Nice to see #OreCup maintains the primary feature of #MineralCup, making me make TOUGH choices! I’m #TeamCopper so I win either way, but #Bornite is just so pretty, a true rainbow 🌈 rock, and it was named after Ignaz von Born, which makes me think of Ignatz Mouse! Of such things are votes made/cast.

Octahedral crystals, polysynthetic twinning striations, super conductivity, and iridescent sheen? Yes, please. #carrollite #MinCup25 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🔭🪐

#TeamCopper is going to make it through this match no matter what, so I'm free to vote for the prettier #Bornite. #OreCup

Just hearing the news about Sir Patrick Stewart retiring from acting. So much brilliance. So many iconic roles, but if I had to pick one (and thankfully, I don’t!), I’d choose his one-man show of “A Christmas Carol.” It’s a heart-strengthening banger! #SirPatrickStewart youtu.be/NFB6ikg9UpM?...

It’s almost time for the first ever #OreCup. I predict a solid run for molybdenite, but that’s because I just love saying and typing molybdenite! #OreCup2025

Once again, the eternal Halloween question: Which one wins, Kit Kat or Twix????

Trick or treating has begun, it seems. Costumes these days just keep getting better and better. 🎃😻

change one letter, ruin a candy. Twizzless

I regret to inform everyone that my pedantic brain couldn’t let me live until I knew whether or not dodger blue and blue jays blue are the same blue. They are ONE PANTONE NUMBER APART.

Wait, Ohtani took the loss. Does that mean he’s, gasp, human?

Don’t worry Dodger fans, there are nine more innings left to play tonight, right?

I’m glad I’m a neutral here. Extra inning World Series games are thrilling and exhausting if you win, but gut-punches when you don’t.

I think it’s possible that Shohei Ohtani is maybe about as good as “El Maestro” Martín Dihigo. Not sure. Maybe the modern equivalent. Get into five Hall of Fames, and we’ll talk. youtube.com/shorts/ihBQu...

Diarrhea Donald. Yeah, I’m expecting that nickname to stick for awhile. A good long while.

After watching this game tonight, I am left wondering if Ohtani is even the best Japanese player on the Dodgers at this point. I kid. I kid. But wow, what a dominant performance from Yamamoto.

Setting aside graverobbing woman who died in no small part due to men exploiting her image, copyright violations aren't "growing pains." It's literally the law. They’re breaking the law. Without copyright law, there is no creative industry, and without a creative industry, there is no genAI.

I have pretty much had it with 2025. www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

It’s hardly a fresh take, but the #Tigers home unis are just so clean and sharp. Classic look. Classic style.

2025, don’t you even THINK of it!

My wife & I are #Astros fans & pulling for the #Mariners, as we have many friends in the PNW. In fact, my wife, not a sports fan at all, started the 8th inning of G2 actually raising her voice: “Come on Mariners, PROVE SOMETHING!” I had to look over & make sure it was her. So, M’s, over to you now.

The IAG #Planetary Gemorphology Image of the Month 📸 October is online! Dr. Abdallah Zaki takes us on a field trip to ancient Mars, by studying hourglass-shaped landforms ⌛ - remnants of source-to-sink river systems💧🌕🧐👩‍🚀 #Mars #rivers #space planetarygeomorphology.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/h...

This quote should be posted in every interview room in every stadium in the world… “If we start winning games, the atmosphere will improve.” www.theguardian.com/football/202...

This is simply (and in all other ways) beautiful! #MinCup25

It’s a blue, blue, blue, blue, blue world! #Kyanite finally crowned champion after nine years in the Mineral Cup, including a second-place finish in #MinCup24! I’ll call it now, #Tugtupite is going to be tough to beat in #MinCup26! What a fun #MinCup25! Thanks again to everyone who made it so!

The new Ore Cup will have entries of which Mineral Cup voters have mourned losses in the past, including copper! #MinCup25 #OreCup25

Hark! What’s that we see on the horizon? Is it something new? Something mostly metallic, quite heavy, and essential to society? It’s an all-new collaboration with IMA! Ore Cup: www.mineralcup.org/about-ore-cup Voting starts Monday November 3. Winner crowned IMA Ore Mineral of the Year

And that’s time! But, uh, who’s the winner? With a surge of hundreds of votes in the final moments, our host is throttling access to the data we need to perform audits. It’s going to be at least a few hours. 🙃

