We got up early this morning to run errands in the exotic metropolis of Alexandria (not the one in Egypt), which mainly involved the process of melting my flesh into the fabric of a car seat. It is unpleasantly hot, but we had things that needed to be done.
Before we left, though, I checked out the spiders around my back door. We have a guardian Parasteatoda in a nice cobweb between the door and the mailbox…she’s a lovely young lady.
Five or six centimeters away, she had a suitor in waiting. He was busily wrapping up a present for her.
Then nearby we found Theridion hanging out in a yarrow flower.
They were turning away from me, so I got a second shot of their pretty face.
Then we scooted off to do our errands. Unfortunately, on our journey, we encountered the Freedom Propaganda Truck.
Yuk. The ass end of that ugly cargo of lies has a big sign that says “Follow me!”, so we turned and went in the opposite direction.
Does the Freedom Truck serve Freedom Fries?
My wife spotted an Argiope aurantia in our yard yesterday. She got a nice picture of it complete with its stabilimentum. I rather that it’s common in our area but it’s quite pretty. We have lots of little creatures in our garden because she cultivates natives and we don’t use pesticides or herbicides. The lizards and the birds are happy.
Can’t be!
Freedom Trucks® only travel to the right!
I tried to request a visit from a Freedom Truck (TM) to my neighborhood here in the SF Bay Area, but somehow it didn’t go through. There will be zero Freedom Truck visits to California. Bummer.
I dunno, it might be worth taking a closer look. That Freedom truck could be full of spiders.
Susumu Tonegawa has died:
https://news.mit.edu/2026/mit-professor-susumu-tonegawa-renowned-molecular-biologist-nobel-laureate-dies-0715
He impacted both the fields of immunology and of neuroscience.
You didn’t have a spare LAW rocket handy? There should be a bounty on these eyesores.
I watched the 47 min. video linked below (it’s worth watching). It was so full of factual information and sickening at the same time. The xtian nationalist terrorists assisted by prageru and funded with tax dollars are destroying what is left of this country. Forget the new food-born virus, these aholes will cause projectile vomiting if you spend any time in one of those trucks.
Alexander Avila visits the ‘freedom250 truck’
PZ wrote: Five or six centimeters away, she had a suitor in waiting.
Hey, thar, PZ are you some kind of commie, using them evil measuring words? I thought jebus reagan got rid of all them Jimmy Carter Commie ideas. (sarcasimus maximus)
I took pics of a spider making a web here in Minneapolis. Fun watching it hook up the anchors, then spiral out to fill it in.
I got pics. But don’t know how to post them here, without delving into http etc.