Friday Cephalopod: What is best in life?

To mate many times, see the eggs laid in droves, and to swim among the mighty accomplishments of fecund females!

(via Moss Landing Marine Labs)

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That is good! That is good.

To crush your enemies. See them driven before you and to hear the lamentation of their women.

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