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  1. Two of our local white-tailed #jackrabbits (again, a species of hare, not a true rabbit) in my backyard today. We had a bunch of snow Tuesday, but that's mostly melted, leaving just the remainders from winter in the shady spots and where there were big piles or drifts.

    These two's faces have mostly turned brown, but their bodies are still almost pure white. It's kind of weird; elsewhere in the city, there are jacks that have pretty much turned completely already. It makes these two look like they're a brown hare sitting inside a white fur coat.

    They'll be shedding/blowing this coat soon, and will look much trimmer afterwards.

    I like their eyes.

    #rabbit #hare #WhiteTailedJackrabbit #jack #jacks #Canada #SK #YQR #wildlife #UrbanWildlife

  2. Vortex of Survival: Baitball Frenzy on a North Carolina Shipwreck

    We launched with Atlantis Charters (trip organized by Gotham Divers) and headed east into open Atlantic Ocean. This corridor of wrecks concentrates life: currents stack plankton, baitfish ride the structure, and predators cruise the edges. The top of the deck was approximately 85 ft deep, allowing for slight variation. The main action was positioned between 60 and 80 ft.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmKtGsic3pY

    The Hunt: How the Vortex Forms

    At first, the baitfish flashed in loose silver sheets above the deck. The jacks pressed in from the perimeter. The school cinched into a sphere. Then, it formed a spiraling column—a living vortex—hovering just over the main deck. Strikes came from the flanks and below, using the flat steel as a base to pin the bait upward. The cycle repeated: circle, squeeze, break, reset.

    Likely predators: jacks commonly seen on NC wrecks (e.g., greater amberjack or almaco jack).
    Tactics observed: herding, pin-wheel circling, quick surge strikes from cover.

    Why Wrecks Amplify Predation

    • Structure = leverage. Flat deck and vertical faces constrain escape routes and keep the baitball suspended just above steel, where predators can tighten the circle.
    • Eddies & seams. The wreck’s wake creates small eddies that hold plankton, drawing in baitfish and the jacks that hunt them.
    • Refuge–trap effect. The wreck feels like shelter to small fish, so it concentrates bait over hard structure; predators use the same edges and flat deck to corner and compress the school—turning “refuge” into a trap (an ecological trap).

    Camera & Lighting Setup

    • Camera: Panasonic GH5
    • Lens: 14–42mm kit zoom paired with Nauticam wet wide lens (for fast switches to true wide FOV)
    • Lights: Bigblue video lights for clean fill on the baitball’s outer skin and to hold color on the wreck details
    • Approach: I stayed low to avoid splitting the school. Just hooover on the main deck of the ship wreck

    Dive Conditions & Safety Notes

    • Run: ~1 hour offshore from Atlantic Beach, NC
    • Depth: ~80 ft to the deck; mid-water action above the superstructure
    • Exposure: 5 mm wetsuit was comfortable
    • Awareness: Mind surge along hull edges; track gas and NDLs closely at this depth.
    What are NDLs? No-decompression limits (NDLs) are the maximum bottom times you can spend at a given depth without requiring mandatory decompression stops on ascent; they vary by depth, profile, gas mix, and your dive computer’s algorithm.

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    Credits

    Boat: Atlantis Charters • Trip lead: Gotham Divers • Location: Offshore from Atlantic Beach, North Carolina

    #atlanticOcean #baitballs #jacks #Nature #northCarolinaScubaDiving #seaLife #shipwrecks #Underwater #wildlife #wreckDiving
  3. I went out to the old old neighborhood today for some treats. Best pepperoni rolls in the world- Jacks Italian Bakery. Burrito dinner- chunky beef with cheese on the inside from Panchos
    #Jacks #italian #bakery #pancho #food #neighborhood

  4. @strathearnrose @Bislick

    Yes... and no. It's complicated 😜

    We've got something like half a dozen species of #hare in Canada. Some of them have common names based on "#jackrabbit", even though they're not #rabbits.

    These ones are "white-tailed jackrabbits", formal name "Lepus townsendii". Where I live, they're the only common species of hare, so they're generally just called jackrabbits, or #jacks.

    Further north than I am, there are Arctic hares. For whatever reason, those are generally not called jackrabbits. 🤷

    Why does it have to be this complicated? I have no idea 😃

  5. More #Canadian #prairie #jackrabbits (again, actually a kind of #hare, not #rabbit...) from my wintry yard today.

    These two handsome fellers (or gals, who knows?) are in the front yard, looking at me through my open front door. One's got a skinnier head than the other. Dunno if that tells me anything. They all keep some dark markings on their ears and nose when they turn white for the winter, but there's a lot of variety in terms of how much and where else they keep a bit of colour.

    Again, these are probably Lepus townsendii, the White-tailed Jackrabbit. There are also Lepus americanus, the Snowshoe Hare, in the prairies, but I think they're mostly further north than me, up where the trees start in what we call the "parkland" area. I'm in the middle of the "grain belt", which is bald prairie for the most part.

    I have a bunch more of these, plus some videos which need trimming. Captioning these takes some effort so it might take me a while to work through them.

