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he/them Hiawatha, Minneapolis, MN libraries, linguistics, nerdery, pottery, queer stuff avatar art by @sentencebender.bsky.social

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Bos inquit mu@benbos· Jun 22

Delian kitties, archaic and modern

a feral calico cat runs across a mosaic floor in the House of Dionysus in Delos. the mosaic has a border with a repeated wave pattern, and depicts Dionysus riding a tiger.

A feral grey cat hunting for food in front of one of Marble Lions on Delos.

Bos inquit mu@benbos· Jun 18

Türkiye is great if you like running into cats and antiquities. A+ would recommend.

A tabby and white cat, standing in the ruins of Ephesus in eastern Turkiye. right in front of the cat is a broken marble block with greek and latin carved into it.

Bos inquit mu@benbos· Jun 11

I love many things about Italy so far but I especially love the bar snacks with every drink. Why don't I get a small pile of fancy cheese when I order drinks stateside?

a negroni and a small pile of white hard cheese on a plate on a marble bar

Bos inquit mu@benbos· Jun 6

Just set my out of office message for the longest vacation I've ever had as an adult. ROMAM ITER FACIAM

Bos inquit mu@benbos· May 3

My grandma used to always get these for me when I was little and they are so much better than the caramel version. They have cycled in and out of being discontinued over my life, but I don't think they've made them in years.

a packet of Twix Creamy Peanut Butter cookie bars. the wrapper is dark red and gold.

Bos inquit mu@benbos· Feb 20

a comic with wolverine and jean grey singing "scotty doesn't know" about cyclops

Bos inquit mu@benbos· Feb 6

Hairs cut, gay powers restored, state ID renewed, caffe biaggio lunch as a reward for running errands

selfie. middleaged white guy with glasses and thinning brown hair. wearing an olive buttondown, sitting in front of brick

a champagne flute with a bellini in it on a cafe table

Bos inquit mu@benbos· Dec 9

I am generally pretty humbug, but the Jinkx and Dela Holiday show is about my level of Christmas spirit.

two drag queens, Jinkx Monsoon and Ben de la Creme, in pink sequin ms. santa costumes. They are both holding mics and in the middle of singing. two dancers in pink sequin leotards and ostrich plume caps are behind them.

Bos inquit mu@benbos· Nov 4

Walked through the neighborhood to the polling place, gorgeous fall day

selfie, I'm a middle aged white guy with a beard and moustache in a cream colored hat, a red and black flannel, and black plastic glasses. i have an i voted sticker

a picture of a tree with very bright yellow and orange fall colors

a street scene with orange and yellow leaves on the trees and sidewalk

Bos inquit mu@benbos· Oct 21

a mock-news item with a photo of the chantry exploding with the following text as a chyron:
BREAKING NEWS
ANDERS WAS RIGHT
Templars are gross and the chantry fucking sucks

Bos inquit mu@benbos· Oct 17

Day off, went to the friendly neighborhood queer barbershop for a trim and walked the 3ish miles home, stopping along the way for little treats. Trying to enjoy autumn while it's so gorgeous out.

a selfie of me: a balding 39-year-old white guy with black plastic glasses and a beard and moustache, wearing a brown hoodie and a blue tshirt. there are trees in the background.

a very gorgeous bright red maple tree at peak fall color, on the boulevard between the sidewalk and St. Clair Ave in St. Paul, MN.

Bos inquit mu@benbos· Oct 14

they make me think of these guys

wacky waving inflatable tube guy, normally seen on the sidewalk advertising a Presidents' Day mattress sale

Bos inquit mu@benbos· Jul 15

jesus christ, amy

screencap of a @historyinflicks tweet:
Conservatives: Let's round up Muslims and put them in camps.👏

Liberals HIRE 👏MORE 👏WOMEN 👏GUARDS 👏

Bos inquit mu@benbos· Jun 14

Cathedral of St Paul with the beginning of the march to the capitol. shot from the north on Kellogg

On the capitol grounds, too many people to get close enough to really see the building. there are many flags, including a split canadian/US

Bos inquit mu@benbos· Jun 10

If you see this, quote this post with your 4 favorite final fantasy characters

Bos inquit mu@benbos· May 20

I hate making mugs because I think handles are a pain in the ass, but they make better presents than most other stuff I can make, so I'm trying to get better.

a row of four unfired porcelain mugs on a wareboard. in the background is a pottery studio.

Bos inquit mu@benbos· May 8

"That is not something the women of my family aspire to anyway"

the headline and subhed of an article:
Young people
Cringe! How millennials became uncool
They are mocked by Gen Z for everything from their trainer socks to their mom jeans and selfie technique. A maligned millennial asks: how did we get here?
There is also a cartoon with a bunch of women doing stereotypical femme things and some other women looking at them disapprovingly. I think some of them are supposed to be Gen z and some millennials but to me that is only obvious from context and not the cartoon itself.

Bos inquit mu@benbos· May 3

Final Fantasy moments you never forget.

