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Kevin Geipel

@kageipel.bsky.social
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I play with maps📍🗺️ SF Bay Area • CSUEB Alum GIS • Cartography • Geology • Geography TV • Alt Rock • Casual Hiking

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 12h
This is now a sycophancy test. Joking about it I’ll accept, barely, but anyone who even remotely indulges this is a coward
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 14h
Sigh... it bears repeating: imagine if a Democrat had pulled that shit today in a congressional hearing. Every major newspaper editorial board in the country would be calling for their resignation, and Jake Tapper, through tears, would spend a chunk of his show asking what our country has become.
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Rebecca Wilcox @rebeccawilcox.bsky.social · 15h
As much as I will always love quartz, in this moment when generative AI companies are doing their best to make all my art valueless, I have to choose graphite. Give me a graphite stick and some paper, and I can make something wonderful that no one’s ever seen before.
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Cian 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him) @cbdawson.bsky.social · 16h
These photos are appalling. It should be a violation of game rules for competing contestants to fraternize like this 🤣😆🙈
Screenshot of Mincup showing photos of graphite & quartz in the same hand sample. 

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Left: Graphite inclusions and bubble within a water pocket within a double-terminated quartz crystal. Credit: Robert M. Lavinsky.
Center: Graphite and quartz intermixed from Connecticut. Credit: Harold Moritz.
Right. Hexagonal graphite crystal within a quartz crystal. Ferdinando Giovine (right)

