#housing inspections

[housing-law]

HUD Left Families in Danger? Shocking Housing Violations in Houston Exposed!

🚨 Families were left in cockroach-infested, moldy apartments, and HUD just… did nothing? 😱 Tenants of Coppertree Village in Houston demanded safe housing, but HUD stayed silent. Now it’s a federal case! What would YOU do if you were in unsafe housing? Find out the jaw-dropping details and learn what rights every tenant needs to know. 🏚️👉 Watch Now! #HousingRights

[thatbookishkat]

Christmas arrived early. 😍😍😍

[fist-of-vengeance]

[bestanimal]

Round 2 - Arthropoda - Chilopoda

(Sources - 1, 2, 3, 4)

Chilopoda is a class of arthropods commonly called “Centipedes”. They include the Scutigeromorphs (“House Centipedes”), Lithobiomorphs (“Stone Centipedes”), Scolopendromorphs (“Tropical Centipedes”), Geophilomorphs (“Soil Centipedes”), and the Craterostigmomorphs which consists of only two living species.

Centipede means “hundred feet”, though no species of centipede actually has exactly 100 feet, as their pairs of legs are always an odd number, ranging from 15 to 191 pairs of legs! All centipedes are venomous predators, delivering venom through a pair of fang-like front legs called forcipules. Prey include other invertebrates like earthworms, fly larvae, collembolans, and other centipedes. The giant Scolopendromorphs are able to tackle larger prey including vertebrates such as lizards, frogs, birds, mice, snakes, and even bats. They live in tropical or desert habitats worldwide, but only in moist environments, meaning they must be more active under cover or at night. Many species lack eyes, though some have simple eyes that allow them to distinguish light from dark. Some species use their first pair of legs similarly to antennae, sensing vibrations and even using them to “hear.” Their bodies consist of 15 or more segments, with one pair of legs attached to the sides of each segment. Their back legs, called “ultimate legs”, are modified depending on species, and can be elongated and thin, thickened, or pincer-like. They are not used for walking, but instead can be used in defensive displays, for hunting, or for interspecies fighting, and they often play a role in mating rituals and are usually sexually dimorphic. Centipedes range from a few millimetres to 30 cm (1 foot) long.

Centipedes are generally solitary, not even meeting up to mate. Males will leave spermatophores on the ground for females to pick up. However, females provide parental care, coiling around both their eggs and young and grooming them (first image). Some species grow anamorphically: adding on segments with each moult until they reach their adult number of segments. Some species grow epimorphically: growing all their segments and legs as an embryo before hatching, and not adding on any more when they moult.

Centipedes arose during the Late Silurian, but were considerably rare until the Triassic Period. The modern Scolopendromorphs and Scutigeromorphs appeared in the Cretaceous.

Propaganda under the cut:

In my desire to show just how colorful and beautiful centipedes could be, my first rendition of this post featured 3 Scolopendromorphs and 1 House Centipede. I then realized how unfair that was and changed it to include most of the major types of centipede, which reduced a lot of the color of this post unfortunately. I believe the centipedes I’ve chosen are still beautiful regardless, but if you want to see some pretty colorful centipedes, check out the rest of Scolopendromorpha!

Similarly to spiders, while all centipedes are venomous, none are particularly deadly to humans. Most small centipedes’ jaws are too small to break human skin, but large tropical centipedes’ bites can be quite painful: causing swelling, chills, fever, and weakness, especially in children and those allergic to bee stings. These bites are always in defense, so if you leave them alone, they have no reason to bite.

Some large centipedes are consumed in China, usually skewered and grilled or deep fried. Thailand produces centipede vodka: large centipedes steeped in alcohol.

The common house centipede (Scutigera coleoptrata) originated in caves in the Mediterranean, but has evolved alongside us to live inside human homes. The dark and humid corners of buildings are literally their habitat! They are beneficial predators, feeding on many species humans consider pests such as cockroaches, termites, ants, bed bugs, spiders, and silverfish.

Centipedes have long lifespans for arthropods, some living up to 10 years.

They are friends! Or maybe… lovers?

[protectorcraft]

would you believe me if i told you this interaction is what sold me on the game.

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[muppeddie]

it's not that i hate buck's loft for any reason whatsoever it's just that eddie's house has a little frog sponge holder and little jars on the windows with animals on them and the kitchen rags that match the oven and those fun megnets on the fridge they play around with sometimes and there is a calendar with their schedules written with a bullpen under take out menus they order from when shifts drag a bit too much and buck doesn't feel like cooking and there is a gaming console in the living room because eddie plays videogames too and the couch is a pretty color and its got all those nice decorative pillows and there are pictures framed of them all around the house and a nice rug and enough space between rooms for chris' clutches to fit and a little dinner table for breakfast where they eat with colorful bowls and eddie made that all on his own a home to share with the people he loves where he hosts cookouts for the 118 and buck cooks dinner and chris chats with his friends and they watch telenovelas together and they love and they care and they stick together

[sotc]

GOOD MORNING DA NATION!!!!!! JUST A FEW HOURS LEFT. Anyone else trying to keep busy so time moves faster !!!!

[vulcannic]

i forgot to post here but i figure some of you who have been here since the beginning would be interested

yesterday was mine and mike’s 10 yr anniversary!! i remember coming on here and writing up a whole long post after our first date so it only feels right to share this milestone with yall :’)

[scrumptiousstuffs]

Source: Khaotung’s IG

29/072024

[luthwhore]

we bid on a house and had it accepted (!!!!) so if all goes well we will have a NEW HOUSE that we OWN in january!!!

[wu-does-art]

au where mike narrowly escapes the upsidedown while on patrol and gets an obscure curse to be a catboy for a month. this is amusing to everyone but mike.

[01navi-ss]

doing the new updated story im like i miss ren and then i see the diner bg and im like oMG REN!!

[violentlyscreaming]

the children yearn to go outside in the destruction and aftermath of Milton and coalesce into the floodwaters once more

[kokoschlopper]

[wrightandco]

…..with everything else that’s happening now we gotta go feed his CAT?

[mrsterlingeverything]

I was very bad at videogames today but good at work. Fuck