🐉I reject your canon & substitute my own🐉 @schisty.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Vote for the rock in your heart! #Cuprite for me. Best mineral wins! #MinCup26 020
🐉I reject your canon & substitute my own🐉 @schisty.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Mineral friends, I need some help. One of the minerals I purchased on Sunday is Tadzhikite-(Ce). The chemical formula looks like this from Mindat.org what is that little white square? #Minerals 100
🐉I reject your canon & substitute my own🐉 @schisty.bsky.social · 29/09/2026#Halite!! Though I just purchased this lovely little specimen of #Cuprite #MinCup26 1134
Reposted by 🐉I reject your canon & substitute my own🐉Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going. 2675654481
Reposted by 🐉I reject your canon & substitute my own🐉🌈✨MAX✨🌈 @solarcat.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Obviously this is due to unethical backyard breeding. #AdoptDontShop 062
Reposted by 🐉I reject your canon & substitute my own🐉Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 27/09/2026 4730153
Reposted by 🐉I reject your canon & substitute my own🐉yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 26/09/2026queen victoria told me the northwest passage keeps eating her poorly planned expeditions so i asked how many expeditions she has and she said she just goes to the royal academy and gets a new afterwards so i said it sounds like shes just feeding ships to the ice and then prince albert started crying 423896
Reposted by 🐉I reject your canon & substitute my own🐉Silvarebel Studio @silvarebel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026So there is a fake Comic Fury app in the google play store (see pictured). Don't download this, it's not real. The real Comic Fury site is not owned by the developer and there are no microtransactions. Please help Kyo, the real creator and owner of Comic Fury, by reporting its ass. 2526597
Reposted by 🐉I reject your canon & substitute my own🐉will jobst @willjobst.bsky.social · 25/09/2026don't be shy gen con go ahead. don't be shy pax unplugged go ahead. don't be shy origins go ahead. don't be shy gamehole go ahead. don't be shy gary con go ahead. don't be shy page go ahead. don't be shy breakout go ahead. don't be shy dragon con go ahead. 10685247
Reposted by 🐉I reject your canon & substitute my own🐉History of Geology @historyofgeology.bsky.social · 25/09/2026He published some of the first "modern" field guides using physical properties, like color, crystal shape, density and even taste to identify minerals. Almost 100 years later Charles Darwin still used some of Werner's books for his geological research ... 121
Reposted by 🐉I reject your canon & substitute my own🐉History of Geology @historyofgeology.bsky.social · 25/09/2026September 25, 1749, birthday of German mineralogist Abraham Gottlob Werner ... 165
Reposted by 🐉I reject your canon & substitute my own🐉Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026If you are a dem willing to throw trans people under the bus BEFORE THE PRIMARIES EVEN HAPPEN, you are NOT an ally, you are NOT a good person, you are a walking talking self interest and unwelcome here. LGBTQIA+ with the T. Emphatically. Forever. 128677
Reposted by 🐉I reject your canon & substitute my own🐉Theo Lorenz (theonicole) @theotrix.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Sci-fi written by cishet authors can be so jarring. Like you’re telling me you dreamt up a whole universe of aliens, but every species has separate bathrooms for men and women? The sentient ooze is a lady ooze? The spacefaring tentacle monarch is in a heterosexual marriage? Okay Matt. 67426
Reposted by 🐉I reject your canon & substitute my own🐉ADRIAN M. GIBSON 🍄 SFF Author & Book Designer @adrianmgibson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Want to up your writing game? Check out these writing craft books for fantastic insights into writing craft, revision, publishing, querying agents, working with publishers and more. Happy writing! ✍️ @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social @chuckwendig.bsky.social @garethlpowell.bsky.social 056
Reposted by 🐉I reject your canon & substitute my own🐉Rebecca Wilcox @rebeccawilcox.bsky.social · 24/09/2026A vote for graphite is a vote for one of the cheapest, oldest, most basic art mediums we have, and I think that’s beautiful. 093
Reposted by 🐉I reject your canon & substitute my own🐉Karin Kirk @karinkirk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Graphite all the way! My fav occurrence of graphite is when you get big flakes of it in marble. The remnants of former life, transformed back to its elemental form. It's a beautiful example of how geology is the ultimate recycler. 0254
