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Dots and Lines @dotsandlines.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If you see this, post a not quite Star Trek.

Jonathan Frakes and a woman from the 21st century look intently at a time travel device (A Biltmore Christmas).

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Dots and Lines @dotsandlines.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It doesn't take much editing to make xkcd 2501 about #MinCup. marshdeer.github.io/xkcd2501-gen...

Custom variant of xkcd comic 2501: Average Familiarity.

[Ponytail and Cueball are talking. Ponytail has her hand raised, palm up, towards Cueball.]
Ponytail: Minerals are second nature to us MinCup fans, so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows graphite and halite.
Cueball: And quartz, of course.
Ponytail: Of course.
[Caption below the panel]
Even when they're trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person's familiarity with their field.

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Dots and Lines @dotsandlines.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula…..🦇 (if you feel like it)

A hazy, cloud-like being over a rocky landscape. It is the dikironium cloud creature from original Star Trek episode "Obsession" that drained its victims of red blood cells.

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Dots and Lines @dotsandlines.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hey, did you know today is #NationalCoffeeDay? One of today's competitors in the #MineralCup can enhance the flavor of #coffee... and it's not cuprite. Vote for #halite in #MinCup26: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

A large iced coffee in a white person's hand. The coffee has a bat-print fabric cozy around it.

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Dots and Lines @dotsandlines.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

#Calcite, for #MinCup fans who know there are more than two ways to be.

Brilliant white calcite radiating from a central point in shapes reminiscent of long flower petals.

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Dots and Lines @dotsandlines.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It's #anorthite for me today, because of labradorite, iridescent blue and made in part of anorthite. It's beautiful, and I have a more reaching reason as well... www.mindat.org/min-2308.html

Labradorite, deep iridescent blue with a little green sheen and mottled darker parts, looking a bit like islands seen from space.

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Dots and Lines @dotsandlines.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Bat 62: Greater long-nosed bat (Leptonycteris nivalis). Like the lesser long-nosed bat, this is a nectar-eating pollinator. It is also known as the Mexican long-nosed bat.

Side view of a bat with a long snout and a pointy nose leaf. It has sandy fur, small round ears, small brown eyes, and what appear to be whiskers on its chin.

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Dots and Lines @dotsandlines.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

What's a movie you saw 3 or more times in theaters? 👀 #Filmsky

Poster for Turtle Odyssey, featuring a green sea turtle front and center, and "Narrated by Russell Crowe" above.

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Dots and Lines @dotsandlines.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Bat 61: Bechstein's bat (Myotis bechsteinii), who relies on ancient mature forests in England and Wales. Destruction of these forests has made this once-common bat rare. www.bats.org.uk/about-bats/w...

A greyish bat flying under a tree with mouth open to echolocate. It has light fur on its body, darker wings, and reddish mouth, arms, legs, toes, and tail (which is attached to the wing membrane). The bat's ears are moderately long and pointy. Behind, not well illuminated, is either another bat of the same type or a superimposed earlier image of the same exact bat.

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Dots and Lines @dotsandlines.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Bat 59: Fairy light detail (purple).

A tiny bat, purple printed on white plastic with a white LED lighting it up from behind. It is cartoonish, with closed eyes and two white fangs. In the background are purple artificial Christmas tree branches and silver wire from another light strand.

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Dots and Lines @dotsandlines.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Bat [picture] 58: Common tent-making bats (Uroderma bilobatum).

Six bats roosting together in their leaf tent. The bats are brown with white stripes running from their noses to their ears, both over and under their eyes. Their ears are small, pointed at the tip, and yellow at the edges. Their eyes are big, round, and very dark brown.

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Dots and Lines @dotsandlines.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Bat 56: Townsend's big-eared bat (Corynorhinus townsendii).

A bat with very long pointy ears, a rounded mouth, smallish dark eyes, medium brown fluffy fur, and dark brown wings folded as the bat hangs on some wood. The bat almost seems to be smiling at the camera.

Photo credit: ODFW / Don Albright

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Dots and Lines @dotsandlines.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Bat 55: One of my favorite shirts.

A yellow-orange T-shirt screnprinted in black with the phrase "Hang in there" over a hanging bat with wings outstretched and several hanging houseplants. The bat has realistic wing structure, thumbs, and big ears. It somewhat resembles a spotted bat.

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Dots and Lines @dotsandlines.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Bat 54: Mauritian tomb bat (Taphozous mauritianus). ...I don't think that's a tomb.

Two bats roosting on the bark of a tree. They have brownish backs and white bellies, small ears, dark brown eyes, and pointy noses.

Image attribution: Frank Vassen

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Dots and Lines @dotsandlines.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Bat 53: "Spooky Silhouettes" USPS Forever stamps.

Several plain white envelopes fanned out to show their stamps: the "Spooky Silhouettes" USPS Forever stamps featuring Halloween characters on colorful shiny backgrounds with windowframe lines. Along with a cat and a raven on yellow, a pair of ghosts on orange, and a spider and its web on red, there are a trio of bats with some sparkles on purple.

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Dots and Lines @dotsandlines.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Bat 52: Stoliczka's trident bat (Aselliscus stoliczkanus).

Head-on photo of a bat with a round face, small ears, dull brownish fur, and a big fancy nose. Its nose has three protrusions in a row, like the ends of a trident pointed toward the camera. The bat has its mouth open in what almost resembles a confused expression, and the fur on its lip looks like a sparse mustache. Its eyes are hidden by its nose and fur.

Photo credit: Satoru Arai, Keita Aoki, Nguyễn Trường Sơn, Vương Tân Tú, Fuka Kikuchi, Gohta Kinoshita, Dai Fukui, Hoàng Trung Thành, Se Hun Gu, Yasuhiro Yoshikawa, Keiko Tanaka-Taya, Shigeru Morikawa, Richard Yanagihara & Kazunori Oishi (CC-BY-4.0)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stoliczka%27s_trident_bat2.png

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Dots and Lines @dotsandlines.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.

Mock Star Trek original series title screen with the Enterprise above a planet. Instead of an episode title, it says, "If you can split infinitives, you can use singular they".

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Dots and Lines @dotsandlines.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

A friend on here shared some Halloween costume photos not unrelated to figuring out gender stuff, and I was inspired to also share; forgive the crop, as I'm not *quite* brave enough to share my face today.