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Reading recommendations for work? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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My work is up and down like a yoyo at the moment, to help avoid doom scrolling during quiet patches I've decided to start reading (nobody at work is going to pay attention to plain text on my screen, we're all in the same boat).

I've got a copy of Naomi Altman's The Power to start off with ... any other recommendations?

(Obviously can't be anything smutty or very funny because I need to be low-key, and lighter stuff would be easier to pick up and put down when I have actual work to do)

Thanks in advance :-)

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Tarantulas are very cool! I'm kind of afraid of spiders but they are both incredibly cool and incredibly cute so I refuse to be afraid of them. One of my favourite spiders is phidippus johnsoni!

Also shoutout to cellar spiders and that neat little anxiety dance that they do.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Are those the ones that wear a little water blob hat sometimes?

Where I live now there's lots of interesting bugs but surprisingly few spiders, when I was growing up our house was always full of spiders (very old house out in the countryside) so I guess I never had the opportunity to be scared of them, lol

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

I have never seen them do that but that sounds adorable so I want to! I am in a similar situation here, I moved from a place with many many spiders and it's weird to not have as many around. It does not help that one of my roommates (a cobweb spider who I call Cain) is very rude and eats a lot of other potential roommates (any ground-dwelling spiders who walk near their web).

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

On the plus side I now have House Centipedes, which are like spiders who are in training for athletic competition (they run at about human walking speed).

I went and looked up the water drop hat thing, apparently water was put on jumping spiders for cute photos and isn't a real thing :-(

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