someone please tell me this is real and not photoshoped because that would make me even happier to have an OC with blue insides sob bless this fish rip
It’s real, though I think they tweaked the photo to make all the colors more saturated. This is probably a blue lingcod. Only some have this coloration, possibly due to diet, and the color disappears on cooking. Evidently they taste the same regardless of original color.
Enrichment is just as important for arthropods as it is for vertebrate species of pets. Humans seem to have this attitude that if the animal doesn’t display an emotional response we recognise it means we don’t need to put in any effort to better provide them with care.
However, “enrichment” for arthropods is usually fairly simple; a substrate for burrowing species, places to hide, things to climb on top of, and enough space to move around. New scents and the occasional swap-out or rearrangement of decor are bonuses.
You can find video process and more here – https://artstn.co/m/DVv0 Updates: https://www.instagram.com/vakon – “Necromancy distorts and turns all living things into its weapon. Even ordinary birds can be turned into dangerous weapons. At first glance, harmless, they spread the plague and disease, ruining and infecting crops with spoilage. A small flock of such birds infected by a necromancer, can bring more deaths than a crowd of zombies raised from a rural churchyard. Be vigilant, because dark magic can appear in the most unexpected forms. Ailing tramp, scrubby yard dog, or even a strange-looking domestic chicken – can hiding a deadly plague behind a simple sickness!
— Kyera Farh. “Faces and ongoings of darkness”
This is one of the UNDEADHUNTER series works, that I did during #inktober18 and each art was done in one day.
Day 6: Drooling poison
You can find video process and more here – https://artstn.co/m/0wq7 Updates: https://www.instagram.com/vakon – “One of the monstrous creatures that can wait for you on your way is the Strigoi. These creatures were once human beings, but completely distraught by necromancy and beginning to feed on corpses. Their mind became similar to the predator’s mind, and their bodies are strong and dexterous. But fear not only this! Their main weapon is a deadly poison drooling from mouth and claws. It seems that their very body is impregnated with it and appears through the pale skin. When you meet with this opponent, be extremely careful.”⠀ ⠀ — Bertrand Naivera. Treatise “Survivor in Darkness” – This is one of the UNDEADHUNTER series works, that I did during #inktober18 and each art was done in one day.
Day 7: Exhausted lands
You can find video process and more here – https://artstn.co/m/rvj2 Updates: https://www.instagram.com/vakon – “Most often magic creates only short-term effect. But to our great sorrow, necromancy is not. And many of the lands is a proof for it: castles and villages, former habitats of dark cultists, even after many years bear the traces of decay. The land, tormented by dark rituals and rites, is no longer able to yield a harvest and is more like a grave decay than fertile soil. The forests are empty and resemble a skeleton with white bones. And the rivers are stinking and poisonous.» ⠀ — Kyera Farh. “Faces and ongoings of darkness” – This is one of the UNDEADHUNTER series works, that I did during #inktober18 and each art was done in one day.
Day 8: Morning star
You can find video process and more here – https://artstn.co/m/MgeM Updates: https://www.instagram.com/vakon – “The morning stars are a sign of hope, messengers of the fact that the dawn is near, and the surrounding darkness is about to retreat. Our weapons are not accidentally called the morning stars-it is a symbol of the dawn and the expulsion of darkness from our lands. Believe in yourself and carry this weapon with honor, you and your weapon are dawn. Together, you will disperse the darkness, throw it back, forcing it to retreat again and again until you eradicate it in our world. You are the dawn that brings the joy of life, gives hope and frees the hearts from fear!” ⠀ — Tadeus Irey. The first hunter. «Covenants to those who follow in my footsteps»
This is one of the UNDEADHUNTER series works, that I did during #inktober18 and each art was done in one day.
Hey! This is actually super dangerous for your beardie! Bearded dragons should never be within paw’s reach of a cat- even the friendliest, sweetest cat in the world can be deadly to them. The bacteria under their claws and in their mouths is often fatal to lizards, and so even an inquisitive pat can lead to astronomical vet bills! Cats are also extremely adept at killing reptiles; in the big kittycam study, reptiles were the number one prey of roaming felines. I’ve got a lot of information in my cats and reptiles tag if you’d like more information and in-depth sources.
putting this here because it’s really important. please do not let your cats and reptiles interact!
So my trainer’s bf cheated on her. She broke up with him. He’s holding her stuff hostage until she agrees to talk with him. Which she refuses.
She trains; for free mind you; three college linebackers, a college wrestler, two martial artists, a body builder, and… wait for it…. a Navy seal. We’re gonna go get her shit for her.
This should make for an interesting story.
So everyone who commented on this being like the avengers, you are absolutely right. That’s what all of us had in our heads as we were rolling over to dude’s house. But I’m very proud to say, this ended without violence.
Arrival:
So the super friends all jumped into one of the linebacker’s explorer and headed over to dude’s house. Ok the squad: you all know me, but the other martial artist is a little wirey hapkido guy, the linebackers are all giants (an estimated combined weight of I’d say 750-800lbs), the wrestler looks like an escaped gorilla, then the navy seal looks like your average guy but something about him is unsettling. Really unsettling. Unfortunately, the body builder had to work. Anyway, we send the Hapkido guy and the wrestler to the door first and dude answers, screams at them, and then slams the door in their face. Then the giant linebackers head over and they ring the door bell again. Lo and behold, he was much more polite, but still denied access. Finally, me and the seal join the fray. I casually make my way towards the front of the group, but the seal decides to CLIMB THE BANISTER. We all just turned and started at him completely shocked when dude answers the door. He looks at this weird mismatched group of relatively threatening individuals and one guy perched on his banister like batman. He was like “FINE. Go take what you’re looking for.”
