Some very shiny high protein (read: lead) crystals! 🪨: Galena (PbS) from Bulgaria

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

as of this week it has officially been 18 years since an anonymous user uploaded this bizarre image of an opossum cornered in a baby grand piano to Wikimedia Commons

Just donated 5$ to wikipedia 😎

Super cool twinned rough diamond!

Screaming into the void… 🪶

Polished agate from Brazil

Long drive up north today, almost swerved into some other cars because i saw a random outcrop of COLUMNAR BASALT on the side of the road in Connecticut 😅

Everyone involved in platforming this lunatic should resign in shame

Hey, check this out.

Got to the museum this morning and realized i forgot my badge.. Happy monday everyone!!

Casually browsing christmas cards online and god damn so many of them have been polluted by ai slop Its so sad to see art designs in so many spaces become replaced by lazy, uninspired gen

Gems and minerals from “Erdgeschichte” by Melchior Neumayr. Leipzig; Bibliographisches Institut 1897. #naturalhistory #sciart #chromolithography #minerals #mineralogy

First day back on site and there was an electrical fire in the building lmao

Will there be more aurorae visible tonight? What time in the evening should i look?

the face / the scent

Beautiful fall day today to get out in nature and hit some rocks 🥰

Everyone in New York tonight:

Basically going about as well as progressives/Democrats could possibly hope.

Metazooa is a site with essentially a daily phylogeny game. Guess an animal from its' database, and it will draw a tree showing you the finest scale group that both your guess and the mystery animal are both in, and it'll update it from each additional guess. metazooa.com

Everything at Spirit Halloween was 50% off today 🙃

The absolute irony that I.C.E. used to mean In Case of Emergency

Husband thinks my new louis vuitton cologne smells "generic"

Beautiful hike today with friends at Harper's Ferry 🥰

Getting wine drunk and exploring google earth on a wednesday night. This is the furloughed life lol

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Quick trip to the shore this afternoon and got to interact with two of my favorite things- birds and minerals!

Played some poker at a New England casino tonight. There was a Dunkies 10ft away from my table lol how is this real

Fun outing today at an 'antique mall' in Rhode Island. Felt overstimulated by how much stuff there was lol

Excellent tone and saturation on this kyanite gem. I'm sure many would mistake it for a sapphire!

The rock collection im currently cataloging has a volcanic BOMB 😱

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

Need everyone to stop what you're doing and admire how cute and perfect this benitoite crystal is 🥹

New York trip was a lot of fun, but now we're back to reality with whatever hell awaits us in DC

the brain of the median voter needs to be studied for science

Saw a cool mushroom on my run today

Exceptionally pleasing box of the Good Bugs for my students tonight

3 mile run through the park, new england fall weather is unmatched 🍂

Beautiful day out in nature with the boys 🥰

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

Choosing #topaz this round because its one of the few minerals that's really tested the 'must be able to lift 50lbs' in my job description 💎💪 #MinCup25

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

Dealing with some personal things so i wont be as active this year unfortunately. But couldnt pass up the opportunity to vote for #jeremejevite #MinCup25

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.

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

Very foggy today along the Massachusetts shore

For anyone wondering, i work in downtown dc every day and there was no visible 'military takeover' from my walks to and from work/metro today Im sure its true in theory, but i dont want the situation to be exaggerated because they want to paint the city in their narrow and false perspective