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Amy Winehouse vs Paparazzi 2011.

fakenigel

RIP

h0odrich

amy had the mean dropkick

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sigma female

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importantsecret

harvestheart

Saw this on FB and if it is true, it is funny as hell. I can see this happening.

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“Dog bows to Simba along with the other animals in The Lion King”

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bananapeppers

web with calamistrated cribellate silk in a square-wave design, photographed by Reddit user bayouturtle (source)

bayouturtle, in a 2017 comment available on their profile page: “I took this pic on the north coast of Tasmania a couple weeks back thinking it was merely a mildly interesting spiders web. Never thought it would get this much publicity or that its origins were such a mystery.”

identified as Paramatachia sp. by arachnologists Piergiorgio Di Pompeo and Ethan Yeoman

[attn: @chthonic-cassandra]

bananapeppers

@surefire-tanis’s tags: “is there just a whole world of cooler spiderwebs that most people dont know about? like there was that silkhenge thing the other day that was totally wild too [.] not that regular spider webs aren’t already pretty fucking cool”

yes!

the most widely recognized type of spider web is the orb web, which is an example of a capture web, i.e. a web for capturing prey. large, vertically oriented orb webs are built by members of the spider family Araneidae, commonly known as “orbweavers”. members of some other spider families also build orb webs. “Orbiculariae”, a proposed clade, groups all of them (see also Jonathan Coddington et al. 2019).

the more common types of spider webs are interesting, whether despite or related to their commonness. for example, the orb web originated 187–201 million years ago (Jason Bond et al. 2014)!

spiders comprise a diverse order of over 49,000 species known to science. there are other types of capture webs, which not all spiders use, and there are other types of webs and other silk structures besides capture webs that spiders build for other purposes. the silkhenge is an example of a web/silk structure built around eggs, typically to protect them until they hatch or until spiderlings are ready to disperse.

some of my favorite uncommon (among all spider taxa) spider webs/silk structures:

“inverted ladder web” by Scoloderus sp. (Araneidae), photographed by Paul Bertner. this modified orb web specializes in capturing moths (Mark Stowe 1978). a moth that strikes the upper part of the web doesn’t stick because the gluey silk only sticks to the moth’s scales, which detach from the moth, but as the moth tumbles down the web, it loses more and more scales until eventually the gluey silk sticks to the wing membrane and the moth becomes stuck.

“bowl and doily” web by Frontinella pyramitela (Linyphiidae), photographed by ophis. my video here.

cubic pink eggsacs by Theridiosomatidae, consistent with description of Chthonos, photographed by Luísa Mota.

“coneweb” by Diguetia catamarquensis (Diguetidae), photographed by pablisola. the coneweb of Diguetia species superficially resembles another uncommon web, the “tentweb” of Cyrtophora species (Araneidae). in this case what really interests me about the coneweb is that Diguetia and Cyrtophora are so distantly related: Diguetia is synspermiate and Cyrtophora is entelegynic.

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“Mildly interesting” you say??

madseance

Somehow it feels like tumblr is accidentally the perfect social media site, because none of the things that I love about it make sense as features the way we use them. Tags are for organization, but we also use them to have our little thoughts in without raising them to the status of main text. The queue makes sense for keeping a steady stream of Content going if you're trying to Build a Social Media Presence, but really we use it just to bank posts we want to reblog without flooding everyone else's dash. You can't see how many followers anyone else has, which I just have to assume was an oversight because it flies in the face of everything about social media, and it's great because you can never quantify anyone's Influence so everyone's essentially on the same level. There's no way they planned for giffing to become such a Thing, because before tumblr, gifs were practically relics of the early internet days, a novelty, usually kind of tacky, and now they've become a sort of folk art form. You can reblog an entire conversation, not just a single post, so there's a whole genre of humor that exists here that can't really propagate like that on any other social platform. Honestly this website is just a little freak of nature that cannot possibly have been intended, and that's why no media company has been able to figure out what to do with it, because it makes no sense within the larger social media ecosystem. I love it.