Species of this genus are often collectively referred to as "devil rays", "flying mobula", or simply "flying rays", due to their propensity for breaching, sometimes in a spectacular manner. These rays gather in groups and leap out of the surface into the air up to around two metres before splashing back into the water. Wikipedia
I love mobulas! We snorkeled with them for literal hours off the coast of Isla Espiritu Santos in the Sea of Cortez. We stay the end of their mating season so there were only a few (maybe a dozen), and they seemed to enjoy following us around. (Also have swum with their giant cousins the Mantas in Hawaii.)
Those leaping catches at the wall would be all the more magnificent if they let an actual ray play the game. Of course, you'd need to provide a pool, but with big-name stars come big-time concessions by management to keep them happy.
My sister-in-law and I tried to follow a huge ray we came across. It had to be 10 feet across. It was too fast for us and we lost it. This happened off the coast of some obscure little island in the Caribbean.
I went there with a French Canadian lady I met in Montreal during an airshow, probably 40 years ago. Great water and an interesting twist on Mexico! Hablo un poco Espanol, tambien.
At one point the Monterey Bay Aquarium had a plexiglass column filled with anchovies that swam around like that. This also calls to mind the old Steinhart Aquarium "fish roundabout" in San Francisco, where one mounted a spiraling ramp to get to a large circular, carpeted room with thousands of fish swimming around you in a circle within floor-to-ceiling glass walls. Magical. A former employee there told me that after hours, the roundabout was well-known as the best place for employee sexytimes.
Why would anyone on the right publicly announce they weren't voting for Chump? No one will know who you vote for, but if you tell them ahead of time, they'll treat you like a Haitian immigrant.
I love Montana, it's Big Sky country FFS, and that video IS interesting, because those boys understand the assignment for their state, but not for the US of A. It's weird and makes no sense, but I'll take it. Tester in Montana is KEY. We don't need Montana for the WH.
I think it's easier to switch party allegiance when it's not the top of the ticket because you can see who's voting for what and the Congress critters can't bullshit and bluster their way out.
Plus, umm, not to look shame (as I do just that) but those men do not look like they'd be physically able to vote for a woman for anything
In his 1853 book "Grundsätze der Realpolitik angewendet auf die staatlichen Zustände Deutschlands" German writer and politician Ludwig von Rochau states that the great achievement of the Enlightenment had been to show that might is not necessarily right. However the mistake liberals made was to assume that the law of the strong had suddenly evaporated simply because it had been shown to be unjust. Rochau wrote that "to bring down the walls of Jericho, the Realpolitiker knows the simple pickaxe is more useful than the mightiest trumpet".
"Conservative commentator Kevin D. Williamson this week had the best take in a Dispatch article subtitled “A pretty long story about a thing that didn’t happen”: “You can send little J.D. to Yale to make him polished, you can send him to Silicon Valley to make him rich, and you can send him to the Senate to make him powerful, but you cannot stop him from being what it is he apparently wants to be: Cleetus the Gap-Toothed Twitter Troll.”"
You can take the boy out of Butler County, but you can never take Butler County out of the boy. Once they've seen the Dayton Mall or even the Cincinnati Zoo, they're incorrigible...
In the ridiculous and pathetic timeline that we've somehow come to inhabit, instead of femmes fatales, we get thirsty, repulsive dipshits like Laura Loomer.
Jill Stein voters are the dumbest, smuggest, most willfully ignorant folks in the land. Trump supporters also share those traits but Stein voters are really delusional.
Like a RAY of sunshine, it’s your hed gif link source info, with fun facts: https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/belly-flopping-for-love
And your meme chat for today: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/4f38684b-b6b0-49bf-9dbe-fc7b94833a66?utm_source=share
"A fever of rays"
like
Species of this genus are often collectively referred to as "devil rays", "flying mobula", or simply "flying rays", due to their propensity for breaching, sometimes in a spectacular manner. These rays gather in groups and leap out of the surface into the air up to around two metres before splashing back into the water. Wikipedia
I love mobulas! We snorkeled with them for literal hours off the coast of Isla Espiritu Santos in the Sea of Cortez. We stay the end of their mating season so there were only a few (maybe a dozen), and they seemed to enjoy following us around. (Also have swum with their giant cousins the Mantas in Hawaii.)
“We stay the end of their mating season”
Perverts!
😉
Belly flopping to attract a mate sounds like something I should try.
Whatever works.
