Scientists have uncovered an extensive underwater vent system near Milos, Greece, hidden along active fault lines beneath the seafloor. These geological fractures act as pathways for hot, gas-rich fluids to escape, forming clusters of vents with striking visual diversity. The discovery surprised researchers, who observed boiling fluids and vibrant microbial mats during deep-sea dives. Milos now stands out as one of the Mediterranean’s most important sites for studying Earth’s dynamic interior.
This is fascinating, but it is not surprising. Most seams leak. If you want to find vent systems, identify underwater faultlines and check them for leaks.
As of right now, 11:53am on Tuesday, December 30th, 2025 SquidgeWorld Archive is back up and running! If you see any oddities, please don't hesitate to let us know.
For transparency, here's basically what happened:
The server had a hard disk corruption that had to be corrected
Corrections were made, but there was an internal database that contained further corruption. The internal database was replaced with a backup so that the "redis" server (software that is required for SqWA to run) would come back up as well
With all corruption errors addressed, the system processed the data chunks like it normally does when it comes up.
We should be good to go from here on out. This does make a redeployment of SqWA a higher priority. We're in the beginning stages of this. More information will come about when we're ready to go.
“ao3 always receives more funds and donations than what they ask for” yeah that’s because people love a place that actually protects all fanfics, art and artists against censorship, purity culture and capitalism. shocking, I know
fanfiction is a rare gem and a solid, living proof that, in a world of tiktok, influencers and content posting, not everything is about money and going viral. art can still be art just for the sake of the artists’ pure love, joy and passion for the art they create. fanfic writers write 100k words and more about the characters they love for free. just because they love these characters and the art of writing so much. art is not dead and the world is still beautiful.
This poem was written outside the regular prompt calls. It fills "The Last Command" square in my 1-1-24 card for the Public Domain Bingo fest. It has been sponsored by a pool with fuzzyred. This is the third poem in the series Crystal Wood; it follows "Trees of Glass" and "Ghost Forests."
Warning: This poem is dark science fiction along the lines of ecological horror.
Currently, SquidgeWorld.org is down due to disk corruption. We're running some processes to clean up the corruption. Hope to have things up and running within the next couple of hours.
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