#musseled

[aquariumpacific]

We call this “Kraken Enrichment” 🐙🚤

[koenji]

victorian mussel shaped vinaigrette in handcrafted silver, engraved 'Lucy'. 1876.

[jolynegarcia]

Happy 10 years of Critical Role!!

[great-and-small]

When I find out someone loves animals in the wolves/cats/bears way I’m like oh nice same but when I find out someone loves animals in the orange-footed pimpleback mussel way I’m like holy shit holy shit same let’s stop what we’re doing right now so you can tell me about all the invertebrates you’ve ever loved with that sweet pure heart and curious mind you have

[389]

Pham Van Huong is a particularly resourceful 71-year-old farmer in Vietnam.

Huong was trying various techniques to make traditional round pearls, but without success. “I was about to quit,” he says, “when I accidentally discovered a pearl-covered nail in a mussel. Since then, I rushed to explore and find ways to create pearls.” He then dedicated a little pond on his property to mussels and started buying as many as he could to experiment. And here’s what he does: First, he cuts a small hole in the shell of the mussel. This part is pretty tough apparently: “If the shell is perforated too large,” he says, “or the perforation tears the fleshy part of the mussels, they will die instantly.” Next, he places an object with the shape he wants for his pearl in the mussel. Lastly, he covers the hole with plastic. In then takes about 2 years for the mussel to cover the object in just the right amount of pearl. And the result is a pearl in almost any shape you want!

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

I feel that often, people really disregard bivalves (and other sessile animals absolutely) as just a little more than background objects, somewhere between a plant and a rock, when they’re fellow animals just like us. I mean I get it, a mussel siphoning in water all day is less engaging than like a songbird darting about the woods or a sheep that walks around and that you can pet. But they really aren’t at all just machines!

Last year I had the pleasure of meeting adult freshwater pearl mussels, who were being showcased to raise awareness about their endangerment and ecosystem services. They had a few mussels in these small tanks to show how quickly they can clean the water — I’m sure you’ve seen the setup, there’s one really cloudy tank and a clear tank that used to be cloudy a few hours ago, but is now clear thanks to the filtering made by the mussels! One of the tanks had a strange sight in it: two still mussels and one… flailing one. Its light leg was fully out and waving about, and its shell was sort of lodged in the corner, upside down. When my friends and I asked what the matter with the mussel was, it had apparently been unsatisfied with its place in the sand that the scientists had put it in, and while trying to figure out a nicer position it had accidentally flipped itself over! Poor guy couldn’t quite get out from the corner for a while ToT

[louhinks]

i've taken to drawing AW2 culinary crimes whilst i am beaten unconscious by art block. bon appetit

[moth-in-the-broth]

open yourself to the world

[stupidthoughtsinasmartclass]

[iheartliquor]

[cuties-in-codices]

saints & fancy border decorations

in the hours of catherine of cleves, dutch, c. 1440

source: NYC, Morgan Library, MS M.917/945, pp. 228-280

[jacky93sims]

Hi Ilenia,

Can I ask you the conversion of the Mussels and Fries recipe from Littlbowbub ? The link here : https://www.patreon.com/posts/mussels-and-119412544

Thanks !!

Mussels And Fries Food for The Sims 2

This is a 4to2 conversion from Littlbowbub, low poly. Available at lunch and dinner time, same spaghetti cooking skill required. Invisible plate required and included.

DOWNLOAD HERE

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[thunderstruck9]

Yang Yong (Chinese, 1975), 2016 International Passage No. 3, 2016. Oil on canvas, 210 x 160 cm.

[hellsitegenetics]

Someone showed me this blog because I'm a scientist who sequences stuff for a living but joke's on them because I'm quite neutral about genetic sequences in my off hours; what I do really like are moths.

String identified: t g ca ' a ctt c t a g t ' t ca ' t ta at gtc c ; at a a t.

Closest match: Limnoperna fortunei genome assembly, chromosome: 7 Common name: Golden mussel

[speerfisch]

⋆.˚𖦹⋆✮⋆.˚Sketchbook 20 pages, bug friends and other knights, 2024

[flushwithdarlings]

if lucanis wants to do the groceries then he is very welcome to do so because i can only imagine that the inflation across thedas was insane at the time and he's probably the only one in the veilguard who can afford anything with their own money

saffron for paella? en esta economia?