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For #MineralMonday, a beautiful example of amazonite, a relatively rare example of a green potassium feldspar (microcline) from the Pikes Peak region. 🧪⚒️💎

Perspective

Top large icy Cathedral quartz. Jenipapo pegmatite field, Itinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil. 2.5 lb. Hard to find good cathedral these days. www.goldenhourminerals.com/shop

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Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day. Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.

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Pristine, excellent form Apophyllite with Stilbite "disco Ball". Maharashtra, India. www.goldenhourminerals.com/shop

October 🍂🍁🪾🍂 A walk with Rocky

Check out how easy this is.

Some fun observations from the Brallier Fm (middle Devonian). Flute casts on base of turbidites, nautiloid/ammonoid fossils, and higher in the formation we saw sand bars and even an upper shoreface! Found some nice wave ripples along the tops of the clean, qtz arenite beds. ⚒️

a green new deal president and they redecorate the white house like rainforest cafe

Apparently, some Houston voters are putting their I Voted stickers on the Lorenzo Salgado Araujo memorial. Stephen Miller is ALREADY trying to scapegoat others for losing whatever races they lose in Texas and elsewhere. This is a vivid testament that for some voters, his murder squad is the reason.

So if you’re furious as you fill up your tank, just remember Exxon is making a lot of money off you.

Not the top Steam review of Dressmaker making me cry this morning!

"discrete" - in individual units; "discreet" - confidential.

by henry matisse

Let’s go 💙 #Blues

Flattened Spessartine Garnet floater, Navegadora Mine, Brazil. Private collection www.goldenhourminerals.com/shop

Students at Cornell put up these signs around campus. This is what I mean by society is who has to change the definition of justice.

Avi Lewis: "The right has not been afraid of rage. And what they've done is redirected it to immigrants, to trans kids, to people living on the street. Instead of directing that rage upward to the people who are amassing vast fortunes on our economic misery."

Avi Lewis: "We must reverse the privatization of our healthcare system immediately."

Every aspect of life as a gay man is unimaginably better than it was when I was born in the mid 80s. We beat the plague that was killing us by the hundreds of thousands and then won broad social and civic equality.

We have CANCER VACCINES. Fucking CANCER VACCINES. We have AIDS TREATMENTS. AIDS IS NO LONGER A DEATH SENTENCE. IN MY LIIFETIME. FUCK.

They're almost here... soon.

There was a fucking hole in our planet’s *atmosphere* Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines As a species we decided, “we will survive” Let’s do that some more

This 👇 We are now Russian

As much as I want to see him rot in prison, I'd rather he drop dead before he pardons everyone.

I still think AI systems should be paying me 150k per copyright violation. People keep asking me 'what laws do we need for AI?' and I keep saying 'enforce the fucking ones we already have!' There are copyright laws that should be being enforced right now that just... aren't. B/c it's billionaires.

Enormous news. A melanoma vaccine, one of the most deadly cancers out there. Science is good and helpful and there should be more of it. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

This seems like a great way to encourage your employees to spend hours on IT security forums looking for the most insidious malware available so they can intentionally load it onto your corporate network as a matter of moral justice.

You’ve had 4 years and haven’t fixed transit; housing isn’t more affordable and safety isn’t any better (and may be worse). We can’t afford another 4 years of Mark.

Wild that the Trump family is very clearly in the pocket of multiple(!) foreign dictators and apparently nobody even cares. This used to be the stuff of taut thrillers, now it's just oh there's Jared doing bribe stuff again

"This is the story again and again as Trump tours the redder parts of the country: The venues are smaller, the crowds are less excited, and the man at the podium is weirder" — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

When people actually vote, people actually win. Alberta kicked maga to the curb, great day for Alberta and Canada!