Retrieval:
So we’re all walking through the house gathering what we think are her things and putting them into two boxes. Mind you. We are completely guessing. We didn’t even tell her we were coming, therefore we had no list of items.The only one really being productive was Hapkido, who was legitimately looking for stuff. The linebackers were just randomly picking up furniture, turning it over, and putting it back down. Just showing off how strong they were. In case the numbers game wasn’t enough, I guess they were letting him know they could break him if they wanted to. The seal was just shadowing dude in his own house. Walking behind him, not saying much, just being creepy. Then there’s me. Who was causing general mischief…. He said to take what I was looking for, that’s what I was looking for. Ahaha and the wrestler made a fricken sandwich. Because “you guys look like you have it under control, and I’m a sucker for egg salad.” We were in and out in 15 minutes.
Delivery:
So the autobots rolled out and headed towards homegirl’s spot. She was conveniently outside when we rolled up. We got out and she was like, how do you all even know each other. The truth is, we don’t. She sent us all an email once and didn’t blind copy us all. She vented to all of us about dude holding onto her stuff and we started emailing and that was that. We told her that we went to see her ex. “OMG what did you say to him?” Nothing. We’re not messenger boys. We’re delivery boys. And we gave her her boxes of stuff. She went through the first box and said that was most of her stuff. Then she got to my box and asked “Wtf is all that shit.” So I explained that I took all the batteries out of his remote controls, his deodorant, the light bulb out of his master closet, every pair of dress socks that I could find, the laces out of his running shoes, and all the toilet paper in the house. The guys just looked at me and kind of nodded like they were impressed. She then unexpectedly started CRYING and thanked us. So you have this group of meat heads all standing awkwardly with this weeping trainer. It was quiet for a second when the seal was like “So…. chipoltle?” And we all got burrito bowls.
What a great day.
This is literally the most beautiful and thrilling tale. Start to finish.
I am almost in tears I am laughing so hard. This is beautiful. I can’t believe you took all the toilet paper. I’m dying. Help. It sounds like the start of a joke: two martial artists, a wrestler, two linebackers and a Navy Seal walk into a Chipotle.
BONNETHEAD IS AN OMNIVORE SHARK, RESEARCHERS FOUND
What an animal consumes and what an animal digests and assimilates for energetic demands are not always synonymous. Sharks, accepted as carnivores, have guts that are presumed to be well suited for a high-protein diet. However, the bonnethead shark (Sphyrna tiburo), an abundant shark commonly found in seagrass habitats, has been previously shown to consume copious amounts of seagrass, flowering marine plant that forms subsea meadows in some coastal waters in the Gulf of Mexico, as in other parts of the world. And now, is considered the first known plant-eating shark. The finding were published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society.
The bonnethead shark is an abundant shark species in shallow waters of the Eastern Pacific, the Western Atlantic, and the Gulf of Mexico, where they feed on seagrass and small crustaceans, snails and other fishes, and according to researchers, in natural conditions, up to 62.1% of gut content mass is seagrass. Because a large percentage of the diet is seagrass, conserving seagrass beds is vital to the hammerhead shark family and other marine life.
Photo: bonnethead shark in Bahia State, Brazil, by José Amorim Reis-Filho.
Every time I see this quote I realize how poor even very smart people are at looking at the long game and at assessing these things in context.
One of my favourite illustrations of this was in a First Aid class. The instructor was a working paramedic. He asked, “Who here knows the stats on CPR? What percentage of people are saved by CPR outside a hospital?”
I happen to know but I’m trying not to be a TOTAL know it all in this class so I wait. And people guess 50% and he says, “Lower,” and 20% and so forth and eventually I sort of half put up my hand and I guess I had The Face because he eventually looked at me and said, “You know, don’t you.”
“My mom’s a doc,” I said. He gave me a “so say it” gesture and I said, “Four to ten percent depending on your sources.”
Everyone else looked surprised and horrified.
And the paramedic said, “We’re gonna talk a bit about some details of those figures* but first I want to talk about just this: when do you do CPR?”
The class dutifully replies: when someone is unconscious, not breathing, and has no pulse.
“What do we call someone who is unconscious, not breathing, and has no pulse?”
The class tries to figure out what the trick question is so I jump over the long pause and say, “A corpse.”
“Right,” says the paramedic. “Someone who isn’t breathing and has no heartbeat is dead. So what I’m telling you is that with this technique you have a 4-10% chance of raising the dead.”
So no, artists did not stop the Vietnam War from happening with the sheer Power of Art. The forces driving that military intervention were huge, had generations of momentum and are actually pretty damn complicated.
But if you think the mass rejection of the war was as meaningless as a soufflé – well.
Try sitting here for ten seconds and imagining where we’d be if the entire intellectual and artistic drive of the culture had been FOR the war. If everyone thought it was a GREAT IDEA.
What the whole world would look like.
Four-to-ten percent means that ninety to ninety-six percent of the time – more than nine times out of ten – CPR will do nothing, but that one time you’ll be in the company of someone worshipped as an incarnate god.
If you think the artists and performers attacking and showing up people like Donald Trump is meaningless try imagining a version of the world wherein they weren’t there.
(*if you’re curious: those stats count EVERY reported case of CPR, while the effectiveness of it is extremely time-related. With those who have had continuous CPR from the SECOND they went down, the number is actually above 80%. It drops hugely every 30 seconds from then on. When you count ALL cases you count cases where the person has already been down several minutes but a bystander still starts CPR, which affects the stats)
Video based on quantum physics. The colored balls are placed together alone by the resonance of the quartz crystals. Each color has a different resonance. In the same way we group the people that vibrate in the same frequency. This is how the universe works.
Ok, that’s just trippy…
gay physics
It’s actually animated. Look really closely at how they bounce- they don’t move quite right, just very close to it. Amazingly done, but animated.
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