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.
This really does have to be heard to be believed
second verse on this is one of the funniest things i've ever heard
November 11, 2025 at 3:18 AM
This really does have to be heard to be believed
A bunch of yellow-tipped phyllodesmium (Phyllodesmium briareum), an aeolid nudibranch. I have no idea why there were so many of them gathered together.
#Nudivember #MarineLife 🌿 #Invertebrate
#Nudivember #MarineLife 🌿 #Invertebrate
November 11, 2025 at 3:03 AM
A bunch of yellow-tipped phyllodesmium (Phyllodesmium briareum), an aeolid nudibranch. I have no idea why there were so many of them gathered together.
#Nudivember #MarineLife 🌿 #Invertebrate
#Nudivember #MarineLife 🌿 #Invertebrate
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November 10, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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The model of holding individual senators responsible is broken here. The retirees clearly agreed to take the fall. Which is why the nos should get no credit for voting no unless they move to oust Schumer
November 10, 2025 at 3:20 AM
The model of holding individual senators responsible is broken here. The retirees clearly agreed to take the fall. Which is why the nos should get no credit for voting no unless they move to oust Schumer
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okay, so, with Dems successfully keeping anyone up in 2026 for voting for this turd let's take a look at who's up in 2026 anyway:
1. Cory Booker - apparently involved behind the scenes, constantly looking for bipartisanship. I don't dislike him personally but he doesn't have what we need. Primary.
1. Cory Booker - apparently involved behind the scenes, constantly looking for bipartisanship. I don't dislike him personally but he doesn't have what we need. Primary.
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
okay, so, with Dems successfully keeping anyone up in 2026 for voting for this turd let's take a look at who's up in 2026 anyway:
1. Cory Booker - apparently involved behind the scenes, constantly looking for bipartisanship. I don't dislike him personally but he doesn't have what we need. Primary.
1. Cory Booker - apparently involved behind the scenes, constantly looking for bipartisanship. I don't dislike him personally but he doesn't have what we need. Primary.
Honestly, what makes this is the "throw it in the mixer, anything could happen in this weather" approach during the build-up. And then everyone missed it. And then... boom.
The CPL Final is in the middle of a snowstorm in Canada, true North American soccer heritage...how could it get any better?
HOW ABOUT A FREAKIN' BICYCLE KICK EQUALIZER!!!
HOW ABOUT A FREAKIN' BICYCLE KICK EQUALIZER!!!
November 10, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Honestly, what makes this is the "throw it in the mixer, anything could happen in this weather" approach during the build-up. And then everyone missed it. And then... boom.
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Once again millions of Canadians literally forget how to drive after first snowfall
Once again millions of Canadians literally forget how to drive after first snowfall
OTTAWA – Ministry of Transportation offices across Canada are once again finding themselves overrun with what has become a familiar sight each winter, as hundreds of thousands of Canadians must restar...
www.thebeaverton.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Once again millions of Canadians literally forget how to drive after first snowfall
This list has some good suggestions, but I'd have thought Carcer from Terry Pratchett's Night Watch would have gotten a mention. I've always found the way he treats it all as some huge joke to be... unsettlingly on point.
Readers reply: Who is the most evil villain in fiction?
Readers reply: Who is the most evil villain in fiction?
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts
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November 9, 2025 at 7:12 PM
This list has some good suggestions, but I'd have thought Carcer from Terry Pratchett's Night Watch would have gotten a mention. I've always found the way he treats it all as some huge joke to be... unsettlingly on point.
I'm not sure *why* we're snailposting, but... okay! Here's a veliger of I know not what species. Pic from a blackwater dive in Balayan Bay, Anilao
#MarineLife #Invertebrates 🌿
#MarineLife #Invertebrates 🌿
November 9, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I'm not sure *why* we're snailposting, but... okay! Here's a veliger of I know not what species. Pic from a blackwater dive in Balayan Bay, Anilao
#MarineLife #Invertebrates 🌿
#MarineLife #Invertebrates 🌿
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While I don’t think anyone has made a specific designation between “larval” and “adult”, in the moorish idol, I’m going to label this one “post-larval”
#moorishidol #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #blackwaterphotography #kumejima #okinawa #chrisgug #gug #gugunderwater
#moorishidol #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #blackwaterphotography #kumejima #okinawa #chrisgug #gug #gugunderwater
November 8, 2025 at 2:29 PM
While I don’t think anyone has made a specific designation between “larval” and “adult”, in the moorish idol, I’m going to label this one “post-larval”
#moorishidol #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #blackwaterphotography #kumejima #okinawa #chrisgug #gug #gugunderwater
#moorishidol #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #blackwaterphotography #kumejima #okinawa #chrisgug #gug #gugunderwater
Well, that's one miserable annual landmark/ritual complete. The winter wheels are on the car.
November 8, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Well, that's one miserable annual landmark/ritual complete. The winter wheels are on the car.
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Krampus march in Austria. Way scarier than Santa Claus!
November 8, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Krampus march in Austria. Way scarier than Santa Claus!
