Post AlBrxsmOSR51qF2rjc by Graffotti@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #AlBpjidhA8M4Qh5xuy by cstross@wandering.shop
       2024-08-20T18:28:59Z
       
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       NATURE IS HEALING—Giant spiders that can grow to the size of rats and live off fish are making a comeback in the UK, according to the RSPB.https://www.itv.com/news/2024-08-20/spiders-the-size-of-rats-make-comeback-in-uk-after-nearing-extinction
       
 (DIR) Post #AlBpjlck48NJgbfkLg by LordWoolamaloo@mastodon.scot
       2024-08-21T11:13:02Z
       
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       @cstross They probably just want their giant, blue crystal from Metebelis III back.
       
 (DIR) Post #AlBrxnnyx6NcPikZ16 by jmax@mastodon.social
       2024-08-20T18:30:54Z
       
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       @cstross You need to not bring back souvenirs from your own writing.
       
 (DIR) Post #AlBrxpsfEfJUqoxKam by tim_parkinson@hachyderm.io
       2024-08-20T18:33:28Z
       
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       @cstross "Now, after years of conversation work by the RSPB and Chester Zoo, the species is now back to thriving in the UK - which may not be welcomed by everyone."They were just talking about how cool big spiders are?
       
 (DIR) Post #AlBrxsmOSR51qF2rjc by Graffotti@mastodon.social
       2024-08-20T18:37:21Z
       
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       @cstross 😬 I thought all our native spiders were cute little things. Nobody told me we had swamp monsters.
       
 (DIR) Post #AlBsJE8oEO78Ashwqu by jstevenyork@mastodon.social
       2024-08-20T19:35:32Z
       
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       @cstross Hugely overblown. Mostly legs, and probably less massive than a baby mouse, much less a rat. But it makes good clickbait. There's a great journalistic tradition of exaggerating the size of arthropods.
       
 (DIR) Post #AlBsJH5NHc9JJ67kPo by InsertUser@en.osm.town
       2024-08-20T18:50:07Z
       
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       @cstross I think you've just taught us that there is such a thing as too little pollution after all.
       
 (DIR) Post #AlBsJHqATdZzeE17Ls by artemesia@techhub.social
       2024-08-20T20:18:50Z
       
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       @cstross ...but enough about the Tories.
       
 (DIR) Post #AlBsJJyOY1LgGJsiS8 by grog72uk@mstdn.social
       2024-08-20T20:17:19Z
       
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       @cstross 'Tim Strudwick, the reserves manager for the RSPB in the mid-Yare valley in Norfolk said: "We just don’t know how far they are going to spread and that’s what’s exciting, seeing which bits of habitat they take over next." '  :sideye:
       
 (DIR) Post #AlBsJLja04gbiwxudc by channelOwen@fosstodon.org
       2024-08-21T11:18:01Z
       
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       @cstross were these killed off during the ice-age?(not read article)
       
 (DIR) Post #AlBsJMCIHJefA0OqOW by clacke@libranet.de
       2024-08-21T11:39:28Z
       
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       @channelOwen During industrialization. 😊@cstross
       
 (DIR) Post #AlBsJMvJZvfRPdSnZI by hermitcl@aus.social
       2024-08-20T20:51:57Z
       
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       @cstross and to think they only lost to Labour a few weeks ago