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I was last week old when I learned that clams have two siphons (incurrent and excurrent), and have very active cilia at the ends of those siphons… the bucket contains littleneck, Manila, butter, and geoduck clams (the geoducks were placed back). The macro photos are of the butter clam siphons during the purging stage, pre-chowder. #clams #clamming #beachcombing #bc

And here's something of a redux of the first, with the finished(ish) shader, and a bit more work on the particle motion. I think that's quite lovely.
#Blender3D #B3D #GenerativeArt #3DArt #Astronomy

This older comic is making the rounds again! Here's a guide to bird photography.

#Toronto people, we're cleaning out the basement and I found this old (circa 1990s) collection of TTC transfers and I was wondering if anybody wants it for preservation/nostalgia reasons or knows a place that would? Every station (built at the time) is there

"Welcome to our gander reveal party!"

"Don't you mean..."

"No."

Geese emerge from everywhere. There are no fireworks. Only geese. There are no balloons. Only chaos. There are no genders. Only honk.

My cat is a Small Language Model. His outputs include yelling and purring. He accepts prompts but they don't change the output much. Still, he improves my life and helps me code sometimes

I started working with Alaska Dept Fish & Game to surgically place trackers in emperor geese in 2019. Since then, we've implanted 189 over 8 different trips, mostly to remote areas with no electricity. It's been a fun challenge with a lot of hard work by many people. Our survival rates have been phenomenal. The data collected has already taught biologists a lot about this remote species, helping to make informed decisions for conservation and for management of an important food resource for Alaska natives. Slowly, the transmitters that were designed to last 18-24 months are starting to blink off after almost 4 years of faithful service. Seeing those dots on a map, moving around, living their lives has been really cool. It's a little sad to lose touch but they've more than "earned" the chance to live the rest of their lives in privacy and peace, swallowed up in a vast wilderness where they rarely see humans. Good luck to them!
#birds #research #geese #tracking #conservation

Snoop Dogg on AI risk: “Sh–, what the f—?”

The music legend expressed his concerns during a Milken Institute panel with Larry Jackson.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/snoop-dogg-on-ai-risk-sh-what-the-f/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Humans have been eating clams for a long, long time. Stone tools dating to 125,000 years ago have been found among oyster and giant clam shells bordering the Red Sea, remnants of early migrations from Africa. And before that, Homo erectus is thought to have often hit up the raw bar, based on middens of shells they left behind! 🦪 #clamFacts

#maythe4thbewithyou

#sundaecomics #funny #humor #cartoons #webcomic #webcomics #comicstrip #comic #comics #starwars #starwarsday

Pixel face practice with nyx8 palette.

#pixelart