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   goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Jun-2023 19:09:41 JST goatsarah

   Watching a pair of flies go round and round aimlessly in my bedroom. They are clearly lost.

   Humans are better than flies because shortly after developing flight, we developed air traffic control to avoid this problem.

   Flies have been at this for a gazillion years and they don’t have ILS or navigation beacons or anything.

   Bit shit of them really. Flies, do better!

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     Uraael (uraael@blahaj.zone)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Jun-2023 19:37:24 JST Uraael

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     @goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org
     It amazes me how they will manage to fly into my home through a slightly open window - a one in a trillion chance given the vastness of outside to a fly - but they could literally die trying to exit that same still-open window again, completely forgetting the path by which they entered and hammering themselves into the invisible force field ad infinitum. I had to help one yesterday using a curtain to block off his escapes routes.
     
     Flies, man. Idiots.

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Jun-2023 19:37:24 JST goatsarah

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     • Uraael
     @Uraael They honestly need to shape the fuck up.
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     WOMUMP (womump@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Jun-2023 19:38:02 JST WOMUMP

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     @goatsarah They may not be being crap -- there's a particular spot in my house where small (and thankfully inaudible and non-bitey) flies circulate, up to a couple of dozen on a hot day with windows open -- I don't think it's a chemical cue, I suspect it's a consensus fly nightclub spot, à la https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokunagayusurika_akamusi#Swarming

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