Logan MB

Independent Photographer. Freediver. Surfer. Storyteller. Science Outreach(er?).

[Schmidt Ocean @SchmidtOcean]

Fish, sponges, tunicates&more thriving on Southern Ocean seafloor. Led by National Geographic Explorers in collaboration w @SchmidtOcean, ���Into the Southern Ocean” is a National Geographic Society Perpetual Planet Ocean Expedition supported by Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Initiative.

[Schmidt Ocean @SchmidtOcean]

This feather star was seen off the coast of Antarctica, on 2nd dive of the ongoing #PerpetualPlanet Southern Ocean Expedition, led by @InsideNatGeo in collaboration w/ @SchmidtOcean Institute & supported by Rolex's Perpetual Planet Initiative. Live dives: https://t.co/TbvbxNqopV

[Alice Nebularis @AliceNebularis]

The nuckelavee or nuckalavee is a horse-like demon from Orcadian folklore that combines equine and human elements.

British folklorist Katharine Briggs called it "the nastiest" of all the demons of Scotland's Northern Isles. The nuckelavee's breath was thought to wilt crops and sicken livestock, and the creature was held responsible for droughts and epidemics on land despite being predominantly a sea-dweller.

The nuckelavee's breath was thought to wilt crops and sicken livestock, and it was considered responsible for epidemics and drought. Seaweed burning to create what was known at the time as kelp began on Stronsay in 1722.
The product – soda ash – was an alkali mainly used to treat acidic soil, although as time went on its commercial importance in soap and glass manufacture increased. The pungent smoke emitted during the process was believed to enrage the nuckelavee, resulting in a wild rampage of plague, the deaths of cattle and the destruction of crops.

The nuckelavee was said to have infected horses on Stronsay with the deadly disease known as mortasheen, to demonstrate its fury and exact its revenge against the islanders for burning seaweed; the infection subsequently spread to all the other islands involved in the industry.

The creature was also blamed for prolonged periods of abnormally low rainfall, leading to water shortages and poor harvests.

#Folklore #Mythology
🎨 Nuckelavee by Vulpes-Ibculta on
DeviantArt

[🇵🇸 Sarah Nour 🇱🇧 @SaCha1689]

French schoolteacher Emilie Sagee struggled to keep a job because of her ghostly double. During class, students often saw an identical apparition standing beside her, mimicking her movements. Her double even performed tasks on its own throughout school. #WyrdWednesday

[Michael Ferragamo @FerragamoWx]

It's finally done. Over 3 days of hand-plotting 173 years' worth of data. The end result is unbelievable.

What an incredible dataset to look at.

[Justin Hart @justin_hart]

Flat Eartheres (flerfers?) are dying today because of fellow comrades who flew to Antarctica only to witness that the sun does indeed rotate all around the horizon as if Earth was (shocker) round!

[Marysia @marysia_cc]

Barn Swallows by Kirsty May Hall

[🇵🇸 Sarah Nour 🇱🇧 @SaCha1689]

In the Czech tale "The Twelve Months," a girl is sent out in a blizzard to find violets, strawberries, & apples for her stepsister's birthday. Luckily she meets the twelve spirits of the months. March gives her violets, June strawberries, & September apples. #FairyTaleTuesday

[fwog @itsafwog]

always fworward never backwards

[🇵🇸 Sarah Nour 🇱🇧 @SaCha1689]

The myth of the griffin—a creature with the back half of a lion & front half of an eagle—may have originated with the protoceratops, a four-legged dinosaur with a parrot-like beak. Early fossil hunters may have believed their skeletons were that of griffins. #MythologyMonday

[Schmidt Ocean @SchmidtOcean]

“Snow was falling,
so much like stars
filling the dark trees
that one could easily imagine
its reason for being was nothing more
than prettiness.” - Mary Oliver

Footage from Dive 747 during the #ChileMargin2024 expedition.

[Enchanted Booklet @dreamerbook]

'Cry Wolf' #illustration by Borja Gonzalez

[Jonathan Mills @Muinchille]

...and that is what is happening. House prices have shot up, driven by what is effectively limitless demand, so long as banks lend on this basis. Tenants without inherited wealth cannot accumulate savings to buy; they're already paying a mortgage on an inflated price. What is...

[Logan MB @Logan_MB]

@HoverStatus - Cannot access email. get Server Error: STATUS: BUG: Unknown internal error (0.024 + 0.000 + 0.023 secs).
Known issue? Fixes underway?

[Nicole Lee Schroeder, PhD @Nicole_Lee_Sch]

It is a really jarring moment to be a historian. To know what might be coming is alarming. To realize that no one around you sees it or acknowledges it is a weird place to be in. Its like time traveling without time traveling. 1/8

[Logan MB @Logan_MB]

@Delta - Luggage lost 3+ months. I have filed claim, sent in paperwork, been on phone for 3.5+ hours. Last call (this morning) I was on hold over 30 min then disconnected. This is needs to be fixed - horrible customer service.

[Schmidt Ocean @SchmidtOcean]

Some polychaetes are bioluminescent; this sassy sparkler has protein structures in the bristles, making them iridescent. Polychaete means many bristles, and each body segment has a pair of fleshy protrusions called parapodia covered in bristles called chaetae. #ChileMargin2024

[🇵🇸 Sarah Nour 🇱🇧 @SaCha1689]

Anzû—depicted as either a giant eagle or a lion-headed eagle—is the personification of thunder clouds & the southern wind in Mesopotamian myth. Born of the primordial waters of Apsu, Anzû started a war when he stole the Tablet of Destinies from the god Enlil. #MythologyMonday

[🌻lizzie burd🌱 @Linken_log]

GRACKLE WITH CHIP

[Elizabeth Laraki @elizlaraki]

I'm talking at a conference later this year (on UX+AI).

I just saw an ad for the conference with my photo and was like, wait, that doesn't look right.

Is my bra showing in my profile pic and I've never noticed...? That's weird.

I open my original photo.
No bra showing.

I put the two photos side by side and I'm like WTF...

Someone edited my photo to unbutton my blouse and reveal a made-up hint of a bra or something else underneath. 🤨

Immediately, I email the conference host.
(FYI he is a great, respectable guy with 5 kids at home.)

He is super apologetic and immediately looks into the issue.

He quickly reports back that the woman running their social media used a cropped square image from their website.

She needed it to be more vertical, so she used an AI expand image tool to make the photo taller.

AI invented the bottom part of the image (in which it believed that women's shirts should be unbuttoned further, with some tension around the buttons, and revealing a little hint of something underneath). 🤯

—

FYI the conference organizers were super apologetic and took down all of the content with that photo.