#above below

[thewisemankey]

My YouTube Music recap. Once again, old habits die hard but there still are new faces here and there.

[z428]

(Müdigkeit ansammeln, wie einen wertvollen Schatz.) Wolkenlinie über dem Viertel. Dünn, kaum wahrnehmbar. Ein kleines Flugzeug auf seiner Route, jener silberne Punkt, der fast verloren wirkt vor dem hohen weiten Blau. Hinter der Wand diskutieren Radiostimmen Politik; nicht, dass genaue Inhalte zu hören wären, aber das tun sie immer. Suche nach der Kaffeetasse, irgendwo abgestellt entlang der Schritte, und keine Erinnerung an den Platz geheftet. Um diese Zeit sind Abweichungen vom gewohnten Lauf nochschwerer zu kompensieren als sonst. Vorsichtige Luftbewegung. Xylophon-Klingeln in der Straße. Der Hausmeister gegenüber zieht Werkzeug vom Transporter und blinzelt im Morgenlicht. Geschichten vom und im Erwachen. Habt es mild heute!

#outerworld #above below #waking to the day #home office hours

[such-sweet-entropy]

we close our eyes and dream the skies, but never wake to see them.

[1introvertedsage]

The conquering of self is truly greater than were one to conquer many worlds.

~Edgar Cayce

[aimseytv]

the warden and the creaking from minecraft are a beautiful recipe for tragic yuri. if you even care.

[mostlyghostlyy]

[filmtvtoday]

AS ABOVE, SO BELOW (2014) dir. John Erick Dowdle

[moonlight]

The only way out is down.

As Above, So Below (2014) dir. John Erick Dowdle

[ocean-sunfish-worshipper]

the Great Mola Mola is a divine traveller, its perfect rubbery flesh grants it voyage from the ocean's surface to the vast depths of the mesopelagic. its body is the perfect vessel, it requires no swim bladder as it slips off into the abyss. words cannot adequately describe my mortal adoration for the Great Ocean Sunfish, may my humble attempt in ink and paper strive to capture even a sliver of its majesty.

from the depths of the mesopelagic to the glory of the sun! all hail the ocean sunfish 🙏🙏🙏

[hwkgrass]

[maureen2musings]

my_soulwax

[goryhorroor]

horror sub-genres: found footage

[caleod]

9-10-24 "Sun"

[miiilowo]

contender for funniest clip in any horror movie ever

[1introvertedsage]

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness.

It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

~Mary Oliver~

[alphynix]

Osteostracans were an ancient group of jawless fish, closely related to early jawed vertebrates, whose fossils are known from the mid-Silurian to the late Devonian of what is now North America, Europe, and Asia.

They were heavily armored, with bony head shields and rows of large scales covering their bodies. While their flattened shapes and upward-facing eyes have resulted in them traditionally being interpreted as mud-grubbing bottom-dwellers, their paddle-shaped pectoral fins, dorsal fins, and strong tails indicate they were also quite good swimmers – and their diverse hydrodynamic head shield shapes suggest they probably had a much wider range of ecologies than previously thought.

Although many osteostracans had large flaring spines on the sides of their heads, or long snout-like spikes at the front, Tauraspis rara here was unique in having two long front-facing horn-like projections.

Around 7.5cm long (~3"), it lived in brackish and freshwater environments in what is now northern Siberia during the early Devonian, about 410-407 million years ago. Like other osteostracans it had a small keyhole-shaped "nostril" opening, and large patches of sensory organs known as "cephalic fields" on the sides and top of its head shield.

The fields were covered with a mosaic of small bony plates, and their exact function is still a mystery – but they may have been involved in sensing vibrations in the water, or possibly even been electric organs.

Similarly, what Tauraspis used its unusual pair of "horns" for is also unknown.

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References:

Ferrón, Humberto G., et al. "Computational fluid dynamics suggests ecological diversification among stem-gnathostomes." Current Biology 30.23 (2020): 4808-4813. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.09.031

Janvier, Philippe. Early vertebrates. Oxford University Press, 1996. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/294830957_Early_vertebrates

King, Benedict, Yuzhi Hu, and John A. Long. "Electroreception in early vertebrates: survey, evidence and new information." Palaeontology 61.3 (2018): 325-358. https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12346

Mark-Kurik, Elga, and Philippe Janvier. "Early Devonian osteostracans from Severnaya Zemlya, Russia." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 15.3 (1995): 449-462. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.1995.10011241

Wikipedia contributors. “Osteostraci” Wikipedia, 25 Jan. 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteostraci