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futurebird

@futurebird@sauropods.win

pro-ant propaganda, building electronics, writing sci-fi teaching mathematics & CS. I live in NYC.

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futurebird, to random
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Do you like parasites? Or dislike them but can't stop learning about them? The worst ones are in the sea. Makes all of the parasitoid wasp stuff seem tame! There are worse fates than being paralyzed and fed to a hungry larvae who eats your organs selectively so you live longer.

Here is a great video. It is very gross. But it's cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qZQ2wcQY3o

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@swart

Well the video has both I think.

futurebird, to random
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I don't know how my ancestors survived.

apex predator who could easily subdue and eat me in a tree

my brain: Kitty Cat! Little kitty cat! Let me hug it!

futurebird,
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@liferstate

And they purr like motorcycles.

futurebird, to random
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It's the same picture.

https://www.rawstory.com/ron-desantis-mask-order-2654942318/

The photo of the "hot dog guy" from "I think you should leave" saying "We're all trying to find the guy who did this!" (he did it)

futurebird,
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meatball... hotdog... whatever... is ron a sandwich? discuss.

futurebird,
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@nosmaharba

tortilla. of course!

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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Have you thought much about, or engaged with "liminal space" content in the past 10 years? (Through a reddit group, tumblr, compilation videos etc.)

Regardless if you care about such content now, if you ever spent some time enjoying or being disquieted by such images and media... that's "engaging"

If you don't know what this is about you have not. If you know what it's about but just never paid it any mind? Same.

futurebird,
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@mhoye

Someone said that this is was something mostly "young people" care about?

futurebird, to random
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Research means formulating a question. Sketching the kind of evidence you think would provide answers to the question and then dispassionately looking for that evidence and either answering the question or determining it can't yet be answered.

Falling into an internet rabbit hole and stimulating your sense of fear or wonder reading the strangest things you can find that creep you out isn't research. It's fun maybe, but it's not research.

Yes both involve searching and reading but ... come on.

futurebird,
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There are a lot of people online who will say they have been doing "research" and it's true they have read, and watched many things. But they have no questions, no, threshold for answering those questions. It's just "spooky browsing"

And I like getting creeped out too as much as anyone. But that's just not research.

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@DrSuzanne

The lack of passion I'm looking for is the kind that prevents the question that started you on the journey from mutating without reflection. Let's say you think think a house is haunted. What kind of evidence would convince you?

But as you read about the house you find out about a cryptid. And reading about the cryptid you find out about a conspiracy with fluoride... then you just look at all the creepy things you don't understand and say "well some of it MUST be real!"

futurebird,
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@DrSuzanne

Part of conspiracy culture seems to be creating this pile of unsettling half-understood things. Ominous images. Creepy theories... but never asking any particular question or looking for an answer (or even looking to see if it could have an answer)

It's like when I read a bunch of SCP files and ghost stores and then I can't sleep because the shadow men will eat me.

Only this isn't a cheap thrill ... it destroys families. And yet they keep saying how much "research" they do!

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Johns Hopkins is doing a long-COVID survey and apparently is having trouble finding controls -- people who haven't had COVID. If this is you, consider giving them some clicks.

https://covid-long.com/

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@dsalo

This survey is kind of hard to take if your health has vastly improved since 2019. I wrote them a little note about it.

I've had four shots, but I credit that stimulus check with my health getting better since it allowed me to find a MUCH better job.

(though I guess if I had gotten COVID ever ... or had to deal with long COVID the check wouldn't have mattered so maybe the shots count too)

futurebird,
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@epicdemiologist @dsalo

They are going to be like "why are all the responses from mastodon/fediverse a bunch of weirdos?" LOL.

StillIRise1963, to random
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White overrides a lot of things. Gay can certainly be one of them.

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@benroyce @StillIRise1963

When what you want is acceptance maybe the people who reject that as a value aren't the ones?

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@benroyce @StillIRise1963

If you are a member of any group that is, or has been targeted in this country just for existing as who you are... you can't trust people who target people for no reason over things like this.

