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SN The Night Visitor
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SN The Night Visitor
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Maudlin queer, bibliophile and certified Alexis Ness kinnie | Adult | She/Her Banner made by @yukkisbae
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The best time to plant trees is 20 years ago. The second best time to plant trees is today
Bealtaine Cottage@PermaGoddess
A brief walk through part of the woodland I began planting 20 years ago.
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@pinketness I'VE READ THAT ONE!! IT'S SO GOOD WE NEED MORE
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@SnVisitor my dearest lou wrote an old man kins fic where kaiser is a coach and its amazingggg we need more of time skip kins
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I coauthored the study you fuckhead.
Pagetodd jetson@PagetoddJ171
@KirstiMiller30 No it doesn’t. Read the damn study.
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Went down the rabbit hole on this. The dancing is the tamest part of the story. Marine biologist Amanda Vincent has spent decades studying seahorses, and what’s underneath that morning ritual goes way deeper than a cute video.
The morning ritual lasts about 6 minutes. Both seahorses brighten their skin, link tails, and pirouette around a shared piece of coral or seagrass. Researchers call it “the carousel dance.” But it has a specific biological function: it synchronizes their reproductive cycles so the female’s eggs are ready the exact moment the male’s brood pouch is empty. That timing matters because the male can’t accept new eggs while he’s already pregnant.
The male gets pregnant. The female transfers her eggs into his pouch through an organ called an ovipositor (a tube for depositing eggs). The whole transfer takes about 6 seconds. His pouch seals shut immediately. Inside, he grows a network of blood vessels that works almost exactly like a human placenta, delivering oxygen and nutrients to up to 1,000 developing embryos. Research from the University of Sydney, published in the journal Placenta, found the pouch wall thins and builds new blood vessels during pregnancy in ways that closely mirror what happens in a mammalian uterus.
He gives birth using skeletal muscles, not smooth muscles like in mammalian labor. That means he has conscious control over the process. Labor can take hours. And within hours of delivering up to 1,000 fully formed babies, he’s ready to mate again. The female already has her next batch of eggs prepared, sometimes the same day.
Less than 0.5% of those babies survive to adulthood. Fewer than 5 out of every 1,000. No parental care after birth. They get swept into ocean currents, eaten by crabs, or starve before they find food. That survival rate is why the morning dance matters so much. Every lost mating cycle is hundreds of offspring that never existed.
The monogamy is extraordinary for a fish. Only about 3% of mammals form lasting partnerships. For fish, it’s rarer still. But in species like the Australian H. whitei, pairs are genetically monogamous across multiple breeding seasons. They greet each other every morning and ignore other seahorses entirely. The bond only breaks when one partner disappears. Amanda Vincent once watched a female keep visiting a male whose brood pouch had been punctured by a predator, making pregnancy impossible. She showed up every morning for weeks until his pouch healed. Then they remated.
About 150 million seahorses are pulled from the ocean every year for traditional medicine and the pet trade. Most pet seahorses don’t last six weeks. 14 of the 47 known species were only identified in this century, meaning we’re losing populations of animals we barely knew existed.
Science girl@sciencegirl
Seahorses dance with their partners every morning to strengthen the bond between them
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We devalued the importance of art & humanities and that is why we can no longer have nice things.
DaVinci@BiancoDavinci
Expandable Circular Table from the 1920s, designed by Josef Seiler.
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Why are pepple using ai for this? We are losing our ancient texts




li☉p☉ld🜍☿@liopoldius
Chat do I make the two dudes kiss
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They are using Cuba to test how the rest of the world will react. This is going to be everyone soon.
Stew Peters@realstewpeters
Cuba’s lights are all off. Totally dark.
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