2025-11-21 00:19:30
Trade in marine fish for aquariums includes threatened species, lacks oversight: Study https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/trade-in-marine-fish-for-aquariums-includes-threatened-species-lacks-oversight-study/
Trade in marine fish for aquariums includes threatened species, lacks oversight: Study https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/trade-in-marine-fish-for-aquariums-includes-threatened-species-lacks-oversight-study/
To avoid turning into midnight munchies, small fish, often no bigger than pocket change, employ a frequently observed and clever strategy:
swimming inside a salp, a type of barrel-shaped, gelatinous marine animal.
Though salps don’t conceal the hitchhikers, their thin membranes can be enough to thwart attackers.
The fish don’t seem to mind sharing their sanctuary with one another:
in this image, three diminutive jacks pack inside a salp the size of a spice jar.
2 NFL head coach vacancies filled with big fish candidates reeled in https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/01/18/2-nfl-head-coach-vacancies-filled-with-big-fish-candidate…
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fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 79 nodes and 240 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata
This is amusing. I wonder if the free PlayStations, live fish, and Kosher wine were worth it.
#Anthropic #RedTeam #AI
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Khruangbin:
🎵 Two Fish and an Elephant ii
#Khruangbin
https://open.spotify.com/track/48JBR081mjo6dD66VNjYzh
fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 105 nodes and 343 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata
Mick Shots: Sorting through all fish in the net https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mick-shots-sorting-through-all-fish-in-the-net
They would lounge naked in the sauna, swim in the river, eat wood-fired sausages or freshly caught fish and rest in the open air with a refreshing beverage, often of the alcoholic variety
Leider hat sich wohl auch Leslie Fish in den letzten Jahren vor ihrem Tod nicht mit Ruhm bekleckert. Oh, FFS.
#transphobia
"It is a sin to interfere with another community’s ability to fulfill its covenant with God. Hills cannot shout for joy if their tops have been sheared off by strip-mining. Fish cannot swarm seas boiled by an ozone-depleted atmosphere."
—Professor Gregory Mobley writing in the new issue of Reflections, in a piece titled "God’s Eco-Network of Covenants."
RETRO ALERT! Or is it? We're turning back the clock 20 years tonight! I'm diving back into the classic world of Guild Wars (GW1), running flawlessly on my stable Linux box (some legends never die!). Come join the nostalgia trip and see why this game is an unsung hero of Linux gaming! 🕰️ LIVE soon! #GuildWars
Ghost in the friendly and interactive shell (fish):
I removed a `set -x VARNAME ...` line from my fish config.
Spawning a new shell still had that variable.
I ran `set -e VARNAME`. For the current shell, it's gone.
Spawning a new shell again, I got it back. What..?
Okay, so I closed _all the fish instances_.
And the damn env var came back *again*!?!
Looks like that's because it's my login shell.
A fresh login session no longer had it.
Can an octopus learn to play a piano? This guy, Mattias Krantz, tried to find out. He rescues a random octopus from a fish market and then tries to work out how to teach it to play. You can skip the training to 15:20 to hear their first duet, but the training is interesting too. https://youtu.be/PcWnQ7fYzwI?si=BMFFE7
"Fish-inspired filter removes 99% of microplastics from washing machine wastewater"
#Microplastics #Plastic #Plastics
Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
Hypoxia (low oxygen) is a serious environmental impact in some coastal marine and freshwater environments, often referred to as "dead zones". In spite of the name, while fish are absent, they can be teeming with crustacean and gelateous zooplankton, which have remarkable tolerance to hypoxia. Some cladoceran zooplankton even produce hemoglobin to store …
Their Husbands Were Killed by Tigers. Now These Women Are Restoring the Big Cat’s Threatened Habitat https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/their-husbands-were-killed-by-tigers-now-these-women-are-restoring-the-big-cats-t…
Mick Shots: Sorting through all fish in the net https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mick-shots-sorting-through-all-fish-in-the-net
New underwater acoustic camera identifies individual fish sounds, helping track threatened species
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/new-underwater-acoustic-camera-identifies-individual-fish-sounds-helping-track-threatened-species/
Scientists Discover Massive Underwater Ruins That May Be a Lost City of Legend https://www.404media.co/scientists-discover-massive-underwater-ruins-that-may-be-a-lost-city-of-legend/
Several species of fish are claimed to produce hallucinogenic effects when consumed,
a condition known as ichthyoallyeinotoxism.
