#Oceanic Nationals

[victusinveritas]

Reminder: the companies and political entities pushing Project 2025 have addresses and go out to lunch a lot and should never eat a spitless meal for the rest of their lives.

Practice bagpipes outside their secure compounds.

Follow them around ringing a bell wherever they go.

If they are going to be farcically evil, be Animaniacally good. Be the definition of chaotic justice.

Also, vote. It might just kick the ball down the road a bit, but that gives people more time to organize a concerted resistance (in no way on any social media platform) to the fascist creep happening in America. It is possible to take this country from the bastards who control it, it will take work, effort, and occasionally going offline and talking to humans though.

[happycrabitat]

Take the memory, leave the shell! Watch what happens when we return seashells to the beach & marine hermit crabs!

Seashells are so important to beaches for a whole host of reasons.

🐚Over-shelling can affect hermit crabs because it reduces the availability of suitable shells for them to inhabit. Hermit crabs rely on empty shells of other creatures for protection and shelter. When there are too few shells available, hermit crabs may be forced to inhabit inadequate shells & pollution as homes, which can hinder their growth and make them more vulnerable to predators and environmental stressors. This can ultimately impact their survival and reproductive success.

🐚Shells provide homes or attachment surfaces for algae, sea grass, sponges, coral and a host of other microorganisms.

🐚Animals such as decorator crabs and octopus use shells as camouflage and many fish use shells as hiding places to avoid predators.

🐚Shells help to stabilize beaches and anchor seagrass.

🐚Shells are used by shorebirds to build nests.

🐚When shells break down, they provide nutrients for the organisms living in the sand or for those that build their own shells. (Shells are a major source of calcium.) I’m a firm believer in when we know better, we do better. I once shelled, and then when I learned all of this, I returned all shells that were not sprayed with a clear varnish to the beach & watched the marine hermit crabs go wild changing shells that were so needed!

[noctumsolis]

When I think about American attitudes to parenting there's something that always comes to mind, but I don't know whether it's a real thing. All my life in American films and TV I've heard child characters addressing their dads as "sir" or being told off for not doing so.

Is that really a commonplace thing in American families, or is it just a shorthand way of showing that the character is a shitty dad?

[montereybayaquarium]

Happy National Marine Sanctuary Day! 🌊🎉

Today, we celebrate our protected waters throughout the U.S., including the ocean and the Great Lakes.

We have even more to sea-lebrate this year as we look forward to the official designation of the Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary on California’s Central Coast. 

Once final, 4,500 square miles of coastal waters from Morro Bay to the Channel Islands will receive important protections to help safeguard its ecological, historical, and cultural ocean resources. It will become California’s fifth national marine sanctuary, joining Monterey Bay, Cordell Bank, Greater Farallones, and Channel Islands national marine sanctuaries.

Learn more about this historic designation.

📸 Photo courtesy of @noaasanctuaries

[demaparbat-hp]

Idk if I'm too late, but I really want to see what you do with "kiss of life"

Before the Sun dies.

[lordgolden]

kinda went off with this one

[aquavierra]

I think someone already made this.

[luthanraels-bignaturals]

the real tragedy of stone ocean is that the line “when I’m with Jolyne, I want to cry as hard as I possibly can” is the most romantic, devastating and homoerotic thing ever said during the series, but it will never be acknowledged by the fandom because it’s about two women

[dontblamethewitches]

we both did the best we could do underneath the same moon - in different galaxies.

[noaasanctuaries]

Happy Valentine's Day

With love,

Your National Marine Sanctuary System

[mindblowingscience]

A severe solar storm sparked by an intense flare from the sun could reach "extreme" levels as it bombards Earth, officials with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) warned on Thursday (Oct. 10). Scientists with NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Group (SWPC) said that a cloud of charged solar material, called a coronal mass ejection, slammed into Earth around midday, triggering a "severe" geomagnetic storm that could impact power grids and GPS and radio communications systems, as well as amplify aurora displays in regions that typically don't see them.

Continue Reading.

[strawlessandbraless]

In Honor of National Crab Day, Behold the Candy Crab 🦀 🦀 🦀!

The candy crab (Hoplophrys oatesi) is a small but stunning crustacean that lives on soft corals in the Indo-Pacific region

It hides itself by mimicking the colors of the coral it takes refuge in. The candy crab will even attach polyps to its carapace for added camouflage

Their colors vary depending on the color of the coral they hide in so they can be white, pink, yellow or red

Love to sea it 🌊

[chenoweths]

when one of your fav idols books a bway national tour and you FINALLY get to meet eachother after interacting with eachother on socials 🫶🏽

if you like RTC or love it definitely go see A BEAUTIFUL NOISE!! it’s a great show!

(also I won’t be telling how I met Tiffany since I wanna be respectful) + it’s kind of a really long story 🫠

[birchleahf]

A nautilus torpedoes by to say hi!✨

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[aimeekb]

I’m a simple person, I see a rock and I climb it

[deanschlichting]

Kelp, Rialto Beach, Olympic National Park, Washington USA