cimness

I'm Cim, a cis female lesbian expat USan SFF & media/fanfic fan in Finland (she/her preferred). Intersectional feminist. Supernatural-free worldview. Socialist. Green eyes. 169.5 cm/5'6.75". Neutral good. Here for the semantic arguments.

[hauntedhunted]

tarot reader: draws the tower me: thats bad isnt it tarot reader: draws the tower again me: uh oh tarot reader: draws boeing 767

[synnthamonsugar]

[cimness]

Harper's Bazaar v. 41, 1907

[birdplushie]

often you will see things online where you just have to be like "what a strange thing to say" or "i don't think that's true :)" to yourself and try to move on or you will lose your mind

[fuckyeahkitschy2]

[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

[targetedknowledge]

[prokopetz]

Unreliable narrator abruptly realising they've mixed up which narrative thread is the red herring and which is the actual plot and they've been deceiving the audience about the wrong thing the entire time.

[fuckyeahjapanandkorea]

The Lonely Winter by jasohill 

[cimness]

Harper's Bazaar v. 41, 1907

[coffeefocusrat]

just dying at people trying to choose the more ethical country to root for in the Fifa World Cup. arguing about how to ethically cheer for teams in the Fifa World Cup. it’s over

[mutant-what-not]

[pangur-and-grim]

my house is scary at night

[storyweavingspider]

Interpreted this initially not as shelves, but as your cat having erected defensive fortifications

[gaudebo]

like are they engaging in the themes or are they drawing white guys kissing

[chaneilkular]

JOHN BOYEGA Pirelli Calendar 2025

[delphinidin4]

I was just watching a video where someone described showing Pirates of the Caribbean to a time-traveler from 1800 and like....

Realistically, they would spend the entirety of Pirates of the Caribbean constantly outraged by historical inaccuracies. "If this is the age of piracy - in the 1720s - why is the Governor in a period-appropriate tall periwig while Elizabeth is in a gown from the 1770s and the entire navy is in uniforms from 1812??!"

It would be like somebody from 2200 AD proudly showing us a movie "set in the 20th century" that's actually about prohibition, and one character was dressed as a flapper, one was a hippie, and one was in yoga pants.

[anythings-a-sweet-if-you-eat-it]

boring take from real 21st century idiots: bdsm is bad because it's basically torture

interesting take from a fictional 14th century monk: torture is bad because it's basically sex

[ohholydyke]

Shoutout to the nun who had other nuns tie her up and pour hot wax on her as she confessed her sins

[amorphousgenderlesscryptid]

I'm sure that's true, but something tells me googling "nun tied up by other nuns" "hot wax" "confessing sins" will likely get what you might call rather un-academic results

[dovesndecay]

I fell a little bit asleep and dreamt that I could hear my cat's thoughts. I heard him just think, "I'm a pretty little man" and then start kneading my ribs, and I laughed so hard I woke up to him on my ribs