I feel confident that the Wanderer will turn up and tell us about a story he wrote about a Furry any moment now— or at least, hopeful.
Well, if the size of the belly helps, I’ll be swimmin’ in wimmen
Hmmmmm... I agree with Eppe on this one. What works in the ocean very rarely works on land, in general.
I sea.
Asking for a second opinion first would be my unsolicited advice.
Appreciated.
I've always wondered if fish jumping from the water is equivalent to humans diving into it.
/deepthoughts
Back in my college days, deep into a THC enhanced late Saturday night chat group, there would have been strongly stated "Opinions" with a capital "O".
With lots of Oreos with a capital O.
Damn! Upon reflection, my Saturday night evening meals back in my college days were almost always top-notch.
The fact that the neighborhood bakery only baked a garlic-infused French-style loaf on Staurdays may have had something to do with it.
Well, that's a relief. It sure didn't look like a hot dish.
Ray of Sunshine, reminds me of Madge and her William Orbit produced wonderful tune from quite a while ago!
For all practical purposes, it's a Strange Cargo number.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3ov9USxVxY
Not a huge Madge fan but William Orbit is top notch. Lots of really great instrumentals.
14 years ago!!! Oof.
You're not getting older, it's just the calendar that's getting older.
That's the most excited Tampa Bay fans have been in a while.
I have often wondered if they are being paid back for dropping the "devil" from the team name. I mean, when I bother to care at all about sportsball.
Those leaping catches at the wall would be all the more magnificent if they let an actual ray play the game. Of course, you'd need to provide a pool, but with big-name stars come big-time concessions by management to keep them happy.
John Oliver’s episode about stadiums: some of them do have pools. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcwJt4bcnXs
My sister-in-law and I tried to follow a huge ray we came across. It had to be 10 feet across. It was too fast for us and we lost it. This happened off the coast of some obscure little island in the Caribbean.
Isla Mujeres?
I don't think so. We used to go sailing in the BVI and stop at all the little ones like Norman and Peter and Jost van Dyke.
I went there with a French Canadian lady I met in Montreal during an airshow, probably 40 years ago. Great water and an interesting twist on Mexico! Hablo un poco Espanol, tambien.
Those rays... Once they get the details of s̶w̶i̶m̶m̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶ flying through 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘪𝘳...
All bets will be off. Hell, what if they start teaching the other fish...
"Heat up 𝘮𝘺 ocean, will you?" says the flying kraken...
As the barrels of his zeppelin's gun start spinning.
So cool
The coolest of cool tab gifs
I love watching rays swim. The B'more aquarium has a huge tank full of rays and sharks, and I could sit there and watch them all day!
I should visit Charm City again. I was there about 10 years ago..... had a nice time.
What can you say about a city that has adopted the rat as its unofficial mascot. It has a love/hate relationship with The Wire, though.
At one point the Monterey Bay Aquarium had a plexiglass column filled with anchovies that swam around like that. This also calls to mind the old Steinhart Aquarium "fish roundabout" in San Francisco, where one mounted a spiraling ramp to get to a large circular, carpeted room with thousands of fish swimming around you in a circle within floor-to-ceiling glass walls. Magical. A former employee there told me that after hours, the roundabout was well-known as the best place for employee sexytimes.
I loved the fish roundabout!!!!
It was reallly my favorite place in San Francisco. I was SO bummed that they got rid of it when they overhauled the Academy of Sciences.
We never go anymore.
Neither do we. It's heinously expensive, and the best part of it is the view of it from above from up in the tower at the DeYoung Museum.
YES!
I remember the anchovies!!
;>D
They're having so much fun!
That is a really cool one! That must be an awesome thing to see up close.
That is really, really cool! I had no idea rays did that. We couldn't find where that video was taken, though -- do you know?
And does it look like they're saying the females do a flip? That's incredible!
What do you think will become of Project 2025 after Democrats win?
I was a feral child once. Now I am a feral oldguy in a cabin.
At least you're not a childless cat-lady in a cabin. They're the worst.
I'm even worser. I'm a childless, man-less, cat-lady who is very happy about it.
So has Trump sold off all of his DJT shares, or could he not find enough buyers yet?
It's at $14.70 at close today.
Doing awesome!
Too bad it’s bounced back from the $14.29 it was at earlier. With luck, $14.29 will shortly be a high it doesn’t reach again.
Does it have to dip below $12 to stop sales, or is it too late for that already? Just once I want him to lose publicly.
