The Salt of the Sea

MerciResolution // Christian // She/they // 25+ // Dolphin Researcher // Adopted J46 Star, J47 Notch, J35 Tahlequah, L25 Ocean Sun, K21 Cappuccino, J57 Phoenix // Check my blogs list!!

[merciresolution]

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Nothing is off topic when it comes to us, happy pride month, my fellow asexuals 💜

[sweettransamenjoyer]

so uhhh my first attempt to draw Michael (+ bonus KITT)

[wolvesintheflowers-deactivated2]

I laughed to hard at this fucking thing.

[nattousan]

[merciresolution]

flirting with my friends!!! respectfully!!!!!!!!

[kosmogrl]

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[cravingstatic]

im prof. sans pilled

[merciresolution]

(*thinking*: Wow! We’re mutuals! How exciting! I hope I don’t do anything-)

*drops seventeen gigabytes worth of harvest moon cow images*

Oh…. Oh no……

wonderful.

[status-quo-hater]

I think one of the funniest abortion stances I've heard was from my parents neighbor. He's a like, hard-core libertarian viking larper guy who is very tall and very fat and very bald.

He believes a fetus is human with a soul, but also its "basically attacking the woman's body" so if she wants to get rid of it, that's "basically self-defense". He compared it to shooting a home invader. So he supports abortion not as healthcare, but as killing a baby in self-defense

[status-quo-hater]

Y'know I'm so glad someone reminded me of this. Because this was also discussed.

My stepmother did NOT like the way her Libertarian Viking Neighbor framed pregnancy as the fetus "attacking the woman". She incredulously told him this was extremely disrespectful to expectant mothers to portray pregnancy as so violent and negative.

Libertarian Viking Neighbor's response was that people consensually hurt each other all the time, and "there's like a whole community about that, with the acronym the one that starts with a B" And his reasoning was that if the mother was consenting to bring attacked by the baby, it in fact wasn't violent and negative because there was consent.

He brought up people consensually hurting each other, didn't go for one of the obvious answers like boxing or body mods or something, no he went STRAIGHT TO BDSM and he DIDN'T EVEN REMEMBER THE ACRONYM

[t0byinthesky]

Head Full of Fish

Painting study of Tenna (1/4)

SaigeDreemz !!/aaimasqtch's model

-KoriCat-'s VRChat world

[art-corner-of-merci]

so i may have a new obsession

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‘gaslight gatekeep girlboss’ this and ‘mansplain manipulate malewife’ that.

[feychella-deactivated20220124]

what about reduce reuse recycle

[zephyraes]

STIM - FRUTIGER AERO ROOM

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Link back to this post directly if used.

[grand-zammy]

I'm in love with this room

I would've killed for my childhood bedroom to have this vibe

[fishthingdaily]

Today’s fish thing are these dolphin acrylic charms!

[dailyorca]

Hi! Humbly requesting Delphine and the other orcas that spend time around the Crozet Islands! Keep up the great posts!

daily orca 135: CR004 “Delphine”

photo: Killer Whales: Up Close and Personal

delphine is an 40 year old crozet islands orca. she is most known for her starring role in the 2000 documentary Killer Whales: Up Close and Personal, which was recorded when delphine was around 14. the documentary centers around delphine's trials and tribulations as a young orca learning to hunt and fit in with her family.

delphine was born in 1986 to lison, who was also the mother of rodion and possibly venus. in 1988, delphine stranded as a small calf and had to be rescued by french scientists. since then, the family has trusted divers to come unusually close to them, allowing for the filming of the documentary. delphine stranded again at ~14 years old, though she successfully refloated with the assistance of her family.

today, delphine is matriarch of the CR002s and has three calves: CR199, born in 2012; CR238, born in 2015; and CR257, born in 2020.

photo: Killer whales of the Crozet Archipelago and adjacent waters

sources: 1, 2, 3, 4

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This population has been studied almost as long as the southern residents have - 40 years! - which is crazy.

I watched a talk by the researcher who studies this population at last year's Global Orca Conference. He said between 1988 – 2000, 60% of the population was shot and killed by fishing fleets. Delphines family was probably killed by them as they disappeared around that time. All of the whales who hunted by intentional stranding were killed, and the technique stopped being passed along, so no whales in the population hunt that way anymore. That culture has been lost.

This population used to hunt whales, seals, penguins, and fish, but now, because most of the population has switched to getting almost all their food by following the fishing boats and stealing fish from the nets, they are still being killed by illegal toothfish fishing fleets that operate deep offshore outside of patrolled waters between the Crozet and Marion Islands.

The population is still declining, with 87 whales (most of them females) disappearing since 2023. The population is now listed as endangered.

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[imminentchaos]

The Artemis II mission is making me feel things