Jeff Day

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i like weird deep sea shit, particularly cephalopods. also metal, parasitic fungi, horror, etc.

he/him, ace, adhd (maybe autistic?)

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im going to attempt to post my way out of overwhelming existential dread; here are some neat things that the schmidt ocean institute saw on their dive on the 14th. first up was a casper octopus: www.youtube.com/live/-ky9jTc... 🧪🦑

everything is about to get so much stupider

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Elmo was cracking me up on set when we shot this video. Me: mucous can seem kinda gross Elmo: no no. Mucous doesn’t SEEM gross, it IS gross I had so much fun sharing Jersey shore wildlife with these kids! Check it out! youtu.be/NNItHwcj2no?si…

Sesame Street: Elmo and Kids Meet a Marine Biologist featuring @hihokidsyoutu.be Let's take a dive into the wonderful world of the ocean! Elmo and his friends from HiHo Kids meet a Marine Biologist who studies animals that live in the sea...

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Poshmark seems to be the consensus on contemporary stuff, so I resurrected my old account. There are currently just a handful of things in there, but please bookmark if you’re at all interested as my health issues have eaten into my moving funds and I need to gtfoh. posh.mk/XaRswvBj9Kb

ok, I would like to continue basically giving away the massive amount of clothing I need to get rid of before my move to Chicago, but my expenses are starting to outpace my savings because of all my health shit. What platform are people using these days for second hand? Poshmark? Depop? A newer one?

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reskeet with a tweet you still think about there are a lot, but this one doesn’t get the wider respect it deserves. i think “assume x dead” to myself on a weekly basis

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Happy Polychaete day! Here’s some worms to celebrate 🥳 If you need one for your wall, they are 30% off today with code WORM shop.noncompliantcyborg.com 🦑🐙

dredge is good. oops, it’s 5AM.

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Wow, it's just like Nietzsche said

today, in "sarah takes one for the team"

People on tumblr ask me...they ask me some shit, and I'm not gonna tell you what they asked me today, but suffice it to say, sheesh. And listen, I answer. I answer whatever they ask me. And when I see some of you on here liking those answers over there, my response, is "Oh jeez".

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Okayyyyyy you asked for lots of hard to draw stuff and I made a lot of nightmare fuel from those requests. In the end, we have 3 deep sea creatures that would prefer that we collectively do NOT destroy their homes via deep sea mining. Try recycling maybe, they say.

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we should eat him probably

The AI facility in Musk’s new Gigafactory in Texas will house 50,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs. Each one consumes about 3,740 kWh annually. So *just to power the GPUs,* Musk will need 187GWh per year. This is higher annual consumption than some entire countries.

ok, i'm pretty proud of this one. an Online Squid Acquaintance reached out to ifremer and got them to send us all video from the 1988 expedition Vemanaute, which has the very first video observation of magnapinna. i had to scrub through 19 dives, but i found it: 🦑🧪 youtu.be/gL7sFJ9RMNA

Magnapinna Squid from 1988 First Known Footage | Magnapinna Archiveyoutu.be I'm happy to bring you the first known footage of a magnapinna squid, dating all the way back to 1988! Many thanks to Huge thanks to Psychomaneshark for sour...

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#InsertAnInvert2024 Anelasma is not the only stalked barnacle that has gone down the parasitic road. Rhizolepas is a barnacle that has evolved to parasitise scale worms, and its closest relatives are other barnacles that make a habit of attaching to animals dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2023/09/rhiz...

<i>Rhizolepas</i> sp.dailyparasite.blogspot.com Parasitism has evolved a few different times in barnacles. Most parasitic barnacles belong to a group called the rhizocephalans , which are ...

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I went to see the massive flower(s) currently blooming at kew gardens and (s)he was beautiful 🥲🎉

today i am choosing violence and am posting "dirt man" to the music discussion channel on work slack

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Reminder: 95% of those "funny animal" or "animal every hour" accounts are explicitly for the purpose of getting as many followers as possible, then wiping the account and selling it to someone who wants a prebuilt account for spam or scam purposes. Block them on sight. (Not @catsofyore.bsky.social!)

