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Put your 16-24 arms in the air and wave 'em like you just don't care!

💜 A male and female sunflower star were encouraged to spawn as a team of hopeful aquarists stood at the ready.

They collected eggs and sperm, mixing them together to fertilize the eggs. The resulting embryos were dubbed the “Cupid Cohort”. Since then, it’s been a total lovefest. Institutions around California have raised these leggy heartthrobs from delicate star babies into the robust, glowing adults they are today. 

🌊⭐ In October 2025, some of these juveniles took a short vacation to the open water of the Pacific. This successful collaborative study showed us they have what it takes to thrive in the wild, and helped us test out new methods to detect and monitor the presence of sunflower stars in the ocean, bringing us one step closer to a sea full of stars! 

Learn more about sunflower sea stars and their conservation: https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/animals-a-to-z/sunflower-star?utm_source=tumblr&utm_medium=organic_post&utm_campaign=mba_general_social&utm_term=&utm_content=_589

Thank you to Ashley Kidd, the Sunflower Star Lab, and the Birch Aquarium for this heartwarming footage.

Some Western leftist media/ figures refuse to support the ongoing revolution in Iran because they believe regime change would benefit the US and Israel. But what if I told you it benefits Iranian people?

We are against the Islamic regime. We want secularism. That is the one thing uniting everyone in the streets. We come from different backgrounds and groups, and we may have different visions for Iran’s future, but we are united against this regime.

This is not new. We have risen up before — in 2009, 2019, 2022, and many times before that.

The Islamic regime has killed more people in three days than Israel has killed in twelve days in Iran. You must understand: the Islamic regime is the enemy of Iranian people too. This regime is killing people to survive, accusing protestors of being connected to Israel or the US, while they are all Iranians demanding freedom.

It has been almost two days the internet was cut off in Iran. The last time this happened, during the bloody November of 2019, the regime killed 1,500 people within 3 days in silence.

In the past week, at least 17000 people were murdered and shot in cold blood in the streets of Iran. These people were unarmed, most of them were teenagers. What was their crime? Protesting. Standing up against their oppressive dictator regime. Almost immediately from 8th of January they cut us off from internet. Complete blackout. We couldn't even text each other, we couldn't call each other. People couldn't call for an ambulance when they saw their friends and family getting shot. The IRG wouldn't let anyone help those that were dying. Now they've taken the bodies hostage, either demanding money before handing them back to their family or harassing the family to bury them at dawn so no one can gather. Thousands have lost their sight. Thousands are in custody and the regime does not need legal reasons for executing them.

The Islamic republic officials have made up different stories about this. First they said all those who protested were terrorists funded by America or Israel. Then they said thousands were killed by ISIS, not them. Now they blame every western power for everything that happened. Not one admits to what actually happened. They see themselves as God, whoever disagrees with them is not a human and must die. This is not an exaggeration.

It's been a week since the bloodbath. All the cities are in martial law. You're not allowed to go out at night, they will either shoot you, arrest you, or confiscate your phone.

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Zahra Fazeli, a protesting citizen from Bushehr, was killed by direct gunfire from the Islamic Republic's repressive forces in the city. The incident occurred amid the brutal suppression of public protests, once again exposing the lethal violence unleashed on demonstrators.

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No Internet or comms for one week. Thousands upon thousands massacre’d. Iran is a humanitarian crisis. Speak. SPEAK.

Life

Freedom

So

Woman, Life, Freedom forever.

I just came to say that my country Iran is going through a revolution right now and I want everyone to know that Iranians will not give up until these bloodthirsty mullahs are gone for good

This time protests are even more intense than the WomanLifeFreedom uprisings

People are protesting in the streets despite brutal government crackdowns, they’re tearing down the flags of the Islamic repooplic regime and chanting slogans against the regime non stop

The IR regime has taken to attacking literal hospitals full of injured people!!!

They’re arresting kids below 18!!

Remember:

IRANIANS DO NOT WANT THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC REGIME!!!

WE DON’T WANT REFORMS WE WANT A REGIME CHANGE

As always mainstream media and all the self-proclaimed “human rights activists” are dead silent because supporting Iranians fighting against Islamist dictators doesn’t benefit them but fuck those posers because we don’t need such clowns we got our unity

If you want to help Iranians please be our voice and keep talking about Iran

Watch out for regime propaganda and listen to actual Iranian voices especially from inside Iran

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