PatagoTITAN and I hold no hope, but we still root for the TITANium oxide #Ilmenite.

Saint Seiya Time Oddissey #4 Promo Illustration

I am in France the weekend this comes out...
Now I gotta add "Find a comic shop" in Nice to my to-do list
(Via Jérôme Alquié Illustrations facebook.com/profile.php?...)

PatagoTITAN is happy to see you and would politely request that you vote for TITANium and thus #Ilmenite. Please and thank you. Unless you really care for the other contender. Then go ahead.
(yes, @jbinnacle.bsky.social pic again. I have no shame)

I don't know if it's funny or sad how my family can't make it all about me even for a few hours when it's literally all about me. I'm going with funny and laugh it off...

I finally reached a decision. Go me.

I've got to attend a ceremony / event / something next week that requires nice clothing. Dad told me not to dress like a hobo for it. Mom snapped at mom that I NEVER dress like a hobo. Bickering ensued. Guys, my mom has come to accept my goth closet and think it's cool. It only took... two decades.

When I say "please find something to be happy about", I mean ANYTHING. Finding happiness, no matter how small or "trivial" it is, is IMPORTANT, DAMMIT.

Today's advice from your Goth Auntie:
Drink some water, take your meds, sit up straight.
You are allowed to be happy about things. Please find something to be happy about.
The Lurking Horror wants to grow extra teeth like Bitey Friend. I didn’t realize Bitey Friend could do that.
❤️ Auntie Jilli

I guess one of the fun parts of going to the opera is hating on the tenors. In the end, I guess Lt. Pinkerton is the fictional character I hate the most... but oh god, Alfredo and his father drive me beyond mad 🤣

Have you ever felt the supermarket cashier judging you? The lady who rang me up today had a very weird face looking at my wakame 🤣

I hate autumn with a passion because it's the season when my mental health needs one thing and my physical health needs a radically different thing.

An 8-mineral elimination bracket for Ore Cup 2025. From top to bottom in pairs alternating from left to right, the competitors are Galena vs Copper; Molybdenite vs Tetrahedrite; Ilmenite vs Jadarite; and Carrollite vs Bornite. The bracket for Round 2 onwards is blank. At the bottom of the bracket, a caption reads “Campaign on your favourite social media using #OreCup. Daily voting takes place on www.MineralCup.org the first week of November. Presented by Mineral Cup & International Mineralogical Association's Commission on Ore Mineralogy.”

10 days until the start of #OreCup and we have a bracket!

www.mineralcup.org/ore-bracket

🐾🤍

Un, glad it did.

Today I went on possibly the last hike of the season (new project 21st - 31st). I came across a group of Deaf hikers and I remembered to greet them in sign language. It was just "hello" because I can't remember "good morning" to save my life, but it was a step.

I wouldn't be comfortable sharing my inner struggles with a tool which wasn't even able to reformat a table without making up all the values starting from line 2, to be honest

A fortune cookie has told me that my health is fucked up and I need a break. I don't want to pay 29 cents a pop for them to tell me shit I already know.

I've been having a discussion with myself for the last 24 hours and I wish I would reach an agreement with me.

In the footsteps of giants - BBC News One of the longest sets of dinosaur footprints in the world has been discovered in a limestone quary near Bicester, in Oxfordshire, England.

In the footsteps of giants - One of the world’s longest dinosaur trackways uncovered in Oxfordshire quarry www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

Fossil found on UK coast is unique 'sword dragon' species Scientists say the newly discovered species of marine reptile probably met a grisly end.

Fossil found on Dorset coast is unique 'sword dragon' species
www.bbc.com/news/article...

I've put off watching season 2 of IWTV for over a year, because the Théâtre des Vampires part has never been my favourite, but holy cow, this is hard to watch.

US Book Tour! 📕 The Devil Takes Bitcoin 😈 (**UPDATED**) The Devil Takes Bitcoin: Cryptocurrency Crimes and the Japan Connection is out October 14 in the US. Get an early look with two pre-release events in Seattle and Philadelphia!

Book tour!📕 Whoever said crime doesn't pay, never had any good cryptocurrency
Crime does pay--as long as it's paid in Bitcoin
In my new book, the devil takes bitcoin—we take a deep dive into how crime propelled an academic exercise into a powerful currency.
tokyopaladin.substack.com/p/us-book-to...

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And here we go (again), a lack of planning on the client's part ends up becoming an emergency on my - the contractor's - side.
This is gonna suck (again).

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You mean, you're willing to fix ND horrible ending, or are you going to murk it even worse?
(Though I have to admit, I really CAN'T imagine something worse than the ending of ND...)
kurumadapro.com/column/artic...

We have a #MinCup25 champion!!

Congratulations, #Kyanite!
www.mineralcup.org/2025

After eight years of competing, another few hours to verify votes was nothing, right?

Amazing first run, #Tugtupite, and better luck next year.

🤔
More shiny stuff!

It was love at first sight, I'm not ashamed to admit it. The mining school mineral fair tends to have that effect on me...

This black #kyanite look is called "Witches Broom". It's October, ergo spooky season has started. Hence, you should clearly vote for #kyanite.
#MinCup #MinCup25
The other guy is cool too though.

Why is my anxiety at level 9000 today? Who knows? Not me.