This is one of my favorite species--the bumba horrida. It's a Brazilian dwarf tarantula. They are fun, colorful and very active. This one is a very freshly molted juvenile so he looks a bit faded. Sadly, he is a male so his lifespan will be shorter than his sisters. His name is Goose!

Some of them really, really did.

Somebody thought the water stream filling up her bowl was a food. tliltocatl albopilosus juvenile female #tarantula #spider

01/25 9:45AM Border Patrol is out in Los Angeles, sightings in Echo Park/ Silverlake and South Central. Please stay alert, get vulnerable people inside. Record everything and be safe.

Lower Midwestern and Southern Americans this is your reminder that this is the time to grab a bin of snow for your indoor cats.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Apropos of nothing, remembering the old Chinese author Lu Xun: “Lies written in ink cannot disguise facts written in blood.” ― Lu Xun

If you’re able, here are a list of ways offer financial support to folks under siege in Mpls right now: linktr.ee/mplsmutualaid

A young female poecilotheria ornata about 10 days after a molt. I absolutely love her green coloring! Her molt was about 6 in/15.2 cm long and I am willing to bet she grew a ton this time. Pretty sure she's mature now! #tarantula #spider

Tliltocatl kahlenbergi eyes #tarantula #spider

In case you've been wondering what it looks like when a caterpillar poops, I have created this lovely video for you.

the president wont see your posts making fun of how he's looking these days but your friends whose skin seems to be sloughing off in wet discolored chunks as the psychic weight of their craven wretchedness becomes manifest will

I fed around 70 spiders tonight and now I'm done. This is one of the cutest of the evening, a grammostola pulchripes juvenile female. Please ignore the food in her teeth. #tarantula #spider

Here's a weird one. Catumiri argentinense (little brown dwarf tarantula) molted hanging off the side. She just crawled up the side, hooked a claw into a vent hole and then popped out of her own skin. Haven't seen one quite like this before! #tarantula #spider

This ceratogyrus darlingi lady let me take a few photos before getting tired of my BS and going into her burrow. Her giant horn is glorious! #tarantula #spider

Quick snapshot of my gorgeous theraphosa stirmi tarantula who molted after a whopping 988 days of NOT molting. She looks so fresh! Hard to say how big she is exactly given her posture, but I estimate as large as my outstretched hand. She is tightly gripping her molt. #tarantula #spider

“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

I think it’s bad that the Speaker of the House has been in a sensory deprivation tank since roughly 2015 and only emerges to get yelled at in the hallway outside of the tank.

A personal experience with the absolute hostility of the US immigration system. Earlier this year I accompanied a friend to USCIS for their final interview. Upon entering the room an officer gruffly approached, stood way too close, loudly and immediately demanding to see their interview notice.

Pastors working for ICE Sex workers running mutual aid for immigrants Which one looks more like Jesus???

I had one of those dreams that those who care for animals seem to get. I went into my animals' bedroom and discovered a juvenile anaconda that my dream self had somehow forgotten existed. He was thin and ill and injured but alive, and my panic and guilt were overwhelming and kicked off a migraine.

I mean... It sure feels like it.

This chilobrachys fimbriatus was being all chill and cute and then he got big mad at his dinner. #tarantula #spider

I've been reading the Parasite series by a new-to-me author, Mira Grant. I mentioned to my daughter how much the writing reminded me of one of my favorite authors, Seanan McGuire. Long story short I am not bright and they are one and the same.

A baby psalmopoeus reduncus tarantula doing a really great job hiding. I totally don't see their butt. Do you? #tarantula #spider

A very rare look at this psalmopoeus emeraldus female. I've had her a bit over three years and almost never see her. She was a hungry girl today, so she came out! Terrible picture, but I'm taking what I can get. #tarantula #spider

Pretty juvenile psalmopoeus victori. I have a batch of 7 siblings and this one is my secret favorite. Don't tell her siblings! #tarantula #spider

Was asked to write an article for a company newsletter to cover two pages. Turned in a 680 word article about what AI is and isn't. Was told it is way too many words. 100 at the most, and all in bullet points. My revision: AI - AI isn't intelligent - AI companies want your data and your money

Little man got his beak trimmed today. He did wonderfully! (30 year old Russian tortoise)

Newest #watercolor #paleoart is Pachycephalosaurus. This is a redo of a 15 year old painting. Yes the colors are inspired by the 90s Kenner action figure. I’m not sorry.

In today's episode of I Have Two Black Cats and Bad Vision, I warmly greet this small fan with "Hello baby boy! How are you this afternoon?"

Whenever one of my grandchildren is upset or hurt, I play a particular video for them. Tonight my youngest grandson was sad about losing a game and sobbed to me in a little quavering voice "I need the video!" The video is Christopher Walken dancing to Fatboy Slim's Weapon of Choice.

Just saying out loud that I remember this morning when they were saying that they weren’t going to do anything besides the Maduro kidnapping Before they announced they were also going to run the entire country I remember a few hours ago

Imagine checking your phone and finding your mom posted this on Nextdoor:

I'm sure if this bumba horrida had sentience, they would object to this rather NSFW photo of their butt string apparatus. Dwarf tarantula #spider

New worlds are easy to rehouse, but this little guy made it ridiculously easy. At the first disturbance in his old home, he shoved his face into his empty water dish. I merely picked up the dish and popped it into his new home. He's gonna be so confused. acanthoscurria geniculata tarantula #spider

This beautiful lady passed quietly today at the age of 21. She is the orange snake with the heart on her head and the other snake in the photo is her baby daddy. She was the mother of 42 snakes, all told. This photo is circa 2010 or so.

They have formed a rather orderly queue to view the chirping bird.

My 20-something and 30-something children are all excitedly getting ready to party their brains out tonight. My 50-something ass is excitedly preparing to be asleep by 9 PM at the latest.

At midnight today, it will have been 2016 for the past decade.

Banning soda and candy from SNAP is about getting retailers to pull out of SNAP and denying low-income people access to *all* food. And boosting administrative costs to direct benefits. newrepublic.com/article/2048...

The most disarming dreams are when you're discussing a problem with a person and your inner voice is truly at a loss about a solution but that other dream person suggests a perfect, completely novel answer. Extra freaky is when you wake up and the whole thing makes sense in real life too.

New books from me from Tor UK - this starts with Children of Strife next year and will continue with some standalone books after that.

This juvenile spider has not molted in 748 days and until today had not eaten for 441 days. Today he walked out of his burrow when I checked on him, so I tried feeding him and he ate really quickly. Go figure. Spiders are weird. tliltocatl kahlenbergi male

This is funny no matter how many times you watch

Girl, I just refilled your water dish yesterday! Where did the water go? Turns out the other end of this tarantula fanged the water bowl to death. (harpactira pulchripes)

Just finished The Names by Florence Knapp. A gorgeous novel that will fill your heart while simultaneously ripping it out. I rarely stray outside science fiction but am so glad I have!

Spawn fell asleep mid fight and Nerf is baffled.

This year’s Presidential Christmas card.

Would anyone like to see a photo of a chonky aphonopelma anax (Texas brown tarantula) juvenile female? Well today is your lucky day! I love me a brown spider.