#vagans

[sophieinwonderland]

(If you’re going to say anything stupid about veganism just don’t even reply to this ask.)

Plurality got brought up in a discord server I’m in for sharing vegan recipes. The server itself has no relation to plurality. But people were still sharing resources defending endogenic plurality and overall I think the entire vegan server is now pro-endo. I know pro-endo ideas are spreading far and wide beyond just spaces for plurality, but this is the first time I’ve actually seen it in action.

This is more proof anti-endos are being left in the dust. The future is plural and they cannot stop it!

That's great!

The Future is Plural!

[8-legged-cats]

Oh lawd he comin

[celestite-caroline]

I've been thinking about several hypothetical changes to KB such as "what if they all had coffee names" or "what if they still looked a lot like coffee beans" and "what if the newer KB stuff kept the gritty, aggressively 2000's vibe" and to sum up I ended up making an entire AU based off all of these

[chaifootsteps]

Lapis molted and she's beautiful!

[aviculor]

[girlactionfigure]

[specificallygrowndaikon]

Yeah so uh

[snototter]

A Mexican Red Rump tarantula (Tliltocatl vagans) in Central America

by didyeah.

[eretzyisrael]

[simon-newman]

IT’S HAPPENING!

Forgive me the dead plant I left inside (it died/dried up when I was on vacation/banished from home for over a month at the end of last year due to renovations).

What matters is that the Tliltocatl vagans female has dropped an egg sac!

FINALLY!

Now. To provide a bit more detail on this:

I’ve bought a male in summer 2022 and he matured around the end of August with the female molting about a month earlier (hard to tell she spends a lot of time underground).

I’ve attempted to pair them at the end of September and failed (the female retreated and remained unresponsive and I didn’t allow the male to wander into her burrow as he wasn’t drumming either).

A week later I attempted to pair them again and this time it all went perfectly with the male surviving.

From there I fed the female generously until she closed her burrow and disappeared later in October.

Unfortunately the male also died around that time for unknown reasons (I wasn’t around due to vacation time and by the time I returned he was already dead).

I waited patiently - regaining access to my place for good in late November I started to water her enclosure every two to three weeks depending on the state of the substrate - doing so carefully not to disturb her and not to collapse the burrow.

To my surprise the female emerged a bit over a week ago - around 10th of May. No egg sac at that time.

While I was kinda disappointed I noticed she was seriously FAT and she refused food when offered. I took the chance and watered her enclosure again - generously this time, soaking nearly half of the substrate on one side of the enclosure.

She remained outside until Saturday - at that time she did some excavating, webbed up the entrances the the hide and disappeared again.

Lo and behold! This morning I’ve found her as you can see in this photo.

Please note the absurdly deflated abdomen.

I’ve watered again today - causing her to retreat back to the hide.

Now we need to wait 30 days and hope she’ll take a good care of that sac.

[8-legged-cats]

The last thing a mealworm sees:

Edit by my friend y2kita.bsky.social

[kirstielol]

so my tliltocatl vagans sling died today :( but ok i wanted to make a post about how odd the circumstances are..

how old would you guess this tarantula is? would you be surprised to find out that it was almost two years old?

i got this sling at an expo in early 2021.. and it just never got any bigger?? i feed my slings weekly, usually a pre-killed insect that's either similar in size or bigger than the sling itself. i have over 30 tarantulas, i've raised most of them from slings, and i've never had one just... not grow? i've had slings grow up and mature out in the time i've had this guy.

a little over a month ago i posted those top two pictures on reddit and asked the tarantula keeper community on there what was going on and what i should do. basically everyone just said to feed it more often, so i did, i upped to feeding it twice a week. someone on reddit also pointed out that its abdomen looked small, even though i had fed it the day before taking those pictures.

and so today i went to check on him, and saw he was in a death curl. no clue what happened.. maybe an internal defect that it had since birth that prevented it from growing somehow? it's abdomen never looked full despite feeding it huge prey items regularly. honestly i'm surprised the little guy lived for almost 2 years.

[smallhatlogan]

I love raising tarantulas look how teeny it was 😭

[aviculor]

feeding day

[girlactionfigure]

Some of the comments about Israel’s operation in Jenin are based on willful attempts to manipulate or ignore facts. Here are a few examples.

1. Misleading about who was killed. One can say “terrorists” or “militants” but willfully misleading is to pretends it’s random people.

2. Persistent use of “refugee camp” is an attempt to mislead. It was a camp established in 1953, it’s a built up urban area today. Willfully misleading is to portray the word “refugee camp” as of the attack is on refugees, as oppose to gunmen in the area.

3. Not mentioning the gunmen, gun violence and far-right religious extremist militia terror groups that are the target of the operation. The armed men openly pose for photos…not showing them is part of misleading about the gun violence these men did to the locals

4. Portraying the use of “missiles” as somehow unacceptable. When hundreds of armed violence extremists take over an area and use it to stockpile illegal rifles, bombs, explosives and other dangerous weapons, they have created a war zone. Precision warfare is how war works today

5. Israel’s use of bulldozers is not against civilians but it is falsely portrayed as such. The fact is that hundreds of gunmen with illegal rifles terrorized civilians and put explosives near streets risking lives. Armored vehicles clearing streets of IEDs is way to remove them

In conclusion, it’s important to start with the reality that armed gangs of men running around with rifles and stockpiling weapons for attacks is what led to this. You can’t have a city terrorized by armed extremists that attack others.

The reality is that the Palestinian Authority backed for years with western aid, and even it’s security forces trained with US backing, had a duty to bring peace and security to people in Jenin and they systematically abandoned the city to extremists (many tied to Iran)

You can go back and read all my and other reports about how illegal weapons openly fueled and destroyed peace and security in Jenin. Stakeholders who were supposed to help the PA, failed to account for this and abandoned the city to armed gun culture extremism.

When is the last time human rights groups or diplomats visited Jenin and spoke out about the flood of illegal firearms and extremists who parade around with guns in front of kids to terrorize people? People have a right not to live under armed gangs

Huge resources were spent on the PA; money siphoned off for villas and BMWs while Jenin was abandoned. While officials relaxed by their pools rifles were stolen and flooded Jenin. Diplomats relaxed in hotels in Ramallah roasting eachother and “human rights” groups as it happened

And so then after the armed groups carried out dozens of attacks Israel increasingly responded. And then those relaxing who had done nothing and abandoned the city to extremists are surprised and misleading.

Jenin is used by gunmen extremists, some backed by Iran, so that Iran can try to turn it into the same hell of Hezbollah-occupied southern Lebanon and Hamas-occupied Gaza and the captogan trade of militias in Syria or the hell of PMU-occupied parts of Iraq.

It’s not like the model isn’t obvious. Iran already carved out an arc of poverty and militia - occupied armed gunmen hell in many areas to profit and use these areas against others. Unfortunately they tried to do the same in Jenin with predicable results.

Seth Frantzman

@sfrantzman