@getpseudoed.bsky.social - Erin 𓅉

15 Dec 2024 16:20 +0000

Funky textures.

10 Dec 2024 19:41 +0000

We should abolish eponymous mineral names.

09 Dec 2024 04:07 +0000

Getting my needed dose of 234-year-old drama.

24 Nov 2024 03:09 +0000

I have a solution, but nobody’s going to like it. https://news.umich.edu/whats-in-a-mineral-name-not-very-many-women-u-m-study-finds/

22 Nov 2024 18:59 +0000

I have received interesting mail.

20 Nov 2024 19:31 +0000

I haven’t opened this app in months and I have no idea what’s happening here, but hi to all the folks who are following me?

11 Sep 2023 13:52 +0000

If you find yourself intrigued by calcite crystallography, I strongly recommend browsing Goldschmidt’s Atlas Der Krystallformen, which has 150 pages of this. Available to view here (log-in is required to view the PDF - but an account is free and easy!): https://www.mindat.org/reference.php?id=12961109 [contains quote post or other embedded content]

10 Sep 2023 01:02 +0000

My vote is for #adamite because of the adamite bat. The bat is largely mummified but adamite has started to replace around its face - fluorescent light highlights the adamite. Found by John Seibel, late 1980s at the Gold Hill Mine, Utah, collection of Mark Mitterman. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

07 Sep 2023 00:01 +0000

I’m pretty ambivalent here but I’m gonna vote for #vivianite solely because of this excellent (and amusing) article, “A Scientific Study of the Absorption of Evil by Vivianite” by Alfredo Petrov: https://www.mindat.org/article.php/137/A+Scientific+Study+of+the+Absorption+of+Evil+by+Vivianite [contains quote post or other embedded content]

06 Sep 2023 02:40 +0000

I <3 pseudos! [contains quote post or other embedded content]

05 Sep 2023 23:41 +0000

This round is going to break my heart because #goethite is the only mineral in the bracket I REALLY like, and it’s going to get beat out by a mineral I can’t see. Vote #goethite to make me wrong, and thus happy. 🥺 [contains quote post or other embedded content]

05 Sep 2023 00:36 +0000

If you’ve ever wondered how miners get incredibly delicate specimens out of the ground, this crocoite extraction video is a good place to start. #TeamCrocoite #MinCup23 youtu.be/5_0noXIhIGg https://youtu.be/5_0noXIhIGg

05 Sep 2023 00:17 +0000

Crocoite has an unusually frequent tendency to grow into such crystals so extremely hoppered that the crystals are HOLLOW. Orange lead-chromium straws does it perfectly for me. 🥰 #TeamCrocoite #MinCup23 https://www.mindat.org/photo-219055.html [contains quote post or other embedded content]

04 Sep 2023 01:44 +0000

This is what happens when stibnite “rusts.” I had to unpack a backpack full of rocks for the TSA over this specimen once, and the man was so, so very disappointed when we opened the box and I’m still laughing about it. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

03 Sep 2023 00:29 +0000

One of my favorite things, for being so plain but so incredibly cool: the oldest mineral yet found. Jack Hills zircons have been dated to ~4.4 billion years ago. They were formed during the Hadean (all of earth was more-or-less molten), then cycled into sedimentary grains. #MinCup #TeamZircon [contains quote post or other embedded content]

02 Sep 2023 18:42 +0000

I waffled because cinnabar is neat, but the pseudocubic habit of quartz might just be my favorite crystal habit, and the very best are found in New Mexico. 😍 https://www.mindat.org/photo-280989.html

02 Sep 2023 18:39 +0000

Oh, also, cinnabar isn’t toxic. Containing an element that is harmful does not make a mineral harmful. This is a matter of bioavailability - whether the body can absorb any of the harmful element. Largely this boils down to solubility, and cinnabar isn’t very soluble. #MinCup23

01 Sep 2023 14:48 +0000

An argument for clay mineral kaolinite: one of mindat’s very best Easter eggs. When @jolyon.bsky.social added the pronunciation feature, he also added a ton of the pronunciations himself. He got bored somewhere in that process. “Clay” is one of the best - go listen: mindat.org/min-49430.html [contains quote post or other embedded content]

01 Sep 2023 00:27 +0000

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31 Aug 2023 19:40 +0000

This is the most amazing thing I have ever seen. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

30 Aug 2023 16:43 +0000

I think it’s fucking stupid I can’t properly yell at @jolyon.bsky.social anymore. Worst life update, super unimpressed.

05 Aug 2023 15:07 +0000

Behold, a kitten.

22 Jul 2023 14:41 +0000

I do not understand how a New Mexico territorial geologist with a mineral cabinet valued at over a quarter million dollars (adjusted for inflation) has just disappeared into history. How do you lose a dude like that?

14 Jul 2023 19:51 +0000

Ah, look, a new void to yell into.