Greg

Large amethyst geode carved into the shape of a heart, calcite crystals in center of it.

Day 2 finished 💜

That is not double terminated

Selfie of me in front of our booth.

Vivid pinkish red 17ct no heat ruby from tanzania.

Day 1 at the Tucson gem show complete!

Selfie of me in a mirror wearing a shortsleeve black button shirt and new haircut.

Large banner for the AGTA gem show.

Day 0 (setup) for the Tucson gem show. Gonna be a busy but exciting week!

Got to my hotel in Tucson an hour ago and have already spent 180$ on meteorites and minerals 😅

Blizzard update from Rhode Island- i have let the intrusive thoughts win

Cropped screenshot from a pdf that says 'ask ai assistant' with 'chat with your documents' below it.

Is anyone else alarmed by how much of a nuisance embedded ai 'assistants' have become?

I dont want to 'chat with my document', please just let me read it in peace lol

Everyone Is Twelve theory strikes again

Selfie of me looking at and holding an elgonated prismatic crystal of blue beryl (nearly aquamarine) from Idaho. Photography setup in background.

Vivid "bubblegum" pink tourmaline (elbaite var. rubellite) round faceted gem, 55cts from California.

Photo session today feat. beryl and tourmaline 🥰

This is the kind of shit that would make you completely outside the bounds of any ancient society, the gods bestow generational curses for violating hospitality

Exercising free will by feeding the seagulls at a rest stop parking lot

Im so sorry, quartz feldspar and mica do not fluoresce like this

My birthstone is ruby

....rod

Goethite not kyanite

Theyve been compromised for many months now in their reporting narratived and decisions, so this doesnt surprise me

Hopper crystals!

Thousands of years of science grinding to a halt because the most ignorant brainless flat-earth inspired egotists the world has ever seen are now in charge of everything

Eh, sometimes you can find some decent value candles at homegoods / tjmaxx / michaels

Do it! I randomly became a fragrance guy a few months ago during the gvt shutdown and its been kinda fun buying and trying new colognes but also now becoming a bit expensive lol

Got some of these at Tucson last year, thinking of making some of them into magnets

Fossil of fish skeleton in black shale being replaced by orange and yellow shiny chalcopyrite. From germany.

Happy FCF (fishy chalcopyrite friday) !!

🪨 : Chalcopyrite (CuFeS2) in shale

Pyromorphite is the phosphate analog, mimetite is an arsenate

Sister thats andradite

This isnt fire opal this is just precious opal

Its a joke referencing this recent article:

Some very shiny high protein (read: lead) crystals!

🪨: Galena (PbS) from Bulgaria

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

as of this week it has officially been 18 years since an anonymous user uploaded this bizarre image of an opossum cornered in a baby grand piano to Wikimedia Commons

Just donated 5$ to wikipedia 😎