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Always collecting you @secretlysly ♡♡♡

If I was a haunted magical item would you collect me y or n

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*Dead media (assassinated)

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My first thought was to eat them

My second, shame, guilt

Third, to eat them.

I mustve been a bird of prey....

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Borbsssss! These are so much fun. The threads are placeholders and there are still many more birds the sculpt that I see from our windows (lots of waterfowl next and their long necks will be a challenge with this type of clay lol, but it's a good challenge)

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"In the Maldives, a mobile coral spawning system has been trialed with scintillating success, as 10,000 juvenile corals were grown by local operators.

It represents not only a major hope that island nations can abate the loss of coral reefs, but also that the spawning system’s $1.5 million grant investment was well-spent, and that an expansion in production of the technology could well be warranted.

Co-developed by the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) and Maldives Marine Research Institute (MMRI), ReefSeed is a shipping container-sized, portable, seaside spawning laboratory for coral.

Designed to allow local marine scientists anywhere in the world to spawn and grow coral for reef restoration in weeks rather than months, and to operate without external power sources or the need for divers, ReefSeed received $1.5 million from the G20 Coral research and Development Accelerator Program.

It passed its recent acid test with flying colors, as the MMRI were able to use a single containerized ReefSeed unit to spawn 3 million larvae during a single spawning season, which they turned into 10,000 juvenile corals.

These corals were then deployed via 720 seeding devices across 9 different reefs. It was done without any of the AIMS experts present, proving its utility doesn’t require expertise in the system.

The spawning took place on Maniyafushi island in the South Malé Atoll of the Maldives, and AIMS coral reproduction scientist and ReefSeed co-lead, Dr. Muhammad Azmi Abdul Wahab, said the plan was to offer ReefSeed to as many other island communities as possible.

“We have learned much from working with colleagues at MMRI, which will help us make improvements in the training and refinements in the way the system itself can work,” Dr. Wahab told Oceanographic.

MORE REEF SPAWNING RESEARCH: 

New Technology Lights Up Coral Beds to Speed Reef Restoration By Attracting Food

First-Ever Coral Crossbreeding Hopes to Mimic the Resilience of an ‘Invincible’ Reef in Honduras

Breeding Corals for the Great Barrier Reef Achieves First Out-of-Season Spawning Event Ever

First Coral IVF Babies on Great Barrier Reef Have Produced Next Generation

“Coral reefs in the Maldives sustain communities and livelihoods but, like coral reefs globally, they have been impacted by bleaching driven by climate change. Innovations like ReefSeed can play a role in supporting restoration efforts providing hope for these communities.”

MMRI scientists were invited to the Great Barrier Reef to witness, alongside their AIMS colleagues, the autumn spawning season on the world’s largest reef, something which GNN has reported before has to be seen to be believed—like the shaking of a giant snowglobe.

It was there they learned the fundamentals of coral spawning that they would take back to Maniyafushi island and their ReefSeed station."

-via Good News Network, July 16, 2025

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Some winners in the comments lol

Perfect standing wave on a computer-controlled wave pool

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Cries on the slugs

My favorite nudibranch photos from @kamata_yosuke on ig

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This HAD to be on my blog.

Credit: theemidknight on TikTok

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 Am I too much for you? Does the devotion I require scare you?

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I feel like I lived in a different world where Elliot Page came out and the entire internet exploded with pure anger and every single comment I saw was either horrendous transphobia and misgendering from one side and whining disappointment about “losing an openly queer woman” or mocking how “basic” every single decision he made about his presentation was from the other side, only for people on tumblr to claim that trans men are rewarded and celebrated for coming out. Like no the fuck they aren’t. Go into the comment section of a single transmasc teen on Instagram right now and then pay them a billion dollars in compensation.

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Moveable Doom Wing Keychain // ShiiyouArt

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I might use these when re decorating aaa

Thank youuu

>v< -Slumber

shark stamps

Just for fun / to calm down

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you know how some people sleep with guns or knives under their pillows for protection? KEEP YOUR KNIGHT IN YOUR BED INSTEAD!! FOR SAFETY REASONS!! THAT'S YOUR LIVING WEAPON!!!! #mylivingweapon

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big fan of a character seeking comfort in the arms of the thing that’s going to kill them. and i am psycologicalily normal too.

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Characters who choose death but are forced to live, my beloveds.

Characters who have to come to terms with a second chance at life they never asked for, my darlings.

Characters who move forward on the trembling legs of a newborn fawn through the overwhelming, blinding crush of an existence they fully forsook but which was thrust back upon their unwilling beings, my obsessions.

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fishies!

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Getting real damn sick of people on Threads posting things like this:

With zero mention of trans men/mascs/nonbinary people AFAB. This is like the fifth post I've seen rushing to defend "pregnant people" language by only referring to cis women among "people". When literally the whole point of gender neutral language is to include more than cis women.