@futurebird I've been ignoring it. Or trying to. The news industry wanted a cross between _The Godfather_ and _A Confederacy of Dunces_, and that's what rump and his goons pretend to give them. That's how they won the support of the news industry.
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I'll joke about the drama with Trump and Musk a little because it brings a little levity to a heavy soul. -
I'm kind of struggling to write about this (fictional) ant colony.@futurebird technically the story of the four hobbits and thier companions wasn't written in English; it was written Westron, the language the hobbits spoke. Tolkien had to translate it. Your story was written in ant thoughts, but you must translate it for human readers.
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I really thought that post editing here would be way more disruptive than it has been.@futurebird in my experience, post editing was a serious problem in every previous internet space where it was provided. Really amazes me it is so rarely a problem here.
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It is spring: the balloon shirts are upon us.@futurebird
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"From its probable beginnings as a simple, practical work-garment, the toga became more voluminous, complex, and costly, increasingly unsuited to anything but formal and ceremonial use. It was and is considered ancient Rome's "national costume"; as such, it had great symbolic value; however even among Romans, it was hard to put on, uncomfortable and challenging to wear correctly, and never truly popular. " (quote continues next toot) -
It is spring: the balloon shirts are upon us.@futurebird global warming has made suits obsolete. People will just have to give them up.
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Moths are the total soft kid who tries SO HARD to be metal.@futurebird
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This is so charming I can *almost* not mention the absence of ants.@futurebird
well, he was no Maria Sibylla Merian, but he was good, and an important historical figure in entomology.anyway, here's the link https://popenoe.org/cvriley/prints/insect-orders
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This is so charming I can *almost* not mention the absence of ants.@futurebird you know I was going to send you a link to CV Riley's famous historical drawings of the various insect orders, but then I looked at them, and thought, well, there aren't any ants depicted.
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Much of the literature on leafcutter ants draws a sharp line between "higher" and "lower" attines.@futurebird I'm guessing diversity of leafcutter ants is also correlated with warmth and humidity?
After all, both fungi and insect diversity are also correlated with warmth and humidity.
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:: An alien spacecraft lands on Earth.@futurebird I've often thought that if star-wars-like hyperdrive was real (or even star-trek-like warp drive), the alien equivalent of a plant or a fungus without anything we'd call intellect would evolve the ability to use it to spread from one star system to the next.
