Destiny Still Arrives

22, neighborhood Romaboo, RWBY fan trash, Marine Biologist undergrad. Open to comissions at all times

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half-maiden scribbles

[depsidase]

[lilliephoenix]

autumntides

10h

"In the instance an employer makes an illegal request for a photograph as part of a job application, you may submit a complaint to the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission." Successful violation fee collections are paid partially to the one who suffered the violation, which in many cases exceeds a year of work at these shit jobs. There's only two weak points to a corporation, and those are in the budget and in the supply chain. Hit them where it hurts.

[kamikaze-kumquat]

Fucking word.

Learn your rights!

[ms-cellanies]

AUTO REBLOG IN CASE YOU MISSED THIS THE 1ST TIME AROUND.  It is important to KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.

[st-pam]

[theshinymagpies]

So.many.unresolved.FEELINGS...

[bluelady127]

Time to leave the past behind...

[aliquid-de-magis]

a man and his Special Favorite rock

[todropscience]

The Javan Stingaree (Urolophus javanicus) has become the first species of marine fish declared extinct in modern times. The IUCN has declared the Javan Stingaree extincted after an assessment led by an international team of scientists.

Stingaree are round rays native to the western Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, with 21 species know to science. The Java Stingaree was known only from a single specimen collected in 1862 from a fish market in Jakarta, Indonesia. In the present, the habitat where this species was known to occur, is heavily industrialised, with extensive, long-term habitat loss and degradation. Researchers carried out new ecological models to understand current distribution and tendency to find out the specie is virtually extinct, likely by the intensive and unregulated fishing, and habitat loss.

Photo credit: Edda Aßel, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin.

More at IUCN

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tenfh1010

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[finalfantasyvii]

[escuerzoresucitado]

hello 🐙

[bogleech]

This is not anthropomorphization but genuinely something theyre known to do. I've heard divers say octopuses and cuttlefish get fascinated by hand gestures and will sometimes respond to them like. We probably do look like we have little cephalopods on the ends of our arms, to them. Like we're always putting on a puppet show.

[alphynix]

If there’s any equivalent to carcinization in mammals, it’s turning into an otter-beaver-like semi-aquatic form.

Because it just keeps happening.

Modern examples alone include otters, beavers, muskrats, giant otter shrews, desmans, aquatic genets, yapoks, lutrine opossums, and platypuses – and in the fossil record there were early pinnipeds, remingtonocetids, pantolestids, stagodontids, and Liaoconodon going as far back as the early Cretaceous. Even outside of the true mammals there were also Castorocauda, Haldanodon, and Kayentatherium during the Jurassic, and much further back in the late Permian there was the early cynodont Procynosuchus.

So a non-cynodont synapsid doing the exact same thing really isn’t all that surprising.

Perplexisaurus foveatus was a member of the therocephalians, a group of synapsids that were close evolutionary “cousins” of the cynodonts-and-true-mammals lineage. Similar in size to a modern rat, about 20cm long (8"), it lived in Western Russia during the Late Permian about 268-265 million years ago.

At the time this region was a river plain with a tropical climate, experiencing seasonal floods that turned the whole area into what’s known as “viesses” (a name based on the abbreviation “V.S.S.” standing for “very shallow sea”), vast shallow lake-seas that persisted for weeks or months at a time.

So this little animal has been interpreted as being semi-aquatic, swimming around and feeding on aquatic invertebrates and tiny fish and amphibians. Its skull had numerous pits around the front of its face, suggesting that it had a highly sensitive snout – probably whiskery, allowing it to hunt entirely by touch in dark murky water, but it’s also been proposed to have possibly had an electroreceptive sense similar to modern platypuses.

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[unclefather]

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[cutelittleanimalsthings]

A very wee hermit crab

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[bredlin]

piranhas are actually sweet, though. like, they don't really like human anything, and you're perfectly safe if you're not actively bleeding and you don't piss them off. Aaaaat least, that's what I remember from forever ago

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

Yeah, no ill will to OP for posting this as piranha propaganda is shockingly common and easy to fall for, but as long as you exercise caution around piranhas you’re perfectly safe. Piranhas overall are omnivores with one species eating exclusively plants, their typical diet consists of carrion, small fish, insects, and plants. They tend to be shy near larger animals, as they’re prey animals themselves. They can sometimes go for larger animals, but they do so rarely! The kind of “feeding frenzy” popularised in media only occurs in special circumstances, when the fish are literally starving. Many accounts of these feeding frenzies, in fact, were due to people deliberately trapping hundreds of piranhas without any food so that when a large animal like a cow gets dropped in the water, the piranhas eat it in minutes. These circumstances rarely happen in nature! If I recall it would take 300-500 piranhas to eat a human in a couple minutes — if starved for a long long time — but do you know how large a school of red-bellied piranhas tends to be? 20 to 30 individuals.

As long as you don’t provoke piranhas and respect their space, you’re fine. Let’s not talk about them as maneaters in the year 2023.

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[againstpuns]

Ok but like why are they trying so hard to get ppl in the office

[depsidase]

my thoughts on why they want everyone back to the office:

the companies don't want to give up their valuable office real estate assets and need to justify keeping them.

they have to justify the existence of a lot of middle management people who are otherwise useless.

more control and surveillance over their employees.

people working from home and having more work/life balance and time with loved ones is dangerous to the corporate status quo. they don't want you thinking too much or realizing life is more than just mindlessly working in order to buy things.

[ndragoon]

Utterly obsessed with the implication here being that workers aren't going back to the office because they'd rather work in a living room and not because they just don't want to be in the officd