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@geofreelancer.bsky.social
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PhD geochemist in training, i.e. licking rocks & minerals ⛏🧪🪨 Mineralogist | Convention staff | Purple kitsune in the works 🦊 He/him | 20s | furry |brony| bi | 🇵🇭 + 🇺🇸

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Freelancer ⛏ @geofreelancer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I present to you the unassuming (yet funny) clay mineral: Dickite. A polymorph of kaolinite (Al-silicate hydroxide). Self-collected from Esmeralda Co., NV. #minerals #mineralmonday #geology
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Freelancer ⛏ @geofreelancer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Here's to another nice weekend of being a purple fox 💜 #ASC2026
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Freelancer ⛏ @geofreelancer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Another year of @everfreenw.com, another round of origami unicorns (500+ to be exact) 🦄 #EFNW2026
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Freelancer ⛏ @geofreelancer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
No, it's not a painting, nor AI. It's simply a polished rock 🪨. (Iron-stained alunite from La Paz Co., AZ. Self-collected and polished) #minerals #geology #mineralogy
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Freelancer ⛏ @geofreelancer.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Yo. (yes, I'm actually smol) #furry #fursuit
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Freelancer ⛏ @geofreelancer.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Weird dude, almost alien-like... Aragonite speleothem fragment from Kokoweef Peak, San Bernardino Co., CA. From an old collection. #minerals #geology
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Freelancer ⛏ @geofreelancer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Might as well repost this before the month ends 🏳️‍🌈 #geology #nature
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Freelancer ⛏ @geofreelancer.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Sometimes, the day is the most beautiful when it's ending. Hot Creek Geothermal Area, Mono Co., CA. Photo taken 2025. #geology #nature
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Freelancer ⛏ @geofreelancer.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
⚒️🪨🏔️ by day, 🦊💅💜 by night #furry #fursuit
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Freelancer ⛏ @geofreelancer.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
It's silica, albeit blazing... Dryhead Agate from Big Horn Co., MT. Personal collection. #minerals #mineralmonday #geology
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Freelancer ⛏ @geofreelancer.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
A legendary rock for all you Cambrian lovers out there. Dozens of anomalocaris "arms" (frontal appendages) from the famed Burgess Shale, B.C., Canada. ~508 million-yrs-old. #fossil #geology #paleontology
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Freelancer ⛏ @geofreelancer.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Not the best example for #mineralmonday, but it technically is made of minerals, namely olivine and pyroxene. Stony meteorite (H-chondrite). Personal find on a dry lakebed. #minerals #geology #meteorite
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Freelancer ⛏ @geofreelancer.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Late for #mineralmonday, but right on time for St. Patricks Day. Here be a green sheet silicate, clinochlore, var. seraphinite from Siberia. ☘️ #minerals #geology
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Freelancer ⛏ @geofreelancer.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
🫧 Bubbly 🫧 Hand sample of prehnite from a lesser-known locality: Pottinger Co., NSW, Australia. From an old mineral collection dating to the 1960s. #minerals #mineralmonday #geology
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Freelancer ⛏ @geofreelancer.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Sometimes, there's beauty on the inside 🖤 Romanèchite and todorokite (a.k.a. "psilomelane"), Mn-oxides. Self-collected from the Mojave Desert, CA. #minerals #mineralmonday #geology
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Freelancer ⛏ @geofreelancer.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
The rare, Li-rich tourmaline species Rossmanite, named in honor of the Caltech mineralogist Dr. George R. Rossman, who passed away early this month. Associated with the Li-rich mica trilithionite. Locality: Moravia, Czech Republic. Personal collection. #minerals #geology #mineralogy #tourmaline
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Freelancer ⛏ @geofreelancer.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Another piece of candy for #mineralmonday 🍭 Elbaite (watermelon) tourmaline fragment. Self-collected from Pala, CA. #minerals #geology #gems
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Freelancer ⛏ @geofreelancer.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
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
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Freelancer ⛏ @geofreelancer.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
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
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Zarafa Giraffe =>BLFC, Confuror, MFF, ANW @zarafa.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
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
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Freelancer ⛏ @geofreelancer.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Second time being a smol purple fox at #FC2026! I shall continue as such 🦊💜 #furry #FurCon2026
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Freelancer ⛏ @geofreelancer.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
A geologist? AND a furry???? 🤯 (anyway I'll be at #FurCon2026 this weekend and will likely bring minerals & fossils to trade) #furry #fursuit #geology
