Prins Ursula

[galexico-blog]

[indistantdays]

I am a creature of grief and dust, and bitter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart was once.

[zegalba]

details by Roberto Ferri

[harlecore]

[ilikepotatooes-deactivated20250]

Reblog to have the most homoerotic year of your life 2024

[illumineeti]

[bogleech]

I lost the post on my dash where this would have been a fun addition but these are the krill that blue whales eat! Some people think krill are like nearly microscopic or something but they are very decently sized shrimps

[bogleech]

Lots of notes pondering this but I have definitely seen educational materials calling them "microscopic," and sometimes "microscopic plankton," and I think those sources are misunderstanding what it means that krill are, in fact, a type of plankton.

The thing is, "plankton" does not refer to the size. At all. "Plankton" refers to any living thing that is naturally carried by ocean currents more than it actively chooses where to go.

This deadly man o war with 10 meter tentacles is plankton. It doesn't swim at all and just floats idly.

This giant colonial pyrosome is plankton, such a weak swimmer that it can "steer" a little bit it can't fight against a current.

Being capable of bursts of speed but usually just drifting the MOLA MOLA is a plankton. Sometimes the term "megaplankton" is tossed around for clarification.

Obviously, large plankton are outnumbered by microscopic plankton trillions to one and the microscopic plankton are what feeds the sponges and corals and mussels and baby fish (who are also plankton) as the basis of the whole food web, so when plankton is being discussed, biologists are just statistically more likely to be talking about the tiniest kind is all.

Sometimes they specify "microscopic plankton" but the average person just thinks this is to clarify what they assumed was the basic definition of plankton. I've seen the very phrase laughed at for being "redundant!"

So krill are plankton, and the significance of that gets lost in translation so easily, even a professional might mistakenly call them "microscopic plankton" when they have to write, say, a page in a children's book or an informational museum plaque about whales, which isn't the kind of thing you feel pressured to do long hours of research for, but it is where way more people are going to hear about any of these things.

[hypnospilot]

OK but then why did I think, until this very moment, that plankton was specifically a type or category of plant?

So much of my reality has changed in one post.

[bogleech]

Because over half of it is photosynthetic algae! Though technically algae aren't plants, but single celled organisms that can be either protozoa or cyanobacteria. Many types of algae cells even swim, with a little tail (flagellum)

Most "Seaweeds" including kelp are actually huge giant multi celled algae, so also not related at all to plants! As different from plants as we are from fungus!

Literally this here is a forest of the planet's largest protists!!

But yes a great deal of microscopic plankton consists of animals, and it's worth noting a great deal of these are the larvae of larger sizes animals. All kinds of fish and shrimp and things start out microscopic!

Also as some have posted already the Mola MOLA is no longer considered plankton, we found out it swims really well when it wants to! But in theory there is no size limit on a planktonic being.

[froginakettle]

So Plankton is algae? Or what would he be with antenna? Cuz I know the guy who created SpongeBob is actually a scientist himself right?

[bogleech]

Sheldon is one of the animal based zooplankton! He's a type of Copepod, which like Mr. Krabs is also a Crustacean, and when he calls himself a "cyclops" he doesn't just mean that he only has one eye, but that Cyclops is the actual scientific term for these animals! The eye is the dark spot at the end in this one:

If you look closely there's TONS of these in the zooplankton photo I shared. They aren't just one of the most common animals in the ocean, but in freshwater too; if you grab a jar of healthy pond water and hold it up to the light you might be able to see them as little white specks with "tails" that swim around in a rapid jittery way, like an animation with a low frame rate.

[palestine-info-uncensored]

[headspace-hotel]

Evil biology facts that fill me with Fear :)

hey, I heard y’all like evil biology facts like knowledge about horse blood types.

well! today I was researching alternative biochemistries extraterrestrial life could use and. man. I think Earth life is fucked up enough for me thanks

biological dark matter. WHAT DO YOU MEAN MY BLOOD HAS DNA IN IT FROM NO KNOWN SOURCE. YOU CAN’T JUST SAY THAT COME BACK HERE

One specific cave that has been sealed for 5.5 million years and has developed an ecosystem completely dependent on chemosynthetic bacteria.

