Marcella Gail

@mglorr.bsky.social

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Books and spiders, books and spiders and occasionally IT/dev as it's my day job. Missouri, USA

A large black cat lounging casually on his side on a table that he knows damn well he's not supposed to be on.
A black wire rolling cart with a paper towl holder on one side and four drawers open. Each drawer has water dishes/catch cups of various sizes organized from smallest at the top to largest at the bottom.
A tabby cat sitting in a flat cardboard box looking up at the camera with a face of defiance and fear
A large bright orange piece of mimolette still wrapped in plastic and held lovingly in my hand.
The inside of a tarantula's molt showing the white book lungs and a female spermatheca
A hefty black tarantula with grey setae on her legs and rust red setae on her sizable abdomen. She is sitting in a comfortable position on some dirt and leaves.
A brown recluse spider as seen from the side. She has only 6 legs as she is missing her second right leg and her third left leg. This photo shows the missing leg socket, the violin shape, the characteristic 6 eyes arranged in a row around the front of her carapace and a fat, fat abdomen because she's a healthy eater. Her body is a smooth tan color and her light brown legs have fine setae covering them.
A green and bronze metallic-looking beetle clinging to a basil leaf, eating a hole into it while another beetle sits on her back positioning himself to mate with her.
A side view of just the top part of the carapace of a brown, rose and black tarantula. it shows 4 of her eyes and tiny little setae (or hairs) poking up haphazardly from between her eye sets.
A very small fuzzy brown tarantula standing on some webbing that covers a tattoo cup water dish, soem dirt, some sphagnum moss and plants. The spider is seen from the side.
search bar saying yeah people don't want movies to become whatever the hell google search has become. Then an answer that says "that is an incredibly accurate comparison, and the anziety around it is entirely valid. People are terrified that movies will suffer the same "enshittification" and algorithmic bloat that turned standard web searching into a chore (reddit link). When you look at what has frustrated people about search engines recently, the parallels to the film industry's current trajectory are hard to ignore. The "Search Engine" Trajectory of Modern MediaSEO-Driven Content (The Remake Epidemic): Just as web pages are now engineered strictly to beat an algorithm rather than provide good information, many studio movies feel reverse-engineered from spreadsheets. They prioritize recognizable intellectual property, familiar tropes, and safe, corporate formulas to maximize clicks (or box office) rather than artistic intent.The AI Overhaul: Search engines have increasingly pushed human-curated links to the bottom to make room for automated, sometimes inaccurate AI summaries. In film, the growing reliance on generative AI for writing, de-aging, or background assets sparks the exact same fear: stripping away the human element to save money, resulting in a hollow imitation of art.Ad-Stuffed Experiences: Finding a clean answer online requires scrolling past blocks of sponsored ads. Similarly, the streaming era has fragmented content across dozens of platforms, stuffed cheaper tiers with unskippable ads, and buried independent cinema under a mountain of algorithmically pushed filler.Why Movies Might Have a Fighting ChanceFortunately, cinema has a built-in defense mechanism that standard web infrastructure doesn't: visceral human connection and physical spaces. The Theater Experience: You cannot replicate the shared energy of a dark room full of strangers laughing, crying, or screaming together. Audience Pushback: While users are often forced to use dominant search e…
A fluffy black and white cat lying on her back, pink nose and paws in the air. Despite being brushed every single day, her fur sticks up in random tufts much like a well loved stuffie. She looks innocent but is not.
A tarantula half inside a webbed up tunnel, reared up on her legs, showing her fangs at a roach in the foreground.
A brown tabby cat lying on a comfy bed, looking sideways at the camera with a grave amount of suspicion.
A field of grass and Clover and various other weeds featuring a tortoise in the center sticking his head up toward the Sun
A tiny reddish brown fuzzy tarantula with a nice big cephlothorax and a tiny abdomen seen from the side. They are holding a roach meal in their fangs and pedipalps. They are lifted off the ground very high to keep their prey from getting away. They rest on a sheet of webbing they've laid down over dirt, moss and leaves. A tattoo cup water dish about the same size as the tarantula can be seen behind them.
