Probably Not A Robot

knitting and knerdery and knature. and by nature I mean mostly stars and jellyfish

[teded]

The largest species of jellyfish, the lion’s mane, has tentacles that can extend more than 100 feet, longer than a blue whale. 

From the TED-Ed Lesson How does a jellyfish sting? - Neosha S Kashef

Animation by Cinematic

[reality-breaker]

Scott Musgrove

[jellybeanprincess15]

Two things I like together!

[anthropophagiie]

This tiny octopus, whose body measured about five centimeters across, was spotted swimming along at a depth of 825 meters as we explored Whiting Seamount, off Puerto Rico.

[steampunktendencies]

Air Plant Jellyfish by PetitBeast

[sciencefictionworld]

Concept art by Raphael Ragimov.

[jellybeanprincess15]

space jellyfish!

[asapscience]

This size comparison is wild! [Image via Reddit]

[jellybeanprincess15]

I don't know if I'd let that animal grab my hand, honestly.... 

[typhlonectes]

Did you know that many sea cucumbers swim?

This sea cucumber, Peniagone sp., normally can be found on the seafloor 3000 meters below the sea surface.

But this one was encountered swimming about 300 meters above the floor of Monterey Canyon! They undulate their bodies and tentacles to slowly move through the water, sometimes many hundreds of meters from the seafloor where they feed on organisms in the sediment. The transparent body allows you to see sediment in this one’s digestive system.

via: Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

[foreverinwonderland]

Jellies ❤️

#LionsMane #jellyfish #jellyfish_stagram #NewEnglandAquarium #aquarium #oceanlife (at New England Aquarium)

[thelovelyseas]

Beroe forskalii by Alexander Semenov

[fullpraxisnow]

“The grassroots resistance that has rocked the US since Trump’s election isn’t the work of paid or professional protesters—nor, by extension, of George Soros, the supposed “puppet master” of the anti-Semitic conspiracy theories Trump is referencing. It hasn’t come from the Democratic Party,the non-profit sector, or the various socialist splinter groups.

Resistance to Trump has come from ordinary people taking action on their own terms without waiting for leadership or instructions. It has come from the same people who breathed tear gas in Ferguson while facing down a militarized police force to defend their neighborhood. It has come from the tens of thousands who survived freezing water cannons and rubber bullets at Standing Rock to block a pipeline that Trump is now trying to railroad through. It has come from those who risked their lives to confront the KKK in Stone Mountain and Neo-Nazis in Sacramento. It has come from the people who disrupted Trump’s inauguration on January 20th, who shut down airports on January 28th and 29th to defy Trump’s Muslim ban, who shut down Milo Yiannopoulos on February 1st.

All of these efforts were organized horizontally according to broadly anti-capitalist and anti-authoritarian frameworks. It’s not just a few people in masks: the spirit of the times is anarchistic. […] Anarchists are among the only ones offering a clear vision of another way of living. In organizing networks and community spaces around the world, we come together to assist each other in meeting basic needs and building the collective capacity for self-defense. In neighborhoods, workplaces, and schools, anarchists are fighting gentrification, police brutality, and exploitation while creating inclusive alternative infrastructures for survival. Across bioregions, we are organizing to protect our drinking water and the earth.”

– Who Are the Anarchists?: Why Resistance Is Coming from Below

[jellybeanprincess15]

Fuck those Berkeley anarchists. That would have been a peaceful protest if they hadn't shown up with the explicit intent of making trouble. 

