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Laurie and Rosie Strings 🐶🎃🦇 @lauriestrings.bsky.social · 22h

Good morning folks. Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Black&Red, any bird with Black & Red in its plumage. Rose breasted grosbeak

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 22h

Congratulations to our Mineral Cup 2026 Champion Quartz! For #MinCup26, we collectively chose a nostalgic beauty of resilience as persistence as our champion. Please celebrate #Quartz, a friend to humans since time immemorial! www.mineralcup.org/about/2026-q...

A single quartz point, deep violet in its core and entirely clear around the outside, with ghostly traces of the crystal's former shape inside, as well as a few tiny bubbles.

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Bunsen, Beaker, Bernoulli, & Brix @bunsenbernerbmd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The new family is really coming together and a new normal has been reached. ❤️ What does that mean for: During the week a dog named Bunsen texts his family. Those texts are saved. Today they are shared. This is Texts From Bunsen! #TextsFromBunsen

< Messages Beaker
Whoa, I saw Libby AND Lucy on the couch!
WARLORD BEAKER HAS ABDICATED HER CLAIM
Hold on, you would lose your mind if anyone got on your couch
THAT WAS OLD PETTY
BEAKER THIS NEW BEAKER IS A
BENEVOLENT FRIEND
Titerally just saw you yelling at Bernoulli for playing with the wrong toy
BENEVOLENT BEAKER
HAS HER LIMITS
And you ate half of his supper and yelled at him
BENEVOLENT BEAKER IS SOMEWHAT PETTY
ALSO
There it is
BAH! GOLDEN SQUAD ASSEMBLE
Oh no they have a name

< Messages Bernoulli
How did you get out
What
No seriously, I thought you were put behind that temporary gate with the new girls
Oh that gate?
NO PRISON CAN HOLD
ME
Calm down
ADVENTURE AWAITS!!!
Don't do it
HUZZAH!!!!
Ok you go through it like wet paper
Dadguy calls me the Kool-aid man because
I'm so cool and I aid
Yeah that's not it

< Messages Lucy
Are you doing ok?
This place smells weird
That's just Bernoulli
When can I go home
I don't think you can.
This is your home
I don't think I want it to be
Oh. Wait! What did you do when it snows at your old home?
Oh, we just stayed inside with our mom.
Ok. That doesn't happen here. We are going to go out into the winter!
That sounds so cold
It would be, but a little birdie says you have some special pants on the way to help with that
Oh. Ok. I like pants!

< Messages Brix
What are you doing???
Eating hair
Did you just say eating hair?
Yeah it's delicious. I eat my hair, I eat Bernoulli's hair, and I love the mommy's hair
Brix don't eat hair. Your going to get a blockage
No, you just puke it up and then you have room to start all over again
Seriously WTF Brix
Don't you eat literal coyote crap
That's different. It's delicious.
Sounds like a shitty meal to me
Ok who licks their own butthole

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Erik Kennedy @erikkennedy.com · 23/07/2026

Postcode Apparatchik
@MaoistStdEn

Years of effort to convince the world New Zealanders don't want to fuck sheep has gone down the drain in one tweet

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Congratulations, Quartz! After a decade of #MinCup, this key rock-forming mineral of optical tricks is the #MinCup26 Champion! Due to intense manipulation attempts in the final hours, the exact winning margin is still being audited. Please join us tomorrow for celebration!

A clear double-terminated quartz crystal with petroleum inclusions. Credit: John Sobolewski

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Bat Conservation International 🦇 @batcon.org · 01/10/2026

Happy 𝘽𝙖𝙩 𝘼𝙥𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙈𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙝! 🦇 What do you most appreciate about bats?

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

hey its @nora.zone. i run this account. if you want to see my posts go to @moderation.bsky.app and set "rude" to "off". (i told the new york times pr desk to suck shit out of an ass)

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We're in the final match of #MinCup26. Are you voting for brilliant beauty #Cuprite? Or supporting the durable and lovely #Quartz? VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

rounder red cuprite sits with icy-white quartz.

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#MinCup26 FINALS!!! We have a pair of geometric beauties as deep red #Cuprite is against versatile #Quartz. VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

Split image of fine red needles of cuprite on one side and chunky clear quartz crystals on the other.

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#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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Laurie and Rosie Strings 🐶🎃🦇 @lauriestrings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

@alan678.bsky.social theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #EFG, birds beginning with any of those letters (1st name). Great Egret (right?)

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#MinCup26 SEMI-FINALS!!! It's showdown of the soft and cubical as coppery #Cuprite and salty #Halite compete for a spot in the finals! Both are worthy, but only one can have your vote. VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

Split photo of a translucent deep red cube of cuprite within swooping matte blue-green crystal blades and a scattering of translucent white halite cubes in a nest of golden yellow spiky crystals.

