Seems I'm 4 for 4 in voting for the less popular choice in each match -- I won't spoil which that is in this round of #MinCup25 in hopes you join me in voting for it (:

looking at dishwashers (the circulation pump on ours broke after ten years, and while I could probably do the replacement myself, I don't like to mess with water) and do major brands just not employ copy editors anymore?

Y'all can call me the Super Sniffer, 'cause I just caught the tiniest gas leak in our water heater and detected a refrigerant leak in our mini split that no one else could smell a few weeks ago.

This is the hardest choice for me yet -- I have to go with #taenite here because Widmanstätten patterns are my favourite material phenomena (what better collision of my materials science and astro engineering backgrounds?) #MinCup25

Molybdenite all the way! Who can resist what I like to think of as fool's silver? #MinCup25

Was watching Spider-Man (2002) last night & I respect the hell out of J. Jonah Jameson locking down and protecting his sources (Peter Parker) when he's literally being strangled by Green Goblin for the name of Spidey's photog. That kind of integrity is so refreshing.

very sad i didn't learn about the Mineral Cup until partway through round 2!!! Gotta go with titanite here even as a space nerd, i'm a sucker for that green #MinCup25

How to sidle

Or that it will become one of your greatest regrets...

no one warns you that one of the most fulfilling moments as a parent is showing/playing your toddler Gangnam Style for the first time

Last night's version of this was walking into my shower and finding two rock hard, partially eaten waffles and three nibbled-on veggie straws on the bench.

#justengineerthings gotta make sure my descriptions of two people swinging on a rope in this fantasy novel obey Newtonian physics #writing

LOOK AT MY PRECIOUS SONNNN

if i ever stop reposting disco elysium bot posts, then i'm probably dead

Reminder that generative AI, particularly in the arts, isn't a long-term inevitability just because billionaires want it to be.

INSULINDIAN PHASMID - And when you fall we will come to raise you up, bud from you, banner-like, blossom from you and carry you apart in a sky funeral. In honour of your passing. (But not me, because I am just a leaf eater.)

My 2mo daughter has excellent taste; the song that immediately makes her stop crying open.spotify.com/track/3UYxIE...

YOU - Are you the miracle? INSULINDIAN PHASMID - No. You are the miracle. CONCEPTUALIZATION - It was you. Coming from the west. From the Whirling. You were coming…

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Fired version of the commission prize for K'Andra, who won the @blackinastro.bsky.social Art Contest! ✨

WHAT HO, FRIENDS, guess who has preorder links! and just in time for @barnesandnoble.com's preorder sale preorder my upcoming cozy horror, THE LORD OF THE WOOD, for 25% off through tomorrow with code PREORDER25 (U.S. Rewards & Premium Members only) www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-lord-o...

I don't fully grok Instagram, but I finally made an author account (www.instagram.com/gwen.vines) and would love to connect to other bookish folks over there! Now, time to make a Meet the Author post... #booksky #writingcommunity #writing

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YOU - What am I doing? SHIVERS - Looking up at the sky, cold water dripping from your hair. YOU - What do I see? SHIVERS - Grey sky like great battleships, clouds colliding with one another. Rain falls down on the world.

My dudes, it's literally insane and borderline criminal this Kickstarter isn't full funded with ONLY THREE DAYS remianing. @jesselonergan.bsky.social book FASTER is a brilliant piece of comicking worth ALL of your time and money! Check it out! Support! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bul...

Don’t think I will ever read a better writer genesis story than this one from Ray Bradbury. Pure magic. Live forever, Ray. You inspired me as well when I was 12.

“For many, the idea of a ‘frog sauna’ might sound bizarre,” but this simple solution is saving some Australian frogs from a deadly fungus. [nature.com]

what happens to shrimp when Bash gets ahold of them

Rev on her way to the Hive

In no particular order: Tokyo, Berlin, NYC, London, Boston (honourable mentions to Toronto and San Diego)

my son's latest obsession is sweeping, and about twenty times a day he toddles over with the broom and dustpan and throws them at me and yells until I sweep for him. i feel like cinderella

Slightly diminish a band: Thou Probably Should Not

Growing up, the only comics my library had were one shelf of Tintin and Asterix books. I read the crap out of both, and both made it onto my map of artistic influences that I put together a few years back. Honestly could not pick only one.

just wrote a scene with a character wearing essentially exactly this, thank you for the reference

My 21 mo toddler loves chocobos and when asked what they say, goes "KWEH!" 🥰

STOP MAKING ME WANT TO DROP EVERYTHING AND WRITE THE SOLBOOK RIGHT NOW, VANESSA

we just finished watching Dad of Light before it leaves Netflix at the end of the month, and a) my heart! MY HEART! give me all the father son stories! b) dangerous to make me miss FFXIV this much

Google Docs for drafting (though that may change) and Word for late-stage edits. I've used Scrivener some for outlines but I've never really gotten the hang of it.

jazzed to finish writing Revbook so I can get some beta feedback on it 😍

any fountain pen enjoyers going to the DC Pen Show should track down @pippki.bsky.social and buy her amazing custom dice for a taste of a different form of delicious resin art~

You're sitting on a kicksled, whizzing through the snow. A warm, kind presence is guiding the sled behind you, her mittened hand resting on your back. You feel very, very loved -- and very, very safe.

it used to be when i couldn't find my wallet but hadn't left my house recently that i could rest assured that i'd eventually find it however i have a toddler now that wallet is gone forever

Forensic Anthropology. It very nearly made me go for a masters in forensic science, except I would've needed two sems of orgo & it was already senior fall. My foranth prof actually encouraged me to get my PhD in astro eng b/c I kept asking him weird questions about bodies in space for my webcomic...

an urban sketch at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA #urbansketchers #urbansketching

No. This is somewhere to be. This is all you have, but it's still something. Streets and sodium lights. The sky, the world. You're still alive.

I ate too many banana chips and gave myself a tummyache, AMA

Disco Elysium has the best writing of any video game, and better writing than many books. 💖

My toddler is obsessed with dancing to Frou Frou. Details has been playing on ye olde boombox on repeat for days. 2002 me is living the dream. (Anyone else remember THAT RahXephon AMV set to Must Be Dreaming?)

SHIVERS - In a little alley next to Boogie street, a man in stained overalls steps out of a workshop for a cigarette. His hands are bruised and soaked with motor oil and dirt. He breathes smoke out of his nostrils and closes his eyes. The next five minutes are his and his alone.