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Notices by myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)

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    myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Thursday, 22-May-2025 07:19:48 JST myrmepropagandist myrmepropagandist
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    • Nowhere Girl

    @gwynnion

    They are also often racist. Or they don't really care about racism which can also be pretty bad. Every time I have tried to explain to one how erecting strict gender borders with checkpoints and so on will harm black women (even the black cis women they claim they care about too) their only response is to trot out one of the six black terfs they know and show her to me like that is supposed to end the conversation. "Look we already talked to one of you people." is how it comes off.

    In conversation about a day ago from sauropods.win permalink
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    myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 08:32:06 JST myrmepropagandist myrmepropagandist

    Things to Consider:

    Did you pet the cat?

    Did you do a good job?

    Did you ASK the cat if you did a good job?

    In conversation about 2 days ago from sauropods.win permalink

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    myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 05:22:44 JST myrmepropagandist myrmepropagandist

    A perfectly sensible totally unaltered sign.

    In conversation about 3 days ago from sauropods.win permalink

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    myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Tuesday, 20-May-2025 10:42:38 JST myrmepropagandist myrmepropagandist

    She prefers to nap on a tweed jacket. Please provide one for her on the couch. #picathecat #catsofmastodon

    In conversation about 3 days ago from sauropods.win permalink

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    myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Tuesday, 20-May-2025 01:18:44 JST myrmepropagandist myrmepropagandist
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    • Martin Owens :inkscape:

    @doctormo

    Her thorax is interesting. She could be a queen carpenter ant because of the boxy shape. She has no wings which would mean she's mated and looking for a nesting spot and mostly focused on that. But, I'm not totally certain... the angle is a bit difficult.

    Camponotus pennsylvanicus is my guess, but it could be some other Camponotus.

    The right photo is a queen, the left a major worker.

    Lovely girl!

    In conversation about 4 days ago from sauropods.win permalink

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    myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Tuesday, 20-May-2025 01:18:42 JST myrmepropagandist myrmepropagandist
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    • Martin Owens :inkscape:

    @doctormo

    Yup. That's a queen!

    Was she all black or did she have a dark reddish tint to the front of her gaster? It kind of looks a bit red in this photo... If so it's not the very common Camponotus pennsylvanicus but could be Camponotus chromaiodes.

    But Camponotus pennsylvanicus is still most likely... not that they are THAT different.

    In conversation about 4 days ago from gnusocial.jp permalink
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    myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 10:16:17 JST myrmepropagandist myrmepropagandist

    People talk about how "efficient" ants are. These people do not watch ants.

    I just hooked up a new area for my Camponotus pennslyvanicus colony.

    The tube was shoved in the sand so only the small workers can fit into the entrance to the new area. (there is food there)

    Majors are crowded around the entrance trying to go in, other workers are trying to dig it out so every ant can fit, but the majors are in the way.

    It's just like the subway when people won't move from the door.

    In conversation about 4 days ago from sauropods.win permalink
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    myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 03:46:50 JST myrmepropagandist myrmepropagandist

    This was supposed to be a GIF.
    Didn't work when I first posted it. #picaTheCat #sleepysunday #catposting #cats

    In conversation about 5 days ago from sauropods.win permalink

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    myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 01:13:46 JST myrmepropagandist myrmepropagandist

    I have an idea for a program to promote businesses that are good for the environment because they help people repair things. Places like tailors, cobblers, electronics repair are all at risk of vanishing along with the skills required to do these things.

    Right at a moment when we should be making repair and longevity a bigger part of material culture.

    My cobbler is very old and isn't training anyone to take over.

    Just telling people to repair things won't cut it.

    In conversation about 5 days ago from sauropods.win permalink
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    myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 01:13:45 JST myrmepropagandist myrmepropagandist
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    There needs to be:

    * incentives to manufacture things that can be repaired
    * a general shift to see repairability as a sign of quality, luxury and responsibility
    * training a new generation to do the work
    * support for these trades so it's a viable way of life

    Having a job fixing things is one of those types of work that can nourish the soul. But it needs to nourish the wallet too.

    In conversation about 5 days ago from sauropods.win permalink
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    myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 01:13:44 JST myrmepropagandist myrmepropagandist
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    I think the disappearance of these kinds of trades feeds the feeling that the modern world is terrible and strange strains of nostalgia that right wing politicians seem adept at exploiting and turning in to much uglier things... without ever bringing back any of the things from "the good old days" that were actually good.

