Allow me to make the case for why calcite should not only earn your vote but win the tournament. Calcite is the mineral with the most forms, is highly fluorescent & phosphorescent, helped explain the wave nature of light, laid the foundation for optics/polarizers, and even calms an upset tummy. A 🧵:

Mineral Cup & Ore Cup@mineralcup.bsky.social · 2d ago

#MinCup26 Round 1 Match 11 It's a pair of minerals that pull off near-magical tricks with their properties as ubiquitous #Calcite is up against rarity #Julienite. VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

a) wikipedia creates, rather than destroys, context b) wikipedia is the result of people expressing *care* about both subjects in particular and having well ordered information in general slop is the opposite of care. it is indifference

Ted McCormick@tedmccormick.bsky.social · 3d ago

Wikipedia is not at all like generative AI slop, and it is *most specifically* unlike slop in the very features that make it useful and reliable — that it is authored by people who take responsibility for what they do and who both credit and point readers towards the sources they have in fact used.

Orientation for new job is at 2 over Google Meets. I'm gonna be skeptical until my first check hits but it still appears to be a real job. Unfortunately in the mean time I'm hundreds of dollars away from second half of rent and bills for september. V:@/JKNotSoBad C:$/JKNotsobad PP:@/comfortingmoo

Indigenous people are defying Canada's anti-LGBTQ+ laws and offering a safe haven for trans people on their land globalnews.ca/news/1205333...

Alberta First Nation invokes treaty clause to set up gender-affirming care safe haven | Globalnews.ca

Saddle Lake Cree Nation says it aims to defy Premier Danielle Smith’s government by establishing a safe haven for gender-affirming medical care — contrary to provincial law.

globalnews.ca

Stop. Posting. Memes. Without. Alt text. It’s. Not. Hard.

On the way to work this morning. This guy was gracious enough to let me shoot him as he worked.

Hot take, WANDAVISION and CAMP MIASMA are the same thing. Thank you for listening to my take.

going insane because you traveled interdimensionally or met aliens or met god is understandable. but going insane because you used a computer chat program is just embarrassing

Update: I liked it even more.

Dougie Jones’ Other Jacket@thepalinode.com · 2w ago

I thought Camp Miasma was funny and heartfelt and smart and sexy as hell, and I think I’ll like it even more on a second viewing.

🇹🇭Nene Royal🇹🇭 doing Metallica's Master of Puppets. She's pretty damn good. Only 16 but you'd think she's a seasoned rock goddess with how confident she blasts through it. 🤘🤘🎸

Just another day in the discourse between me and my brother.

Jimothy Chalamet

I’m not just enjoying ChatGPT being down—I’m thriving. It’s delicious, sensational, fantastic, like a raspberry parfait made of pure intention. Thank you for the pushback.

Cassandra Wilson has left us, at only 70. How tragic. www.wbgo.org/music/2026-0...

WBGO mourns the loss of NEA Jazz Master and two-time Grammy Award-winning vocalist Cassandra Wilson

WBGO's Doug Doyle reports on the passing of Grammy Award-winning jazz singer, songwriter and producer Cassandra Wilson

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You asked for this... he is lit.

I would like all of the characters from Sterling Point to have Bluesky accounts. Not the actors, obviously. The characters.

For sale: baby jetpack. Worn once

*Mr Beast voice* I HELPED THIS WOMAN TURN A ROOM FULL OF STRAW INTO GOLD USING ONLY A SPINNING WHEEL! IF SHE CAN'T GUESS MY NAME IN THREE DAYS, I'M TAKING HER BABY!

I thought Camp Miasma was funny and heartfelt and smart and sexy as hell, and I think I’ll like it even more on a second viewing.

I watched the trailer for THE LAST PHOTOGRAPH and I am begging Zack Snyder to find something else to do with his time.

We get it, sunflower.

There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places. —Wendell Berry

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2w ago

Wendell Berry, a lyrical Kentucky farmer who wrote award-winning poems, novels and essays, has died at 92.

Taxi Driver 2: Cyberwar

I’m writing a story called The Man Who Watched Ebenezer 3-5 Times Every Day Until He Went Broke And Lost His Job And Family But Knew That Scrooge Had “A Point”

Sapphic Bertie Wooster can still happen if people want it bad enough

Pronouncing phobias to rhyme with Tobias

Manic pixie dream girl seeks depressive ogre nightmare boy

I watched The Last Boy Scout (1991) and the villain is a football team owner who’s trying to legalize sports gambling to offset falling revenue.

I heard there was a stupid chord That really sucks and makes you bored