D'AWWWWCTOPUS: post yr images of adorable octopuses here (no squid allowed)

as an octopus rights advocate. I'd like to do a few tests on the MDMA they are using, just make sure it is up to lab quality standards!

PLUR.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:47 (seven months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha bizarro

https://www.sciencealert.com/ev-nautilus-davidson-seamount-grimpoteuthis-dumbo-octopus-caught-on-camera

what a cutie

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/nega7b/swarm-of-1000-octopuses-found-at-bottom-of-the-ocean-davidson-seamount?fbclid=IwAR0cRZhzRmHL9EPodnoL-1CZRyKjgsGXMnd4KN9BMozpeXDtRm0pFMI5rj4&utm_source=mbfb

<3 all this baby cthulhus

I watch cooking shows all the time, perhaps masochistically as a vegan, but I don't mind people meat being cooked. But octopus (and veal) produces a sense of distaste that I never had before.

I mean, I'm used to meat, so other people ordering meat in a restaurant doesn't bother me. but someone ordering octopus bothers me. I guess noone's reactions make much sense.

(I still don't say anything)

"people meat" doesn't bother you??

It's less insulting than "meatbag"

https://youtu.be/7tScAyNaRdQ

ah fuck it, I don't know how to embed these things. not octopus related, just a "people meat" short film.

Just remove the "s" from "https". Yes, it means its not secure, but that's how ILX rolls.

Cheers!

http://youtu.be/7tScAyNaRdQ

o fuck

from this thread i ended up at the end of the internet and learning about the argonaut or paper nautilus, which is not a nautilus but apparently a back-evolution of octopus and it is really interesting. i've never seen one of those shells before either, or i just assumed it was a type of proper nautilus?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argonaut_(animal)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-4JYPXPSrk

o fuck

you can't embed shortened urls

d'awwwww look at this squirmy li'l cutie!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAmTTCV7GyY

A tourist in Australia has gone viral after posting a video of themself holding a blue-ringed octopus. But it hasn’t gone viral just because the animal is beautiful. The blue-ringed octopus is one of the most venomous creatures in Australia and the unnamed tourist is lucky to be alive.

The chilling video, which appears to have been originally posted to TikTok, found its way to Reddit over the weekend where Australians started to point out just how dangerous it was to handle a blue-ringed octopus. Commenters shared their own stories about the animal, which reportedly carries enough venom to kill 26 full grown adults in a span of minutes.

The venom of the blue-ringed octopus, which contains the neurotoxin tetrodotoxin, causes paralysis and the sting is so small that most people have no idea that they’ve been poisoned until it’s too late.

To make things even more horrifying, there’s no anti-venom available for the blue-ringed octopus. The only known treatment is to massage the victim’s heart until the venom works its way throughout a person’s body in a matter of hours.

One person on Reddit even told the story of an unnamed victim who had been paralyzed on the beach with their eyes open while facing the sun.

“They survived, but nobody had really thought about the fact they’d been staring up into full midday sunlight for a couple of hours throughout the process with their eyes wide open, pupils fully dilated,” the Redditer said. “Total paralysis, easy for the first-aiders to not think to cover their eyes. Caused irreversible damage. They permanently lost their vision.”

Australia gets a bad rap for having dangerous animals, but most locals believe that the fear is overblown. It’s not overblown when it comes to the blue-ringed octopus though. If you see one in the water, let it be.

Got to be an American, no?

This is how an octopus changes shades and textures to blend in with its environment pic.twitter.com/xQAV6JhZy7

— How Things Work (@ThingsCutInHaIf) February 9, 2019

cor

https://66.media.tumblr.com/5f34c82ea6e1d2e40593205ef6fd1a4c/tumblr_puean2iiZh1qm9k25o1_1280.jpg

hello bubbeleh

https://trailersfromhell.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/sh-e1483663767465.jpg

Best movie title ever. Should be scored by Eek! A Mouse.

If only the movie lived up to the title.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MyMKSLQTE_k/UAQmCs75IJI/AAAAAAABLIM/SddZwzU8xoc/s1600/MysteriousIsland29%2B%252862%2529.jpg

The Mysterious Island (1929)

hello im having the best day ever bc i just found out this shiny holographic octopus exists pic.twitter.com/UC9Vw0MrdP

— stacie 🍵 REOPENING COMMS 7/15 (@CthulhuLel) July 7, 2019

(yes, i know it's a cuttlefish; it can't help it)

https://www.instagram.com/p/B0BgUWLD2no/?igshid=2c6upi7w48yz

Good trilobite disguise.

It's apparently pretending to be the venomous flatfish, see more of its impersonations here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wos8kouz810

Would not mind being reincarnated as an octopus

they are SO **cking badass it's ridiculous

https://scontent.fphl1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/67160480_2417718071615858_2978170652789309440_n.jpg?_nc_cat=110&_nc_oc=AQlI0ssLGizzKW_1_ohiaxMCxLl1RAzWujO6sJFPydmAgp7jQSAZVRU2fDxoNsRLAlY&_nc_ht=scontent.fphl1-1.fna&oh=435df60a3ec5b2d7af59f1fc21fa4fef&oe=5DA26C81
A perfectly cromulent Criterion Collection spine # 1000.

Mimic Octopus/Sanders 2020

Are we ready for a pride octopus?

https://youtu.be/QJcXMPJ9XN8

you’re damn right i am

werktopus

That's what she said.

I apologize for besmirching this pure thread with such an obvious, poorly formed "joke."

you're among colleagues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp8wJwERqRw

Amazing to watch

wow

dang

beautiful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vKCLJZbytU

https://www.sciencealert.com/watch-the-mesmerising-colour-shifts-of-a-sleeping-octopus

holy shit