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I've been thinking a lot about webs recently. webs of knowledge webs of behaviors, habits webs of cause-and-effect relationships webs of Twitter threads webs of identity webs of interpersonal relationships webs of associations https://t.co/UTw65vyzJ8
if you google image search "spider web", you get all these pretty, perfect webs i'm more curious about the ugly, messy and imperfect ones – I feel like there's a wisdom in them something about how to adapt, rebuild, repair, and how to allocate resources https://t.co/AlnKGjYYDr
like, isn't there something interesting about this web? I probably projecting, but it looks/feels "lived in" – like it's been through some shit. It's been patched up, repaired. It looks like a city that's adapted and evolved. It might've been centrally planned at the start https://t.co/82KXvkbx1J
spiders actually web differently when they're on drugs https://t.co/Id0dlRizbU https://t.co/BcD5vpXlYY
oh my god that picture 😂 https://t.co/KQNxMLrDNU https://t.co/bevlWvaPu7
There are many versions of the story of Arachne – she was a talented human weaver who dared to challenged Athena's superiority Storytelling-wise, it makes most sense to me that Arachne won the weaving contest and was "awarded" the prize of being turned into a spider https://t.co/4YcxDvrsXx
how to make a spiderweb "the second thread is a copy of first thread but backwards" is slightly surprising and yet super intuitive and obvious on retrospect https://t.co/o1S6ZK8QxS
Darwin's bark spider - discovered in Madagascar in 2009 - shoots 25m bridging line, builds web over river - silk 10x tougher than Kevlar - catch + eat dragonflies - the males routinely perform oral sex on the females (which are 14x bigger than them) https://t.co/u21Kox2A4P https://t.co/AgyizW1p3R
"Spiders have no wings, but they can take to the air nonetheless. They’ll climb to an exposed point, raise their abdomens to the sky, extrude strands of silk, and float away. [...] Spiders have been found 2.5 miles up in the air, 1,000 miles out to sea." https://t.co/weD3GIZU5Y
"Spiders can sense the Earth’s electric field, and use it to launch themselves into the air." https://t.co/5xSMhbX16D
me: damn, how did you get so good at making these webs? did you make thousands of them? learn through volume of output, reflection, reiteration, adjustment? spider: lol nah, I was born already knowing how to do this me: ur kidding spider: im really not https://t.co/t74W5eGbFG https://t.co/TpYkXSjsEk
me: damn, how did you get so good at making these webs? did you make thousands of them? learn through volume of output, reflection, reiteration, adjustment? spider: lol nah, I was born already knowing how to do this me: ur kidding spider: im really not https://t.co/t74W5eGbFG https://t.co/TpYkXSjsEk