#BUT IM BACK NOW!

[jovei]

who else feel baka rn 😭💔

[krakenshaped]

With Every Tick of This Clock || Part 1 || Part 2 ||

[live-laugh-love-the-archivists]

-super late but happy birthday!

Iiiii just saw the tag about it and realised it was around season

Ah thank you! I appreciate it as I didn't get many birthday wishes :D

I saw this at the perfect time because I was procrastinating about my chemistry unit test that's tomorrow, so this made me feel better :]

[rizzless-trans-guy]

How does fish conservation work?

What's a species that has recovered recently?

Bonus:

How did lungfish evolve?

I like your explanations!

fish conservation works pretty similarly to other kinds of conservation tbh. conservation authorities do these main things to help conserve fish species.

1. monitor the fish. they keep track of which species are doing well, which ones arent, if theres any endangered species, or if theres any invasive species. because you cant do anything unless you know what your working with yknow?

2. monitor the water. they monitor for a lot of stuff, such as pH, temperature, dissolved oxygen levels, turbidity, etc. some fish evolved in areas where they enjoy for example, cold temperatures, low pH, low turbidity, and high DO. so if that changes thanks to humans, they may move or begin to die out. hence why it's important to keep track of so they can try and return the water to a state that those fish will wanna live in.

3. prevent the spread of invasive species. not much to say about that lol.

4. improve the water quality/ecosystem. using all the info from the first two steps they will form a plan on how to best try and improve the area. for example if theres high turbidity (when theres lots of particles in the water) that is usually because of some sort of natural degradation, such as trees being cut down, or construction near water. they can try and find the sources and deal with them appropriately. same with pH, though that is usually because of factories and whatnot with all their chemicals.

5. encourage low impact fishing. so fishing while keeping the ecosystem in mind basically.

theres lots of other stuff but those are the main ones. I'd suggest looking up your own local conservation authority and getting involved! they usually love volunteers.

as for fish that have recovered recently, I can only think of the Oregon chub. they were on the threatened/endangered species list for a couple decades before finally bouncing back in 2015! unfortunately most of the time when fish get taken off the endangered species list it's not because of a miraculous recovery like this, it's usually because they've gone extinct :(

but anyways shout out to the oregon chub!!

now for the lungfish!!

they first appeared about 400 million years ago so these guys are pretty old. the african and south american species are actually pretty different from the single Australian species, both in looks and amount of lungs.

top left is the west African lungfish, top right is the south american lungfish, bottom is the Australian lungfish. so, similar but definitely very visibly different. and in the lung department the Australian lungfish as mentioned before only has one. kind of. so they do only have one working one, the other is there but it is atrophied and unusable.

as for how they evolved, they lived in areas where water would dry up seasonally, and therefore there was less dissolved oxygen for them to breath in. so they evolved to have lungs that were derived from their swim bladders!

swim bladders are used for buoyancy, and how do us humans float in water? inhaling air! so swim bladders function similarly to our lungs already, using gas to keep fish afloat. so it's no wonder that the lungfish were able to evolve lungs when they already had that.

so whenever theres less water or low DO, they go to the surface and suck down some atmospheric oxygen, kind of like how whales do.

and thanks! I love explaining lol

[chiptunesong]

Some Wiggly Paint art of my ocs! Pt. 1

[pierog]

i'm so glad goncharov happened when it did, right before prolific public use of AI. that was pure honest gaslighting straight from the heart. real human whimsicality and trickery thru blood sweat and tears. we were a family. and we all gonched, together. you cant replicate that with any machine.

[varilien]

am i blanchin?

girl we blanchin!!

HI HIII happy birthday to everyone's favorite mystery twins!! how did they grow up so fast!!!!

