Charlie StrossTHEY FOUND A NO-SHIT BRAIN WORM!!
THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!!
BRAIN WORMS ARE COMING FOR US!!!!
AAAGH!! PANIC!!!!!
Ole-Morten 🚀👨🚀🌻📚@cstross Australia, of course!
Robert Petersen 
@cstross because of course
YeekasooseNote to self: don't eat grass in Australia.
Ariaflame@Yeekasoose @cstross Hey, the plants have always been out to kill you here in Australia (or make you wish you were dead - see gympie gympie tree)
mmby@ariaflame @Yeekasoose @cstross I thought stuff like that only existed in science fiction as part of some dangerous alien flora but nature never fails to surprise
(I horrified all my friends with its wikipedia article so thank you very much)
Max Wainwright@Yeekasoose @cstross just don’t in Australia
Jaime Robertson
neill@cstross close to home, that’s one of my local hospitals!
Eric A. Meyer@cstross To quote you, SCREAM
Chris Hoadley@cstross No reason to panic, I am sure that was just a one-time anomaly. No reason to ask for scans for your various leaders in government for potential brain worm infestation. Everyone should just wait until next Spring when our numbers are sufficient to infect the rest of the populace...errr...umm... Forget what I said. Everything is fine...
Steve Dinn 🇨🇦@cstross But it's Australia, so not totally unexpected. All the animals try to kill you there. They're just coming up with new and inventive ways to do it.
HawkWolf (H. A. Kirsch)@cstross a no-shit brain worm? so it's like those eyelash mites that don't have a butthole?
Jennifer Deseo
Ash_Crow@cstross people keep telling each other to touch grass but this is what happens when you do.
Ben from CDS@cstross So much for touching grass.
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Medea Vanamonde🏳️⚧️ ♀@cstross not what do see as I am trying to get it together for breakfast
Technodad@cstross What, no Invader Zim references yet? https://youtu.be/o4OQmGJT3Hs?si=YUKSFRoDhEwD7tVm
HAVE YOU THE BRAIN WORMS?
benjohn@cstross Well that's horrific. I hope the neurosurgeon is getting all the PTSD support I'd definitely need.
Paul Lalonde@cstross And me not yet having had breakfast. Thanks Charlie.
Overdrawn at the Gravitas Bank
Mark Maguire@cstross “That poor patient, (…) You don’t want to be the first patient in the world with a roundworm found in pythons” … No, no you do not. Nightmare fuel, thanks.
MayhamMonday@cstross the Decade of the disasters strikes again! Who will survive the 2020's?
Lars Fischer
spaf@cstross
Oh, the worms have been around for a while, although different species.
Pork tapeworm is one of the most common worms that invades the brain. Neurocysticercosis is the name for that, and it occurs around the world -- has for centuries, and is why eating uncooked pork is a very bad idea.
Then there is the delightful rat lungworm that is present in many places in the US, including Hawaii: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/04/when-globalization-brings-brain-invading-worms/522153/
Parade du Grotesque 💀
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