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Off the coast of Australia Macroctopus caught the shark, wrapped all its tentacles around it and soon released it. Most likely, he scraped all the parasites off her.
The octopus
this is how sharks stay smooth
Bro the cuttlefish and everything else checkin it ou
the best part is the rapidly growing crowd of onlooker fish and squids hoping that this event will end in a festive shower of delicious shark guts (it did not. woe to the peanut gallery)
woah this is cool as fuck. man i need to find a way to incorporate sunfish into more fantastical settings because the whimsy here is off the charts
Yes, my child, spread the presence of the Holy Mola! Many blessings!
thought about that quote "homosexuality exists in 1000+ species, homophobia only exists in one" but how awkward would it be if we discovered another species that was homophobic
"homosexuality exists in 1000+ species, homophobia only exists in two. what? oh, humans, and the yellow-patched cuboid pinecone wren that was recently discovered on an island off the coast of canada. they're fucking bigots"
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cephalopod (re: nautilus)
official cephalopod post
I go to youtube. Cute animal videos are AI now. I go to instagram. There are AI influencers. I go to spotify. It's flooded with AI bands and music. I go to ebay. Every product is AI. I open netflix. Every movie has AI. I watch TV. All commercials are AI. I cancel all my suscriptions. The customer support is AI. I buy a book. It is written by AI. I talk to my friends. They tell me that AI is their new therapist. I take the subway. Some dude is talking to his AI girlfriend next to me. I go to the beach. The sunset is real. I take a pic and upload it. The photo is enhanced with AI. You can't opt out.
I can't keep having the same conversations about love languages, mbti, iq, bmi, "brain fully formed at 25" and shit over and over again...
these things exist on a spectrum from untrue to straightforwardly racist btw. so if we could retire them forever that'd be nice.
“Love Languages” are just common couples therapy techniques mangled and repackaged by an unqualified homophobe. Relationships generally need all 5 love languages to be fulfilled, which is to say, everybody needs to communicate with, spend time with, and do things for their partners, and that’s got nothing to do with any special way you communicate affection.
MBTI has been proven completely ineffective at predicting anyone’s success at a particular job, and half the people who take it twice will get different results. Reputable psychologists do not recognize it, and the company that owns the rights to it uses it to scam people. People don’t adhere to strict binaries in basically anything. Very few people are going to be exclusively introverted or extroverted. It’s just astrology repackaged as pseudoscience. Shockingly enough, you can’t boil the complexity of the human experience down to a dozen Types of Guy.
The concept of IQ is flawed from the start— “intelligence” is an abstract concept that encompasses many different skills, from social intelligence to emotional intelligence to the very narrow kind of problem solving intelligence IQ tests generally measure for. It cannot predict how fast you learn, how much you know, or how logical and well read you are. It mostly measures how good you are at solving puzzles. Coincidentally, it’s also a pretty good predictor of income and education level, take a guess why. Most people’s IQ will change throughout their lives, because it’s inconsistent bullshit we’ve only held onto this long because we’re still kinda hoping we can breed the ubermensch. IQ tests and the way they attempt to categorize people are explicitly eugenicist and racist.
BMI was developed by a man known as the grandfather of eugenics, who first of all was a mathematician, not a doctor, and second never intended the formula to be used to categorize individuals. It’s intended to give a rough estimate of obesity in populations, and it’s not even good at that. It hangs around because of fatphobia and insurance companies who want it as an excuse to charge fat people more.
The study which determined people’s prefrontal cortex was still developing at 25… stopped measuring at 25. Evidence suggests your brain probably never stops developing. Stop infantilizing grown adults. This is a branch off from the larger mess of misinformation surrounding fMRIs.
If you haven’t put together what all these things have in common yet, here’s the moral of the story: STOP TRYING TO CATEGORIZE PEOPLE. STOP TRYING TO PUT PEOPLE IN A GODDAMN BIOLOGICAL HIERARCHY. EUGENICS IS BAD, AND WILL ALWAYS BE BAD, NO MATTER WHO’S DOING IT.
Old foes
Always been a sucker for whales
FLAPS AWAY BASHFULLY
they dont let me donate blood because my blood is ugly
my blood looks like fish blood
hello fellow artists. google has fallen. pinterest/duckduckgo AI filters don't work. do not despair; here is a list i made of places to find reference images without having to sift through piles of worthless garbage. (for future editing convenience i am just linking my blog post on dreamwidth.)
✨ good places to find art reference that are not full of AI trash 🌈
If there was a button
and when you press it you lose one random bone in your body
then.
how many times
would you press it
Do I gain anything or…?
YES
You will Lose one
1
random bone in your body.
