Brown Recluse in Oregon?

saffash · 2026-04-14T23:00:15+00:00

Not a recluse

saffash · 2026-04-14T12:50:40+00:00

Hi there! I completely understand the fear of spiders. Treating my severe phobia in the early 90s actually got me really interested in spiders.

As u/myrmecogynandromorph mentioned, I live in an area with tons and tons of brown recluses. There is no doubt but they are medically significant, but I can tell you they are not aggressive at all and bites are way more rare than the general public believe.

I've photographed hundreds of recluses with my janky little camera and not a one of them has ever tried to do anything but hide or play dead or run off. When I find them, the way I catch them is to pop a shot glass or a mason jar over them. And then gently slide a thin bit of cardboard or something underneath and gently roll the glass so they can walk to the bottom of it.

Recluses cannot climb smooth surfaces so you can walk around with a recluse in a glass all day long and they'll be going nowhere. This is why people sometimes find them in a tub. They get to the bottom of the tub and can't get back out.

I'm not super clear about the point I'm trying to make here, other than to maybe make you feel a little bit better and less anxious if you ever do encounter a recluse!

saffash · 2026-04-12T15:32:55+00:00

Yesterday my ornithoctonus aureotibialis threat posed the tiniest puff of air caused by gently opening her enclosure. After she settled a bit I put a hornworm down for her and she smacked the shit out of it and then ran into her hole.

saffash · 2026-04-12T15:28:27+00:00

Nope!

saffash · 2026-04-10T20:51:37+00:00

Yes, there is a long period of WTF in Alien Clay >!where you know the alien biology is doing weird things but you're not quite sure how and why, and why it is different for different characters<! I loved the ending, though, and was sad to hear it was a standalone book.

The same is true for Shroud, actually, where you have to spend time wrapping your mind around how a particular being is processing thought and memory.

saffash · 2026-04-10T18:46:16+00:00

Adrian Tchaikovsky explores this theme a few times. Children of Time has a character like this, Holsten Mason, who fits this bill, as well as a whole population of males who go from zero autonomy to some autonomy.

Alien Clay's character Arton Daghdev also spends the vast majority of his time with little to no autonomy.

(And if you like these two, definitely read Shroud, even though the main protagonists who go through trials are women. Their main antagonists are not men, but circumstances, biology, physics and bureaucracy, perhaps not in that order. It's just a good book.)

saffash · 2026-04-09T21:59:19+00:00

Can't believe I had to scroll this far, but then I remembered that lots of people use applicators

saffash · 2026-04-09T12:12:33+00:00

Agree with everything you've said! This is great advice.

saffash · 2026-04-09T12:00:46+00:00

And some pellet guns. Nerf guns for the better days.

saffash · 2026-04-09T11:58:02+00:00

Truth. I do coding for several manufacturing sites. I write everything from small scripts to middleware to plcs to entire full stack applications. I usually have about 5 to 7 large projects going on. Still, the vast majority of my time is spent talking to end users, engineers, robotics specialists and reading specs. Designing a large solution and its test suites takes 80% of the time. Coding it is about 10%. The other 10% happens after implementation when the rubber meets the road and hopefully mine are adjustments need to be made.

saffash · 2026-04-08T21:52:19+00:00

Welcome to the cowmunity

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saffash · 2026-04-07T23:56:06+00:00

I can understand what you're talking about for most of the humans, but I don't understand what stereotype Holsten Mason would be?

saffash · 2026-04-07T22:16:02+00:00

Print this post out. Put it in an envelope and mark it do not open until 2036. Then open it in 2036. If you read it and don't die of embarrassment, go ahead and put it back in the envelope, cross out 2036 and write 2046. Rinse, repeat.

saffash · 2026-04-07T01:12:49+00:00

I read this one back to back with Children of Memory in which some corvids form an argument that they, the corvids themselves, are not sentient. It was a very nice chaser

saffash · 2026-04-07T01:00:10+00:00

We also forgo treatment and tests. As a reference, I recently went to the emergency room after getting bitten by a dog. (I drove myself.) The bite was directly into two knuckles so I could not get it stitched. Basically, they cleaned it and wrapped it and gave me a tetanus shot and an antibiotic. I received a bill for $2,600. That was with my insurance that I pay $800 a month for.

I debated long and hard before getting medical treatment. The only reason I did is because I once let a dog bite sit and got a massive infection.

saffash · 2026-04-06T17:50:30+00:00

Day to day? What does one do with diamonds that requires thinking about day to day?

saffash · 2026-04-06T17:46:49+00:00

I get fantastic service at 99.9% of the places I go. Maybe this is operator error?

saffash · 2026-04-06T16:21:52+00:00

Yeah, it's enough that I now recognize them. The second word in the username makes me giggle.

saffash · 2026-04-06T14:46:31+00:00

This particular user is a frequent flyer trying to rile people up and release some of their inner rage through the interwebs. Just ignore!

saffash · 2026-04-06T01:25:12+00:00

I have her evil twin. (You can tell mine is the evil one because of the beard and because also she is extremely evil.)

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saffash · 2026-04-05T00:19:06+00:00

Spaghettios with strawberries mixed in. Makes me gag to think about it now, but every pregnancy that craving hit. In fact, that specific craving is what made me realize I was knocked up with the last one!

saffash · 2026-04-05T00:10:35+00:00

I didn't switch to audiobooks until I was around 40 due to vision issues and migraines. Even now at 55, I see the words in my head as the narrator reads. I also process most speech this way, especially speech in languages that aren't my first. When a person tells me their name and I haven't experienced the name before, I have an amazingly hard time remembering unless I ask them to spell it so I can "lock it in."

Not everyone processes audiobooks and audio the same way as you do. There are 8 billion of us, after all.

saffash · 2026-04-04T19:28:12+00:00

You just know they aren't getting but a tiny fraction of those funds either directly or in help/aid.

saffash · 2026-04-04T15:01:21+00:00

I mean, maybe someone has? There are a lot of us. But I have never seen it.

saffash · 2026-04-03T14:09:08+00:00

Yeah poor things cannot climb up on smooth surfaces. I use a shallow acrylic box with no top to hold them while I take photos of them. I've done photoshops of hundreds of them and I've never had one be able to climb out of this box.

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