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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 7h

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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tanterei.bsky.social @tanterei.bsky.social · 10h

#bikesky ! #sz-fahrradfest in #Dresden tomorrow! From short distances to 80km, to a one-way ride of 120+km to #Berlin a #bike day for the entire region! Have to go to sleep early to be up for the 80km tomorrow!

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 23h

One of the most frequent daydreams people share with us is a wish to win a specimen of the Champion. This year, you can.

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tanterei.bsky.social @tanterei.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm infinitely proud of myself 😤 I managed to get a water valve stuck due to mineral build-up unstuck without breaking it or the wall and w/o disassembling it. Just chlorine cleaner, WD40 and pliers - there were some brass shavings. 😏 Now my washing machine can work as intended.

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Dev Petty @devpetty.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A plea to all you wonderful folks who are thinking to adopt (not buy) a dog or cat… The shelters are FILLED with animals who’ve been surrendered. Yesterday they had a bed and a family and now they are confused and terrified through no fault of their own. Consider giving them a next chapter.

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tanterei.bsky.social @tanterei.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKGW... It did not register with me as much as it should have how insidious the #microsoft patent is! #Pay-per-view & surge-pricing for #games will inevitably propagate to other software. Thankfully there's #linux, as long as it's not fully maintained by companies!

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Steam saw Microsoft a mile away

YouTube video by Legendary Drops

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tanterei.bsky.social @tanterei.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Habemus Winner! Glad to see #Quartz get the laurels it deserves from #MinCup26!

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tanterei.bsky.social @tanterei.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

C'mon Quartz! I refuse to believe that cuprite can close the gap on #quartz!

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Physics @physics.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Maryna Viazovska, a mathematician from Kyiv, was awarded the Fields Medal in 2022 for solving sphere packing in eight-dimensional space. Her proof ran to 23 pages; the three-dimensional case had taken 300. She is only the second woman to receive the medal.

Maryna Viazovska stands before two green chalkboards filled with handwritten mathematical equations and definitions, holding a small open notebook.

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tanterei.bsky.social @tanterei.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If it's another pickup I'm sorry to say he's failed at the planning stage.

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tanterei.bsky.social @tanterei.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It is October and we can walk around in shirts and shorts from morning till night!

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tanterei.bsky.social @tanterei.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#pilots at #sea accompanying a ferry leaving Ijmuiden for Newcastle. They had to fight the waves and I don't envy them, but for me it was a fun chance to try out some things with the camera.

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tanterei.bsky.social @tanterei.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hard choice again in #mincup26 finals, but I'm in for #Bergkristall (or #Quartz). Apart from its usefulness for time keeping its use in decorative goblets in the 16th century is fascinating mastery! Images from Fed. Art Collection Saxony: skd-online-collection.skd.museum/Result/Index...

A decorative cup in the shape of a galleon intricately cut from quartz some time in the 16th century in Milano.
Source: https://skd-online-collection.skd.museum/Details/Index/117995

A goblet made of a golden, intricately decorated, base holding a mantle made of quatz. Topped by a lid of gold and quartz, with an ivory figurine on top.

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Ground News @groundnews.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Renee Good’s family has sued the U.S. government, an ICE officer and Trump administration officials over her January killing in Minneapolis, alleging wrongful death, excessive force and civil rights violations. ground.news/article/fami...

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Goldenhourminerals @ghminerals.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Malachite Chrysocolla stalactite L'Etoile du Congo mine, Ludumbashi, Katanga Prov., D.R. Congo. Sold. www.goldenhourminerals.com/shop

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BalkonSolar (via 🇪🇺sky) @balkon.solar · 01/10/2026

German non profit #BalkonSolar e.V. and more than 500 citizens transformed 600 old solar panels from a tooth brush factory in the #Blackforest into 300 new #PluginPV systems.

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tanterei.bsky.social @tanterei.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Damn you beat me to it. While I love pencil-and-paper work I must give it up for #Quartz. Just the oscillators alone make the world go round - almost every electronic device has one! Every phone, smartwatch, PC, TV etc. all require a reference frequency generator - a quartz crystal!

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tanterei.bsky.social @tanterei.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Is this current, or is this from to 2019-ish archives?

