Crested Tit/tofsmes. Värmland, Sweden (September 21, 2025).

Today’s echinoderm is Colobocentrotus atratus, commonly known as the helmet urchin.

Image source: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/2461

Forgot to share these after school ended, but whatever. Not proud of all of them but they took time.

Forgot to add these photos from the gallery installation hah

NEW FISH JUST DROPPED

I KNOW that playing God is morally wrong, but holy HELL, it looks fun.

Why is it playing God? We aren’t violating any natural laws. God set the parameters of the universe to allow these things. There’s nothing wrong with it, there’s no hubris in learning more about how to manipulate the universe around us.

We made a whole-ass fish.

The reason this was accidental BTW is because they used paddlefish eggs as a negative control group for a breeding experiment on sturgeons because the scientists, quite naturally, assumed that they were SO unrelated it would be genetically impossible for them to mate. Like. I cannot stress enough to you how these creatures last related ancestors were

140 MILLION YEARS BACK.

If you don't know how far that is, that's basically the start of the cretaceous. Let me simplify that for you even further. Chimpanzees and humans seperated, what, 5 or 6 million years ago?

This is basically like if humans could hybridise with THESE THINGS.

This is the sort of thing that should be impossible. They used those eggs to be ABSOLUTELY 100% SURE NOTHING WOULD HAPPEN.

And then THEY GOT FISH OUT OF IT.

Like. You can quite clearly understand why they didn't think anything would happen. WE ARE MORE RELATED TO BLUE WHALES THAN THESE THINGS.

THE AMERICAN PADDLEFISH AND THE STURGEON ARE SO COMPLETELY UNRELATED THAT THIS IS NOT PLAYING GOD. IF ANYTHING THIS IS AN ACT OF GOD.

THE SCIENTISTS HAD NO BLAME IN THIS BECAUSE NOTHING LIKE THIS HAD EVER HAPPENED BEFORE

It sort of goes against the rules of genetics a bit.

Oh i forgot to add

THESE THINGS, FOR HYBRIDS, HAD A REALLY HIGH SURVIVAL RATING. LIKE 70% OF THEM SURVIVED.

To put that into perspective, getting a blue whale and a squirrel and trying to hybridise them is more sensible, and that wouldn't produce anything but getting you banned from science. Most animals that aren't plants can barely hybridise two degrees away from each other.

BUT THESE TWO ENTIRELY UNRELATED FISH create PERFECTLY HEALTHY HYBRIDS.

the scientists literally had to do the tests AGAIN just to be like "okay this is real right. This is actually like, not a fluke, this works right" and it worked again. They just Can!

So for those who don't know what the original fishes look like, this is an American Paddlefish:

And this is a Russian Sturgeon:

So honestly, saying the hybrid is "weird looking" is a bit fort de café when you see its parents. I think the sturddlefish looks cute.

"these creatures last related ancestors were 140 million years back"

(glances at fish)

Yeah that's exactly what I thought you'd look like, you Mesozoic fuck

i’m at the point where watching tv shows i haven’t seen before qualifies as being productive

kill the imposter syndrome in your head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they’re also using chat gpt to do it

I wish boobs were detachable. Because sometimes I want to look like a genderless being, other times the outfit needs boobs.

pride month!!!

Is that a miette?

Pride for you!  Pride for a thousand years!!

you COME OUT to miette? you come out to her as queer? oh! oh! pride for mother! pride for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!

Drazí Dířané!

SUD (Společenstvo Umělců Dírských atd atd) by rádo provedlo nějaký další letní projekt (Minule se kreslily tarotky, předminule zin). Nemůžeme se ale shodnout jaký. Pomožte nám vybrat (a to hlavně pokud byste se taky chtěli zapojit)! KLASICKÝ FANZIN Kdo neví o co se jedná, fanzin je fanouškovský magazín který dávají dohromady sami fanoušci (z názvu). Jsou v něm arty, příběhy, básničky a různé jiné umělecké počiny na dané téma (minulý fanzin byl na téma Děravé Léto). Co si to dát ještě jednou? ;) MULTIMEDIÁLNÍ FANZIN Tentokrát by se jednalo o video než o papír. Principiálně by fungoval stejně jako klasický zin (každý přispěje něčím), tentokrát by se ale vše mohlo rozpohybovat a rozzvučit na společném videu! Vše by nemuselo být pouze statické ale i dynamické (ergo by mohlo být více uměleckých žánrů jako například i hudba nebo animace). FANEPIZODA Detektivové letos nehodlají dělat přes pauzu speciál. A co si takhle udělat vlastní? Bylo by to o něco ucelenější a kontinuálnější než bod výše uvedený, napsal by se příběh a podle něj bychom jeli (animatic podobný promítání Až na bezedno, hlasoví herci...). DĚRAVÁ KUCHAŘKA Tento nápad nás napadl nějaký čas zpátky, ale co si udělat vlastní děravou kuchařku? Napsaly by se recepty a umělci by je mohli nailustrovat.

Předem děkujeme moc za hlasování a ohlas! Pokud ještě náhodou nejste na SUDovém discordu a chtěli byste se do nějakého z projektů zapojit, neváhejte nám napsat do DMs a my vám pošleme odkaz ^^

blowjob? more like nojob! #unemployed

kcd2 stealth mission experience is just me making this joke in my head 47 times

You STAB caesar? You stab his body like the salad? et tu? et tu? jail for brutus! jail for brutus for One Thousand Years!!!!

BOYS NIGHT, 15th March, Senate! bring your own booze! remember what happens in the senate stays in the senate ;). BOYS NIGHT BOYS NIGHT BOYS NIGHT

finally made it to the semine wedding in his high charisma clown-core fit