Earth vs. the Spider (1958)

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We spent 54 minutes 43 seconds downloading 96,474 toots at Mon 6 Jul 2026 11:30:31 EDT from a total of 43 servers. We ended up with a set of 2,186 unique toots posted between Sun 5 Jul 2026 21:00 EDT and Sun 5 Jul 2026 22:12 EDT by 108 distinct fediverse accounts.

We tried to connect to 60 different servers, of which 43 (71.7%) succeeded and 17 (28.3%) failed.

The server mastodon.social contributed the most toots with 516 .

‘Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈’ (Lazarou@mastodon.social) tooted the most with 142 toots.

The top 3 boosted toots:

  1. This toot from 見る (miru@social.miyaku.media) had 11 boosts.

Earth vs. the Spider (1958) #monsterdon stream countdown started on https://miru.miyaku.media :miyaku:

  1. This toot from I Value the Goose (paco@infosec.exchange) had 10 boosts.

Did every small town in the 1950s have a tanker truck of pesticide handy? Like ready to go at a moment's notice?

  1. This toot from Cactuar Joe (CactuarJoe@retro.pizza) had 10 boosts.

Folks it is now about one hour until the weekly monster movie watch party. If you want to avoid it, best set up a hashtag filter.

If you'd like to join in, this week's movie is EARTH VS. THE SPIDER (1958), another Bert I. Gordon forced perspective parade. Y'know that guy made one kind of movie for like thirty years, it's impressive in a way.

The movie's available free with ads over on Tubi: tubitv.com/movies/496370/earth

Or you can download from Archive.org: archive.org/details/earth-vs.-

Just hit play at the top of the hour and toot along. See you there!

The top 3 favourited toots:

  1. This toot from jonny (nonvenomous) (jonny@neuromatch.social) had 22 favourites.

the real story of this movie is how functional civic society can be when you have publicly funded expert guys on call that can show up when you need them to poison a cave, electrify a cave, blow up a cave, and so on.

#monsterdon

  1. This toot from Void Chicken (Taweret@timeloop.cafe) had 15 favourites.

does the spider have asthma

#monsterdon

  1. This toot from Andy L. (apLundell@timeloop.cafe) had 15 favourites.

#monsterdon This is pretty good compositing. Better than you'd expect for this movie.

The top 3 most-replied-to toots:

(Note: this really should exclude people who reply to themselves, it doesn’t do that well, yet)

  1. This toot from KSHernandez ♊(she/her/they) (kshernandez@me.dm) had 28 replies.

I'm trying to decide if my mental health is stable enough for tonight's selection.

  1. This toot from Jonathan Lamothe (me@social.jlamothe.net) had 15 replies.

Root #monsterdon post #EarthVsTheSpider1958

  1. This toot from (ax6761@freeradical.zone) had 7 replies.

Thread on movie of ; watching via miru.miyaku.media/ ...

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A histogram showing posts per minute on Sunday, 5 Jul 2026. Each bar represents one minute. The event was 72.7 minutes long. There were 1769 posts during the event with an average of 24.35 posts per minute.

The busiest moment was at 38:00 from the start with 42 posts in that minute. The quietest moment was at 68:00 from the start with 5 posts in that minute. The yellow line is a 15-minute moving average.

Wordcloud

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The word cloud for Sunday, 5 Jul 2026. Words are larger the more frequently they appeared in posts. There were 6546 unique words posted, and the wordcloud shows the 200 most frequent. The top 10 most frequent words were: earthvsthespider: 553, spider: 343, cave: 109, giant: 91, spiders: 65, think: 55, really: 53, back: 49, time: 49, will: 45, These words were excluded from the word cloud: movie, movies, film, films, watch, now, one, guy, got, going, good, well, see, know, monstermiru, yeah, monsterdondoublefeature, thespider1958, spiderbaby, earthvsthespider1958, spiderbaby1967, monsterdonpreshow, ultraman, thespider, spider1958, and the hashtag monsterdon.

Analysis of #monsterdon generated at Mon 6 Jul 2026 12:25 EDT