That's Fergus. It's an old tweet of mine with my name cropped out of it. 😑

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speaking (much earlier) of working in commercial fishing & how brutal the work is, this is a good article about the unsurprising increase in toxic drug deaths in that industry, similar to that in construction & other physical trades

The Mayday Call: How One Death at Sea Transformed a Fishing Fleetwww.nytimes.com The opioid epidemic has made a dangerous job even more deadly. And when there’s an overdose at sea, fishermen have to take care of one another.

also the new REZN album fucks rezzzn.bandcamp.com/album/burden

Burden, by REZNrezzzn.bandcamp.com 7 track album

wake up babe new magnapinna clip dropped (this one's from the INDEX2016 series of expeditions to the indian ocean, shoutout to klass meyn for granting the archive permission to publish this) 🦑🧪 youtu.be/SY7_758qUk4?...

Ultra Close Up of Magnapinna Squid 2023 | Magnapinna Archiveyoutu.be This incredible footage shows an ultra close up of an adult magnapinna spotted in the Indian Ocean in 2023. Thanks to the quality, we are able to observe much closer the movement of the fins. Many thanks to Klass Meyn for facilitating this footage. Read the paper from this observation: https://bdj.pensoft.net/article/69955/ Date: October 16, 2023 Location: Rodriguez Triple Junction - Indian Ocean Depth: 2950 meters (1.8 miles)

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Cephalopod Week begins tomorrow! It's a 8-day celebration of goopy goodness. Science Friday asked me to update their fundraiser badges, check them out in their natural habitat, SciFri's Sea of Support: apps.sciencefriday.com/sea-of-suppo... More shenanigans: www.sciencefriday.com/spotlights/c...

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Blue throat wrasse says “trans rights!”

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this was fun …what now ?

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Cephalopod Week is coming up this month!! 🦑🧪 Join me: June 18 (NYC): Trivia Night w/ @scifri.bsky.social Tix: www.caveat.nyc/events/cepha... June 20 (NYC + virtual): Facts Machine science & comedy show. I've got a fun new talk about neuroscience & giant squids! Tix: www.caveat.nyc/events/facts...

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Happy World Oceans Day 🌊 & Happy Pride Month! 🌈 Want to support queer ocean art & science? 🧪🦑🐙🐡 I’m a Salish Sea natural historian photographing gelatinous marine inverts & trying to 3D scan them this summer. I’m selling my art & fundraising research costs. linktr.ee/noncompliantcyborg

new video from schmidt ocean that provides probably one of the best overviews i've seen of deep sea ROV exploration. the deep sea is not alien. it's just an environment different from ours, inhabited by organisms that have adapted accordingly. they are the majority, not us. 🦑🧪

Light in the Darkyoutu.be The deep ocean begins where the sunlight ends. It is dark, cold, and inhospitable to humans, yet essential to all life on Earth. The Ocean is our planet’s life support system — regulating the climate, feeding millions, and supplying half of the oxygen that makes this planet habitable. Experience the wonder of a blue planet! Today is World Oceans Day, and we’re thrilled to explore the unknown and awaken new depths guided by ROV pilot Tyler Smith.

i have absolutely no clue how my mom managed to forget all of the sex scenes and (brief) cannibalism when suggesting we all watch this. i was in high school at the time, i think?

Not my parents, but it was Happiness with an ex's grandma.

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Friday follower spotlight on @jopabinia.bsky.social whose research program concerns the #macroevolution of processes shaping the tree of life, using #pancrustaceans as a model clade with incredible phenotypic disparity. Be sure to follow to see what Joanna is up to. #science #crustaceans

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The man who derided his own kin as a welfare queen singlehandedly collected 83% of gifts recorded by _all_ Supreme Court justices since 2004. Incredible.

Data from Fix the Court on gifts received and reported by SCOTUS justices. New plan: Hire Clarence Thomas to be a liberal judge, apparently all you need is the fee and it appears you can get him to rule however you want

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This morning I checked a major bucket list item off the list: hanging out w/Giant Australian Cuttlefish. They're super focused on mating, and are shockingly chill about people hanging around. I'd heard this was true, but whew, it was wild to experience firsthand.

It's a rare thing for an animal to reliably be found at a certain place & certain time. So often "lifer" animals depend on luck to seen. With these cuttlefish, so far it's been like clockwork. Late May-August, go to Whyalla in winter, and there they are, resplendent and numerous.