Solar Flicker

Jesus Christ Superstar made my neurons diverge and I fear they will never touch again. Background by purple-confusion. 28 they/them lesbian. Find my JCS fanfic on AO3|| JCS Discord is open!

[solarflicker]

Unfortunately for everybody who doesn’t want to see my current fixation, I am feeling obnoxious.

Hijacking this old post for my tags!

[thejewellerybox]

Micromosaic & gold earrings, c.1860-80

In the collection of Cincinnati Art Museum.

CAM - Behind the Scenes in Conservation: Micromosaic Jewelry

[yffresbeard]

i think it is important to recognize the ways in which your favorite thing sucks. i think it keeps u normal

[rabbithaver]

prev im so sorry to put you on blast like this but please know this had me in hysterics

[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

[plaguedocboi]

Yeah that’s also something we’re worried about now! Obviously increased CO2 levels in the ocean are well known to cause acidity issues that can literally dissolve some animal’s shells, but this was one of the first times it’s been observed to directly impact lobster hatching rates. I’m pretty sure my boss is or was writing a paper on it because this could be a big problem in the future if they’re really this sensitive to CO2.

Hopefully the levels of CO2 out in the ocean won’t get as high as a contained indoor tank in a crowded building would, but it’s certainly something scientists should be aware of going forward and we’re trying to get the word out!

[depsidase]

[cyphir-spacerobot]

Victor Frankenstein after achieving the impossible and building a fucking person from scraps of the dead: Oh god, ew, ew it's ugly! Yucky! Yucky! Gross! Ew! Ew! Yucky! Yucky! Gross! Ew!

[dogpuppy]

[kirbyhasapencil]

what’s this?? new peacetalks comic that i had time to finish while i was in quarantine???? truly a miraculous time

i think a lot about them laying in bed just talking to each other. learning to trust each other again.

[swordbymyside]

[julia1x5-deactivated20250903]

I refuse to let this be lost in the tags

[supreme-leader-stoat]

[lliveonthesunn]

i get why people don't believe in marriage as a social construct but legally it is the best and easiest way to say "this is who i trust to take care of me when i can't take care of myself" and i'm so glad gay people fought for that right bc when shit gets scary at least i know im in good hands

[fiore-firelily]

such insolence... guards? seize her! ...no. stop. not like that. you are doing it gay. why are you seizing her gay style

[mira-mira-0n-the-wall]

[sadgi]

can I get a job as an editor but the only thing I do is correct when someone uses the word "prone" when they mean "supine"

[sadgi]

thank you wikipedia for this really good image

[sadgi]

a helpful mnemonic for everyone

[talkwithtatsu]

too good for tags

[headspace-hotel]

This mnemonic has a permanent place in my life.

Every time in yoga class when my instructor would say "now get into a prone position" I would think "ah yes on your pronis"

[doll-shell]

it’s really problematic of you to maintain the harmful binary of “you” and “not-you”. literally just join the hive already.

[alexandriaellisart]

oh sappho

[estrogenesis-vaporeongelion]

potato battery? no. potato usually fried by itself. potato starchy enough to go in oil without batter

[im-mender]

Potato battery? no, it only threatened you, which is assault

[estrogenesis-vaporeongelion]

yes. good. fried potato taste very good with a salt

[horse-is-a-horse-of-course]

sorry for not posting anything lately, i have been skipping merrily through fields and giggling like a gnome in their natural habitat (also fields)

[horse-is-a-horse-of-course]

i’m posting again because i got snatched up by a bird whilst skipping in the fields (just like a gnome)

[horse-is-a-horse-of-course]

where this bird taking me

[loverphilosopher]

[the-writing-goblin]

My dude I think perhaps you are a Hobbit, not a gnome. Sorry for the confusion.

[zooophagous]

I have been a sheep caretaker for like two days and already I'm like. Wow. I get it.

I get why these were some of the earliest mammals to ever be domesticated. They look up to humans with this sort of dumb but all at once innocent and pure and trusting expression. They're happy to see you. They follow you around. They like to be rubbed under their chins. Maybe its just some latent Scottish highland shepherd DNA I still have in me but I look at my sheep charges and suddenly I see why the love of God for humanity is so often described as a shepherd and his sheep. I'd fight a wolf for these guys. I'd go way the Hell out of my way for them. I'd carry their young for miles on my own back.