I thought it was too late if it made it to today, but I don’t know.
He should get on with decimating the stonks, then. Do it now before the election, so the people know what he thinks of them!
Donald Chump's coming to Springfield!
It's like Christmas during campaign season!
Of course, the likelihood of this having when a pollster calls isn't that high, but I bet:
The reverse is very unlikely. I bet there aren't many husbands out there that "silently" root for Trump and would lie about that to a pollster.
https://x.com/AesPolitics1/status/1836759189869228401
I definitely could see that happening with people.
Harris might have more support than we think.
Quoting Ivan the K™
"I told the pollster I was voting for Trump because my husband was in the room."
Why would anyone on the right publicly announce they weren't voting for Chump? No one will know who you vote for, but if you tell them ahead of time, they'll treat you like a Haitian immigrant.
Just followed you, lol.
I'm a dog.
I love Montana, it's Big Sky country FFS, and that video IS interesting, because those boys understand the assignment for their state, but not for the US of A. It's weird and makes no sense, but I'll take it. Tester in Montana is KEY. We don't need Montana for the WH.
I think it's easier to switch party allegiance when it's not the top of the ticket because you can see who's voting for what and the Congress critters can't bullshit and bluster their way out.
Plus, umm, not to look shame (as I do just that) but those men do not look like they'd be physically able to vote for a woman for anything
In his 1853 book "Grundsätze der Realpolitik angewendet auf die staatlichen Zustände Deutschlands" German writer and politician Ludwig von Rochau states that the great achievement of the Enlightenment had been to show that might is not necessarily right. However the mistake liberals made was to assume that the law of the strong had suddenly evaporated simply because it had been shown to be unjust. Rochau wrote that "to bring down the walls of Jericho, the Realpolitiker knows the simple pickaxe is more useful than the mightiest trumpet".
Oh look, Fani Willis facing Merchant again in court today.
There is an "open records" request, and Willis wants to get rid of that.
But I admit, not going to scroll through the whole thing to figure what is going on exactly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0uoHeqCS1I
"Conservative commentator Kevin D. Williamson this week had the best take in a Dispatch article subtitled “A pretty long story about a thing that didn’t happen”: “You can send little J.D. to Yale to make him polished, you can send him to Silicon Valley to make him rich, and you can send him to the Senate to make him powerful, but you cannot stop him from being what it is he apparently wants to be: Cleetus the Gap-Toothed Twitter Troll.”"
[Jackie Calmes column; LA Times, today]
You can take the boy out of Butler County, but you can never take Butler County out of the boy. Once they've seen the Dayton Mall or even the Cincinnati Zoo, they're incorrigible...
In the ridiculous and pathetic timeline that we've somehow come to inhabit, instead of femmes fatales, we get thirsty, repulsive dipshits like Laura Loomer.
Things were different in ye olden days: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/09/23/kingmaker-sonia-purnell-book-review
Not gonna lie, I'm really worried about the supreme Court pulling Bush V Gore 2, electoral boogaloo.
Hope the Dems don't roll (or was it bend?) over this time around.
I don't have the info in front of me, but I seem to recall the Harris campaign saying they have a huge legal team on standby for the election
Nice reaction. I hope it's true.
https://x.com/notcapnamerica/status/1836742507780055304
Jill Stein is pulling one percent of support away from Donald Trump in Pennsylvania
Jill Stein voters are the dumbest, smuggest, most willfully ignorant folks in the land. Trump supporters also share those traits but Stein voters are really delusional.
Somebody rich should send her a big pile of money.
Someone other than Putin?
Seems like an excellent use of Putin's cash, tbh.
Hrmrmrmrmrmr.
https://x.com/torriangray/status/1836771763050672465
Extremely normal people.
Apologies if this has been posted already.
West Coast and Upper Midwest Teamsters tell national union to get fucked, endorse Kamala Harris.
https://crooksandliars.com/2024/09/west-coast-teamsters-break-national-union
All pf which pint to the supposed poll being cooked bs.
Western PA Teamsters have also endorsed Harris
https://triblive.com/news/politics-election/western-pa-teamsters-endorse-kamala-harris-breaking-with-national-union/
Teamster locals in Illinois and NW Indiana as well. But that's no surprise.
Also:
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2024/9/18/2271368/-Nevada-Wisconsin-amp-Michigan-Teamsters-Officially-Endorse-Kamala
Penguins in flight are majestic. Where did they get those beautiful capes?