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@thefishbotherer

A dedicated follower of fishes. Technical diving, mesophotic reefs, and biodiversity at the Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology. (he/they)

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I've often wondered about this w/r/t paleolithic cave art. Were caves special in some way (which seems an appropriate thing to conclude!) and/or were there paintings all over everything and only those in caves survived?

03.03.2026 20:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Why do temperate Australian fishes love stripes so much

03.03.2026 18:24 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

To be clear, Kansas Republicans rushed through a confusing and disastrous bill, created a panic, and wasted untold number of tax dollars all to target 300 out of the nearly 3 million people in the state.

27.02.2026 18:23 👍 1944 🔁 603 💬 28 📌 20

I really want to check this out, but the link is broken...

25.02.2026 18:13 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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User accidentally gains control of over 6,700 robot vacuums while tinkering with their own device to enable control with a PlayStation controller — security flaw reveals floor plans and live video fee... Did he just unintentionally raise his own robot army?

www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

24.02.2026 18:03 👍 35 🔁 14 💬 4 📌 12

I don’t have the link handy but this literally just happened (with robot vacuums). A guy was using AI to write code to control his roomba or whatever and accidentally ended up able to control any other one remotely and see peoples’ video feeds and floor plans.

24.02.2026 18:02 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1

This is perfect

19.02.2026 09:30 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Maybe also reviewers 1 and 3…

18.02.2026 09:52 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

08.03.2025 00:13 👍 18876 🔁 4614 💬 127 📌 153

See also: “I hate a barnacle as no man ever did before.”

12.02.2026 18:35 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Is this one part of your collection?

(incidentally this cover model from like 1986 looks almost EXACTLY like I did as a teenager in the mid 90's)

12.02.2026 02:25 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Sarpa salpa maybe?

05.02.2026 06:57 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

I’d say Diplodus sargus and D. vulgaris for two of them?

05.02.2026 00:43 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

I have to take a boat to work and they shut us down around 10:00 this morning. Some of the strongest kona winds I’ve ever seen in kāneʻohe bay.

03.02.2026 07:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1

Why does every piece of shit think Lolita is a “tragic love story”…oh wait never mind

01.02.2026 20:46 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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Lilipuna Pier, part whatever: a bunch of little guys.

These are kihikihi or moorish idols (Zanclus cornutus). They're cool for a bunch of reasons but one of them is that they're the only species in their family and they can be found basically everywhere in the Indo-Pacific except the Red Sea.

🐟🦑🐠

30.01.2026 21:58 👍 28 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1

I'm *so* close to submitting something I started in 2015. I'm excited for this feeling.

29.01.2026 01:02 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

retvrn

24.01.2026 12:23 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I guess so, but a guy can dream.

19.01.2026 22:59 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Per the general rules re: pluralizing "fish", ("fish" = 🐠🐠🐠, "fishes" = 🐟🐠🦈🐡), that would imply a single filet comprising multiple species.

19.01.2026 21:57 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

An antifascist popular front and transphobia are incompatible. A big tent that includes transphobes isn't a big tent, it's a tent with a hole in the roof.

13.11.2025 23:27 👍 414 🔁 78 💬 5 📌 2
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what a legend lmao

14.01.2026 00:22 👍 12310 🔁 2954 💬 159 📌 389

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQim...

14.01.2026 01:06 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I grew up almost literally on the banks of the San Lorenzo.

Now I live in a place without really any rivers to speak of, tho Waolani stream goes right under my living room window and with all the rain we’ve had lately it’s not far from qualifying as a river.

13.01.2026 04:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks for the ref! I’ll have to take a closer look. I had assumed it must be something like this but I never really dug into it.

11.01.2026 21:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’d have to dig into my notes but I want to say somewhere in the range of 200-400 m.

11.01.2026 21:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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I love how similar this things are across quite large distances. Like these from Lunigiana in Italy.

11.01.2026 21:23 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Oh dang we saw something similar to this from submersible dives in Tuvalu in May.

11.01.2026 21:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I haven’t been particularly scientific about it, but I’ve found that just shy of the 20 mark works very well for me.

10.01.2026 22:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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same

10.01.2026 20:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0