overstimulated and anxious at the zoo until I looked up and saw an angel dancing in a beam of light

Loudclan - Moon 8

Peakpaw and Chickadeeblur encounter a young rogue and convince her to join the clan.

Mothpaw is apprenticed to Fiercestripe.

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Originally, mermaids evolved to mimic the beauty standards of humans in their regions. But now, mermaids look however they want without caring how humans think they "should."

Some mermaids happen to fit modern human preferences, to the chagrin of insecure people everywhere. Though many humans and mermaids have successfully courted each other... They are still formidable predators with endless defense systems, should you overstep.

While not human, mermaids are still people. Treat them as such.

Now, do stop laughing.

"In Our Name: ..." an article written by Jewish students at Columbia University.

the coolest people are actually weird and fucked up and strange and peculiar and they just dont care. the coolest people are actually lame as hell and they rock it. this is what ive learned

the coolest people are cringe and free

same, same

How to insult everyone in a traffic jam

THE IMAGE OF 70+ YEAR OLD DOOKU SNEAKING OUT THE BACK WINDOW TO GO TOSS PEBBLES AT HIS EQUALLY OLD GIRLDFRIEND’S WINDOW AT MIDNIGHT SO HE CAN GIVE HER ROSES IS ALL I EVER WANTED FROM THIS FANDOM

I KNOW ME TOO DO YOU THINK THEY LEFT NOTES FOLDED IN BOOKS FOR EACH OTHER IN THE ARCHIVES BACK IN THE DAY

Oh no they were sappier than that - Dooku would deliberately misshelve books to spell out romantic sentiments. Jocasta would send him “suggested reading lists” with hidden messages. They both utilised the “shared book” form of coded messages - and in particular used it to create private comm frequencies.

(Dooku threw off many of the trappings of his Jedi life when he left, but couldn’t find it in himself to burn the first edition copy of “Fauna and Flora of Felucia” he kept by his bedside. Just in case.)

OH. 

Take the memory, leave the shell! Watch what happens when we return seashells to the beach & marine hermit crabs!

Seashells are so important to beaches for a whole host of reasons.

🐚Over-shelling can affect hermit crabs because it reduces the availability of suitable shells for them to inhabit. Hermit crabs rely on empty shells of other creatures for protection and shelter. When there are too few shells available, hermit crabs may be forced to inhabit inadequate shells & pollution as homes, which can hinder their growth and make them more vulnerable to predators and environmental stressors. This can ultimately impact their survival and reproductive success.

🐚Shells provide homes or attachment surfaces for algae, sea grass, sponges, coral and a host of other microorganisms.

🐚Animals such as decorator crabs and octopus use shells as camouflage and many fish use shells as hiding places to avoid predators.

🐚Shells help to stabilize beaches and anchor seagrass.

🐚Shells are used by shorebirds to build nests.

🐚When shells break down, they provide nutrients for the organisms living in the sand or for those that build their own shells. (Shells are a major source of calcium.) I’m a firm believer in when we know better, we do better. I once shelled, and then when I learned all of this, I returned all shells that were not sprayed with a clear varnish to the beach & watched the marine hermit crabs go wild changing shells that were so needed!

A dear friend just said that Eden Golan was her hero. She’s singing her heart out while literally thousands of people outside the concert in Malmo are baying for her blood.

It is, quite literally, a pogrom.

Israel is a finalist. Like the charge, reblog to cast.

Antisemites: I will make your computers/mobile devices explode and cloud backups fail from my Zionist super powers if you interact.

Also like keep in mind that this song is about the grief of Simchat Torah pogrom. Like this is an Israeli Jew singing a song about both Israeli and Jewish grief.

You need to ask yourself why you have such a problem with Israelis (Both Jewish and not) and Jews in Diaspora grieving.

"The coral reefs of south Sulawesi are some of the most diverse, colorful and vibrant in the world. At least, they used to be, until they were decimated by dynamite fishing in the 1990s.

As part of a team of coral reef ecologists based in Indonesia and the UK, we study the reefs around Pulau Bontosua, a small Indonesian island in south Sulawesi...

In many places around the world, damage like this might be described as irreparable. But at Pulau Bontosua, the story is different. Here, efforts by the Mars coral restoration program have brought back the coral and important ecosystem functions, as outlined by our new study, published in Current Biology. We found that within just four years, restored reefs grow at the same rate as nearby healthy reefs.

Speedy recovery

The transplanted corals grow remarkably quickly. Within a year, fragments have developed into proper colonies. After two years, they interlock branches with their neighbors. After just four years, they completely overgrow the reef star structures and restoration sites are barely distinguishable from nearby healthy reefs.

The combined growth of many corals generates a complex limestone (calcium carbonate) framework. This provides a habitat for marine life and protects nearby shorelines from storm damage by absorbing up to 97% of coastal wave energy.

We measured the overall growth of the reef framework by calculating its carbonate budget. That's the balance between limestone production (by calcifying corals and coralline algae) and erosion (by grazing sea urchins and fishes, for example). A healthy reef produces up to 20kg of reef structure per square meter per year, while a degraded reef is shrinking rather than growing as erosion exceeds limestone production. Therefore, overall reef growth gives an indication of reef health.

At Pulau Bontosua, our survey data shows that in the years following restoration, coral cover, coral colony sizes, and carbonate production rates tripled. Within four years, restored reefs were growing at the same speed as healthy reefs, and thereby provided the same important ecosystem functions...

Outcomes of any reef restoration project will depend on environmental conditions, natural coral larvae supply, restoration techniques and the effort invested in maintaining the project. This Indonesian project shows that when conditions are right and efforts are well placed, success is possible. Hopefully, this inspires further global efforts to restore functioning coral reefs and to recreate a climate in which they can thrive."

-via Phys.org, March 11, 2024

I feel like one of the problems with social media and this war is that a ton of jewish users come off as being interested solely in, like, antisemitism and antizionism &etc. On a personal level, honestly I don't think I could be less interested in talking about people hating me and wishing I were dead. It's kind of... Not very interesting to me? I have soooo many other intersts. Except, it's kinda important to address this just, like, vaguely terrifying and unsettling and really deeply depressing trend, so I do it.

Basically what I'm saying is leave the jewish people alone we really should be able to have lives that don't involve existential terror.

thx y'all

strange to remember that many people are not exposed the the shoah and the imagery of it as early as childhood and do not grow up seeing this and knowing that this happened, was allowed to happen, to you, and no one in the whole world did anything to stop or prevent it. and just live with that, just internalize that information as a normal part of your life.

I’m Jewish, so I don’t believe in hell, except when it’s funny