Another piece of candy for #mineralmonday 🍭 Elbaite (watermelon) tourmaline fragment. Self-collected from Pala, CA. #minerals #geology #gems

Actually posting minerals on #mineralmonday this time, with a delicate specimen. Vanadinite on mottramite with some barite. Locality: Midelt Province, Morocco. Personal collection. #minerals #geology #mineralogy

Fossil clams so fresh you can make chowder (but really, please don't). Self-collected on the drive to #FC2026. Pliocene (~5 M.y.a.) San Joaquin Formation, near Avenal, CA. #fossil #geology #paleontology

Here it is, hot off the press! Presenting the #PurplePic from @furcon.bsky.social/ #FC2026! Big thanks as always to all the purples that showed up, and especially big thanks to our photographer, @yousqueakgood.bsky.social

Second time being a smol purple fox at #FC2026! I shall continue as such 🦊💜 #furry #FurCon2026

A geologist? AND a furry???? 🤯 (anyway I'll be at #FurCon2026 this weekend and will likely bring minerals & fossils to trade) #furry #fursuit #geology

Starting the new year finding wave-tumbled fossil whale bone from the CA coast. 🐋 Monterey Formation, Miocene epoch (c. 18-6 Mya). #fossil #geology #paleontology

A part of me wants to go to the beach this winter. (Aragonite colored blue from Cu, from Balochistan, Pakistan. Personal collection) #minerals #geology

The forbidden jolly rancher. 🍬 (Elbaite tourmaline from my thesis field site, Pala, CA) #minerals #geology

Guys it's the funny mineral #mineralogy

📖 15 years ago today, Friendship is Magic premiered on The Hub, introducing the world to the magic of friendship and birthing a community that celebrates it. Here’s to the magic, the memories, and the friendships we've made along the way. ✨#FriendshipIsMagic

Some gay schist 🏳️‍🌈 (~100 million-yr-old mica schist from Julian, CA. In cross-polarized light) #petrology #mineralogy #geology

Night on the town ✨ (with @auzbuzzard.bsky.social and @sirvataqun.bsky.social) #AFC2025 #furry #fursuit

Been one year since I started to dabble into being a furry. #AFC2025 marks this time. Indeed, I shall continue to be a smol purple fox 💜 Thanks so much to my friends and all the folks that makes this con a great one! Here's to another year!

I had so much fun at #AFC2025 this year! Thank you to all the staff and friends new and old that I was able to meet. You all truly make this con special for me. @flufferino.bsky.social @atrexwolf.bsky.social @geofreelancer.bsky.social @auzbuzzard.bsky.social @shumrow.bsky.social

Purple...just purple. 💜 (Charoite from the collection. Locality: Murunskii Massif, Russia) #geology #mineralogy

Never thought I'd be carted away from a con in an ambulance from peanut sauce on pizza. At least I recovered in time to enjoy the last few moments of #EFNW25 this year. Thanks to everyone who supported me!

Rose quartz and schorl tourmaline, both from a 60m-thick pegmatite. Minas Gerais, Brazil. Field doggo for scale. #geology

Back from three long weeks of fieldwork studying pegmatites in Brazil for my PhD. Quite the fever dream 💎 #geology #mineralogy

When I see halite in the field. (Thank you @comnhale.bsky.social !)

It's that time 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (Art by dormantt) #pridemonth

Just some large obsidian boulders, only ~800 yrs old. Doing geo shenanigans, Mono Co., CA. #geology

Appeasing the origami/horse gods. They angy.

More geo stuff: ~90 million-year-old Californian ammonite. Found in late Cretaceous shale in 100ºF weather. #geology

At this point, my brain is but a fried egg.

My geochronology grant app got denied due to the entire program dissolving from "federal budget cuts" 🤬. Anyway, here's a pretty twinned crystal of cinnabar (mercury sulfide). Tongren Mine, China. #minerals

1500+. @babscon.com, here we come 🦄 #babscon #origami

Fieldwork: ~15 million-year-old leg and jaw bones of extinct camelid species, Miocene Barstow Formation, Mojave Desert. I ain't a paleontologist but it was awesome to discover these ⚒️ #paleontology #geology

"Are you folding unicorns for the last @babscon.com ?" "Yes." "How many?" "Yes." (what's pictured is only a small fraction...) #babscon #brony #origami

A puffball of okenite (hydrated Ca zeolite)-a mineral you can actually pet. Locality: Pune District, India. (I named it Philip) #minerals #geology

WHERE WILL YOU BE TOMORROW?

They shall indeed 🏳️‍⚧️

Remembering the time I fursuited for the first time ever, at FC25. Definitely a magical experience, would do again ✨ (some photos by @surrealnightmares.bsky.social ) #fursuit #fursuitfriday

The second page of my personal sticker book, since I can't place some of these on my laptop:

At it again with fieldwork in the desert. San Andreas Fault scarp in the distant background. ⚒️ #geology

bruh even my milk got a date today

Just a cool photo of vanadinite on mottramite from my collection. That is all. (Locality: Midelt, Morocco) ⚒️ #minerals #geology

Origami unicorns are here @harmonycon.bsky.social (and so is their maker, supposedly) #HarmonyCon

Spotted: The San Andreas fault on the flight from #FC25! Right is Pacific Plate, left is North American Plate 🌎 #geology

My first FC was wild and surreal, but loved every moment. Tried fursuiting for the first time ever, was a staff lead, and overall had an intense but amazing time ✨ #FC2025

Yoo check this out! Product of homegrown ingenuity ⚙️

If any of y'all are at #FurtherConfusion this year, feel free to say hi! I'll be staffing and folding some origami unicorns for this event (designed by yours truly) 🦄 #FC25 #origami #furtherconfusion25

Starting this year with a geo-related post: a Paleozoic calc-silicate skarn with fist-sized chunks of epidote, Mojave Desert, CA. #geology #paleozoic #minerals

Last post of the year: an origami unicorn, ~4000ft above California. 🦄 #origami

Questioning on a daily basis. He do think tho. 🧠 (art by Doormantt on Twitter) #brony #mlpoc #mlp

Guess I'll try posting some geo stuff here... Behold: ~1.7 billion-yr old stromatolites (algal mats) of the Pahrump Group, CA. #Geology #Precambrian

Origami unicorns, now at the capital

Geology Furs Starter pack go.bsky.app/AYALWL5

I'm wondering if I should start posting my rock/mineral stuff here. The handle is "GEOfreelancer" after all... For now have a 🔥 Free in #Ponytown. #mlpoc #brony

Anyone down for boba? (art by Doormantt on Twitter) #mlpoc #brony