[meladoodle]

Hey welcome to my blog

lower your expectations immediately

[aquariumpacific]

she doesn’t have tentacles, she has trophies ⚽️🐙🏆

[montereybayaquarium]

It's a feeding frenzy in the Kelp Forest exhibit!

Monterey Bay Aquarium volunteers sign up to feed our Kelp Forest fronds twice a day! 

As soon as we get in the water, the fish know it’s time for lunch! We feed them a wide variety of restaurant-quality sustainable seafood like sardines, anchovies, and squid. 😋🐟

During the feeding, guests watch fish dance around the divers, curious and eager for their meal. Our divers love watching the kids on the other side of the glass, captivated by our Kelp Forest exhibit residents.

The interactive feedings help guests feel closer to the ocean and walk away inspired by the beauty and life of this underwater ecosystem. 

There’s wonder in ocean life and caring for it helps us all.

Tune into our live Kelp Forest Cam to watch the feeding from home!

[aquariumpacific]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CAIN! 🎂🥳💙

Uh oh, we o-FISH-ally have a TEENAGER! Cain, the California sea lion, celebrated his 13th birthday today with a special cake made by Animal Care Specialists Danielle & Taylor.

[plaguedocboi]

I remember when I was younger, anytime I watched a movie where the characters have to kill a scary monster/alien, I always thought the act of killing it was intended to be part of the horror. Like there’s this amazing creature that we’ve never seen before, and maybe under different circumstances we could’ve coexisted with it, but it’s trying to attack you and you have to defend yourself, but by destroying it you also destroy the ability to ever understand it and that’s sad and is supposed to make you feel conflicted.

It was not until well into my adulthood that I realized most people do not have complicated feelings about movies where people have to kill a scary alien monster, nor is that necessarily meant to be part of the narrative (unless it very obviously is). They just want the scary thing to die because it’s scary. I don’t have a real conclusion to this I just started thinking about it for some reason.

[plaguedocboi]

1. This reply is two words and they managed to misspell both of then

2. Yeah. Duh.

[theyshapedlikefriends]

TST Advance - Tardigrade (Hypsibius dujardini)

[macronectes]

this kinda felt like meeting a celebrity

(seen at the international symposium on tardigrada in japan, june 2025)

[crazy-brazilian]

[suchcrispwhimsy]

never been seen in the same room together

[sab3rtooth]

patterns left by woodworms on driftwood

[onenicebugperday]

PLEASE search "beetle gallery" and look at images. The patterns larval beetles leave behind under the bark of trees while feeding are so so beautiful

[omtai]

Normal groceries like milk or bread or whatever running out is whatever. Just anotha day. But when stuff like salt or cooking oil or rice runs out it feels like You’re supposed to be here for me and you’re leaving. You’re just like everyone else

[thebelfry]

I just learned that the Russian word for “ladybug” translates to “God’s Little Cow”

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

It’s the same in Irish! bóín Dé!

[peniswizard69]

in hebrew it’s “our rabbi moses’s cow”

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

Oh I love this news!!!!

[pulmonary-poultry]

Multiple cultures upon seeing a ladybug for the first time: “Who’s cow is this????”

[thejonymyster]

[thejonymyster]

[thejonymyster]

[postilionstruckbylightning]

It feels like some early humans were naming things and one of them ran out of ideas.

Human 1: (points at animal) What’s that?

Human 2: Cow.

Human 1: (points at bug) What’s that?

Human 2: … little cow.

Human 1: But it’s so much smaller. Who would have use for such a small cow?

Human 2: (panicking but in too deep to stop now) God.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

The “Lady” in the name “ladybug” is the virgin Mary. People just cannot stop giving religious names to this bug.

The reason for this was that if you lived in an agrarian society then your survival was a throw of the dice every year, depending on the success of the crops. A failed crop year is a very hard year where deaths are expected. And if you grew a cereal like wheat, there were several things that could cause your crops to fail, but one of the big ones was if you happened to get a fuckton of aphids. You know what eats aphids? Ladybugs! If there are lots and lots of ladybugs around, there was a good chance that it’d be a good crop year! They were little crop protectors! When your family lives or dies on the success of that crop, of course they’d be seen as a blessing and given an appropriate name!

[magical-bear-dubin]

That is such an interesting etymology!!!!

And entomology too i guess

[asparklethatisblue]

in German they’re Marienkäfer which also pretty much means “Mary’s Beetle”

[istadris]

In French it’s “Good Lord’s Beast”

Not even a cow, it’s just a little Creature but we know for sure God loves it.

[dent-de-l1on]

In Dutch it’s “Lieveheersbeestje”, the Good Lord’s Little Beast

A liddol creeture

[seren-starlight]

Unoriginal sin. Derivative sin

[mikkeneko]

#ai generated sin

[valtsv]

getting into something that none of your mutuals care about is one of the bravest things you can do

[energyprison]

[xiaq]

One of the best things about being a writer is thinking of something small you can add to your work that’s just. Devastating. Like you’re sitting there going. Oh. That would be diabolical. People would get really riled up about that. Exquisite. Let’s do it.

[teaboot]

When I was a teen in the 2010s boys would call each other Gay to say they were too effeminate but now it’s 2026 and we’re “Better Than That” so I just overheard a kid on the bus tell his buddy “you gotta get on T man cause you are NOT passing” 😭😭😭😭😭

[teaboot]

If I was paid I’d do a study on this

[plaguedocboi]

It’s World Ocean Day!!! Go In There

[lizclimo]