Palestine: Funds | Action | eSims | Info Sudan Resources | Congo Resources

[batcavescolony]

Katniss is such an unreliable narrator. She says "Then something unexpected happens. At least, I don't expect it because I don't think of District 12 as a place that cares about me" girl you deliver strawberries to the Mayor, you hunt and trade for the district, when you fell at Prim being chosen someone caught you, when you went to Prim people parted for you, when you volunteered EVERYONE stopped. Idk how to tell you but I think you're a pillar of the community.

[isjasz]

[Ready for a new game?]

day 11 definitelynottober - heart in your fist & week 1 weeklyhermittober - beginnings

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IM SO READY LETSGO SO EXCITED FOR THE NEW LIFE SERIES💥💥💥💥💥💥

[hinamie]

trick or treat!

[stil-lindigo]

lead balloon (the tumblr post that saved me)

if this comic resonated with you, it would mean the world to me if you donated to this palestinian family's escape fund.

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no creative notes because this isn't that kind of comic.

I know I don’t owe any of you anything but I still felt compelled to write about my long term absence. And I feel far enough away from the dangerous spot I was in to be able to make this comic. I have a therapist now, and she agreed that making this could be a very cathartic gesture, and the start of properly leaving these thoughts behind me. I am still, at seemingly random times, blindsided by fleeting desires to kill myself. They’re always passing urges, but it’s disarming, and uncomfortable. I worry sometimes that my brain’s spent so long thinking only about suicide that it’s forgotten how to think about anything else. Like, now that I've opened that door for myself, I'll never be able to fully shut it again. But I’m trying my best to encourage my mind in other directions. We'll see how that goes.

I am still donating all proceeds from my store to Palestinian causes. So far, I've donated over $15K, not including donations coming from my own pocket or the fundraising streams which jointly raised around $10K. In the time since I made my initial post about where this money would be going, the focus has shifted from aid organisations to directly donating to escape funds.

If you'd like to do the same, you can look at Operation Olive Branch, which hosts hundreds of Palestinian escape funds or donate to Safebow, which has helped facilitate the safe crossing and securing of important medical procedures for over 150 at-risk palestinians since the beginning of the genocide.

[punkitt-is-here]

dipper is a weirdly special kind of character to me because I was that type of kid, the one who wanted to grow up too fast and got irritated at their sibling not taking things too seriously and never wanting to seem childlike. i connected heavily with him, and honestly the entire arc of Gravity Falls being in part about him learning to just be a kid really helped me in the long run. it was a great wake up call seeing a character so similar to me at that age learn to finally stop trying to be an adult before i was ready.

[lesbian-disaster-academic]

i used to be so good at writing strong, thoroughly-researched, thoroughly-edited essays.

as a kid in hs, my teacher literally came up to me, holding my 40 page essay on the intersection of the European witch hunts and capitalism/exploitation/gender roles (it was supposed to be 7 pages...whoops) and went like "this is literally a master's-degree level thesis. what are you doing?? you could literally use this as your final dissertation in a master's program, what the fuck."

NOW??? NOW?? you'd think I'd be oh so skilled. but alas. i can barely piece together two ideas. adhd skill-regression is so so real. im SOBBING

[proxycrit]

Day 26- Lanayru Mountain

Perhaps dragon song sounds familiar. No matter; it’s time to get to business.

On that note, magnesis is reacquired! Purah’s still working on the other glyphs.

(“We’ll find a cure by the end of this year, I promise.”

“I hope we do, Mimi. I really, really hope we do.”)

((This is a totk au called familiar familiar! Zelda doesn’t go back in time, history is forever changed, and link is beset by ghost memories from his magic arm as per usual.))

(Want to throw a coin to an exhausted art hermit? Check out my patreon!)

[crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington]

little bee and ratchet from 10 years ago,...

[thegleampt2fromtheglowpt22001]

ppl on Twitter have for no reason I can tell rediscovered Mighty Jill Off, thee cute indie platformer abt lesbian BDSM from 2008. I have no idea why it's gaining traction again but I just thot u all on here wld like 2 b part ov that 2