Is this the dark web I keep hearing about?
this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2025
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Good for them, big mood.
Spiders Georg is absolutely beside himself
The signal to noise ratio on that network has gotta be insane.
The sheer hubris of actually touching it repeatedly. There is no way to know how it could react to outside bacteria and whatever else is on him. He might have just killed the entire thing just to get his Tik Tok video.
Not gonna lie, I thought this was going in a different direction. Like, the hubris, it could have reacted by swarming him like he was food to a hungry, sentient blob of nightmares.
Just being there and breathing probably releases more bacteria than just touching it
You summed up Tik Tok perfectly, yes.
Lolth smiles upon thee.
I wonder if they have any social interactions with each other, beyond mating and so on.
I wonder how much cannibalism there is. I cant imagine their prey make it far past the entrance.
Not since the cotillion last June.
Go to a lil market, discuss politics, chat in coffee shops, etc ... all in a friendly manner between two species where one is 4× larger (in body-length alone) than the other. Basically like humans & cats.
Did you, by chance, read "Children of Time" by Adrian Tchaikovsky? 😬
Not yet!!
Abandon, all hope.
No way. This is cool.
Shelob!
