Now I Am Grown To Womanhood, I Have The Silly Gown

I have a folder of these on my phone... I'm not sure what that says about me!

horseshit is false, unreliable, and horses are very reliable. bullshit is also false, but carries an additional implication of trickery, while bulls are extremely straightforward and guileless.

He was, in fact, very close to letting himself in whether I wanted him there or not.

I went down and locked the door, then took the video.

I was reading one story where the apocalypse was impossibly-rising oceans. Like, water is appearing from *waves hand* the Earth's crust or something, and literally all dry surface land on Earth is going to become underwater in X years. Part of the story was about a giant research project to invent FTL to send a few hundred humans to a nearby star which might have a habitable planet. You know what they were hoping to find? A planet with liquid water. Their plan was to descend from their starship and restart civilization using just the tools they brought with them, on a world with no life and no breathable air and the wrong gravity and the wrong temperate and the wrong sunlight and the wrong day-night cycle, just because it had liquid water. You know where else has liquid water? The flooded Earth you just abandoned. Instead of researching starship technology, you could have spent that time loading up all the same civilization-restarter tools into boats.

During my work in these same waters in the 1980s and ’90s, diving was hazardous. I was literally chased out of the water on numerous occasions by aggressive grey reef sharks, even the small ones. Now I saw no sharks at all. My colleagues and I also found that few to no fish, such as Conger eels and snapper, were caught in our nautilus traps, something that invariably occurred in the 1980s. Our underwater video cameras, over the course of 300 hours gathered in the past five years, showed fewer fish than we had ever seen before. But showed many, many more octopus, squid, and nautiluses. And we weren’t the only ones seeing it. In 2016, a team of fisheries biologists from the University of Adelaide, in Australia, published a paper that looked at the global catch of cephalopods from the world’s oceans from the early 1950s onward.1 The scientists were astonished at their results. They found that the catch of cephalopods was showing just the opposite of the known catch of human-food fish. While the global yield of caught fish tonnage was steadily dropping, the catch of cephalopods was going up. And it was among virtually every kind of cephalopod, from the fast-moving squids to the bottom-dwelling cuttlefish to the eight-armed octopus. Across 35 species of cephalopods that have records kept concerning their global catch, all showed significant increases in the tonnage being caught and sold. Another study estimated that the yearly tonnage of cephalopods caught increased by more than 400 percent from the 1960s to 2014. The authors of the 2016 study proposed that human-caused warming of the oceans allowed cephalopods to grow faster than fish they might compete with. But they also stated the vast increase of cephalopods relative to fish populations was related to “the global depletion of fish stocks, together with the potential release of cephalopods from predation and competition pressure.”