Cute and Small and Ready to Brawl

Aqua ☆ She/They ☆ Polyamorous

[viralfrog]

[gaymerkittycat]

[mbari-blog]

Listening with light

MBARI researchers have developed innovative new technology for studying the seafloor 💡🌊🤖

MBARI researchers are transforming our understanding of the processes that shape the seafloor. Since the beginning of 2025, a team of MBARI scientists and engineers has been testing Geo-Sense, a new portable instrument that uses distributed acoustic sensing technology for long-term, high-resolution seafloor monitoring. 

Geo-Sense measures the tiny strains and vibrations on a fiber-optic cable laid on the seafloor to track a wide range of processes, from underwater landslides to earthquakes. MBARI researchers recently published a detailed description of this innovative instrument in the journal Scientific Reports, highlighting the remarkable collaboration and expertise that brought it to life.

We sat down with Senior Scientist Aaron Micallef, a marine geologist who leads MBARI’s Seafloor Processes Team, to learn more about this groundbreaking instrument and the data being collected. Learn more on our website.

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Seafloor snacking with a spectacular crustacean 🦀

This decadent decapod, Paralithodes sp., is also known as a king crab. Spiny king crabs crawl across the seafloor in search of their next meal, which could be other crabs, sea stars, dead animals, or organic material that sank from the surface waters above. These crabs are found at depths between 150 and 700 meters (500 and 2,300 feet) and can grow up to 15 centimeters (six inches) across.

[yiddishfisting]

great

[yiddishfisting]

this looks helpful at least

[mcbitchtits]

another good source i would recommend following is Matthew Cortland, who is a public health/disability/law professional who does excellent writeups:

Cyclosporiasis Is Here: How to Protect Yourself | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland

Cyclospora infection is often asymptomatic, but when symptoms occur, illness is characterized by anorexia, nausea, flatulence, fatigue, abdo

What Is Safe To Eat? How I'm Thinking About Cyclosporiasis | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland

nb. I got into this outbreak in detail, even though I was having surgery, because I need to know what is safe for me to eat as someone who

[sendentaryworm]

Some wide angle shots I took back in the start of May. It was the transition of seasons and introduction of new palettes.

[malottie]

girl who is so so scared all the time. girl who once passed as 'smart' but now finds it hard to think. girl who's always half lost because of memory issues and dissociation and trouble with inhabiting a physical space. girl who is a failure in a way that is neither interesting nor endearing.

[fervent-bookwomb]

i think that soy sauce fish and honey bear must be the very very best of friends

[fervent-bookwomb]

look at them. look at them!!! i bet they have tea parties together when the spice cabinet is closed.

[emtearzz]

buddies!!

[worrywyrms]

wobbegong

[johannestevans]

Btw when critics say "this is fetishistic" we don't just mean, i think the author was writing this one-handed

A "fetish" can be when you fixate unduly on an object and end up worshiping the object rather than what it represents or what it's made up of, so your fixation bears no fruit

It's not really a problem if an author gets off on what they're writing, the author's feelings about a subject aren't inherently an obstacle

But treating a specific theme or topic as one-note, so that your portrayal of it is one-dimensional and unnuanced? That IS an artistic obstacle

So when we say that an author's portrayal of women is fetishistic, for example, it's that they're reduced to their sexual appeal and lack depth as characters, or only serve aesthetic or shallow emotional purposes within a given text, and THAT's the problem, not whether or not they're hot

[juliedillon]

I drew a Varric, pouting after getting slapped around a lil' by Cassandra in DA2

[evenlyevi]

Moonlight Dandelions

[evenlyevi]

Moonlight Dandelions (in color) - original bw ver!

[loish]

Reaching for a star ✨ This one turned out christmassy and summery at the same time. Did you know that Christmas in July is a thing? Consider this my contribution 🎄

[suonko]

by Aliriza CAKIR

[taraxippos]

Akira bike sliding on a horse

[taraxippos]

concept art

[taraxippos]

concept art

[fuckyeahanarchistposters]

"How to reason with a War CRiminal"

Graphic designed by Rafeal Pereira

[hyunota]

sparring buddies

This got rly out of hand I was just drawing flowery spending time with each of the other flowers and planning to have little doodles of them all on a page lmao