Ralph Carothers

CDC is no longer surveilling outbreaks caused by campylobacter, cyclospora, listeria, shigella, vibrio and Yersinia. What could go wrong?

someone hacked the audio system and started playing circus music as she was talking and i am WHEEZING

New Ink! Scrappy Tattoo in Boyertown drew up the design and did a freaking great job with the shading

UPDATE: Secret Service agents — not ICE — were denied entry at a Chicago school despite initial CPS reports, a CPS source said.

Secret Service agents were looking for an 11-year-old who posted an anti-Trump video, the source said. https://buff.ly/3EatFDz

"You're my present this year."

It's almost Thanksgiving, which means it's almost time for me to post about my favorite cursed TV commercial

MatMire Makes Tarantula

This guy features articulation along every joint and pedipalps! The abdomen is also able to be wiggled. This fun toy is super posable.
Fun tarantula fact: We have no idea why some tarantula are some of the most vivid shades of blue!

Hi friends!

I just wanted to give a quick update on The Onion’s purchase of InfoWars, which we can’t wait to relaunch as the dumbest website on the internet.

The long and short of it: We won the auction and — you're not going to believe this — the previous InfoWars folks aren't taking it well.

New manatee print from MatMire Makes.

Fun fact- did you know that manatees have flipper nails? Just like toe nails on elephants, they are largely useless

Subbed today! Love the welcome message 😆

I don't know ANYONE who's had an aquarium and not had some similar story. One of my friends had an aquatic plant handed down to him from his dad, who got it from his grandfather. He thought it would be great in a tank, lots of vegetarians in said tank.
Thankfully, his dad had split it a few times :D

Some are, I've already begun reporting for community violations.

Nepenthes St Gaya, before I chopped up some of the damaged vine and repotted.

Drosera Filaformis Filaformis

Multiple Sarracenia

VFTS! Dionaea muscipula This has exploded in growth, and was a walmart rescue.

I'm Ralph. I work in IT, mostly as a network engineer, in a managed IT firm, so I'm basically a jack of all trades. My personal life isn't much better. :D 3D printing is in the bio, and I've posted some of the examples, but the other hobby I've been into lately is carnivorous plants.

A pom pom crab with one live anemone on its claw.

Pom Pom crab was probably one of my fav things to have in the tank though!

Nemo and Omen. 2 clownfish. Nemo is the orange, Omen is the black. Some corals on top of live rock.

Live rock, white and purple. Some shells, and a live purple and various iridescent clam!

A wide shot of the whole setup.

Some pics of said tank that I had.

Just sub'd. Out here doing the work that needs to be done! Can't wait to see what happens with InfoWars, since now it could potentially become an actual source for facts.

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Even voiced by a legend!

Just saying, a 5 gallon salt isn't too bad either ;)

Māori MPs briefly suspended the Aotearoa parliament’s attempts to reinterpret their founding treaty in the most bad ass use of the Haka I’ve ever seen.

@jonathanmaberry.bsky.social, after seeing some of the stuff in the House this week about aliens, I feel like maybe you have insider knowledge for your books 🤣

Elon Musk may already be overstaying his welcome in Trump's orbit Musk has been a near-constant presence at Mar-a-Lago, where he has sat in on important meetings and calls.

I guess the honeymoon is over...

www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

Abby and her creative writing teacher Mr House! (I believe she was just on the Today show for this too)

Though, I'm moreso feeling like Tess screaming into the void ;)

Are there squales in the drawer? ;) (and no, there doesn't need to be, I quite enjoy everything non-Threshold related I've read too!)

Has anyone told @mattgertz.bsky.social he's resigned yet?

Sky Follower Bridge - Chrome Web Store Instantly find and follow the same users from your Twitter follows on Bluesky.

@jengolbeck.bsky.social posted this on Twitter earlier and it helped a bunch. (hint: make an app password in bsky to have it ready)

chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-f...

The turkey isn't the only thing getting stuffed tonight!

Tonight feels like a baked potato night. Crispy salty skin goodness....mmm.
Also trying to figure out what I want to present at my next craft showing next month.

It's a Christmas show, and I'll have some themed items, but they usually don't sell great

I think Ben and Rufus both need cones

I’m gonna try making some Baja Blast chicken