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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 8h

Soft, greasy #Molybdenite faces off against the dark and looming tetrahedrons of #Tetrahedrite for today’s #OreCup match! It’s close so far, repeatedly flipping and currently under a 10-vote margin.

Vote: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results...
Results:

Results for Round 1 Match 2 — Mineral Cup & Ore Cup

Live results for Molybdenite vs Tetrahedrite

www.mineralcup.org

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yogarunwork.bsky.social @yogarunwork.bsky.social · 8h

A new way to learn.. loved the amount of info on the voting page
#OreCup

Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 8h

Soft, greasy #Molybdenite faces off against the dark and looming tetrahedrons of #Tetrahedrite for today’s #OreCup match! It’s close so far, repeatedly flipping and currently under a 10-vote margin.

Vote: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results...
Results:

Results for Round 1 Match 2 — Mineral Cup & Ore Cup

Live results for Molybdenite vs Tetrahedrite

www.mineralcup.org

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Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨 @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social · 10h

I've walked around on a huge molybdenite deposit. That lubricant effect makes for really interesting landslides too.

Helicopter in the air across from the Snowfield Slide in the Mitchell drainage at KSM. The gray rock at lower left is chock full of molybdenite

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Aiyana Ishmael @aiyanaish.bsky.social · 12h

I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members.

At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.

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Kat, preparing something for later @deadenedglow.bsky.social · 12h

Tetrahedrite takes my vote this match!

Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 12h

#OreCup R1M2 is a matchup of extremely shiny and geometrically-distinctive ore minerals for #Molybdenite vs #Tetrahedrite.

Vote: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results...
Results:

www.mineralcup.org

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Kiona N. Smith @kionasmith07.bsky.social · 12h

I'm voting for #Tetrahedrite because it just looks so much cooler. #OreCup

Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 12h

#OreCup R1M2 is a matchup of extremely shiny and geometrically-distinctive ore minerals for #Molybdenite vs #Tetrahedrite.

Vote: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results...
Results:

www.mineralcup.org

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Saavik Pie Ford 🥧 @saavikford.bsky.social · 11h

#Molybdenite: a really useful mineral!

It’s kinda like graphite—a great lubricant!

#OreCup

Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 12h

#OreCup R1M2 is a matchup of extremely shiny and geometrically-distinctive ore minerals for #Molybdenite vs #Tetrahedrite.

Vote: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results...
Results:

www.mineralcup.org

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🐉I reject your canon & substitute my own🐉 @schisty.bsky.social · 11h

Go my unpronounceable friend, GO!!

#molybdenite #OreCup

Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 12h

#OreCup R1M2 is a matchup of extremely shiny and geometrically-distinctive ore minerals for #Molybdenite vs #Tetrahedrite.

Vote: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results...
Results:

www.mineralcup.org

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GHOST-BUSnado, Area Gloom Dad @tarnado.bsky.social · 11h

[pounding on my scutum with my gladius]
ORE CUP! ORE CUP! ORE CUP!

Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 12h

#OreCup R1M2 is a matchup of extremely shiny and geometrically-distinctive ore minerals for #Molybdenite vs #Tetrahedrite.

Vote: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results...
Results:

www.mineralcup.org

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Birch 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @birchduck.bsky.social · 11h

Molybdenite is the best after copper. It does magic when alloyed into steel. And it's fun to say! Go vote moly

Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 12h

#OreCup R1M2 is a matchup of extremely shiny and geometrically-distinctive ore minerals for #Molybdenite vs #Tetrahedrite.

Vote: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results...
Results:

www.mineralcup.org

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Vicky Veritas @vickyveritas.bsky.social · 11h

You had me at tetrahedrons, and look at the twinning! #tetrahedrite

#OreCup #MinCup25 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🔭🪐

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FrankenGardner @glacierpique.bsky.social · 10h

What makes the greatest ore, tho? Sulfides crystallize at higher temperatures and have simpler molecular structures. Sulfosalts precipitate at lower temperatures, have greater solubility, plus bonus semi-metals. I’m voting for the sulfosalt, #Tetrahedrite.
#OreCup25 ⚒️ 🧪

Spiky ball of great Tetrahedrite crystals with tiny white quartz prisms. Image from mindat.org, copyright Gerard Van der Veldt

Closeup view of a shiny tetrahedron of Tetrahedrite or Tennantite in a matrix of earthy yellow Siderite. Image from mindat.org, from Juan Miguel.

Black and white SEM image of intergrown Zinc Tetrahedrite crystals. Image from mindat.org.

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FrankenGardner @glacierpique.bsky.social · 11h

Meanwhile, read “Fight Like Hell” by Kim Kelly, until morale improves.

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 17h

chat am I cooked www.vogue.com/article/teen...

