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D. Haywick🍁⚒️🎨 @sedhead402.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Quartz has been a vital resource for human civilization for a couple of thousand years. Longer if you include cryptocrystalline varieties of SiO2 (cutting tools). Asagiite is like what? 4 years old? It can afford to wait a few years. Vote quartz. #mincup26

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

#MinCup26 Round 1 Match 6 It's a classic vs a newbie as the most common named mineral in the crust #Quartz is up against an exceedingly-rare sea foam-green mineral discovered just a few years ago #Asagiite. VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

Split photo of clear quartz points radiating from a central point, with amethyst purple at some of the tips and cool mint green asagiite in mostly log-shaped crystals, with a few blobby bits.

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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Round 1, Match 6! quartz VS asagiite in the #minerals sketchbook #mincup26 #sciart #sketchbook

sketchbook page photo with a double-page spread of ink drawings of two minerals: quartz and asagiite, one in each page. black and white. a pen rests in the middle of the pages.

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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

If you're not using asbestos yet, you are being left behind. Everyone is using asbestos, there's no point in trying to fight it. Asbestos is the future.

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Good grief, this hits home.

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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

GET A GRIP Ireland is building a battery that contains no lithium. No cobalt. No rare-earth metals. Instead, it stores energy using carbon dioxide. The project is designed to hold 200 megawatt-hours of electricity, making it one of Europe’s largest long-duration energy storage systems.

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Dan Herbert @danherb10.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Vote Binface

A badge reading Bin Cuntface with Count Binface

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Mike Lewinski @wildernessvagabonds.com · 08/07/2026

I have a fine selection of bug memes.

Meme caption: When ur a moth but also a goth

Photo of a Clymene moth which has a white body, black tips along the edges of the wings and an upside down black cross pattern when wings are at rest.

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Tony Lastname @rivernewstc.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

😎🌵🪴 a long read, but worth the time

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Leigh Jones @leighsus.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I have such an expertly curated algorithm that I'm seeing posts from Mexican street food restaurants in the US and this is how they're advertising the game tomorrow night. "Good vibes"

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Claire Barrett @clairebarrett.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I can only show you the door. You are the one who must walk through it.

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 29/06/2026

When the selkie returned to the beach, a man was holding her sealskin. "Is this yours?" he asked. "May I borrow it?" "You want to be a seal?" "No, but when I take it off, I'll be a woman, right?" "My heart, you already are," the selkie said. "That skin is mine, but I can help you find yours."

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mean things I say to myself @meantomyself.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Old enough to recognize this as a data center

Lockable floppy disk holder from the late 20th century

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Today is full of magics. You don’t need to read about others experiences, you don’t need to capture your own to share. Today, just bathe in it all. Harvest your own omens, revel in whatever blessings the day offers. Refuse to be part of the mediated spectacle. Find your own primal wonder. #Solstice

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UK Prime Minister, Some Say Sinister @joemuggs.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Got something that's been bugging for a while (25 years!!) off my chest for @thelineofbestfit.com There are musical revolutions bigger than punk and acid house happening in front of our eyes and the culture press just shrugs.

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The Monday Meeting

Despite critics hailing this as an age of cultural stagnation, a quiet, globalised explosion of taste is happening right now led by teenagers, writes Joe Muggs.

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Juliet Turner @juliet-turner.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

My week of ecological research 🐝

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Finally, footage from that new whale graveyard. The fact that fossils and fresh carcasses mix together in this spot is bonkers. But of course it makes sense, because the scavengers that live down there also need a steady supply over millions of years. They can't just suddenly adapt to the deep.

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Whale graveyard discovered 7km under the sea

YouTube video by nature video

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Claire Barrett @clairebarrett.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Suddenly I want to go to the bottom of the Indian ocean 😂

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Claire Barrett @clairebarrett.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Filing this under things to read as soon as my report is finished! 🚨

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Gabe Moshenska @gabemoshenska.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Mummy: *exists* Europeans since literally the twelfth fuckin century: 'I'm gonna eat that.'

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Callan Bentley @callanbentley.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Superb, elegant diagrams by Page Quinton & Michael Rygel to illustrate key ideas in sedimentology & petrography: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pa... ⚒️📊

Sketch of a thin section through an oolitic limestone with various internal components

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Claire Barrett @clairebarrett.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

It's amazing how much exercise I'll do when I'm procrastinating something that isn't exercise.

