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Goodnight, friends. Set a goal for yourself: do at least one thing every day to build the world you want. Write. Call. Donate. Invite. Talk. Listen. Connect. Encourage. Read. Learn. Resist. Show up. The things you do need not be big. Small steps count. We're in this together. I love you.

@blu2b4u.bsky.social I am begging you to start using alt text for images. Don't you want as many people as possible to be able to have access to them?

Many, if not most, of the removed websites have obvious tie-ins to topics known to be disfavored by the Trump administration, including: -the care of LGBTQ+ people -health equity issues related to a variety of diseases or disabilities -STIs and related educational resources.

22 websites have been removed so far: (Plus two more I’ve learned of since we posted this information)

BREAKING NEWS over in Inside Medicine: Censorship at the CDC. Again. Two dozen websites were removed, including resources for health equity, disability, and LGBTQ+ care. Here’s what we know:

Check with your local library how they take requests. Mine for instance has a separate form on our website, and requesting a title there is much more likely to get it purchased than "notify me" (although you can use that too so you know when it's added to the collection).

#MinCup25 Round 2 Match 6: It's more exciting versions of familiar favourites as emerald #dioptase is pitted against silvery #molybdenite. Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r2... Results: www.mineralcup.org/2025/results...

I was split completely between #Titanite & #Thortveitite until I learned that thortveitite (which I will keep writing until I spell it by memory) comes from a place called Rumpetrollsynken (literally “Tadpole shaft”) and it’s on a Norwegian stamp! Of such things it seems are my #MinCup25 votes made.

Normally I'm a sucker for rare element and rare earth element minerals, but this round has to go to Titanite. And not just because they appeared in my hand-grinded thinsection of some tephrite feom the Kaiserstuhl volcanic complex 👀 #MinCup2025 #Titanite

#Garnet swimming in a sea of #Titanite in a Franciscan Complex metamorphic rock, as seen in plane and cross polarized light. Photo by Sarah Brandt. #MinCup25

#Kosmochlor comes from space, #titanite helps preserve my archean fossils. Who to vote for!?

Space Green v Progenitor of the Gods green. Still not over #Kosmochlor beating my beloved Azurite, and in the first round no less! It’s going to take some convincing from kosmochlorians to get me not to vote for #Titanite, which tells stories of the early Earth, on the revenge basis alone! #MinCup25

Gotta go with #titanite for all of the fun reasons, but also because it's a source of titanium dioxide, esp for use as a white pigment. (Not a primary source, but still an important source of TiO2.) #MinCup25

As magma cools, do crystals sink or float? Does viscosity change in the melt? U and REE isotopes in #Titanite record chemical differentiation and age of magmatic melts, important for understanding evolution of Earth’s crust. #MinCup25 sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🔭🪐

It’s really all we should be talking about today.

#MinCup25 #tugtupite The King of Fluorescent Minerals? 🤔 Considering the Inuit myth connected to it, and just a sense of fairness for a change. I’d call it Queen of Fluorescent Minerals. Tenebrescence, fluorescence, and phosphorescence. Very interesting. naturalhistory.si.edu/explore/coll...

I can’t believe I caught this 🦋 Just before noon, I figured I better check again… the hangar bay was opening! Little out of focus for a few seconds, but I got the focus back- apologies- I was so excited & shooting w/ the sun on my viewer.

Once again, I'm sticking with team Indigenous & voting #tugtupite, which is named for a Kalaallisut word. The quintuple threat of tenebrescence, fluorescence, phosphorescence, pleochroism, & piezoelectrism wins it major points, too. These polished specimens are also very charming! (w/ alt text.)

while it would be fun to see a possible final between titanite (CaTiSiO₅) and perovskite (CaTiO₃) this realistically isn't going to happen and the very cool, very green kosmochlor deserves to move on

Not decided yet. I'm sure I'll be voting green. I might be convinced to vote #titanite because the reddish/brown variant is sooooo pretty. 🤎Plus it's useful in dating. I'd like to date this mineral to be honest: It's rather sexy.

All you need to know about underdog #titanite is that it is valued "by extreme gamers as a way to upgrade weapons in Dark Souls." #MinCup25

My vote today goes to the green mineral first found in a meteorite: #kosmochlor. Why? Well, my bachelor thesis was in weathering of the El Hammami meteorite to determine weathering products a meteorite sample can develop once it has hit Earth. Meteorites are so cool and interesting! #MinCup25

My #MinCup25 watching tonight. Oh, it's 4 a.m. Well. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I enjoyed this video on #Titanite (also called #Sphene). It was actually kind neat to see specimens that are in matrix and with some other crystals as well as the pure titanite. 13.5 mins, ads youtu.be/2VO4whhs-ZI?...

