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sciencex.bsky.social
Switching from an omnivorous to a vegan diet can reduce daily greenhouse gas emissions by 46%, while also lowering land and water use and maintaining nutritional balance.
Vegan diet can halve your carbon footprint, study finds
Only around 1.1% of the world's population is vegan, but this percentage is growing. For example, in Germany the number of vegans approximately doubled between 2016 and 2020 to 2% of the population, while a 2.4-fold increase between 2023 and 2025 to 4.7% of the population has been reported in the UK.
phys.org
November 11, 2025 at 5:00 AM
diannalgunn.bsky.social
Katamari???

...nah, Katamari is omnivorous. It consumes both meat and... Everything else
heyitsdora.com Dora B @heyitsdora.com · 4d
Not now, carnivorous death ball
Screenshot reads, "A Carnivorous ‘Death Ball’ Has Emerged from the Deep This newly-discovered species is being called the “death-ball sponge” for its appendages, which end in orbs and are covered in micro-hooks meant to capture prey."
November 7, 2025 at 6:17 AM
annieleymarie.bsky.social
Yet more evidence of the multiple benefits of diet shifts towards more, or only, plant foods!

"The indicators clearly highlight the environmental and health advantages of plant-based diets compared with the omnivorous baseline."
November 11, 2025 at 6:02 AM
elizabethbeston.bsky.social
The arrow worms are back! Chaetognatha are relatively large carnivorous predators of the plankton (although some are omnivorous) that appear around autumn to feast on smaller zooplankton like copepods! I had lots in my sample this week!
#marineplankton 🦑
November 5, 2025 at 8:56 PM
passionweiss.bsky.social
Danny Brown made one of the most creatively adventurous, sonically progressive, and best rap albums of the year.

@sonraw.bsky.social went deep on the experimental hyperpop fusion, omnivorous eclecticism, and sense of liberation of "Stardust."

www.passionweiss.com/2025/11/06/d...
On 'Stardust,' Danny Brown Runs Towards the Light | Passion of the Weiss
Danny Brown's latest, 'Stardust,' is one of 2025's most daring and rewarding rap albums.
www.passionweiss.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:09 PM
plushyposs.bsky.social
It'd be interesting to see how closely people's diets line up with their therotype θΔ. Funny to me that out of the 3 therians I know personally, the two prey species are vegan and the one predator species is omnivorous, lol.

Wonder what that says about scavenger species...
November 9, 2025 at 4:36 AM
whyaduck.bsky.social
Shouldn’t that be omnivorous?
November 7, 2025 at 5:46 PM
myandra.bsky.social
The Malabar giant squirrel (Ratufa indica) can reach lengths of 18" and weights of 6.6 lb! Its extra-long tail is used as a counterbalance as it scurries through the treetops. This omnivorous squirrel can be spotted in parts of Asia, including India, Singapore, and Indonesia.
November 5, 2025 at 4:05 PM
foodnotfri3nds.bsky.social
If we are naturally omnivorous, like you say, then why are we the only "omnivore" who needs a slaughterhouse, weapons to kill and eat animals?
November 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM
dcfitzgerald.bsky.social
Silver-eared Mesia (Leiothrix argentauris), or a subspecies of it, the Sumatran Mesia. Himalayas, from Nepal and parts of India. Takes invertebrates and fruit.🍉 🍇 #birds #nature #photo #animals
The Silver-eared Mesia (Leiothrix argentauris) is a stunning, highly social Asian songbird. Recognizable by its silver-gray ear patches, black cap, and vibrant orange-red breast, it travels in noisy flocks of up to 30 birds. Its range spans the hills and submontane forests from the Himalayas to Sumatra, where subspecies like the Sumatran Mesia reside. It is omnivorous, primarily foraging for insects, larvae, and small fruits in dense undergrowth. Though globally common, its popularity in the cage bird trade poses a conservation threat.
November 8, 2025 at 8:39 AM
vixichrome.bsky.social
A screenshot of another log from Metroid Prime, this time of an Ice Parasite, the test stating "--is a prime example. Having adjusted to a frigid climate, this vermin now thrives in it. Omnivorous, it can exist in--", with the "prime" circled in red like before.
November 4, 2025 at 8:30 PM
cayemarsh.bsky.social
Authors are so creative, I swear. Really enjoying the omnivorous, clawed, fierce "horses" that hack up owl pellets in Queen Demon by @marthawells.com A delightful, unexpected take. 😁
November 4, 2025 at 10:28 PM
plantbasednews.bsky.social
A new study suggests that there is no difference in the synthesis of muscle fiber protein between those who follow omnivorous and those who follow vegan diets.

