That stibnite structure is great, and it made me look up en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthorh...
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That stibnite structure is great, and it made me look up en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthorh...
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Vote stibnite! It’s dark & shiny, it looks like a fuckin’ pile of swords, and its historical uses include both eyeliner and pyrotechnics. This is basically the gothest mineral. Vote for stibnite, our dark queen! m.minerals.net/mineral/stib...
Reducing women to their capacity to breed is monstrous to do to cis women and a sign of patriarchal overreach and right-wing rhetoric. Yet it's the sole, essential bar in the exclusion and dehumanization of trans women. You cannot be a leftist or feminist and be anti-trans liberation.
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Did you guys know my carcinogenic wife mineral #Chrysotile is GORGEOUS? She has such a pretty scintillating green! Some of her cousin chain silicate asbestoses are even known as jades! She's the only sheet silicate that carries the asbestos title! ASK ME ANYTHING ABOUT HER #MinCup25
Yes! You can see why it was so jarring.
They use the other g sound, not the j sound like we doing American English, like hug but with an e instead of the u.
Some of the most remarkable lost artefacts from the ancient world were the titanic wrecks of the Nemi ships, built for a Roman emperor. In their first-century heyday they held gardens, palaces and baths in a floating wonderland. But barely a decade after their recovery, they were lost forever.
Substack wants — even more than its general friendliness to Nazi accounts — to lock you into its ecosystem. The longer you linger, the harder they are going to make it for you to leave and take your mailing lists/payment relationships with you. They’re actively fucking with your money
at their core, trans rights, abortion rights, and vaccine rights are actually all the same issue: they’re all about bodily autonomy, and the willingness to concede any of them puts the others at risk.
Each day you should wake up thinking "how can I spend more time in TEAMS?" and "can the TEAMS app open up any faster when I start my computer??" or "is there a way TEAMS can be connected to every surface of my life? My food? Air? And love-making?????"
Oathbreakers www.audible.com/pd/B0CYJ2GPL...
Was listening to an audiobook about European history in the 800s and got mildly irked thinking the narrator mispronounced “hegemonic,” so I looked it up only to find that apparently the UK pronounces this word differently than the US, and now I am irked in a whole different way.
Ooo I know this one from listening to @gailcarriger.bsky.social audiobooks! (highly recommended, though maybe not for your kid, depending on age)
Honestly, I can thank KFC for knowing how to pronounce that one, but it took me an awfully long time to connect the verbal and written words for naive and voilà, and forget about epitome and hyperbole.
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Wise words from the guy who was like what if ghostface mcscream got high as hell
All Cormorants Are Beautiful. The fish murder video you didn't know you needed. 🪶
Dear Americans, welcome to the thrilling game of ‘Did this dictator die or just disappear for a day?’ We’ve been playing it with Putin and Lukashenko for decades. Enjoy the suspense.
Soon.
I look forward to Mineral Cup every year. Lots of minerals I know nothing about this year! Going to be reading up a lot. Yay! 🤘
Behold, the #MinCup35 bracket! Use it to follow along, plan campaigns to support your favs, or make predictions on how voting will shake out. We start at the top left on September 1st, then alternate left and right as we work our way down.
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
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Good news everyone we can all go back to shitting in the drinking water for freedom
1. one of you folks needs to do this please. i will help but can’t manage shit. 2. “spilling into real world”?? where do they think the CDC exists, narnia?? fortnite??? (this is a comment on the headline not the skeet!)
The Wolves & The @raginggrannies.bsky.social outside of Stanford Hospital, where Aleyda, the woman kidnapped by ICE in East Palo Alto, is currently hospitalized An injustice in East Palo Alto is an injustice everywhere! Flood the Stanford Shopping on Sat 12-2 Meet at Tesla Let's make some noise!
Me too, tree.
OUR LOVE IS POWERFUL AND UNSTOPPABLE!! GAY RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS AND TRANS LIVES MATTER. WE STAND WITH ALL OUR LGBTQIA+ FAMILY TODAY AND EVERY DAY 🌈💖 #LOVEWINS
Hey, cis friends! Check out this thread. Hey, trans friends! Go participate in this thread. (I'm fine, don't worry about me.)
They're openly calling to lock up every trans person by force. We need every ally to speak out forcefully against this because trans folks cannot do this on our own.
Thank you! I've been interested in simulacra and the hyperreal for a very long time. It's fascinating and disturbing to see the strange places this timeline is taking us.
A few years ago, I decided to idly look up the artist from a shirt I got in Disneyland in the 90s and cut the neck out of to wear running errands and nearly choked on my coffee when I saw this: ebay.us/m/I1lTAu Also disturbed to realize my shirt is older than some of my coworkers.
Do you have a source link or title for this? I'd love to read more. Those are some amazing lines.
