Exploring The Abyss

27 year-old enby shrimp breeder, RuneScape fiend, Subaru Baja enthusiast, and marine biology undergrad. Ask me about our lord and savior, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

[kuromi-hoemie]

me when i see an animal that is known for being in my area

[fadbucker]

[official-cephaloposts]

official cephalopod post

[lowpolyanimals]

Crabs from Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards

[brandneweyescd]

have we tried biting people my liege

[pukicho]

My followers: Doctors, Scientists, brightest minds on the web, engineers, artists

Your followers: The feral hound, The feral osprey, The feral bear

[hellsitegenetics]

String identified: : ct, ctt, gtt t , g, att : T a , T a , T a a

Closest match: Osedax fenrisi genome assembly, chromosome: 4 Common name: Marine Bone Eating Worm

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[sleepy-bebby]

Chinese giant salamander (娃娃鱼) a.k.a ‘baby fish’ due to the sound they make that sounds like a baby crying.

The Chinese giant salamander is one of the largest salamanders and one of the largest amphibians in the world. It is fully aquatic and is endemic to rocky mountain streams and lakes in the Yangtze river basin of central China.

The Chinese giant salamander is considered to be a "living fossil". Although protected under Chinese laws, its population has faced severe declined over the last 70 years and is currently (2022) listed as threatened. There are evidence indicating that the Chinese giant salamander may be composed of at least five cryptic species, further compounding each individual species' endangerment.

Here is a video of a 200-year-old Chinese giant salamander that was found in a cave.

[lunius-art]

H2O just add water but it's 40 year old office worker Dave

[hanpancakes]

I just want Dave to feel appreciated…. 🥺

[whitager]

it's genuinely bullshit that you should be required to own a mobile phone for participation in literally any aspect of life

[whitager]

this should be illegal and i'm not fucking joking

[endoanarchy]

I'm not going to leave this in the tags cause I would like to expand on this with a situation I ran into a few months ago:

I took a Greyhound in November to my current state. I had a homeless man approach me and ask if I knew where the next bus was headed. He needed to buy a bus ticket, and was completely stranded in that city because the bus stop itself did not sell physical tickets. It required purchasing them online, and he didn't have a phone. He had cash with him to afford it, but literally could not buy a ticket because he didn't have a phone or debit card of any kind.

The bus driver allowed him to just ride for free that day so he could get to his destination (3~ hours from there), which was incredibly kind of them.

More recently, I had to download an app for my friend to use a parking meter because they got rid of letting them take change and debit cards. An app for a parking meter.

I'm currently dealing with homelessness and do you have any idea how lucky I am to have a phone that's paid for? Half the resources I go to require a phone number or email to sign up for assistance (or more ironically an address but that's besides the point).

It's shit like that, that makes me HATE how everything requires a phone, an app, an email ect to use basic shit, especially when it's not needed. It's inaccessible to so many people, and not just those going through homelessness.

Phone broke? That sucks. Is your phone dead? Too bad. Missed payment on your phone plan? Fuck you, better suck it up. Don't have data or signal? Uh oh better find somewhere with it.

It's a disadvantage at BEST to the average day to day citizen and it's absolutely exhausting. At worst I honestly think it's a symptom of fascism.

[lutraviolet]

for the person who asked for chikorita

[rigormarcy]

Before and after smoking my gummy bear cigarette

[lava-lamps-forever]

[hjarta-deactivated20260124]

being an adult is so funny i just made plans with my friends in MARCH. yayyy can't wait to see you in 30 business days

[yesterdaysprint]

The Kansas Industrialist, Manhattan, October 18, 1916

[aropride]

does anyone else think that its crazy (remembers i’m in discourse time-out this week) how the wind blowing thru the grass is so common yet so beautiful. one of many marvelous experiences in this wonderful life

[hellsitegenetics]

String identified: a t tat t ca ( ’ c t-t t ) t g t t ga c t at. a a c t

Closest match: Kyklioacalles roboris genome assembly, chromosome: 18

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[roguefish]

[redstonedust]

if vampires existed in real life i think there would be shady companies advertising "organic blood" sourced from "willing donors" who are coincidentally all poor people being paid like $5 per blood donation. and like haughty vegan vampires who only drink a synthetic blood drink thats brewed in a way thats actively worse for the enviroment. and radical traditionalist vampires who go on tiktok and claim that true alpha chads have to drain and kill people and anyone who leaves their victims alive is a liberal cuck. enter the world of hypothetical insufferable vampire politics with me.

[deadmotelsusa]

Autoport Motel of State College, Pennsylvania opened in 1936 and closed in 2015.