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Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 14h

Of course I ate the rest of the peach before moving on to the cocktail.

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Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 14h

G&T, threw some fresh peach in for good measure

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 28/09/2026

A woodcut of a bird beside the text "pretty sure i'm dead and this is hell"

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

When Lucy from Compass Books in Dartmouth, Devon, was victim to shoplifting people told her to install CCTV. Instead she put this ancient book thief curse on the wall from the Monastery of San Pedro in Barcelona so book stealers would be consumed by "the flames of hell" with "their members blasted".

A Curse Against Stealers Of Books
For him that
stealth a book from
this place, let it
change into a
serpent in his hand
and rend him.
Let him be struck with
palsy,
& all his members
blasted.
Let him languish in
pain crying aloud for
mercy, & let there be be no surcease to his
agony till he sink to
dissolution.
Let bookworms gnaw
his entrails in token of
the Worm that diets not,
& when at last he
goeth to his final
punishment, let the
flames of
hell consume him
forever & aye.
(Monastery Of San Pedro, Barcelona.)

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Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 15h

Ayo, interaction bait: What's your favorite pasta shape? Mine is radiatore! Very teckschure......also holds onto sauce very well.

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Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 15h

Yeah sounds about right. It's election season in the land of the free, baby

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Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 16h

YOOOOO got out of work HOURS early. You know what that means: reading with a cocktail!

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Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 02/10/2026

Congrats to the mineralogical king of planet Earth, the universal SiO₂! Better luck in future years to all the other competitors (asagiite deserves another go after that tooth-clenching 2-vote loss). Thanks for the fun, guys! Looking forward to next year. #MinCup26

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Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 28/09/2026

AAAAAAAAA I HAVE BEEN SNIFFED (positive)

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Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 28/09/2026

Me going the speed limit with a gigantic Ram truck driving about three feet behind me

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Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 27/09/2026

I completely understand. Sometimes even the most interesting things are not immune to the powers of distraction

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bug spray cody @aevris.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

really enjoying this gif. please, join me for a drink

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Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 27/09/2026

@majima.club as The Isopod Guy, I would like your thoughts on trilobites

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Vicky Veritas @vickyveritas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Vote for the mineral that literally moves mountains. Vote #Halite. #MinCup26 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology #geosky #GIS 🍎 🪐 🔭 🌋 📚 🌿

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Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 27/09/2026

The only reason I've ever heard it is because it's on one of the playlists at my work. The chorus is BURNED into my brain and I do NOT enjoy it

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Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 26/09/2026

An hour of jumping onto a shelf only to slip and knock down everything on the shelf as he fell, intentionally knocking things off the kitchen counter, walking around going "AWAWAWAWAWAWAW" I swear to god I am giving him So Much activity and attention he's just a little freak

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Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 26/09/2026

My cat is so stupid. And so goblin freak. And so loud. I love him

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Punished Cat Guy (extra punished Cenobite version) @majima.club · 24/09/2026

It’s an absolute nightmare and I cannot stress enough how unhinged people get about it. As part of my work with the community center I organize with Jewish groups who publicly state they support Palestinian freedom, but people still say they won’t attend functions because it’s a Jewish org.

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Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 24/09/2026

AuGHHGGHGH I CAN'T WAIT to have my internet back up and running so I can update the P3R FeMC mod!!! I've been wanting to for ages and now they released a new update video and OUGH

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Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 22/09/2026

This is the kind of thing I feel belongs on the internet. Benign little pointless updates. The stuff that nobody really cares about, there's no one to tell irl so you just throw it out into the void. Benign's not quite the right word for it but it's nearly 2 AM so I'll think of the word tomorrow

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Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 22/09/2026

Woke up at 01:30. There's silent lightning outside and I'm still sleepy. Went to the bathroom and got a drink of water. I'm going back to sleep.

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Vicky Veritas @vickyveritas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

One mineral to rule them all! Which one will it be? You choose! It’s never too late to join the fun. #MinCup26 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology #geosky #GIS 🍎 🪐 🔭 🌋 📚 🌿

Durin the IV shows a piece of mithril, a rare and powerful metal ore from the series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.

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Punished Cat Guy (extra punished Cenobite version) @majima.club · 21/09/2026

Who needs an alarm clock when you can be woken up by a kitten studiously licking your armpit

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Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 21/09/2026

SHE'S REAL SHE'S REAL SHE'S REAL

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Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 21/09/2026

All the FeMC fans, even the ones who don't play P5X, coming out of the woodwork for the new content from the P5X event

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Vicky Veritas @vickyveritas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Widgiemooltha is a 1897 historic town in Western Australia’s goldfields that arose during the gold rush, & was named the aboriginal name for a nearby hill. This pretty purple putnisite crystal was found there. This mineral has a completely unique chemical structure found nowhere else in nature.

This tiny purple putnisite crystal is from the Armstrong Ni Mine, Widgiemooltha, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia. It is unique in chemistry and nature, and found nowhere else. From Mindat: https://www.mindat.org/photo-543393.html

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Punished Cat Guy (extra punished Cenobite version) @majima.club · 20/09/2026

I would really love to get one of these for my nieces, but also one for myself

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Semi-feral Post Monger @dwaynefuhlhage.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Tagging the #MinCup2026 crew for obvious reasons

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Vicky Veritas @vickyveritas.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Since the minerals, liquids, and gases are well protected from chemical alteration, #quartz inclusions open a window to the past that can help scientists reconstruct the chemical and physical conditions that existed when the rock formed.

