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Matt Simon @crawlycreepy.bsky.social · 19m

The witch with the poisoned apples in Snow White

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Matt Simon @crawlycreepy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If anybody wants me I'll be outside behaving oddly

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Matt Simon @crawlycreepy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don't know who needs to hear this right now but DO NOT split up to search for clues

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Matt Simon @crawlycreepy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Cats get balance right: live to the fullest 4 to 6 hours a day and sleep through the rest

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Matt Simon @crawlycreepy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I would never want to be verified on social media because I value having a certain amount of plausible deniability

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Matt Simon @crawlycreepy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

MOST ANIMALS: This thing is weird. Better not eat it. CATS: I must eat this weird thing before anyone can stop me

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Matt Simon @crawlycreepy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Mounting a futile and doomed effort to be less quixotic

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Matt Simon @crawlycreepy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The hope is that AI hacking will become unstoppable, making cybersecurity impossible and thus forcing a worldwide societal withdrawal from the internet

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Matt Simon @crawlycreepy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If you are what you eat I'm about 40% cat hair

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Matt Simon @crawlycreepy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

As an arachnid hobbyist, I used to try to ease people's arachnophobia, but at this point I'm totally fine with spiders tormenting humans in their own homes

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Matt Simon @crawlycreepy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The path to inner peace starts with four beautiful words: "not my fucking problem."

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Matt Simon @crawlycreepy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm lying on brown packing paper with the cats to find out why they like it so much, and it's actually pretty nice down here

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Matt Simon @crawlycreepy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

That's a TERRIBLE idea. I love it.

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Matt Simon @crawlycreepy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I am eternally grateful that the prefrontal cortex in my brain matured before the internet came along

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Matt Simon @crawlycreepy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Success. My tarantula safely completed her molt in under three hours. Molted exoskeleton (left) and the recovering patient with her new coat (right). #spiders #SpiderSky #BugSky

The exuvia (shed exoskeleton) of my tarantula following a perfect extraction of prosoma, abdomen, and appendages. You can see the internal structure of the prosoma, including the points where the legs attach. The orange and black legs are preserved so well that they look as they did in life.

My tarantula (Brachypelma smithi) at rest after her molting. She is black with bright orange bands on her legs and many fluffy hairs extending from her velvety coat.

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Matt Simon @crawlycreepy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

My tarantula has started the molting process. Suddenly she is lying flat on her back (which always looks spooky) as hemolymph pressure builds to a point where the old exoskeleton starts to split on the dorsal side. Front section comes out first; then the abdomen; then the appendages, the tricky part

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Matt Simon @crawlycreepy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A friend just moved into a new house and found bedbugs, and I don't know whether to feel concerned or excited

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Matt Simon @crawlycreepy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A followup to "Silent Spring" could be "Silent September." Tree crickets and katydids used to make a nightly chorus of chirping, trilling, and rasping from August through October in my leafy part of the Boston area. This year the tree canopy is mostly silent. Insect declines continue everywhere.

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Matt Simon @crawlycreepy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I think my tarantula will soon molt her exoskeleton. She has secluded herself in her lair with a thin layer of silk across the entrance. Her prior molt was just over a year ago, so the time seems right.

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Matt Simon @crawlycreepy.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Rapid burial under a thick stratum of muddy sediment is the classic recipe for fossilization. Some of the deceased humans in Nepal may become part of the fossil record of our hominid species.

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Matt Simon @crawlycreepy.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The xenomorph in Alien (1979). She is doing so well: feeding herself, growing, maturing, the perfect organism, her structural perfection matched only by her hostility; a survivor, unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality. And then Ripley just blows her ass out into space.

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Brooke Carter @upthedownspouts.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Having poor eyesight and a creative brain is never boring

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Matt Simon @crawlycreepy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Breaking the fourth wall by staring directly into every security camera I see

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Brooke Carter @upthedownspouts.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Caught my cat stealing my passport out of a drawer at 2 a.m. like where does she think she’s going

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Matt Simon @crawlycreepy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"Goods and services" is an obscene expression

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Matt Simon @crawlycreepy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Found another Matt Simon. Very exciting, but I played it cool.

