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Cherishing a moment with this spectacular squid 🙃

Chiroteuthis calyx is also known as the swordtail squid because juveniles of this species have ornate tails that are as long as their bodies. Researchers believe that the shape and color of their tails allow juvenile swordtail squid to mimic the long floats and stinging tentacles of Nanomia siphonophores. The young squid enhance this mimicry by curving their bodies and tails in the shape of a siphonophore. But as swordtail squid grow older and larger, they apparently have less need for this deception. By the time they become subadults, they lose their tails and can no longer mimic Nanomia. ⁠ ⁠ As they grow toward adulthood, the squids develop long, feeding tentacles tipped with glowing lures (perhaps an example of a different type of mimicry). The adults hover motionless in the water column and use these lures to attract crustaceans or small fish, which they seize using their arms and feeding tentacles.⁠

^^^ This. The COMBINED population of the Twin Cities (Minneapolis and St. Paul) is only about 2.6 million. That's not small town numbers, sure, but compared to NYC (20.1 million in the metropolitan area)? LA? (12.9 million "")?

Minneapolis is being made an example of because they're the most bitesized target, and if you're doing a shock and awe campaign like this you need to not choke on national tv.

(And they're still having to fight for it. Minneapolis isn't taking this laying down, and more power to them for their courage.)

Bonus points also for it giving them a chance to kick down Minnesota for having governor walz who was the Democratic VP pick and called them all weirdos last summer

This is definitely punishment for not bowing down to the Pedophile Protector. There's probably a strong hope that we will get violent so they can implement martial law. We're already being threatened with the Insurrection Act. We're being called violent and dangerous when we're armed with whistles and signs and the ICEholes are in full tactical gear and war guns.

They need to fail here to prevent this from happening elsewhere.

You know technology literacy is dying because I saw this meme with 76k likes

F11 the full screen button? You’re scared of the full screen button? F10?? It opens the menu bar???

Computers are so scary what if I accidentally hit F12 in a steam game and it takes a screenshot. What if I press shift + F12 while in word and accidentally save my document 😖

If you had to learn what the F keys on your computer do through me reblogging this post, then I'm glad you did. Computer literacy is not a skill that gets taught anymore, and it is absolutely one that needs to be taught in order to be learned. Don't ever feel bad for not knowing something, but ☝️ don't ever stop learning learning about your environment, the tools you use, and especially the people around you

Never stop learning+ Never stop sharing what you learned

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