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Freelancer ⛏ @geofreelancer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It's not really gemmy, but it's still aquamarine 🩵 Inyo Co., CA. Self-collected from Mesozoic granites. #minerals #mineralmonday #geology

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Freelancer ⛏ @geofreelancer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

No...Way... (regardless this guy is a well-accomplished geologist)

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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 · 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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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 · 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 · 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 · 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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