the song of the stone

30s. Unusual for a millennial. (header art by @barnespls)

[omtai]

oh log we’re really in it now

[glavilio]

it's called a museum because me 'n' u see 'em

[artssie]

The Kiss (1859) by Francesco Hayez

[valend]

Yahhh I have to build Rome. Yup it’s due tomorrow.. noo I haven’t started yet haha is that bad?

[lordwilde]

'Ginkgo' chair by Claude Lalanne

[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

[freenarnian]

You've heard of the man, the myth, the legend. Now get ready for the woman, the omen, the portent.

[thefriendlymurderer]

Jolene

[soup-mother]

Sober as fuck at the back of the club going onto Wikipedia and typing "List of birds"

[mr-dinosaurus]

I love reading fanfics where one character is tagged as jealous, but their partner is unlovable to anyone but them. Like.. calm down, sweetheart, no one wants your man. We're still trying to figure out why you want your man.

[ruuari]

my dragon age charms that I forgot to share!!! you can get them here ✨

they are inspired by tarot cards

[eredhes]

[ID: Black and white lino print of a herd of red deer walking through woods. A stag with large antlers partly behind a tree looks up towards a yellow Lascaux deer further into the woods partly obscured by a tree. End ID.]

Decided to make this rough painting from last year (under read more) into a lino print. Prints available on my shop eredhes.etsy.com

[nevver]

All my friends are dead, Jonk

[389]

Laura Dern & Sam Neill in Jurassic Park (1993)

[everythingfox]

Most unserious animal

[gaysie]

has anyone noticed that it’s really difficult to get anything done when you have like 4 hours of functional mood per day and those are taken up by work and then after that it’s like the ghouls are grabbing you you can’t even do the things you want to because the Ghouls Are Grabbing You

[ein-bleistift-und-radiergummi]

Dragon Door Handle - Simontorya Castle Hungary

[fishmechs]