Sometimes we all need a snuggle. #Maremma #Akbash #LGD #ProtectorOfFieldAndHeart

Garden season definitely over, pottery season begins again. Reskilling by throwing a bunch of agateware for a studio fundraiser. This new handle shape is excellent. #PlainsmanM390 #PlainsmanM340 #Agateware #Pottery #WinterHobbies #DrivenIntoTheDirt

Got some bell beaker and double bump mugs coming along. Coming back after a summer of gardening, slowly. #PlainsmanCoffeeClay #Mugs #ThrowingOffTheHump #Pottery

Hard to photograph the rainbow mugs,I guess they want a video and spinning. Clay is M370. Shape is 14th century inspired. #CeramicGlaze #SpectrumFloatingGlaze #Pottery #PlainsmanClay

Suspect I'm too autistic to use this advice; between "a picture is worth a thousand words" and everyone noticing different things in pictures it's hard for me. Bonus of alt text is that I can steer attention, but it definitely does lose a ton of contextual detail. To do correctly I'd write pages.

Accessibility Awareness@a11yawareness.bsky.social · 12mo ago

One way sighted people can determine what to put in alt text: Imagine you sent the post or article to a friend, and the image didn't load. What would someone need to know to get the equivalent experience and context? This will help you identify the important details.

Hashtag Villain Era. #pottery #art

Too unwell to get out of bed today except for the bathroom. My cats were helping me rest but they went outside for a break. The air coming in the windows smells like it's going to rain.

Read this, from over a year ago: aje.io/6eu9x6 And sign this: forms.gle/3mRwsAMdEA8n... #archaeology #archaeology🏺 #🏺 #eaa2025

Why archaeologists must speak up for Gaza

Archaeology is often a mechanism of power. As such, its scholars have an obligation to speak up against oppression.

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This seems useful

Gender Census@gendercensus.bsky.social · last yr.

The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025! survey.gendercensus.com It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.

The first 18 jars/7 roosters. Stewed then pressure canned Every moment today is a prayer: let everyone have this abundance. Let all regimes complicit in starving people crumble. Let everyone live and heal Ahmed and Leo gofund.me/7dc704d7 Rafif chuffed.org/project/1330... Maryam gofund.me/1032b5b6

I've been ultra overcapacity, and will continue to be next week. Last week was drs appts, this week was loading the roostermobile for butcher, next week is animals to the vet. I'm very lucky Siri is there to keep me in bed otherwise. It would be lonely and awful otherwise. #DisabledHomesteading

Been having serious trouble cognitively so no alt text, so no pictures. Sigh.

Scouring cotton shirts (white cotton really is as gross as they say), picking scentless chamomile flowers, and simmering them. Then tannin and alum, then dyeing. I like working with linen way better but this was an experiment. #NaturalDyeing #UseYourWeeds #DyeExperiments

I'm mostly ok with "people being wrong on the Internet" EXCEPT folks who share suicide hotline memes without fact checking them. Someone fighting to live may have only enough energy to make one call, and if they're taking that number from your post it better be accurate. Your false info can kill.

I'm always very grateful to my past self for making crates exciting snack sources for several weeks a year kinda randomly. It makes getting the cats to the vet so much easier, they line up to go in. Except Demon, who's a problem. 🐈🐱😸 #GoodAnimalCare #ThinkingAhead #Cats

I have a second slime mold! It's neat when new creatures come to live here. Especially when they're an indicator of some middle stages of biomass breakdown. #FungusID please? 💛🌱

I'm going to call this row of winter wheat a success and plant some more. 🌱 #NorthernGardening #WheatExperiments

Trellises slowly going up. It's very hard on my body but hopefully they stay there once they're in. 7 for tomatoes, 2 for actinidia kolomikta. Concrete reinforcing wire or cattle panels plus t-posts. I may have dislocated my pinkie slightly. 🌱 #NorthernGardening #DisabledGardener #MyHappyPlace

When I moved here, the first summer the yard was full of clover and the scent of its flowers filled the air. My geese pick the flowers off and mow it short, so one gardening goal was to return areas of clover to the property Success 🌱 #PollinatorGardening #WildGardening #NorthernGardening

Between sealing the house for wildfire smoke and our multi year drought, it's been many years since I've seen mosquitoes swarming on the outside of a window screen. Years, too, since I got blackfly bites in my own yard. youtu.be/qjLBXb1kgMo #NorthernBC #AYearWithRain

The blackfly song

YouTube video by Rob van Vliet

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🍝Our next PAASTA Seminar Series talk will be next week Wednesday 02 July at 15:00 CET! 🍝 @mirandaevans.bsky.social will be presenting "The Proteomics of Pottery: What can dirty dishes tell us about ancient diet and cuisine?" As always, DM us for the Zoom link to join!

Then a road crew. Never gonna complain about someone fixing the road but it's not a quiet morning.

There's a rooster crowing on my front deck outside my bedroom window. They're not really supposed to be there.

More garden pictures: the wild columbine is starting, the aspen borers progress, somehow the birds didn't eat all my sweet ciciley and it's about to flower-- but as you see they loved the borage right beside it. Apparently the ducks are the only animal that can kill borage. 🌱 #NorthernGardening

Puppies playing, my pineappleweed lawn, and the river of chives (geese don't eat chives). 🌱

I just want 'ai' to go away. The simultaneous widespread poisoning of knowledge; attempt to end-run professions that cultivate critical thinking; and sucking the joy out of everything while ramming unwanted technology down our throats is so exhausting. I just can't anymore.

I'm delighted to present this Science special issue on Plants and Heat! Through a series of Reviews and Perspective articles, covering topics from cell signalling to ecology there is something for everyone here. (1/8)

Science Magazine@science.org · last yr.

As the world warms, plants in natural ecosystems and agricultural settings find ways to respond to the heat. In a new special issue of Science, researchers examine how heat affects plants at multiple scales, from the molecular level to the biosphere. scim.ag/44cSw3Z

We have three interlinked issues right now in Canada: lack of services/care for disabled folks, a really easy to access assisted dying program, and newly expanded forcible incarceration for addicted folks. It's a real and dangerous problem.

Kelly@broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · last yr.

Whatever your personal beliefs on Assisted Dying, we should all be able to agree on 2 fundamentals: No means no. If a patient doesn’t want it, end of discussion. It should never be offered in lieu of care or social supports. If it is, it’s not compassion. It’s eugenics 🧵

Everyone likes my winter wheat.