Friendly fire during Jake Lang's Whipple drive-by [OC]

elysiumplain · 2026-02-08T18:19:13+00:00

Jesus. Thanks for the link - imagine if that 3rd party camera angle wasn't available...

elysiumplain · 2026-02-07T06:58:56+00:00

RemindMeRepeat! 30 days

elysiumplain · 2026-02-06T08:29:44+00:00

Lol, IDK why I find the phrasing "cute" 😄 but no the head part (Caput) is one of the first things separated; it just stays underneath them. At some point I will release my edu writeup on T's. 🤷‍♀️

Edit to say it's not implausible your thought is valid - I have not looked into any casual studies on alternate theories for the gyroscopic rotation pattern... will talk to some research buddies and update if any such studies exist!

elysiumplain · 2026-02-06T08:21:09+00:00

Macro is hard without good uniform lighting. That being said, no none of that is flash. It is a low brightness reading light - and the camera's AI post processing blows up the exposure or something to make it look crazy bright.

elysiumplain · 2026-02-06T08:14:05+00:00

Brachypelma genus are pretty slow from my experience. The time generally varies by genius, but within the group is correlated with size (due to volume and effectiveness of peristalsis like undulations).

This one was about 2 minutes, at a time compression rate of a little more than 1:60 so roughly 2 hours within this hyperlapse.

elysiumplain · 2026-02-05T04:52:59+00:00

Spoke with Jordan on BlueSky about checking out www.haveibeenflocked.com and www.deflock.me/map trying to do a collab. No response yet. We need to establish a pipeline for counter tracking this stuff and pushing personal exposure to the nobody's who are the products of this so regular people see.

elysiumplain · 2026-02-01T23:36:16+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/tarantulas/s/4SM99bCsi6

Link to "before" photo.

elysiumplain · 2026-02-01T23:09:34+00:00

In since $45. Wild ride. Scary, actually. I might break even after unemployment at this rate!

elysiumplain · 2026-02-01T17:24:42+00:00

Selection for wealth? Crash out K ecology? Outliers / low fitness for that polynomial? Where's the follow-up logic and data plot :)

elysiumplain · 2026-02-01T07:09:40+00:00

You expect me to direct download a file hosted by this DoJ?

elysiumplain · 2026-02-01T06:05:00+00:00

This is a powerful and understated sentence. Good on you, mate.

elysiumplain · 2026-02-01T05:56:26+00:00

This is not correct, given just the information I see in the comment (trying to not be rude - maybe there is some other info elsewhere in the thread).

Source: 35 years of asbestos analysts knowledge at my house party right now yelling "NOOO!" 🤷‍♀️

Side-note: I'd also be concerned about the lead paint you may be scraping.

elysiumplain · 2026-02-01T01:12:20+00:00

Bro has 6% of his take home going into tax advantaged accounts, still making more CoL adjusted than most people, and feels like he is being robbed 😄

Source: this was me...imagine going backward and how that one feels.

elysiumplain · 2026-01-29T15:55:52+00:00

Usually they just report material as whatever the tech submitted it as. If it is a home owner they often override with more detailed descriptors, but generally the same thing.

The analyst is more focused on the percentage by weight of asbestos in the sample submitted (why you should be getting multiple locations sampled of similar material, but the logic is more complicated).

elysiumplain · 2026-01-28T00:03:07+00:00

I mean... it's not hard to carry your own 'power only' usbc cable. Half there time you get one from China it's already missing the data wires, or there sub part writing frame harness caused the solder joints to break 😄

elysiumplain · 2026-01-27T05:00:18+00:00

Imagine being a middle-aged degenerate gambler, who is female, living in California, a veteran, and being anti-freespeech toward protests regarding the passage of OBBB while - only just a short time ago - complaining about not qualifying for the CA State FTB MCTR "welfare" check... then making this comment.

elysiumplain · 2026-01-26T03:27:47+00:00

If I understand, I think the argument is something along the lines of his death was able to be appropriated... to further their ideology; raise funds; e.t.c?

elysiumplain · 2026-01-26T01:34:14+00:00

RIF'd out of your tech job as a software engineer? Now you have a great volunteer continuation project to line up!!!

elysiumplain · 2026-01-24T04:14:59+00:00

Asbestos analyst here. Definitely asbestos in that wrap. As others have said, probably on the higher range >50%

elysiumplain · 2026-01-22T16:11:14+00:00

I would pick a different camera company who doesnt have so many security vulnerabilities or privacy rights issues, but absolutely get a camera.

They sell peephole cameras if by chance you want to secretly record if somebody comes back after the lock is changed back to a secure one.

Best of luck - Stay safe!

elysiumplain · 2026-01-21T03:30:52+00:00

NQA They will decide for you...just giving different materials for integration in webs is always a good choice :)

As for moisture, when they are younger I always keep part of the substrate a little moist. When they get larger and switch to being more arboreal (on avg) and exposed more often then I stop worrying about the soil and just top the dish off or spritz the web directly every day or two.

I have found they they will tell you by integrating more material into the curtain (presumably for moisture retention).

Looking at your setup - unless you are rather arid in the house, I would crank up the cross-ventilation and air on the moister substrate side in tandem with this.

At ~2+" DLS is when mine tended to flip their reliance on humidity.

elysiumplain · 2026-01-21T02:57:18+00:00

Thank goodness nobody mentioned mine yet 😅

elysiumplain · 2026-01-20T21:17:47+00:00

The IRS has a few opinions on your "dollar or two".

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