    Like shoes that you could love and have for 25 years.

    I've heard people suggest that products that last slow economies. That isn't true. They change who gets to make money.

    In conversation about 5 days ago from sauropods.win permalink
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    myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Sunday, 18-May-2025 09:07:10 JST myrmepropagandist myrmepropagandist
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    • Alex Wild

    @alexwild

    Do ants like them?

    In conversation about 5 days ago from sauropods.win permalink

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    myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Sunday, 18-May-2025 09:06:18 JST myrmepropagandist myrmepropagandist

    Cowboy boots with an "ants and aphids" motif seem like an obvious and popular idea for a style.

    I am naturally shocked, these do not already exist, but I'm adding them to the list of things offered by my imaginary ant-themed fashion brand called "Ants Only." Right after the "pheromone themed perfume"

    #antFashion

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    myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Sunday, 18-May-2025 09:05:42 JST myrmepropagandist myrmepropagandist

    Someone on tumblr made the comment "silverfish are REAL?" on one of my posts and I didn't think much of it, but then one of my students said the same thing when I showed them a silverfish near one of the vents explaining what they are and why they were there.

    That's when it hit me.

    MINECRAFT

    They think it's a made up creature from minecraft!

    (Totally gonna tell them that endermites and shulkers are real too next time this happens. heh heh heh heh)

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    myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Saturday, 17-May-2025 23:10:11 JST myrmepropagandist myrmepropagandist

    Pica caught a moth in the night and was so proud of herself and so excited to ... "include me in the fun" she did not kill it but brought it to my bed and put it on my FACE. That's how I woke up at 1am.

    Even for a huge bug fan... this was a bit much. And the moth was not having a good time at all.

    But Pica was just so proud. "Isn't this amazing mom? Look what I found? Let's play!"

    OMG.

    she is such a WIERDO

    I'm going to reseal the screens since I cannot live with this. Pica. NO.

    In conversation about 6 days ago from sauropods.win permalink
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    myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Saturday, 17-May-2025 10:55:35 JST myrmepropagandist myrmepropagandist
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    • Dan

    @dank

    I'm so deeply ad-blocked and click-bait blocked (and I don't really do things like Netflix or cable) that when I see an add on a screen on the subway I'm like a person from the past and horrified, scandalized, astonished, and generally much less able to cope than most people I think.

    Because it's the only video ad I've seen all week ... maybe longer.

    *clutching pearls*

    "A motion picture advertisement! What is this nonsense!?"

    In conversation about 6 days ago from gnusocial.jp permalink
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    myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Saturday, 17-May-2025 10:55:24 JST myrmepropagandist myrmepropagandist
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    • your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦
    • KimberlyN

    @KimberlyN @blogdiva

    When they pose for the thumbnail with their mouth open and eyes popping out.

    Just mugging it up.

    This has been proven to increase engagement which I find deeply baffling.

    This guy at the ants forum changed his thumbnails so every one was him going sort of "WHOA" to a photo of an ant and his views jumped. That's about when I stopped making ant videos. I don't get it.

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    myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Saturday, 17-May-2025 10:55:22 JST myrmepropagandist myrmepropagandist
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    • your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦
    • KimberlyN

    @KimberlyN @blogdiva

    People are much more likely to click on a video with a human face, ideally expressing extreme emotion. If there are other images that suggest a story or *mystery* even better.

    This was true three years ago. I wonder if it is still true.

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    myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Saturday, 17-May-2025 10:55:20 JST myrmepropagandist myrmepropagandist
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    • Jeremy Kahn
    • your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦
    • KimberlyN

    @trochee @KimberlyN @blogdiva

    I have a plugin that replaces all thumbnails with random stills from the video. I just don't want to play the game. I don't want second guess if I'm being influenced or over correct. It also replaces the titles with simple user-submitted descriptions with the aim of removing click bait and hype.

    The latter makes it much easier to find things I really want to see.

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    • Charlie Stross
    • Mobile Suit Larry

    @josh0 @funkula @cstross

    You see I think an isopod tongue is a good thing actually.

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    pro-ant propaganda, building electronics, writing sci-fi teaching mathematics & CS. I live in NYC.🎖️(<<Medal Awarded for the time when there were too many people.)Proverbs 6:6bug haters DNI

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