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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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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

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@llewelly

None of them? Tulip isn't a MLP... I think... unless ....

futurebird,
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OMG the kid ponies are larvae...

OMG

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Tulip, the ant says hi!

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Today she's guarding the nest entrance with a few majors much bigger than her. It was very funny since they kept pushing her out of the way. They all like to sit in the tube entrance and just ... wait.

(I thought she made a great guard, but they made her leave)

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Someone is slacking off on grave yard duty there are two legs just laying there. Get it together, ants.

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@llewelly

She's probably like a person who was abducted by aliens and her sisters are just not buying her stories about "other worlds outside of the sky" and "a place with infinite sugar" or "giant monsters that paint dots on you while you are sleeping"

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Aw jeez Tulip has started this futile “digging project” in the corner and roped a bunch of minors in to help. Sometimes it’s like she knows there is a “world beyond” and can’t help looking for a way back— like a child who once saw Narnia who, as an adult, keeps climbing into cabinets … just in case.

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The other ants have given up but she's still digging.

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@Landa @llewelly

I think that's exactly what she's dealing with. There is a a whole other place... it was dangerous and huge... but how to get there again?

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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!

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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...

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@Scmurcott

The money is how big you are and the ritual is a way of uncovering and comparing the power.

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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/

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Personally I think it's really unnatural how humans react to fire. Most people are attracted to it and want to play with it. What's more typical in large mammals is fear.

Of course there are beetles that are attracted to fire (but don't play with it, sadly)

But I do think there is something very very old and strange about the way people relate to fire. It's such a blockbuster tool.

2/2

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@sashin

That's a great question. In my limited reading I haven't seen an experiment that answers it.

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The one true USB3 connector.

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@NanoRaptor

EW can you imagine the footprint of this beast on your PCB? Mad that you have to make space for a headphone jack on your board in Eagle? Look at this and weep. Might as well just go home and not make a gadget at all.

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@justafrog @NanoRaptor

I know this is just a fun Dana post... but the thought of a whole other family of new USB connectors makes me want to cry.

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@justafrog @NanoRaptor

USB T (for triangle)
USB T mini
USB T micro
USB T C
nooooooo

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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.

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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?

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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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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.

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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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