Meme time

Got three books for £1 yesterday at a charity shop, including this epic kids book on Aliens. [1/3]

Uh what, ChatGPT?

Possibly one of the most amazing fossils to ever come out of the Fossil Butte Member of the Green River Formation in the US, this is a fossil of a Apatemys chardini - a lemur like mammal from the Oligocene. This is the best and most complete example of this species - in a private collection.

And also...

No apologies

Is Galen Erso working at SpaceX?

you.regettingold.com This site absolutely gets worse every time you come back to it. #sorrynotsorry

My* mindat paper is published in American Mineralogist! I feel almost like a real scientist. Now I need to beg for views and citations like some kind of Youtube influencer. Yay. pubs.geoscienceworld.org/msa/ammin/ar... * Other co-authors may exist.

Antique stall in Tirana, Albania. No translation necessary

And I'm now in Albania, a place I've always wanted to visit. Enjoying it thoroughly.

Melanterite stalactite, from the 10th level of the Trepça mine in Kosovo. Amazing visit yesterday.

Have obtained these two specimens for my good friend Kerry, who needs them for reasons

It's almost time for the greatest mineral event of the year.

Big Fukang Meteorite (and @getpseudoed.bsky.social )

I look after a large list of holes.

Vibe for 2025

Everything on one chart. Mass vs Radius. Lineweaver, Charles H., Patel, Vihan M. (2023) All objects and some questions. American Journal of Physics, 91 (10). 819-825 doi:10.1119/5.0150209 pubs.aip.org/aapt/ajp/art...

That, kids, is how you do a headline.

So I was given this old trophy that had a rock on it, and turns out it's a piece of "platinum-rich"* ore from the Merensky Reef, South Africa. Some nice visible chromite and sulfides (pentlandite/pyrrhotite?) along with the usual silicate gunk. * Everything is relative.

Yes, there's a page on mindat.org for flourite

Game over, man.

Killer Micros! IYKYK

Oh go on, let's be completely unoriginal and do the same! 1 like = 1 piece of Jolyonlore

And i thought the Dutch farmer tractor protests were bad...

LEGO minerals are on the way! Congratulations Dario.

A facebook group that knows EXACTLY how to troll its own members.

It's cold outside and I'm annoyed and weirdly surprised by this inevitably seasonal temperature swing.

I wonder how much of this could fit in the Albert Hall

Should Salt n Vinegar crisps* be blue or green? Lidl is clearly hedging their bets on this. Isn't it time for an ISO standard for crisp packet colour? *or chips to my US friends, but this probably means nothing to you.

The abuse the English language gets... (from www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... )

For those wondering what to do with the old Apple TV 3, it actually does work as a reasonably good drinks coaster.

How I arrived at Bluesky

Maybe not this.

Possibly this one

Hey paleofriends... can someone identify the species of this beautiful fossil frog from ebay?

So many of the messages we get on Facebook are like "Hi I'm trying to contact the rite people cause I be leave I found a kimberlite diamond mine here's some photos" However you reply it's never going to end happily. So generally now we don't even reply.

If you missed yesterday's Photo of the Day on Mindat you really should go look at it. It's a closeup of agate and it's stunning... www.mindat.org/photo-112186... Amir Akhavan photo.

Advertise your Bluesky account in 3 words: Too many rocks

Keichousaurus from China, showing a visible tectonic neck split with a calcite vein! Expertly prepared by Kim Yunghuyn.

I thought I understood technology but this has me confused.

So went to the Natural History Galleries at the National Science Museum in Daejeon, Korea. This is their Sea Lion. Behold the majesty.

Car Park ticket machines now give motivational messages.

Learning about Korean art treasures from a terminally sad robot.