A screenshot of Final Fantasy 8, in the cutscene at the SeeD ball where Squall and Rinoa do the Waltz for the Moon.

Bos inquit mu@benbos· Apr 23

I wanted to test embossing writing in greenware and shading it in with underglaze, so I did a test with New York's iconic Gemma Collins rant from celebrity big brother. I got it back from bisque today, and found an anonymous note of appreciation from someone else in the pottery studio. ♥️

a small greenware porcelain cup. embossed on the side in all caps is New York's rant from Big Brother about Gemma Collins. I'm holding it in my hand, and there's a pottery studio in the background.

The same cup, still greenware, with black underglaze worked into the embossing, making it more readable.

the same cup, now out of bisque fire. there is a note scribbled on a scrap of newspaper: "THIS IS MAGNIFICENT. I love it and I love You, sight unseen. 😃"

Bos inquit mu@benbos· Apr 4

My natural instinct to pick the queer characters in media stays undefeated. Over the past two weeks I have been buying singles for my first commander deck in years because this card looked fun. They announced lore stuff today and I am happy to report that I subconsciously chose correctly. 🏳️‍⚧️😍🏳️‍⚧️

the magic the gathering card "Felothar the Steadfast" An armored woman sits in an armored saddle on the back of what looks like a purple alligator. She is pointing ahead of her. The rules text is not important for the skeet but it should be on scryfall if you're curious.

Bos inquit mu@benbos· Apr 1

It's very satisfying to make coffee in a mug i make for myself that I don't hate. This is the clear winner of the two I tried - I like how the handle worked out. I still do not understand how to size for porcelain shrinking, but it fits 8 oz of coffee and has room for foam so I'm calling it good.

A dark blue porcelain coffee mug with coffee and foam in it. It is sitting on a green metric cutting mat.

Bos inquit mu@benbos· Mar 28

"Iso"

a young white man roughly at age 21. I am lying in a hammock. A very happy and lazy tuxedo cat named Isosceles is in my arms, and is mostly asleep. I am wearing a blue shirt with a cow on it.

Bos inquit mu@benbos· Mar 26

I know it is very niche, but every time she and her white lock are in the news, I wish that the story is actually that someone is announcing a TV adaptation of the very terrible Anne McCaffrey Federated Teleport and Telepath books from the 90s and Tulsi is playing Damia Gwyn-Raven-Lyon.

screencap of a news article. Headline is "Tulsi Gabbard fires more than 100 Intelligence Officers over messages in a chat tool" and has a picture of Tulsi Gabbard. She is a middle aged South Asian woman with black hair that has one white lock, wearing white.

Bos inquit mu@benbos· Mar 15

@smith.senate.gov Hello Senator, I sent this to your site but since I'm asking you to speak publicly, I wanted to post it publicly as well.

A screenshot of the "share your opinion" part of Senator Tina Smith's website, with a letter from me:
Thank you!
Senator, thank you for voting no on cloture and the CR. It was important to try to stand up and fight.
I'm concerned because Chuck Schumer stated "I think my caucus and I are in sync, and everyone knew what I was doing and respected it." This gives the impression that you and the rest of Senate Democrats were complicit in Schumer's surrender, and only strategically chose which Senators would have to vote publicly for it.
I ask that you publicly denounce Schumer and his total surrender of any senate power, and call for new leadership in the caucus.

Bos inquit mu@benbos· Mar 13

i put two weather widgets on my phone a while ago to try to get more used to it.

screencap of an android phone. there are two weather apps - one in Celsius that says 11C and one in Fahrenheit that says 53F

Bos inquit mu@benbos· Mar 6

Have definitely had the best results in this pottery class so far with this persimmon glaze (which I don't mix but I think is colored with rutile and iron?). So much fun to play with the thinner coats being the rust color and the thicker parts being the indigo.

a handmade pottery bowl on a wooden table. the glaze is marbled dark blue and rusty orange.

a different but similar handmade pottery bowl on a wooden table. the glaze is dark blue and rusty orange, but more like stripes or rings than marbling

a small ceramic cup being held in hand. the inside has lines left from my fingers where it was thrown. it is in the same dark blue and rusty glaze, with the blue in the recessed parts and the rust on the ridges

a short ceramic bowl being held in my hand. the glaze has bit of the rusty orange color in the top right corner, woth the rest of the bowl in the deep blue

Bos inquit mu@benbos· Feb 27

Slowly trying to get more comfortable with porcelain. Trying out different handles. Feel completely unable to wrap my head around shrinkage rates yet and just kinda made them bigger than I thought I should.

two unfired porcelain mugs on a wareboard in a pottery studio

Bos inquit mu@benbos· Feb 6

Press F to pay respects to my favorite vase from the last kiln fire, which got a little too up close and personal with someone's mug and became conjoined permanently.

a small stoneware ceramic vace and a porcelain pottery mug. they bumped together in the kiln and fused together permanently.

Bos inquit mu@benbos· Jan 27

Bos inquit mu@benbos· Jan 17

Had a fun day throwing some pottery today, finally starting to work some of the cobwebs out after several months off