Read more here - https://plantbasednews.org/lifestyle/health/study-muscle-fiber-protein-vegan-diets/
November 2, 2025 at 4:01 PM
scottleminski.bsky.social
#WIPSnips (Steel)
#wip 'Reformers'

Renewal ...
Extract from short story. 'Reformers': Following the Cataloguers rumbled omnivorous grazers, the great six-segmented machines birthed for no other purpose but consumption. Leading, on their first segment, great mandibles tore asunder structures of concrete, steel, and wood, and fed ever hungry maws that led to stomachs of industry in the second to fourth segments. There, in automated chambers, cities were digested; and individual metals, plastics, and rubber were extracted and cast into ingots.
November 4, 2025 at 3:26 PM
charlescmann.bsky.social
This charming if hagiographic article about Cormac McCarthy's insanely huge personal library and the overwhelmed scholars trying to go through it is full of unexpectedly funny evidence of the man's omnivorous curiosity. /v @meganabbott.bsky.social www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture...
Excerpt from article: The cataloging was dusty, repetitive, eye-straining work, but it was conducted with good humor and camaraderie, and you never knew what might come out of the next box. One afternoon, after looking through a batch about Cistercian abbeys, violin makers, metaphysics, meta-ontology, the incest taboo and the material foundations of ancient Mesopotamian civilization, I said, “Was there anything he wasn’t interested in? Sewing perhaps?” “Nope,” said Jonathan Elmore, an English professor at Louisiana Tech University. “We’ve cataloged books on needlework and quilting.” Rick noted McCarthy’s keen interest in clothes and fashion, which could, I granted, be described as sewing-related. McCarthy was a longtime subscriber to the fashion and style magazine W, and he had annotated many of his books about menswear. In his copy of The Suit: A Machiavellian Approach to Men’s Style, McCarthy penciled his opinion of slip-on dress shoes: “disgusting.” Further down the same page, next to a sentence praising shiny-buckled monk-strap shoes, he wrote, “yet more horror.” Excerpt from article: The historical figures who interested McCarthy the most, judging by the number of books he owned about them, were Albert Einstein (114 books), Winston Churchill (88) and James Joyce (78). Architecture is the dominant subject in the collection, with 855 books. The human being whom McCarthy most admired, Dennis confirms, was Ludwig Wittgenstein. The team cataloged a staggering 142 books by or about the philosopher, with a high proportion annotated. Excerpt from article: Then we found an intricate drawing he’d made for an engine modification to one of his cars, and another showing how to rifle a gun barrel with hand tools. We found dozens of well-thumbed engine repair manuals and auto mechanic’s tools in the outbuildings, and learned that he could disassemble, reassemble and redesign an engine to increase its horsepower. Then I learned he had an eidetic memory and could remember nearly everything he had read or heard, including the lyrics to thousands of songs. McCarthy was starting to seem like a man whose talents and intelligence were without limits, yet he lived in a hoarder’s shambles and couldn’t stop buying nonstick skillets and fruit bowls.
November 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM
smilodonichthys.bsky.social
It's Fossil Friday so here's a Hell Pig. Display by paleo artist Ray Toll. This is from his Cruising the Fossil Coastline exhibit and was taken a few years ago when it visited the Newport, OR aquarium
Top down picture of a cast of an Archeotherium skull in a museum display case. The skull is chocolate brown. It's resting on a painted background that outlines it in painted flames with the words HELL PIG next to it. The skull is about the size of a horse skull Front picture of the same skull showing the words ANCIENT BEAST painted on the front if the display base Side picture of the hell pig skull. This shows the size of the very pointy and big canines and premolars showing this was definitely a critter that ate large prey. It also shows the molars which are flatter for grinding possibly indicating that they were omnivorous.
November 7, 2025 at 10:45 PM
limecello.bsky.social
Aaannd we’re back to me wanting to hit the author.