For example, Sarpa salpa, a species of sea bream referred to as the "dream-fish", is commonly claimed to be hallucinogenic.
These widely distributed coastal fish are normally found in the Mediterranean and around the Iberian Peninsula,
west to the Azores and along the west and south coasts of Africa.
Occasionally they are fo…
🥠 Tasty fish is in your future
#AnimalHoroscopes
Trout, trout, whitebait, eelpout,
These are the fish I am thinking about...
@carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.com
@carlos@perceptiveconstructs.comBIG FISH! Russian GENERAL's car blown up in Moscow, he died #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/22/big-fish-russian-generals-car.html
fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 95 nodes and 565 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata
PSA about food labeling in the US
We have a gluten detection service dog because many things that should be gluten free/say they’re gluten free are not actually gluten free.
Stuff gets contaminated when growing (e.g. next to wheat field), by shared equipment, in factories, from packaging, during transport and in-store.
Every US consumer should know:
1. The list of ingredients on food isn't exhaustive
2. Allergen labeling:
a) limited to just some allergens
b) manufacturers don't actually have to test
c) "certified" foods are tested—but not continuously
d) testing only works with enough contamination
Some certifications may require batch-testing, but usually they don't.
A "certified gluten free" product may e.g. contain oats which sometimes are contaminated with gluten—but as not every batch is tested it's impossible to know unless you test yourself (hence the service dog).
Even if the product is properly batch-tested, you might get a part of the product that has the allergen in it, whereas the tested part didn't.
Or the threshold was too low (our dog can detect gluten better than any available lab testing equipment; yes, dogs are amazing).
Food products also contain ingredients that do not have to be included on the label when they're "incidental" (included in an another ingredient) or if they're considered part of the manufacturing process but not of the final product (e.g. various coatings on factory equipment).
Don't need to list flavors or specific spices either. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
As for allergens, only those responsible for ~90% of food allergies* have to be specifically declared, and they're not tested for as it's simply based on the ingredients list.
Good luck if you have other allergies.
*milk, egg, egg, fish, Crustacean shellfish, tree nuts, wheat, peanuts, soybeans
I wrote a story. It starts:
He woke up, looking forward to finally fishing. He’s retired, even though he feels like he could keep doing the work, and now, finally, he has the chance to go out on his boat, with a beer and his rod to catch something. Maybe if he catches enough he can fill the whole freezer set up in the basement. Fresh frozen fish for months.
The rest of it:
The team I've cheered my whole life failed once again to make it all the way through October (but they got close!). So while my neighbors would call it fish and chips, we're having what any self-respecting Brewers fan knows is called fish fry for Game 1 - it is Friday, after all. Go Jays Go!
#baseball #WorldSeries
Black shiny mollies and bright colored guppies,
Shy little angels as gentle as puppies,
Swimming and diving with scarcely a swish,
They were just some of my tropical fish.
Then I got mantas that sting in the water,
Deadly piranhas that itch for a slaughter,
Savage male betas that bite with a squish,
Now I have many less tropical fish.
If you think that
Fish are peaceful
That's an empty wish.
Just dump them together
And le…
"Australia says goodbye to plastic soy sauce fish in world-first ban"
#Australia #Plastic #Plastics
How the global fish trade is spreading 'forever chemicals' around the world #AnimalRights
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Had planned to fit it in a real fish can,
but decided would be better, and simpler, to print the can too and make it bigger.
After some refinement in blender, I printed it on My A1 mini.
(had a few problems on the guitar supports)
I fit tested the parts
Then sanded, repared, replaced parts, broked parts, moaning, re-repaired, re-sanded...
it is made of 5 part :
-Fish can base
-can lid
-6 monsters
-crab clamp with keyboard
-c…
fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 94 nodes and 424 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata
#OTD in 1969, in the midst of #SanFrancisco #GoodTimesBadTimes gigs opening for Country Joe & The Fish at Bill Graham's Fillmore West at Van Ness & Market (formerly the Carousel Ballroom),
Streaming Lord of the Rings Online again tonight! The Yule Festival is in full swing, so we're diving into the festive quests in Winter-home. If you need a cozy, chilled-out holiday stream, come hang out.
As always, running perfectly on my Bazzite PC. See you there!
