dr. mykle hoban

I agree, I felt this way first about John Balance and then later Jason Molina.

Eat your cereal with a fork and do your homework in the dark!

Every legal story now is either

Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach

or

In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

How could I possibly identify Alan Moore as a…oh never mind got him

It's fire-breathing up until "I respectfully dissent." Why does this deserve any respect at all?

This is an excellent mix. Thank you!

Here's a #Crustmas / #fishmas / #25DaysOfFishmas double-whammy:

Two Cephalopholis igarashiensis groupers just partying in among an absolute MESS of little purple and yellow shrimps (what are they?!)

Filmed from a crewed submersible at ~215m on expedition in Tuvalu.

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A guy in black overalls and weird blue smurf boots leaping into the air above a flat snowy expanse. There's a mountain in the distance with lenticular clouds above. The guy has a weird grimace on his face but in truth he's having an amazing time.

Happy #AntarcticaDay! Here I am almost 20 years ago, rising above the McMurdo Sound sea ice with Mount Erebus steaming in the distance. I still think about Antarctica all the time.

(working in Antarctica led, in a very roundabout way, to me studying Indo-Pacific reef fishes & biodiversity)

Reminds me of some Erythrinas, and I've had similar questions there!

Curious to see what the actual theme is, but three of these things are endemic to the ancient landmass of Zealandia...

(and I'm proud/blessed to say I've seen all three in the wild)

“In the wild” in my case also includes “in my bed” haha.

Having been up close and personal with Scolopendra on a number of occasions I can say they are amazing creatures but I'm happy to give them their space.

Introduce yourself with five shows you've seen multiple times

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (every west coast date since like 2001)
Shellac (4x?)
Songs: Ohia/Magnolia Electric Co (3x, RIP Jason Molina)
Red Sparrowes (4x)
Sleep (3x)

Nevermind, it looks like this works on some movies but not on others. I think some of them are just burned in!

Happy birthday Wata! ✌️

Do you not have this little thing next to the play bar in the bottom right of the screen?

A movie that takes place where you're from

Bonus eagle ray in slightly deeper water (but still shot from the pier)

Lilipuna Pier videos, part 4, bringing back #FlatFuckFriday (is that a thing still?):

Here's a young hīhīmanu or spotted eagle ray (Aeotobatus ocellatus). They seem to like to forage on the shallow reef flat under the pier and I love seeing them.

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I hold the dubious honor of having done so on All Seven Continents. So I’m gonna cheat and say my exotic location is that collections as a whole.

Another reason (in addition to the royal society refusing to boot Elon) not to submit to RS journals.

Part 3 of Bad Videos Taken from the Lilipuna Pier:

This smiley guy is Diodon hystrix, the kōkala or spotted porcupinefish. For some reason there's almost always a big aggregation of these guys in the deeper water off the end of the pier and I don't know why (though it's probably cleaning).

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This *is* something only humans could make, but thankfully that human was Sean Tejarachi of Liartown USA, whose whole thing is satirical photoshop jobs, rather than an actual Christian conversion therapy video.

I've come to the conclusion that most hotel rooms were designed by people who have never actually had to sleep in or be in or use a room before.

I just did this but I doubt the recipient would have DM'd you? (though not impossible I suppose). Nevertheless, I also encourage everyone to do this!

Distorted Videos of Stuff I Saw Off The Lilipuna Pier, Part 2.

Today, we got squid. These are muhe‘e or bigfin reef squid (Sepioteuthis lessoniana). I don't see them often, so I consider it a treat that several were hanging around this morning.

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*I have to take a boat to work (at the Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology) and the Lilipuna pier is where the boat picks me up.

Part one of a potentially ongoing series entitled Distorted Videos of Stuff I Saw Off The Lilipuna Pier*

Let's start with a common one (but a fun one). This is the ‘ō‘io orshortjaw bonefish, Albula glossodonta. For some reason, they're often bigger in Hawai‘i than elsewhere in the Pacific.

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This one absolutely blew my mind when I was a teenager.

Bladerunner: famously a movie about a guy named Bladerunner