Jolyon Ralph 🪨

@jolyon.bsky.social

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Pebble Enthusiast, mindat.org founder and maintainer. Twitter Refugee. He/him

Password change box, new password: P63/mmc shown as super weak and New Password: Fd3(bar)m shown as strong.
"The idea that Earth was 'seeded' by babies from an alien planet, delivered in special space carriers such as this, belongs more to the world of science fiction than science fact."
"These peaceful green creatures sucking nutrients from the soil could be aliens from a distant planet where all life-forms are capable of photosynthesis"
Cover of "Granada Guide to Aliens" showing simplistic art of aliens walking in a field.
a screengrab of a dialog from chatGPT saying "chatgpt.com wants to connect to a serial port" and a listing of different serial port devices on the computer.
A antique stall with records including Sinnita
An old photo of women making hats, and the caption says 'HATTERS GONNA HAT'
Cummingtonite and Dickite
A poster for "The Gem and Mineral Shit show"
This image is a humorous and scientific reinterpretation of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, comparing human needs to the Igneous QAPF rock classification. The pyramid is divided into five layers, labeled from bottom to top: Physiological needs (red): Includes "food, water, warmth, rest," representing the fundamental human requirements. Safety needs (orange): Refers to "security, safety," emphasizing stability and protection. Belongingness & love needs (green): Highlights "intimate relationships, friends," which symbolize social connections. Granite (blue): Subdivided into "syeno- and monzo-granite, granodiorite, tonalite," humorously comparing human psychological needs to various granite compositions. Quartz-rich Granitoids (purple): Defined as "might not be igneous," reflecting the highest level of need in the context of "Quartz-rich needs."
"Poorly explain what you do for a job."
One of these tedious word grids with all sorts of phrases that are meant to bring positivity, such as POWERFUL and OPTIMISM "hidden" within, except on this EAT and ROX are outlined in red.
A logarithmic plot visualizing mass versus physical radius, with various regions and phenomena labeled. The x-axis shows the log of physical radius (in centimeters, with equivalent Mpc at the top), ranging from the Planck length to the Hubble radius. The y-axis shows the log of mass (in grams, with equivalent energy in GeV at the right), spanning subatomic particles to galaxy clusters. Regions include: "Quantum uncertainty" at small radii and low masses, where quantum mechanics dominates. "Forbidden by gravity," where gravity limits dense configurations like black holes. "Sub-Planckian unknown," below Planck length and mass. Labels for objects from fundamental particles (H+ and atoms) to humans, Earth, stars, and galaxies. Stellar remnants (white dwarfs, neutron stars, black holes) and cosmological scales (Hubble radius, galaxy clusters). Overlays indicating the dominant cosmological parameters (ΩΛ, Ωr, Ωm) in shaded colors. Key milestones, like the Sun, Earth, and Planck units, are marked for reference.
A humorous comic strip with three panels. In the first panel, a woman wearing a wide-brimmed hat and leopard print is selling crystals at a booth labeled "Gemma's Crystals." She holds up a red crystal and says to a potential customer, "This one protects you from being run over." The second panel shows the customer responding with "Cool. Can I see that?" as they take the crystal. In the third panel, the seller is being hit by a car while the customer looks at the crystal in her hand with a neutral expression. The car crash scene includes broken table pieces and scattered items from the booth. The comic is signed "@Beetlemoses."
The image shows a CNN Science article headline that reads, "Could mouse sperm orbiting Earth be the future of humanity?"
A piece of merensky reef rock on a trophy dated 1974, "The Johnson Matthey Award"
Comic strip titled 'Good Grief! ALIENS' featuring Peanuts-style characters. The characters engage in dialogue referencing a situation reminiscent of the movie 'Aliens.' In the first panel, a character wearing a helmet says a rescue would take 'about seventeen days,' prompting a distressed response about not surviving seventeen hours. The second panel shows a smaller girl character being praised for her survival skills without weapons or training, leading another character to shout, 'Why don't you put her in charge?!' The strip humorously juxtaposes Peanuts characters with sci-fi action tropes.
Minerals labelled as 'KILLER MICROS!' showing small specimens of cuprosklodowskite and kasolite from the Munsonoi mine, Congo.
The newspaper heading is 'Pet Shop Boys' Lousy Record' subtitle 'Owner stops animal sales after licence rap'
A meme. The top frame shows a young woman sending a photo of an aquamarine crystal to someone. The second frame shows a young man saying *BLOCKED
Temperature on a web interface thing showing 7c
Two packs of sea salt and vinegar crisps one blue one green.
"This is absolutely unprecedented. The last sighting was something like 10 years ago.
Apple TV model 3
Please do not touch the walrus or sit on the iceberg
An obviously fake fossil frog
The image shows Jolyon's hand holding a flat stone slab containing a fossil of a Keichousaurus, a prehistoric marine reptile. The fossil features an elongated skeleton with a distinct head, long neck, and visible spine and limb bones. Notably, the neck appears to have been sheared by tectonic action, with a misalignment visible where the neck bones meet the head, likely caused by geological forces over time. A label in Korean, English, and Chinese characters identifies the specimen as "Keichousaurus" and provides details about its origin and classification. The stone has a rough, textured surface with natural cracks running through it.
The smooth scroll setting option in Chrome, showing I have disabled it.
OpenMindat: Open and FAIR mineralogy data from the Mindat database Xiaogang Ma, Jolyon Ralph, Jiyin Zhang, Xiang Que, Anirudh Prabhu, Shaunna M. Morrison, Robert M. Hazen, Lesley Wyborn, Kerstin Lehnert First published: 29 May 2023 https://doi.org/10.1002/gdj3.204Citations: 4
shit aurora photo
a fantasy artwork showing sealife and mermaids in West Indian waters, circa 1944.