Starting soon at https://www.twitch.tv/tuxramus
the verge is all in on 90s web design.
https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/810002/influencers-creator-economy-special-series
...with some fava beans and a nice chianti *slurping noises*
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/orcas-in-mexico-have-learned-to-attack-young-great-white-sharks-by…
@… thanks, I particularly enjoyed the link to https://lethargic.talkative.fish/@suricrasia/statuses/01KA0X05DAW04MYEXMB1F4FQ1S
🐟 Research helps untangle the complexity of small-scale fisheries
#fish
People already mistake orcas for dolphins, and this doesn't help. 🐋🐬
#nature #hunting #orcas #dolphins #marineLife
🇺🇦 Auf #radioeins läuft...
Country Joe and Fish:
🎵 I Feel Like Im Fixin To Die Rag
#NowPlaying #CountryJoeandFish
https://open.spotify.com/track/11WZ9dAAscfEs8IB46iYm8
"Supermarkets could help UK shoppers eat more sustainable local fish – study"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Fish #Food
How much do we deserve fish & chips tonight? A lot!
#nowplaying
i think mine is the 1978 repressing, definitely not the 1965 original
it's in great shape, not a single scratch
singing along under my breath, and i know every. single. word.
https://ma…
Thunfisch als No-Go - Darum gibt es bei McDonald’s keine Lachsburger #News #Nachrichten
Negro River study finds genetic damage in fish after oil spill https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/negro-river-study-finds-genetic-damage-in-fish-after-oil-spill/
Just woke up from a nap after lunch. I dreamt our heroine was on the run from the galactic police for a discrepancy surrounding dubious business expense claims in her tax return and finds herself running a popular bar in a humanoid community amongst the gut flora and fauna of a giant space faring lizard fish thing amongst a school or flock of these things. I don't remember much else other than its title had to be `June Callwood Cheats On Her Taxes` for some reason.
Ad Astra, Leslie Fish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y06dkXGuebI
Es ist zum …
https://zusammenkunft.net/@Mel…
Southern California mountain lions recommended for threatened status
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife has recommended granting threatened species status
to roughly 1,400 mountain lions roaming the Central Coast and Southern California,
pointing to grave threats posed by freeways, rat poison and fierce wildfires.
The determination, released Wednesday, is not the final say
but signals a possibility that several clans of the iconic cougars will be …
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
The Count & Sinden:
🎵 After Dark (feat. William Rees & Kai Fish)
#TheCount #Sinden
https://open.spotify.com/track/25dk302jkLW6QbxGtt5pRg
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Louis Jordan:
🎵 Saturday Night Fish Fry
#LouisJordan
https://famousflames.bandcamp.com/track/saturday-night-fish-fry
https://open.spotify.com/track/2jPlhMe0ptZPA6Of2mwKEZ
Playing a cassette for the first time in I don't know how long. Flipping sides is wild, man. Ah, that takes me back 😂 (the cassette version of this has a Hall & Oates cover added. Nice)
#PhysicalMedia #IndieRock #HotOcean
We’re back in Middle-earth and beyond tonight! ⚔️ Streaming LOTRO and a few other titles while I fine-tune my OBS settings on the Linux rig. 🐧⚙️
Come hang out for the gameplay and stay for the Linux tech talk!
🔴 LIVE: https://www.twitch.tv/tuxramus
fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 71 nodes and 148 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata
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A thread about a Christmas gift I did for (one of) my brother.
It's a 3d modeled, 3d printed sculpture, composed of 6 monsters in a mackerel fish can.
why 6 ? because our mother used to call him "6 monstres, Š lui tout seul" (six Monsters, all by himself)
In french "six monstres" sound a bit like "Simon".
so:
-I started by a quick sketch to try to lay out what I had in mind.
