New employee orientation at Monterey Bay Aquarium

[yeri@m.superuser.one]

@skinnylatte super cool! What will you be doing there?

[skinnylatte@hachyderm.io]

@curiousrobot great idea!

[jepyang@wandering.shop]

@skinnylatte @vapaad is it weird that i knew what aquarium this was based on the font used for the sign?

[pagrus@tears.intherain.club]

@[email protected] ahhh yeah that was one of my jobs at cal academy too, we had to chop up moon jellies to feed to other moon jellies, I always felt a little weird about that. the room where they grew them out was very cool though

[inthehands@hachyderm.io]

@skinnylatte
At the age of 5 or so, my daughter spent a solid 45 minutes petting the moon jellies at the aquarium in Duluth. The staff there were so good with her: teaching her how to touch them without hurting them, encouraging her curiosity. Magic.

[skinnylatte@hachyderm.io]

@inthehands wonderful! I love that everyone has a lovely story like this

[skinnylatte@hachyderm.io]

@pagrus Oooh I did not know that

[skinnylatte@hachyderm.io]

@jepyang @vapaad it does have very strong branding!

[skinnylatte@hachyderm.io]

@yeri director of product on their web and infra team. They have many services and growing

[pagrus@tears.intherain.club]

@[email protected] well, why were you squishing them up? I assumed that was the goal there, or was it strictly recreational

[skinnylatte@hachyderm.io]

@pagrus I dunno, it was part of our orientation haha ‘everybody squish a moon jelly’

[rednikki@toot.boston]

@skinnylatte When I worked across the street from the Aquarium I went to the jellies exhibit once a week or so at lunch just to stand there and calm down. (I don’t know if the full jellies exhibit is still there or not.)

[skinnylatte@hachyderm.io]

@pagrus we were supposed to describe what it felt like

[skinnylatte@hachyderm.io]

@rednikki there are Black Sea nettles now. Those are my fave. And the deep sea bloody jellies that are so new they don’t have names

[skinnylatte@hachyderm.io]

Top view of an actual shark tank

[pagrus@tears.intherain.club]

@[email protected] so cute! like little kittens

[skinnylatte@hachyderm.io]

@pagrus one of them is named Carl. I don’t know which one

[pineywoozle@masto.ai]

@skinnylatte #WetWednesday or #Squishtodon @curiousrobot

[skinnylatte@hachyderm.io]

@Pineywoozle @curiousrobot I like those

[lhauser@mefi.social]

@skinnylatte Do you guys have an arch tank for your jellies? We visited the new improved Seattle Aquarium a few weeks ago and you can walk under and through the jelly stream. Very cool.