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

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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

Found my favorite slot machine!

Furry propaganda at the Bellagio seasonal display!!

California quail #birds

🚨 BUG IN AMBER 🚨

Please enjoy this fluorite crystal that is roughly the size of my head 😯

Cute little quartz crystal with a phantom of celadonite inclusions

Made it to 35 🎉🎊 A lot of big (positive) life events happened over the past year and i feel very fortunate. Even tho ive never met most of you, im very grateful a lot of you are a part of my sphere.

Im used to bi and tri colored tourmalines but quad? Attention seeking behavior 🤧

Been screaming this since last summer (before the election) and was met with -youre being alarmist -the courts will obviously intervene -of course there will still be fair elections And yet here we are

Always an exciting day when i get to handle my favorite specimen in the collection 💙

Hey, if you’re celebrating July 4th tomorrow… literally why???

At a loss for words by how repugnant and soulless this is

Even leaving aside that his answer is wrong on the merits, every second a Democrat is on national TV getting baited into talking about a mayoral primary instead of the monstrous and extremely unpopular bill Republicans are trying to ram through Congress is political malpractice of the first order

Give this woman the hotdog costume im so sick of this shit

Was somehow able to quell my recent depression and get into the gym 3 times this week 🫡

This meme has become seared into my brain at this point

Cute lil guy carved in precious opal

Tonight I'm texting Nancy Pelosi and asking HER for $5

Currently 97* in DC everyone is boiling but at least my new sunglasses look nice?!

hey panera can we have the lemonade that kills us again

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

Nature and art day today at Glenstone!

New Ryn Weaver music we're so back!! youtu.be/AqqMO0E77iM?...

Collections manager and i gave tours today of the ore collection with specific emphasis on critical minerals, which neither of us are experts on 😅 Was actually pretty fun passing around refined ingots of various metals. Everyone was shocked by how dense tungsten is lol

2025 and we're still perpetuating the masculine ideal that huge penis is strong and virile and small penis deserves scorn and shame Continuously finding myself tapping the sign below

Really fun how video footage is completely meaningless and there will, as usual, be no consequences for their actions or their lying

Inventorying gems today and noticed some cool dendrite inclusions in this Zambian emerald

Peace through strength We're approaching V for Vendetta levels of tyranny

Funny how ICE who is so allegedly fighting undocumented gang members has only managed to round up normal working class people, traumatize children, and fight US citizens in the streets.

Sleigh Bells concert was healing

Idk i guess i just dont enjoy how daily interactions in life have become inherently commodified. There's a pervasive market for recording and sharing experiences and the currency is validation. Its OK to experience things without the intended purpose of showing people you experienced it.

This is gonna sound like a boomer take but- there's a group of elementary school kids currently dancing with a street performer in front of the museum and lots of passersby taking out their phones to film them. I kinda wish happiness and spontaneity wasnt so constantly surveiled by strangers

The Presidents Budget Request for NASA is out. It’s a bloodbath Canceled are DAVINCI, VERITAS, Juno, OSIRIS-APEX, US participation in ExoMars and EnVision… Huge cut to R&A. No funding to begin development of the Uranus Orbiter. If you’ve ever cared about NASA, time to contact congress.

Both collections managers were out today so i helped one of the curators give tours of the gem vault and it was a lot of fun but i had no template of what to say so i was kinda just shotgunning gem facts at all the interns lol