Teen Vogue Is Joining Vogue.com

The transition, in which Teen Vogue will keep its unique editorial identity and mission, fortifies the evolving Vogue ecosystem.

www.vogue.com

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 16h

...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site

Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 1d

dissatisfied by the New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani?

great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com

Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People

“What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”

www.teenvogue.com

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Eos @eos.org · 23h

You’ve heard of the #MinCup — now get ready for the #OreCup, which starts today! Our first pick is #copper, which humans have been mining, using, and discarding for thousands of years: eos.org/articles/500...

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Richard Gibson @richardgibson.bsky.social · 21h

#MineralMonday #Copper pseudomorph after pseudohexagonal aragonite twin, Corocoro, Bolivia. ⚒️ #geology . No MAGA! Science = Resistance! #standupforscience

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Vicky Veritas @vickyveritas.bsky.social · 20h

A pseudomorph (false form) is when one mineral changes to another, but keeps the original form. #copper

#OreCup25 #MinCup25 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🔭🪐

Richard Gibson @richardgibson.bsky.social · 21h

#MineralMonday #Copper pseudomorph after pseudohexagonal aragonite twin, Corocoro, Bolivia. ⚒️ #geology . No MAGA! Science = Resistance! #standupforscience

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Mika McKinnon @mikamckinnon.bsky.social · 21h

Psst. Did you see?

After years of asking us for mini-cups, we have a week-long race through the blend of economics and geology that are ore minerals.

Go, learn, share, vote!

Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 1d

The first match in #OreCup is on now as #Galena and #Copper battle for your vote. Do you favour the lead ore or the native metal?

Vote: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results...
Results:

www.mineralcup.org

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 23h

I vote for minerals for their art & physics applications & the new #OreCup is making it hard pitting 2 strong contenders against each other! Found worldwide Copper & Galena have been used since antiquity (see early Galena smelting via Agricola). Both used for pigments (verdigris in this Van Eyck)…

Smelting metals: Galena is one of the easiest ores to smelt. It can simply be placed in a fire and then lead can be recovered from under the ashes when the fire goes out. Archaeologists have found evidence that lead was smelted as early as 6500 BC in what is now Turkey. Small amounts of silver were refined from lead by the Romans about 2000 years ago. Public domain image by Georgius Agricola showing a woodcut of a man moving molten metal with a pole next to brick furnaces with blazing fires giving off smoke. There are tools nearby and strangely a dog in the background.

Jan Van Eyck, The Arnolfini Portrait, 1434 (via the National Gallery London)

The Arnolfini Portrait (or The Arnolfini Wedding, The Arnolfini Marriage, the Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife, or other titles) is an oil painting on oak panel by the Early Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck, dated 1434 and now in the National Gallery, London. It is a full-length double portrait, believed to depict the Italian merchant Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini and his wife, presumably in their residence at the Flemish city of Bruges.

He wears a fur-lined cloak and large black hat. She wears a vivid green gown with blue underdress and white veil. There is a red bed and bench behind them, a small dog and sandals on the floor and a circular convex mirror behind them. The scene is lit by a window and a chandelier hangs above them.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

Forrest Smith, the only National Park Service engineer cleaning up abandoned oil and gas wells, lost his contract, leaving 93 orphaned wells on park lands unmanaged. These leaking wells release methane and toxins, threatening human health and the environment.

He Alone Tracked Leaky Oil Wells in National Parks. He Was Let Go.

www.nytimes.com

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Colleen Durkin @cadurkin.bsky.social · 1d

I want to see the particles that sink carbon to the deep ocean, all the time and in real time.This summer we built an instrument that collects images of sinking particles every second, and visualizes them in 5 different ways. @mbarinews.bsky.social
youtu.be/4xXGlnCoik8

How MBARI scientists are studying the ocean’s carbon flux in real time

YouTube video by MBARI (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute)

youtu.be

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lafoule17.bsky.social @lafoule17.bsky.social · 1d

No, I was not ‘bored’. Researching the efficacy of measuring tapes in tabby hypnosis is hard science 😤x

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

Some people waited in line up for 14 hours to receive a food box from a church giveaway.

500 people volunteered to help and they still ran out of food.

Remember for every one person a food bank feeds, SNAP feeds 9.

By turning off food assistance the regime is starving Americans.

Woman sits in car for 14 hours to get food during New Birth Baptist church food giveaway

More than 2,000 people waited in their cars in line Saturday morning in order to receive food.

www.11alive.com

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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 1d

1/3 🧵🧵

Details are emerging of intimidation tactics used by USA delegation to derail climate action on shipping at the International Maritime Organisation

“It’s like dealing with the Mob” said one veteran of the talks

www.ft.com/content/4e0a...

US accused of ‘bully-boy’ tactics to sink climate deal

Officials say ‘threats’ used to derail net zero deal for shipping industry ripped up rules of global diplomacy

www.ft.com

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