It is poured onto a plaster slab so it can firm up a bit, then removed using a plastic rib tool, then wedged into smaller lumps of ready to use clay.

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Feeling inspired by this rock I found yesterday, made by my absolute favorite artist, Nature herself. What a show off✨️ #ceramicmaterials #geology #geological #rocks #granite #muscovite #inspiration

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Ever want to wander into the desert, lay on a boulder and watch clouds float by? I want to just hear birds, wind and no words for a bit. Desert inspired tumblers, cups and altars available in my ceramics shop: www.samirahsteinmeyer.com #pottery #ceramics #desert #cacti #ceramiccup #landscape #art

I'm holding a ceramic cup with sky blue glaze decorated with a sculpted, rock outcropping and two cacti nestled within. Inspired by my Sonoran Desert.

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

When your country is imploding due to completely avoidable, manufactured chaos, greed etc how does one respond? By continuing to make fancy pots, of course🫠 Restock Sunday at 2pm, PST. #pottersofbluesky #potteryofbluesky #ceramicart #ceramics #pottery #clayart #functionalart #desert #geology #art

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Tami Wicinas @tamiwicinas.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I just finished a pair of little skeletal fish plates using the sgraffito method of carving into the underglaze. I love how they came out! #ceramics #fishart #sgraffito

A pair of fish shaped dishes sit on a wood grain surface. They are each painted black with a white fish skeleton design. One has tiny sharp teeth. Both have a glossy glaze surface.

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Danielle Pedersen @smallwildshop.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

A sparkly little baby. daniellepedersen.com

Handmade green ceramic chameleon pendant with twenty-two karat gold details is displayed on a velvet ring box.

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Using a digital microscope to explore the landscapes within the glaze drips on one fresh new cup. I spent hours filled with awe and curiosity while wandering around entire places invisible to the naked eye. #glazenerd #ceramicglaze #glazechemistry #potteryofbluesky #sciart #microscopic #ceramics

A stoneware cup with a homemade Caliche Aventurine glaze, with juicy crystalline drips.

A magnified, microscopic view within a glaze drip. On the left is a pattern of dappled and striated blues and greens overlaid on the right by a shimmery, iridescent crystal.

A magnified, microscopic view within a glaze drip. It looks like a vibrant green dragon's eye or a green leafy structure with a golden crystal formation above the green.

A magnified, microscopic view within a glaze drip. I see a rabbit like face and ears within a purple and golden crystalline formation.

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

The Caliche Aventurine glaze flowed off a few cups while in the kiln. I know I should sand those drips off, but what if I give whomever buys it the option to sand or not to sand? I love how the cup is a bit imbalanced but won't tip over. #glazenerd #ceramics #pottery #potteryofbluesky #ceramicglaze

A porcelain cup glazed with a homemade Caliche Aventurine, with calcium carbonate from my backyard. This glaze has a dark background comprised of a gradient from black to dark brown with subtle hints of green and purple. In the foreground are iron crystals varying in size and density, flowing downward like a crystalline shower.

A view of the bottom of the cup, showing how the glaze flowed off the cup in two spots to form perfectly suspended drips. The drips did not hit the kiln shelf, fortunately.

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Emiko May @emikomay.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

not sure if i want to add any pattern to this, i kind of love the flat red on its own 🤔 what do you think? #pottery #teapot #skull #ceramics #underglaze

A round, red teapot with a white skull and red veins drawn on the front.

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Processing an experience of the beauty I see in my local mountains through my ceramic work. I'm drawn to granite slabs with ribbons of moss or veins of quartz within fractures. #pottersofbluesky #pottery #potteryofbluesky #ceramics #ceramicart #geology #landscape #rocks #art #pluton #ceramiccup

A wheel thrown stoneware cup on a table surrounded by plants. The cup is sculpted to resemble a slab of granite with moss and veins of actual rocks embedded into the clay. The upper portion of the cup is glazed in a warm taupe color.

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Custom Astronaut Vessel: A Crack in the Ice

Angled cup featuring weathered spacecraft design in blue with white cracks. Round window in center with astronaut wrapped in blanket looking up to the right.

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Fledgling Studios @fledglingstudios.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I’m having a shop update this Saturday, and there are a few mugs in this batch that are going to be particularly hard to part with. 😍 • • • • #pottery #ceramics #potterymug #ceramicmug #potteryofbluesky #pottersofbluesky #handmadepottery #canadianpottery #madeincanada #handmademug

A handmade stoneware mug that is a slightly metallic black on the bottom, with a subtle rainbow glaze on the upper two thirds.

