Had a mostly successful glaze firing. Found some new glazes I'm satisfied with including a good midfire red that I've been questing for for a while now.

As you all know lemm.ee is shutting down. Since this community has all of like 4 posts mostly by me, I'm just going to let it close and try to move to ![email protected]. It is even less active than here and I don't know the state of it's moderation but I'll try my future posts there for a while and if it doesn't work out maybe we can start the community again on a new instance (probably piefed.social).

The tankie try-not-to-be-a-raging-class-reductionist-queerphobe challenge: impossible.

I always got the sense when talking to class reductionist tankies that they were simply thinly veiling their bigotry and the "no war but class war" was just a way they could try to appeal to others while redirecting away from their own abhorrent beliefs. Just another example that tankies aren't really that different from MAGAts.

They want to bring together the working class of the left and the right but only on the social terms of the right since they know they can't challenge their bigotry and still win their votes. So instead they want us to shut up about our struggle for rights and only mention what they deem the "correct" struggle.

Decided to take a family photo of the pieces I accumulated (including a few a friend made) to fire in my bisque kiln (my first real firing with my own kiln) in case some didn't make it. I'm glad to say all the pieces survived and the next stage is glazing.

I'm curious if anyone came to homesteading from a traditional career. How did you start? How much did land cost you? What are your monthly costs and do you have an income that can sustain them?

Racist woman calls a little autistic black boy the n-word and gets $300K as a reward from other racist hillbilly pieces of shit.

Without paywall: https://archive.ph/Numam

I’m looking into getting an instant camera. I was drawn to the Fujifilm Instax cameras but it looks like the instant film for it can come out to $2 a photo which is pretty expensive imo.

I want this to take small color photos for journaling/scrapbooking/logging and may need to take a lot of photos at once (i.e. logging results of glazes on a ton of test tiles).

Also I don’t really care if it’s true analog or a digital camera that just prints out, but it does need to be color.

Anyone have any good reccs?

Trump’s tariff reversal came after he watched an interview on Fox Business with JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, during which the bank boss said that a recession was a “likely outcome” of the new trade policies, according to the Washington Post.

Trump was asked by a reporter on Wednesday when he decided to put a pause on the tariffs.

“I would say this morning. Over the last few days, I’ve been thinking about it. Fairly early this morning,” he said.

I keep trying to learn to draw but I simply suck at it no matter what. I’d love to learn how to draw all kinds of things like architectural drawings, or cute designs, etc. But I can barely even copy something if I have the picture right in front of me.

I’d like to take a class that teaches the basics of drawing that I could follow along with using Procreate or something. Does anyone have good recommendations for someone who seems unable to gain any proficiency at drawing?

One of my life goals is to own an Airstream or something similar that I can renovate. However we live in an urban area with no place to park it. I do eventually want to own an acreage in a desirable place but that goal is much further off but I would like to start on my Airstream goal a little sooner.

The typical option is rent a space to park it. I can afford it but this feels like throwing money away especially since I have no control over the rent cost, if I'd get kicked out eventually, or maybe I just don't get around to working on the Airstream that often. The timeline of renting is indefinite also.

The other option is buying some land on the cheap if possible. This wouldn't be my dream land. Maybe just a lot somewhere I could park it. I would want to get rid of the land at some point to fund the purchase of my dream land and am wondering if there is some major risk to this? Or is it a good investment?

I'd imagine paying all cash for it.

They will find you and swarm if their "liberal senses" tingle from anywhere.

Found on a lemmy.zip post. These posts all happened within an hour of each other so there is definitely some coordination happening if not outright botting.

We often think lots of animals are cute. Do some animals think humans are cute?

First time I'm trying coil building. It's definitely more relaxing than the wheel and I feel like I can make more organic shapes. Also I'm not skilled enough to get this size on the wheel yet.

We'll see if this survives two kiln firings.

I have my Lemmy settings to show both upvotes and downvotes and that has been working in Mlem as of yesterday but for some reason I don't see them anymore. I double checked my settings on lemm.ee the site and it seems to be configured correctly. Why was this removed?

Democrats today are more likely to say they want their party to become moderate than they were four years ago, according to a Gallup poll published Thursday. The survey, conducted in the first week of President Trump’s second term, gauged partisan preferences on the ideological direction of respondents’ respective parties. Among Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents, 45 percent say they want their party to become more moderate, while 29 percent say they want the party to become more liberal, and 22 percent say they want the party to stay the same.

Haven't figured out how to make imgur posts show images on Lemmy yet.

These are some mugs i made a while back. Still trying to find my process. I drew the linework on Affinity Designer on the iPad and printed out the line work. Used a pencil to scratch out the line work and further carved it. Then painted with underglaze then brushed clear glaze on top after bisquing.

I think I would forgo the clear next time.

Learned my lesson. Will never do that again even though my boss’s boss told me to.

I’m officially quiet quitting and changed my LinkedIn to Open To Work, because fuck this job. The market sucks though so I’ll have to just fly under the radar for a few months until something better pops up.

I hate the fact that I have to work, and I’m just saving up enough money till I can get to the point where I can get some land and be self-sufficient on it.

I feel like I've dealt with some utterly uncalled for behavior from people at work recently. Like them blowing up at me about something if I'm just asking a polite question, etc.

I just tell myself "maybe they're having a bad day".

But I think about myself. I have bad days too. I never let it get to the point where I'm exploding at someone. I extricate myself from the situation, maybe fume about it privately, but I don't go on a rampage or yell at someone. In any rare case where I do end up letting a bit slip out I always apologize for it.

These people NEVER apologize to me for their outbursts. Why am I the only one walking on eggshells and trying to maintain professionalism, politeness, and kindess with people who seem to make no effort to regulate their own stress.

Someone having a bad day isn't an excuse to be bad human being with zero consequences. But it seems these people can get away with it because of how much power they hold in the company.

I honestly don't think I have it in me to as rude as some of these people so I'll probably just swallow their rudeness until the next time it happens while continuing to try to be kind and polite.

Have others had similar experiences?

PETG has always been more fraught than PLA for me but as of late it just looks like a mess.

I'm just trying to do calibration at this point and I'm getting this mess on the pressure advance test in Orca Slicer.

https://imgur.com/a/zbEn5FR

I get so much stringing, boogers, and just terrible prints. It didn't used to be this bad. Any tips?

I'm using a Snapmaker Artisan.

I'm a dumbass and had someone come out and install a 240v outlet (and 120v). The reason I'm a dumbass is I didn't measure and had them install it in a place it wouldn't work for the appliance I am using.

I need to move the outlet a lot closer to the breaker box so I won't need additional wire or material, less actually.

I'm debating doing this myself. I technically have an EE degree but my day job is primarily coding, and any electronics I've worked on are usually the micro variety. I am aware of all the electrical safety requirements and in terms of technicality/connections, I think I just need to copy what has already been done but just remove a bunch of wire and place the outlet closer.

Do you think this is something I could take on myself with some research? My brother-in-law is also a proper electrician and I can facetime him.

Or do you think I should just ask the guys who installed it back and have them do it?