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Matt Simon @crawlycreepy.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

My wife has been a Big Sister mentor for the past 7 years, since her Little Sister was 11. Today we moved her Little Sister into college, where she is enrolled in the nursing program on scholarships and financial aid. She is the first person in her family to attend a university. That's pretty cool.

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Matt Simon @crawlycreepy.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Your correspondent in action today. I was photographing native bees on the sunflowers at Elm Bank, a botanical park. #Massachusetts

I am standing in tall grass amid many yellow sunflowers and photographing insects on a sunflower with my camera. A field of sunflowers, all green and yellow, extends into the background, with a rolling, pastoral landscape of fields and trees beyond.

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Matt Simon @crawlycreepy.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

My new fave found footage horror movie is a friend's Ringcam video of her finding a giant spider on her front door. The jump scare is priceless.

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Matt Simon @crawlycreepy.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

"Do you wanna be left behind?" Yes, Big Tech weirdos, please leave us behind. In fact, get as far away from us as possible.

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Matt Simon @crawlycreepy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The caterpillar thinks the world is ending but then turns into a butterfly

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Matt Simon @crawlycreepy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

As a teen in the 1980s, I was instinctively averse to computers because I thought they would make the world worse, not better

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Brooke Carter @upthedownspouts.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Saying “venomous spider” is like saying “assless chaps”

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Matt Simon @crawlycreepy.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I hope that catering truck is no longer being used to transport food. Gross.

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Matt Simon @crawlycreepy.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I love mosquitoes (1) because they are a basal component of food webs in most terrestrial ecosystems and (2) because they torment the living shit out of humans

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Olivia @barefooteeverie.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

OnlyFans but it’s just me chasing around my cat and begging him not to chew on houseplants or plastic.

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Olivia @barefooteeverie.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I peel a layer of Japanese beetles from the tassel of my corn. Conflicted but unwilling to do direct harm, I throw them over the garden fence and watch as dragonfly changes trajectory capturing one at the height of its parabola.

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Matt Simon @crawlycreepy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I've reached a stage in life where having nothing to do is a lovely activity

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Matt Simon @crawlycreepy.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I drop things on the floor so often that I am seriously thinking about giving up bipedalism and just living down there permanently

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Matt Simon @crawlycreepy.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I simply do not know how to be a normal human being, and for that I am profoundly thankful

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Matt Simon @crawlycreepy.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Has anyone checked on the climate-change deniers? How are they coping with the knowledge that they were utterly, stupidly wrong and we were right?

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Matt Simon @crawlycreepy.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

If the climate warms enough, I have a cunning plan to introduce at least one scorpion species here in Massachusetts. Don't tell anyone.

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Matt Simon @crawlycreepy.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

You're only as cool as your reaction to walking into a spider web

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Matt Simon @crawlycreepy.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

My red-knee tarantula (Brachypelma smithi), a species that occurs in central western Mexico. Bred in captivity, not wild-caught. I acquired her two years ago, when she was subadult. She has molted twice since and seems to be mature now. If so, she's 9 or 10 years old. She may live another 10 years.

A large, black tarantula spider with orange banding on the legs rests on my left hand

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Matt Simon @crawlycreepy.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Meanwhile, it's just another July in Yellowstone: www.ktvq.com/news/local-n...

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Matt Simon @crawlycreepy.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

After 14 mercifully smooth hours of airports and planes, we returned home from Barbados at about 2 o'clock last night. The cats are glad we're back. They missed us. Every time we disappear into the bedroom they fear we've gone back to Barbados, so they scratch the door and meow until we come back.

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Matt Simon @crawlycreepy.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Our friends' wedding yesterday was on a cliff overlooking the ocean. The ceremony was outdoors and managed to find a perfect interval between dark tropical rainshowers rolling in from the sea. The clouds kept the temperature down, and the stormy sky at sea made a picturesque backdrop. #Barbados

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