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We're taking today to celebrate Meatloaf, the more than 200-pound green sea turtle currently recovering in our care. 🐢

Meatloaf was rescued from the San Gabriel River after being found entangled in fishing line and tethered to debris. The line cut off blood supply to one of her front flippers, and our vet team performed surgery as part of her ongoing recovery. She's healing in the new sea turtle rehabilitation area near our Molina Animal Care Center.

She follows Porkchop, who spent nearly a year in our care before being released back into the river and has since been spotted thriving with the river's other resident turtles.

Stories like these start with our community science volunteers, who have monitored green sea turtles in the San Gabriel River since 2008. They were the ones who spotted Meatloaf's entanglement and got her the help she needed.

If you'd do anything for love of sea turtles, donations to our Sea Turtle Rehabilitation Program go directly toward Meatloaf's care.

Happy World Ocean Day! The ocean has been perfecting 🪼 this 🪼 design for more than 500 million years. That's right, sea jellies are older than the dinosaurs! They have adapted to our entire world ocean: from tropical to Arctic temperatures, deep sea to shallow reefs, and freshwater to saltwater, jellies are found in every ocean environment.

I just want to catch spelling errors and accidental double spaces and repeated phrases and whenever I use the wrong too/to or affect/effect and shit. But no. They've shoved AI up the ass of every grammar checking software out there and now they all fucking suck and make the most random, obnoxious, nonsensical suggestions.

I get why people keep saying this (and other versions of it like "Use Adobe alternatives" and "Use Google product alternatives."). But here's the problem: I do not create in isolation. Even my own 100% personal projects are getting sent to other people whether it's editors or printers or beta readers and unless every single person in that train is using the same products, things can get wonky.

Libre Office and Word handle formatting differently on the back end, which can completely break documents if you move them back and forth between the two. So if I write in Libre Office but my beta readers are still using Word, when I send them a manuscript for review there's a good chance things won't look right and my beta reader will not actually be reviewing what I sent them.

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When I was a teenager writing fic, I remember finding out that one of my favorite authors was in her 50s and that just was SUCH a revelation for me!! What do you mean, 50 year olds can write fanfic?!? Does that mean I can write fics when I'm her age?? That's AWESOME! I seriously looked up to her so much. And now I'm 35 with a husband and kid, and I'm still writing fanfic and posting fandom content - and I have no plans of stopping!

I don’t want to sound like I am hating on younger people in fandom, but god, y’all need to stop it with the ageism. You don’t have to give up what you love once you’re an adult. Honestly, the belief that you have to is pretty bad. It sounds like it would make people afraid of aging. Granted, modern society is so very afraid of aging.