“like a cat that had just been weaned and was trying to eat omnivorous food. “

😒
November 3, 2025 at 1:00 AM
brislen.nz
I HAVE HAD MANY ARGUMENTS ABOUT THIS AND I WILL NOT BE TAKING QUESTIONS AT THIS TIME THEY'RE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TORTOISES
Turtles (on the left hand side) live in the sea, have flippers, are omnivorous and a flat, streamlined shell. Tortoises (on the right) live on land, have FEET, are vegetarian and have a dome-shaped shell.
October 30, 2025 at 11:11 PM
george-1788pow.bsky.social
Dark coats may have helped the earliest small mammals hide from predatory omnivorous dinosaurs: the spots and stripes familiar to us did not emerge until later in mammalian evolution…
October 30, 2025 at 2:10 PM
travertin.bsky.social
Breakfast in Laguna Lejia
A hole in the clouds illuminates James's flamingos feeding in the alkaline waters of Laguna Lejia at sunrise.
📍Chile
📷Jacques de Selliers
#landscapephotography #landscape #photography #flickr flic.kr/p/2ptWJCx
James's flamingo (Phoenicoparrus jamesi), AKA the puna flamingo, is one of the three species of flamingo found in Chile and of the six species in the world. Like all flamingos, they are omnivorous filter-feeders, filling their beaks with salt lake water and sifting it out to eat plants, insects, shrimps, and fish. Laguna Lejía (Bleach Lagoon) is a salt lake in the Atacama desert. It is located in the Chilean Altiplano of the Antofagasta Region, 100 km (62 mi) south-east of San Pedro de Atacama, at an altitude of 4325 m (14,200 ft). It is shallow and has no outlet, currently covering an area of nearly 2 km² (0.77 sq mi) with an average depth of 1.2 m (4 ft).
October 31, 2025 at 3:54 AM
graemelyons.bsky.social
1/3 #speciesaday no. 659 is Common Carp (Cyprinus carpio). A large, long-lived freshwater fish introduced here centuries ago. Omnivorous and incredibly destructive to plant and invertebrate life in ponds. The lake at Woods Mill used to look like chocolate milk shake until they were removed.
October 29, 2025 at 6:06 AM
lifeofafox.bsky.social
Why am I vegan even though my theriotype is omnivorous?

Being born in this body gives me an opportunity to choose to do less harm & to respect consent. An opportunity many animals don't have.

If I am have an opportunity to do less harm & doing so will not harm me, I always take that opportunity.
October 28, 2025 at 4:58 AM
nemotheaxolotl.bsky.social
New semester has been absolutely flooring me, but somehow I tend to draw more when I've got more stressful junk bothering me. So here I unveil an old personal species I made a year ago and recently redrew to make them fatter because its more fun to hug that way. (Lore in Alt-Text)
#furryart #OC
A reference sheet of an anthropomorphic species of alien fish known as Pilcharians, the text goes as follows: Pilcharians Renegade Pisciculture Experiment Average Height: 130cm Average Weight: 40kg Diet: Omnivorous Habitat: Shallow Fresh/Saltwater The image is a more recent interpretation of the Pilcharian design, with the notable change being their more compact proportions and hunched over posture Lore Stuff: Pilcharians were a result of genetic experimentation by an advanced robotic species to create livestock that would be easy to maintain for alien species that were primarily carnivores. Their most notable quirk is their ability to detach their limbs painlessly to escape predation, but the primary use of this trait is to provide easily sourced meat for ranchers as they can regenerate from almost any injury within the span of a month. To complement this their diet is incredibly wide, allowing them to subsist on virtually any form of livestock feed and their quick breeding allows their numbers to grow rapidly. Despite having all the makings of a perfect aquaculture animal, they come with the commonly missed trait of being fully sapient and having an intelligence equal to most civilized race, but due to their inability to speak due to the structure of their throats, most other species are not aware of this. The ethical dilemma only gets worse due to their relatively short lifespan of 20 years at most. These factors leave them incredibly controversial to handle on most planets that don't have harsh requirements for meat subsistence, though the original creators of the species find it laughable that any species benefitting from their gifts would reject Pilcharians based soley on ethical quandries. A pilcharian with a helpful visual to aid in comparing their size to an average human, who is notably taller.
October 30, 2025 at 8:30 AM
cbh.bsky.social
The song sketches... I can draw from ANY type of music as I'm also pretty omnivorous myself with genres.. but I lean toward more electronic or heavier stuff? And man I barely got requests with that type of music so I think that added in VERY SMALL part to the burnout x)
October 26, 2025 at 8:38 PM
neprimateconsrv.bsky.social
Javan slow lorises (Nycticebus javanicus) are arboreal, nocturnal, omnivorous, slow-moving, and VENOMOUS! Because of their inability to leap, they need vines and lianas to connect from tree to tree. Heavily hunted for the illegal pet trade and their body parts. Critically Endangered.
October 25, 2025 at 11:07 AM