    #wildlife #yard #backyard #animal #bunny #SK Canada #winter #jacks

  6. #ESA:
    "
    Europäische Wissenschaft auf Expressfahrt ins All

    Die Höhenforschungsrakete SubOrbital Express-4 ist gestern Morgen um 06:00 Uhr MEZ erfolgreich vom Raumfahrtzentrum Esrange bei Kiruna im Norden Schwedens gestartet.
    "
    esa.int/Space_in_Member_States

    27.11.2024

    #Esrange #Höhenforschungsrakete #JACKS #Kiruna #LiFiCo #Mikrogravitation #MicACTin #Rakete #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight #Schweden #SSC #SubOrbitalExpress4

  7. CW: sexual content

    An excerpt from my interview with Dan Savage for the Savage Lovecast episode that dropped TODAY!

    Hear the full conversation in the Magnum feed.

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    I don't promote this because it's me, or even because it's about my bate club, Rain City Jacks. I do this because I feel strongly that ALL MEN—regardless of age, body type, race, nationality, sexual orientation, class, beliefs, regardless of ANYTHING subjective—that all men would benefit from sharing masturbation with their fellow men.

    I truly believe that men who masturbate together are better men, more accepting of each other and themselves, more positive about their own sexual impulses and natures, less frustrated, stressed or in conflict with their peers, more aware of all they share with the rest of humanity.

    #JackOffClub #Jacks #RainCityJacks #JackDaddy #Out #MasturbationIsAmazing #MasturbateTogether

  8. What has Anya Taylor-Joy dropped? Her gold-plated 6.35mm to 3.5mm stereo audio adapters, of course. #dyads #anyataylorjoy #phono #jacks #aphextwin

  9. CW: nsfw

    I'm just now preparing for the next two photo shoots for #RainCityJacks - The goal is always to tell a true story of what happens in a jack-off club, since photos can't ethically be taken in any actual event.

    These are a few of the final shots used on the RCJ website. We've built up quite a library over the years.

    #jacks #jackoff #jackoffclub #penis #precum #realmen #nudity #authenticity

  10. CW: nudity

    I just have to crow… I'm so excited about tonight's Rain City Jacks anniversary event. These are just enormous gatherings of masturbators masturbating themselves and each other together. I've been doing it for 18 years and I still get giddy and penis drunk on all of it.

    raincityjacks.org/calendar-2/#

    #jackoffclub #jacks #buddybate #groupbate #groupmasturbation #raincityjacks #joclub

  11. #ESA:
    "
    Europäische Wissenschaft auf Expressfahrt ins All

    Die Höhenforschungsrakete SubOrbital Express-4 ist gestern Morgen um 06:00 Uhr MEZ erfolgreich vom Raumfahrtzentrum Esrange bei Kiruna im Norden Schwedens gestartet.
    "
    esa.int/Space_in_Member_States

    27.11.2024

    #Esrange #Höhenforschungsrakete #JACKS #Kiruna #LiFiCo #Mikrogravitation #MicACTin #Rakete #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight #Schweden #SSC #SubOrbitalExpress4

  12. #ESA:
    "
    Europäische Wissenschaft auf Expressfahrt ins All

    Die Höhenforschungsrakete SubOrbital Express-4 ist gestern Morgen um 06:00 Uhr MEZ erfolgreich vom Raumfahrtzentrum Esrange bei Kiruna im Norden Schwedens gestartet.
    "
    esa.int/Space_in_Member_States

    27.11.2024

    #Esrange #Höhenforschungsrakete #JACKS #Kiruna #LiFiCo #Mikrogravitation #MicACTin #Rakete #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight #Schweden #SSC #SubOrbitalExpress4

  13. #ESA:
    "
    Europäische Wissenschaft auf Expressfahrt ins All

    Die Höhenforschungsrakete SubOrbital Express-4 ist gestern Morgen um 06:00 Uhr MEZ erfolgreich vom Raumfahrtzentrum Esrange bei Kiruna im Norden Schwedens gestartet.
    "
    esa.int/Space_in_Member_States

    27.11.2024

    #Esrange #Höhenforschungsrakete #JACKS #Kiruna #LiFiCo #Mikrogravitation #MicACTin #Rakete #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight #Schweden #SSC #SubOrbitalExpress4

  14. CW: nudity

    I just have to crow… I'm so excited about tonight's Rain City Jacks anniversary event. These are just enormous gatherings of masturbators masturbating themselves and each other together. I've been doing it for 18 years and I still get giddy and penis drunk on all of it.

    raincityjacks.org/calendar-2/#

    #jackoffclub #jacks #buddybate #groupbate #groupmasturbation #raincityjacks #joclub

  15. CW: nudity

    I just have to crow… I'm so excited about tonight's Rain City Jacks anniversary event. These are just enormous gatherings of masturbators masturbating themselves and each other together. I've been doing it for 18 years and I still get giddy and penis drunk on all of it.

    raincityjacks.org/calendar-2/#

    #jackoffclub #jacks #buddybate #groupbate #groupmasturbation #raincityjacks #joclub

  16. CW: nudity

    I just have to crow… I'm so excited about tonight's Rain City Jacks anniversary event. These are just enormous gatherings of masturbators masturbating themselves and each other together. I've been doing it for 18 years and I still get giddy and penis drunk on all of it.

    raincityjacks.org/calendar-2/#

    #jackoffclub #jacks #buddybate #groupbate #groupmasturbation #raincityjacks #joclub