Snapchick
@snapchick.bsky.social
Ceramics Instructor, photographer, traveler, baker, fan of ghosts and abandoned places, and beholden to a cat named Princess
Crowdfunding for Clay Sanctuary: https://igg.me/at/ClaySanctuary/x/37848096#/
Crowdfunding for Clay Sanctuary: https://igg.me/at/ClaySanctuary/x/37848096#/
Please vote today, especially if you are a Virginian.
November 4, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Please vote today, especially if you are a Virginian.
I bought the tools needed to can/preserve food a while back. It took until tonight for me to make my first jam. Hopefully I did it right and won't kill anyone with botulism. I made a little too much and mixed a few spoonfuls into some plain yogurt. It was amazing.
October 17, 2025 at 4:31 AM
I bought the tools needed to can/preserve food a while back. It took until tonight for me to make my first jam. Hopefully I did it right and won't kill anyone with botulism. I made a little too much and mixed a few spoonfuls into some plain yogurt. It was amazing.
My frustrations are getting to me.
Commercial real estate in this market is ridiculous.
Everything is garbage, it seems.
I just want to make things with clay, pet the cats, take a nap, and wake up to a better world.
Commercial real estate in this market is ridiculous.
Everything is garbage, it seems.
I just want to make things with clay, pet the cats, take a nap, and wake up to a better world.
October 12, 2025 at 2:54 PM
My frustrations are getting to me.
Commercial real estate in this market is ridiculous.
Everything is garbage, it seems.
I just want to make things with clay, pet the cats, take a nap, and wake up to a better world.
Commercial real estate in this market is ridiculous.
Everything is garbage, it seems.
I just want to make things with clay, pet the cats, take a nap, and wake up to a better world.
What are your strategies for managing this incredible amount of stress, dread, and anger? The healthy ways, I mean.
I got the doomscrolling, no sleep, avoiding all the things I need to do - down.
I got the doomscrolling, no sleep, avoiding all the things I need to do - down.
September 25, 2025 at 8:26 PM
What are your strategies for managing this incredible amount of stress, dread, and anger? The healthy ways, I mean.
I got the doomscrolling, no sleep, avoiding all the things I need to do - down.
I got the doomscrolling, no sleep, avoiding all the things I need to do - down.
It has been a while since I took Amtrak to Chicago in coach… I don’t remember getting assigned to a seat and forbidden from changing. I am so looking forward to my roomette when I change trains.
August 16, 2025 at 12:48 AM
It has been a while since I took Amtrak to Chicago in coach… I don’t remember getting assigned to a seat and forbidden from changing. I am so looking forward to my roomette when I change trains.
Deep breath. It’s Week 3, the last week of session 1 of Pottery Summer camp. Session 2, and another 3 weeks immediately follows. IMO - School Teachers do not make enough money or get enough respect. I don’t know how they do this for the school year.
July 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Deep breath. It’s Week 3, the last week of session 1 of Pottery Summer camp. Session 2, and another 3 weeks immediately follows. IMO - School Teachers do not make enough money or get enough respect. I don’t know how they do this for the school year.
I had to get up earlier than usual this morning and found myself with free time - so I wrote a bunch of #PostcardsForVoters and hope you guys can find the time to do that once in a while, too.
July 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I had to get up earlier than usual this morning and found myself with free time - so I wrote a bunch of #PostcardsForVoters and hope you guys can find the time to do that once in a while, too.
My original Friday plans got all shaken up - for good reasons - but instead of an appointment and then a few hours having a spa day I now have five different very important tasks/errands and am anxious about it. I realize now I can't handle more than two things in a day before I start to spin.
June 27, 2025 at 5:51 AM
My original Friday plans got all shaken up - for good reasons - but instead of an appointment and then a few hours having a spa day I now have five different very important tasks/errands and am anxious about it. I realize now I can't handle more than two things in a day before I start to spin.
Retaking a long since expired CPR and First Aid certification course. There are knowledge assessments. I apparently remember how to do the actual CPR, but don’t know how to do any of the other protocols properly… On my way to fixing that. Although I’d argue I know how to do the important part.
June 20, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Retaking a long since expired CPR and First Aid certification course. There are knowledge assessments. I apparently remember how to do the actual CPR, but don’t know how to do any of the other protocols properly… On my way to fixing that. Although I’d argue I know how to do the important part.
I *did* have us going into WW3 on my bingo card.
June 17, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I *did* have us going into WW3 on my bingo card.
I don't even have words for the feelings I have about what is happening and likely about to happen.
I hope people are safe.
I hope people are safe.
June 8, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I don't even have words for the feelings I have about what is happening and likely about to happen.
I hope people are safe.
I hope people are safe.
