Very impressed with this clever grackle snatching a minnow right out of the creek. Watching birds hunt always makes me feel like an early cretaceous naturalist observing a Utahraptor outsmart its prey.
i know all about allistic people. they really love loud sudden noises and bad textures
dude it’s People With Allism
person who is trapped inside an allistic body here. i really like having no pressure on top of me and not being particularly interested in any one specific thing
tbh i don’t really get why we divide the oceans into different oceans because they’re all connected it’s the same ocean
no metaphor here just pure confusion…is there a line where one ocean stops and another begins? or is it like a smooth gradient of percentages of one ocean shading into another ocean?
Yes, there is a line. There are confluences you can see and touch and they are NOT subtle in the slightest.
That’s the Atlantic and the Caribbean on a particularly pronounced day.
This is the Indian and the Pacific. It’s not always this obvious everywhere but the dividing lines are very much there.
Oceans have their own properties as far as temperature and salinity and unless something like a storm or a current forces them to mix they won’t. Mostly this applies to vertical mixing and it gives you things like thermoclines and haloclines but water is wierd and won’t mix horizontally either.
The ocean basins tend to have their own currents that go in a circle and define that ocean, and those patterns mix the water within that ocean. Like a washing machine.
The Caribbean has a little loop of its own that not on this map, but that current keeps that ocean pretty internally consistent. It’s got clear warm water because of the shallow bowl of limestone sand it sits in. Where it meets the Atlantic with wildly different conditions the water is traveling in opposite directions, and it acts kind of like an oncoming lane of highway traffic. Species that have adapted to a narrow band of temperatures and salinities (most fish) can’t cross, while species with a stronger homeostasis hang out there on purpose, (marine mammals, turtles, sharks). Plankton, that cannot control their horizontal movement in the water column, are held in their home territories by these barriers.
After months of research and development and market testing and perfecting the first item I feel confident selling online, I have realized… that it is an incredibly niche item that only a specific subset of absolute nerds would want to buy, and I will have to do a ton of explaining the basic idea over and over again before people generally get what it is I’m even selling. RIP me
Long story short: I’m selling embroidery patterns. You stick them on fabric, embroider them, and wash the pattern away to leave your embroidery shining in solitary splendour.
i think this is a product worth being proudly enthusiastic about! embroidery is a great hobby that lots of people can, or should, be interested in, and this looks like a great on-ramp for learning. especially because with the stick-on interfacing, you can apply to it skirts and jackets instead of just doing it on stiff embroidery fabric. i’m going to get some for myself!