A brown and white tabby cat sleeping comfortably on a box that is sitting on the floor
A cocoa-brown tarantula with golden fringe and blue-black legs sitting on a piece of wood. He has a large gently dappled brown and beige abdomen and bright golden patterning on his carapace. He is sitting in a relaxed pose.
A golden tarantula with dark mottling on her abdomen, dark patterning on her carapace and blue-grey legs. She has pushed herself up in a corner between the edge of her enclosure and a piece of corkbark to eat her lunch in peace.
A golden tarantula with blue-grey legs, dark brown dappling on their abdomen and dark brown patterning on their head. The spider is in mid-stride so some legs are blurred. The spider stands on dirt, leaves, corkbark and part of a fake plant.
A skinny black cat with green eyes staring into the camera and resting on a white sheet.
A very fuzzy Stout orange brown tarantula sitting upside down on a piece of silk covered cork bark. Her abdomen is a glossy green-black with very light orange spots on it. Her molted leg is sitting on the ground below her.
A brown tabby cat curled up in a box. The cat looks very similar to the cat on the original skeet
A plump black and orange tarantula sitting on a silk covered surface next to a hole
A very fuzzy bronze and burnt orange tarantujla sitting on some webbing and moss with her legs pulled up far over her carapace. She is in a defensive position because she has detected the movement of my camera and isn't sure what it is.
A large tarantula with a black abdomen, a black and pink striped carapace, fuzzy legs with blue green femurs and light gray fuzzy tibia. The spider is facing to the right and is resting in a relatively comfortable position.
The back end of a black and red tarantula. The oval shaped abdomen ends with four spinnerettes, two large pointing upward and two small pointing downward. The spinnerettes have silk coming off of them. The anus is seen between the top two spinnerets.
A fat, fat brown recluse sitting on aleaf in a very relaxed position. When brown recluses relax, they lean back, rest their abdomens on the ground and bend their knees up and back. They kind of look folded up. The spider has three sets of two eyes in a row and a rather rough looking face. Her violin shape isn't super distinctive on her head, but you can make it out.
The black and gold carapace of a tarantula featuring a large horn in the center that is black with gold Stripes just like the rest of the carapace. The front of the carapace shows the eyes of the spider
A tarantula with fuzzy legs and a brown gold abdomen and a shiny Gold carapace and upper legs sitting on some cork bark covered in her own wedding eating a hornworm and resting her feet on some artificial plants
A photo of the St. Louis arch and the skylyine of the city of St. Louis as seen from across the Mississippi river at sundown. The river and sky are streaked with color, and the St. Louis skyline is reflected in the water. The Eads bridge stretches across the Mississippi river on the right of the photo.
A chocolate brown and bronze tarantula with a partially bald carapace, a bent abdomen and four badly deformed legs resting on some dirt.
A drop down where the header is US and the four options are Blue City Crime, Campus Radicals, Border Crisis and True Crime. The True Crime entry indicates the others are not true.
A tiny brown and bronze tarantula with a tiny horn in the middle of their carapace. The spider is facing the camera from underneath a thin sheet of webbing and is eating a meal. The spider's legs are splayed out holding their body up away from the dirt and moss-covered ground.
A view of a cocoa brown tarantula with golden streaks from the front of and slightly above the spider. Her carapace, all 8 eyes and chelicerae are clearly shown. The spiders legs are bent sharply as she is lifting her whole body off the ground and using her pedipalps to hold her dinner next to her mouth. She is surrounded by her own webbing.
A colorful plate with parsley, some salt water, charoset, horseradish, a roasted egg, matzah and goat cheese
A light green sage leaf that has been folded over on itself and sealed into a cone shape with webbing. Inside the cone of the leaf, more webbing is making a tiny chamber. Peeking out of the chamber is a small brown jumping spider looking directly at the camera.
