god fucked up making komodo dragons super venomous aggressive and all around unsuitable for domestication. those beafts should be in our homes
if i had this thing in my lap i think everything would be alright i bet it would love being scratched on the head if it wasnt already so fond of chewing me and empoisoning me and smacking me hard with its horrible tail
hey y'all I have another favor to ask you. a trans employee at a Polk County, Missouri library was recently thrust into the public debate literally just for wearing a pronoun pin and being trans while doing a storytime for a couple of families. if you’ve got a minute please consider sending a quick message of support for the employee and for the library publicly standing by him
Random fact: Although jumping spiders can’t move their eyes, they can move their retinas to change their field of view. It’s as if they’re looking through a window.
If the spider is clear enough, you can even see the retinas moving through the cephalothorax:
