#squid facts

[sarahmackattack]

One last talent show to save the rec center

Ok everybody here's the deal.

My science education nonprofit, Skype a Scientist (you might know her, creator of the squid facts hotline and matcher of classrooms + scientists) has secured absolutely no grants to support general operations for 2025. But! We're selling advent calendars to fund our program! They absolutely rule. They can save our nonprofit asses. If we sell 5000, which I realize, is so many, we can fund our program for 2025. Then I can offer a bunch of programming for free. Running a nonprofit is a weird job.

Every day, counting down to frankly whatever you want (it's usually Christmas, but man, maybe you want to count down to Halloween, that's fine by me) scratch off the sparkly sparkly iridescence and reveal a fact about frogs! We have 24 top-notch frog facts here.

You should get one for every kid in your life, then get one for all the adults who still let themselves access joy in critters.

Get 'em here: https://squidfacts.bigcartel.com/

[themagictophat]

Found this with no context on my phone

Just "photo taken on April 19, 2022 at 8:22 PM." No clues from any of the surrounding pictures. The previous one is me documenting the existence of my grandfather's stuffed pheasant before we get rid of it when we move and the one after it is a 13 second clip of me dumping a bag down our apartment's trash-chute and listening to it fall down all eight floors into the basement.

So I text the number and...

IT WORKED I GOT A SQUID FACT

This made my 3-in-the-morning, thank you Squid Fact Hotline, I didn't actually know that second fact about how tiny pygmy squids are.

[sinead-smith-3]

@sarahmackattack is this you??? Seen in Philly June 18th, 2023

[ilovecoelacanths]

YIPPEE!!! my package from skype a scientist is here!!!! yay!!! magnapinna bumper sticker has arrived!

also my snailfish sticker and my strawberry squid shirt!!! im so excited im gonna wear my new shirt this week and im gonna find a spot for my stickers. i don’t have a car but i could not resist the magnapinna sticker. for now i will keep it on its backing and find a spot to put it temporarily. i may even tape it up on my wall. it would kind of be funny to have a bumper sticker on my wall.

[plasma-packin-peep]

I just received my Frog Fact calendar from @sarahmackattack, founder of the Skype A Scientist outreach program and pilot of The Squidmobile (which I had the honor of seeing in person like a year ago and i still remember that day fondly.)

The calendar is here just in time to make September a month of amphibious education! Also, can I just say it's so much bigger and prettier and glossier than I expected it to be? I'm going to keep this hanging up even after I'm done revealing my frog facts.

I also got myself a Squid Fact Hotline sticker to put on my own car so I too can drive a Squidmobile. Squidmobile Jr, if you will.

And theres other goodies available too! If you like frogs (or crabs, or squids or funding public access to science education) please consider supporting the program by buying yourself a fun treat from her shop!

[superluigiglitchy]

as a splatoon fan don't you just love reading about squid facts and applying them to inklings?

anyways i made a cannibal oc-

[five-nights-at-squids]

Hi guys! I’m new here, figured I’d make an introductory post.

My name is Squid A. Apollyon, but you can call me Squid. I’m a digital artist who is learning to animate random crap.

Organization issues everywhere

I like a lot of stuff. Topics ranging from space all the way to Fnaf. I play Minecraft as a pastime. I love drawing and writing, especially essays and argumentative writing.

I should probably be connecting the dots on these things about me, but nah, I’d rather listen to Porter Robinson (W MUSIC) and go on Pixilart.com to socialize with my space cult.

Speaking of that, it’s time for SHAMELESS SELF PROMOTION!!! :3

YouTube: @/five-nights-at-squids

Pixilart: @/proximaC

Discord Server invite: https://discord.gg/yFREr6Y9Vj

My father is @/professional-termite

Idk any of my other family on here but trust me irl they exist in my friends discord trust ._. I HAVE COMPANIONSHIP IN MY LIFE IM NOT A SAD LITTLE LONELY RAT I SWEAR

anyway moving on

Yeah that’s it byeeeeeeee

[a-dux]

Bisexuality is common in some species of squids.

Citation:

Hoving, HJ.T., Fernández-Álvarez, F.Á., Portner, E.J. et al. Same-sex sexual behaviour in an oceanic ommastrephid squid, Dosidicus gigas (Humboldt squid). Mar Biol 166, 33 (2019). https://doi-org.ezproxy.lib.calpoly.edu/10.1007/s00227-019-3476-6

[skelbton]

praise to the squid people

[melittleponie]

I just had an idea of what a group of squids should be called. I think they should be called a squad!!

[five-nights-at-squids]

“Nah fr?? I thought that was vampires!”

there’s a lot of misinformation about autism that gets spread on the internet, so here’s a friendly reminder that the main symptoms of autism are as follows:

insomnia

an adverse reaction when exposed to direct sunlight

highly selective eating habits

skin that is cold to the touch

an inability to enter churches

long, unusually sharp canines

a thirst for blood

if you experience several of these symptoms, you could be autistic! i recommend doing further research on your own, as i am not a doctor and cannot diagnose you, but i hope that someone finds this clarification helpful.

[sarahmackattack]

I'm a squid biologist on a mission

To bring squid facts to you. To your friends. To your neighbors. To some random dude named Brad who you've never met.

How? The Squid Facts Project. It's a street art campaign and hotline that texts folks squid facts!

Only snag in this hair-brained plan is that texting people is kiiinda expensive. So! I teamed up with Philly artist Corey Danks to sell shirts to keep the hotline running. Every one of those shirt dollars helps deliver squid facts to people.

Like, over 70,000 people over the last year!!! Isn't that wild?

So anyway. Get a shirt. They're cool, *and* they keep people learning about squid. It's a beautiful thing.

Also, the backs have the squid facts hotline on them so by wearing these you're helping people learn about squid too.

If you can't buy one, give us a reblog. I run a small science education nonprofit called Skype a Scientist, we're scrappy but trying so hard!!

[superluigiglitchy]

learning about squid facts and the image of Meggy opening a can easily with her teeth is hilarious

[hellbendergender]

Had my quarterly performance evaluation at work today and when my manager asked if I had any questions at the end I asked if he knew that humboldt squid, which grow to around 6 feet long, hunt in packs, and have been known to kill and eat adult humans.

[five-nights-at-squids]

Not for me bro I’m in 2010

Twas the life of my dreams

2018 was five years ago let that sink in

[metautske]

I LOVE HIM

Thank you . @sarahmackattack !!