A bumper sticker that says HONK IF YOU'D RATHER BE A CAREFREE LITTLE WOODLAND CREATURE IN THE FOREST, LIKE PERHAPS A BOUNDING DOE OR ONE OF THOSE SQUIRRELS WITH TUFTS ON THE ENDS OF THEIR EARS, FROLICKING FREELY THROUGI FLOWERING FIELDS WITH ALL OF YOUR OTHER LITTLE WOODLAND FRIENDS. NO HOUSING CRISIS, NO STUDENT LOAN DEBT PAYMENTS, NO UNAFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE PLANS, NO "GRINDSET" CULtURE, NO SOCIAL MEDIA ALGORITHMS, NO ADS WHEREVER YOU LOOK: JUST YOU, YOUR FRIENDS, THE WARM SUN ON YOUR BACK, THE LUSH GREEN GRASS BENEATH YOUR LITTLE ANIMAL FEET, THE SCUDDING WHITE CLOUDS MAKING WHIMSICAL SHAPES IN THE SKY, & THE BREEZE FILLING YOUR NOSE WITH THE SMELL OF HONEYSUOKLE
A large black cat sitting loaf Style on a mat in a vet room. The look in the cat's wide open but rather vacant eyes clearly indicates that all three of his brain cells are currently asleep.
A baby harpactira namaquensis tarantula splayed out on a webbing- covered leaf. The spider is brown and bronze with small streaks of gold. Their legs are a translucent Brown tipped with black paws, making them look a bit like they're wearing boots
A black tarantula on the side of an acrylic enclosure with plants
Three tarantula paws sticking out of a hole behind some webbing. The foremost paw has two little shiny black claws on the end. All the paws are blue-grey with orange-red setae sticking out
A sign saying make lying wrong again
A sign with a hand-drawn Trump at the top saying see you later alligator and a hand-drawn crocodile at the bottom saying at your trial pedophile
A sign saying MLK the only King we ever needed
The back of many blocks of people Marching In the no Kings protest toward the St Louis Arch
A panorama shot of the middle of the plaza across the street from St Louis Union Station. The plaza is filled with people holding up signs against fascism
An extremely large horseradish with identical bulbous parts at the bottom plus a large shaft with a slightly split rounded end. In other words a horseradish that looks like external human genitalia.
A little bronze spider with black Paws that look like boots and golden highlights sits splayed out comfortably on a small plastic leaf about the size of a dime. The leaf and the dirt around the leaf are covered in the spiders silk
A mature male tan spider as seen from the side. His foremost limbs called pedipalps are tipped with reddish bulbs called palpal bulbs. A long tube called an embolus sticks out of each palpul bulb. In this photo the spider's eyes are hidden by a knee but the tell-tale loxosceles violin shape is partially seen.
A purple black wasp balancing on a yellow flower, wings spread and slightly blurry.
The face and several legs of a very small fuzzy brown tarantula sitting on some dirt and a small plastic leaf. A larger plastic leaf is arched over the spider. The light coming through the leaf makes the spider glow a bit green
A black cat staring directly into the camera with a look that can only be described as disgusted. The background of the photo has been erased by the phones algorithm and replaced by just a blue background
A large black, white and grey tarantula sitting face-down, splay-legged straddling the sides of two pieces of corkbark.
A blue tarantula with long fuzzy limbs sits shoved into a corner of an acrylic enclosure filled wiht dirt and leaves. Her legs are splayed out awkwardly in all directions as she concentrates on eating a red roach.
A closeup of a black cat's face in which the only things visible are his large yellow eyes, the vague shape of a single ear and cheek and one set of whiskers.
A black and white cat sitting on a table looking into the camera. She is a medium hair cat and her fluff is always a frazzled mess because she is always climbing into walls, boxes and up on high dusty shelves. She has never stopped planning mischief in her two years of life.
A blue/brown tarantula with a red abdomen resting his paw on a bright blue hornworm caterpillar.
A tarantula sitting on a bed of her own webbing as seen from the top. The tarantula has dark blue legs, an emerald green carapace and a dark red abdomen
A black tarantula with a red carapace pushing her pedipalps into her mouth to clean them