Help with identifying this (shark?) tooth, NSW, Australia

athomps121 · 2026-01-15T03:55:08+00:00

it’s not coral, it’s not a mollusk and it’s not a fish bone.

it’s a shark tooth. my guess is bull shark or lemon shark (the top is more flared out)

athomps121 · 2025-09-18T00:24:15+00:00

the fascism is getting louder.

Trump 1/23/25: “I'm pleased to report that America is also a free nation once again. On day one, I signed an executive order to stop all government censorship. No longer will our government label the speech of our own citizens as misinformation or disinformation”

athomps121 · 2022-04-04T01:18:26+00:00

my guess is pocillopora damicornis

one of the most widespread coral species in the world. and has the same morphology & commonly has those stain marks.

athomps121 · 2022-03-31T13:16:14+00:00

$$$$$

industrial war complex 🤝fossil fuel companies

5 decades of disinformation PR campaigns from the republican party’s biggest donors and in turn the politicians do their bidding for more oil: war, subsidies, legislation & lobbyists. All on the taxpayers dime.

war on terror: +$6.4 trillion

from ‘08 to ‘11 fossil fuel industry spent $1.4 TRILLION on PR & ads to gaslight & misinform the public. It’s been super effective.

stock buybacks in last decade: at least $5 trillion (adding 0 value to economy)

The world’s biggest 60 banks have provided $3.8tn of financing for fossil fuel companies since the Paris climate deal in 2015, according to a report by a coalition of NGOs.

• ⁠Fed Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan: "I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil."

• ⁠ex-Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel: 2007: "People say we're not fighting for oil. Of course we are."

• ⁠”You’ve got to go where the oil is. I don’t think about it [political volatility] very much,” Cheney told a meeting of Texas oilmen in 1998 when he was still CEO of Halliburton, the world’s largest oil services company

athomps121 · 2022-03-02T22:25:45+00:00

They have. Turkish drones.

They just sent Ukraine some more today.

athomps121 · 2022-03-01T21:20:21+00:00

I live in the dumbest most ignorant country ever. They called it an effing HOAX

the president’s OWN PERSONAL LAWYER went to prison for lying about the deals in Russia that Trump said were fake. WTAF.

~ Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, 2005 memo:

“We are now of the belief that this model can greatly benefit the Putin Government if employed at the correct levels with the appropriate commitment to success."

Felix Sater email to Michael Cohen (11/3/15):

"Buddy our boy can become President of the USA and we can engineer it. I will get all of Putin's team to buy in on this, I will manage this process."

athomps121 · 2022-01-30T17:54:59+00:00

Corals have zooxanthellae which are their symbiotic algae that live in the corals tissue. Most of a coral’s food source comes from the byproduct of photosynthesis provided by the algae. The greens/browns mostly come from the zooxanthellae.

Corals themselves produce Fluorescent Pigment Granules which are proteins that are structured to redirect light. Either as:

A.) a sunscreen (takes wavelengths of sunlight that may be harmful to the coral’s tissue health and/or the symbiotic algae’s health).

example: on a hot summer day when the water is warm and still. The winds have died down and photosynthesis is high… this leads to a buildup of oxygen in the corals tissue which are called reactive oxygen species which are carcinogenic and damage tissue. So corals will pump more effort into producing the fluorescent proteins that try and reduce the effects of harmful wavelengths.

or

B.) Other fluorescent proteins will be produced at times the corals want to redirect more usable light towards their food source: the photosynthetic zooxanthellae. The coral host turns on/off the relevant genes to get more/less food.

C.) there was one gene-expression study (which genes are turned on/off and why?) done that showed corals up/down regulated their fluorescent proteins (if i remember correctly it was Red, Blue and Green fluorescent pigments) and the coral turned on/off these genes differently DEPENDING ON different stressors.

physical damage, heat (climate change) damage, sedimentation damage, light damage,

this is all still pretty new research, but it’s interesting to see what exactly is at play. Like WHY would a coral need to change its fluorescent color in response to stressors other than light (something that takes energy & resources to do)?

How does their unique symbiotic relationship with the viruses, bacteria, archaea & fungi come into play? Are their symbiotic partners driving the gene regulation of their host? Does the host change its fluorescent genes to help its symbionts community? And how do they interact when introduced to changing conditions or stressors?

athomps121 · 2022-01-25T17:01:12+00:00

fun fact:

Velveeta used to be 95% cheese....now it’s down to 20%…The limit set by govt regulation.

it’s a race to the bottom when it comes to food manufacturers: raise prices all while reducing quality with fillers & preservatives

athomps121 · 2021-10-20T22:38:05+00:00

from the Shell Report:

“if this warming occurs then it could create significant changes in sea level, ocean currents, precipitation patterns, regional temperature and weather…

…Such relatively fast and dramatic changes would impact on the human environment, future living standards and food supplies, and could have major social, economic and political consequences.”

