Positively Rhynerdy

(He/They). A lad who came from the twitter migration. Someday I'll write again but for now I paint models, mess with audacity, and sometimes fill pages of my sketchbook.

[rhynerd]

Hello!

While there has been a time I've lurked, the growing metaphorical flames over in twitter have convinced me to get a tumblr like many other have. I hope I will not be a bother.

[erijt]

[samthemelon]

seems like amir is keeping up with the HEXbugs.. here's one for aoi so that she has a little music buddy! >> Part 1 (Amir)

[marithlizard]

(via bsky)

In case anyone hasn't heard, the cyclospora outbreak affecting tons of people in the US right now is coming from Taylor Farms produce. Best to stay away from bagged lettuce and prepared salads completely right now, but especially the ones mentioned in the screenshot:

Taylor Farms Earthbound Farms Little Salad Bar (Aldi) Marketside (Walmart) Kroger House Brand Target private label greens Costco salads and greens etc Trader Joe's chopped salad kits and fresh produce Fast food: McDonalds, Taco Bell, (Yum! Brands), Chipotle, Subway, Pizza Hut, KFC, Olive Garden, Top Golf, Red Lobster, Burger King, etc.

This is not the first time I've heard about a Taylor Farms foodborne illness outbreak. I stopped eating their salads after reading a description of the conditions in their facilities. Doesn't sound like they've improved anything.

We need a fully funded and staffed FDA, and regulations with teeth - and that's exactly what we don't have under Trump. To make things worse, the CDC is no longer tracking these outbreaks. We're on our own.

[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

[gzeidraws]

Commission for Lemon-N64 of his OC Lemon with Charlotte! 💕

(pose reference provided by client)

[trve-grimdark]

I'd normally post mini work in my secondary blog, but this is for a painting competition and has a bit of a story behind it.

Initially I was going to use this Janina mini I got some years back as the start of a for fun Inquisitor project (the old 54mm specialist game)

Years going by and not doing anything with this and now I finally finished her up and plan to paint her for the competition, though I have decided she would do better as a Vostroyan officer as opposed to a Lady Inquisitor.

Vostroyans are one of those ranges you don't realize how much you miss from the golden age of 40k until they are a memory and impossible to find, so, this is a way to fill that void I suppose.

[huanggugugu]

ok

Reference (source unknown):

[godzillabreath]

Artfight revenge for perpetualpeep ⚔️

[docedg]

fihsiing

[princecroutons]

face of a boy who tried to jump up onto the bed and missed

[filibusterfrog]

en garde knave

[imamazed77]

The reverant !! (Not my skitarii she is my siblings.)

[amfmrdo]

Lots of new stickers up on my shop!

[murphysletsdraw]

Here's some more of my paintings and their respective reference photos! murphysletsdraw on inprnt if you want to buy prints!! It's my bday month so if you buy some prints I could maybe buy myself a lil gift hehe

[agfgoth3]

[dakohnooo]

A Samus drawing from my sketchbook 🥰