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blue, any pronouns. sci-fi, gaming and horror. sideblogs are @bluescreeningart for art and @bacteriorage for science. im not a minor please stop blocking me

[virtualgirladvance]

[dogpuppy]

[stonesense]

obsessed with the spiderweb in the middle of my carnivorous plant. sir that cannot be up to housing regulations. she will eat you

[bluescreening]

I feel like we as a whole are not making fun of German food enough

[thequeenoftheentiregoddamnworld]

Hey, hey, look me in the eyes when I tell you this okay? The whole "do trans women or trans men have it worse?" debate going on right now is the most obvious CIA bullshit on earth cause honestly we've both got it pretty shitty and fighting each other isn't helping anyone

[abkvs]

futbol torture nexus

[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

[jeezilikesports]

YESSS

[drchucktingle]

oh dang the most important review of all just came in

[galacticsabc]

Go! Rocky, Go!

[transgenderer]

the GPU is a tiny and simple minded wizard who can cast one spell very fast: linear algebra

[fuzzpetalz]

Cerebral Processing Unit

12” x 16”, screen print on paper

Edition of 6

[71x2]

unfortunately for me he is the funniest football player out there

[thesituation]

SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!!!!!!!!! SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[chiarrara]

why was messi lowkey serving saddam hussein hiding spot

[butch-bara]

saw a video of a woman being like “why don’t we talk about these things that are part of being a woman?! like, for example, plucking out your boob hairs!”

[lemonsweet]

Do you remember the episode of Spongebob where he's training gary for the snail race and does a coach persona + calls gary a girl and has an aside where he's like "I called you a lady to demean you 🤓" and right after he says that it cuts to sandy and she somehow telepathically feels that Spongebob just did something misogynistic and us like I feel like I need to kick Spongebobs ass for some reason. And then she appears just at the end of the episode to kick his ass.