Euan Mitchell
mindovermagma.bsky.social
Euan Mitchell
@mindovermagma.bsky.social
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Former academic geologist, now geospatial professional interested in all things Open Source and Earth Observation. Living in Edinburgh, Scotland. Was MindOverMagma on Twitter and Mastodon and seeing what the geospatial community on here is like 🗺️🛰️🌍🌳
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Well Michael Oliver has made it abundantly clear in the first 10 minutes who he wants to win this game.
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Incredible thermal inversion over Edinburgh from the pentlands this morning. Taken from Carnethy hill looking north-east, you can see Turnhouse, Castlelaw, Allermuir and Caerketton hills. What you can't see is any of the city of Edinburgh!

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About time that #Kyanite joined the exalted ranks of #MinCup champions! Well done #TeamKyanite, thank you all for voting. #MinCup25
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
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I’m very excited that #tugtupite made it to the finals but can it do this? Folded #kyanite in a high-pressure quartzite, western Türkiye. #MinCup25
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Vote the BLUE KNIFE!!

#Kyanite is an index mineral for formation under high pressure & low temperature, continental collision conditions, besides having the pretty blue blades!!

Vote #MinCup25!
#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
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I’ll admit, #Tugtupite is a toughie, but as a Mineral Cup rookie, we all know that the Reindeer Blood stone’s approach will be to slide its blade along the stubby sides of #Kyanite to no effect whatsoever! Anisotropic. Beautiful DEEP blue. Kyanite is rested and ready to be #MinCup25 champion!
Trump’s 2020s America looking more and more like Hitler’s 1930s Germany every day. Time for the rest of the civilized world to start boycotting the USA until Trump is out of office.
This is Steven Millers America 👿👎🏽👇🏼💙
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Very tricky to get decent photos of 😔
Clearly not enough people are familiar with gorgeous chatoyant #sanidine phenocrysts in rhyolite tuffs based on current voting patterns 😣 #MinCup25
#Calcite is nice and Iceland spar is pretty cool, but it has nothing on #Perovskite, easy choice in today’s #MinCup25 vote.
#MinCup25 Round 1 Match 4: This match of heavy hitters is bound to end in heartbreak as classic #calcite faces off against futuristic #perovskite.

We love them both, but only one can continue on to Round 2!

Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r1...
Results: www.mineralcup.org/2025/results...
Has to be team danger to start off this year’s #MinCup25 for me! #TeamChrysotile #Chrysotile
#MinCup25 Round 1 Match 1: Hazardous (but useful!) #Chrysotile faces off against stunning gem #Pectolite. Do you pick the forbidden cotton candy, or the anti-pulverization beauty?

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

Check RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2025/results...
Vote in Round 1 Match 1 — Mineral Cup
Click here to vote in Chrysotile vs Pectolite
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Don’t go anywhere near the US until they no longer have a facist government is a solid strategy that’s working for me.
Just experienced the worst customer service from @giffgaffnetwork.bsky.social. Ordered a new phone on special offer (£90 off), DPD lost it after attempting delivery to the wrong address, and now GiffGaff refuse to send a replacement and say I’ll have to pay the extra £90 if I want a new phone 🤬🤬🤬
More highly questionable calls from AF. Not a stretch to say that the Lions have won this series in spite of Farrell, not because of him. About time to appoint a Lions head coach who isn’t in charge of one of the home nations.
#Lions #B&ILions #rugby

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Lions team: Blair Kinghorn and James Ryan in for final Test in Australia
British and Irish Lions coach Andy Farrell makes two changes for the final Test against the Wallabies in Sydney on Saturday.
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Very glad I’m no longer having to apply for F or J visas (or even live in the US). Pretty sure telling a consular official to go fuck yourself is unlikely to end in a successful application.
How on earth did JD Vance have the gall to lecture Europe about ‘free speech’
😭 thank you King Boff, it was a privilege. Can’t believe he only made 31 appearances 😕
Happy Earth Day! 🌎 🌋
HUGE fountain now 😍

#Kilauea #Hawaii
Wow, this final round of the #Masters 😳
Not being an apologist for this, but even 20 years ago when I was a grad student in the US we were technically meant to have passport and paperwork with us at all times. Of course no one did, but it almost got me in trouble at a checkpoint in southern NM once.