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When it comes to leafcutter ants there is no need to fret about rare insects being poached. They are very common and sometimes agricultural pests in their home countries. So, collecting a young colony isn't doing any harm.

A "Night at the Museum" variant about what the ants do when the Museum closes. They go out through a little door in the base of their display nest and explore all of the exhibits.

Any day when I visit the ant colony at the AMNH is a good day. It's like going to see an important visiting dignitary from the tropics. You can normally tell which chamber the queen is living in. That's where all the activity is. The colony has been in NYC long enough that she is the only ant who remembers what it was like to live underground or their home country. All of the workers have only know the museum.

It's a very healthy colony.

I always feel like it should have a name.

@llewelly

Listen it's hard to find local leaves that tropical ants will enjoy.

@GustavinoBevilacqua

Yes. The “manhatANT” it’s a species of Lasius.

If you just want to see the ants at the #AMNH just go around back by 80th st and they are right by the door on the left.

I go back there all the time.

This colony is voracious eating like six mulberry branches a day. They have a whole jungle gym to tire them out.

@alice @nova @MCDuncanLab

Luna has star power but Nova has better fur.

@Gustodon

OK if we are talking about capabilities there is no question. The squirrel is able to traverse terrain and obstacles that would baffle even the best robots with the most skilled operators.

However, I enjoy robots more. Squirrels always make snide remakes when I'm looking for ants near the base of their trees. They also have connections to organized crime.

But I guess so do the robots so... that one is a wash.

@alice @nova @MCDuncanLab

I mean nova... My mistake.

@Extra_Special_Carbon

Lucian might be a too obvious name for a mostly antagonistic charterer but I think sometimes on the nose names are good.

@Extra_Special_Carbon

They are the reason Lucian had to enter the history simulation. Something is going terribly wrong in the past.

"occasional table"? why would I want THAT give me the "relentlessly spamming you table."

There was something more real, more human about scrolling with your fingers. There was something more grounded about having to *find* someone’s name and then tap on it to link to them- no not "link" to “call” them.

Yes, that’s what they called it back in the old days: “phone calls”— and they had beginnings and endings. People said things like “hello” and “goodbye.” Truly, Lucian thought, it was a lost and better time.

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A little excerpt from "the book"

Lucian walked along the long Avenue, looking at a New York City, that could’ve come out of a period movie. He touched his pocket, gently, a heavy, metal rectangular object rested there. A physical phone. With a feeling of wonder and amusement he drew it out and looked down at the flat dimensionless little screen. He hadn’t seen a physical phone since he was a child.

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@CatHat @mike805 @lucy_stoner

They are just (maybe) smugglers or people who have be hired by smugglers. That is, it's basically a small commercial vessel possibly for a black market good, but maybe not even that. Maybe the boat is full of sneakers and fish. We don't even know. It's not even going to the US. Why do we care? Go home.

@lucy_stoner

Speed boat blown up by an aircraft carrier is not the look they want.

I'm not into war or war stuff, but if I were and I was on an aircraft carrier I would be so... disgusted and shamed by this BS. It's like like well it's

Blowing up a motor boat with an aircraft carrier. I can't think of a better example of "disproportionate"

It's embarrassing. Shame on the whole nation.

And could we get a visual of the size of the US Navy boat next to their "targets" ... it's preposterous.

These are monstrous machines of war. The boats they are shooting are unarmed.

You want the drugs? Want the drug dealers? Point your guns at them and simply take them.

They could find out who sent out the boats. Go find that person. You know if you cared about any of this.

It bothers me that before they show the footage of the murder of these people, the news man never says "We are about to show footage where people were killed some viewers might find this disturbing." As they would for other disasters, so when the bile rises in my throat, because I really did just see some people snuffed out of existence I also have to feel like I'm being too sensitive for caring.

The careless way some death is displayed is also a kind of propaganda that explains who matters.

At least my 9th graders can all write decent proofs at last. Now we can really get down to business.

Two weeks till winter break and this is the WORST time of the year. Every day it's another thing. MY GOD.

If you know any teachers? Be nice to them at this time of year. It really is THE WORST. And we only had 3 weeks between thanksgiving and winter break so Everything Must Happen Now.

It should be a month... for breathing room.