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Laurie and Rosie Strings 🐶🎃🦇 @lauriestrings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Good morning! Today's #BirdOfTheDay (alt) theme is #AwkwardAvian - any bird captured in a silly, clumsy or strange position! Happy Monday everyone! 🕊️ 👋

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#MinCup26 Quarterfinal 4 We're coming down the end! Are you supporting lead-locking #pyromorphite or ancient #graphite as we enter the semifinals. VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

Split view of blobby peach-tinted pyromorphite shining as though wet, and dark grey graphite with its signature greasy sheen sitting on paper marked with pencil-like scribbles.

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#MinCup26 Quarterfinals 3 It's a pair of dissolvable beauties as rare and complicated #Julienite is against ubiquitous and straightforward #Halite. VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

Split photo of close-ups of minerals bright blue julienite in radiating fan shapes within a dark rock and clear perfect cubes of halite suspended in clear liquid, tiny bubbles hanging onto some of the crystals

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#MinCup26 Quarterfinal 2 Both of today's minerals can be found in hydrothermal vein deposits as cobalt arsenide #Skutterudite is against classic silicate #Quartz for a spot in the semi-finals. Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... Results: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

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Vote in Skutterudite vs Quartz Credit: Joel Williams

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#MinCup26 Quarterfinal 1 It’s a rich red start to the quarterfinals as two components of brass face off with zinc ore #Sphalerite is up against copper-rich #Cuprite. VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

Split photo of a glossy ruby-red chunk of sphalerite, slightly rounded, amongst smaller clear crystals and a gleaming ruby-red cube of cuprite jutting from a yellow matrix.

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Laurie and Rosie Strings 🐶🎃🦇 @lauriestrings.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Good morning Let’s celebrate #TheDivers for #BirdOfTheDay today 🪶 Share your fab photos of any diving bird... Grebe!

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#MinCup26 Round 2 Match 8: It's a G-day to end Round 2 as the alphabet soup of rare earth elements in #Gadolinite-(Y) goes against native elements #Graphite. VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

Split photo between opaque dull black crystal with angular faces set within a milky grey and white crystalline mass and Shiny silver graphite splots with radiating splintering crystals splashed like droplets on a angular rose-tinted milky crystal mass

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#MinCup26 Round 2 Match 7 It's blue skies ahead as multicoloured cubes of #Halite are up against the bubbly cool-toned #Chrysocolla. VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

Split photo of seafoam green minerals. One one side, translucent sea foam-green cubes on a crust of milky-white crystals. On the other, bobby aqua-green milky-translucent crystals perched on a grainy grassy-green base rock

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#MinCup26 Round 2 Match 6: It's a pair of soft, heavy lead minerals as vivid hexagonal phosphate #Pyromorphite is against spiralling rolled sheets of #Cylindrite. VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

Split photo of clusters of small green puffball-spiked lime green pyromorphite clusters on a rusty-red rough porous rock and Metallic grey fibrous sheets and swirls of cylindric that resemble pencil shavings more than a mineral

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#MinCup26 Round 2 Match 5 It's a pair or rare, vibrant minerals with unusual chemistry as purple #Putnisite is up against blue #Julienite. VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

Split photo of tiny grape-jello purple cubical crystals with a rough surface. The crystals are poking out of a massive rough rock with areas of fuzzy green and broad purple, all with a grainy coating of white as though it were rubbed with flour. The other photo is saturated cobalt blue needle-line crystals in a narrow fan sparkly and rough on a smooth creamy background

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#MinCup26 Round 2 Match 4 Both colourful yet opposite in almost every other way, it’s abundant and hard #Quartz against rare and very soft #Stichtite. VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

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Laurie and Rosie Strings 🐶🎃🦇 @lauriestrings.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

🪶 Good Afternoon, Happy Saturday Everyone! Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #Elegant; any elegant looking bird Juvenile Turkey Vulture catching some sun

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

#MinCup26 Round 2 Match 3: It's a shiny showdown as soft copper-rich #Cuprite is up against the multicoloured index mineral #Andalusite. VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

Split image of a pair of candy-looking translucent minerals. On one side is the geometric pointed tip of cherry-red cuprite, on the other is a rough bar of peachy andalusite embedded in a white grainy matrix.