(per press)
I also made the button real! please enjoy
🦴bone☠️button🦴
Ah yes. The ONE bone I was actively using at that exact second to push the button. A shame. Can't push button again.
that is so funny oh my god
Me when it’s fish time
how am I supposed to live with the knowledge that the weird "A Mule Mom's Story" irish vanner horse embryo transfer cartoon on youtube was based on a real living vanner horse and real mules at a real farm, in Ocala, 30 minutes south of my house in my shrimp study area.
what do you mean a business literally selling frozen irish vanner horse semen on the internet inexplicably had a cartoon produced to advertise their semen sales and equine surrogacy, which I then bumped into on youtube in the 2010s while looking at artists' animation reels. what do you mean the real-life horse semen farm sits on top of the charred and terraformed remains of the ancient shrimp forest, which I have spent the last eight years painstakingly reconstructing from leftover scraps of wild space.
what do you mean I have to get up tomorrow knowing all of this now
before north central Florida was the "horse capital of the world", it was a rare ecosystem called Hydric Hammock, with networks of small temporary freshwater ponds under an oak and palmetto canopy. every year more and more of it gets converted into fancy horse people pasture (or buildings, but around Ocala it's mostly the former) and the temporary ponds are either filled in or made permanent and stocked with fish to control mosquitos. The heavy seasonal rain and limestone soil which once supported this ecosystem now grows lots of grass for horses. here is unconverted hydric hammock versus new pasture, on opposite sides of the same road near McIntosh:
this area is home to a number of rare plants and animals adapted to the semi-wetland conditions. I study fairy shrimp, which survive the dry periods as eggs and hatch in response to seasonal rain. they can survive drought and wildfire no problem, but cannot survive habitat modification. At least three species only live in central Florida, and one is potentially extinct. probably more species are hiding in other parts of the US south like Georgia and Alabama, but not a lot of people are looking for them, and obviously there's very little money in it.
Here is an adult Dendrocephalus proeliator, a central Florida endemic species which I co-described in 2019:
I've been burned too many times by the academia industry to want to risk finding an advisor and doing a thesis, like I am expected to. People can be cruel and I don't want any more bad experiences. So I do research entirely on my own as a hobby. For eight years I have been tracking the shrimp in whatever little pieces of semi-natural land have not yet been terraformed. maybe someday I will be able to do more, but for now I just document what I find.
anyway, that's what I mean by "ancient shrimp forest".
Being a fish in highly oxygenated water must feel so fucking good
I see the waves swirling around the intertidal zone, leaving behind trails of dissolved bubbles and I'm like fuck yeah some blenny in there is just going hnnnggg
What if you were a golden trout in a mountain stream. What if you faced the flow of the water and the swirling bubbles, like crystalline drops, ran against your gills. What if you took the deepest, cleanest, most pure breathes by running in place. Imagine.
You wanna be a fish so bad don't you
Is there space for a 43rd 🥺
spotify is Pissing me off so im just gonna locally download all my (2.7k......) songs. Cant give me ads if theyre local mp3s. bitch.
soooooo does anyone know of any good programs for yoinking music from spotify with metadata included (one way or another idc if it matches it to youtube videos or not) or am i gonna hgave to manually go through all 2.7k songs myself
this might have metadata
Download songs, albums and playlists from Spotify instantly.
it seems to only do up to 100? which, i have. like 2.7k songs i wanna download
i will always shill for spotdl. it's a primarily command line tool which is an obvious turnoff for many but it's a phenomenal lil program
Download your Spotify playlists and songs along with album art and metadata
highly rec pairing it with mediamonkey so you can quickly sync your music to a phone or ipod
my tags:
Heres all the things I mentioned!
Should mention you may want to learn port forwarding for using soulseek/nicotine+ to share your own files, some people wont share their files to people that aren't sharing themselves.
Soulseek
Graphical client for the Soulseek peer-to-peer network
And for editing tags in bulk:
Mp3tag is a powerful and easy-to-use tool to edit metadata of audio files.
Official website for MusicBrainz Picard, a cross-platform music tagger written in Python.
Finding album covers in high res:
Search for high quality album covers from various online streaming services, music stores and databases.
Also gonna include some music players I like:
https://getmusicbee.com/
Install via EXE, Flatpak or the Arch User Repository.
So far as iOS goes, this is the only one that supports replaygain and doesn't have in-app purchases, no lastfm support tho:
foobar2000 mobile is an advanced audio player for mobile devices. Main features: * Supported audio formats: MP3, MP4, AAC, Vorbis, Opus, F
I'm not too familiar with android but the best one I found during a time I was planning to swap to android (still am eventually) is this:
Musicolet is a small yet powerful offline Music Player for Android, which organizes and plays local audio-files stored on your device.
