It's just a little guy standing in front of #MinCup25 asking you to love it 🥺🦄💫 Dorky #ForbiddenJellyBaby #Dioptase needs a votes push to the end! Squishy #hug time, get your yummy candy here! 🫂 It's a silly cyclosilicate resident of #Oz #ForbiddenCandy #TheWizardOfOz #turquoise #meme

NEW: Sen. Tammy Duckworth is calling for Pete Hegseth to resign. "If this PR stunt proved anything, it's that the best thing Pete Hegseth can do to strengthen our military is resign in disgrace immediately."

STOP DOING THIS PEOPLE

Does our Secretary of Defense know that you can't actually just quit the military in the US? Like you can't just do that?

People of Illinois, we need your help. Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

RIP to a legend

Team Dioptase is catching up! Let's cheer on the desert emerald in lieu of beryl not being on here anyway. Please vote properly. I don't need yet another broken heart via cheating.

Having kind of a shitty day full of insecurities and loneliness, and then my frickin' order from Japan got cancelled because it sold out before the proxy got to it. So I'm just going to let myself be mad and sad all of tomorrow if I want.

Gotta be dioptase for me today. It's prettier, and also tugtupite took out perovskite and I'm still kinda salty about it. The nice, soothing phthalo color...copper makes for lovely minerals.

Having kind of a shitty day full of insecurities and loneliness, and then my frickin' order from Japan got cancelled because it sold out before the proxy got to it. So I'm just going to let myself be mad and sad all of tomorrow if I want.

Gotta be dioptase for me today. It's prettier, and also tugtupite took out perovskite and I'm still kinda salty about it. The nice, soothing phthalo color...copper makes for lovely minerals.

Me at 2:30am: Mmm, feeling sleepy. Think it's naptime... No. It is bedtime. It is just bedtime. Go to sleep.

I know it's a lost battle, but I do still flinch whenever I see the word "cishet."

If Kyanite wins Min Cup this year, I'm having words with the Manager Of Fate.

a creator may seem omnipresent to you and as a result it may be obvious to the creator of their own presence but I promise you that is not the case. it's kind of crickets behind the glass and creators kind of have to learn to self-motivate on silence

We need a bigger tent, that’s why we must betray and expel the following types of people:

Feeling tired, fatigued, headaches and restless legs? Get some iron in your diet and vote #Hematite!

Hematite is our last rock with a solid connection to space (Mars). Save it!

Why do people get SO WEIRD about other people’s sobriety

I feel naive just writing this, but a president threatening to withhold funding to a city unless it elects his preferred candidate for mayor seems like the sort of thing that shouldn't be legal.

For the record: That area is one of the most affluent neighborhoods in the Midwest. It's where you'll find Chanel, Prada, Dolce and Gabbana, etc. retail stores. In case anyone still thinks they're targeting gangs & criminals.

this business model should be flatly illegal taking on a bunch of debt to buy a company and then burning the company to the ground to service that debt while paying yourselves huge fees is a purely destructive practice that has never once had a positive outcome ban it completely

Is there a single country in the world besides Japan that just goes "lol sorry, foreign credit card means no thanks" Like WHY

Vance has all the charisma of a cardboard box.

Edits are basically impossible when I look at all of my words in every project and see nothing but stilted balsa wood. SIGH.

It is actually peak absurdity that we still have people arguing that voters should bend to the positions of their political representatives instead of the other way around.

Please vote for dioptase, bc... it's just a little guy 🥺 www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r3... #MinCup25 #Dioptase

Okay, clicking the button isn’t the fun part of this game. The bracket is mostly fun for talking about minerals in goofy ways. Why must people keep doing this to my mineral choices and giving me hope.

Saw someone onnline say that we'll have more and more GenAI tools every year, limited only by our imagination. Okay. But consider: you don't have one.

All the space minerals are dying in this competition. Save one, friends. (It’s kosmochlor)

"We give our soldiers socialism to go abroad and defend capitalism"

I cannot express how wild this quote is. This is a top tech analyst at a well-regarded firm saying that there is not enough capital to actually pay for all the stuff that NVIDIA and OpenAI has promised. It is so important that everybody realizes that *there is not enough money to do this*

It’s 100% time to gird your loins and get your head ready to fight any government that tries to bail this out when it pops. This isn’t the banks, which are essential to everyone’s well-being. It’s not even a railroad or an insurance company, where failure would harm a subset. This isn’t essential.

All the space minerals are dying in this competition. Save one, friends. (It’s kosmochlor)

You had me at “meteorite-derived” and kept me at “apple coloured”. https://mastodon.social/@MineralCup/115273320423449034 #mincup25 #votekosmochlor #minerals #geoscience

I HAVE NO LUCK IN MIN CUP GOD

Why did I, a generally extremely fiscally responsible person, picked up a couple quick things from Jewel and walked out with a new mechanical pencil and two packs of .7 Pentel colored gel pens, even though my most frequently used pens are 01 (.25) Pigma Microns and I HAVE COLORED 01 PIGMA MICRONS.

The minerals eliminated in the second round of the #MinCup25 #minerals #sciart

💎 Never forget the ones who have fallen too soon 🥲 #MinCup25 #minerals #sciart

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

Happy Petrov Day to those who celebrate. On September 26, 1983, Stanislav Petrov made the correct decision to not trust a computer. I've attached a short clip from a reenactment of the situation in the documentary The Man Who Saved the World. 1/11

To those who send surface mail from or to Canada: Be aware that Canada Post is going on strike again. www.thestar.com/business/pos...

if you can help me (oh my god please help me) i have a glorified tip jar patreon (ive been doing co working two hour sessions and a monthly session for questions. this month i was going to play with the story engine so people could meet it) please don’t use the app they will take 30%

I have decided to back persovskite this year, for the technology of the future. Because what can I say, I’m a hopepunk, solarpunk kinda nerd.

Well done to all the workers who protested this. This is huge.

Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile is maybe the funniest thing we've ever done. We're now almost certainly going to lose money on it, but that's not the point. We just want it out there. We've also learned something: Make good art right now, and people will bust their ass to help you on short notice.

The reason we're releasing this in theatres is because it's incredibly fun to watch in a room full of people. People lose their minds at it. We want people to watch it together. So! Do you run or know somebody who runs an indie theatre? If so, contact us, and we'll let you screen it for free.

In the last few days, we've assembled independent theatres in LA, New York, San Francisco, Minneapolis and Chicago to air this thing. Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile will be in theatres on October 2nd after all, followed by the first theatrical screening of Sex House. It is going to be fun as hell.

In light of Canada's weird postal news, it occurs to me that I just. Trust the USPS. In ways I don't FedEx and UPS and such. Just on the most basic, fundamental level of being able to do their jobs. I just want a service I can trust, damn.

Shiny pretty rock...but Mars...but shiny pretty rock...but Mars. I have two wolves inside me and they are tearing me apart.