kaixokkiten

[kaixokkiten]

[kaixokkiten]

A pair of cherry blossom ravens~

[kaixokkiten]

Common Spiny Toad (Bufo spinosus), male, family Bufonidae, River Tajo, Spain

photograph by Márton Kovács

[kaixokkiten]

remember when you used to be able to play snake with the… hold on what’s it called

hmm. don’t think i’ll be calling it that. anyways i was gonna say remember when you could play snake with the buffering circle on youtube but. now i have other concerns

[kaixokkiten]

#birb #videos

[kaixokkiten]

#thrift store finds

[kaixokkiten]

the girls...

[kaixokkiten]

[kaixokkiten]

req'd by @bourbon-the-huckster

absolutely nothing I've heard by osmosis about rainbow six feels like information that wouldn't harm me

text: Can we not sext in the rainbow six operator chat?

[kaixokkiten]

I know someone who calls herself a feminist, puts her pronouns in her work email signature, donates money to women’s empowerment funds, and thinks we should deport more refugees. I also know someone who calls people ‘pussies’ when he plays video games, who doesn’t know what a pronoun is, and, for his defence of low-wage women workers in a highly-exploited industry, is a better, more strident defender of the rights of working-class women than almost anyone else I know. Of these two people, I know who is on my team, and who I want on my team, yet the standard liberal feminist calculation would have me chose the woman who loves a little deportation over the man who is occasionally uncouth, solely because the woman knows to keep her language civil, and the man doesn’t. Liberal feminists get incredibly caught up in the politics of language, because language is all they have. They don’t have a revolutionary programme for overthrowing patriarchy, so they’re forced to tinker around the edges of it, quibbling over word choice and jargon instead of building the coalitions necessary for destroying patriarchy.

— We Should Not All Be Feminists by Frances Wright

[kaixokkiten]

my dad got arrested for doing sit ins in selma when he was a teenager while i am not nearly a dedicated activist as he is i will not let a sixteen year old on the fujoshi website try to hold a moral authority on whether or not you can enjoy pop culture when there is a war going on. literally what else are you supposed to do.

[kaixokkiten]

Smooth-headed Alligator Lizard (Gerrhonotus ophiurus), family Anguidae, Misantla, Veracruz. Mexico

Photograph by Bruno RF (@b.r.u.n.o.rf)

#smoof #lomg #they are an alligator and also a lizard and they're so good in every way

[kaixokkiten]

"should there be kink at pride?" should there be sunshine? should there be joy? get real

[kaixokkiten]

The Rick Roll 20 for weird dice Wednesday

[kaixokkiten]

"The coral reefs of south Sulawesi are some of the most diverse, colorful and vibrant in the world. At least, they used to be, until they were decimated by dynamite fishing in the 1990s.

As part of a team of coral reef ecologists based in Indonesia and the UK, we study the reefs around Pulau Bontosua, a small Indonesian island in south Sulawesi...

In many places around the world, damage like this might be described as irreparable. But at Pulau Bontosua, the story is different. Here, efforts by the Mars coral restoration program have brought back the coral and important ecosystem functions, as outlined by our new study, published in Current Biology. We found that within just four years, restored reefs grow at the same rate as nearby healthy reefs.

Speedy recovery

The transplanted corals grow remarkably quickly. Within a year, fragments have developed into proper colonies. After two years, they interlock branches with their neighbors. After just four years, they completely overgrow the reef star structures and restoration sites are barely distinguishable from nearby healthy reefs.

The combined growth of many corals generates a complex limestone (calcium carbonate) framework. This provides a habitat for marine life and protects nearby shorelines from storm damage by absorbing up to 97% of coastal wave energy.

We measured the overall growth of the reef framework by calculating its carbonate budget. That's the balance between limestone production (by calcifying corals and coralline algae) and erosion (by grazing sea urchins and fishes, for example). A healthy reef produces up to 20kg of reef structure per square meter per year, while a degraded reef is shrinking rather than growing as erosion exceeds limestone production. Therefore, overall reef growth gives an indication of reef health.

At Pulau Bontosua, our survey data shows that in the years following restoration, coral cover, coral colony sizes, and carbonate production rates tripled. Within four years, restored reefs were growing at the same speed as healthy reefs, and thereby provided the same important ecosystem functions...

Outcomes of any reef restoration project will depend on environmental conditions, natural coral larvae supply, restoration techniques and the effort invested in maintaining the project. This Indonesian project shows that when conditions are right and efforts are well placed, success is possible. Hopefully, this inspires further global efforts to restore functioning coral reefs and to recreate a climate in which they can thrive."

-via Phys.org, March 11, 2024

[kaixokkiten]

but if I don't get weird and horny about this then who will

[kaixokkiten]

Kindergarteners will be so proud of themselves for being able to draw a triangle. My GPU can draw tens of thousands of those in a second. You are not special.