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I have never eaten an ant. I could not.

Poor girls.

Though... they do eat each other which kind of takes away from it. But the day of "unite all colonies" is coming.

RE: https://mastodon.online/@alexwild/115975907265196434

How does he know they have "a lemony flavor"?

This is a scandal that will rock the world of ants.

(My husband ate an ant by mistake once. He was using the aspirator all wrong. I forgave him... eventually. #PicaTheCat? Eats ants on purpose! So, what was THIS?)

@gl33p

Oh. Oh dear. What a precious little creature. And self possessed.

(Gotta try and make her think I'm thinking about it at least. )

I'd sell #PicaTheCat for ... IDK 8 million maybe?

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no I wouldn't. She's MY monster.

If cats weren't all over the place they'd be expensive "exotic" pets and people would pay like 50k to get their hands on one.

@burnitdown

Putting those little "fresh shoe" balls in their mouth at night because the boot is lodged so deep they can't get it out and it's the only way to freshen their breath.

... it's a pity really ...

But, he was not that kind of man.

@burnitdown

I expect they use shoe polish like tooth paste.

This is "You can tell she's a mouthy wife from all them bruises" levels of BS.

This is all obvious I hope?

But I just needed to say it for myself.

Because they are really trying "ICE broke his rib so he's violent"

No. no no no. Try that again. **Who** is violent based on that evidence?

"Well ICE broke his rib a week ago so that proves he's a trouble maker!"

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. . .

Maybe. I don't know. This is going to sound crazy but maybe it shows that ICE has been trying to kill him for a whole week instead?

I mean, if he'd so much as given an ICE employee cause to stumble resulting a self-inflicted paper cut we'd KNOW. So it sounds like ICE broke his rib and he didn't shoot them then either.

Even though, you know, self defense and all that.

Anyways.

@temptoetiam

Please enjoy the funny art I commissioned from mansand about this video:

(this is one of my favorite art commissions ever.)

@Phosphenes @bovaz @aurochs

I think "no ads" is a much more popular selling point than "privacy"

I mean ... even for me, it's the quality of the content and people (the fact that it's lively here) that matters most, after that? It's that there are "no ads"

The privacy is nice, but I don't think many people care about this much, or as much as we should.

@temptoetiam

Here is a short video I made about how one carpenter ant related to the sugar feeder by their colony.

RE: https://eldritch.cafe/@temptoetiam/115972698870474721

The title of this paper is hilarious to me because it makes the weaver ants sound like angry sugar addicts.

However perhaps we should be less judgemental "These findings challenge previous assumptions that sugar feeding consistently enhances the aggression and activity of ants."

(Thanks for pointing me to this @temptoetiam )

@Phosphenes @bovaz @aurochs

The fedi is slowly becoming a NORC (naturally occurring retirement community)

Only facebook has an older userbase.

And being more old than young that isn't a personal problem. But I wish there was more interest in making it a place younger people would care about. And that would mean listening to them.

@bovaz @aurochs

I think most people here find that kind of tracking and filtering a little creepy? But, it was also very convenient.

Over here we are like "follow two-dozen hash tags, and 300 people and then MAYBE your feed will be kind of interesting." Alternately? Here is the fire hose of your server's feed with 200 posts from the same person. Or the global feed which is just chaos.

Can we respect the art and craft of curating content? Can we make it a human thing?

@bovaz @aurochs

Curating content is real work. Tiktok didn't talk about it a lot but they put a great deal of effort into making the first experience users had with the app fun.

Showing them things they'd never seen before that were funny, or exciting ... using the spy data to tailor it to the particular user. Using the way the user scrolled to improve that experience.

@bovaz @aurochs

I would love it if there were a feed with more funny posts. You know like dril tweet type content.

I'm very happy about the complex issues and deep discussions but sometimes I'd just like to see some nonsense.