Notices by neville park (nev@social.coop), page 2

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why did I sign up to 🚲 work for two shifts tomorrow #dlws

#Protest: People's Alliance against the Indian Citizenship Amendment Act

📅 Friday, December 20
🕛 12-2 p.m.
🌎 Consulate General of India, 365 Bloor St. E. (Sherbourne & Bloor)

#events #toronto #CAAprotest 🐘

@dartigen @quarky I think cats' thick fur is pretty good protection against spiders

one of my favourite bug ID posts was someone from Perth finding out their cat had had a run-in with a spitting spider: "he FUCKING SPAT AT HIM THE FUCKER!" https://www.reddit.com/r/perth/comments/5rscrf

@carcinopithecus I keep the green bin in the freezer, takes up valuable frozen pizza space but no smell or flies

@carcinopithecus I freaked out over a cockroach sighting earlier this year, put sticky traps everywhere, all they caught were 2 house centipedes which would probably have eaten more cockroaches

@quarky spider-wise, at least, not really. Redbacks, Sydney funnel-webs, mouse spiders. Not exactly teeming with dangerous species.

I hear y'all got some ants and centipedes that can really fuck up your afternoon though

@koosli bold take but probably not wrong

please sign my petition to have the American Arachnology Society add "Harmless" to every species' common name thanks bye

anyway i welcome thoughts from any scicommers/bug ppl/total randos if u want to share

anyway i think a lot about the language i use when identifying bugs for people, how to express that it is not bad or unusual to have them in your house. i use "common, normal, harmless" a lot, and also "indoors" instead of "house" bc "house" is in so many common names

i've rambled about this before but, like, it is not normal for a house to be bug-free. houses are ecosystems and it is normal to have bugs in them. most bugs are harmless and do not multiply out of control.

i blame Big Pest Control (but obvs also cultural norms etc)

arthro-musing:

i'm kinda disturbed by people whose first thought when encountering an unfamiliar bug in their house or even garden is "must kill it with most toxic chemicals i have as it is clearly the leading edge of an Infestation"

> My student @LingdongH@twitter.com has released 文言, or wenyan, an esoteric programming language that closely follows the grammar and tone of classical Chinese literature. There's an online IDE, and it compiles to JS or Python. Github: https://github.com/LingDong-/wenyan-lang Site: http://wenyan-lang.lingdong.works/

- @golan@twitter.com https://twitter.com/golan/status/1206959246988005379

#codeing

@fillertrack @starwall awoo

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