Notices by myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win), page 23

How do the rest of you with cats keep them off of the internet?

@tenzochris

I love it... (and, of course, I'm thinking about the ant-themed version.)

Here is a good ant pose:

(Cataglyphis hispanica)

I hope moths eat their robes.

Also, please let go of the fantasy of Trump in a fact checked debate. He'd insult the fact checker, call them names, keep rolling and say even more wild and untrue things. "That fact checker was paid off by NATO to hide the truth from everyone." etc.

You can't fact check away lies that some people *want* to believe.

Anyway maybe this debate will help the fundraising gap move back where it ought to be.

"We might need to ask people to wear masks"
"NO! That would infringe on my RIGHTS!"
"I see your point. Perhaps we can't ask people to do that. Although, it could save lives."
"You are always trying to control me!"
"Well we won't do it then."
"The deep state is persecuting me!"
"We're not doing it, OK?"
"Something must be done! The tyranny is so awful!"
"Tyranny?"
"That's it! We are banning masks!"
"Hold on. Some people need them."
"Ban 'em all! And ban you for persecuting us"
"What--"

Signs you have carpenter #ants

* keep finding tiny tools
* city sends a very tiny permit to affix to baseboard
* when you try to move a book you are told to “keep this entrance clear, ma’am” because of the “cement delivery coming later”
* Your dish rack is dismantled “because it’ll be cheaper to rebuild from scratch”
* no room on the dresser due to like 85 tiny pickups illegally parked there
* husband keeps hearing high pitched wolf whistles when exiting shower

In isopod cosmology the world is a giant "whale fall" - the world is a carcass of a great living beast that died long ago… in the vast desert sea floor of space life blossoms in an orgy of death.

This is the answer to your Fermi "paradox."

The first to arrive? The elder gods, the deep ones. Sea Isopods- they prepared the carcass of the Earth* for life.

This is the isopod creation myth-- is it based in truth? We do not know.

*only they do not call it "the Earth" they call our planet "the Sea"

@tuban_muzuru

In the hagfish cosmology the universe is a great knot, the knot, like all knots, is slowly working itself apart, and when it is at last untied paradise (which is a chunk of the universe we cannot see beyond the knot) will be free'd from the substance of deep space, and all those who are slimy will get to go to paradise.

Those without slime will become a part of a new knot... the next universe.

If you are in MO, MI or CA there is a project to catalog all of the fungi in your area.

It's a citizen science opportunity and I wish I could do it in NY!

#LichenSubscribe #mushrooms #FungiFriday #fungi #nature #naturephotography #funguys

https://mycota.com/

@thomasfuchs

My older brother has our old apple ii and keeps it working and if I could find some working floppies of this game it would be the ULTIMATE gift for him.

@tk

labor daybor

turning a big dial taht says AI on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right.

I guess is must be hot. I've had to fill the water feeders for my ants after just 3 days and normally it lasts them a week. They are getting better about getting off of the feeder when I need to remove it. (I can't refill it if it's covered in ants and there is no way to explain this to them. So I just tap it to scare them off.)

I think I'll need to give them each two water feeders just to be safe. (No water harms ants faster than anything. They could last a week maybe two without food.)

Much of the pro-Trump content of facebook comes from the Epoch Times. A right wing media outlet caught laundering millions in a crypto scheme.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/05/media/pro-trump-epoch-times-money-laundering-charge/index.html

Is this a creepy idea for a school assignment or a cool idea?

Make Your Own Doomsday Library

You are going to live in space, or in a bunker and you will only have the materials you can assemble on a 1GB hard drive. Make a list of the books and materials you would bring and assemble your emergency library.

Optional: Create a device for reading your library that will last as long as possible.

It's an interesting exercise and might even be useful.

@martinhowitt

Here is a screenshot of what I see. And this is even more wild because links to YouTube, and to tumblr and many other sites will show an image if there is one and a short summary of the post being linked.

But if you link to the fedi it's kind of censored down to just a cryptic link (that will take you to a different server where you can't post or reply nearly always)

It's almost adversarial design to avoid anything "quote boost like"

@martinhowitt

I had more than one friend, who I convinced to try mastodon. Trying to give them a good experience I'd check on them & respond to their posts.
They'd say: "I never saw your replies"

Turned out in each case they clicked a link & found they were "logged out" (on a different server) so sign up for that server, then another and another... on every server they had an empty account and felt alone.

We need quote-boost to stop this. An in-fedi link should stay on your home server.

@martinhowitt

I can think of three people this happened to, one is back on X, another no longer uses social media and the last is on blueSky.

Cool fun people, but I can see why they decided it was "too confusing" and "dead."

These are only the people I kept track of, I suspect there are 1000s of dead accounts that are created due to this totally confusing aspect of the interface. Happily this only seems to happen on the web, and the phone apps are more popular.

So of ya'll talk about "reply guys" on Mastodon. And yeah that exists, but it's like the least annoying of the gruesome menagerie I used to deal with every day on X social media.

There were:
- Stalker
- Mr. Race Science
- Always Wrong, Thinks He's Right
- Mr. I'm Making This About Politics
- Ms. Gender(ing everyone for no reason)
- Mr. Just Plain Racist
- Mr. I thought I blocked you?
- Mr. "I know where you work"

and on and on

@Naich

I don't agree with this. It's not the tools it's the people, and the degree to which people control their feeds.

You just can't stir up a big audience by being mean to people since there aren't a lot of people here who enjoy it.

I think quotes would only make things better, especially for attribution and splitting threads up. Right now everything ends up in one huge thread with forty people tagged.