YOU ARE NOT HELPING

YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM

By discrediting people who want peaceful change, YOU ARE SERVING THE INTERESTS OF THOSE YOU CLAIM TO OPPOSE

[steam-on-steampunk]

Death to the world! Cthulhu’s come: Let earth abhor this thing. Let ev'ry mind prepare for doom, as anguish and woe he’ll bring.  Up from the sea, R'lyeh did rise. The cultists are struck dumb. With ancient rites so wretched and perverse Cthulhu’s time is come.  Death to the world! Cthulhu reigns. The Great Old Ones destroy With wrath and doom, so cruel and foul replete with obscene joy, He rules the earth with dreadful might And through our ghastly dreams his twisting turning tentacles elicit from us madden’d screams. Cthulhu’s time is come.

https://youtu.be/OyoZSK_4VmQ

[jellybeanprincess15]

<3

I'm going to sing this the next time someone plays that "last christmas I gave you my heart" shit

[montereybayaquarium]

The bloodybelly comb jelly is nearly invisible in the deep sea, where red animals appear black and blend into the dark background. Scientists think the jelly’s blood-red belly helps mask bioluminescent light from prey it swallows—so it won’t become a snack for another deep-sea predator!

Learn more about the deep-sea exploration and research conducted by our colleagues at Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI).

[jellybeanprincess15]

<3 

[cacodaemonia]

Hong Kong In The 1950s Captured By A Teenager

These stunning photographs of Hong Kong in the 1950s are captured beautifully by a teenager. Ho Fan who arrived from Shanghai in 1949. The streets, filled with vendors, coolies and rickshaw drivers, fascinated Ho. Taking pictures in a studio was the norm then, but the Ho was more interested in r

[princessnijireiki]

His name is Ho Fan, and these pictures are from his book, “A Hong Kong Memoir.”

[jellybeanprincess15]

:O

[designwrld]

WHIMSICAL AND HUMOROUS STONE SCULPTURES BY HIROTOSHI ITO

[jellybeanprincess15]

these are so cool

[tkingfisher]

This Vote Is Legally Binding

In response to all those articles about talking to women with headphones…

Someone always says it, whenever it comes up: “I guess I’m just not allowed to talk to anyone any more!” Well. Yes. It is my duty to inform you that we took a vote all us women and determined that you are not allowed to talk to anyone ever again. This vote is legally binding. Yes, of course, all women know each other, the way you always suspected. (Incidentally, so do Canadians. I’m just throwing that out there.) We went into the women’s room at the Applebee’s at the corner of 54 and all the others streamed in through the doors into that endless liminal space, a chain of humans stretching backward heavy skulled Neanderthal women laughing with New York socialites, Lucille Ball hand in hand with the Taung child. We sat around in the couches in the women’s room (I know you’ve always been suspicious of those couches) and chatted with each other in the secret female language that you always knew existed. Somebody set up an Xbox– the Empress Wu is ruthless at Mario Kart and Cleopatra never learned to lose and a woman who ruled an empire that fell when the Sea People came and left no trace can use the blue shell like a surgical instrument. Eventually we took the vote. You had three defenders: your grandmother and your first-grade teacher and an Albanian nun who believes the best of everybody. Your mom abstained. It was duly recorded in the secret notebooks that have been kept under the couch in the Applebee’s since the beginning of recorded time. And then we went back to playing Mario Kart and Hoelun took off her bra and we didn’t think about you again except that I had to carry this message. So anyway good luck with that it’s just as you always said it was. Hush now, no talking

hush.

[the-real-seebs]

Okay, this is beautiful, but “Mario Kart” is not something people will usually play on an Xbox and this is going to bother me much more than the time/space problems.

[tkingfisher]

You are so correct that I edited it, because I can’t believe I messed that up. My shame! It shall be recorded in the secret notebooks.

[skunkbear]

You can learn more about this immortal animal in our latest video.

[skunkbear]

An update to the chart - this fish (a Greenland shark):

Reaches sexual maturity at 150 years - and lives to be at least 272 years old. That’s older than any other known vertebrate - but in theory, it still has nothing on the hydra.

Full story!

Image Credit: Julius Nielsen/Science

[earthstory]

Jellyfish sphere? Jellyfish sphere.

[jellybeanprincess15]

ooooh I want one. How big is this thing?