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Erin Greenstorm
@greenstormblue.bsky.social
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I grow things. Always have, always will. Currently growing and breeding mainly tomatoes, corn and apples way up north with a bunch of cats, dogs and geese. Also pottery & poetry often fall out of me. Neither my brain nor body obey cultural norms. 🇨🇦
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greenstormblue.bsky.social
Sometimes we all need a snuggle.

#Maremma #Akbash #LGD #ProtectorOfFieldAndHeart
A huge white dog with her head on her owner's hand, stretched out longer than the pair of sweatpants-clad legs next to her.
November 13, 2025 at 3:07 AM
greenstormblue.bsky.social
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
A snowy semi-wooded scene with some very healthy deer hanging out not far away A stripey buff-and-red striped mug with a black-and-copper glaze on the rim and an ear-shaped handle A pile of a dozen buff-and-red striped mugs at the bisque stage, not yet glazed. Manta have ear or curl-shaped handles Grey-and-brown striped freshly-thrown mug bodies, still wet and not yet handled
November 10, 2025 at 6:26 AM
greenstormblue.bsky.social
Got some bell beaker and double bump mugs coming along. Coming back after a summer of gardening, slowly.

#PlainsmanCoffeeClay #Mugs #ThrowingOffTheHump #Pottery
A group of roughly 9 unfinished mugs in a ceramics studio, waiting for handles. Some are roughly bell beaker shape while two have a double-bump, waisted form.
August 25, 2025 at 5:56 AM
greenstormblue.bsky.social
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
A tall mug with vertical stripes of glaze forming a rainbow around its outside A tall mug with vertical stripes of glaze forming a rainbow around the outside A tall mug with vertical stripes of glaze forming a rainbow around the outside
August 25, 2025 at 5:54 AM
greenstormblue.bsky.social
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.
a11yawareness.bsky.social Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · Aug 25
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.
August 25, 2025 at 5:49 AM
greenstormblue.bsky.social
A mug with woodgrain carving, the word resist carved into a knothole.
August 22, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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idaolson.bsky.social
Hashtag Villain Era. #pottery #art
A handmade pottery mug in my hand that reads YOU SHOULD SMILE MORE and has a black jack-o’-lantern face. The photo is black and white.
August 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
greenstormblue.bsky.social
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.
An orange cat sprawled comfortably on a blue blanket An orange cat and a black cat cuddled together next to a blanketed human
August 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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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.
aje.io
August 9, 2025 at 12:25 PM
greenstormblue.bsky.social
This seems useful
gendercensus.bsky.social Gender Census @gendercensus.bsky.social · Jul 30
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.
Title: Gender Census 2025. Text: If you can't easily put yourself into just one of these two boxes, you are invited to take part. Illustration: Two boxes, each with photos of relevant dictionary pages.
August 4, 2025 at 4:34 AM
greenstormblue.bsky.social
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
A giant pot outside on a propane ring full of onions, carrots, celery, water, and seven rooster carcasses. A big 18-jar canner outdoors on a propane ring, gathering pressure
August 4, 2025 at 2:50 AM
greenstormblue.bsky.social
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
A long box pickup truck with all eight feet of box fully loaded with tarped poultry crates, the crates mostly full of donated roosters for a year's supply of meat. An orange cat pancakes contentedly on a pair of blanket-clad legs resting on a bed. An orange cat nestles on a contented-looking human's chest, perhaps asleep.
August 2, 2025 at 2:32 AM
greenstormblue.bsky.social
Been having serious trouble cognitively so no alt text, so no pictures. Sigh.
A field full of white daisy-looking flowers, actually scentless chamomile, with the sun setting in a wash of warm light over it and dark conifers silhouetted against the bright sky
July 31, 2025 at 3:23 AM
greenstormblue.bsky.social
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
A big cauldron of streaming water full of white cloth. The water is yellowish. A big cauldron full of sudsy water. The water is distinctly yellow. A large pot full of white flowers with yellow centers -- scentless chamomile. A pot full of wilted white flowers with yellow centers simmered in water and wilty
July 10, 2025 at 3:59 AM
greenstormblue.bsky.social
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.
July 2, 2025 at 3:33 PM
greenstormblue.bsky.social
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
An orange cat in a cat carrier, the door open, while a black cat waits outside the carrier for his chance to get in
July 2, 2025 at 4:40 AM
greenstormblue.bsky.social
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?

💛🌱
A yellow-orange mass of tiny textured bubbles rises out of a pile of wood chips and begins to coalesce into a smooth surface. It's probably the dog's vomit slime mold.
July 1, 2025 at 5:18 AM
greenstormblue.bsky.social
I'm going to call this row of winter wheat a success and plant some more.

🌱

#NorthernGardening #WheatExperiments
A tall row of wheat just about finished pushing out its green ears, five feet tall. A dog is mostly screened by the wheat
July 1, 2025 at 2:37 AM
greenstormblue.bsky.social
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
Rows of young tomato plants. One row has a trellis, one row has a wobbly trellis partly in place, the last row has no trellis yet A weedy garden with a row of young tomatoes under a trellis, some tomatoes mulched with straw, and some garden boxes with broccoli and kale growing in them Two parallel rows of wood chips marked out with pink flags down the center of a garden, with barely visible baby kiwis planted in the wood chips A contraption of dairy crates and boards protecting tried of tomatoes. The frost cloth has just come off the boards in preparation for trellises going in, and the chenopodium weeds are luxurious and almost hide the tomatoes
July 1, 2025 at 2:34 AM
greenstormblue.bsky.social
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
A tall, lush growth of white and and balansa clover in a field with trees in the background. A tall, lush growth of white and and balansa clover in a field with a fence in the background and a narrow path barely visible through it
July 1, 2025 at 2:23 AM
greenstormblue.bsky.social
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
youtu.be
June 30, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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paastacommunity.bsky.social
🍝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!
June 26, 2025 at 10:40 AM
greenstormblue.bsky.social
Then a road crew. Never gonna complain about someone fixing the road but it's not a quiet morning.
June 25, 2025 at 4:49 PM
greenstormblue.bsky.social
There's a rooster crowing on my front deck outside my bedroom window. They're not really supposed to be there.
June 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
greenstormblue.bsky.social
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
A bee visiting a wild columbine flower The distinctive microchip-looking silver paths of the aspen leaf borer taking up roughly half of the surface of several aspen leaves Ferny tall foliage of the sweet ciciley plant, topped with unripe seeds A wire frame placed over a comfrey plant, which has been nibbled nearly flush to the ground and only stopped by the wire
June 20, 2025 at 2:21 AM