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For #Arachtober, here's a cute little write-up of /r/spiderbro, a chill corner of Reddit dedicated to casual spider appreciation: https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/reddit-r-spiderbro-spiders-and-guys-who-love-them

(Note: take your identification and scientific questions to /r/spiders and /r/whatsthisbug!)

"How do I react as stoicly [sic] as possible to this? I really don't want to go for tattoo removal sessions"

Once there was a teenager on /r/stoicism who wanted a tattoo of Epictetus but they drew Epicurus instead, and I think about it, like, every day. https://www.reddit.com/r/stoicism/comments/4ids3m

So, instead of a linkdump thread, just plonking all my tabs in one blog post instead. Bam, here you go. https://nevillepark.ca/2018/10/18/nightmare-rectangle-round-up-municipal-finance-black-widows-migrants-and-more/

ugh okay must get up and about

I liked how they did it in #CrazyExGirlfriend, where Rebecca can drop tons of money at plot-convenient times and you're like "okay maybe she made a lot of money in NYC and that's how she can afford all this" and it turns out that she just doesn't know how to manage money and one day her car gets repo'd.

Yes I'm the kind of person who worries about how characters on TV make enough money to live

How the balls are they all in Australia, well, at least Eleanor and Jason? You need, like, a visa, and lots of money, because the cost of living is ridic. #TheGoodPlace

A splash of fall colour for #Arachtober: a red velvet mite among the yellow splotches of goldenrod rust, a fungus that grows on goldenrod leaves.

it's too early to go to the candidates' debate and it's too late to do anything else ugh

the frame that launched a thousand fanfics (#TheGoodPlace S02 spoilers)

That said, literally everyone jonesing to start the Revolution needs to figure this shit out because if you think it won't disproportionately hurt the poorest ppl, or that you can topple the government without so much as a power outage, you're out of your forking mind

I've been thinking about this kind of thing a lot.

Mostly I am anxious about losing indoor plumbing, and how we're going to keep warm in the winter in buildings not designed for fireplaces.

I'm probably just paranoid

Maybe, in the future, crops will not need to be produced as abundantly, to travel so far, when we don't have "cold chains" and gasoline. Maybe no one breed of livestock *should* be grown at industrial scale.

Heirloom breeds of crops and livestock—uniquely adapted to their environments, resilient to changing climate—hold promise for the future. Maryn McKenna for National Geographic, with gorgeous photos by Luisa Dorr: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/future-of-food/california-agriculture-food-drought-resistance/