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Many of you might have already seen the ultra cute "sea sheep" (Costasiella kuroshimae), but yesterday I learned 2 mind-blowing facts about the family of sea slugs they belong to:

1. They incorporate chloroplasts (the organelles in plant cells that do the actual photosynthesis) of plants they eat, into their own bodies to do photosynthesis directly for them (that is the green colour you see), in order to survive if food is scarce.

Imagine being able to live from light!

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#WondersOfNature

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APOD from 2025-11-25

#Comet Lemmon and the Milky Way

Comet Lemmon, near its peak, is captured with two other wonders: the Himalayas' Meili Mountains and the Milky Way's central plane. The comet displays a white dust tail and a blue ion tail. While Lemmon fades away, the mountains erode slowly, but the #galaxy endures, creating new cosmic spectacles.

HD image at https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap251125.html#space #astronomy #nebula

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Jumping back in here for a couple of seconds because I thought you might want to see a bit of last nights arqsarnitt (aurora) #NorthernLights #Aurora #auroraborealis #Nunavut

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Oh yeah, I should be plugging this.

If you're in #London and like teeth, this is for you. Or maybe you just want to get inside a rarely opened museum. It's for you too.

On The Art Of Teeth https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/on-the-art-of-teeth-tickets-1954640575579

Come see what we have been working towards for a few years.

#anatomy #teeth #OnTheArtTeeth

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I’m so delighted I happened to be in Baltimore at the right time to see Paws on Parchment at the Walters. https://thewalters.org/exhibitions/paws/

Pawprints on a European medieval manuscript

Marginal illumination of a cat playing a cymbal

Islamic manuscript with an illustration of a cat

Introductory text
PAWS ON PARCHMENT
Centuries before cat memes took over the internet, the antics
of fanciful felines were already delighting medieval readers in
the margins of their manuscripts. The Walters' stellar book
collection preserves a number of charming illuminated cats
that have become world-famous thanks to digitization efforts.
Many other quirky kitties have been stealthily hiding on the
bookshelves and are making their gallery debut here, as is our
collection's rare example of a book "marred" by adorable inky
paw prints. This exhibition brings these works together for the
first time as a way to explore how medieval people thought
about, engaged with, and celebrated cats. From beloved pets,
to important hunters who protected food and people from
disease-carrying rodents, to fur-brained chaos machines
scampering across scribes' desks, cats left an enduring, and
endearing, legacy in the history of medieval manuscripts.

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In 1970, 55 years ago today, the Oregon Department of Transportation blew up a whale carcass that had washed up on the beach in Florence. Or at least they tried to blow it up.

They managed to scatter stinking rotting whale flesh quite some distance. Resulting in terror or hilarity depending on where you were standing.

The local TV news coverage is the stuff of legends.

https://youtu.be/V6CLumsir34

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This makes me angry:

Cowichan sweater knitters concerned over Eddie Bauer replica
https://cheknews.ca/cowichan-sweater-knitters-concerned-over-eddie-bauer-replica-1288800/

I just left a review on Eddie's Bauer page for that “Northwest-inspired” sweater design: https://www.eddiebauer.ca/p/10403182/men's-hand-knit-full-zip-cardigan?sp=1&color=Buff Feel free to tell them what you think.

#Cowichan #Indigenous #CulturalAppropriation

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Can you believe that we are only a few weeks away from the holiday season? This year again I will be a vendor at several Christmas / holiday markets in Courtenay and Campbell River.

Starting this Saturday, November 15, from 10 am to 4 pm, I'll be at the Campbell River Museum for their annual gift tour. Come and get a signed copy of my book Wild Vancouver Island or a print!

#photography #ChristmasGifts #GiftIdeas #shopping #CampbellRiver #BuyLocal #SupportArtists #SupportSmallBusiness

Screenshot from the Instagram account of the Campbell River Museum promoting my participation to their Gift Tour on Saturday. There is a collage with photos of my prints, my book and myself and a nice comment about my work.

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Congratulations Canada.

We have measles again.