November 8, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Darn it! I meant to post this on Hallowe'en - a huge lichen with a sinister expression! At Esquimalt lagoon, 3ft from the high tide line, next to the invasive green crab ID sign. I like its jaunty toupée.
#fungifriends #lichen #SalishSea
#fungifriends #lichen #SalishSea
November 6, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Darn it! I meant to post this on Hallowe'en - a huge lichen with a sinister expression! At Esquimalt lagoon, 3ft from the high tide line, next to the invasive green crab ID sign. I like its jaunty toupée.
#fungifriends #lichen #SalishSea
#fungifriends #lichen #SalishSea
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Alan Rickman | The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
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November 6, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Holy crap that's a lot of remoras!
November 6, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Holy crap that's a lot of remoras!
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Hades II is amazing. There are nods to both Lattimore's and Wilson's Odyssey translations.
Lattimore: “Tell me, Muse, of the man of many ways…”
Wilson: “Tell me about a complicated man…”
Hades II: “Some know him as the man of many ways; certainly he is a complicated one.”
Lattimore: “Tell me, Muse, of the man of many ways…”
Wilson: “Tell me about a complicated man…”
Hades II: “Some know him as the man of many ways; certainly he is a complicated one.”
November 4, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Hades II is amazing. There are nods to both Lattimore's and Wilson's Odyssey translations.
Lattimore: “Tell me, Muse, of the man of many ways…”
Wilson: “Tell me about a complicated man…”
Hades II: “Some know him as the man of many ways; certainly he is a complicated one.”
Lattimore: “Tell me, Muse, of the man of many ways…”
Wilson: “Tell me about a complicated man…”
Hades II: “Some know him as the man of many ways; certainly he is a complicated one.”
It's #Nudivember, so... here we go with the nudibranchs! This one is Hypselodoris apolegma, protographed in Anilao.
#MarineLife #Invertebrates 🌿
#MarineLife #Invertebrates 🌿
November 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
It's #Nudivember, so... here we go with the nudibranchs! This one is Hypselodoris apolegma, protographed in Anilao.
#MarineLife #Invertebrates 🌿
#MarineLife #Invertebrates 🌿
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The most colorful #squid I’ve ever seen! And such a cooperative poser too!
#🦑 #cephalopod #chromatophores #calamari #underwater #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #blackwaterphotography #blackwatervideo #kumeisland #kumejima #okinawa #chrisgug #gugunderwater #gug
#🦑 #cephalopod #chromatophores #calamari #underwater #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #blackwaterphotography #blackwatervideo #kumeisland #kumejima #okinawa #chrisgug #gugunderwater #gug
November 4, 2025 at 12:49 PM
The most colorful #squid I’ve ever seen! And such a cooperative poser too!
#🦑 #cephalopod #chromatophores #calamari #underwater #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #blackwaterphotography #blackwatervideo #kumeisland #kumejima #okinawa #chrisgug #gugunderwater #gug
#🦑 #cephalopod #chromatophores #calamari #underwater #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #blackwaterphotography #blackwatervideo #kumeisland #kumejima #okinawa #chrisgug #gugunderwater #gug
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I made one here: www.datawrapper.de/_/I8Zxu/
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November 4, 2025 at 3:58 AM
I made one here: www.datawrapper.de/_/I8Zxu/
This is a good one! Parliament sounds like a good bet... lots of interesting things going on and fun conversations to eavesdrop, and there's the Library there when there's nobody around to entertain me.
just saw this on reddit and the idea FASCINATES me so tell me…where would you haunt? 👀
November 4, 2025 at 3:37 AM
This is a good one! Parliament sounds like a good bet... lots of interesting things going on and fun conversations to eavesdrop, and there's the Library there when there's nobody around to entertain me.
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Aequorea sp. hydromedusa! I love these (not-so-)little guys. Did you know that the proteins used to make lab organisms glow is extracted from this species? :)
November 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Aequorea sp. hydromedusa! I love these (not-so-)little guys. Did you know that the proteins used to make lab organisms glow is extracted from this species? :)
A jellyfish from a blackwater dive in Balayan Bay, Anilao. It has a couple of hitch-hikers; a juvenile fish and... I'm not sure what the little orange thing on the right is. Maybe an amphipod?
#MarineLife #Invertebrates 🌿
#MarineLife #Invertebrates 🌿
November 3, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Reposting for #WorldJellyfishDay
A jellyfish, on a blackwater dive in Balayan Bay, Anilao. As is often the case, it has hitch-hikers - I think they're all crustaceans of some sort, but I don't know what they are beyond that. Maybe amphipods?
#MarineLife #Invertebrates 🌿
#MarineLife #Invertebrates 🌿
November 3, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Reposting for #WorldJellyfishDay
Since it's #WorldJellyfishDay, here's one I saw on a blackwater dive in Balayan Bay, Anilao
#MarineLife #Invertebrates
#MarineLife #Invertebrates
November 3, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Since it's #WorldJellyfishDay, here's one I saw on a blackwater dive in Balayan Bay, Anilao
#MarineLife #Invertebrates
#MarineLife #Invertebrates