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History of Geology @historyofgeology.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Researchers at Utrecht University have upgraded Paleolatitude - originally built to link fossil records to ancient climates, but now it is a free online tool that traces the geological history of any point on Earth over the last 320 million years 🌐 paleolatitude.org#!/

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Geoscopy — Geology, explained. @geoscopy.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Earth has a “gravity hole” south of India. Not a pit, a 100+ m sag in gravity-shaped sea level, likely tied to ancient Tethys slabs and deep mantle flow. The science behind the Indian Ocean Geoid Low: geoscopy.com/indian-ocean... #Geology #EarthScience

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Casval ☄️🏳️‍⚧️ @redcomets.net · 06/05/2026

speaking of webcomics I still think this Hark A Vagrant panel is like. the single funniest image of all time

Kepler: "What if the earth orbits the sun"
Tycho: "What if your wife orbits my dick"

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alxyz @alxyz.900535.xyz · 13/04/2026

Xiu Xiu playing music inspired by Eraserhead, from Saturday night at Rewire Festival.

Two performers silhouetted against a projection of a tunnel

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Claire Barrett @clairebarrett.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Rewire. Sunday highlights: Eliana Glass, KMRU, and the superbly kitted out Einstürzende Neubauten with everything open game for an instrument including a shopping trolley. 🛒

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Claire Barrett @clairebarrett.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Rewire. Friday + Saturday highlights: Sam Slater, Drew McDowall(!), Oneohtrix Point Never, Beverley Glenn Copeland, Lucy Railton(!?💀), Xiu Xiu doing Erasurehead(!!??!💀💀💀), Cara Tolmie & Rian Treanor (fizzy!) Today is cello heavy from the looks of things

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Claire Barrett @clairebarrett.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I'm at Rewire in The Hague. Caterina Barbieri makes a lot more to me sense live. On record it sounds tinny and thin, whereas live it sounds like she's colliding planets and creating supernova.

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Claire Barrett @clairebarrett.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

What's that about an imaginary queer bathhouse? 🎣 Reel me in why don't you

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UK Prime Minister, Some Say Sinister @joemuggs.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

If you have 15 minutes - was just reminded that this is one of the greatest pieces of radio. Every line goes hard af, then the final one is just 😳

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BBC Radio 3 - The Essay, Cornerstones, Flint

Alan Garner sparks with flint, the stone that has enabled human civilisation.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 03/04/2026

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 02/04/2026

Introducing In Your Spare Time: A Podcast of the Blog of Ursula K. Le Guin! inyoursparetime.libsyn.com

A drawing, by Ursula K. Le Guin, of a loafed-up black cat as seen from behind. The cat's tail curls around the podcast title IN YOUR SPARE TIME. Ursula K. Le Guin's name is at the top of the image, which has a teal background.

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Telephone Friend @ironyhat.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Best railcar graffiti I've ever seen

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Claire Barrett @clairebarrett.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Just had my petrological microscope delivered at work and it's taking every ounce of willpower I have not to set it up immediately.

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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I wear “liberal” like a badge of honor because to me it means believing in democracy over authoritarianism, facts over propaganda, compassion over cruelty, and opportunity over exclusion. If that’s the label, I’ll take it.👇

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

I know this has circulated with alacrity recently, so you may have already seen it, but if you haven't... WOW BOY HOWDY it's the most useful thing. Thank you cardcatalogforlife.substack.com -- this is a very very very helpful public service: cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

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Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It.

40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.

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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Discover the stunning biotite mineral, known for its perfect laminar structure and deep colors, a true gem for collectors and scientists alike.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

my notifications these days are basically a buffet of "here is 1000 word thread of detailed nuanced geopolitical analysis" and "check out this rock that looks like a cock"

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Ethan Baxter @ethanrockstory.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

⚒️🍎🧪❤️ Looking for a #Valentine's Day science story? There's a rock for that! Check out this old episode of Every Rock Has A Story... all about why some rocks are PINK! youtu.be/f9RLgyWADDY

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Every Rock Has A Story #35 - Pink

YouTube video by Ethan Baxter's "Every Rock Has A Story"

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Poor Fatima. Truly a symbol of our dysfunctional age.

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