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@futurebird gives "got up early for graveyard shift" feel to the morning, doesn't it?

@futurebird I used to have hand-drawn spreadsheets of characters, places, concepts, and so forth, as well as weird diagrams of boxes and arrows, all on graph paper. And all of that for stories I never finished, and for D&D dungeon-mastering prep.

@futurebird
may aunt anna guide you in this darkness.

@futurebird I guess "fossil soil" and "palaeosol" are less disturbed.

@futurebird if only I hadn't donated all that money to Pica's Giant Cat Fund

"... , including the larvae of the Painted Nest Wasplets. For an hour at noon during heavy rain, the column weakened and almost disappeared, but when the sun returned, the lines rejoined, and the revolution of the vicious circle continued ..."
-- William Beebe, _Edge of the Jungle_
https://archive.org/details/edgeofjungle00beeb/page/290/mode/2up

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"— to the outhouse again, and on a large fallen log, a few feet beyond the spot where their nest had been, the ends of the circle actually came together! It was the most astonishing thing, and I had to Verify it again and again before I could believe the evidence of my eyes. It was a strong column, six lines wide in many places, and the ants fully believed that they were on their way to a new home, for most were carrying eggs or larvae, although many had food ..."

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"At six o'clock the following morning I started out for a swim, when at the foot of the laboratory steps I saw a swiftly-moving, broad line of army ants on safari, passing through the compound to the beach. I traced them back under the servants' quarters, through two clumps of bamboos to the out -house. Later I followed along the column down to the river sand, through a dense mass of underbrush, through a hollow log, up the bank, back through light jungle —"
#ants
#Beebe

#antMill

@futurebird the anandromous passing the catandromous in the night

@futurebird
last seen
headed toward Sunset
on Silly Street
in healthy urban fanfic

@futurebird @stephaniepixie @SunnJax @dillyd
unlike an LDS singles ward it doesn't comfort you with the delusion you're there for some totally different and morally opposite reason

@futurebird @quinn
lonely sharks: they just want to be your friend. They won't fall on you and kill you, like a vending machine or a ...

@futurebird @quinn
if people were less loanly, who would the loan sharks eat?

@futurebird and then: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cissa_(bird)

@futurebird and this freak: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow-billed_magpie

@futurebird sure, but some are really pushing it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inca_jay

@futurebird carbon: it runs rings around other elements.

@futurebird @bug @fedward
I loved the short story _Trucks_ , but I never saw the movie based on it. _Christine_ was also good.

much older: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killdozer!_(short_story)

@futurebird it's like the cover of an SF dystopia written in 1973.

@bug @fedward @futurebird didn't Stephen King write that novel?