Chebucto Regional Softball Club

@minmi @dicenbuttons

What could be more fun than helping the colony get warm? Your little larvae sisters are so cold and you can bring them the rays of the sun.

@dicenbuttons

And here is a shocking tale of how humans have tried to claim that they made great hearths, but it turns out... these too were maybe* just the work of ants.

(Seriously, it's an interesting debate, and I'm fascinated how the debate is between anthropogenic origin or ANTpogenic origin since ants make that much of a mark.)

*or maybe not. there is a debate

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@minmi @dicenbuttons

Isn't that done to help melt the snow?

@dicenbuttons

Have humans ever made anything as proportionally magnificent? Look at this nest, it's designed to maintain the perfect micro-climate. It's the home to 100,000s of ants. It's made of natural materials and perfectly integrated into the forest... not just "not imposing" but actively making the forest a better place.

And yet it towers like the work of the best engineers to collect the rays of the sun like the great pyramid.

But there is no pharaoh. Only the colony.

@geoffduncan @dicenbuttons

I think you are correct unless this is somehow in Europe.

@dicenbuttons

That is a good looking ant hill.

Are you in Europe or out west in the US?

It's a little odd for them to be this active in winter, but if there is sun they will go out and try to warm-up.

They do this thing where they sit in the sun and get warm. Then go deep in the nest and get cold... over and over, slowly warming up the nest with their bodies.

@ellie

That sucks.

@chillicampari

"don't want the pin..."

this will teach them!

@theplaguedoc

arboreal

Can you feel the vision?

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@c_9/115879020571243606

Quietly make the pins even better, unforgettable, magnificent. Add a ribbon and some gold leaf.

Then order one tenth as many and let them die of envy.

I have an example. See next post.

@mitch

Are there space bugs in this as the cover seems to indicate?

... any of those... space ants maybe?

@mitch

[Image Description:
The cover of "The Selected Novels of Eric Frank Russell: Entities"

The cover features a painting of a glowing space moth with big feathered antenna and wings like clouds of plasma or nebulae in shades of orange.

A scattering of dark starry sky.

There are spaceships like organic metallic seed pods. The moth is either confronting them or sending them off into universe.]

@Teaceratops

It's really good looking especially on the bamboo frame. I'm impressed.

@Alice@beige.party @wendinoakland @benroyce @TheBreadmonkey @justincox @Novela @Nickiquote @surdfish @mothninja @alice@lgbtqia.space @GayDeceiver @skinnylatte @dgar @catsalad

This list is not comprehensive, well defined or subject to any consistent attributes other than finding a bunch of people in my recent mentions who'd I'd instantly miss.

@gbsills

I assumed that's what they were for?

@GossiTheDog

So it *was* a marketing campaign.

I don't see how this helps at all.

@realtegan

no no no don't be silly. Ants don't know how to talk or make memes or anything like that. come on.

All I can think of is those scam "X-ray glasses" from the back of the comic books.

@funkula @lapis

ants do, for cleaning the feets.