Marcella Gail

Cover of the book Children of Strife by Adrian Tchaikovsky. It has a green ringed planet with tendrils and/or tentacles growing out of the rings and a blue spacecraft heading toward the planet. A quote attributed to Andy Weir reads "An awesome story." --Andy Weird on Children of Time

Ope, Children of Strife is coming in 11 days! I gotta get moving on re-reading the series this week. Think I'll play the audiobook of Children of Time while I feed the spiders tomorrow. They'll enjoy it (the feeding, not the book, they are not great listeners).

Imagine the satisfaction is his little heart!

nom nom nom

My ridiculous HOA has a rule that you can't have a lawn decoration larger than 6 feet tall. That leaves a LOT of wiggle room. Bookmarking this.

Conservatism was always about valuing existing systems, property and tradition over human beings. It was about mocking, excluding, exploiting and vilifying those in the minority rather than embracing differences. It was intellectually incurious and morally bankrupt. Fascism is just one flavor.

A brown tarantula balancing on a cup of water while eating a blue-green hornworm.

I have to feed around 60 spiders tonight. In honor of today's events, each roach, BSFL and hornworm shall be lovingly named Kristi.

They're so gorgeous!

What exactly is a markwayne anyway?

What are the odds he'll call for "Tim Iran" to be the next leader?

They aren't zero, I'll tell you that.

Hint to new sys admins/in-house dev employees:

Don't respond quickly to really stupid requests. If you let them simmer in the bright light of day for a bit you'll often find that they resolve themselves or just boil away into the ether, forgotten by all.

a man with long white hair and a beard says " speak it plainly " ALT: a man with long white hair and a beard says " speak it plainly "

Email from CEO: Why was this decision made?

Me: This decision was outside my purview and I have yet to hear a sound explanation for its intended outcomes vs its actual outcomes. You might ask VP So-and-So.

CEO: You can just say VP So-and-So screwed up

Me: Gotcha

Dolan is also morally bankrupt so it is hard to discern which is most likely to be lying

A thin dark blue tarantula standing on some sphagnum Moss with legs spread akimbo. A larva is clutched in its pedipalps and he is feeding on it. The larva is almost the same size as him

A baby phormictopus sp. Dominican purple tarantula eating a larva.

It does! Thank you!

OK, just purchased In the Dark of the Grove (can't pass up a creepy midwesterner book)! How gory are we talking here? Just so I'm prepared.

The word "white" in all its meanings, too.

Some of my relatives used to complain my nephew was "looking butch" until he came out as trans and then they were all sorts of cool with "looking butch."

Anywho, he's doing great and he's firmly ensconced in our side of the Big Family Schism™.

A black cat lying on his side on a kitchen table that he damn well knows he is not supposed to be on. His legs are splayed showing all his nether bits. He has a smear of white on his coat which is very likely a bit of yogurt he has somehow stolen.

Here is a photo of a giant dork who is not supposed to be on the table, just for you.

Nice ink and epic shirt!

It might even rival the tan suit incident

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My life's work is complete.

Dear lord I just laughed so hard at this

A black tarantula with a reddish abdomen hunched over a large water dish drinking. A hornworm sits on the edge of the water dish not understanding it's peril

Little thrixopelma pruriens girl getting a nice slurp. #tarantula #spider

Yes! I also have their brother. My habit is to buy three or five packs of spiders when they are tiny babies. That way I get to watch them grow and can compare them to their siblings! ( you also often get wholesale prices if you buy five)

Yeah, I've never had one jailbreak before or since. Running off during a rehouse, feeding or breeding, sure, but this guy just kept working his enclosure til he got the top off.

He's not matured yet but I have a very special lady for him! Hopefully they'll make beautiful resourceful babies.

I had a male cancerides who got out of his enclosure and free-ranged for 9 months. I had looked everywhere and finally gave up on him. Then one day he showed up in the middle of the floor, fat and happy. I guess he was helping himself to the roach bin.

IME phormictopus are very active spiders and can be a little jumpy. These particular sisters are really pretty chill. I don't recall any of them ever threat posing, although I do have a cancerides and an atrichomatus who have when startled.

The thing with this genus is they are always DOING THINGS

A fat greyish pink baby spider with delicate legs sitting on some sphagnum moss.

This is what this spider looked like as a tiny baby 4 years ago. What a glow up! #tarantula phormictopus auratus sling

She's gorgeous!

A chocolate brown spider with deep golden tones on her carapace and legs sitting with some of her legs on some dirt, some on the side of her enclosure and a few on her water dish. She is in explore mode.

One of four phormictopus auratus sisters living in my home. They are all such gorgeous spiders! #tarantula