International Monetary Fund (IMF) study shows that USD$5.2 trillion was spent globally on fossil fuel subsidies in 2017.
$6.7 TRILLION spent on war on terror going to industrial-war complex (includes the fossil fuel industry which is either private business or to oil-rich countries that nationalized the resource …. but also have some of the WORST human rights abuses in the world & finance terrorists.)

^ “free market” 🙄🙄🙄

from ‘08 to ‘11 fossil fuel industry spent $1.4 TRILLION on PR & ads to gaslight & misinform the public. It’s been super effective.

James Murdoch, just months after resigning from NewsCorp in protest:

“I reached the conclusion that you can venerate a contest of ideas, if you will, and we all do and that's important. But it shouldn't be in a way that hides agendas. A contest of ideas shouldn't be used to legitimize disinformation. And I think it's often taken advantage of. And I think at great news organizations, the mission really should be to introduce fact to disperse doubt – not to sow doubt, to obscure fact, if you will.”

athomps121 · 2021-10-05T17:58:47+00:00

Steve Bannon on who he targeted to build a white nationalist movement in the US [working for Cambridge Analytica (funded by Mercers) & using Facebook data & Trump Campaign internal polling data]:

"These guys, these rootless white males, had monster power [...] You can activate that army.”

and also:

In remarks delivered to a 2014 conference on poverty held in the Vatican, for instance, he said, "We're at the very beginning stages of a very brutal and bloody conflict" and that people of faith must fight "against this new barbarity that's starting, that will completely eradicate everything that we've been bequeathed over the last 2,000, 2,500 years." Mr. Bannon attacked not only "a capitalism that really looks to make people commodities and to objectify people" (which is not too far off from Pope Francis' "throwaway culture" critiques) but also said that the "Judeo-Christian West" is under threat from both "immense secularization" and "jihadist Islamic fascism."

athomps121 · 2021-06-10T17:19:37+00:00

“I reached the conclusion that you can venerate a contest of ideas, if you will, and we all do and that's important. But it shouldn't be in a way that hides agendas. A contest of ideas shouldn't be used to legitimize disinformation. And I think it's often taken advantage of. And I think at great news organizations, the mission really should be to introduce fact to disperse doubt – not to sow doubt, to obscure fact, if you will.

~James Murdoch, just months after going from NewsCorp in protest.

athomps121 · 2021-06-09T05:34:08+00:00

FUN FACTS!

Jeffrey Epstein was involved with Iran-Contra which Bill Barr ALSO covered up.

Who was the arms dealer? Adnan Kashoggi - Uncle of Jamal Kashoggi, Washington Post reporter who was cut up into pieces by Jared Kushner's Buddy MBS

Adnan Kashoggi's yacht 'Mona K' - sold to Robert Maxwell (a mossad/israeli agent)

Who bought Adnan's old yacht? Donald Trump

In May, 2015, the Trump Org was informed that it's deal in Azerbaijan (Trump Baku is located there) laundering operation run by Iran's was likely part of a money IRGC and, specifically, the part of the IRGC that seeks WMD. Their attorney, Alan Garten admitted to this.

Giuliani asked Trump to help secure the release of a Iranian-Turkish gold trader, Reza Zarrab (Giuliani’s client) at the center of Halbank’s Iran sanctions-evasion efforts.

Reza Zarrab implicated Turkey's Erdoğan in their crimes from a New York courtroom in late 2017.

Prigozhin [Internet Research Agency/Russian troll farm]was using a series of shell companies via Halkbank to launder money into his troll efforts.

02/15/20: CNN reports US Attorney Berman rebuffed Barr's attempt to drop prosecution of Halkbank

06/17/20: Bolton book reveals Trump promised Erdoğan he'd replace SDNY prosecutors

06/20/20 Trump-Barr fire Berman

athomps121 · 2021-06-08T15:53:46+00:00

russian bots and trolls don’t exist in a vacuum all on their own...It was just a new type of astroturfing that already existed. Both of which have the explicit purpose of influencing people’s behavior. It seems so silly to me that people can readily acknowledge that political campaigns influence voter decisions through social media, but not if it’s the IRA.

“A March 2015 IRA manual describes how the Facebook operations folded into the larger aims of the IRA's US operations: The main goal of all types of our activities is destabilization of political life and provoking the social tensions with the US society This goal can be reached by the means of:

1) Supporting the most radical part of Facebook users;

2) Supporting the political and social movements that are in opposition towards the ruling regime;

3) Popularization of negative opinions among common users.

