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I don't know why people say Remmick isn't racist. He was perfectly happy being racist towards the natives when it suited him. Perfectly happy trying to use a black man's power for his own gain.

Not to mention making a bunch of black people step and fetch for him. Dude is racist as fuck, just a slightly different flavor

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🤗 i dont like this emoji. this is not a hug to me. this is someone doing condescending jazz hands in my general direction when i am in need of affection. not comforting.

🫂 i love this emoji. this is a hug. we are hugging and its nice. and as a special bonus they appear to be my old friends from the msn messenger logo? very comforting.

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this single frame from the tng episode "rascals" just annihilated me

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when I was like 10 I used to draw this garfield-style serial comic about a copepod and a siphonophore making fun of human relics on the seafloor. it was mostly very bad and I don't know what happened to it. this is a recreation of the only installment I remember.

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this doesn't seem to be widespread knowledge around here yet but there's a big trend among dogshit content scraper accounts to grab a real photo (usually of ✨Aesthetic Nature™✨ or something similar, which is why it's relevant to me) somewhere, and recreate it using AI to avoid crediting the photographer. this can even trick people who are somewhat familiar with the subject matter if they're not paying attention but looks incredibly wrong upon closer inspection

here is some complete garbage as an example. because these "photos" are not completely made up by AI, people into spiders know the species and will recognize their features without looking closely, getting tricked in the process. if you know spider anatomy and look closely though, both of those look like utter abominations. the original photos these two were based on are here and here, by the way

these just so happen to be things i'm familiar with and i would probably get easily fooled by AI recreations of plants or fish or whatever. my point is that if you're not an expert on everything that exists you're not immune to these, so i would probably recommend caring about photo sources unless you actively want to look at this repulsive trash

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I am each step, and then the next. The map is wrong. The white-noise squall of falling metal.

Performed by The Ensemble

Rae Witte

Wendy Hector

Phil van Hest

Written by Cameron Suey

Produced by Cameron Suey, Phil van Hest, Purpurina, and Wendy Hector

Edited by Cameron Suey

This program is intended for mature audiences only.

Art by Karrin Fletcher

Psychology Consultant - Elisa Leal, Psy.D (CA PSY28330)

Our Theme Music is: The Backrooms by Myuu

All other music and SFX provided by Epidemic Sound

Against the Red Sky - Walt Adams

We Are Nomads - Walt Adams

The Miner - Both Are Infinite

Blue Sky Blues - Peter Crosby

State of Play - Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen

Honest Intentions - Johan Glossner

Misty Land - Headlund

Ghosts of the Rail - Gabriel Lewis

Trade and Fortune - Mary Riddle

We Will Haunt You - Oh the City

Fully Loaded - River Run Dry

Echoes of Eternity - Tellsonic

SFX provided by Epidemic Sound and the artists at Freesound.org

Additional SFX and Music covered under the following licenses:

creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Special Thanks to Cathleen, Jon, Tid, Russ, Kalasin, Rick, Brianna, Zach, Jesper and all our patrons and listeners.

Thank you for listening, and stay tuned.

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Arnold Böcklin - Saint Anthony preaching to the fish (1892)

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I LOVE THIS MOVIE 🔥🔥🔥

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Been having some thoughts..

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Tumblr, something tells me you're gonna like this one.

You can't put biology into a box. Whatever rule you try to impose on nature, a species, population, or individual will break that rule. Embrace the natural chaos of reality. Biology is so much bigger than binaries.

We're selling shirts to help raise awareness that um hello, it's not just humans that have a diversity of gender, sex, and sexual orientation. Something being relatively less common, does not mean it doesn't exist. To understand the reality of biology, you need to embrace this diversity. The alternative is being simply incorrect.

This shirt was designed by the legendary scientific illustrator Franz Anthony. Follow him most places at @franzanth!

We're printing them on 100% cotton Black Next Level tees. (for size chart, refer to 3600 Cotton T-Shirt)

These shirts are screen printed locally in Philly and shipped from Squid Facts HQ.

Every item in the squid facts shop supports science education nonprofit Skype a Scientist! We make science accessible through personal connections with scientists and public art! You can learn more about what you're supporting here.

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Here we have a pale green assassin bug. Assassin bugs are as cool as they sound.

Take a look at the needle on the face of this little critter. They use that to pierce their prey (other insects), then inject stuff that dissolves their prey's innards then suck it out through that straw.

Metal.

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Fish, Konstantin Korobov

Dunkleosteus hunted in the shallows. There were fewer places for its prey to hide there. It was attentive to the tides, careful to avoid the rocks and swam only over the sands.

Snap!

Good-bye, Orodus.

Crunch!

Down goes an ammonite.

But, one morning, a tiny grey shark would not be caught. It dodged every lunge like a breeze does fingers. (Dunkleosteus did not know what a breeze was, but it would learn.)

Dunkleosteus grew as determined as a placoderm could, and—as much as a fish can decide anything—decided to catch this slippery prey above all costs. They chased through the shallows, charging and evading, reaching and retreating.

The tide began to go out. The shark winnowed over the rocks, its dorsal fin cutting the surface. Dunkleosteus surged at the shark, its back breaking the surface of the sea, its belly dragging over the stones. It nearly gutted itself on their sharp edges. The shark wormed away, but Dunkleosteus was stuck. The waters sloshed about its body. It struggled, heaved, wrenched its bulk against gravity and stone, but in vain.

The sea dragged the waters away, abandoning Dunkleosteus on the stones. Its gills pumped against the air; its eyes clouded in the wind; its fins curled over the corals. Then it was still, a victim of Devonian hubris.

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🚨 Cool new project alert 🚨

WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people.

We're in an all-hands-on-deck moment here.

We've learned the hard way that talking to each other on social media about these problems, while very important, is insufficient to get CORRECT information to a critical mass of people.

That's why, if you ask me, it's time to hit the street.

4 artists & 3 scientists collaborated on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic.

Where should you put these posters?

Community Bulletin Boards

Classrooms

Your street-facing window

Wooden street poles

ETC

Here's who worked on this project:

Science Funding Saves Lives

Poster by Amy Schwartz

Article by @mikefeigin.bsky.social

Biology is Bigger than Binaries

Poster by@franzanth.bsky.social

Article by@jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social

Protecting Wildlife Starts with YOU

Poster by@zillahsmith.bsky.social

Article by me

Will our Oceans Thrive or Nosedive?

Poster by@invertebabe.bsky.social

Article by me

Alright now go buy some posters and put them in the public space. I'd give them to you for free but uhhhh I'm broke and can't afford to. We're making them as cheap as we can.

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🎵 I Lied to You, I Love the Blues 🎵

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