Reposted by 🐉I reject your canon & substitute my own🐉Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The doors of the Academy of Natural Sciences will be closing on Sunday...for now. But this isn't over. We're meeting at the Academy of Natural Sciences when doors close to gather for a moment of resolve followed by a march to City Hall. Join us. art by @lindzeamays.bsky.social luma.com/7ggkgtjb 218389
🐉I reject your canon & substitute my own🐉 @schisty.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Anyone remember that #Graphite was apparently used in the Manhattan Project? I got a copy of “Their Day in the Sun: The Women of the Manhattan Project” and just read that tidbit. Can’t wait to read more! #MinCup26 282
Reposted by 🐉I reject your canon & substitute my own🐉Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 23/09/2026me: no worries (galadriel voice) but they were all of them deceived, for another worry was made 242612612
Reposted by 🐉I reject your canon & substitute my own🐉History of Geology @historyofgeology.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The rare copper-arsenic-hydroxide Theoparacelsite is named after him. It was first found in the Roua Mine, an old copper mine in south-eastern France. www.mindat.org/min-10589.html 021
Reposted by 🐉I reject your canon & substitute my own🐉History of Geology @historyofgeology.bsky.social · 24/09/2026September 24, 1541, Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim- better known as the German physician/alchemist Paracelsus - died on this day. He studied mining & metallurgy (at the time considered part of alchemy) and published a book on diseases affecting miners ... 161
Reposted by 🐉I reject your canon & substitute my own🐉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... 55123
Reposted by 🐉I reject your canon & substitute my own🐉Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 24/09/2026round 2, match 8 gadolinite-(Y) VS graphite final art. #mincup26 #minerals #sciart 14310
Reposted by 🐉I reject your canon & substitute my own🐉Alina Pete @alinapete.bsky.social · 23/09/2026FUN FACT! A ton (if not most!) Indigenous languages don't have a word for "wilderness" because that's such a colonial concept There's only words for "home" and "the land (a living being)". Land is always doing what it's meant to, unless something like us is preventing it 117074
🐉I reject your canon & substitute my own🐉 @schisty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Self, self, we need to discuss the book acquisition thing. NO MORE BOOKS (for now). My tbr for non-fiction is already 10 ft tall (at a guess)…just because you’re finding all kind of interesting stuff doesn’t mean you need to buy the book. LIBRARIES EXIST FOR A REASON *ahem* 020
Reposted by 🐉I reject your canon & substitute my own🐉Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 23/09/2026"This book provides groundbreaking insights into groups that have become invisible within the archaeological record... Their work extends beyond simply calling for an archaeology of disability" 2/2 ✍️ Reviewed by @ancientchildren.bsky.social 052
Reposted by 🐉I reject your canon & substitute my own🐉Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 23/09/2026📕 #BookReview 🏺 #Archaeology Placing people with disabilities at the centre of historical archaeology, Laurie A. Wilkie & Katherine M. Kinkopf's 'An introduction to crip archaeology' explores how disability studies can transform how we think about the past 1/2 (£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 23516
Reposted by 🐉I reject your canon & substitute my own🐉Yeet Kune Do @yeetkunedo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026@discord.com I see now why age verification started rolling out, fuck this and fuck you for doing this 11280812878
Reposted by 🐉I reject your canon & substitute my own🐉Vicky Veritas @vickyveritas.bsky.social · 23/09/2026#MinCup26 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology #geosky #GIS 🍎 🪐 🔭 🌋 📚 🌿 02210
Reposted by 🐉I reject your canon & substitute my own🐉The Nature Conservancy @nature.org · 23/09/2026One of these is a fish. The Amazon leaf fish is so well camouflaged that it can drift among fallen leaves unnoticed, until it's time to strike. See what other surprises are hiding beneath the surface of the Amazon: nature.ly/3TeeuRw 04511
🐉I reject your canon & substitute my own🐉 @schisty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It’s an #Element not a #Mineral, but I thought #MinCup26 folks might be interested. Sounds super interesting! 1102
Reposted by 🐉I reject your canon & substitute my own🐉Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 22/09/2026round 2, match 6 pyromorphite VS cylindrite final art. #mincup26 #minerals #sciart 13510
🐉I reject your canon & substitute my own🐉 @schisty.bsky.social · 20/09/2026#MinCup26 I didn’t vote for #Quartz this time (again), but I did pick up this lovely ‘pink’ amethyst yesterday. Photos are a bit shit though, sorry. There’s a calcite cluster in the piece as well. 091
Reposted by 🐉I reject your canon & substitute my own🐉Obsidian licks rocks @i-lick.rocks · 20/09/2026Reasons 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 163