If they will dismiss all black people or all Muslims they will dismiss you to at some later date because there isn't logic or reason behind such whims.

scratch a ...

Adam_Cadmon1, to random
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Lining up Black men to be the Fall Guys if Biden doesn't win. Even though Black people and Black men specifically makeup less than 13% of the national population. Every time it's the same shit.

futurebird,
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@Adam_Cadmon1

If 10 percent of black men make a bad choice basically they all did. You know the rules!

LibreFaso, to random French

La team #Éducation, vous expliqueriez comment le mot éducation justement pour que ça soit compréhensible par des enfants de 8-10 ans ?
Si possible en évitant d'inférer un sens scolaire ou autoritaire...

J'ai vu une définition anglaise pour éducatif "inspiring to learn" et je trouve ça pas mal, mais ça passe pas directement en français (et puisqu'il s'agit de définir pour des enfants, il faut être plus complet que ça).

futurebird,
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@LibreFaso

Education is one of may ways to learn new things. Education is guided learning, often with a set of clear goals and a teacher.

john, to art
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A random artwork from my gallery:

"Hesperornis regalis" — 2015

Hepserornis regalis, the Late Cretaceous toothy marine bird, takes to the sea.

https://johnconway.art/hesperornis-regalis

futurebird,
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@john

of cormorants I've said

They are masters of the sea!
Captains of the air!
And ... technically they can walk.

(I love diving birds, such funny companions when kayaking. They like to rest on your boat... but won't look at you as if that makes it OK.)

futurebird, to random
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Every day is Leg Day with Dirhinus! This is a parasitoid wasp. They lay their eggs in the pupae of flies, often flies that are found on corpses (including human corpses, making them forensically significant.)

Wasps are distant cousins of ants, and you can see something of the ant her... and something of the alien. Why is her head like that?

Her big back legs have a retractable tarsus so they can be used as prongs when injecting an egg into a fly pupae.

Showing how the tarus of the back leg can retract into the big shiny club like "thighs" This is a Dirhinus found in East Africa. They are found all over the world.
Front view. A very alien face. Big bug eyes. chubby antennae. small dainty mandibles. The taco grove can also be seen from this angle.
Thomas Shahan photo of the dorsal view. Showing the grove in the front of the head like a taco shell. The antenae can be tucked away into this grove.

futurebird,
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@justafrog

I wish I could find a video of them digging.

futurebird, to random
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This is the kind of thing I always imagined a husband would get when grocery shopping before I had one and, lo, it’s the sort of thing they really do come home with.

Just… just random cheese—

can I complain though? I think not!

futurebird,
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@justafrog

We are the same.
I understand why these folks like random cheese... but it's like paying for the kind of thing that drives me nuts.

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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I often brag on tumblr about how "on the fediverse I never have to ask people for image descriptions, why is tumblr so terrible at this?" etc.

But, I've made the mistake of re-sharing a few images without descriptions recently! I was lulled into thinking it was not a problem.

Just FYI I'm going to get strict again about not re-sharing undescribed images. (You should too, it keeps the feed readable.)

If you forget? If this is new? Don't feel bad, just stop doing that.

https://www.tumblr.com/aspirationatwork/750857131588304896

futurebird,
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@stefan @promovicz

This is super interesting... I wonder to what extent this reflects "culture" of different user groups... and to what extent it's the UI making things easier or harder...

futurebird, to random
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I hate what debates tend to be: soundbite mines where each side runs around claiming that they got in the best "dunk" and thus won.

It reminds me of when I as a teen and the ran the dozens in the school yard. "Yo mamma so fat the lobbyists say 'save some for me!'"

Can't even agree who won the last election. How can Trump ask to participate in a system he doesn't even recognize as legitimate?

Why debate Biden? You don't think he's president, right?

futurebird,
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@norgralin

The more I think about it I think I'd enjoy it more if we forgot the "civil" debate and they just played dozens.

At least that'd be funny.

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