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I never noticed these before until I added some worm castings to an indoor plant of mine.

those look like centipedes.

That's what I was thinking but wanted confirmation. How did the end up in my indoor plant? I never saw them until I added worm castings. How do I get ride of them?

There is literally like 30 of them in this plant all of a sudden

Centipedes sneak in with soil, or in through the house/growing environment. Sometimes I open a bag of peat and find a few hitchhikers.

the really big ones can sting you, but those look tiny and harmless. i haaaaaate centipedes since I was nearly hit in the face with an insanely huge one that just fell out of the ceiling in a very shady hotel in Reading, PA. my friend heard me squeal/scream from the next room and naturally assumed a murder was happening outside. sorry, not sure from experience how to get rid of them. i slept with the blankets pulled over my head that night lol. my only suggestion would be the obvious, given the forum.

Good news, those are not centipedes! They're millipedes. I recognize this species. Centipedes have longer legs, flatter bodies, and run really fast, these guys are slow and curl up instead of running. They eat things that are already dead, they don't bite.
They won't hurt you, and they shouldn't hurt your plant. They'll dry up and die if they get into the rest of the house, so they aren't a species that can infest anything. Just leave them alone, it's fine.

Thanks fishkeeper I fed like 10 to my d. Regia. So she's happy. Gf doesn't want that plant in the house anymore. Lol