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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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"They will never print this in books!!!1!!!1"

futurebird,
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@bitcodavid @echanda

tin foil hat I think

futurebird, to random
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What your exotic pet says about you.

Lizard: Kinda strange, but pretty cool
Spider: Tough, a little creepy
Snake: Tough on the outside, baby on the inside
Ants: Not tough but somehow more creepy than spider people
Butterflies: Fundamentally depressed but hiding it well
Giant Centipede: Person who is deeply unsettling and creepy, but fundamentally harmless.
Giant millipede: patient
isopods: angry baby
tailless whip scorpions: awkward in appearance but totally reliable

frankiespurlock, to animals
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Alfie is ready to ship out

futurebird,
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@frankiespurlock I'll take two.

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    futurebird,
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    @NanoRaptor

    ... plese...

    pleas dont give them ideas.

    futurebird, to random
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    This pest control company decided to use AI generated ant images ... probably to stop people at formiculture.com from making fun of them for posting photos of the wrong species of ant... but ... this is much more terrifying.

    If you see ants like these? Run. These are aliens.

    The text says "Is your home show signs of carpenter ants" then there is another ant monster.

    futurebird,
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    @FredKiesche @donmelton

    This thing would scare ants as much as people!

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    It's so hard to find ANY information on ants that build "carton nests" that is ants that make paper-like substances from wood or mud or plants and build these complex nest-structures in trees.

    They really are under studied. Who knows what thermal, hydrological properties they may have engineered.

    Bees get so much attention for their waxy homes-- but ants can build too!

    futurebird, (edited ) to random
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    Took an after school nap and had the most disturbing dream about this guy in Brooklyn who called me to come help out with his cat colony. Only it was a Cat Colony. There were cat majors and cat minors and we had to go in deep to find the cat queen...

    This is all 's fault somehow...

    futurebird,
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    ... six legged cats... thousands of them.

    But they were very soft and snuggly.

    futurebird, to random
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    YouTube thumbnails have zero chill.

    (all caps) "They will never print this in books" (all caps)

    Just any kind of mysterious nonsense to temp me. My god. When I see this kind of thing? I block the whole channel so I won't be tempted.

    The title of this video made me laugh out loud at how off the handle it is...

    futurebird,
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    "They will never print this in books!!!11!!eleventy!"

    Is basically an admission that your ideas don't make any sense ... and there is no way that they will ever ever be taken seriously no matter what...

    futurebird,
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    @llewelly OK but whatever this is... it's beyond even that somehow 🤣

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    What is your FAVOURITE microcontroller? If you're not into embedded, what's your favourite microprocessor? Please go into as much detail as you want! :D I'll start. I think my favourite is the TI TM4C129XNCZAD... powerful ARM M4F with huge number of GPIO, Ethernet MAC/PHY, LCD controller, huge interrupt and DMA flexibility, huge flash storage for a micro (1 MB!), encryption, CAN, I2C, SPI (including QSSI)... the thing is a BEAST. And I have a rare engineering sample chip - XM4C marking!

    futurebird,
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    @amrowsell I’m a simple woman so ESP8266 and ESP32

    futurebird, to random
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    “My son spends too much time being fascinated by ants and clouds. He spends a lot of time watching the world go by will this improve?” - Real, if depressing, question from a parenting group.

    MY GOD — I hope not!
    It’s really strange how some things are seen as needlessly day-dreamy obsessions while other fixations aren’t questioned or encouraged. There is a whole language for understanding the world of ants, in the complexity of clouds— What questions do they raise that are so hard to let go of?

    futurebird, to random
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    Very moving 9-min long reminder that you live in a gravity well.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl5yQ6RX_eE

    futurebird, to random
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    There is something to be said for rooting out domestic and sexual abusers since those who are able to harm those closest to them often seem to have few other limitations when it comes to political harm that touches millions.

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    PSA: You don’t have to be miserable to be a good person.

    futurebird,
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    @imtheq in fact … if you have a choice and choose misery (to no other benefits, for you or anyone else) ‘tis an insult to the Lord Almighty.

    futurebird, to random
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    No gods, no masters, no cats.

    futurebird,
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    Whelp. I'm under house arrest (pinned to the couch by a sleeping cat) (again) due to "subversive" internet posts...

    futurebird, to random
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    Think about, say, caterpillars. How many caterpillars out of a clutch of eggs manage to hatch, eat enough to pupate and become adult butterflies and moths? It's a pretty rough life, most are eaten!

    But if an ant gets to the larval stage she's probably going to be fine. She's safe, surrounded by abundant food. She doesn't even need to walk when she's a larvae to find her food. She even gets help emerging from her cocoon.

    This is the advantage of a eusocial nest.

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    Ants, bees and wasps share a common wasp-like ancestor. So, the most remarkable thing about ants is that they are the most notable largely flightless members of a class of flying insects.

    Why did ants give up the skies? The current theory is it was to increase their strength. Ants are famous for being very strong for their size-- and this isn't a myth. Worker ants have stronger limbs than queens (who are born with wings) Both are stronger in the limbs than bees.

    futurebird,
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    Of course it's never that simple with nature. There are eusocial creatures (mole rats are one example) that are not haploid diploid. So, this could be a factor but it can't be the "cause" of the evolution of eusociality.

    One interesting theory is that eusocial creatures all create nests. The nest is a valuable resource, a kind of fulcrum that makes cooperation plausible.

    Ants and bees have a very high success rate when it comes to the young that they choose to raise surviving to be adults.

    futurebird,
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    @floatybirb

    Something like that. Some mason bees basically do this. Each has their own nest and young, but they nest in a group for purposes of deterring predators.

    futurebird,
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    @evan EO Wilson RIP has excellent writing about ants, it’s unfortunate he got caught up in some strange genetic determinism in humans controversies later in life — but he will mostly be remembered for his great work on the ants.

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    @CFoix Technically bees and ants are wasps in the same way birds are dinosaurs— there isn’t a way to make the category so it includes everything we call wasps but excluding the ants and bees.

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