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I got a bit carried away with this mug. She feels so fancy, like La Catrina, but totally down to hang out under a pile of cacti and rocks right now...maybe watch the sunset... #pottersofbluesky #ceramics #ceramic #ceramicart #art #pottery #workinprogress #selfportrait #ceramicmug #handmademug #clay

An unfired, unglazed porcelain mug sculpted to resemble a crumbling rock outcropping with cacti. Under the cacti is a sculpted skull.

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Made so you can daydream about hiking through desert canyons while drinking your coffee. I certainly daydream about them while sculpting each mug. #pottersofbluesky #ceramics #ceramic #ceramicart #ceramicmug #handmademug #pottery #mug #desertlandscape #desert

A ceramic mug sculpted to resemble a miniature segment of a rocky desert canyon. A group of five cacti are perched in a rocky cliff, as well as two small cacti tucked within the handle (carved to look like precariously stacked rocks.

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

The developer of Flashes for Bluesky just needs a few more donations to finally bring it to Android users (like yours truly). Donate if you're able!

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Baratunde @baratunde.com · 17/03/2025

On my live stream this weekend someone asked what I thought the #democraticparty should do. Here’s my suggested path forward: solve people’s problems. Show notes and links and Substack signup available here open.substack.com/pub/baratund...

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Some cactus+boulder pics from today's wander through the desert. #desert #landscape #cacti #rocks #sonorandesert #saguaro

To the left of the photo is a closeup of a saguaro with dark columns of spines on bright apple green skin. The right side of the photo shows a desert landscape.

A closeup of a boulder with a little concave compartment where a cholla cactus segment ended up. In the background is a desert landscape and a few saguaros.

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Universal-Sci @universal-sci.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Fascinating: A snowflake magnified 50,000 times. With a bit of fantasy it almost looks like some sort of extra-terrestrial virus... (Credit: Erbe, Pooley: USDA, ARS, EMU)

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Colossal @thisiscolossal.com · 13/03/2025

Tornasol Studio's ongoing lantern series draws from Mexico's indigenous plants, featuring textures inspired by cacti, agaves, and corn. 🌵 💡 🌽 www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/03/in-k...

a darkened room with numerous illuminated suspended lights, all loosely reminiscent of tropical fruits

a detail of a suspended orange lamp abstractly reminiscent of a tropical fruit

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

A miniature ceramic landscape to momentarily interrupt the barrage of chaotic news. Where do you turn for balance? I find balance spending time in nature, making things with clay, solitude, time spent with loved ones... #pottersofbluesky #ceramicart #ceramics #landscape #desert #art #miniature #clay

A miniature depiction of a rocky desert landscape, with cactus sculptures surrounding a reflective, blue pool and a single cactus perched on a rock within the pool. A tiny integrated vase within a rock outcropping holds dried yarrow flowers that resemble a tree.

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

In Arizona, on National Forest Land. Every act of resistance counts. #protectpubliclands #protectourparks #resist

A tall rock formation in a US National Forest in Arizona with an upside down American flag, a symbol of distress or political protest.

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

A perpetual caliche aventurine glaze, inspired by perpetual stews that can continue cooking for decades with fresh ingredients added. Glaze batch 2 was added to batch 1, using a different caliche for a slight variation in appearance. #pottersofbluesky #ceramics #ceramicglaze #glazenerd #pottery

A cup with an aventurine glaze made with local calcium carbonate rock, caliche. Each batch looks slightly different because of variations in the chemical composition of the caliche. This one has teeny glittery sparkles in a black glaze matrix along the rim, the crystals gradually growing in size taking on a coppery color and drifting downwards in a reddish brown and greenish glaze matrix. The crystals rain down, gathering in a carpet along the bottom of the cup.

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Danielle Pedersen @smallwildshop.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

More new pendants listed, including this little bluejay friend. I’m also sculpting today so give me your requests!

Ceramic Blue Jay pendant with twenty-two Karat gold details.

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Samirah @samirahsteinmeyer.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

A wall mounted or tabletop desert canyon altar, with a mini vase for dry flowers. I'm sharing this prematurely because it's making me happy. It won't be for sale until later this month. #pottersofbluesky #ceramics #ceramic #handbuiltceramics #art #ceramicart #landscape #desert

A ceramic altar that was sculpted to resemble a rocky desert canyon. A tiny cluster of sculpted cacti sit to the right of a pool below a waterfall. A found rock is pressed into a small pile of desert sand within the pool area. A built in vase has two dried flowers that look like balls of sunshine.

The same altar but with two small pieces of Palo Santo in the pile of sand, resembling a campfire. Sitting next to a campfire in the mountains is heaven for me.

The same altar but with nothing in the pool, to show its glossy, relective quality.

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