I loved Twitter's inline translation and find Mastodon's outlink to a translator service really annoying because I have to click into each message and can't just continue to scroll through. I like being able to read in my language while scrolling. Please add inline translation! 📜
This is the kind of marketing I love the most. It's also cracking me up thinking that some folks are about to get the weirdest debt erasure notifications.
I am obligated to post this here, not that I'm a scientist. I'm more of an avid scientist fan. The scientist-watching is way better here. arstechnica.com/science/2025...
UGH I feel this. Sometimes I feel lost inside a labyrinth of trying to game out scenarios and trying to build in flexibility for a few things to go wrong but also the country is falling apart and I am always so afraid these days, but I still gotta do work shit and pay bills.
I do wish people would treat transphobia as the serious red flag it is, because if someone is repeating bullshit pseudoscience talking points from right wing cranks, that's just as bad as conceding to anti-vax nonsense and undermining trust in science and medicine, alarm bells should be sounding!
One of my friends has escaped an abusive marriage, but she needs to get her things and get legally divorced, and a dude like that doesn't let go easy. If you have funds for donation, please consider helping her out. www.gofundme.com/f/help-amand...
My talented friend Jennifer Mazzucco is featured in #bayStreetEmeryville RCCD Gallery as the artist in residency for the month of September! If you're in the #emeryville area any weekend in September, don't miss it! jennifermazzucco.com #art #emeryvilleArt #jenniferMazzucco #bayAreaArt #color
Did this new design for the Argentinian 100 pesos banknote featuring María Eva Duarte de Perón ever come out? It was supposed to debut in late 2022. platform.keesingtechnologies.com/argentinas-n...
I’ve literally thought about Gaiman’s conversation with @theradr.bsky.social about her excellent book 𝑶𝒏 𝑹𝒆𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑹𝒆𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒓 in late 2023 a couple of dozen times since the accusations against Neil surfaced; I’m glad to see I’m not the only one who remembers that. www.reddit.com/r/neilgaiman...
I realize you're joking, but to be real - most online scams are coming from abroad, sometimes from people in desperate poverty, often from people who are trafficked and working as slaves and victims themselves.
...and you know what crimes are actually on the rise? Scams and fraud, which are perpetrated online, where no "cops on the street" are going to make any difference.
the core issue here is that crime rates are down exponentially from where they were just a few decades ago: you’re asking Democrats to make “effective plans to deal with crime” that *largely only exists in the deluded minds of brainwashed MAGAs, most of whom don’t live in cities*
It’s out!!! Go listen! Request it for FREE at libraries! Get it from Libro FM (and support a local bookstore) or use your Audible credits! Or just pretend you did all that and tell me I’m pretty
YESS very excited for this. I have a paper copy that I'm partway through & it's fantastic but I mostly listen to books these days so this is great. Also, very looking forward to exactly how the audio for this is performed.
Creating a variety of shapes using steamed buns: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatis...
It's becoming apparent to me that many people do not know that before the 90s there was absolutely cigarettes in high school en masse or that many high schools even sold cigarettes themselves! We are a victim of our own public policy successes
Fun profile of John Law today www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...
I have only seen them in the wild once, at NASA Moffett Field. I was very excited. They are so adorable!
Timeline cleanse (wash car later)
Me five minutes ago: I'm not going to read the Prince Andrew biography, so I'll just read this article about it Me after reading these two paragraphs: LMAO GOOD GOD
NEW: Los Angeles protesters successfully disrupted ICE's crackdown by targeting hotels where officers stayed, emails show. Widespread rallies led Army to make list of "hotels to avoid" due to "harassment." "When we don’t want ICE in our neighborhoods, we can actually take actions to force them out"
Lisa Kudrow nailed it! This was the best Republican impersonation I have ever seen, I was even getting upset thinking this was real. Love it!
"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense
apropos of everything here is a campaign @fightforthefuture.org has been running for months www.stoponlineidchecks.org
Lifer cape may warbler (with a snack!) today on Appledore Island! 🪶🌿
listen the world is a mess but a judge ordered the Florida migrant prison closed, California passed their "fuck around, find out" redistricting, and James Dobson is dead this is the best net good news day in awhile, I really do think
Don't hide your light from the world. Use it to attract Mothman to your lair and form a team of supervillains, along with the ghost of Emily Dickinson and a small Bigfoot. Rule the night together, forever.
“Certain parallels where liberalism is exhausted” and comparing US 2020 to Weimar 1920 uh 😱😱😱 I will give him the point about the Balrog, though, since he and his ilk are embodying it right the fuck now.
peter thiel has been promoting the ideas of nazi philosopher carl schmitt for a while now he also ties carl schmitt to tolkein, because of course he does
Here’s more from David French in this gift article: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/o...
…did anyone think to specify “no relation” ?
