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[hollycircling]

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[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

[calicoed-cat]

all done 🪄 (colored version of my banner)

[dizzybizz]

IM SICK

i just i love i love love love how they incorporated the little bits of characterization here ITS SO GOOD

cocos confident straight line agotts incredibly swift line as if shes rushing, right in front of coco?? riches little circle!!!! THE WAY SHES IN HER OWN LITTLE CORNER IS ALSO EXCELLENT tetias excited swoop THE WAY OLLY WAITS FOR THE GIRLS TO START THEIR LINES BEFORE GOING IN HIMSELF IS SOOOOOO GOOD QIFREY JUST SITTING THERE, WAND IN HAND, NOT DRAWING BUT WATCHING

IM DEAD

[killy-deactivated20241228]

Qifrey slips on a banana peel and lands on all fours, back arched, ass in the air, hair perfect, robe falling off but in a sultry way

[killy-deactivated20241228]

Qifrey falls down the stairs and makes a bunch of cartoon squeaky noises every time he hits a step but he lands like this

[fudemushi]

a piano falls on qifrey's head and you think he's a goner for sure but he just ruffles the debris out of his hair in a sensual way and readjusts his robes that have conveniently torn to show just the right amount of skin

[killy-deactivated20241228]

A tornado hits but it just tousles his hair in just the right way and blows his wizard robe dramatically and sensuously while everything else in the vicinity is destroyed

[fudemushi]

qifrey runs over a cliff without his soarshoes on and he stays suspended in midair for a second and looks down and then gravity kicks in and you look over the edge and see him at the bottom laying on his back with his robes spread out delightfully beneath him and a dazed look in his eyes

[killy-deactivated20241228]

Qifrey goes swimming in a river and gets dragged away by the current and almost drowns and when he’s rescued he looks like this

[iwilleatyourenglish]

something i have always found really weird is when english texts italicize words from other languages.

i remember reading a book as a kid and the author continually italicizing the word tamales

[iwilleatyourenglish]

[depsidase]

[monarobot]

Here’s some sketches exploring one of my ideas for the creature from “The Terror” by Dan Simmons, and how I imagined it could work as a supernatural element while still able to be mistaken for a polar bear at a glance or in the distance.

[chickensaredoodling]

Peace

[dorinoke]

beloveds

[respocked]

The DS9 crew are really the nosiest people in the galaxy. What other crew would stand under their commanding officer's office like this, actively trying to eavesdrop onto the conversation and speculating on what he's talking about? They aren't even pretending to be doing something else.

I'm convinced the only reason that a Bajoran-Federation with mixed jurisdiction and command system like this worked through all the political tensions is because everybody quickly realised that getting along means you get to hear more hot gossip.

[clingyduoapologist]

The lesson of avatar was never “killing bad people makes you just as bad as them” it was “you cannot be letting fascists dictate what counts as a win or loss” guys like come on it’s been 20 years

[clingyduoapologist]

Katara doesn’t forgive Yon Rha and hug him and dry him off and walk him home she leaves him scared and sniveling and crying in the mud but she leaves him alive because she realized in that moment that she was only doing this because she felt like she had to. She hates this man, therefore she should want to kill him, right? The narrative isn’t saying wow Katara killing a mass murdering fascist dickwad is just as bad as said dickwad killing an innocent wife and mother during a raid on her home, it’s saying wow isn’t it fucked up that this little girl has been forced to carry this deep seated anger in her for most of her life to the point where the only outlet she believes she has for it is killing a man in cold blood? And like… yeah! That is pretty fucked!

[icannotweave]

#katara realizing that the man who killed her mother #who has been the face of evil and the war for most of her life (prior to aang's bullshit) #is just a pathetic loser #and by extension that most soldiers who commit hideous crimes of imperialist violence are just Some Guy #god that's really something #like he's Not a monster he's Not uniquely evil he has NO particular grudge against her or kya #the most traumatic event of katara's life was just a day at work for him #and less than a decade later he's nothing. he's retired and miserable and PATHETIC and he's not worth her time #she's better than him in every way #brave and powerful and generous and about all PRINCIPLED in a way he could never be. she's exceptional #she doesn't need to kill him she's already beaten him in every way that matters #and killing him will not create any positive change in the world #katara doesn't show mercy for his sake she does it for hers #god I love you katara ( @batmanisagatewaydrug )

[aralintheobsessive]

if you want butterflies, you need to live with caterpillars.

i am not being metaphorical, i work in a garden center, stop buying plants 'to bring in the bees and butterflies' and then immediately poisoning every caterpillar that dares to consume a single leaf

you will not get butterflies if you kill all the things that turn into butterflies! what are you doing!

[michaelnordeman]

Long-tailed Tit/stjärtmes. Värmland, Sweden (January 20, 2024).

[ina-gartens-weave]

why haven’t I seen anyone posting about that giant fucking baby penguin in Melbourne that’s bigger than some of the adults already

[ina-gartens-weave]

his name is Pesto <3

[ina-gartens-weave]

this bastard weighs 46 lbs at 9 months old. he’s 22 lbs heavier than his PARENTS

[aichu-dechu]

[somewhatstacey]

OMG I SAW THIS LAD IN PERSON AND LOST EVERY OUNCE OF SHIT I’VE EVER POSSESSED

Look at him!

Also he was separated with one of his parents when I saw him but obviously wanted to Be Where The People Penguins Are so they’d set him up with a little rock stool so he could gaze upon his brethren:

Which enabled me to capture the single funniest video I’ve ever taken of anything in my life:

All hail Pesto! The king of chonk!

[disneyflopera]

He's adventurous, cheeky, sings to the caretakers who clean his enclosure and has been seen CANOODLING with a penguin named Pudding.

[asexxxualauthor]

And fucking handsome too—look at him striking a pose with his new look!

[the-haiku-bot]

And fucking handsome

too—look at him striking a

pose with his new look!

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[curlicuecal]

Y'all omg, look at him in his awkward teen phase

[probuccalfat]

one time i told a group of lesbian and bi women that i have never watched wicked and they were shocked, gagged, gooped, “but you’re queer. you like pussy. how have you not seen wicked?” yeah. well. i like pussy, not musicals?

[probuccalfat]

i’m this exact post. all this just to fuck women.

[probuccalfat]

“are you going to the lucy dacus concert?” no. i listen to gucci mane.

[veil-of-exordia]

[saintdollyparton]

[deepspacescully]

it’s genuinely so awesome how ds9 stops halfway through its oceans eleven themed holosuite episode to let sisko explain why he’s uncomfortable roleplaying in an era that in reality he wouldnt have been accepted in. hard to imagine a show nowadays that would play this so straight.

even though he does eventually join in, and kasidy presents a different perspective, his opinion isn’t treated as invalid by the narrative or anything. it’s perfectly understandable & in character for him to feel like he does, and also in character for him to put aside his feelings to support his friends. just great stuff