vertigo at apogee

Lis (she/her), queer & disabled adult. Also known as @star-anise and @with-my-murder-flute

[lamignonette]

[plaguedocboi]

So every year, my aquarium does a captive lobster hatchery project (hence all the loblings). The reason we’re doing it is because in the wild, loblings only have a 1 in 25,000 chance of surviving their larval phase. They’re plankton as babies and everything eats them. Additionally, as the Gulf of Maine warms, they are having even lower survival rates because the blooms of copepods they feed on as babies are happening earlier in the year, and they’re missing it.

Obviously, the goal of this experiment is to grow the lobsters until they’re big enough to settle to the seabed and then release them, because they have a much higher likelihood of surviving to adulthood when they’re able to hide. Ideally, captive lobster hatcheries can boost the wild population and keep things stable, so we don’t have a major crash in a decade or two.

The first year we tried this was pretty bad. We had a lot of eggs, but very few babies. It turned out that the CO2 levels in the building spiked as more guests visited throughout the summer, and that settled into the water and threw off the pH and caused a chemical reaction that prevented a lot of the eggs from hatching. I think we ended up releasing three baby lobsters (which is still better than their wild survival rate but not great).

The second year was a little better. We added a de-gasser to the aquarium and got a ton of larval lobsters, but right as they were settling to the bottom we had a disease outbreak that killed most of them. We ended up releasing four babies at the end of the season.

But this year? Oh boy. We have so many lobsters that we had to release the first round early (usually we wait till September or October so guests can see them). We just released a total of FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE baby lobsters, and we still have over a hundred who haven’t settled to the bottom yet. I genuinely don’t even have words to explain how cool this is. OVER FIVE HUNDRED. We just added hundreds of lobsters to the wild population that wouldn’t have been there otherwise.

Conservation is so fucken sick

[beyondthisdarkhouse]

Every so often I encounter an owner of a male tortoiseshell who hears that their cat might have XXY chromosomes and therefore be sterile, and therefore thinks , awesome! They don't have to pay to get the lad neutered!

Which leaves everyone else trying to explain that a) he could also be a chimera and therefore fertile, and b) Sterile does not mean not horny.

Humans did not get very involved with cat breeding for milennia in large part because being around a fully hormonal adult cat when the mood strikes them can just be miserable. That is an artist who must make art and their favourite medium is piss.

Nobody cares about your piss art, Tommy. Go make kittens in the barn or back alley or something.

[beyondthisdarkhouse]

Cursèd object:

Brokenhearted gay situationship friendship necklace

[finndamerons-archive]

castle // halsey

[tiktaali]

[squinty-cat]

A great hunter returns successfully

[phleb0tomist]

so many people ive known have pushed themselves to burnout trying to deny their disabled reality, skipping accommodations, skipping rests etc. and the world convinces them that the solution to their burnout is to push even harder. it’s a huge tragedy. i know social pressures make it tough but i want more disabled people to make things easier for themselves where possible, to opt out of things that harm them when possible, to quit while they’re ahead. be that person today! protect yourself where you can! take micro breaks while doing your hobby. get that shower chair. sit to brush your teeth. lie down in the middle of the day, even if only for 5 mins. these things add up and it’s so worth it.

[phleb0tomist]

happy disability pride month! ACCOMMODATE YOURSELF TODAY!

[buny-facts]

a bunny is like if you made an advanced combat mech completely useless

[beyondthisdarkhouse]

Currently watching Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia

About a 13th century Persian girl who takes her experiences being raised as a slave in a scholar's household into a much more dangerous world: The court of the Mongol prince who just razed her city.

Three eps currently out on Crunchyroll, Japanese audio/English subtitles.

[alagaisia]

Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?

[alagaisia]

It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!

[alagaisia]

It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.

[watermelon-converse]

Hey. Hey. Tumblr. Ides of March ppl. We can do this

[emi--rose]

Hell yeah moon holiday

[hello-delicious-tea]

Ooh coming up we should celebrate

[ariaste]

PITCH: We call it Moon Day, and then every 7 years when it falls on a Monday, that's an even BIGGER deal and we call that Moon Day Monday and go absolutely apeshit about it (the next Moon Day Monday is in 2026 so we have a couple trial runs first)

[sarostheghostcat]

MOON DAY MOON DAY MOON DAY

[wafflebloggies]

moon day is 20th July!!!

[silly-jellyghoty]

Scheduling this a day earlier to remind you all and myself about the Moon Day tomorow!

[kedreeva]

I scheduled this in 2025 to give you all a week to make Moon Day Monday preparations! I think I will order a little rocket cake or bake some moon phase cookies!

[graysedai]

the Aes Sedai: opening sequence

[graysedai]

i miss my wot show so much 😭

[tinyyellowflowers-blog]

This is like analysis 101 stuff but I JUST figured it out, Persuasion when Anne is talking to Captain Harville about constancy — he says that all literature says that men are more constant than women, and she says “the pen has been in your hands” and then goes on to talk about how men can be constant as long as there is hope but women will be constant even without hope. She is being SO SWEET here, giving a grieving man a path to mourn his sister but not see his friend’s marriage as a betrayal — but she’s also speaking from the heart about how she has and will always love Wentworth.

And the pen falls out of Wentworth’s hand.

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

You have became this medieval role, how do you feel about it

you are in the medieval era and you have this role!

How do you feel?

great!! I love this

good!

It's okay

So bad. I hate this

This is similar to my real job!

Results/other

Voting ended on9h

[hillbillyoracle]

give me the beat boys and free your plums I wanna steal some of the icebox ones this is just to say

[dailycatsblog]

[hellallamerican]

[hangsawoman]

shirley jackson casually asking the pharmacist how much arsenic would be necessary to kill a family

from on fans and fanmail, a lecture by shirley jackson

[hangsawoman]

this is like that time virginia woolf was at the pharmacist with her sister vanessa and were casually (and loudly) talking about lesbian sex