I have some estranged family with a plot a few feet away from the Marx grave. I should visit and see if any more of them have died yet.

Anyone else see this and immediately look up if Alecto The Ninth was out yet?

What is it with all the dips in USA cuisine? And what are you dipping that need such heavy dipping sauces?

It already is freakier than that. It's tit juice created via the industrial mass rape of billions of cows worldwide, that are kept in cramped and dirty conditions and seperated from their offspring at birth, so their tit juice can be harvested for profit and human consumption.

The protests against the Iraq war were massive and yet completely ignored in favour of lies, millions of pointless deaths, and a fuck ton of very profitable resources to extract.

The Iraq war protests happened when I was a young teen and it broke my belief in the power of showing up and protesting being able to change anything.

Corruption isn't swayed by protests, only by money. If you can't buy government backing for your cause, it's dead in the water. Protesting against corruption is just going to get you arrested and/or put on a list of dissidents.

Ooh, those look really pleasingly tactile, I like the glued on beads, and I like your colours too, especially the flower stencils on the bin(?)!

Brody is a pedo who all the church ladies love to the point of turning against their kids if they say anything against him.

Billy Bob is a deeeeply closeted homosexual who fantasises about murdering rent boys and actually might have, depending on where he was in the 70's.

Susan is just kinda stupid and annoying, but she does good charity work for people who actually need it and she really doesn't want to hurt anyone, so she should get to live.

Be cool to all animals, killing them is not OK.

But also, common house spider spreads antibiotic-resistant bacteria to humans, study finds, so maybe don't be so blasé about letting them live in your house?

Nah, my mother loved spiders and we somehow regularly had fucking massive house spiders crawling around on the ceiling of the house when I was growing up. I swear she must have been bringing them into the house at one point or something, we definitely had a well above average amount of spiders for a good few years there.

There was only ever one at a time though, that I ever saw anyway, but they were those really big, hairy bastards that you can count the legs off from across the room and don't look like they're supposed to live in England.

Fast too, so fast, and eerily silent as they skittered, with too many angles protruding from their fat bodies. If you couldn't see them so starkly outlined against the white ceiling, you'd never even know they were up there, and they'd cross the room in less time than it took you to walk there yourself.

My mum thought they were cool though and called them all Boris and she'd talk to them like they were bloody cats. Mad woman.

I am (thank fuck) not my mother and shit scared of most spiders*. My mothers' behaviour did not impact my perfectly rational fear of potentially dangerous creatures crawling around my house. I know giant house spiders aren't dangerous to humans, but plenty of other big spiders around the world are and I don't think it's wise to try desensitise human children to this, especially as more and more species now will be migrating due to climate change.

*Jumping spiders are cool, I like those ones. They're surprusingly smart, and cute, and they've even evolved a vegetarian amongst them.

This made me so happy to read.

Not worried enough to stop farming livestock though are they

It's a flat if it's one floor, owned or rented. 'Flat' is also easier to write, say, and spell too.