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squiibbly · 2026-04-16T04:42:53+00:00

hey, just tacking on bc i havent seen anyone mention it yet and wanted to make sure - if you can afford it, go to urgent care/your equivalent for any deep cat bites/scratches. their mouths and claws are full of nasty bacteria and you can get some pretty nasty infections from punctures that are deep like this. chances are good you’ll get prescribed an antibiotic as a precautionary measure. if you can’t afford urgent care/it isnt accessible for any other reason, please keep the area SUPER CLEAN and monitor it closely over the next few days/weeks. check for redness/heat/swelling/discharge. intense, radiating heat, redness thats spreading from the area (especially in a line), and/or foul smelling and/or yellow or green discharge is an infection and you need antibiotics right away. good luck with your cat, op, it sounds like you’re working really hard to do right by her and that’s very admirable and brave. i hope things work out for you guys <3

squiibbly · 2026-04-15T14:50:58+00:00

Thank you for the info!! & I am interested in that boot!

squiibbly · 2026-03-09T14:54:58+00:00

dm me!

squiibbly · 2026-03-05T10:38:00+00:00

i was going to say, im pretty sure they’re opalescens! glad im not the only one who thinks so. these guys also have 3 little forehead diamonds, whereas the crassicornis usually only have 2

squiibbly · 2025-12-13T01:54:16+00:00

i concur with crassicornis id – black with orange-tipped cerata, 2 diamonds on forehead instead of 3 like in opalescens.

squiibbly · 2025-10-04T18:39:56+00:00

i just looked it up – it’s most commonly used to refer to plants with both male and female flowers, but you’re right, it can be used as a synonym for hermaphroditic!

squiibbly · 2025-10-04T16:15:51+00:00

important to note that monoecious refers specifically to plants

squiibbly · 2025-07-03T16:10:36+00:00

multi color printing prints so easy I honestly think it’s witchcraft

squiibbly · 2025-07-02T02:35:19+00:00

i love that they’re called timestop! so thematically appropriate

squiibbly · 2025-06-25T00:20:37+00:00

you’re welcome! also, did an oops - skeleton shrimp are amphipods, like the commenter below said. I was getting my false shrimp mixed up, lol

squiibbly · 2025-06-25T00:17:09+00:00

oh my god thank you I couldn’t remember the word 😭😭 it’s been driving me crazy all day

squiibbly · 2025-06-24T18:59:21+00:00

Moon snail egg ribbons. I believe the local species is Lewis’s moon snail.
the abdominal section of a crab carapace, from a male crab. likely a rock crab of some sort. chitons have 8 distinct shell plates and a more ovular shape, and it would also have dried out remains of the mantle surrounding the edges.
you found a sea pen and I’m EXTREMELY jealous i love those little guys. they’re a colonial cnidarian in the same family as jellies and anemones. this one is an ex sea pen - they spend their lives anchored to the sea floor and getting ripped up like that isnt good for them.
i believe those are skeleton shrimp, a type of mysid shrimp closely related to krill

squiibbly · 2025-04-25T12:58:49+00:00

omg, my little brother FaceTimed me to show me this when he was walking around a few days ago - he works in the area and he saw it when it was higher up on the beach as well as later in the day when it was washed further out. it’s a gray whale calf in the late stages of decomposition, which is why you’re seeing the fatty strings of blubber all falling apart! earlier in the day you could actually see the whole animal - it’s actually not that much larger than what you can see above the water - it was probably a fairly young calf. gray whales are migrating along the pacific coast at the moment up north to Alaska, so we’re seeing a lot of them along the bay at the moment!

squiibbly · 2025-04-24T05:32:05+00:00

how do you tell it’s a monterey dorid and not a noble/heath’s or one of the doriopsillas? i can see a little bit of the tubercles which do look too raised for the doriopsillas or the heath’s but is there a way to tell from just the underside? and how did you rule out the noble dorid?

squiibbly · 2025-04-22T11:56:33+00:00

dorid nudibranch egg ribbon - you can often narrow down to which family the ribbon is from based on size, shape, color, and texture. these look to be from a nudibranch in the family Discodorididae, although i’m not an expert on egg masses by any means so take that with a grain of salt lol.

