My pile of Chrysoprase from an unknown locality. I suspect it’s Australian but its more blue than my Australian samples

How does a meme stock have eBay money?

We have a wild hedgehog who lives in our garden and is friends with our cat (this isn’t their first meeting, they know each other well)

Pseudoscorpions!

Wordle 1,777 2/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

OK no this post is missing the entire context I've seen with it before. Sheep ankle bones were used as tokens in games in that area, still are. The more bones, the better you were at the games. This girl was an *amazing* player and was buried with her loot/high score.

Live - Lightning Crashes - 1994 My favorite song that uses the word placenta. Maybe the only song I know that uses that word. youtu.be/xsJ4O-nSveg?...

Alright, time to break out the writing muscles again

Posted the exam instead of the study guide...time to rewrite an exam.

In 1914, workers in a German basalt quarry in Oberkassel found the buried remains of two humans: an older man, young woman, dated to 14,000 yrs old. In the grave with them were the bones of a dog or wolf. To be accurate, we know now there were 2 dogs. Let's talk about the 'Bonn–Oberkassel dog(s)'

Theorists, observers, scicommers [alt: Tina Fey (dressed rather dorkily and introvertedly), Timothée Chalamet (dressed casually), and Kylie Jenner (glammed and dressed up a bit) sit courtside at a basketball game]

Hey #fishsky, anybody know what kind of fish these might be? They are in the biology classroom fish tank at the local high school and our kid tried to ID them with iNaturalist and such and got nothing. No scale but they are 3-4” long.

Caught a bot!

Ugh, I hate sites that charge inactivity fees, time to withdraw my money @predictit.bsky.social

I read somewhere recently that working in a professional kitchen with gas stoves and deep fryers is similar to being in a garage with a running car inside it, but there's a window or two down. I wonder if the 45,000 hours or so I've spent doing that is affecting my mental lack of health.

Alright geologists and mineralogists: let’s play guess the mineral!

A selenite crystal from Mexico with a cube of Chalcopyrite inside toward the bottom right

Got up early in hopes of catching this photo before work this morning. There's only a few days each year where it's cool enough in the morning to make this shot possible. Thankfully, today was one of those days! #wildlife #birds

Mainer here (Bangor High School '97). My brother was 2 classes ahead of Platner on field crew in NH. I grew up w guys like him. Graham will destroy Collins in Nov. He is A Type Of Maine Guy and is hellishly popular there. I have aired my concerns- Warren has adopted him. Graham is NOT Fetterman.

Specimen of Welo opal from Ethiopia

Or maybe they'll find out Timmy is a nihilistic whale

An USPS Small Flat rate box with discount is now $10.59, thats insane.

My two most important angels

Welcome to another episode of “Opals don’t show up properly on IPhone cameras” though this piece from Welo, Ethiopia has small individual cells with color

If it hasn't already been done, we need some geologically themed romance novels that enthusiastically deploy geo-double-double-entendres, including French terms (e.g., decollement, nuée ardente). Working title for such a series? "Love on the Rocks." 🪨⚒️🌋💓

Two years ago: “I should buy one of these for fun and memories” Follow me for more chaotic financial advice

Me: DC's pretty cool Me after getting a parking ticket: I hate DC

Wasn’t this one of the potential things that triggered the death of all males in Y: the last man?

You think anyone will ever get their BCBS class action settlement?

It's so weird he thinks more HOA's are a good thing and that 3.5% is low.

Wait he's only 20? With all that smashing himself in the face with a hammer he's certainly achieved 28-32

There was a John Varley story called Slow Apocalypse where the US released a bacteria that eats oil upon some enemy states in the middle east and then it accidentally spreads around the world and things get very bad...

There's a signed Othniel Charles Marsh's Dinocerata: An Extinct Order of Gigantic Mammals book up for auction at Heritage but unfortunately the bidding starts at $3k

yeah i can see how that might be confusing

That era was wild. I was recently reading about the Jonestown cult guy and one of his early jobs was going door to door selling spider monkeys.

Now this is a cool mineral I've never heard of before. Tubulite is named for its weird morphology (Image thumbnail shows two crystals of tubulite which look like very shiny metal tubes, on boulangerite wires. The tubes are about 0.4mm long) #minerals #MineralMonday www.mindat.org/photo-120162...

bluesky rocks

if you Share This Post you will be Blessed by the Star God of Wealth (probably)

I was trying to figure out who this woman posing in front of the Tucson Ring meteorite was and eventually found it’s Mrs. James M. Underhill of Utah. Don’t know her actual name of course because this was 1939

I used to have a piece of the Hindenburg. Now it’s a toss up between my collection of rough diamonds from around the world or my collection of shipwreck silver coins minted in the new world

What

Read the thread--there's much much more.

I’m on a Fb LiDAR group and just learned one of the massive earthworks of the Hopewell culture, a lunar observatory, was a golf course for over a century until they finally left in 2025

I actually think it's bad for the government to be surveilling its citizens inside their private vehicles, regardless of what veneer of legitimacy you try to put on top of it

A little Dakotaraptor (argue amongst yourselves) tooth from the Hell Creek formation of South Dakota. Found by Walt Stein, for whom the species is named.

Fossil peanut worms - Lecthaylus - Silurian, Blue Islands, Illinois. I was told the locality hasn’t been collected for a long time because it’s in gang territory

A few ametrines I've got sitting around