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I’m being monitored. #picathecat

@graydon

For "ears back" angry yes I think that's established.

But could they use ears to say "look over there?"

Biology experimental design challenge:

Question: Do cats notice the orientation of the ears of other cats or animals? Can they use this as a cue to locate prey or items of interest? (eg a toy)

Cats can turn their ears to listen directionality. Their ears are very large. Could cats notice the orientation of the ears of other cats or creatures that can angle their ears and use this to locate an item of interest?

@blogdiva

Why does my little house cat look like she has the most weighty questions of the world resting on her shoulders?

What does she get up to on her own time???

@jhooper

"isn't it funny the woman journalist thinks she's doing real journalism ho ho ho how amusing. etc."

@potterybyosa

"... the Sumerians used the sexagesimal system ... It has been suggested that an earlier, pre-Sumerian decimal system used the number 10 as the base (Lewy, 1949). The Halafian use of the numbers 4, 8, 16 and 32 does not fit any of these systems, and may reflect an earlier and simpler level of mathematical thinking ..."

Sumerian sexagesimal has decimal embedded in it. Binary is kind of natural to geometry and repeatedly dividing regions.

myrmepropagandist (@futurebird@sauropods.win)

Attached: 3 images I remember doing all sorts of crafts with glue & paper learning fractions but never did we try dividing the paper to infinity— I think this should be something everyone tries. I’d do this with calculus students learning series! The idea of an infinite sum having finite value is just more— believable after you really do it. And I’m trying to get these 6th graders to like fractions. So they just can’t be BORING— #mathEducation #mathematics #series #geometricSeries #binaryNumbers #artsAndCrafts

Sauropods.win (sauropods.win)

@potterybyosa

This one is open access so we can see the pdf of the paper here.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10963-025-09200-9

Daily #PicaTheCat

@ersatzmaus

Things one never wants to have to shout as they lock the iron door shoving you in with the rest.

Stop saying "Jamaica is a limestone island*" @JamaicanGeologist will teach you about the nuance and deep history of this island. He's very passionate about these rocks!

(Just found a great new #geology channel to follow.)

*I was unaware that people were saying this, but I love someone who comes in with nuance like this.

#videos #Jamaica #youTube

@jonquass

IDK. I don't think she'd enjoy having her wife sent to a conversion camp. Which means she doesn't really think that is where this is going.

But that *is* where this is going.

Even if she got rid of her wife and converted to Christianity she'd still be just another woman to them.

MTG has learned about this and she's a passable blonde.

I really wish somehow I could explain to Bari Weiss that these old conservative men will never ever respect her.

When they see you they see blue hair. They see every horrible stereotype of the "woke and over-educated" you can imagine. There is no service you can do for their odious causes that will change this.

They hate you and will only contain that hate to the extent you are useful.

Did you know that people can love you and respect you in ways that aren't related to being useful?

There is a difference between *writing* story as a text object and *telling* a story. One thing I love about social media how we can listen to and tell each other stories in this new context.

Perhaps the key difference between a short story as a text artifact and "story time" is that with "story time" you can talk back to the teller and that could change the story. It's still a conversation.

Do you have favorite stories to tell at this time of year?

Tell me a story!

#storyTime

"You goose is cooked."

But is it WAXED?

This is a short video essay about history, the economics of poultry and why the "Christmas Goose" is something we think of as fancy and for rich people rather than a working class holiday staple.

#videos #foodHistory #Christmas

CW: animal death, meat industry

@jmopp @penny

money-brained people have only one idea and it's terrible.

@apLundell @Wyatt_H_Knott

Wrong Answer: There is no "lead ant" since the river of ants extends all the way around the world and it never ends. BEHOLD!

@apLundell @Wyatt_H_Knott

You are thinking of army ants and driver ants. This has been studied and there are some wonderful diagrams showing how they explore and decide where to go. It varies by species. But, there isn't a lead ant. There are forward exploring ants, and through a kind of building minimal consensus the main body will follow in the most promising direction.

But also, driver ants "know" the area around the bivouac. So they already have a sense of where they might go next.

@skinnylatte

#PicaTheCat is 18 and still has zoomies.

She loves to play "run under the rug" and "OH NO gotta run and bounce of the wall around the corner"

@clew @Wyatt_H_Knott

I have not seen ants trying to pick each other up, but I did see two minums fighting over who would carry a much younger (and much larger) major somewhere. They both were struggling to move her since she was so much larger, but if one would rest the other would take the big ant's mandible and run off with her as the other one followed.