mess & music

Unwittingly tempting the wrath of the whatever from high atop the thing.

[parkchanwoohoo]

[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

[discrete-polyphony]

having a real “lack of survival instincts” summer (had an outdoor picnic today with the AQI at 170+, went for a 3pm run last week in 97 degrees F, walked up to a trash can fire to peek in and see what’s up)

[discrete-polyphony]

My phone died while I was out (see above re: survival instincts) so these are the only pics I got of the haze of smoke that is the NYC atmosphere right now

[discrete-polyphony]

having a real “lack of survival instincts” summer (had an outdoor picnic today with the AQI at 170+, went for a 3pm run last week in 97 degrees F, walked up to a trash can fire to peek in and see what’s up)

[wallpapersronme]

Zac as Zaeth Bondana gets real with his sire "Look, Koschei. This is Purpee. She's not in San Francisco anymore, Koschei."

Brennan as Koschei Severov grins but is lit from below so it looks creepy.

Zaeth continues "when you step in shit in Purpee, you're gonna drag that all the way to your goddamn grave."

[wallpapersronme]

Brennan as Koschei stumbles over his words "You... You."

Zac as Zaeth proclaims "I'm the motherfuckin' prince of Purpee, Koschei.

What do you want from me?"

Emily and Lou laugh behind a stunned Brennan.

[aye-of-newt]

I can’t wait for city council of darkness season two. bingo still needs to win the election. vesper graduates and adjusts to being half bat for real this time. the bus lanes open and they immediately need to commit insurance fraud. darkness man has converted the secret government underground silo into a superhero base. beth is getting married (and maybe recruited into joining the hunt?) madelaine is building an opera house and seducing world-class artists into moving to the new rome. a dark plot threatens to spoil nacy danderhoof’s pulitzer ceremony. lavonte and hj are planning an important “business merger” in which they vow to be (business) partners for eternity. they still have to deal with the ghost war. zaeth is super responsible now.

[dominants-dominion-v2]

Reblog if you love boobs and hate ICE

[neat-deadandlive-things]

What is "walking distance" to you? (provided that the weather is okay)

Less than 5 minutes.

Less than 15 minutes.

Less than 30 minutes.

Less than 1 hour.

Depends on... add a tag.

other/I'm not canadian and don't measure distance in time.

Voting ended onJul 15

[not100bees]

The thing about Miss Piggy is that she kind of has a Roger Rabbit comedy superpower where she wins nearly any conceivable fight she's in. But unlike other characters of which that's true, like say, Bugs Bunny, who tend to win because they make the opponent play the game with their rules, Miss Piggy wins because the joke is that she can beat the shit out of literally anybody.

[not100bees]

Bugs Bunny beats Thanos by setting up an airport and making him take off the Infinity Gauntlet to go through the metal detector.

Miss Piggy beats Thanos by karate chopping him in the face and sending him flying.

[cilantrhoes]

[buried-in-stardust]

OP: "Decarbonized formaldehyde is great. Just wash daikons with decarbonized formaldehyde and they turn white."

"Decarbonized formaldehyde" (脫碳甲醛) is an online phrase used to make fun of people that blindly avoid chemicals. Formaldehyde (H2CO) decarbonized is water (H2O).

[eng by me]

[captain-price-returns]

they had 19 year old /pol/ users going through all federal spending and deleting anything where the words were too big to understand

[learntmyspots]

Cooking your produce is a way to protect yourself from cyclospora fyi

[agirlwithachakram]

[animentality]

[opossum-mypossum]

[mingpicket]

kink: deleting someone’s pointless comment by reblogging the post from the same person they did

[yzghuldar]

I mean, that’s censorship but okay.

[nutsacktorturer]

ksvskwbidbwkdbskbsjw

[king-of-the-freeway]

[lesserknownwaifus]

Lesser-known waifu: not Calvin's mom

[rakdos-dogdyke]

The whole story is really cute btw ^w^

[obscureau]

personally I DONT think Jane Austen intended for Mr. Bennet to be paying Mrs. Bennet a genuine compliment when he said she was as beautiful as any of their daughters. He seems kind of incapable of paying his wife a real compliment.

BUT

I still think we should have MILF Mrs. Bennet. I think everyone should be like “damn” when they see her and then she opens her mouth and they’re like “oh”. I want them to go through the same process Mr. Bennet did, in a much shorter time frame.