So first dive in over a year - and first dive in the UAE in about 4 years. A few Nudibranch were around which makes it nice. Here is the first one - an undescribed Phyllodesmium down at 21m.

my favorite subgenre of Halloween decoration is “skeleton of things that absolutely do not have skeletons”

It’s a bit harsh to think about but if any major seismic event happened here we would probably permanently lose 20,000 homes over situations like this. A lot of old apartments are build on land community councils and planners downzoned so they can never be rebuilt

I mean, this was in fact how Tolkien and his wife conducted their romance.

i think one thing people have a hard time grasping is that the central figures of the trump administration are not bad as in "the worst republican blowhard you know," but bad as in "the worst people you have ever heard of." donald trump is a serial rapist whose best friend was a pedophile.

on my ebike: I hate being tethered to this infernal modern machine and the electrical grid that charges it, I yearn for the freedom of an unencumbered bicycle and feeling the power of my own two legs on my analog bike: my own two legs fucking suck! replace them and everything else with steel

Tonight the University of Washington community is mourning the loss of professor Quintard Taylor. His 1994 book “The Forging of a Black Community” is foundational reading about race, class, and urban planning in Seattle political history. He will be missed sorely.

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Drive is REALLY good.

you open the door to see a clean cut young man in a wrinkled blue polo. he asks you if it is a good time. he asks you if you would like to hear about his Friend. he asks you if you would like to review some literature. he hands you a worn copy of moby dick. he asks you if you've ever seen the ocean.

it's that time of year

What's wild about this: railing against the social gospel is — I kid you not — a more than *century-long campaign* by conservative evangelicals. Some theological debates never get old, it seems.

One stark marker of how much our society has devolved in just a few years is Bob Iger personally got on a call to convince us to let Disney/HULU make the 1619 Project. That America no longer exists.

This is a really good read about how experimental psychology research can inform us about human decision making in the context of rare and common outcomes/events/facts.

Alas, nope. 96% of US farms are family farms. Most of the so-called "corporate" farms are family farms. The families that own them just happen to be wealthy & have a lot of capital.

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

Been talking to people quite a bit about how it's easy to understand "cancel Disney+!" but harder to understand the initial and bigger problem is with Nexstar and Sinclair, so lemme make it easier. Find your local Nexstar channel Find your local Sinclair channel

If you get arrested at a protest, and you need to fight a charge, who's your lawyer? A public defender may represent you at arraignment. (Love you, PDs!) Afterward, usually it's an NLG lawyer, working for free. The NLG Chicago needs your support. (ACLU doesn't do crim defense, with exceptions.)

I didn't know this. J Pod apparently avoided this particular location for 50 years where were captured for Sea World. They just returned for the first time this week. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMRL48FP/

Oak Treehopper Mama Update! Here she is with entire brood. They're getting big! So, why is it nice to leave some leaves around? These kids will hibernate over winter as adult females in leaf litter. (Platycotis vittata) PA

I'd love to do a panel on "scuba diving and science fiction writing" one day because I think diving is the closest thing to space exploration that the average person can experience. Plus, everytime I dive, I get a new story idea.

I'm sick and I've been watching endless pointless youtube for days, and my recommendations are growing troubling

I didn’t realize this was this weekend until just now!

It's Punk Rock Flea Market!! Come visit us on the hill!

sucks to be this moth, whose most embarrassing day is now immortalized on wikipedia 😫

I am looking for a comforter for the guest bedroom and I'm sorry what monster did this

Love crabs? Get a Crab facts (or eel facts or frog facts) advent calendar here! Squidfacts.net They fund my science education nonprofit @skypeascientist.bsky.social!

In case you wonder which platforms are here to help creators thrive and which are here to tell us to eat shit, here’s the breakdown of likes for crab, 15 hours after posting. Follower count in () for more useful comparison. TikTok(2k): 139 Instagram (22k): 719 Tumblr (13k): 12k Bsky (52k): 22k

It is really gross and disappointing that the only three members of WA's delegation to oppose this are also our only three women of color. Shame on Democrats Adam Smith, Kim Schrier, Rick Larsen, Suzan DelBene, and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez.

On Monday 9/29 5pm this proposal for 300 homes, a grocery store & a childcare center goes on public trail with Seattle’s dying out design review program. Despite saving trees and being the only lot allowing housing growth it faces local opposition. Please show support web.seattle.gov/dpd/aboutus/...

her name couldn’t really be WILL OBEY

I know we all hate to log into LinkedIn, but you might wanna do to opt out of this 😘

NEW: In an investigation for @realchangenews.bsky.social, I found that Seattle’s UCT storage program rarely returns belongings collected at sweeps to homeless people. Only 1 in 15 instances, or 7% of the time, led to property going back to its original owners. Most was disposed of after 70 days.

I can’t help it. The grackles are still here, and need to be photographed 🤣 The male Common Grackles usually take every opportunity to display, especially in the spring! But it’s Fall, and this male was displaying a lot! Apparently, he knows what he looks like🤣 #Birds #photography #wildlife 🪶

Overestimating small proportions and underestimating large ones is a basic feature of how people estimate ANYTHING. People make similar patterns of errors when estimating how many immigrants live in their country as they do when they estimate the number of dots presented on a screen.

Earlier this year, my office went to the State Capitol to support SB 5184, which slashes parking mandates. The bill passed, but Seattle isn’t required to comply until 2027. With the passage of my Comp Plan Amendment 85, however, we’ll be putting these reduced parking mandates into effect this year!

Hey, um, we need help. Moving is costing us at least $10k more than we planned for and we may need to close down the shop for a short while so... we're running our first ever fundraiser. outsidercomics.com/moving-updat... You can also help by shopping our moving sale this weekend.

Looks like CM Solomon had a choice between his constituents and his lifelong dedication to hostile architecture and he picked the latter.

I hate telling this story, but when tear gas is in the news... telling always feels importantm Tear gas is an abortifacient. When I was tear gassed, we were trying for a baby. The following day, I bled in a way I never have before. Like no period of my life before or since. Horror movie stuff.

This is an absolutely inspiring and exciting bit of technology, one of the best nerdy and useful bits of code I’ve seen in a long time, made as a labor of love by a truly great hacker, not as a commercial project but just to make it easier for everyone to work with files. youtu.be/15_-hgsX2V0

Grue jay!

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

Sorry D2. You didn’t get a vote on the Comprehensive Plan today.

Lisa Bufano

It's time to do that thing you've been wanting to do

I think, every so often, about how the student protesters in South Korea figured out there was a finite supply of tear gas, and then staged retreating marches that caused police to burn off most of it, before the big "bring your auntie and kids" marches that ultimately toppled the dictatorship.

You know things are rough when the AAUP's advice on how to use social media is just "set all your accounts to private."

The buff-tip moth (Phalera bucephala) has mastered a very particular kind of camouflage. When they close their wings up, they resemble a broken twig. Native to large parts of Europe, there's regional pattern variation that reflects the local tree species. This one best resembles birch twigs?