It's kind of annoying to ask for recommendations for examples of [category X] and people jump in to be like "okay but what if I recommended you examples of non-overlapping category Y instead surely this is useful for you, a person who clearly did not know what they were asking for"

Bugfriend made me another entry in the Bug Church series (like cathedral stained-glass windows, but depictions of bugs instead of saints, etc), based on my shot of a paired Phidippus regius couple... but made it Sapphic: 2 lasses, on trans colors 🥹 Perfection does exist. 🩷🩵

Gonna go vote, hope the line's tolerable and the weather doesn't turn awful and everyone is chill

@travismcenery.bsky.social I apologize if this is something you have mentioned previously and my swiss-cheese brain forgot, but in your capacity as the Spiders In Your House person... has the tiny and delightful _Oecobius navus_ ever been on your radar?

Me in a corporate workplace lunchroom: ME: Hey, can I sit with you guys? COLLEAGUE: Only if you promise not to talk about spiders. ME: Okay, I promise. COLLEAGUE: Good, because nobody wants to hear about gross poisonous insects. ME: OKAY FIRST OF ALL

"this ai summary may not be accurate" why the fuck would i rely on it then

Hamataliwa helia child, with a perfect perch amid a tiny laurel of moss 🧡

Early Arthropods xkcd.com/3199/

Hey scientists: what do you folks do when a primary source you want to look at is in a language you don't speak? Rainer Foelix is a great starting point for stuff but a lot of his sources are entirely in German and my German ist nicht gut genug.

I was born into this world to be an overlooked neighborhood eccentric and every external circumstance has conspired all my life to deny me my natural path

New pet peeve: when a latecomer jumps into a text conversation about X needing you to first do Y, just to go "Sure but you only need to do Y if you're trying to X". No shit, Sherlock, scroll up.

It's so so so so so cold outside and I'm so tired but I have books waiting for me at the library? What to do...

Arachne al principio de Hades II: Heeeey, Melinoë, qué tal, cómo te va la vida, qué alegría verte por aquí. Arachne cuando ya has avanzado un poco: Mel, ven aquí que te voy a contar TODOS mis traumas a la vez.

Me writing in feverishly to the EN manga publishers/translators like "pretty please with whipped cream and sprinkles on top"

最近開始考慮回台灣，可是不想靠家人，在外國住了三十多年也都失去了國語能力，用英文上網查只查到外國expat彼此討論的post，真的不知道要怎麼樣把這件事搞清楚。我這種整天留在家裏從來不出國旅行的人真的什麼都不會。

imagination: dignified reality: terrified