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futurebird

@futurebird@sauropods.win

pro-ant propaganda, building electronics, writing sci-fi teaching mathematics & CS. I live in NYC.

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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.

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Here's today's serving of bollocks.

futurebird,
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@Wolfie_Rankin

All these people scared and mad about being put in a pod and having to eat bugs but we got fools out here already saying water equal nutritious fruits and vegetables.

You don't need plants to eat! Drink your electric water that does nothing.

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@Wolfie_Rankin

There should be sanctions for companies that make garbage that will clog landfills without even bringing a moment of joy, novelty, or utility to anyone's life.

Like this is a criminal use of LEDs, batteries, glass resistors!

These materials could be used to make little homes for ants... for example.

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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,
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@snarkmaiden

I'm only realizing how bizarre it was now... I guess it was kind of an "I'm an arts major" look IDK ...

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"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,
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See also: making a todo list, then bedding down for a nap because making the list was SO exhausting.

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Seabike is an “underwater mobility device” that can propel you through the water at “superhuman speed”. You pedal with your feet, driving a small propellor. https://newatlas.com/marine/seabike-swimming-propeller/

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@kottke

I LOVE THIS

sarahtaber, to random
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We should talk about brain worms, I guess? I regret to inform you that they are real.

It's not super common, especially where there's clean water and basic sanitation. But it's also not unheard of.

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@sarahtaber

Well at long last this may put me off of the pork... damn.

futurebird, to random
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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 … .”

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@chris_e_simpson

It's OK. But IDK isn't that just replacing the question of "why am i?" with "why am able to think?" which is a harder question.

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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,
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@mavu

It's just a twist mechanical pencil... and they are still made we have little boxes of them in the storage closet for exams.

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