Baby Okko Is Busy Redecorating

Illustration from Alienist and neurologist - 1919 - via Internet Archive

Found two "poems" that I wrote when I was like... 17? l.p. stands for 'lux permanet'. Who the f did I write the first poem about, my imaginary bf? Hahahaha

Would you have guessed that just 20 miles off the coast of Georgia, the seafloor looks like this?

This is Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary. The sanctuary protects a vibrant live-bottom reef, which harbors an abundance of invertebrates and more than 200 species of fish!

Learn more about the sanctuary and the research conducted there in our video:

this is superior humor

☙ | 𝓈𝒶𝒸𝓇𝒶𝓁𝓊𝓃𝒶 𝓋𝒾𝒶 𝒾𝓃𝓈𝓉𝒶𝑔𝓇𝒶𝓂

So, I’ve been pulled over a few times in my life. Not many, but a few. And I’ve also been in a couple of cars that got pulled over. And let me tell you, if you were actually doing something wrong, the officer doesn’t make any small talk, just straight into “I clocked you doing 70 in a 55.” The only time I’ve ever gotten the “do you know why I pulled you over?” was the time when I wasn’t doing anything wrong, and I got let go even though he insisted to the end that I was doing 87 in a 70 (white privilege at work).

“Do you know why I pulled you over?” is a trap. It means there’s a good chance the officer doesn’t actually have a good reason to ticket you, and is trying to get you to waive your 5th Amendment rights and incriminate yourself. If you make a guess, that’s a confession of guilt.

But there’s another trap, that I’ve heard of but haven’t yet experienced. It’s “do you know how fast you were going?” With that one, they’re hoping you’ll say no, because then they can name whatever speed they want – you just said you didn’t know how fast you were going, if you deny the speed they name then you’re lying to them.

The golden hour

                                Foglie Tropicale (Series II)- Various Plants

1.  Ornamental Foliage Plants, Mary Evans

2. Codiaeum hybrid, drawn and chromolithographed by Pieter de Pannemaeker from Jean Linden’s l'Illustration Horticole, Brussels, 1888

3. Coleus Blumei, Imprimerie et lithographie de F. et E. Gyselnyck,1854-1896

4. Garden Croton, Imprimerie et lithographie de F. et E. Gyselnyck,1854-1896

5. Cyrtosperma,  Imprimerie et lithographie de F. et E. Gyselnyck,1854-1896

6. Pitcher Plant,  Imprimerie et lithographie de F. et E. Gyselnyck,1854-1896

7. Trichocentrum cosymbephorum

8. Majesty Palms

9. Aspidium obliquatum

this is a reminder: tell your spiders that they are beautiful today!

Remember: a lot of people tell them they’re ugly and should be killed. All spiders want to do is help us, so sometimes they need a little self-esteem boost!