This bubble is in liquid inside of a negative crystal which is in a quartz cabochon host. In other words, a two-phase inclusion that happens to be in a negative crystal. (Photos: Wimon Manorotkul)

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John Cassidy @earthquakeguy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

As summer winds down, fog season gets closer…

Short-lived late-September fog on southern #VancouverIsland. Green bushes and trees in the mist as the sun rises.

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Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 20/09/2026

Also I'm a dedicated fan of plate tectonics, plus I was very fond of serpentine as a kid so I have an emotional attachment to it lol

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Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 20/09/2026

Quartz is pretty sick too but I gotta stick to my guns, so stichtite it is!!!

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Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 20/09/2026

Reasons to vote #stichtite: -Cool purple and green -Suitable & beautiful carving material -Forms around subduction zones & mid-ocean ridges which are both very interesting -Forms from serpentine which is also very cool -Avenge underdog asagiite's 2-vote-margin loss to quartz in round 1 #MinCup26

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Shar(yna)Tran/Shark(aeopteryx) @sharksonaplane.mastodon.sandwich.net.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@MineralCup/1173004… ngl I'm voting #Stichtite to get back for what happened to #Asagiite (also, it's kinda cool in its own right—just like asagiite!) #MinCup26 #JusticeForAsagiite

mastodon.social

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Cian 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him) @cbdawson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Hmm. I'm torn. One brings me amethyst, but the other is associated with serpentine. 🤔

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Elizabeth V @geolizzy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I would like to vote for the soft purple one, but #quartz (specifically amethyst) was the mineral that got me interested in rocks and geology #MinCup26

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lynncorrigan.bsky.social @lynncorrigan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The trophy for when quartz wins #MinCup26

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Dave Rodland @daverodland.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Of #quartz I have a pick today for #MinCup26 ! 🧪⚒️💎 My mineralogy students might have a favorite specimen, but it's hard to tell why.

Clear quartz crystals, Mt. Ida and Alaska

Unlabeled quartz crystal mass, in a vaguely suggestive habit.

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LeSuPer @lesuper.bsky.uy · 20/09/2026

En el 4to Match de #MinCup26 se enfrentan Cuarzo vs Stichtita. El mineral omnipresente que da nombre a los cristales vs un recién llegado, bonito pero solo eso. Votá aquí: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... Por importancia, belleza, usos y porque es el mineral de Uruguay (en amatista) voté Cuarzo.

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Vote in Round 2 Match 4 — Mineral Cup & Ore Cup

Vote in Quartz vs Stichtite Credit: Josu Larrea and John St James

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Kerstin Neuhaus @microtopico.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Recently, we were at the Baltic Sea and there you can find plenty of agate nodules. Agate is microcrystalline SiO2, a very dense and hard material. Mostly, it's dull grey, but it can look very striking if cut, and you can sometimes find small drusy quartz inclusions. #Quartz #MinCup26

Another piece of agate with a small spot of drusy quartz. It's less than 1 cm in diameter, so my phone camera made a poor job capturing the details.

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#FatBearWeek26 and #MinCup26 --the definitive markers of boreal social media fall.

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Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 19/09/2026

Me, walking into the bar and wiggling my soot-covered fingers: sooty hands! Bartender: that'd be the name of a great punk-rock band

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Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 18/09/2026

OKAY LIKE I KNOW IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE FUN BUT S T I L L

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Pumpkins and Old Skeletons @corgiseveryhour.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A #teampretty vs #teampoison matchup for the ages. I am truly torn, love an aluminosilicate... but that Heavy Metal is just so good. #MinCup26

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Helen MC @crystallised-cricket.com · 18/09/2026

#Vesuvianite is my second fave in the #MinCup26 draw, so no contest today. So varied, so many atoms, such WOW. #Skutterudite is pedestrian in comparison.

Image of the crystal structure of Skutterudite viewed along its c axis. Cobalt, Iron and Nickle positions are represented by blue spheres/polygons (they all sit in the same position and occupy that at some time or another), Arsenic by green spheres. Drawn from entry #9417 in the American mineral database

Image representing the crystal structure of Vesuvianite - here red spheres represent oxygen atoms, light blue spheres represent calcium atoms and blue spheres represent silicon. there is also some copper, aliuminum, manganese, iron, magnesium and zinc hiding out in the structure (but that's harder to see in this representation). The structure is viewed down it's c axis and drawn in VESTA from #1044 in the American mineral database

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neutral @neutral.zone · 17/09/2026

This place needs more “look at this stupid thing I made because the idea amused me” and less “here is my position on the recurring social object”

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Andrew Gelston @agelston.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Since no one else is posting graphite samples today here are mine! They were very annoying to get but I really needed to find out the graphite quality lol First is only 3-5% Cg (graphite) and it’s from a open pit talc mine 2nd is almost pure graphite on a feldspar matrix. From a road cut

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