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   Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Aug-2024 20:42:42 JST Charlie Stross

   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

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     John Maxwell (jmax@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Aug-2024 20:42:50 JST John Maxwell

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     @cstross You need to not bring back souvenirs from your own writing.

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     Tim Parkinson (tim_parkinson@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Aug-2024 20:42:55 JST Tim Parkinson

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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?

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     Kevin Rigotti (graffotti@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Aug-2024 20:42:56 JST Kevin Rigotti

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     @cstross
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     I thought all our native spiders were cute little things. Nobody told me we had swamp monsters.

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     InsertUser (insertuser@en.osm.town)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Aug-2024 20:43:01 JST InsertUser

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     @cstross

     I think you've just taught us that there is such a thing as too little pollution after all.

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     J. Steven York RESISTS (jstevenyork@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Aug-2024 20:43:06 JST J. Steven York RESISTS

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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.

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     James (grog72uk@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Aug-2024 20:43:14 JST James

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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:

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     Artemesia (artemesia@techhub.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Aug-2024 20:43:19 JST Artemesia

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     @cstross

     ...but enough about the Tories.

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     nobody (hermitcl@aus.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Aug-2024 20:43:21 JST nobody

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     @cstross and to think they only lost to Labour a few weeks ago

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Aug-2024 20:43:25 JST clacke

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     • Owen Beresford

     @channelOwen During industrialization. 😊

     @cstross

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     Owen Beresford (channelowen@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Aug-2024 20:43:26 JST Owen Beresford

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     @cstross were these killed off during the ice-age?
     (not read article)