Edit: Okay this post is getting a LOT of traction. What is going on?
Edit: Fucking hell.
This post has set off a fucking MINEFIELD!!!
What have I DONE????!!!!!
I’ve lit the blue touch paper and found there’s nowhere to run to!
I’ve summoned a wolf only to unleash a tiger!!!!! Made of fire! And nails.
Probably….
Idk.
Edit 2: 5,000 Notes! Good god! What the HELL do you want from me. I’ve never had a post of mine take off like this until now.
Some got close like the one about homeowner associations (fucking powertripping middle aged mediocrities!) which got at least 1.5k notes but this is the most I’ve gotten on a single post so far.
Anyway.
AND this post has officially gone to hell. (6,666 notes)
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WHO THE HELL TURNED OFF THE REPLY THREAD FOR THE REBLOGS?!
Cool Facts- Instead of being sharp and spiny like their Pacific cousins, the pencil sea urchin’s goal is to look as unappetizing as possible. The 10 centimeter long spines are thick and rounded, resulting in it being simply too large for most fish to be able to fit in their mouths. Pencil sea urchins are mostly sedentary after they find a nice growth of algae to feed on. However, these urchins are capable of moving a whopping 90 centimeters a day when they feel like it. These urchins are threatened by a mixture of ocean pollution and over tourism of the reefs they call home. Pencil sea urchins are also popular for aquarists and often find themselves in the illegal pet trade.
Rating- 11/10 (Now if only they could learn how to write.)
I helped with a study of local freshwater mussels today. They're doing transect studies of the river and tagging and releasing the mussels they find. Later they come back and do it again to see where the mussels are moving to over the course of 10 years.
They glued stickers to a mussel and called it science
These are called heel splitters. That's not even the biggest one we found
I know the big oblong one in the middle is called a pistol grip and the green warty ones are pimplebacks, but I don't know how to ID the rest
They can live for decades and are parasites as juveniles. I should do a Wet Beast Wednesday post on mussels because there's some interesting stuff about them
He didn't have anything to do with it. It was people, putting their words in God's mouth, just as they always have for every other god since the beginning of time. Religion is made by humans, for humans, for human purposes. Sometimes those purposes mean well, sometimes not.