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An essay on why glass squid are the best squids

Look at them

They stare into your soul, their tentacles are small and pathetic, they look like party balloons.

2. They live near the surface from birth and progressively swim into deeper waters when reaching adulthood, near the surface their transparency and glow elements likely serve as camouflage.

3. I threatened they can suck their little head and arms into they mantle cavity (depressingly I couldn’t find any photos of that so here’s an artistic rendering)

4. They support the LGBTQ-Community

How could they not. They are just good squids.

Loligo pealeii

go mentally deranged yeh. go brainless yeh. go wacky. go positively bonkers yeh. go mad bruv. lose ya marbles yeh. go foolish

Greetings, chordate comrades.

I’m attempting to export yet another culture we’ve had for the past few years on the dying birdsite. Basically three times a year we’d use the hashtag #InverteFest to post unsolicited bug and slug pics and YELL ABOUT HOW MUCH WE LOVE THEM.

It could be pics from your garden, OCs, doodles, shitposts, crab memes, whatever. Just remember this is strictly a NO BONE ZONE.

But if you’re going out and feeling like contributing to community science, we have a project on iNaturalist for you to join.

See you in late December.

Welcome back folks :-)

La Jolla, California

Photo by Meg Mindlin

megmindlin.com

Photographer Steven Kovacs captures rare marine life off the coast of Florida (2021). © BluePlanetArchive/Steven Kovacs