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NEW: The US government has collected DNA samples from 133,000+ migrant children and teenagers and uploaded them into CODIS, a national criminal database originally built for convicted sex offenders and violent criminals, according to documents reviewed by WIRED.
The US Is Storing Migrant Children’s DNA in a Criminal Database
Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.
www.wired.com
May 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
NEW: The US government has collected DNA samples from 133,000+ migrant children and teenagers and uploaded them into CODIS, a national criminal database originally built for convicted sex offenders and violent criminals, according to documents reviewed by WIRED.
I renewed my passport and the new one is kind of odd to me. One of the pages is hard plastic and looks like an overgrown ID card.
May 28, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I renewed my passport and the new one is kind of odd to me. One of the pages is hard plastic and looks like an overgrown ID card.
In addition to a bunch of people needing to look up the McCarthy era, they apparently also need to look up Reagan and Star Wars Program.
May 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
In addition to a bunch of people needing to look up the McCarthy era, they apparently also need to look up Reagan and Star Wars Program.
TIL that a whole bunch of people don't know about the McCarthy era.
May 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
TIL that a whole bunch of people don't know about the McCarthy era.
If one can be overwhelmed, and underwhelmed, can one be just whelmed?
May 19, 2025 at 2:25 AM
If one can be overwhelmed, and underwhelmed, can one be just whelmed?
I need to photograph some pottery TONIGHT, re-work some financials for my bank, and submit a crap ton of paperwork to the prospective landlord for the commercial property. All I want to do is curl up and disengage from the world for a while. I also wish I could sleep for more than four hours.
May 18, 2025 at 2:50 AM
I need to photograph some pottery TONIGHT, re-work some financials for my bank, and submit a crap ton of paperwork to the prospective landlord for the commercial property. All I want to do is curl up and disengage from the world for a while. I also wish I could sleep for more than four hours.
The microburst storm that went through yesterday is having lasting impact in our immediate area. Fortunately we are unscathed aside from a few minor power blinks which take the internet with it, briefly. Many others are not so fortunate. trees behind our house scared us, certain they’d fall on us.
May 18, 2025 at 2:48 AM
The microburst storm that went through yesterday is having lasting impact in our immediate area. Fortunately we are unscathed aside from a few minor power blinks which take the internet with it, briefly. Many others are not so fortunate. trees behind our house scared us, certain they’d fall on us.
My AirPods have decided to start acting up. The left one crackles constantly. I’ve cleaned it and nothing. I really can’t buy a replacement now, so I hope this gets resolved.
May 17, 2025 at 1:03 AM
My AirPods have decided to start acting up. The left one crackles constantly. I’ve cleaned it and nothing. I really can’t buy a replacement now, so I hope this gets resolved.
I need to take a media break, I think.
Everything I’m reading is stressing me out. I *know* there is a lot of crazy stuff happening, but I am getting lost in the despair.
Everything I’m reading is stressing me out. I *know* there is a lot of crazy stuff happening, but I am getting lost in the despair.
May 12, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I need to take a media break, I think.
Everything I’m reading is stressing me out. I *know* there is a lot of crazy stuff happening, but I am getting lost in the despair.
Everything I’m reading is stressing me out. I *know* there is a lot of crazy stuff happening, but I am getting lost in the despair.
Meteorologists have started posting about how the US weather models have dropped in accuracy - assuming it is based on NOAA and NWS cuts. The mouth breathers respond: I have a weather app on my phone I don’t need NOAA, NWS, or your ‘librul’ data models. Where TF do you think an app gets the info?
May 12, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Meteorologists have started posting about how the US weather models have dropped in accuracy - assuming it is based on NOAA and NWS cuts. The mouth breathers respond: I have a weather app on my phone I don’t need NOAA, NWS, or your ‘librul’ data models. Where TF do you think an app gets the info?
Anyone else adding India / Pakistan to the list of things keeping them awake at night?
May 7, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Anyone else adding India / Pakistan to the list of things keeping them awake at night?
My cat has a favorite pillow. She threw up on it yesterday so it was removed from its spot on our bed and washed, is now drying. She is looking for the pillow and crying. I’m trying to explain that this is her fault and wondering who is sillier right now.
May 6, 2025 at 12:52 PM
My cat has a favorite pillow. She threw up on it yesterday so it was removed from its spot on our bed and washed, is now drying. She is looking for the pillow and crying. I’m trying to explain that this is her fault and wondering who is sillier right now.
What do you think the vanity license plate: PKL ZDDY means?
May 3, 2025 at 5:33 PM
What do you think the vanity license plate: PKL ZDDY means?
I haven’t taken Amtrak in 20+ years. What should I bring for a cross-country trip? Most of that in a roomette, some in coach.
April 28, 2025 at 6:58 AM
I haven’t taken Amtrak in 20+ years. What should I bring for a cross-country trip? Most of that in a roomette, some in coach.