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Laurie and Rosie Strings 🐶🎃🦇 @lauriestrings.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Canadian geese The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ODG, any Owl, Duck or Goose. No alt. Have a lovely day. #birds #photography

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Laurie and Rosie Strings 🐶🎃🦇 @lauriestrings.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Mourning doves Good morning folks. Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Paridae, and of the species. The Alt theme is #Pigeons&Doves, any Pigeon or Dove will do. #birds #photography

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#MinCup26 Round 2 Match 2 It’s a match of opposites as heavy metal toxic #Skutterudite is up against the colourful sparkly aluminum silicate jewelry gem #Vesuvianite. VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

Split photo of the pointy end of a rough, geometric metallic crystal and a translucent yellow striated tower with a blunt top

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#MinCup26 Round 2 Match 1: It’s a visually-striking start to Round 2 as deep blue pigment #Azurite is against lead- and zinc-rich #Sphalerite. VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

Split photo with deep blue translucent crystals jut upwards in a cluster like modern skyscrapers on the left. They have lightly striated faces, and are long with pointed tips. On the right is a metallic grey triangular crystal with deeply striated faces. The face itself is geometrically broken with jagged edges, evoking a cyberpunk-futuristic vibe.

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

#MinCup26 Round 1 Match 16 It's a pair of industrially-vital minerals for the final match of the first round as tin ore #Cassiterite is up against elemental carbon #Graphite. VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

Split photo of cassiterite crystals, silvery to shiny black, in shapes similar to faceted gemstones and a flat, hexagonal graphite crystal jutting up, dark grey with a greasy shine.

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Laurie and Rosie Strings 🐶🎃🦇 @lauriestrings.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Mamas&Papas, male & female of the same species in the same photo.

Nothing but water with two Canadian Geese swimming with 6 little yellow babies in a line between them, single file.

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

#MinCup26 Round 1 Match 15 It's blue vs red for vibrant cyan-blue #Chrysocolla vs rich chocolatey red-brown #Xocolatlite. Are you with the hydrous copper silicate or the tellurate? VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

Split photo of rounded towers of aqua-blue crystals resembling a puffer spike ball and radial splats of reddish-brown crystals resembling lichen growth.

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

#MinCup26 Round 1 Match 14 Average hardness and dark colours are camouflage for crystalline oddness lurking within blue asbestos #Riebeckite vs rare earth element #Gadolinite-(Y). VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Really good chicken helmet. Best chicken helmet I’ve ever seen maybe.

A knight’s helmet with, inexplicably, a chicken face coming out the front

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

#MinCup26 Round 1 Match 13 It's a match between a mineral you want to be cautious breathing near and one you eat every day as arsenic-rich #arsenopyrite is against table salt #halite. VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

Split photo between angular arsenopyrite, metallic and abundant in parallelogram faces and halite in its classic perfect cube shape, but tinted deep blue.

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Laurie and Rosie Strings 🐶🎃🦇 @lauriestrings.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #AngryBirds, any bird with an angry face. Thanks for the snack. I still hate you. #Birds #Photography

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Laurie and Rosie Strings 🐶🎃🦇 @lauriestrings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Those are awesome canvasses for little artists to paint and draw on. What a good idea.

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Matt @droniecarp.com · 12/09/2026

Split-second action in the pond shallows. Caught this transitional Little Blue Heron snagging a massive dragonfly mid-hunt. You don’t always have to venture far from home to capture raw nature at work. #Birds #Herons #WildlifePhotography #NatureInFocus #Photography

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

#MinCup26 Round 1 Match 12 Grey hides complexity for these metal-rich minerals as trickster #Pyrrhotite battles geometrically-unusual #Cylindrite in this monochromatic matchup. VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

Split photo of thin hexagonal slabs of metallic pyrrhotite, plus clear quartz intermixed and long, thin cylindrite crystals forming a dark fan shape.

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Laurie and Rosie Strings 🐶🎃🦇 @lauriestrings.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Good Morning & Happy Friday Everyone! Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #Mouthful; any bird with anything in its beak Great blue heron

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

#MinCup26 Round 1 Match 11 It's a pair of minerals that pull off near-magical tricks with their properties as ubiquitous #Calcite is up against rarity #Julienite. VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

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Vote in Calcite vs Julienite Credit: Harold Moritz and David Hospital

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

#MinCup26 Round 1 Match 10: It’s a pair of soft minerals that form near the surface as heavyweight #pyromorphite is up against evaporate #gypsum. VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

Split photo of a scattering of highlighter-yellow log-shaped Pyromorphite crystals and a dense cluster of translucent white flat, rounded gypsum crystals that resemble a flower bud

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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

#MinCup26 Round 1 Match 9: It’s a pair of tiny minerals with unusual chemistry as hafnium-containing #Hafnon battles with strontium/chromium-containing #Putnisite. VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

Split photo of jagged dark brown to orange opaque crystal grains of hafnon embedded in an unidentified white matrix and tiny grape-jello purple cubical crystals with a rough surface. The crystals are poking out of a massive rough rock with areas of fuzzy green and broad purple, all with a grainy coating of white as though it were rubbed with flour

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