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tanterei.bsky.social @tanterei.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Look. It can be a struggle when you're used to 3 or more languages - all in different settings - and your thought process switches from one to another. 😭

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tanterei.bsky.social @tanterei.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Are we sure Brockman is a human being and not the GNU Debugger 'gdb' 😂

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tanterei.bsky.social @tanterei.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just to give a bit of context: Deutsche Bank has been doing this for years. Calling it "account management fees." Which is funny that these suddenly vanish once the account shows enough cash-FLOW.🤔

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tanterei.bsky.social @tanterei.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Despite the difficult choice I will keep my position from the QF: #cuprite it is for me. While not good as jewellery its high IOR does it for me. Plus we need to appease our mechanical overlords 😉 and cuprite is easy to obtain copper from!

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tanterei.bsky.social @tanterei.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

At this point the only winning move is to avoid London altogether.

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tanterei.bsky.social @tanterei.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sitting in a train it is disturbing to me how often (or how many?) people are actively using ChatGPT etc. oblivious that their laptops and/or mobiles are not muted. No 5min stretch goes by without the distinct audio cue of the LLM completing its output.😒

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tanterei.bsky.social @tanterei.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yay! #DeutscheBahn and its failures again! Once again - for the first time in 4 years for me - am I on a train where the AC has failed in one rail car. Consequence: Lots of people densely packed and one rail car taped off.😂

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tanterei.bsky.social @tanterei.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm sorry but "culture produced at limitless scale"? Not every verbal diarrhea is "culture" and neither is every damn doodle - AI-generated or otherwise.

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tanterei.bsky.social @tanterei.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"The fungus Paecilomyces javanicus, particularly in combination with phosphate-rich bird poop, can clean up lead-contaminated soils by locking up metallic lead as pyromorphite." I'm sorry, but graphite (or graphene) has NOTHING on this use. Lead removal is the defining factor for me - #pyromorphite

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

#MinCup26 Quarterfinal 4 Linked by archaic translations and mineralogical misunderstandings, the quarterfinals are ending in hexagons with vivid pyromorphite vs writeable graphite. VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

Split photo between translucent lemon-yellow hexagonal crystal jutting out of a mass of shiny black bubbling minerals and metallic silver graphite hexagon with crosshatched surface set even within a matte translucent white rough crystal mass.

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tanterei.bsky.social @tanterei.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A boat in #stormy waters - Dalarna, #Sweden Sept 2026. This time a short exposure to see the waves. That's the one I've been out on, having to row the final 50m to the coast 😵‍💫 Fun exercies, can't recommend doing that with a rocky coast. #nature #photography #water #wind

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tanterei.bsky.social @tanterei.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I was vaccilating between julianite and halite, but this reminded me that I have multiple #salt lamps at home And the colour variation through inclusion of bacteria or other minerals is incredible! de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halit So for QF3 of #MinCup26 it is #Halite (rock salt) for me!

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Halit – Wikipedia

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tanterei.bsky.social @tanterei.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Microtransactions you need to set up beforehand? Nah! We'll be doing macrotransactions on the spot! Who was it again that suggested to pay for reloads in the middle of CoD?

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tanterei.bsky.social @tanterei.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🤨 For me that second one must be "No". 'cause I find myself always telling AI what not to do, rather than agreeing with the suggestions.

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tanterei.bsky.social @tanterei.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

As noted in the comments of the post: Firefox and derivatives have the "Copy clean link" menu option for actual links. Still good to know.

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BalkonSolar (via 🇪🇺sky) @balkon.solar · 27/09/2026

💪 Wir haben es geschafft! 🏆 Der #SteckerSolar Upcycling #Weltrekord ist zurück in #Freiburg! 🙏 an alle die geholfen haben, mitgemacht & die Sponsoren: Hoymiles für die Wechselrichter, Stadt Freiburg, Interbros für die Solarmodule. 🔌 #BalkonKraftwerke 300 Geräte gebaut & verteilt!

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tanterei.bsky.social @tanterei.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Lemme get that straight… In an attempt to show the failure of safeguards you burned 10k? And it did not occur to you after the big 2k loss and the VIP invite to stop, or even at 5k? Heck if I tanked my employer for 10k i'd be out of a job!

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Greyhound Pets, Inc. @greyhoundpetsinc.org · 24/09/2026

See our calendar for details about GPI's Great Global Greyhound Walk on Sunday, plus other events this weekend! greyhoundpetsinc.org/news/event-c...

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tanterei.bsky.social @tanterei.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Look, I'd be down if said dog was a #sighthound, but if its anything that fits in a handbad you're disqualified on the spot!

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