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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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Story Concept: A secret society of paleontologists and archeologists who make a pact that when each of them dies the others will go to wild lengths to stage burial circumstances most likely to be preserved, even fossilized to confound the intelligent life of the far future. This includes weird burial objects, suggestive poses, etc.

They make the pact when young & silly, but as they grow old and carry it out it becomes a much more serious & momentous thing. About keeping promises & friendship.

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@thepoliticalcat

Someone's husband wants a normal funeral so they have to turn to grave robbing digging her up.

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I've resisted to learning to crochet but they are wearing me down. Look at how smug he looks! It's not fair!

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Square cube law? Square shumb law!

Arthropods can get humongous. The main reason they don't is they are far too tempting targets for warm-blooded vertebrates.

But about that? Why couldn't an arthropod also be warm-blooded? Maybe some were.

And that thing you heard about "giant insects needed higher O2 levels" also questionable. Arthroplura was still around after the levels crashed... something else ended the golden age.

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Camponotus chromaiodes worker would not leave alone.

A better view of the minor worker, she has golden hair on her gaster which is black like her head. Her legs and thorax are dark red.
She rests on a brick in a vegetable garden enjoying the sun.

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There is nothing a single person has ever ever ever ever done or will ever ever ever ever do in all of time and space that merits paying them 56 billion dollars—

Madness. Obscenity. Ludicracy

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@andrewfeeney

Uh oh.

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We’re in this twee little shipping container “tiny house hotel” and it’s raining very loudly. I’m glad that we didn’t try to motorcycle geeez. I’m exhausted but the super loud rain is very relaxing.

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I had the eusocial cat dream again. Perhaps it is better described as a reoccurring nightmare! Basically everyone had these cat colonies— but the cats were super intelligent— on the colony level and manipulating global politics.

What’s your reoccurring dream?

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I’m not allowed to share any more bits of the story until it’s done. But I’m excited after reading what I wrote last year. I still like the whole concept of the world and the very silly but also dramatic characters.

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… and the stupid wind took my hat. I didn’t even have it on I was holding it worried about the wind — pulled it right out of my hand. How did people live wearing hats all the time!?

Maybe the MTA people have some kind of grabber??

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Everyone relax! I got the hat back. The MTA PD does have grabbers. (they said mostly they use them to grab air pods) It’s worse than those carnival games. We all took turns. The guy on the right managed to get it. The day is saved! hurrah!

(this is one of the most busy tracks in the country going down there is just not going to happen. I’m glad I didn’t get the rather expensive hat I was considering— but now this cheap hat is even better since I got it back)

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Can’t really make fun of my ants anymore for getting caught in a spider web moments after escaping their enclosure. Look what happens when I leave the house sheesh— less than 20min and already in it.

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@tshirtman Yikes!

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Im off to the races!! Also? I met this moth. Apantesis phalerata.

A very fuzzy black and white moth with feathery antennae.

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“During Jim Crow, the Black family was together,” Donalds explained to the crowd.

Not worthy of freedom; he cannot handle it. Donalds believes this about himself. Without a boot on his neck he would be feral. I will take his word on that. But, he should not presume to speak for all black people.

In our history Black institutions, Black organizations were dismantled & burned. Churches burned. Neighborhoods burned. The less perceptive among us, like Donalds, roped in to cheer it on.

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But didn't great grandmother get married and stay married? Lived her life right! Not like the fast little girls we have today.

My great grandmother had 5 husbands. She married the first at 15. He was in his 40s and she was considered lucky since married to him they could not take the land she owned. (Rocky, hilly soil cut by a river in North Carolina)-- her first husband died of the flu and she got married again right away. She had to be married to exist.

She was a remarkable woman.

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I was very confused by the "5 husbands" thing since I associated that with someone who keeps getting divorced. But her husbands kept dying. It didn't help that they were all so much older than her. Some were abusive, some were nicer. But she was just a teenager trying to survive. Trying to hold on to the one little advantage she had: the land. My family was very lucky and exceptional to own land at all.

She needed a man to help her keep that land, so could not live on her own.

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My grandfather remembered hiding under the bed as she manned the window with a shot gun when the white people from the town would get drunk and ride out on horses with torches to "scare the black folks" (they described it with different words)

He was so scared that my great grandmother might shoot... because if she hit one of them ... it would all be over. He fled to the north to work in the steel mills.

Ah yes Jim Crow what a wonderful time to be Black in this country. F-ing hell man.

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Don't we all dream of our daughters married at 15, living on the edge of terror. Hoping the crops would not fail again. Hoping the people in town would just leave them alone?

It was truly a golden age.

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@dgoldsmith Was it a similar kind of thing?

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There is a spider who lives on the bookshelf by the Camponotus discolor ants. It floors me how quickly this ant who tried to escape got into trouble. (if I see them soon enough I rescue them — so she was lucky— but her other escaped sisters probably not so much)

I love house spiders so I’m deeply torn about this.

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I wonder if my pet ants ... who live in a world without dangers like spiders and such... are just less capable when they go into "the real world"

Maybe I need to start some kind of education program for them.

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Taught my CS how to program a mandelbrot set generator from scratch today.

Still don't have the colors doing exactly the right thing. This is in python, but we'll sort it out in the next class.

The most annoying thing is making the magnitudes of the terms in the series into a number between 0 and 256 without knowing exactly how big they will get.

I need to find my old James Gleick book.

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@Alon I don’t know about the connection to busses bunching? What’s that about?

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@Alon Here is a link to the notes from the class and more about what we do. https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/112577968489594846

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