Heroes all. #MinCup25

No matter which mineral is crowned champion in Mineral Cup, the real winners are all of us as this is such a fun, silly welcome and educational time for all. Huge thanks to @mikamckinnon.bsky.social and everyone else who make Mineral Cup a reality. Y'all rock (and not just in a pun way)! #MinCup25

As the final of #MinCup25 draws to a close - can you all join me in a round of applause and thanks to @mikamckinnon.bsky.social and team behind the comp - a most welcome and edifying distraction. Long may #MinCup continue 👏 👏👏👏👏

#MinCup25 #kyanite #ElphabaThropp It's time to tryyy defyyying graaavity! 🔪🧹🌌

Look deep into the color of these eyes. What do you see? #Kyanite blue! You know what to do. #MinCup25

The Astronomy Picture of the Day getting in on the #MinCup25 Finals act. The Witch's Broom Nebula looks very much like... #Kyanite! (No other subjective interpretations will be entertained.) From deep space to your voting fingertips, #Kyanite is the mineral of destiny, and a deserving 2025 champion!

Mika works hard! Hopefully there'll be no ballot-stuffing, and a nice clean and easy process, followed by a wonderful beverage of choice! Maybe two. #MinCup25

This story is fantastic, and kind of what #MinCup25 is all about.

Less than an hour left, #kyanite gang!

I just this to my good friends in Seattle: “Since it's sort of blue-green at times, a vote for #Kyanite is kind of a vote for the Seattle Mariners. So really, do what you have to do.” (I mean, I just did.) #MinCup25

#KYANITE GANG RISE UP, THIS IS OUR YEAR! LET'S PUSH OUR ANISOTROPIC, METAMORPHIC INDEX MINERAL OVER THE FINISH LINE! #MinCup25

La cianita. Un mineral generalmente azulado que es PRECIOSO. Pasó esa ronda, pero ahora va media docena de votos por detrás. ME HACÉIS EL FAVOR DE VOTAR "KYANITE". Gracies. www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r5... #MinCup25 #TeamKyanite

It's the 1st of October. Halloween is just around the corner. Vote kyanite because sometimes it comes in black which makes it look spooky! #MinCup25 #minerals

Holy shamoley! Over 2,000 votes cast so far and with three hours to go, the margin is only 10 votes. You can cut the tension with a #Kyanite blade! Let’s go Big Blue! Bring it home for the longtime Mineral Cup veteran. The #MinCup25 championship is there for #TeamBlue with a strong finish!

The Blues is more than just music. It tells of life under pressure (like #Kyanite). It’s resistant bc it’s rough (like #Kyanite), a teller of historical truths (like #Kyanite) & texturally colorful (like #Kyanite)! How would B.B. King, the King of the Blues himself, vote? Obv for Kyanite! #MinCup25

One warning: When you enlist others to vote, you never know what will happen. I just tried to recruit my son to vote #Kyanite with me. It’s blue. His fave color is blue. I describe anisotropic to him. I think, “OK then.” He reads over the descriptions, and says he’s now for #Tugtupite. 😐 #MinCup25

My first post on Bluesky only got one like 😢 but I’m still always looking for rocks, and people that love them. Thank goodness there are always plenty here. Especially every September! Thank you @MineralCup.bsky.social for all the minerals and fun! #MinCup25 ⚒️ 🧪 Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🔭🪐

Colours are super important in #MinCup25, no? Here is the bracket, with the colors superposed (of course, some minerals have multiple, so I took the snippets from the images on the voting posts or the website). Don't forget to vote (once)! It's super close now. www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r5...

Wow! With just over seven hours to go, #Kyanite has a ONE-VOTE lead on #Tugtupite with almost 1,300 votes cast! Will it be the afternoon of Blue Kyanite, or will us Kyanitians be singing the blues? Vote if you haven’t (for all the reasons you find on #MinCup25), or get others to do so if you have.

I’m voting for the indicator mineral #Kyanite and the information it provides about metamorphic temperature and pressure, shown here with its pseudomorphs, Sillimanite and Andalusite. #MinCup25

#MinCup25 #kyanite reduces warping of ceramic objects, providing artists and crafts people with more creative opportunity. Also, I just learned a lot from this site, information fascinating though I’ll likely never use it. 🫠 Vote #kyanite! digitalfire.com/picture/lylj...

Just under 10 hours to go and we’re at a dead heat between these delightful minerals

#MinCup25 Yay … someone shared explanation the greenish blue. What causes the other colors observed in #kyanite? What about the very green samples? I need to know … but not enough to try hard to bypass paywalls. 🫠