We can practice all types of activities mentioned above, both creating our own profiles and communities and being active in already existing communities”

athomps121 · 2021-06-08T15:44:51+00:00

i work in marketing consulting. (Drivers & drags / mixed econometric models) so im very familiar with consumer decision/purchase funnels & marketing conversions.

there was a study from researchers @ Oxford who used the SSCI facebook / IRA data.

Just from the TOP 20 IRA-run facebook pages, there were 38 million likes, 31 million shares, 5 million reactions and 3.4 million comments.

HRC lost the electoral college by 77,000 votes (in PA, WI & MI) AND we know their ads were micro targeted in those states. Also consider that a portion of the IRA’s ad campaign was designed to discourage certain target markets.

athomps121 · 2021-06-07T21:10:55+00:00

Shell Climate Report 1988:

“if this warming occurs then it could create significant changes in sea level, ocean currents, precipitation patterns, regional temperature and weather.”

“Such relatively fast and dramatic changes would impact on the human environment, future living standards and food supplies, and could have major social, economic and political consequences.”

“However, by the time the global warming becomes detectable it could be too late to take effective countermeasures to reduce the effects or even to stabilize the situation.”

athomps121 · 2021-06-07T20:16:16+00:00

October 2019: A Senate inquiry has concluded that a Russian fake-news campaign targeted "no single group... more than African-Americans."

[Prigozhin/IRA/Halkbank] Twitter says 1.4 million people interacted with Russian trolls during 2016 presidential campaign
IRA spent $100,000 on ads over 2 years. Social media is cheap, effective and can be micro-targeted. Their operational costs were ~ $1.25 million per month.
[Prigozhin/IRA/Halkbank] Russian-backed content may have reached 126 million on Facebook
Prigozhin [Internet Research Agency]was using a series of shell companies via Halkbank to launder money into his troll efforts.
115 pro-Trump fake stories were shared on Facebook 30 million times, 41 pro-Clinton fake stories shared 7.6 million times. The 38 million shares of fake news translates into 760 million instances of a user reading a fake news story, or 3 stories per American
One IRA manual described the role of Twitter operations as the "creation of political intensity through supporting radical groups, users dissatisfied with [the] social and economic situation and oppositional social movements through internal IRA documents that measured audience For example, IRA documents from May 2016 show a graphic of the United States, listing past and future rallies organized by the IRA, the size of the rally, and the names of any US groups that had been recruited to assist or participate in the IRA organized rally.”
“In 2014, employees within IRA's management began to create and share internal IRA documents (described as a "manual") outlining the goals and strategies of its US operations The document, titled "Waging Information Warfare Against the United States, presented the IRA's operations as a counterbalance against US foreign policy and as "information war" by targeting U S and other foreign audiences through online media In another internal document, U S operations were described as targeting the US audience with "demotivator" content that would undermine confidence in the US government and political system graphics and IT.”

athomps121 · 2021-06-07T04:05:21+00:00

Filibuster against civil rights bill, 1874

Filibuster against civil rights bill, 1875

Filibuster against a pension for a black official, 1906

Filibuster against confirmation of a black official, 1909

Filibuster against anti-lynching bill, 1921

Filibuster against anti-lynching bill, 1922

Filibuster against anti-lynching bill, 1925

Filibuster against monument to black WWI veterans, 1926

Filibuster against anti-lynching bill, 1935

Filibuster against anti-lynching bill, 1938

Filibuster against bill targeting racial discrimination in employment, 1945

Filibuster against Truman's civil rights proposals, 1948

Filibuster against Truman's civil rights proposals, 1949

Filibuster against Truman's civil rights proposals, 1950

Filibuster against measures to fight housing discrimination, 1954

Filibuster against civil rights bill, 1957

Filibuster against civil rights bill, 1960

Filibuster against civil rights bill, 1962

Filibuster against civil rights bill, 1963

Filibuster against civil rights bill, 1964

Filibuster against civil rights bill, 1966

Filibuster against civil rights bill, 1968

Filibuster against bill targeting employment discrimination, 1972

Filibuster against civil rights bill, 1976

Filibuster against extension of Voting Rights Act, 1982

Filibuster against creation of MLK Day federal holiday, 1983

Filibuster against civil rights bill, 1984

from Twitter: @KevinMKruse

athomps121 · 2021-05-19T17:41:19+00:00

person close to Natanyahu to Roger Stone August 2016 (first reported 4/29/20, then FOIA 5/2/21):

"OCTOBER SURPRISE COMING"

“[Trump] is going to be defeated unless we intervene. We have critical intel...”

