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AI6YR Ben<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://cosocial.ca/@swart" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>swart</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Lazarou" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Lazarou</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://x0r.be/@feonixrift" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>feonixrift</span></a></span> WAIT, THIS ONE IS BETTER (From March 9th... how often do Americans do things stupid with a gun?)</p><p>ABC 13: Man accidentally shot self in foot while attempting to kill cockroach</p><p>3/9/25 </p><p>"DETROIT (WKRC) - A man accidentally shot himself in the foot while trying to kill a cockroach in an unlucky and unfortunate series of events.</p><p>Police said that the victim, a 50-year-old man who uses a wheelchair, was attempting to kill a cockroach with his shoe.</p><p>He took off his shoe and threw it at the bug to kill it, but a revolver he had hidden in the shoe fell to the ground. Upon making contact with the floor, the gun discharged and the bullet hit the victim in the foot."</p><p><a href="https://wlos.com/news/offbeat/accidental-shooting-cockroach-self-foot-shot-accidentally-man-wheelchair-wheel-chair-bug-insect-kill-killed-tried-attempting-shoe-threw-throw-bullet-toe-conditions-table-attack-roach-cockroaches" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wlos.com/news/offbeat/accident</span><span class="invisible">al-shooting-cockroach-self-foot-shot-accidentally-man-wheelchair-wheel-chair-bug-insect-kill-killed-tried-attempting-shoe-threw-throw-bullet-toe-conditions-table-attack-roach-cockroaches</span></a></p><p><a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/guns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>guns</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/accident" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>accident</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/cockroach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cockroach</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/shoe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>shoe</span></a></p>
Flipboard Science Desk<p>How cockroaches spread around the globe to become the pest we know today.</p><p>From AP: "A new study uses genetics to chart cockroaches’ spread across the globe, from humble beginnings in southeast Asia to Europe and beyond. The findings span thousands of years of cockroach history and suggest the pests may have scuttled across the globe by hitching a ride with another species: people."</p><p><a href="https://flip.it/s3NAD4" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">flip.it/s3NAD4</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Cockroach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cockroach</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Insects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Insects</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Entomology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Entomology</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Bugs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bugs</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Evolution</span></a></p>
Cordillera<p>Ootheca by Mário de Seabra is about how a dude wakes up with cockroaches for teeth due to a plague-curse running amok in the city. </p><p>This was written in 2021 and definitely has parallels to <a href="https://social.horrorhub.club/tags/covid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>covid</span></a> , especially how the effects are horrible but people adapt to a bizarre new world with a kind of learned helplessness like the dog in a burning house meme. </p><p>You didn't need a <a href="https://social.horrorhub.club/tags/ShortStory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ShortStory</span></a> to tell you that, but hey, it's fun and darkly funny.</p><p><a href="https://social.horrorhub.club/tags/WeirdFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WeirdFiction</span></a> <a href="https://social.horrorhub.club/tags/Plague" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plague</span></a> <a href="https://social.horrorhub.club/tags/Cockroach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cockroach</span></a></p><p><a href="http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/ootheca" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">strangehorizons.com/fiction/oo</span><span class="invisible">theca</span></a></p>
Cordillera<p>2. OOTHECA<br>BY: MÁRIO DE SEABRA COELHO</p><p><a href="http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/ootheca/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">strangehorizons.com/fiction/oo</span><span class="invisible">theca/</span></a></p><p>This one is from 2021 but I've read it. A dude wakes up with <a href="https://social.horrorhub.club/tags/cockroach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cockroach</span></a> for teeth because there's a curse going around like a plague. It's weird fiction with an off kilter sense of humour. </p><p><a href="https://social.horrorhub.club/tags/ShortFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ShortFiction</span></a> <a href="https://social.horrorhub.club/tags/WeirdFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WeirdFiction</span></a> <a href="https://social.horrorhub.club/tags/Fantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fantasy</span></a> <a href="https://social.horrorhub.club/tags/Portuguese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Portuguese</span></a> author</p><p>2/2</p>