"Crabs Home Store" is an interesting small business out of Jiangsu China that sells internationally over aliexpress.
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@futurebird How many of these crabiforms have been genAI-designed?
None of them. They are real crab shells.
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@futurebird How many of these crabiforms have been genAI-designed?
I'm more concerned about rare species being poached and don't know enough about crabs to say if there is any cause for concern on that front. I will leave it to crab experts to point out such problems and anyone wanting to buy these kinds of things should research the species.
The shop keepers speak no English and for all I know they are perfect conservationists. I just think their taxidermy work is amazing. These are hand painted with life-like resin eyes added.
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I'm more concerned about rare species being poached and don't know enough about crabs to say if there is any cause for concern on that front. I will leave it to crab experts to point out such problems and anyone wanting to buy these kinds of things should research the species.
The shop keepers speak no English and for all I know they are perfect conservationists. I just think their taxidermy work is amazing. These are hand painted with life-like resin eyes added.
@futurebird Maybe you can get them to offer the Latin binomial names of the species.
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@futurebird Maybe you can get them to offer the Latin binomial names of the species.
If they start getting more international customers they might. But it looks like they have a brick and mortar shop and are doing booming business in China as it is.
I guess there are a lot of crab fans.
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If they start getting more international customers they might. But it looks like they have a brick and mortar shop and are doing booming business in China as it is.
I guess there are a lot of crab fans.
@futurebird I mean, conservationists would probably have learnt taxonomy in Latin even if they studied everything else in Mandarin or Cantonese.
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@futurebird I mean, conservationists would probably have learnt taxonomy in Latin even if they studied everything else in Mandarin or Cantonese.
IDK.
I've mostly interacted with ant people on aliexpress. There are a lot of small businesses that make ant nests, ant keeping supplies etc.
They are very friendly, and some are pretty serious about insect conservation although they are hobbyists.
But also they don't sell ants, just things to keep them as pets.
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IDK.
I've mostly interacted with ant people on aliexpress. There are a lot of small businesses that make ant nests, ant keeping supplies etc.
They are very friendly, and some are pretty serious about insect conservation although they are hobbyists.
But also they don't sell ants, just things to keep them as pets.
By "interact" I mean we send each other horrible google translated notes back and forth through the terrible built in message system on aliexpress.
But one guy helped me cure a bad mold problem when I was just starting out.
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IDK.
I've mostly interacted with ant people on aliexpress. There are a lot of small businesses that make ant nests, ant keeping supplies etc.
They are very friendly, and some are pretty serious about insect conservation although they are hobbyists.
But also they don't sell ants, just things to keep them as pets.
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@Bfordham @futurebird a big business ant is probably a honeypot.
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IDK.
I've mostly interacted with ant people on aliexpress. There are a lot of small businesses that make ant nests, ant keeping supplies etc.
They are very friendly, and some are pretty serious about insect conservation although they are hobbyists.
But also they don't sell ants, just things to keep them as pets.
People call aliexpress "Chinese Amazon" but it's not really like amazon at all... it's like amazon+etsy+ebay in some ways.
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@Bfordham @futurebird a big business ant is probably a honeypot.
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IDK.
I've mostly interacted with ant people on aliexpress. There are a lot of small businesses that make ant nests, ant keeping supplies etc.
They are very friendly, and some are pretty serious about insect conservation although they are hobbyists.
But also they don't sell ants, just things to keep them as pets.
@futurebird before i jump into post history to check, have you posted info about these small ant people
i saw an ant waterer thingie on aliexpress the first time i was ever ordering anything through it and i had to get it
i crave looking at the ant things. the isopod things.
i have enough little guys to take care of right now but what am i if not a collection of dreams made sentient -
@futurebird before i jump into post history to check, have you posted info about these small ant people
i saw an ant waterer thingie on aliexpress the first time i was ever ordering anything through it and i had to get it
i crave looking at the ant things. the isopod things.
i have enough little guys to take care of right now but what am i if not a collection of dreams made sentientI haven't! It's been a few years.
Here is one store (I have not shopped with them, but by looking at related listings you'll find more there are like a dozen. Many are also "pet shops" so don't be alarmed if you find they sell things for cats and dogs too. )
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People call aliexpress "Chinese Amazon" but it's not really like amazon at all... it's like amazon+etsy+ebay in some ways.
@futurebird I remember what their translation service used to be around 2016. Got somewhat proficient in the careful wording that the machine would understand. But I mostly only bought electronic parts on AliExpress, so my skils probably don't transfer into your field, and I haven't bought anything from it for years, since before the LLM revolution, which has probably led to an overhaul of AliBaba's translating machine, and might have made my old experience with the old machine obsolete as well.
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@futurebird I remember what their translation service used to be around 2016. Got somewhat proficient in the careful wording that the machine would understand. But I mostly only bought electronic parts on AliExpress, so my skils probably don't transfer into your field, and I haven't bought anything from it for years, since before the LLM revolution, which has probably led to an overhaul of AliBaba's translating machine, and might have made my old experience with the old machine obsolete as well.
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@futurebird I remember what their translation service used to be around 2016. Got somewhat proficient in the careful wording that the machine would understand. But I mostly only bought electronic parts on AliExpress, so my skils probably don't transfer into your field, and I haven't bought anything from it for years, since before the LLM revolution, which has probably led to an overhaul of AliBaba's translating machine, and might have made my old experience with the old machine obsolete as well.
The current problem is I can't tell when someone is using machine translation sometimes... so I always just ask (and of course I send my messages in both languages and the Chinese clearly labeled as "machine translated" )
Which can make some people who know English annoyed... but I need to know. A person can send you this very clear-sounding text but it's not saying what they think.
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"Crabs Home Store" is an interesting small business out of Jiangsu China that sells internationally over aliexpress. (There are a surprising range of crafts and art on aliexpress if you know how to find them under all the plastic junk.)
They do crab taxidermy it's amazing to look at. I'm very thankful I'm not as interested in crabs as ants or this place would be very dangerous for my wallet.
I was just not aware of the concept of crab taxidermy. But it seems like it's a fairly developed art. A little creepy for my tastes, but I can see the appeal.
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"Crabs Home Store" is an interesting small business out of Jiangsu China that sells internationally over aliexpress. (There are a surprising range of crafts and art on aliexpress if you know how to find them under all the plastic junk.)
They do crab taxidermy it's amazing to look at. I'm very thankful I'm not as interested in crabs as ants or this place would be very dangerous for my wallet.
@futurebird
I'm guessing ant taxidermy isn't really a thing.*or, at least, not a very big thing
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I was just not aware of the concept of crab taxidermy. But it seems like it's a fairly developed art. A little creepy for my tastes, but I can see the appeal.
@futurebird I will admit that my initial read of "crab taxidermy" had the crabs performing the taxidermy, which was alarmingly creepy to contemplate.
