Matt
@xenomatt.bsky.social
Scuba, nerdery, science, and what makes people tick. Expat Brit in Canada.
Pics mine unless otherwise credited.
Pics mine unless otherwise credited.
Chamberlain's Nembrotha (Nembrotha chamberlaini) having a good look around... or at least, it would be, if it had eyes!
#MarineLife #Nudivember #Invertebrates 🌿
#MarineLife #Nudivember #Invertebrates 🌿
November 27, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Chamberlain's Nembrotha (Nembrotha chamberlaini) having a good look around... or at least, it would be, if it had eyes!
#MarineLife #Nudivember #Invertebrates 🌿
#MarineLife #Nudivember #Invertebrates 🌿
I don't think I'd ever seen the Christmas Island crab babies before. I had no idea how adorable they are!
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There are so many that they form the base of a lot of food webs, including filter-feeding whale sharks who swallow them by the thousands.
Those that survive a few months will return to forage in the forests until they're about 3 yrs old & reach sexual maturity, ready to join Crab Spring Break.
Those that survive a few months will return to forage in the forests until they're about 3 yrs old & reach sexual maturity, ready to join Crab Spring Break.
November 26, 2025 at 2:40 AM
I don't think I'd ever seen the Christmas Island crab babies before. I had no idea how adorable they are!
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You will be visited by three spirits
November 26, 2025 at 2:33 AM
You will be visited by three spirits
I can't help but wonder if someone set out to leverage the Streisand Effect here. The BBC gets to avoid directly antagonizing the tangerine fuckmuppet, and the outrage ensures that the comment gets far more coverage than might otherwise be the case. Was that the plan when they cut it?
NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history."
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Trump’s Fury at BBC Gets Unnerving Results with Pro-MAGA Edit Stunner
First, British Broadcasting Corporation execs resigned after Trump complained about a segment. Now the BBC edited out a line from a historian that was critical of Trump. Where does this end?
newrepublic.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:59 AM
I can't help but wonder if someone set out to leverage the Streisand Effect here. The BBC gets to avoid directly antagonizing the tangerine fuckmuppet, and the outrage ensures that the comment gets far more coverage than might otherwise be the case. Was that the plan when they cut it?
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
A couple of pics of a pair from a blackwater dive in Balayan Bay, Anilao. I think this is a phyllosoma (the larval stage of a lobster) riding a purple-striped jelly which is really too small for it... ID very tentative in both cases though!
#MarineLife #Invertebrates 🦀🌿
#MarineLife #Invertebrates 🦀🌿
November 23, 2025 at 4:41 PM
A couple of pics of a pair from a blackwater dive in Balayan Bay, Anilao. I think this is a phyllosoma (the larval stage of a lobster) riding a purple-striped jelly which is really too small for it... ID very tentative in both cases though!
#MarineLife #Invertebrates 🦀🌿
#MarineLife #Invertebrates 🦀🌿
Well, this is interesting....
The Batman Effect, just published in NATURE:
When an experimenter dressed as Batman boarded a train, passengers were significantly more likely to offer their seats to another “pregnant” experimenter than if Batman wasn’t present (67.21% vs. 37.66%) #SciComm 1/2
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
When an experimenter dressed as Batman boarded a train, passengers were significantly more likely to offer their seats to another “pregnant” experimenter than if Batman wasn’t present (67.21% vs. 37.66%) #SciComm 1/2
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect - npj Mental Health Research
npj Mental Health Research - Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect
www.nature.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Well, this is interesting....
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One of the great things about being a nudibranch is that if you have no eyes, you can't see what's happening on Bluesky last night/this morning.
This is Caloria indica. Pic from Anilao.
#MarineLife 🌿 #Invertebrates
This is Caloria indica. Pic from Anilao.
#MarineLife 🌿 #Invertebrates
November 22, 2025 at 4:13 PM
One of the great things about being a nudibranch is that if you have no eyes, you can't see what's happening on Bluesky last night/this morning.
This is Caloria indica. Pic from Anilao.
#MarineLife 🌿 #Invertebrates
This is Caloria indica. Pic from Anilao.
#MarineLife 🌿 #Invertebrates
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This is a pinkeye goby (Bryaninops natans) from Anilao. Or maybe a purple-eye goby, depending on who you listen to. I think it's more pink :)
#MarineLife 🌿🐟
#MarineLife 🌿🐟
November 21, 2025 at 1:36 AM
This is a pinkeye goby (Bryaninops natans) from Anilao. Or maybe a purple-eye goby, depending on who you listen to. I think it's more pink :)
#MarineLife 🌿🐟
#MarineLife 🌿🐟
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
For the 🦀 feed
November 19, 2025 at 12:49 AM
For the 🦀 feed
🦀 for the feed
I dunno if this crab is angry, but the clam might be feeling crabby! 🦀
November 19, 2025 at 12:49 AM
🦀 for the feed
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The golden age of diversity and democracy in Oz.
November 16, 2025 at 7:04 AM
The golden age of diversity and democracy in Oz.
Yup. It's a boycott, plain and simple.
Angus: You know, every article I’ve read about the tourism numbers talks about “Canada’s uncertainty with the tariff wars.” No. Canadians hate Donald Trump. They see not going to the US as an act of patriotism.
November 17, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Yup. It's a boycott, plain and simple.
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Today's #Nudivember post is another of Anilao's denizens... this is a Phyllidia of some sort. Maybe P. elegans, but P. varicosa is also possible
#MarineLife #Invertebrates 🌿
#MarineLife #Invertebrates 🌿
November 16, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Today's #Nudivember post is another of Anilao's denizens... this is a Phyllidia of some sort. Maybe P. elegans, but P. varicosa is also possible
#MarineLife #Invertebrates 🌿
#MarineLife #Invertebrates 🌿
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My question is who is doing all the Epsteining for these powerful wealthy men now?
November 16, 2025 at 1:59 PM
My question is who is doing all the Epsteining for these powerful wealthy men now?
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Vous assistez, quasiment en direct à la formation d'un cratère sur la Lune, avec un impact filmé ce matin !
November 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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I have no idea where this is, but I would totally shop here
November 15, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I have no idea where this is, but I would totally shop here
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“The government is allowed to post real death threats on social media but you’re not allowed to post sarcastic death threats on social media” is actually a pretty apt distillation of power and violence
November 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
“The government is allowed to post real death threats on social media but you’re not allowed to post sarcastic death threats on social media” is actually a pretty apt distillation of power and violence
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![4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiby6can6k76yzfmv2czxs4pu2l7zie7bqbrpswi7h3ifmiadkuqvu@jpeg)