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telescyote 🔭 @cosmicyote.bsky.social · 2d

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RayJ ☕️🍰☸️📿@ BLFC @theroguez.bsky.social · 2d

something from stream, 5x7, $111 if you want it!

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telescyote 🔭 @cosmicyote.bsky.social · 3d

I want to hear his dead-pan reading of the last one

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telescyote 🔭 @cosmicyote.bsky.social · 3d

William Shatner returning to his singing career would be incredible

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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 6d

As it turns out, coyotes are good climbers. They loped up and down these limestone cliffs like they were mountain goats. #mammals 🌿

A coyote perches on a few, small moss-covered ledges sticking out from an otherwise pretty shear limestone cliff. Boreal trees grow on the edges and on top of the cliffs.

A coyote perches on a few, small moss-covered ledges sticking out from an otherwise pretty shear limestone cliff. It's looking down at other coyotes (out of frame) on the ground. Boreal trees grow on the edges and on top of the cliffs.

A large coyote with a decent-sized fish in its mouth pauses in its climb up a limestone cliff. It's partially obscured by the frees growing on the cliffs.

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telescyote 🔭 @cosmicyote.bsky.social · 5d

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Mineral Cup #MinCup25 @mineralcup.bsky.social · 8d

We have a #MinCup25 champion!!

Congratulations, #Kyanite!
www.mineralcup.org/2025

After eight years of competing, another few hours to verify votes was nothing, right?

Amazing first run, #Tugtupite, and better luck next year.

2025 — Mineral Cup

www.mineralcup.org

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telescyote 🔭 @cosmicyote.bsky.social · 8d

It knocked out some of my favorites, but I've come around and think #tugtupite should win it all! #MinCup25

Mineral Cup #MinCup25 @mineralcup.bsky.social · 9d

#MinCup25 Final: After a month of learning and laughter, we’re at the final match to determine the 2025 Mineral Cup Champion! We have blue blades of #kyanite up against optical magician #tugtupite.

Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r5...
Results: www.mineralcup.org/2025/results...

Vote in 2025 Final Match — Mineral Cup

Click here to vote in Kyanite vs Tugtupite Photo credits: John Sobolewski and Parent Géry

www.mineralcup.org

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Mineral Cup #MinCup25 @mineralcup.bsky.social · 9d

#MinCup25 Final: After a month of learning and laughter, we’re at the final match to determine the 2025 Mineral Cup Champion! We have blue blades of #kyanite up against optical magician #tugtupite.

Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r5...
Results: www.mineralcup.org/2025/results...

Vote in 2025 Final Match — Mineral Cup

Click here to vote in Kyanite vs Tugtupite Photo credits: John Sobolewski and Parent Géry

www.mineralcup.org

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telescyote 🔭 @cosmicyote.bsky.social · 9d

The second picture looks like the one dog just said an awful pun and the others are unamused lol

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Red COMMS TEMPORARILY CLOSED (opens soon again!) @wahredpanda89997.bsky.social · 10d

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telescyote 🔭 @cosmicyote.bsky.social · 12d

This sent me looking back through my old notes cause I vaguely remembered doing a project involving Hephaestus for some classics gen ed. I don't think I ever noticed the detail of him sometimes using a wheelchair! The more you know

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telescyote 🔭 @cosmicyote.bsky.social · 12d

Nice! I really like how the aeldari tanks look, so I will eventually grab a good number of those. For now, I'm just buying up infantry. Death Guard look super neat, but I've heard can be hard to paint cause each model has so many unique injuries/hanging organs/tentacles.

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telescyote 🔭 @cosmicyote.bsky.social · 12d

What have I done

Two boxes of Warhammer 40k Aeldari models

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telescyote 🔭 @cosmicyote.bsky.social · 13d

A sad loss. But I wanted to say, your perovskite models are absolutely beautiful 🙂

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telescyote 🔭 @cosmicyote.bsky.social · Sep 9

#kosmochlor ftw, it was found in a meteorite deposit and is literally named after space

Mineral Cup #MinCup25 @mineralcup.bsky.social · Sep 9

#MinCup25 Round 1 Match 9: It’s a battle of green vs blue as rare-but-vibrant chromium-bearing #kosmochlor up against the deep blue copper alteration mineral #azurite.

VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r1...

Results: www.mineralcup.org/2025/results...

Vote in Round 1 Match 9 — Mineral Cup

Click here to vote in Kosmochlor vs Azurite Kosmochlor photo credit: The Met Museum. Azurite photo credit: Harold Moritz

www.mineralcup.org

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Orion🌈&sm9eb @sm9eb.bsky.social · 13d

I made a plea for perovskite at Astronomy on Tap because apparently brown dwarfs rain #perovskite. Guess it's working? #AoT #MinCup25

Mineral Cup #MinCup25 @mineralcup.bsky.social · 14d

#MinCup25 Quarterfinal 2: It's #perovskite and its intriguing structure against #tugtupite's collection of optical tricks for this quarterfinal match!

Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r3...
Results: www.mineralcup.org/2025/results...

Vote in Quarterfinal 2 — Mineral Cup

Click here to vote in Perovskite vs Tugtupite Photo credit: Domenico Preite and Géry Parent

www.mineralcup.org

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Martin Hajovsky @martinhajovsky.bsky.social · 13d

These are pictures of brown dwarf stars. You know what they’re also pictures of? #Perovskite, which rains down in their atmospheres. How cool is that? Very, very cool indeed! Vote for brown dwarf rain. Vote Perovskite! #MinCup25

Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r3...

Brown dwarf Gliese 229B, right, is a small companion to the cool, red star Gliese 229.
Credit: NASA/S. Kulkarni/D. Golimowski

Double brown dwarf system Luhman 16 is at the center of the larger image, which was taken by the NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Gemini Observatory/AURA/NSF

Perovskite, which rains down in brown dwarf atmospheres

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telescyote 🔭 @cosmicyote.bsky.social · 13d

Ya that's kinda what I figured. Then there's the issue that they're all wild liars, so even if they said they did, it wouldn't be a very solid answer. Thanks for the reply and again, it was a great show!

telescyote 🔭 @cosmicyote.bsky.social · 14d

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telescyote 🔭 @cosmicyote.bsky.social · 14d

It was a great show! I was left with one burning question, though I could have just missed this detail. For all their "adventures" across SE Asia, did Bo and his crew ever actually reenter Vietnam for any significant amount of time?

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telescyote 🔭 @cosmicyote.bsky.social · 15d

Nice! Congrats on joining Mapleland :) 🍁

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telescyote 🔭 @cosmicyote.bsky.social · 17d

#MinCup25 yall should vote for #taenite so it can go against #kosmochlor in the quarter finals and we can decide which is the top meteorite mineral

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telescyote 🔭 @cosmicyote.bsky.social · 22d

Ya know those silly mobile game ads where your number of troops or whatever are changed by running through some basic math equations? I could see that actually being kinda fun if it was a bunch of super obscure or weird math functions instead of "5+5 or 5x5?"

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telescyote 🔭 @cosmicyote.bsky.social · 23d

#MinCup25 Cool structure, fun name, pretty color, and it's a Uranium mineral? #paddlewheelite should win 100%

Paddlewheelite crystal sample with structure diagram Source: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/8/11/511#

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