(May 12, 2023) We are raising money for a crowd funded research project investigating the cause of blueberry hermit crabs in Okinawa, Japan using trash found on the beach as “homes” instead of natural shells. These hermit crabs are endemic to the southern islands of Japan, and they act as coastal environmental engineers. They are endangered on several islands, and we want to try and understand why they are resorting to beach trash for shells. Please consider sharing this post and donating to the project. The fundraising will be active for the next 45 days (until June 26). 

You can find all project details here: https://experiment.com/projects/blueberry-hermit-crabs-with-beach-trash-homes

We suspect that areas with high rates of tourism lead to beach combers collecting natural shells leaving nothing for the hermit crabs to use. It’s possible that overfishing of turbo snails which would naturally provide shells for the crabs may also be a factor. We will survey many sites across several islands in Okinawa to try and determine a cause of this behavior. 

We will be working closely with national geographic photographer Shawn Miller (photo credits above) and several researchers in Japan. Additionally, we will complete extensive beach clean ups in the areas we study. Thank you so much for reading! 

We’ve All Got a Bit of Barbie in Us

Collab Comic with the wonderful people from Rewriting Extinction. Go check them out and support their cause.

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goodbye july hello august

S U M M E R ☀️🍋🌻

so things happened and somehow i ended up drawing submas at the beach. (thanks @divatheeva and @cecilioque for endorsing this.)

bonus: I slap emmets back

im still puzzling out how to draw him but... hes a good model anyway <3

for @26-cats-in-a-trenchcoat 😉😘

Yay! Finished my water color portraits of the Fam doing beach things! ⛱️ ☀️🕶

I used my regular water color markers but I used an actual brush to paint this time, sooo the just know the mixture of colors was an artistic choice.

prime leo au but human!!

as you can tell this is post-prime; leo sulking in the bathroom, reminicing at how different he looks now, and remembering a small moment from his dream world that pisses him off greatly...

wedi ffindio yn dino blastig fach ar y traeth a wedi gwneud docw shoot blastig fach // found a little plastic guy on the beach and did a little plastic nature documentary photoshoot

So good to me~

Some of you need to realize that being a leftist doesn’t automatically make you a good person, nor does it make you immune to being a bigot. And it most certainly does not give you an excuse to discriminate against other people or mean that your own prejudices must be for the right reasons because you’re a leftist who can do no wrong. I’ve come across plenty of people on here who call themselves radical leftists or communists who preach violence and Nazi ideology. I’ve seen Nazi groups take advantage of that and try to swoop in and recruit those people, and they were probably successful. There are a concerning number of leftists who are only leftists and not conservatives because they want to feel morally superior (and just superior in general) to others. And they are absolutely invested in spreading bigotry and upholding the status quo under the guise of some leftist ideology to keep themselves feeling superior. I.e., if everyone were actually equal, they wouldn’t be able to pretend to support oppressed people, so they don’t actually want equality at all.

Y.

You got to be kidding me