Distorted Videos of Stuff I Saw Off The Lilipuna Pier, Part 2. Today, we got squid. These are muhe‘e or bigfin reef squid (Sepioteuthis lessoniana). I don't see them often, so I consider it a treat that several were hanging around this morning. 🐠🦑

Part one of a potentially ongoing series entitled Distorted Videos of Stuff I Saw Off The Lilipuna Pier* Let's start with a common one (but a fun one). This is the ‘ō‘io orshortjaw bonefish, Albula glossodonta. For some reason, they're often bigger in Hawai‘i than elsewhere in the Pacific. 🐠🦑

A beautiful kelpfish (Gibbonsia metzi) from an after-dark negative tide near Santa Cruz, CA. Look at his little striped mittens! 🐟🐠🐟

after a lifetime of constituents being furious at them for doing nothing the democrats have decided to do something the one time everybody begged them to do nothing

Lots of hard, shitty lessons being learned from this presidency. And one of the many I hope you're learning is, white supremacy is incompatible with reality, and cannot exist without historical revisionism.

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

I think a lot about the chance we had at the start of COVID to finally become a more compassionate, collectivist nation, and how profoundly we were failed not only by the sociopathic greed of the ruling class but by each other. It doesn’t mean we won’t get there, but the lost opportunity haunts me.

This is good advice

I have no choice but to believe you if you tell me you can't tell the difference between the totenkopf and the Jolly Roger but if that's the case you should absolutely not be allowed to drive a car

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness (these are real people but also they are Characters)

New paper! We tested #eDNA primers for detecting #fishes in Hawai‘i. 12S (MiFish, Riaz) performed best w/r/t fish sequence proportion. However, our major conclusion is that mock communities can lead you astray, since they don't accurately predict how primers will perform in a natural environment.

I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong. Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.

What's the best one liner in movie history?

"mooSOObee"

This sucks but it always struck me as stupid that it wasn't just a website to begin with. Like why the obsession/need to make it an ios app? Make it a website! You can still use your iphone! www.wired.com/story/apple-...

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends tech weirdo: and shitheads np: no just my friends tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender? np: we just want to hang out and goof around tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then np: no shitheads tw: not following

I have never seen a single episode of Seinfeld.

For my algae heads: happy spooky season! (📷: my friend Stephanie who isn’t on here) 🦑

Everything else sucks, but these things I got to do in 2025 have truly helped me keep my head above water: 1) Descend in a submersible and face a living nautilus. 2) See the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry in person*. h/t to @book-historia.bsky.social for alerting me that the TRH was on display

"what do you want them to do?"

Remember how scary it was for the 36 hours where it felt like the Right could explode into violence as a repercussion of an assassination? That's what our trans brothers & sisters feel like every fucking day We have to protect them at all costs. They are our line in the sand; not a bargaining chip.

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

Alright, so I've been afraid to say this out loud, but I think after today, I can say it: In the first Battle of Los Angeles, the good people of LA County have prevailed. We beat ICE back. 1/

Hard agree for Rozz Williams, I was a very emotional teen when he died. The two other big ones for me were Jason Molina and Jhonn Balance. Both were towering talents and their deaths were deeply tragic and eminently preventable.

It’s wild how people never really think through that the two-state solution is basically in the same genre as the outcome if the South had been allowed to secede.

A bit of a death march, ~6 km in the full sun up 500 m or so* (and possibly some light trespassing), but 100% worth it for the stones. Villard Dolmen, Ubaye, France. @stoneclub.bsky.social @megalithic.bsky.social *google will say you can drive there but only if you have, like, a land rover.

“You used to be able to listen to Godspeed You! Black Emperor on streaming platforms, haha you can’t do that anymore! Things changed. They don’t play Godspeed anymore on the Spotify…”

Gotta be musubi: launched from a sling.

In Funafuti, Tuvalu, the airstrip is basically just a soccer field until 20 minutes before the plane lands. It's very chill.

behold: a woman

N: Longyearbyen, Svalbard E: Taveuni, Fiji S: Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station W: Also Taveuni, I guess (the 180º meridian goes through Taveuni so it's simultaneously furthest east AND west, depending on your perspective)

if you cannot win an election over 3 years away against the most loathsome people in the US while they are doing things like *kidnapping the fucking ice cream man off the street in broad daylight* without a ritual sacrifice of at-risk people, you are not the future of humanity. dream bigger, better.

As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.

If you are applying to a PhD, don't use an LLM in composing your proposal. If you are doing a PhD, don't use an LLM to do the writing and reading and thinking for you. Sorry, I am going to die on this hill.

The Skyway, the main drag through Paradise, CA, in 2015 vs. this afternoon

Yikes. The NBP was my home on and off for a few years in the mid 2000's. This would be a huge blow to polar science worldwide.

One of the main takeaways of this new paper is that we find (once again) #mesophotic (deep) coral reefs to be unique and subject to unique forces and stressors. Thus, they need to be considered as such when developing protections for them! Also: there is no easy way out. We must reduce emissions!

New (OA) paper out today! This one's got crabs 🦀 AND #mesophotic reefs! We looked at crab communities throughout Hawai‘i and down a 90 m depth gradient. They were more different across depth on one island than they were across the entire ~2,500 km stretch of the archipelago on shallow reefs.

I respect “War Pigs” for its moral simplicity. Listen to that on 10 and then read one of those 1,000-word op-eds that amounts to “the reasons for state violence are complicated.” Which do you find more convincing?

And one final thought: Ozzy going out after giving an emotional final performance that raised a ton of money for charity is more spiritually uplifting and did more genuine good than anything any televangelist and religious grifter who railed against him ever did combined.

This is a good time to remember that Moas, Emus, and the other ratites diverged so long ago, they FLEW to different continents, and then lost the ability to fly and became giants independently. You can't just sprinkle a few variants to make one into the other. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Instead of “Alligator Alcatraz” or “Alligator Auschwitz”, let me suggest that we call it simply the Dade-Collier Concentration Camp. Hang the name on Florida. Make them own this disgraceful moment in U.S. history. Make our grandchildren lobby to change the name of Dade County out of shame.

So this phrase “able-bodied” has clearly been on the most recent list of R talking points. It comes from the first round of English labor laws, which were instituted after the Black Death. A mini medieval story time!

Post an unusual sign if you feel like it.

Every white male professor over the last few years that I have heard bitch about DEI and how "you can't say anything anymore" and how they were kicked off a steering committee for a prominent conference "because they were white" led directly to this. This is what they supported.

I have arrived!

i am simply asking the press to cover the government sending masked thugs to rip people from their crying children and shipping them to a foreign concentration camp with the same ferocity they cover a trans kid playing jv tennis in sheboygan

There are no distractions. It's all bad. Systematically stripping trans people of their rights, guys in balaclavas shoving any brown person with a tattoo into a ummarked vans, ending healthcare for millions. It's all in service of fascism and technofeudalism. It's all one thing. That's the point.