I am faced with immense pressure to conflate George Clinton (the first governor of New York) and George Clinton (mastermind of the Parliament/Funkadelic constellation of musical geniuses) especially if the former was the prolific pseudonymous anti-Federalist known as “Cato.”
Something very very weird happened during the Hugos award ceremony... It's been on my mind for days, and so I wrote this blog: "When People Giggle at Your Name, or the 2025 Hugo Awards Incident" grigorylukin.com/2025/08/21/w... #Worldcon
I always look up who won but don’t watch the ceremony, but tbh am a bit dismayed that, having missed the post from Elizabeth Bear, this is the first I’m hearing of this. Such disrespect from the presenter & team! How dare we make up weird fantasy names & then don’t learn real names of real people.
As a person with a tech job who makes art and likes weird ideas, I'm always wrestling with mental alligators trying to get my brain to do the work thing and not the fun wacky thing. I know creative jobs aren't immune to that, but dang. Wishing you the $$ & luxury to pursue your noncommercial ideas.
little world 🐸🦗🌷🦋
People are so excited that we might be on the verge of civil war. I’m not. I’m a basic bitch who likes basic things like pumpkin spice lattes and not getting shot at in the grocery store.
I was talking to a friend about something like this earlier - we learn history as a fait accompli, but experiencing these events is so much slower and more ambiguous than looking at them in a rear view mirror.
www.reddit.com/r/transgende... Guess what? The story about the trans M&S employee and the bra fitting is a pack of lies and distortions. Want to know what really happened and how colleagues stood up for her? Read her own account here.
I’m just imagining him looking at a 5 inch blank patch of wall somewhere in the White House and 🤔 considering what is the single most ostentatious thing that could be there & wondering who to fire for not having put it there already.
When I was like 13, I went to a concert & saw beautiful goths for the first time. I furtively added a curl to the end of my eyeliner, and then another one 10 min. later bc the 1st wasn’t enough, and then another roughly every 20 mins all night hoping to be cool enough. Trump is like this with gold.
“People of a remote Amazonian society who learned Spanish as a second language began to interpret colors in a new way, an MIT study has found.” #scicomm #language #colordiscrimination news.mit.edu/2023/how-blu... 🧪
album covers but with muppets: thread
Or a sketchy low level Republican candidate for something in Mississippi... which to be fair would defintely draw graphic design inspiration from both banks and cryptocurrency trading scams.
I saw someone joke that it was going to be called Hotmail now and ... that would be better.
SJ Joslin, a nonbinary scientist was fired by govt for hanging a trans flag during off hours, a violation of 1st amen. rights. Email to demand reinstatement: Acting superintendent: raymond_mcpadden@nps.gov Acting deputy superintendent: danika_globokar@nps.gov www.sfgate.com/california-p...
🚨 Yosemite ranger SJ Joslin was fired after flying a trans flag on El Capitan—off-duty, breaking no rules. This violates the First Amendment and erases decades of climbing tradition. Free speech is at stake. Demand reinstatement + accountability: raymond_mcpadden@nps.gov
Makes sense. Some of her music has some sonic and emotional overlap with country, and I can hear a bit of blues and gospel as well. That’s deep connection, hooking into an ancestral music palette like that.
My partner is the bigger fan so I had to wait & check a setlist. She did not. www.setlist.fm/setlist/lucy...
They have an English dubbed channel here which has a bunch of this amazing stuff: youtube.com/@xingzhilei?...
I don't know why this lad is building a subterranean city for cats, but I'm all for it.
Courage! Sincere prayers for her safety.
As an Oakland resident, I’m hoping hard that this isn’t just about to be extremely personally relevant.
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We cute.
Just saying… I got two compliments when I went to get drinks, one on my moth pin and one on my trans colors Bikini Kill shirt.
At the Lucy Dacus show in Berkeley tonight, idly wondering how many genders are in the crowd (complimentary).
Too many of them seem to be treating this like a normal R government where some level of bipartisanship gets further than fiery refusals and demands, but these are not normal times at all.
He is not good enough on trans rights of late, his podcast reached out to some terrible people, and I don’t approve of clearing homeless camps without significant structural change to give people places to go. But again, he’s pretty good in many ways and I want to see him & others improve.
All this commentary on Gavin Newsom lately… it’s not that I completely love the guy, it’s that I am begging more high profile mainstream Dems to see what he’s doing right now and do it more and better. He’s also done some shitty things so I want him to inspire others to raise the bar!
This formula can be replicated. Do something the right does, then when the media holds you to a different standard, and they will, answer with a comment about that double standard.
i don’t write opinion pieces, but i felt compelled to write this one with @colincarlson.bsky.social after my friends and former colleagues at CDC had 500 bullets fired at them.
This is awesome: a "WKRP in Cincinnati" fan created a three-hour Johnny Fever radio block, by using clips from the TV show and dropping in the full songs on his intros and outros, plus commercials and Les Nessman news breaks.