This is a good question. Right now, I have no idea which way to vote this match. #Kosmochlor #Titanite (aka #Sphene) #MinCup25 #Green

While it may be associated with jadeite & hence be carved, it’s a challenge to find sculpture that’s definitely kosmochlor so I’m giving titanite, prized for it’s beauty & a source of the pigment titanium dioxide white since ~1910, the arts vote. On the physics front it boasts trichroism. #MinCup25

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

The later rounds of #MinCup25 are always tough calls… After deliberating for a while, I think I gotta go with #Kosmochlor! It’s found in meteorites, and it’s an intense green!! Go vote!

Yep. This is a fully blown Tyrannical Government and not a damn thing is being done about it. They're all shaking in their boots while licking his. It's sickening. It's disgusting. He MUST BE REMOVED FROM OFFICE ASAP and his loyalist cohorts need to be replaced‼️ #remove47 #RemoveTrump

Updated bracket. #MinCup25 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🔭🪐

Both minerals have Greek names, but only one can continue on the heroic journey to the next round. You can choose which by voting at mineralcup.org today! #geology #mineral #MinCup25

#MinCup25 Round 2 Match 5: We’re going for namesake-minerals as bright meteorite-derived green #kosmochlor is up against the wedge-shaped indicator mineral #titanite.  Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r2... Results: www.mineralcup.org/2025/results...

I'm voting for tugtupite because I had a dream about it last night 😂 I found massive chunks of tugtupite, and cancrinite and sodalite too, at the base of a cliff #MinCup25 #minerals

#MinCup25 #MinCup27 !!

One of today's #MinCup15 contestants, #hematite, along with former contestants #topaz & #beryl and "We really should run this one day..." future-contestant #ilmenite. Safe but boring to lick. 📷 Paul Ramsey

Massive #hematite later brecciated by quartz veining, From the Soudan ironstone, Ely greenstone belt, Vermilion district of northern Minnesota. These ironstones are sandwiched between pillow basalts of approximately 2.7 billion years old. #mincup25 #greenstone #minnesota #archean #ironore

Get ready to talk tugtupite again! #MinCup25

I shall have to delay my vote until 3:59:30 (local, aka 30 seconds to go) and blindly make a choice, I am not sire this can be decided rationally. #MinCup #MinCup25

When the sun fades, I fade Though a snowy sparkle stays When the sun's bright, I'm bright Sudden waking, warm as life #MinCup25 #tugtupite #MinPoem

Tough choice: The one looks like a marten gnawed on the Large Hadron Collider or the one that looks a vampire dragged a body through a Fort Lauderdale fine art gallery Gotta go with mustelid attack and vote #Carpathite #MinCup25

En el juego 4 de la 2da ronda de #MinCup25 se enfrentan Carpatita #Carpathite vs. Tugtupita #Tugtupite. ¿Cuál ganará? Votá: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r2... Yo elegí Tugtupite

#Carpathite is composed of hydrothermally deposited coronene. Coronene is also proxy for wildfire activity, a function of terrestrial biomass, atmospheric O2, and ignition sources like lightning, volcanoes, and bolides. The oldest known occurrence on Earth dates to the early Ediacarian. #MinCup25

I forgot to say, for more Mineral Cup fun, pin the feed below, & use the #MinCup25 hashtag when posting. There are no wrong answers, just lots of fun, & sometimes you learn something cool! Join us! See the comment for the vote link. #MinCup25 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🔭🪐

Here's a gofundme to help out Josh Bregy, who recently was fired from his tenure-track job at Clemson

Where do clairvoyants order their clothes? From the Seer's Catalogue.

#MinCup25 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🔭🪐

Oh damn, this thread. I had no idea.

Wow carpathite is so behind, but I had to pull for it when I found out it's coronene, which I've studied tangentially for a project. And what a striking photo!

Can someone please explain to me why accounts like @blu2b4u.bsky.social and @krassenstein.bsky.social, amongst others, refuse to use alt text?

This, unfortunately, fits well with my Law Dork newsletter earlier today. www.lawdork.com/p/judge-toss...