Reposted by 🐉I reject your canon & substitute my own🐉Semi-feral Post Monger @dwaynefuhlhage.bsky.social · 20/09/2026An unexpected crossover for cat lovers and #MinCup2026 fans 0165
Reposted by 🐉I reject your canon & substitute my own🐉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... 179843
Reposted by 🐉I reject your canon & substitute my own🐉Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 18/09/2026[banging on table] FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK www.popsci.com/environment/...popsci.comThe Fat Bear Week 2026 bracket is here and chunkier than everVoting starts September 22 with a final winner crowned on September 29. 211673710
Reposted by 🐉I reject your canon & substitute my own🐉A.A. Freeman @aughtpunk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I'm thrilled to announce that my third Midwife Fable, "Scars Around Her Fingers" is now available for preorder! www.amazon.com/Scars-Around...amazon.comScars Around Her Fingers: A Midwife Fable (The Midwife Fables Book 3)Amazon.com: Scars Around Her Fingers: A Midwife Fable (The Midwife Fables Book 3) eBook : Freeman, A. A.: Kindle Store 122
Reposted by 🐉I reject your canon & substitute my own🐉Jay Garmon @jaygarmon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Author/artist grievance against AI, summarized 026369
🐉I reject your canon & substitute my own🐉 @schisty.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I just came out of the Transformers the Movie limited release. But that Optimus Prime: Awakening? I have no idea what that was, and I didn’t like it one bit. 011
Reposted by 🐉I reject your canon & substitute my own🐉Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 16/09/2026publication of structure of graphitizing & non-graphitizing carbon. She showed these 2 structures explained the difference between 2 possible products of burning coal: cokes & chars, & how they burn. This research was and remains important to industry. 042
Reposted by 🐉I reject your canon & substitute my own🐉Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Vote #Graphite for its role in physics! #MinCup26 🧪👩🏼🔬🎢 #histsci While better remembered for her role in DNA research Rosalind Franklin (1920 – 1958), #chemist & x-ray crystallographer made important contributions to carbon research throughout her career. The pattern on her jacket is based on her 14514
Reposted by 🐉I reject your canon & substitute my own🐉Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Find her portrait here:minouette.etsy.com 032
Reposted by 🐉I reject your canon & substitute my own🐉Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 16/09/2026band-structure. The Hicks-Dresselhaus Model helped usher in the field of research on band structure. The SFDD model (also named for her, R. Saito, M. Fujita and her husband Gene Dresselhaus) first predicted the band structure of carbon nanotubes. 172
Reposted by 🐉I reject your canon & substitute my own🐉Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Vote for #Graphite for its role in physics! #MinCup26 #histsci 🧪🐡👩🏼🔬 Millie Dresselhaus (1930-2027) was known as the Queen of Carbon & was recognized for her work on graphite, graphite intercalation compounds, fullerenes (a form of carbon known as buckyballs) conductors, thermoelectrics and 2366
Reposted by 🐉I reject your canon & substitute my own🐉Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Artists took tin dioxide (Cassiterite, a tin ore) and heated it with a lead oxide to make lead-tin yellow, which has played its role in art history. But I have to vote for Graphite for centuries of drawing (sometimes called plumbago), ceramic paint & pigment since the Neolithic + physics #MinCup26 0299
Reposted by 🐉I reject your canon & substitute my own🐉👻 Saavik ‘Spooky Season’ Ford 🎃 @saavikford.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The name #Graphite comes from the Greek word ‘to write’—c’mon all you writers of Bsky and vote for the writer’s mineral! #MinCup26 02710
Reposted by 🐉I reject your canon & substitute my own🐉Nimblenewt @nimblenewt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026“Graphite is a polymorph of diamond, sharing an identical chemical composition but radically different crystal structure leading them to be on the extreme opposites for hardness and electrical conductivity. Graphite has been used since prehistoric times…as a dye, grave gift, and with pottery” ✏️✏️✏️✏️✏️🧡 052
🐉I reject your canon & substitute my own🐉 @schisty.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I love both. #Cassiterite has a storied history as a source of tin, which has shaped the history of humans for hundreds of years. #Graphite is just as storied. Both are incredibly useful even today. I chose graphite this time. #MinCup26 072
Reposted by 🐉I reject your canon & substitute my own🐉Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 15/09/2026#MinCup26 0326
