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targetedknowledge

eraserheadadult

can i be real with you i'm gonna start biting people

anxeious

bathe in your own sunlight !!!!!!

radawaycunt

What if we were two horrid little beasts in a medieval illuminated manuscript

radawaycunt

AND we kissed, also

important-cat-pics

angelfrommontgomery

Sometimes I think about the girl in my college gen chem class who believed all liquids were just particles suspended in water. I just find it very Greek philosopher. Like not only is water a universal solvent, but in fact THE ONLY LIQUID. It kind of charms me as a world view

persianmom

I am chronically online but not in a way that keeps me informed #mybubble

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

captain-price-returns

Welp, this is it, A24 is now trying to copyright the backrooms. They’re taking down wallpaper designs from redbubble that were made ages before the film came out.

calebwittebane

but actually genuinely why is the ant sad and leaving with a bindle

calebwittebane

thats probably it...

grimbuswimbus

the sneebler sneebling against a most fearsome foe

plamt

melomancy

Kate Bush photoshoot for the single art of ‘Babooshka’ (1980) — photographed by John Carder Bush

rehabghost

fanart of x the everything app

pointless-letters

One of the best letters I’ve ever seen just popped up on my Facebook memories. Still makes me laugh.

pointless-letters

As today is the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, it’s a great time to revisit Dinah from Devon’s memory of this historic event. And yes, still makes me laugh.

pointless-letters

Today is the 54th anniversary of the moon landing, but Dinah’s diary entry is still absolutely magnificent.

pointless-letters

57th anniversary of the moon landing and the best diary entry in the history of diary entries. Sit down Samuel Pepys, it’s over. UGH.