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Freelancer ⛏ @geofreelancer.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
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
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Freelancer ⛏ @geofreelancer.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
A part of me wants to go to the beach this winter. (Aragonite colored blue from Cu, from Balochistan, Pakistan. Personal collection) #minerals #geology
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Freelancer ⛏ @geofreelancer.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
The forbidden jolly rancher. 🍬 (Elbaite tourmaline from my thesis field site, Pala, CA) #minerals #geology
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Freelancer ⛏ @geofreelancer.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Guys it's the funny mineral #mineralogy
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Everfree Northwest @everfreenw.com · 11/10/2025
📖 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
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Freelancer ⛏ @geofreelancer.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Some gay schist 🏳️‍🌈 (~100 million-yr-old mica schist from Julian, CA. In cross-polarized light) #petrology #mineralogy #geology
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Freelancer ⛏ @geofreelancer.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Night on the town ✨ (with @auzbuzzard.bsky.social and @sirvataqun.bsky.social) #AFC2025 #furry #fursuit
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Freelancer ⛏ @geofreelancer.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
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!
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🦊 Vataqun 🐺 @sirvataqun.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
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
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Freelancer ⛏ @geofreelancer.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Purple...just purple. 💜 (Charoite from the collection. Locality: Murunskii Massif, Russia) #geology #mineralogy
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Freelancer ⛏ @geofreelancer.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
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!
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Freelancer ⛏ @geofreelancer.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Rose quartz and schorl tourmaline, both from a 60m-thick pegmatite. Minas Gerais, Brazil. Field doggo for scale. #geology
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Freelancer ⛏ @geofreelancer.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Back from three long weeks of fieldwork studying pegmatites in Brazil for my PhD. Quite the fever dream 💎 #geology #mineralogy
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Freelancer ⛏ @geofreelancer.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
When I see halite in the field. (Thank you @comnhale.bsky.social !)
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Freelancer ⛏ @geofreelancer.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
It's that time 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (Art by dormantt) #pridemonth
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Freelancer ⛏ @geofreelancer.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Just some large obsidian boulders, only ~800 yrs old. Doing geo shenanigans, Mono Co., CA. #geology
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Freelancer ⛏ @geofreelancer.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Appeasing the origami/horse gods. They angy.
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Freelancer ⛏ @geofreelancer.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
More geo stuff: ~90 million-year-old Californian ammonite. Found in late Cretaceous shale in 100ºF weather. #geology
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Freelancer ⛏ @geofreelancer.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
At this point, my brain is but a fried egg.
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Freelancer ⛏ @geofreelancer.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
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
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Freelancer ⛏ @geofreelancer.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
1500+. @babscon.com, here we come 🦄 #babscon #origami
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Freelancer ⛏ @geofreelancer.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
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
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Freelancer ⛏ @geofreelancer.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
"Are you folding unicorns for the last @babscon.com ?" "Yes." "How many?" "Yes." (what's pictured is only a small fraction...) #babscon #brony #origami
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Freelancer ⛏ @geofreelancer.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
A puffball of okenite (hydrated Ca zeolite)-a mineral you can actually pet. Locality: Pune District, India. (I named it Philip) #minerals #geology
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 06/03/2025
WHERE WILL YOU BE TOMORROW?
Stand up for science flyer, happening on March 7th in DC & nationwide with more information at www.standupforscience2025.org
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Freelancer ⛏ @geofreelancer.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
They shall indeed 🏳️‍⚧️
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Freelancer ⛏ @geofreelancer.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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
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Freelancer ⛏ @geofreelancer.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
The second page of my personal sticker book, since I can't place some of these on my laptop:
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