Zed 🏳️🌈 @wavingpines.bsky.social · 15hMy other crackle glaze is coming along. I need to iron out the thickness (left lid has some serious pinholes, too thick) but I think it’s gonna work just fine. It needs a name! 1110
Zed 🏳️🌈 @wavingpines.bsky.social · 16hI’ve trimmed (some of) the hedge. I’ve done like 3/4 of a job, which is so much better for my body, but previously would’ve been very difficult for me; I want to do the best I can all the time. But it’s good enough. Good shit, self. 170
Zed 🏳️🌈 @wavingpines.bsky.social · 20hIt needs a cleaner application but I’m liking my snowflake crackle. I created the little dipped lids specifically to accommodate a thicker application there. Chemistry is magic. 2160
Zed 🏳️🌈 @wavingpines.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Wanted to re-use these leaf decals whilst they were still sticky, so came up with this. It was tricky to design around a fixed shape in this way, ajd my first idea didn’t Look Right, but I’m reasonably happy with it 2100
Reposted by Zed 🏳️🌈Velour Shirt @object.works · 29/09/2026This is a metaphor for so many things these days that I couldn't choose 692138713
Zed 🏳️🌈 @wavingpines.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The entirety of my lower body hurts from my hips down, and I don’t know why, #mecfs? Seems odd to be just lower, but also… all lower. Pain isn’t a symptom I get an awful lot of 140
Zed 🏳️🌈 @wavingpines.bsky.social · 28/09/2026If you have a queer-coded lefty jaggedy haircut you’d better have the moral and political opinions to back it up. That should be some law or other. 050
Zed 🏳️🌈 @wavingpines.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Making myself sit outside for half an hour because my mood is in the gutter today and I can’t face a walk amongst the people 160
Zed 🏳️🌈 @wavingpines.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Today already feels difficult and I haven’t even gotten out of bed yet; I wonder what that’s about. 140
Zed 🏳️🌈 @wavingpines.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Mmmmmmugs in progress. After faffing on with waxing the liner glaze, my car dent puller won’t hold the bottom of that mug so it might have to be a finger marks-at-the-bottom one, which isn’t my preference but otherwise it’s a double dip and that’s worse 380
Zed 🏳️🌈 @wavingpines.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I woke up waaaay too early so today is going to be tricky AND I have a hankering for salt and vinegar Disco’s so that’s all I’ll be thinking about until its sated 060
Zed 🏳️🌈 @wavingpines.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I really enjoy interacting with potters and enthusiasts online but I’m also socially inept so like, a guy replied to my story on IG and I’m happy to respond…. But his follow up reply was 4 messages a photo and a video and I’m so far outta my depth here. 160
Zed 🏳️🌈 @wavingpines.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Yesterday was a big day so today needs to be a small day. I haven’t even gotten to breakfast yet. Brewing a cuppa to take up with me to unload the bisque kiln. I’ve got mug blanks, if they’re not too dry by now. I have spoon rests, candlesticks & ringholders in my future. And a lot of tape. 180
Zed 🏳️🌈 @wavingpines.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It is incredibly stupid that they’re releasing Physical 100: Italy and Mexico at the same time, but in chunks that slightly offset each other. 010
Zed 🏳️🌈 @wavingpines.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I have had a fucking haircut. It’s been long overdue, because the last one was a nightmare experience. This was hard, somewhere between bearable and manageable. And now I’m handsome again. 2110
Zed 🏳️🌈 @wavingpines.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Operation get-back-to-my-normal-activities took a hit tonight, as I struggled my way through the third week of pottery and ultimately had to leave early. First two weeks were manageable, so now my work is in not assuming it’ll always be like this, and feeling back to square one after a setback. 160
Zed 🏳️🌈 @wavingpines.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I wish I’d put a little handle on this now but whaddayagonnado. The straight line Mishima was probably inevitable… 0120
Zed 🏳️🌈 @wavingpines.bsky.social · 21/09/2026If you struggle with this even when trying some kind of art, may I recommend sitting in front of a pottery wheel, which absolutely will demand your full attention on account of soft clay spinning very fast, and trying to leave bc centrifugal forces 3185
Zed 🏳️🌈 @wavingpines.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Done very little over the last little while, I am in a period of entirely low energy, but I did turn a mediocre bowl into this delightful thing through sheer time and effort. The shapes are stamped (with stamps I made!), filled with wet slip (2-3 times), then scraped back very carefully. 111236
Zed 🏳️🌈 @wavingpines.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I got halfway through a sentence in therapy earlier today and went “ahh… I’m doing that thing I always do” and after naming said thing you should’ve seen the sparkle in my therapist’s eyes lmao. 080
Zed 🏳️🌈 @wavingpines.bsky.social · 16/09/2026M&S pickled cauliflower is the fucking best thing. Love that it’s the colour of radioactive sludge honestly 100
Zed 🏳️🌈 @wavingpines.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Oh there were some pots in that firing too lmao #pottery 3516
Zed 🏳️🌈 @wavingpines.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Glaze tests are done, here are the results up closer. Firstly, I took two crackle recipes and tested how much copper I could squeeze into them before they stopped crackling. They also blistered at about the same amount, and ran more, though they were applied thickly by design. 1160
Reposted by Zed 🏳️🌈Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 15/09/2026 19325
Zed 🏳️🌈 @wavingpines.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Kiln’s on, LOOK at these. There are some pots down the bottom but I’m more excited about this bit. Results in about 24hrs #pottery 1210
Zed 🏳️🌈 @wavingpines.bsky.social · 14/09/2026ICYMI Brandi Carlisle covered Alanis’s Uninvited, and it’s the most gay thing I’ve witnessed for a long time. They recently did a duet, but the version she did at Newport is the one to go listen to if you’ve not seen it. www.instagram.com/reel/Db1h9Jo...instagram.comInstagramCreate an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you. 010
