I teach Improv

old he/him Improv - it's more than just theatre it's play, it's exploration it's allowing yourself to be vulnerable

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

your value is not defined by your productivity

[dogpuppy]

[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

[hexbugswallower]

Reading an article about how Berkely researchers were able to make genetically-modified yeast that produces THC naturally, using the exact same diet that ordinary yeast uses to make ethanol (ie, sugar and basically nothing else). Literally think for one second about the implications of that. People, like regular-ass people, have made transgenic yeast in their garage (here's a guide!) and yeast reproduces crazy style. You could buy a little packet of weed yeast and put it in a sealed bottle on your shelf and feed it with old leftover fruit and it would be like having a little mini THC factory. If you were in prison you could get someone to smuggle in weed yeast and do the exact same thing in a prison toilet. And that's true for basically any organic chemical! Precision fermentation is soooo cool

[fuckmaster-unlimited]

opening commissions!

bringing back these little pixel art commissions! it’s about the time of year where i’m sick more often and can’t work as much so i thought it would be nice to start doing these little pixel guys again for $35 USD apiece :) shoot me a dm or an ask if you’re interested and we can discuss!

(also: if you’re interested in something more complex like this instead of the YCH-style thing, shoot me an ask/dm and i can give you a quote depending on the level of complexity!)

[fuckmaster-unlimited]

hiiiii doing these again! my hours at my job got cut real bad and i need the additional money 😭 please hmu if you are interested!

[fuckmaster-unlimited]

okay well it looks like i might be sick and unable to work one of my only TWO assigned shifts this week (13 hours total), i’m kind of in a rough spot rn 😭 comms are still open but may be delayed, if you feel like just tossing me a few dollars i also have a ko-fi! i’m working on the process of landing a new job atm and it may be a couple of days to a week or two until i know for sure if i got the position, i’m hoping for the best on that front.

[victusinveritas]

[calidotgov-deactivated20240108]

[sirhro]

[jeyneofpoole]

not now kitten daddy’s fallen into the crevasse

[earhartsease]

the french have this word s'abîmer and in normal use it means to plunge into something like a project or hobby or whatever, or it can mean to be in a mess - but it literally means "to cast oneself into an abyss" and we will never shut up about this incredibly french word, it's like "to self-abyssify"

[beesmygod]

smiles at my wicked machinations

[improvrich]

Chuckles softly at my nefarious schemes

[amazoogle]

the enemy drank water today. did you?

[ewoly5]

i drank water three days ago. im several steps ahead of the enemy. this is what it takes to win

[milquetoaast]

source

[yanguang]

[chameliyun]

just tried to reference the xkcd "today's lucky 10,000" comic but I wanted to explain xkcd first, so I was like "you probably know the one about experts in the field overestimating their audience's familiarity with the subject matter" and uh. he didn't. love me some irony

[nighthaunting]

thought too hard about MRI machines today and had this come to me in a vision

[beesmygod]

mri accident is literally one of my biggest anxiety freakouts. i dont care about being in the tiny loud tube, im so scared of a secret piece of metal i dont know about in my body will tear through me like a knife through butter. what if i ate a quarter in my sleep

[neutral-wizard]

Quarters George who eats a $10 roll of quarters every night is shredded into a fine mist my the MRI

[its-grape-juice-i-swear]

TIME TO POST ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITE IMAGES!!!!

Back when I worked at the hospital, I had to take MRI training and it was my favorite thing every time. It was only like 10 minutes long and went a little something like this:

Hey. The MRI is basically a really big magnet and by basically I mean it is and we literally never turn it off. It's like really big. Really really big and powerful and The Magnet is always on. We don't turn it off Ever, for any reason. We mean it bro, The Magnet is literally always on. It's crazy strong and will definitely kill you. So don't bring any metal into the MRI room, man. You will fuck up the machine (because The Magnet is always on) and then you will die (again, because The Magnet is always on). Here's some fun questions for you to test your understanding!

1) The ______ is always on.

2) The Magnet is ______ on.

3) How often is The Magnet on?

4) The Magnet is always __.

5) The Magnet is always on. T/F

6) The Magnet is usually on but we know to turn it off for you because you're a very special boy :) T/F

7) My weak fleshy body can survive the wrath of The Magnet. T/F

8) Look at this 500 lbs steel hospital bed, which The Magnet has crumpled into an origami crane. Imagine if that was you.

9) Is The Magnet ever off?

10) Sometimes we turn The Magnet off. T/F

Thank you for taking MRI training. We hope you learned that The Magnet is always on, because it is. It's on Right Now and it will be on every time you come to the MRI. Have fun and remember: The Magnet is always on!

I love you MRI training. The Magnet is always on.

[rauko]

M.C. Escher | METAMORPHOSIS II (1940)

woodcut in red and black, 19.2cm x 400cm

[xaoca]

lol took me awhile to find this gif again… Escher is GOAT!

[rylandsgrace]

[rongzhi]

[death-420]

does anyone have that gif of a penis growth ad thats a guinea pig that stretches out rly long and a girl says “hot!” and the guinea pig spins around pls i need it

[raeuberkotzenrotz]

I gotchu

[death-420]

YES!!! YES!! YES!!!!!

[doomstar]

You literally cannot find this type of community interaction on twitter or instagram or any other app. Look at the support, the gratitude, the absolutely incomprehensible shared knowledge of this most cursed, most rare gif. 

Truly this is beauty.