A close up of the Blanket Octopus during a blackwater dive with The Three P diving club , Romblon Island, Philippines. Credit: Joseph Elayani

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Olympus Mons is wild. It's gigantic, but it's so gentle a slope that you could drive up to the peak.

It's so big because it's a shield volcano: there's a hotspot under it where magma is pushing up.

But since Mars has no active tectonics, that hot spot has been under the same spot for hundreds of millions of years. On earth, the tectonic plates would have slowly shifted over that time, and it would have become a mountain range, not one big mountain. On a dead planet like Mars, it just slowly builds up every time it erupts, so it's the biggest mountain in the solar system.

And it probably hasn't stopped growing! The most recent eruption is estimated at 2 million years ago, but geologically that's recent enough that it might still be active, and may erupt again someday.

An aquarium in Japan was closed for renovations, and their resident sunfish got depressed not seeing visitors. So the staff put some uniforms with printed faces against the tank, and it immediately recovered.

Look at the paws - this cat was 100% definitely making biscuits. Photo from my collection, back reads “Jean and Patty at home, July 1952”.

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Photo from my collection, the back reads “Paul and Dick the cat”. No documented date.

new DB Cooper theory: he went up

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theres too many princesses and maids and knights and whatever. can some of you develop a thatching fetish or something my roof is collapsing

"the world isn't kind" ok??? Much more importantly are you?????

"the world isnt kind" skill issue. I am

This is a threat

毛咕咕Studio (@maogugu_studio): The Princess and the Pea

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In accordance with my intended new streaming schedule, I have a To Be Determined slot on late Saturday nights. There are rather a lot of options for what I could do, so I figured I'd poll all y'all and see what y'all think.

please dear god everyone look at this przewalski's horse i found on inaturalist

The bébé. Photo from my collection, 1956.

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In accordance with my intended new streaming schedule, I have a To Be Determined slot on late Saturday nights. There are rather a lot of options for what I could do, so I figured I'd poll all y'all and see what y'all think.