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Both quartz and graphite can form in the same kinds of rocks, either entangled together or with graphite as an inclusion within quartz. This gradient most often in hydrothermal fluid. As the fluids cool, carbon precipitates out first as graphite with silica crystallizing into clear quartz crystals around it.
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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 17h
#MinCup26 Semifinal 2 It’s a match sure to break hearts between industrial powerhouses piezoelectric #quartz and lubricating #graphite! (With the correct links this time!) VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...
Split photo between a pair of glassy-clear terminated quartz crystals and flaky blades of dark grey graphite at odd angles to each other, with green crystals around them.
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Kevin Geipel @kageipel.bsky.social · 17h
There just was a Threads post about a mom raving that her kid was getting Fs in Chicago and since moving now gets As and Bs in Texas. Most people were quick to point out that it wasn’t the flex she thought it was. Just shows how completely low Texas’s standards are.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is not something you say if you actually like education or children
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Vicky Veritas @vickyveritas.bsky.social · 21h
#StaySalty, but be sure to vote for the mineral that moves mountains, Halite. #MinCup26 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology #geosky #GIS 🍎 🪐 🔭 🌋 📚 🌿
Woody with Buzz Lightyear’s hand around his shoulder. Buzz looks into the distance like he’s having Woody imagine something and says, “Salty people. Salty people everywhere.”
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The Onion @theonion.com · 23h
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
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Bkania @bkania.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ok folks! #Halite is trailing. Yes it is the #Salt of the #Earth, but it is most valuable in our #Ocean s.🐳🐠🫍🪼🐙🐋 Without it our #Friends wouldn't be here. #MinCup26 ##TacoTuesday #FishTacos 🌮 So please 🙏 #Vote for #Halite @mineralcup.bsky.social
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Dolphin Leaping Out of Water
Alt: Dolphin Leaping Out of Water
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 23h
Republicans cried that Trump needed money for the border and then he stole the money to pay for a millions in totally illegal, taxpayer funded campaign ads. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Exclusive | Homeland Security Money Financed Pro-Trump Television Ads
White House calls the spots public-service ads, but critics argue using taxpayer money for campaign-like messaging may violate federal law.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 23h
The Trump administration continues to be the most pro-cancer party, this time stopping children with brain cancer from receiving promising clinical trials that could save their lives so that we can... *checks notes* ... reduce the deficit?
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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 23h
Tides in Southern California are running more than a foot higher than the late-20th century baseline. In San Diego, the 1.16-foot tidal anomaly during the past hour rivals Sept. 14 as the anomaly so far this year. #CAwx
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Ben Winters @benwinters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
that chatbot doing that unsafe/violative thing is not it 'going rogue' or an 'unfortunate incident of unintended consequences,' it’s the logical and devastating consequences of an unsafe product put out by irresponsible companies that have been conditioned to believe consequences dont exist for them
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Kevin Geipel @kageipel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Had a bunch of popcorn today so only fitting to support #halite tonight
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OUGS Social Media @ougeolsoc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
No #halite, no ocean currents. Then where would we all be? Vote for #halite in this #MinCup26 semifinal!
Sinking salt water, floating fresh water, thermohaline circulation
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Lauren the Flute @laurentheflute.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is the year for those of us with very early and basic loyalties! Next year I'll get all excited about the new shiny minerals I don't know about, but this year I am voting for the minerals who have been my friends since childhood. It's like the MinCup equivalent of a comfort read, I guess?
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Mika McKinnon @mikamckinnon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Cleanup didn’t change much; new tools are working well. Graphite is facing quartz tomorrow. I love how simple the chemistry of our #MinCup26 Final Four are, especially considering how much exotic chemistry we gave you in the starting matches!
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Kevin Geipel @kageipel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Aww 😢
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Kevin Geipel @kageipel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Between grants, dependent fee waivers, and loans, I would likely have not finished my degrees, certainly my masters, if I had to do it over now. That is really depressing cause even under Schwarzenegger I had my tuition raise about 300% from start to finish and near the end had to take out loans.
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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I am tired of having to pretend that the value of studying my discipline solely rests on the "marketable skills" we teach. Sometimes things are just worth knowing and doing because they make your life bigger and richer.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The humanities have been calling out genAI theft since the jump, while STEM has rallied around “discovery potential”. I am *ONCE AGAIN* reminding EVERYONE that science is not the sacred cow, STEM isn’t the exception. They are going to steal our IP, too. We aren’t special.
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Kevin Geipel @kageipel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Really need companies to not lie about their delivery time ranges. If I order something and you tell me September 28-30 don’t five minutes later give me an entire different time range of Oct 1-6. I wanted it by the 2nd and now that is very unlikely.
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Democracy Vibe · by NoMAGA @democracyvibe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Graphite’s writing trick is all in the layers: carbon sheets slide off onto paper while the crystal stays mostly intact. A very elegant way to lose a little mineral at a time.
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Kevin Geipel @kageipel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Watching new 🇩🇪 era with Klopp and yeah it’s going to be a long rebuilding that goes beyond the national team if it happens at all. So disappointed. Can only do so much with the players that are available.
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Craig Jorgensen @bowtiediene.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#MinCup26 Sodium chloride (aka #halite) is cool because it is transparent to infrared radiation - so it acts like a window for those wavelengths of light. And I know #julienite bumped #calcite (another mineral with a fun relationship with light), but #julienite does seem more interesting. 🤔
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murduck the werewolf 〓〓🏳️‍🌈𓅄✊🐺🪄🎡 @murduck.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Halite is small perfect cubes, That are used to flavour your food. You don't slip on the ice, And have chips that taste nice. So show it some kind gratitude! VOTE HALITE! #MinCup26
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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
CUBE INSIDE CUBE VOTE CUBE² VOTE #HALITE VOTE #MINCUP26
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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You’re all wonderful and we love you. (And we clean up those obvious reload/tech glitches without judgement.)
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Mary (geographile) @geographile.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#Skutterudite looks so much more badass, but I will never not love the perfection of #quartz. It can do so much. It is so lovely. #mincup26
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Daniel A. Walker @danwalker9999.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
In times like these, quartz is the mineral we need. It can't be scratched. It doesn't back down and it doesn't break down. It is unchanging and unyielding.
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🍅🥔🫐🌽 hoopy frood 🌶️ 🥑🍫🌵 @huwupy.kawaii.social · 26/09/2026
SiO2 is 48% of the only home we've ever known, go quartz!
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Kevin Geipel @kageipel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Instead of woof he went roof.
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Dots and Lines @dotsandlines.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Rotten eggs (sphalerite) vs. glitter gel pen (cuprite) this round. I know where I stand. #cuprite #MinCup26
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
Y'all it's getting increasingly hard not to cry and smoke in front of my students.
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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If you see sketchy surges of votes, please tag us to investigate.
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Marian Goldeen @warriorchicken.me · 24/09/2026
Vote #Graphite. Don’t just pencil it in!
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julierey.bsky.social @julierey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I like them both but I’m feeling salty, so #halite it is! #MinCup26
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Saavik ‘Careful of the Ankle’ Ford @saavikford.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Vote for #Halite, literally the MOST lickable rock! #MinCup26
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Kevin Geipel @kageipel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#halite #mincup26
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Spongebob: I Can Almost Taste It Meme
ALT: Spongebob: I Can Almost Taste It Meme
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Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
lick vs do not lick
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🌌Forebodings of Éskʷətayit @joxter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
we're getting into "matches egineered in a lab to hurt me" territory, bc this choice is agonising, but #Halite it is. #MinCup26
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Vicky Veritas @vickyveritas.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#MinCup26 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology #geosky #GIS 🍎 🪐 🔭 🌋 📚 🌿
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Salty Annoyed
Alt: The Morton Salt girl in yellow dress and umbrella pours salt from a container in the pouring rain. Text says “Salty I Am.”
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Child: This is my first time meeting a mayor. Mamdani: Wow, have you ever met a prime minister? Child: No Norway PM Jonas Gahr Støre: *walks over*
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/09/2026
Crush the arts (Kennedy Center), destroy the civil service (DOGE), control elections (gestures broadly), dismantle the press (gestures more broadly), decimate science (NIH), and demolish education (DeptEd). The authoritarian playbook.
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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.
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National Weather Service @nws.noaa.gov · 22/09/2026
Today’s Fall Equinox at 8:05 pm ET marks the start of astronomical fall in the N. Hemisphere and is when the Sun is directly over Earth’s equator. Now through the Winter Solstice, the Northern Hemisphere will receive less ad less direct sunlight as Earth continues along its tilted orbit.
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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hurricane Polo forecast to explode into Category 5 storm off Mexico www.sfchronicle.com/weather/arti...
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Hurricane Polo forecast to explode into Category 5 storm off Mexico
The hurricane could intensify with record speed as the storm feeds off exceptionally warm ocean water.
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Kevin Geipel @kageipel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I have lost my effing mind and it is only Monday.
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Kevin Geipel @kageipel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Missing from the settlement discussion this morning was the DOJ’s heavy hand in all this.
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