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Four shots of a baby giant pacific octopus bouncing around

It’s baby octopus season 🐙🦑

Saw this little guy last night with the Salish Sea School in Anacortes, WA as part of their free community dock walk I volunteer as an interpreter for.

We can tell it is a giant pacific octopus from the single line of chromatophores on each arm.

I’m so sorry, friend.

Everyone wanted to assure me that the government healthcare cuts wouldn’t impact employer health insurance, only those on medicaid.

Only for my new job to get rid of their great healthcare plan because their rates are doubling as a result of our governments actions. 🤡

Ctenophore from @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 864 #asgardarchaea #MarineLife

Right? That little critter is going to be huge!

Four shots of a baby giant pacific octopus bouncing around

It’s baby octopus season 🐙🦑

Saw this little guy last night with the Salish Sea School in Anacortes, WA as part of their free community dock walk I volunteer as an interpreter for.

We can tell it is a giant pacific octopus from the single line of chromatophores on each arm.

Side by side of a white lined dirona 3D sculptural embroidered sea slug on a black beanie and a photo of the same species of nudibranch. The beanie has numerous cerata that are all connected at the base like the real animal and posable and movable. The rhinophores have fluffy white fabric at the ends and also stand up.

Couldn’t sleep last night so I designed a white lined Dirona beanie and stayed up til it was finished and out of the wash.

#nudibranch 🦑🐙🐡

They are related in that they are both nudibranchs but looking at the taxonomy they don’t seem to be much more related than that.

Side by side of a white lined dirona 3D sculptural embroidered sea slug on a black beanie and a photo of the same species of nudibranch. The beanie has numerous cerata that are all connected at the base like the real animal and posable and movable. The rhinophores have fluffy white fabric at the ends and also stand up.

Couldn’t sleep last night so I designed a white lined Dirona beanie and stayed up til it was finished and out of the wash.

#nudibranch 🦑🐙🐡

Reposting for #WorldJellyfishDay
🪼🐙🦑🌿

A cuttlefish looks at the camera with V shaped arms right in front of its face kind of looking like it’s doing bunny ears at you on white sand

Seeing cuttlefish in the wild will never get old to me.

Nudivember 2025 prompt list 1. Cuthona anulata 2. Cerberilla tanna 3. Halgerda theobroma 4. Glossodoris electra 5. Tambja affinis 6. Diaphorodoris mitsuii 7. Hypselodoris obscura 8. Cerberilla ambonensis 9. Tritonia myrakeenae 10. Chromodoris luteorosea 11. Dendrodoris behrensi 12. Melibe pilosa 13. Doto greenamyeri 14. Cadlinella ornatissima 15. Flabellina ischitana 16. Polycera tricolor 17. Jorunna rubescens 18. Nembrotha cristata 19. Tenellia caerulea 20. Phyllidiopsis sphingis 21. Gymnodoris rubropapulosa 22. Aegires citrinus 23. Okenia mediterranea 24. Mexichromis macropus 25. Hallaxa cryptica 26. Acanthodoris lutea 27. Notodoris minor 28. Favorinus tsuruganus 29. Halgerda brycei 30. Hallaxa fuscescens

Welcome to the 2025 #Nudivember art challenge!

Like last year, here is a list of some lesser known, yet always fabulous, nudibranch species.

Participate as much or as little as you want in any art form you like.

Make sure to use #Nudivember and use alt text!

You’re still amongst a very small number of uploaders! I believe in you ti get more added up there.

I don’t know how the density in the Salish Sea compared to the rest of the world. I just know it is rare that there aren’t tons of them in the water when I go out.

I sincerely think that would likely change if next time someone had easy access to the ocean they gently scooped up some water in a clear cup and shined a light through the side and looked for little wiggles. Night might be an easier time to look? I know they are globally distributed but /

I don’t even photograph them that often when I see them but I am still carrying 20% of the global observations of larvaceans.

I either need a bunch of you to get mildly interested in them & each add a few or I need at least one of you to be obsessed enough with them as they deserve & post a lot.

How are there barely 500 larvacean (appendicularia) observations on iNaturalist?

I swear they are ubiquitous. I know they are tough to photograph and they can be little but they are everywhere and their little snot houses are so cool.

Starting to fill in blocks of color and working on rendering some bull kelp for a project. #sciart

My father died without a will, but I’m inheriting his fear.

Of dying before I make it to what I’m fighting for.
Of not being around to save the people I love.

We fought about it. I told him I’d never get the grace my brother did.

The problem was I didn’t need as much grace. The problem was the expectation is higher for your favorites. The problem was he was so scared of not being around to save us.

I was my father’s heart for ten minutes. I put the color back in his skin.

He would have told you it was a lot longer than ten minutes but I didn’t like him saying it. You aren’t supposed to have a favorite child. At the very least you aren’t supposed to say it out loud.

I’m ruining one my favorite songs. My throat aches and I can’t know if it’s from the half of the sobs I’m swallowing or the infection that killed him co-opting the machinery of my body; either way its altering my dna. I feel the compressions in my breast bone and what holds it to my ribs.

What kind of sick joke is it to make someone a losing bet and the good man in a storm? You’re really going to make an eldest daughter the man of the house and you’re gonna make sure their siblings have to bury them?

I’m 925 words in.

I’m wondering

who will write mine.
who else really could write his.
if I’ll make it through next year.
if I’ll ever believe I won’t die young.
if I’ll ever see the desert again.
who’s gonna hold me like that.
how the fuck I make it back out to sea.

Listening to Love Ain’t Enough by the Barr Brothers on repeat while trying to write an obituary for my dad and not having him here to read it over and tell me if I’ve got any of the little details wrong.

This kinda looks like one of those black ctenophores, just pale. 4413m @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social check that one out! From @nautiluslive.org #CookIslands #MarineLife

Donate to JA focus on supporting mom after dad Jonathan Fay's death, organized by Jamie Andersen Fields On Sunday, October 5th, my mom found my dad Jonathan Fay unco… Jamie Andersen Fields needs your support for JA focus on supporting mom after dad Jonathan Fay's death

My father died suddenly in our home this past Sunday. I am fighting against the overwhelming revulsion I have to asking for financial support to ask for help covering my access to healthcare for the remainder of the year so that I can focus on supporting my mom.
gofund.me/7be865eb6

My friend and very dear human, Jamie, lost their Dad unexpectedly this past week.. If you have the means, please consider helping them, no amount is too small. I would also ask that as you move through the world, please mask up and stay home when you are sick if you can.

💜😭

I appreciate you and I’m sending love your way too. I haven’t seen your updates in a while but I know you were going through a lot too 💜