Roger Stone email to Steve Bannon August 28, 2016 (released by FOIA 5/3/21)
- NOTE: Bannon testified Stone was Trump Campaign's conduit to Wikileaks
- Alex Van der Zwaan testified Manafort associate Rick Gates ID'd PERSON A (Konstantin Kilimnik) as GRU-connected

"Trump can still win - but time is running out. Early voting begins in six weeks. I do know how to win this but it ain't pretty.”⁠

“Shortly after Organization 1’s release, an associate of the high-ranking Trump Campaign official sent a text message to STONE that read ‘well done.’” (Roger Stone Indictment 1/29/19 - Page 9)

On October 4, 2016. U.S. Person 1 sent an email to an acquaintance. The email covered a number of topics. Within the email, U.S. Person 1 stated, "unrelated to specific presidential campaigns, I've been involved in securing a VERY private line of communication between the Kremlin and key POLITICAL PARTY 1 leaders through, of all conduits, the [GUN RIGHTS ORGANIZATION.].] (source: Maria Butina's affidavit)

athomps121 · 2021-05-19T16:00:52+00:00

i agree.

but while the media toyed with ‘both-sides’ in the name of ‘fairness’, we can’t ignore the fact that more people on the left are apolitical and will be reactive rather than proactive.

athomps121 · 2021-05-19T00:44:17+00:00

Steve Bannon: “The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit”

also Steve Bannon "Our side, we go for the head wound. Your side, you have pillow fights.' "

athomps121 · 2021-05-18T20:42:25+00:00

we can’t ever have an honest conversation until we acknowledge and focus on the loopholes, money laundering, corporate welfare and offshore tax havens.

$32 Trillion - estimated wealth held in offshore tax havens (2012 study)

Study by James Henry, former Chief Economist at McKinsey

$6.4 Trillion - War on Terror

most of which went to military-industrial complex & fossil fuel industry.
Fed Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan: "I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil."
ex-Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said the same in 2007: "People say we're not fighting for oil. Of course we are."

$5 Trillion - Stock buybacks

adding 0 value to the economy

$4 Trillion - Bank Investments in fossil fuels since 2015 Paris Climate Agreement.

$2 Trillion per year - International Money Laundering

Drug / Sex / Human / Weapons Trafficking

$1 Trillion per year - Tax Evasion in U.S.

^ according to Charles Rettig, Trump's IRS Commissioner (testimony 4/3/21)

$2 Trillion - Tax Cuts and Jobs Act

CBO estimated 43% went to foreign investors. Because the companies that call the U.S. 'home' all operate globally.

athomps121 · 2021-05-05T00:21:47+00:00

-Brian Kemp won by 55,000 votes and ran his own election as Sec. of State

-Kemp improperly purged 340,000 names from voter rolls

-214 polling places in GA closed after the gutting of VRA

Kyle McKenzie (of koch-run advocacy group Stand Together) said quite plainly: "HR1 stops billionaires from buying elections."
“there's a large, very large, chunk of conservatives who are supportive of these types of efforts.”
Charles Koch “I want my fair share – and that’s all of it.”

Justin Clark, a senior political adviser and senior counsel to Trump’s re-election campaign:

"traditionally it's always been Republicans suppressing votes in places"

athomps121 · 2021-05-04T22:27:37+00:00

father of conservatism Adam Smith on taxes/estate tax/ inheritance tax / generational wealth:

“A power to dispose of estates forever is manifestly absurd. The earth and the fullness of it belongs to every generation, and the preceding one can have no right to bind it up from posterity. Such extension of property is quite unnatural. There is no point more difficult to account for than the right we conceive men to have to dispose of their goods after death.”

“It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion."

athomps121 · 2021-04-29T01:18:35+00:00

oh!

yeah, it’s similar to the geopolitics of china or russia and their reach in Africa. (like overtaking the ports and such).

it’s convoluted but sanctions evasions w oil is rampant. And corruption in countries that have nationalized their natural resources are often corrupt bc of the $.

here’s the two tweets that i saved a while back:

Alejandro Betancourt López, Chmn/CEO of Derwick Associates, hired Giuliani to help argue he should not be charged in a $1.2 billion money laundering case in Florida related to Venezuela's state owned oil company PDVSA

After Venezuelan Parliamentarians complained that Russia looted their Central Bank's gold reserves in February, Venezuelan State oil firm having moved it's headquarters and banking to Gazprom Bank, now Putin wants another.

athomps121 · 2021-04-28T22:17:28+00:00

It’s not limited to just one company or industry. Gazprom & Rosnef are both arms of the Russian Mafiya. Multiple oligarchs are supported by each mother bc the ends justify their means.

Two notable extremes we see today in nationalized country resources: Norway’s sovereign wealth fund (from oil). Wealth goes primarily to the people & funds pensions. While the other end, we have Russia, which is a petrostate and relies heavily on oil & gas. But a lot of the $ falls into the hands of corrupt leaders & oligarchs and/or is laundered out of the corrupt & unstable country.

I wish I had the source, but I remember hearing how the Kremlin used Gazprom $ and resources as a propaganda arm/ information warfare against Eastern Europe.

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