-Then I modeled it in Gravity Sketch (a VR…
"From concrete walls to living edges, here’s how riverside habitats are being restored along the Thames"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Environment
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
The Marvelettes:
🎵 Too Many Fish In The Sea
#TheMarvelettes
https://motowngold.bandcamp.com/track/too-many-fish-in-the-sea
https://open.spotify.com/track/6NcyI4rN4tCETBWnABr9NK
Amazon lakes hit ‘unbearable’ hot-tub temperatures amid mass die-offs of pink river dolphins – study https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/06/climate-crisis-amazon-lakes-water-temperature-hotter-than-spa-bath-aoe…
Back in Middle-earth tonight! ⚔️ Streaming LOTRO on the Linux rig and it's running like a dream. 🐧✨
Come hang out as we quest through the wonders of the Third Age. Pull up a chair at the Prancing Pony! 🍻
LIVE NOW: https://www.twitch.tv/tuxramus
fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 58 nodes and 117 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Ranking Joe:
🎵 A Fish for You
#RankingJoe
Tonight: Tyria meets Tux! Streaming Guild Wars 2 now, running flawlessly on my Linux PC. Jump in and say hi! #GW2Stream #Linux #MMORPG 🐧 🎅
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
fish narc:
🎵 my ceiling
#fishnarc
https://audiotree.bandcamp.com/track/my-ceiling
https://open.spotify.com/track/0hHt5h6tqKWKoZN6RGXZiD
"5 unexpected animal behaviors we learned about in 2025"
#Animals
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/01/5-unexpecte…
Endangered Species Protection Sought for New Mexico Flower Threatened by Fossil Fuel Industry https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/endangered-species-protection-sought-f…
Time to harness the sun! ☀️🛰️
We are LIVE for today's 3D printing stream, and we're adding more solar arrays to the Tiangong space station model. Powering the space race, one layer at a time (and still running smooth on Linux, naturally 🐧).
Tune in to watch the model grow: 👇 https://www.twitch.tv/tuxramus
Urban sprawl and illegal mining reshape a fragile Amazon frontier https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/illegal-mining-and-urban-sprawl-reshape-a-fragile-amazon-frontier/
The sleigh runs on the Linux kernel! 🐧 Streaming Guild Wars 2 tonight dressed as Santa, proving you don't need Windows to spread holiday cheer (or slay a few dragons). Come join the festive chaos! #GuildWars2 #Linux
fresh_webs: Freshwater stream webs
A set of 26 networks of trophic-level species interactions in streams in New Zealand, Maine and North Carolina. Networks include the identities of aquatic insect, algae and fish species and their trophic interactions. Excel and plain text adjacency matrices available; webs can be downloaded individually or as a group.
This network has 86 nodes and 353 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted, Metadata
LOTRO Linux = The perfect night. 🐧⚔️
Going live to explore more of Middle-earth from the Bazzite rig. Come talk tech, lore, or just vibe with the fellowship! 💍
#Linux <…
Extinctions ‘already happening’ in Wales as report lists 3,000 at-risk species https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/12/extinctions-already-happening-in-wales-as-report-lists-3000-at-risk-species/
…
My desktop environment is clean, my build is optimal, and my OS is Linux. That's the real power creep. 📈
Streaming #GuildWars2 tonight! Come check out the gameplay.
Join the Puddings: https://www.twitch.tv/tuxramus
Unequal access to nature: Few outdoor spaces in Europe and the U.S. accommodate sensory, mental disabilities https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/unequal-access-to-nature-few-outdoor-spaces-in-europe-and-the-…
The only thing more reliable than my Guardian's heals is my Linux OS. 🛡️🐧
Back in Tyria tonight streaming #GW2 from my trusty Linux PC! My machine has zero bloatware and 100% dragon-slaying optimization.
Come hang out! 👇 https://www.twitch.t…
Linux Santa is in the house! Streaming GW2 tonight. Join me in Tyria for some festive fun, all powered by my Linux rig! Merry Wintersday season! 🎁 #GW2Stream #Santa #Linux
"I'm going on an adventure!" ...without a mandatory update to stop me. 🍂
Streaming #LOTRO on Bazzite Linux. Open-source vibes, and ready to adventure.
🐧 https://www.twitch.tv/tuxramus
Squeezing in some final holiday adventures in LOTRO tonight! ⚔️ Taking the Linux rig out for some questing as we prepare for our next big chapter with Penguins on Tour. 🐧✈️
Live now!
#LOTRO
Tux is the construction foreman tonight. 🐧👷♂️
We are LIVE and printing a massive N-Scale haul: Tunnels, Silos, and Tanks! Slicing and streaming entirely from Linux because open source builds better worlds.
Come hang out while the extruder does its thing! 🔴 https://www.twitch.tv/tuxramus
The sleigh runs on the Linux kernel! 🐧 Streaming Guild Wars 2 tonight dressed as Santa, proving you don't need Windows to spread holiday cheer (or slay a few dragons). Come join the festive chaos! #GuildWars2 #Linux