Happy valentines day!

It was believed in medieval times that hedgehogs had spikes so they could roll over fruit to carry home to their children, which is not true but is a really cute idea

Fluorite (CaF2)- one of the geometric shapeshifters of the mineral world. A few of its most common crystal habits seen: cubic, octahedral, cuboctahedral (?), spherical.

My time at the tucson gem and mineral shows has concluded and now i must head back east tomorrow. Incredibly fun and fulfilling trip 😊

Beautiful new mineral ive never seen before- rainbow garnet! Has a similar iridescence as labradorite. Supposedly not much of the material exists yet.

One of the gem dealers had spinny dioptase 😵‍💫

Day 2 finished 💜

Day 1 at the Tucson gem show complete!

Day 0 (setup) for the Tucson gem show. Gonna be a busy but exciting week!

Got to my hotel in Tucson an hour ago and have already spent 180$ on meteorites and minerals 😅

Blizzard update from Rhode Island- i have let the intrusive thoughts win

Is anyone else alarmed by how much of a nuisance embedded ai 'assistants' have become? I dont want to 'chat with my document', please just let me read it in peace lol

Photo session today feat. beryl and tourmaline 🥰

This is the kind of shit that would make you completely outside the bounds of any ancient society, the gods bestow generational curses for violating hospitality

Exercising free will by feeding the seagulls at a rest stop parking lot

Thousands of years of science grinding to a halt because the most ignorant brainless flat-earth inspired egotists the world has ever seen are now in charge of everything

Happy FCF (fishy chalcopyrite friday) !! 🪨 : Chalcopyrite (CuFeS2) in shale

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!