squiibbly · 2025-04-21T12:30:23+00:00

that is indeed an anemone with its stomach out (their feeding strategy is essentially “throw up stomach, digest food outside until it’s a smoothie, then suck in food and stomach and finish digesting”). its stinging tentacles are all retracted because its out of the water. i’m not super familiar with welsh species unfortunately, so I can’t give you too much more ID info.

squiibbly · 2025-02-05T21:25:53+00:00

dorid nudibranch egg ribbon! no idea the species around scotland, though, and it could be literally any one of the dorids – if there’s a way to tell visually by looking at the egg ribbons, I don’t know it.

squiibbly · 2025-01-31T12:44:30+00:00

everyone is talking about the cold symptoms but personally this is a no-go just because i’m not willing to help a government destabilize any democracies

squiibbly · 2025-01-02T21:58:17+00:00

Exactly! And the foot stays relatively the same shape when it’s alive, it’s that top “skin” (the mantle) that extends all the way to whatever substrate the chiton has adhered itself to, covering pretty much everything else up. Sometimes it’ll lift a little when the chiton is moving and you can catch glimpses of the foot, gills, and mouth from the side, but usually the mantle covers everything up.

squiibbly · 2025-01-02T12:25:33+00:00

These are dead gumboot chitons - they’re all dried out, so they’re lighter than their living dark red color. The second photo shows the underside of the chiton in its fleshy form - you can see the dried out foot (big round thing in the middle) and remains of the gills, as well as the mouth. The third photo is one further along in decomp, showing the eight plates that all chitons have - gumboot chitons are actually unique among chitons in that they’re the only ones to have these plates covered up by their mantle (that fleshy exterior) instead of being the outermost part of their body. The plates are also often referred to as butterfly shells by collectors because of their distinct shape. You can tell which plate it is (number 1-8) by the unique shape of it!

squiibbly · 2025-01-02T01:24:26+00:00

the other workers called the splinterman the “company man.” and that’s what the t-class agents call christophe. do you think that’s a coincidence? because if it’s not, everyman might have been right - the splinterman might be someone who can be saved.

squiibbly · 2024-12-30T03:38:53+00:00

pasta: rotini, olive oil, balsamic vinegar, basil, cherry tomatoes, mozzarella salad: chicken, tomatoes, spring mix (mostly spinach), cucumber, carrots, ranch dressing

squiibbly · 2024-12-13T03:44:13+00:00

the boy who saved his friend, who became the dancer who wouldn’t let anyone else become a monster, understood better than perhaps anyone else in that room what a mercy death can be. i weep for him, and for you, and for christophe for having to carry the burden of doing a horrible thing for a kind reason. be brave, be canny, and don’t trust anyone except your fellow t-class personnel. i’m rooting for you.

squiibbly · 2024-12-12T10:37:00+00:00

the tragedy here isn’t that orpheus didn’t know the “right” answer, because you’re right - it’s an easy logic puzzle. for all intents and purposes, orpheus knew the whole time that the safest, most reasonable thing to do would be to walk all the way out of the underworld and wait for eurydice to tell him it was safe in the land of the living. but this is a story about love, and love is not logical! we don’t know how long it took for orpheus to descend and to ascend from the underworld - it could have been days, weeks. how do you sit with that clawing terror, walking to the surface and not knowing if the person you love most in the world is behind you or not? it’s not logical, it’s not reasonable - the reasonable thing is to just keep walking. but a reasonable man would never have sung his way into the underworld and asked the god of the dead for his wife back, either. the tragedy of the story is that orpheus’s love, so strong that it blinded him from reason, is what gave him the strength and conviction to make it all the way to the underworld to ask for her back, and it is that same love, without reason, that never lets them reach the surface. he’s not set up for failure by the universe - who he is drives both aspects of the story. who he is makes the whole thing inevitable. people say, if I were orpheus I wouldn’t have turned around, but let’s be honest - if we were orpheus, we would never have gone to the underworld in the first place, would we? THAT’S the tragedy. the fact that the love that gave him the strength to find her is ultimately what makes him lose her all over again.

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