I hope all you anti vax bozos are happy. Some child is going to die cuz you think YouTube is smarter than your pediatrician.

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Wheee! Check out photos of bioluminescence in Auckland's Stanmore Bay this week. It's a stunningly beautiful phenomenon.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360879908/glowing-blue-waves-light-stanmore-bay-stunning-bioluminescent-display

#bioluminescence #NZ

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"But until I see a male writer asked that question, I am going to respectfully decline to answer it.”

Source:
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/07/lauren-groff-on-florida-as-a-state-of-mind/

Harvard Gazette: Gazette: “You are the mother of two In ten years you have produced three novels and two short-story collections. Can you talk about your process and how you manage work and family?”

Groff: “I understand that this is a question of vital importance to a lot of people, particularly to other mothers who are artists trying to get their work done, and know that I feel for everyone in the struggle. But until I see a male writer asked that question, I am going to respectfully decline to answer it.

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Hey, it's #WildlifeWednesday ! To celebrate, here's an American mink (Neovison vison). I often see them on the shore where they forage for fish and crustaceans.

Ceci est un vison d'Amérique. Je les vois souvent sur la côte lorsqu'ils sont à la recherche de poissons et de crustacés.

#photography #photographie #wildlife #VancouverIsland #BritishColumbia #Canada #VancouverIslandWildlife #PNW

An American mink takes a quick break from foraging to check photographers on a shore with sandstones covered by yellow kelp.

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Hello!

Do you have access to an x-ray system, CT, Radiography, or a few seconds on the LHC main beam with a homebrew pixel detector?

Do you want to take part in #XrayMyAdvent this year?

You know you do.

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Surely one of the finest pieces of journalism of all time? The headline alone is award winning.

DUCK EATS YEAST, QUACKS,
EXPLODES; MAN LOSES EYE

Rhadamanthus’'s Unusually Fermented
Sunday Breakfast Causes It to Rise
Piecemeal, Blinding Owner,

DES MOINES, Jan, 2 - The strangest accident recorded in local history occurred this morning when Rhadamanthus, a duck, which took a prize at the recent Iowa poultry show, exploded into several hundred pleces, one of which
struck Silas Perking in the eye, destroyIng the sight

The cause of the explosion was the eating of yeast which was placed In a pan
upon the back porch, and tempted his duckship, which was taking a Sanday
morning stroll. Upon returning from church Mr Perking discovered his prize duck in an some what logy condition Telltale marks around the pan of yeast gave him his clue. He was about to pick up the bird when the latter quacked and exploded with a loud report and Mr Perkins ran into to house holding both hands over one eye. A surgeon was called, who found that the eyeball had been penetrated by a
fragment of flying duck and gave no hope of having the optic.

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I just got a call from a doctor's office and their AI voice warning me to let them know if there was any chance I might have recently contracted COVID Minus Nineteen

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This job advert is absolutely mindbogglingly batshit crazy from the first line all the way down to the salary.

https://jobs.tutors.international/advert/612

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vampire missionaries

Micro Flash Fiction @MicroFlashFic

"Hello! Do you have a minute to talk about Dracula?"

"No- wait, Dracula?"

"Yes!"

"You're vampires?"

"Yes. We have pamphlets."

"Vampires have missionaries?"

"Where else would new vampires come from?"

"I assumed you bit people."

"There are many hurtful stereotypes. May we come in?"

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Giving a robot girl bios crash flavored slushie to see how high she gets

A slurpee machine at 7/11 but one of the electronic screens that displays a crashed bios screen

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I don't normally like seeing animals dressed up, but this Halloween costume stood out 🤣🤣

Evil clown costume worn by beagle, which appears to show the dog's head on a tray.

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"The North Atlantic right whale now numbers an estimated 384 animals, up eight whales from the previous year, according to a report by the North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium released Tuesday. The whales have shown a trend of slow population growth over the past four years and have gained more than 7% of their 2020 population, the consortium said."

https://apnews.com/article/right-whales-endangered-species-fishing-4e732806eb7f52a0e3dc2db42dbd1361

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