Was anybody going to tell me that bacteria have decided iron is yummy and are eating the Titanic, or was I supposed to just read that myself

Terrible Berry (yes, that’s what the genus name means). This whole thing is so fucked up. These scientists were testing whether radiation could be used to kill pathogens in food, so they dosed a tin of meat with enough radiation to kill any known living organism (as one does) but guess what, it still fucking spoiled because of THIS BASTARD FUCKER.

(seriously, why is it like this? WHY has a bacterium evolved to chill in radioactive waste like it’s a soothing Jacuzzi tub? What does it know that we don’t know?)

(ANSWERS. I WANT ANSWERS, YOU CHERNOBYL ASS BITCH.)

Cursed worm, which has no mouth or digestive system and depends entirely on five (5) different species of bacteria, which consume hydrogen sulfide, hydrogen monoxide, and carbon monoxide, for food. How do you, a worm, even...figure out how to do...all that?

Bone worms. At least they like their bones already dead. I still could have gone without knowing this was a thing.

“Oh, parasitic plant, that sounds c—WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT THING”

I am like half convinced this is made up. Seriously, bacteria grow their own electrical wires and we just let them?

[tkingfisher]

Oooh, the gutless worm genus was news to me! That is SO COOL!

[heartpeacenquiet]

It's okay if it takes a little longer than you thought.

[roseillith]

[rumade]

Patchwork quilt floor!

[thebaconsandwichofregret]

You just know that some sweet little old Nana who has been making quilts for the last 50 years has seen this photo and gone “challenge accepted” and make a blanket with that pattern

[mysweetoddbird]

Ok, I’ve decided I can’t leave well enough alone, but these pictures really do not do this mosaic justice. It is 9,000 square feet, and is basically patchwork spanning over 15 centuries. Here are some other pictures of the Antakya mosaic:

Also, it is not one of the largest mosaics; it is the single largest intact ancient mosaic in the world.

[epilepticsaints]

[is-the-post-reliable]

requested by @gaytomatic

RATING: RELIABLE

BP did hire PR firm Ogilvy & Mather in 2004, and coined the term 'carbon footprint' as well as creating the 'carbon footprint calculator'. This gave the impression that climate change was primarily the fault of the individual consumers.

From a New York Times opinion piece on carbon footprint (via the Wayback Machine): 'In 2004, BP hired the public relations firm Ogilvy & Mather to improve its image, in part by conveying the message that consumers of oil and natural gas bear the responsibility for their greenhouse gas emissions, not the producers of the oil and gas they use. The result was BP’s ingenious carbon footprint calculator, which allows individuals to calculate the carbon emissions that result from their activities.'

From a BBC Future article on 'how companies blame you for climate change': 'Similar criticisms have been levelled at terms like "carbon footprints" – which was first coined in a 2005 TV advert from BP. The advert appears to show members of the public being stopped in the street and asked what is "their carbon footprint".'

From an Irish Times on individualising blame: 'In 2004, it unveiled a "carbon footprint calculator", so that individuals could assess how much their daily activities were polluting the planet. The marketing campaign, led by Ogilvy & Mather, fostered the false idea that climate change was the fault of individuals rather than fossil fuel companies.'

[emotionalwords]

from the bottom of my heart i just want life to get better. i'm so tired

[over-sleep]

スローモーションアート　(*´ω｀) ｵﾎｰ! Slow Motion Art

（ Reddit:r/Damnthatsinteresting u/cenabollywood ）

[abx5]

They are casting strange rituals

[charlesoberonn]

Humans will make art out of anything and everything.

[z3ld4x64]

Simon Stålenhag - http://www.simonstalenhag.se/

[aichu-dechu]

https://twitter.com/mohammadhussain/status/1340439172687998981?s=21

[i-am-mildly-insane]

This is adorable

[maxanor]

CATS IN HORROR

Black Christmas (1974) Hausu (1977) The Sentinel (1977) Alien (1977) Friday the 13th Part II (1981) Cat's Eye (1985) Pet Cemetery (1989) Ju-On: The Grudge (2002) A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014) Doctor Sleep (2019)