Tom Valentino

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@TomValentinoo Just loooooook at that lil' face !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!😍

Not all spiders are scary. Some are actually cute and can be kept as pets, like jumping spiders, especially Lucas the Spider 🕷️ What’s even crazier is that studies suggest they can recognize their owner’s face and become attached to them.

None are scary

@baneironhand Yes 😂😆

@TomValentinoo Did the spiders pay you to make this post? Is there a spider in the room with you now?

@BlckKittycat696 Beautiful 😮

@CoachDi85 Why!! 😆

@TomValentinoo Absolutely not

@LavenderKiss7 They’re tiny harmless creatures 🤷‍♂️

@TomValentinoo Still scary

@manin_black 😂🤣

@TomValentinoo Attached, you say?

@MelissaRNMBA Would u keep it as a pet?

@TomValentinoo @Sir9230 How adorable is that. 💕

@Holmesbox 😂😂

@TomValentinoo Only two “wild spiders” get the death sentence. Black widow and brown recluse. Everyone else gets to stay where I find them or gently relocated to better surroundings.

The real danger to the giants of the ocean is human fishing nets. The giant manta ray, also known as the “angel of the sea,” can grow up to 7 meters (23 feet) wide. Even so, it is now threatened with extinction because of overfishing and huge industrial nets that trap it by accident without mercy. Imagine this: a creature this massive and peaceful survived the predators of the ocean, but it may not survive humans themselves.

@ElizabethDpenny It is 🫠

@TomValentinoo He is absolutely adorable

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@WarmandFuzzy7 250 😆😮

@TomValentinoo I have a customer who has 250 tarantulas. He was scared to death of spiders and one of his students challenged him to overcome his fear as he was preaching it to his kids. He did a meet and great with spiders and fell in love with the tarantulas. Now he has a room designated4them

@rbheiss We carry both compassion and destruction in us. But history also shows people choosing love, sacrifice, and forgiveness just as strongly.

@TomValentinoo Honestly these days I'm not sure humans can survive other humans. Think about it... the first few humans were created and the first murder happened fairly quickly. Cain killing Able.

@DennisLWenger Maybe. But humans are also the only species we know that can reflect on that, care about it, and choose to do better. Even on this distant rock, there’s still kindness, art, curiosity, and people trying to protect what’s left.

@TomValentinoo Unfortunately, humans will take every last living thing until there’s nothing left. Our species is a mixed bag but we are definitely part parasite. 🦠 I assure you, there’s a reason we are off in the corner of the universe on a distant floating rock. 🌎

@VincentSco72192 Relax man, nobody’s cutting rates with inflation and energy prices up. If anything, expect more hikes. And when cuts finally do happen, that’ll probably kick off the next bull cycle, the usual 4-year run, and everyone’s gonna act like they never saw it coming!!

XRP holders 🚀💥🚀💥 Warsh will Cut interest rates Clarity act will get passed Then an event is gonna force Congress to make genius and clarity effective immediately Why? The bond market The ability of the Government to sell debt will need the Stablecoin issuers to pick up the tab This will supercharge adoption by flooding the market with stablecoins All places will be asking you how would you like to get paid Stablecoins will be de facto legal tender Here is the twist. The uno-reverse BRICS unit drops Everyone realizes that the inflation and debt is endless with stablecoins backed by debt and internationally the shift begins This causes the issuers to swap out the backing Fed picks up the tab for the debt out there that is getting dumped Meanwhile we preserved value in units that retain static value Fed gets stripped of assets (gold to revalue) has no CBDC to monetize and everyone is abandoning Fed notes for stablecoins Fed becomes largest holder of Debt that then gets negotiated down or eliminated Meanwhile all that trading of tokenized assets, securities, and stablecoins need a permissionless platform with the tech to scale with the licensed infrastructure to facilitate and guess who has that? Ripple

Chinese rice farmers use crayfish as natural pest control because they eat algae, fungi, and other harmful organisms that damage the crop. 👇