The Horseshoe Crab Union

Lurkers of the world unite

[polychaete-of-the-day]

Polychaete of the day is beautiful gorgeous Chloeia euglochis.

Photo by Pauline Walsh Jacobson

[ayeforscotland]

Freshly baked Scottish wildcat kittens have been spotted in the Cairngorms for the second year running!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎉

[decapod-of-the-day]

Decapod of the day: Alpheus villosis | Hairy Pistol Prawn

[random-brushstrokes]

Iain Macnab - The Sleeping Beauty (ca. 1950-1967)

[kudriaken]

Festival speedpaint study.

[rhynee]

this is still one of my favorite explanations for gender

[sedimentfootwrap]

This image manifested so clearly in my mind I had to recreate it

[alexseanchai]

[image 1: a tweet by KatysCartoons, whose profile picture is a stick figure whose head is colored in with the trans pride flag. the tweet reads, "Atoms are binary. They are either intended to be hydrogen or helium. We can't just scrap this worldview just because of a handful of exceptions". embedded in the tweet is a pie chart entitled "Types of atom in the universe": seventy-four percent hydrogen, twenty-five percent helium, and, in tiny font, one percent other.]

[image 2: the periodic table of the elements, except that hydrogen and helium are in their own box labeled "Real elements", and elements 3 (lithium) through 118 (oganesson) are labeled "Mental illness".]

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incidentally this periodic table must've been drawn in the past nine years, since it doesn't deadname oganesson

[sycamorality]

mobility aids and glasses AND MEDICATION should be free for everyone

[oldpagesclub]

Libuše Loskotová illustration for 1970s "Tales of the Old Reed" (Pohádky starého rákosí)

(book from my private collection)

[petday]

[orbitaltheatre]

The alabaster nudibranch, white-lined Dirona, or frosted sea slug (Dirona albolineata)

[toskarinfr]

must feel good as fuck to curse a prince for being rude to you while you were larping as an old woman for no reason

[fluffysheeps]

Bumble sharks 🐝🦈

[ostracartderms]

(relatively) quick painting of some waves at the beach during a storm last summer

[peterrabbit2007]

Various Beatrix Potter’s drawings of rabbits.

[goldensunset]

per my last desperate howl at the heavens,

[staticbluue]

“People should pass a test before being allowed to have kids.” “Isn’t it scary how white people have this inborn capacity for evil?” “I’ll never pass because males and females have different skull shapes.” “Autistic people have a stronger sense of justice than anyone else.” “I don’t want AMABs in my space because they’re dangerous.” “You shouldn’t have access to hormones if you dress like THAT.” “Anyone who does something that awful isn’t human.” “Some people really shouldn’t be allowed to vote.”

This is eugenics. This is phrenology. THIS IS NAZI SHIT, YOU ARE A LEFTIST BUYING INTO NAZI SHIT. YOU ARE NOT IMMUNE TO NAZI SHIT.

[last-picture-show]

/ Dain L. Tasker, X-ray Photography, 1930-35