futurebird

futurebird, 5 hours ago (edited 5 hours ago) to random

The MLP ants crossover you have been waiting for.

Fluttershy is a goofy awkward spider ant.

(this is what you asked for ... right?)

https://www.tumblr.com/thepixelatedcactus/749590219375968256?source=share

futurebird, 41 minutes ago to random

Glen Kirshner is so fed up with 'judge' Cannon he's walking his viewers through how to file a judicial complaint. Click by click.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MXVfiTa3KM

futurebird, 16 minutes ago to random

Concept: An app that trolls your social media feed for links to videos and complies them into a playlist. (with the ability to set restrictions to exclude videos that are over/under various lengths.)

Concept2: A 'widget' box on mastodon's web app where part-time developers could put features such as the above. And a panel with an easy way to add widgets for nonprogrammer end users.

futurebird, 21 minutes ago to random

I need to buy pea plant seeds to raise aphids, and the seeds cannot have any pesticides on them. NONE. Does anyone know a trustworthy supplier?

futurebird, 9 hours ago (edited 9 hours ago) to random

Tulip, the ant says hi! #namedAnts

futurebird, 14 hours ago to random

Homo naledi is the most interesting new human like primate. They are from South Africa, little people. walked upright, but primates walking upright goes way back.

They had hands just like modern humans but longish arms and powerful shoulders ... so they could probably zip up a tree.

They have small brains half modern size. This has made people astonished that they may have had fire.

I'm glad I'll never meet one, a smart little firebug with powerful arms sounds terrifying. 1/

futurebird, 12 hours ago to random

We need to pass a law that says cats can't vote in US elections. Why won't they pass a law? Why? We all feel like cats are voting! (just look at them! You can feel it too, right???)

yeah yeah ... it's already illegal for cats to vote... and I can't show any evidence of cats voting...

but that's just because of UM uh because of..cancel culture.

I can't even talk about this without everyone going nuts.

Why wouldn't someone want such a law? hm? Unless they too are a CAT! Makes u think!

futurebird, 14 hours ago to random

Are the legal battles in our courts a kind of ritual conflict resolution?

Like the giant forest ants when they stand on four stiff legs to look as big as possible and hit each other with their front legs and antennae? They don't bite, but the mandibles are wide to show how well they could bite...

Instead we hit each other with paper, like subpoenas...

futurebird, 1 day ago to random

Its always remarkable to me to think about Descartes and Galileo being contemporaries: so we know how the former reacted when the latter was imprisoned:

“I inquired in Leiden and Amsterdam whether Galileo’s World System was available, … I was told that it had indeed been published but that all the copies had immediately been burnt at Rome, and that Galileo had been convicted and fined. I was so astonished at this that I almost decided to burn all my papers … .”

futurebird, 1 day ago to random

Has anyone read any good math and science history nonfiction books recently? (pop nonfiction please) Are there any really good ones out?

futurebird, 1 day ago to random

"I should start writing my year end student reports." I think to myself... and so braced and alarmed by the earliness of this thought I decide to take the weekend off in celebration of daring to even think about planning so early.

(From the chronicle of common teacher mishaps.)

futurebird, 23 hours ago to random

What was with all the creepy commedia dell'arte masks and ballet shoe decorations in the 80s? What the heck kicked that trend off?

futurebird, 23 hours ago to random

It's the weekend and I get to catch up with my colonies and see what they've been up to all week. It's spring so they are very busy and VERY hungry. I need to order more feeders... why can't we have cicadas in NYC? That would be so helpful... I have thousands of hungry mandibles to feed a little gasters to fill and they are not patient.

I don't know why everyone doesn't have an ant colony. There's always something new going on in there.

futurebird, 1 day ago to random

I love the fedi only more for being the only place I know full of exasperated FORTRAN defenders. How can we insult the original word? Yea, when it was first written we were not yet even born! 🥰

futurebird, 1 day ago to random

Thicc Descartes isn’t real and he can’t hurt me.

…

futurebird, 1 day ago to random

Four more years?
or five more brain worms?

futurebird, 2 days ago to random

I keep this on the tutoring table in the math office so the kids know I’m not playing around. (it’s actually very useful when doing geometric constructions)

futurebird, 2 days ago to random

That’s it. This summer i’m getting big arms again!

futurebird, 2 days ago to random

All the power walking grannies at the res have such big guns as of late Jesus. they remind me of Pheodlie majors
— or maybe *my *arms are getting kinda wimpy

futurebird, 2 days ago to random

Everyone running around excited a non-human primate "used medicine to treat wounds"

I'm just over here looking at ants who have been doing this since before you were an inkling on the evolutionary tree and wondering what the big deal is.

Whatever it is ants did it first.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-ants-can-diagnose-and-treat-their-comrades-infected-wounds-180983526/

futurebird, 2 days ago to random

"the whining machine"
"the fart farmer"
"the well of perpetual cries of injustice"
"fur ball"

just a few of Pica's nick names

futurebird, 3 days ago to random

A new AMNH PBS video about the local ants around here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmQnOFFWKOE

futurebird, 3 days ago to random

Why do salads now only come in head-sized bowls? what is wrong with a salad of a normal size? I can never eat it all.

futurebird, 3 days ago to random

I saw these cool golden mirror hexagon stickers and got all excited about making a model of the Webb telescope without thinking about WHY I’d do that so they have been on my desk for a month giving me a mix of vague excitement and slow burn anxiety— I think I will give them to one of the science teachers so I can stop worrying. I already gave them a gyroscope (which they loved)

Alternately I could make a model telescope and hang in the math office and refuse to explain why.

futurebird, 4 days ago (edited 4 days ago) to random

Tulip escaped again! She’s too smart! I caught her but she almost got taken by the house spider. She is home safe. I’m so glad she’s ok. This ant will be the death of me. Why do I have such bad sneaky little ants?? #namedAnts