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PhD geochemist in training, i.e. licking rocks & minerals ⛏🧪🪨 Folder of unicorn origami 🦄 | Purple Kitsune TBA 🦊 Convention volunteer ✨ Brony | furry | bi | M | 🇵🇭 + 🇺🇸

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Freelancer 🔚 AFC @geofreelancer.bsky.social · 7d

Some gay schist 🏳️‍🌈

(~100 million-yr-old mica schist from Julian, CA. In cross-polarized light)

#petrology #mineralogy #geology

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Freelancer 🔚 AFC @geofreelancer.bsky.social · 10d

Night on the town ✨
(with @auzbuzzard.bsky.social and @sirvataqun.bsky.social)

#AFC2025 #furry #fursuit

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Freelancer 🔚 AFC @geofreelancer.bsky.social · 14d

Been one year since I started to dabble into being a furry. #AFC2025 marks this time. Indeed, I shall continue to be a smol purple fox 💜

Thanks so much to my friends and all the folks that makes this con a great one! Here's to another year!

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🦊 Vataqun 🐺 @sirvataqun.bsky.social · 17d

I had so much fun at #AFC2025 this year! Thank you to all the staff and friends new and old that I was able to meet. You all truly make this con special for me.

@flufferino.bsky.social
@atrexwolf.bsky.social
@geofreelancer.bsky.social
@auzbuzzard.bsky.social
@shumrow.bsky.social

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Freelancer 🔚 AFC @geofreelancer.bsky.social · Sep 3

Purple...just purple. 💜

(Charoite from the collection. Locality: Murunskii Massif, Russia)
#geology #mineralogy

Freelancer 🔚 AFC @geofreelancer.bsky.social · Aug 26

Never thought I'd be carted away from a con in an ambulance from peanut sauce on pizza. At least I recovered in time to enjoy the last few moments of #EFNW25 this year.

Thanks to everyone who supported me!

Freelancer 🔚 AFC @geofreelancer.bsky.social · Aug 6

Rose quartz and schorl tourmaline, both from a 60m-thick pegmatite. Minas Gerais, Brazil. Field doggo for scale.

#geology

Freelancer 🔚 AFC @geofreelancer.bsky.social · Jul 16

Back from three long weeks of fieldwork studying pegmatites in Brazil for my PhD. Quite the fever dream 💎

#geology #mineralogy

Freelancer 🔚 AFC @geofreelancer.bsky.social · Jun 7

When I see halite in the field.

(Thank you @comnhale.bsky.social !)

🦋 NYALE commissions open✨ @comnhale.bsky.social · Jun 7

Thanks so much for trust on me @geofreelancer.bsky.social , i loved drawn you, very cutte pony! haha and use glasses too! this is soo cute! Thanks again!

#bleh #animation #meme #art #pony #mlp #blep

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Freelancer 🔚 AFC @geofreelancer.bsky.social · Jun 4

It's that time 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
(Art by dormantt)

#pridemonth

Freelancer 🔚 AFC @geofreelancer.bsky.social · May 29

Just some large obsidian boulders, only ~800 yrs old. Doing geo shenanigans, Mono Co., CA.

#geology

Freelancer 🔚 AFC @geofreelancer.bsky.social · May 21

Appeasing the origami/horse gods. They angy.

Freelancer 🔚 AFC @geofreelancer.bsky.social · May 15

More geo stuff: ~90 million-year-old Californian ammonite. Found in late Cretaceous shale in 100ºF weather.

#geology

Freelancer 🔚 AFC @geofreelancer.bsky.social · May 13

At this point, my brain is but a fried egg.

Freelancer 🔚 AFC @geofreelancer.bsky.social · May 1

My geochronology grant app got denied due to the entire program dissolving from "federal budget cuts" 🤬.

Anyway, here's a pretty twinned crystal of cinnabar (mercury sulfide). Tongren Mine, China. #minerals

Freelancer 🔚 AFC @geofreelancer.bsky.social · Apr 16

1500+. @babscon.com, here we come 🦄

#babscon #origami

Freelancer 🔚 AFC @geofreelancer.bsky.social · Apr 8

Fieldwork: ~15 million-year-old leg and jaw bones of extinct camelid species, Miocene Barstow Formation, Mojave Desert.

I ain't a paleontologist but it was awesome to discover these ⚒️

#paleontology #geology

Freelancer 🔚 AFC @geofreelancer.bsky.social · Mar 26

a man wearing glasses is holding a green egg in his hand and saying `` egg '' .

ALT: a man wearing glasses is holding a green egg in his hand and saying `` egg '' .

media.tenor.com

Freelancer 🔚 AFC @geofreelancer.bsky.social · Mar 25

"Are you folding unicorns for the last @babscon.com ?"
"Yes."
"How many?"
"Yes."

(what's pictured is only a small fraction...)
#babscon #brony #origami

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Freelancer 🔚 AFC @geofreelancer.bsky.social · Mar 14

A puffball of okenite (hydrated Ca zeolite)-a mineral you can actually pet. Locality: Pune District, India.

(I named it Philip)
#minerals #geology

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Mar 6

WHERE WILL YOU BE TOMORROW?

Stand up for science flyer, happening on March 7th in DC & nationwide with more information at www.standupforscience2025.org

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Freelancer 🔚 AFC @geofreelancer.bsky.social · Mar 4

They shall indeed 🏳️‍⚧️

Freelancer 🔚 AFC @geofreelancer.bsky.social · Mar 1

Remembering the time I fursuited for the first time ever, at FC25. Definitely a magical experience, would do again ✨

(some photos by @surrealnightmares.bsky.social )

#fursuit #fursuitfriday

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Freelancer 🔚 AFC @geofreelancer.bsky.social · Feb 23

The second page of my personal sticker book, since I can't place some of these on my laptop:

Freelancer 🔚 AFC @geofreelancer.bsky.social · Feb 17

Pegmatites and granites! This is more of a side stop than anything :p