Reposted by Zed 🏳️🌈honey i am a guy & i shrunk the kids @snowrespecter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026vivaldi implies the existence of vivlidl 14639224
Reposted by Zed 🏳️🌈Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 13/09/2026Janey Godley would have appreciated this homage, I am sure. 07115
Reposted by Zed 🏳️🌈Eric Schuster @ejschuster.bsky.social · 28/09/2023Brian Eno on crafting the Windows 95 start up sound. This is never far from my thoughts. 9359118
Zed 🏳️🌈 @wavingpines.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Robinho serenading me from about two feet behind me head 070
Zed 🏳️🌈 @wavingpines.bsky.social · 13/09/2026WoW is about to pull me back in with this Forever launch. I can feel it. 030
Zed 🏳️🌈 @wavingpines.bsky.social · 13/09/2026LRTs: @womensartbluesky.bsky.social is run by a transphobe, and many a folk seem to not know that. womensart1.bsky.social & @womensart2.bsky.social are the ones to followwomensart1.bsky.social#WomensArt1 (@womensart1.bsky.social)She/They. not affiliated with PL Henderson, a previous user of this handle. they are a transphobic bigot & content scraper. Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Enbies are whatever they say they... 1115
Reposted by Zed 🏳️🌈🦝 Pepper Raccoon: Trash Priestess 🦝 @pepperraccoon.com · 22/05/2024You should follow the trans and queer friendly WomensArt account 🥰 283
Reposted by Zed 🏳️🌈Vixenheart @silveralethia.bsky.social · 04/05/2025hey just an FYI the transphobe who ran the exclusionary WomensArt is back as @womensartbluesky.bsky.social she's a despicable content scraper who misgenders trans men and excludes trans women follow @womensart2.bsky.social @womensart1.bsky.social instead 9156122
Reposted by Zed 🏳️🌈Rob Fleming @robjimfleming.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Some folks are more likely to share official sources, so here is one. I hope she is found okay. www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...manchestereveningnews.co.ukUrgent police appeal to find missing girl with links to ManchesterAmelia was last seen on Thursday night, September 10 354104
Reposted by Zed 🏳️🌈Zed 🏳️🌈 @wavingpines.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Good evening! I have new pottery just uploaded to my online shop. It’s a small drop, but some really intricately decorated and time consuming work :) Let me know what you think! WavingPinesPottery.co.uk/shop 5226
Zed 🏳️🌈 @wavingpines.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The league have got to hate this town of events, surely. The Raptors were never gonna be made whole for losing him the first time around but to have the trade scuppered now as well, they lose out more than anyone (bar the Clippers fans) 000
Zed 🏳️🌈 @wavingpines.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Deeeeesperately trying to get the last of my glaze tests done today. I’ve got one batch where & I’m increasing the copper content in increments, and one little white to make up, and then I think I’m done for a while, on the testing phase. 150
Zed 🏳️🌈 @wavingpines.bsky.social · 10/09/2026About once every six months, usually during a period of intense fatigue, I wake up incredibly hungry for protein and carbs. Muesli just doesn’t cut it. Today was such a day, and luckily we had vegan bacon in to go with my egg, tomatoes, beans & toast. Fingers crossed this is my body recovering 🤞🏼 260
Zed 🏳️🌈 @wavingpines.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I watched Scoop recently and I really enjoyed how much shade they threw at the general relationship Newsnight has to Farage. 040
Zed 🏳️🌈 @wavingpines.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Right. Still fucking shattered from Monday, but therapy is done and I’ve had lunch. So can I persuade myself into the studio for ONE batch of glaze tests or will I regret it once I start?! 000
Zed 🏳️🌈 @wavingpines.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Can’t believe they ruined Taskmaster with that absolute jerk face on. Shan’t be watching. 530
Zed 🏳️🌈 @wavingpines.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Yesterday evening in conversation someone reacted to something I said with “oh, sick” and I had a moment where I just felt a hundred and twenty years old. Like my bones were suddenly made of dust, right then and there. 040
Zed 🏳️🌈 @wavingpines.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I just finished Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer on audiobook and I disliked it immensely! Allegedly it’s part of a series and nooo thank you, hard pass. 230
Zed 🏳️🌈 @wavingpines.bsky.social · 07/09/2026About six or seven months ago my whole nervous system shifted, my defense mechanisms altered & my body now has entirely different reactions to the same kinds of stress. And worst of all, WORST OF ALL, the diazepam that used to knock me on my arse at 2-4mg now does almost nothing at double that. 351
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Sender:
"Do you know why sharks live in salt water"
Recipient:
"I mean it's all about osmotic balance. Saltwater fish are usually about isosmotic with saltwater and don't have to regulate their water input and output as much. There are some purely freshwater sharks are rays, though, including Amazonian stingrays, the entirely freshwater shark species in SE Asia and australia, giant river rays, and of course the part-time freshwater habits of bull sharks"
"It's pretty taxing evolutionarily to disrupt that, it has a lot to do with kidney function and water intake. In generally, freshwater fish don't drink water bc they have to retain their ions and such"
"And usually, the ecological niches that sharks would occupy in freshwater are either already taken, or the freshwater system isn't big enough or too inaccessible to support it."
"The Amazon basin, rivers in SE Asia, African Great lakes, and American great lakes are basically the places that are big enough to support it. Of those, the Amazon is taken by catfish and arapaima, SE Asian rivers already do have freshwater sharks, and the two great lakes systems are largely inaccessible from the ocean so it's harder for sharks to get in and speciate"
"Why do you ask?"
Sender:
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