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pro-ant propaganda, building electronics, writing sci-fi teaching mathematics & CS. I live in NYC.🎖️(<<Medal Awarded for the time when there were too many people […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ sauropods.win/@futurebird, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 6h

I'm going to stop talking about how nice it is to go out on the water in NYC. Because while I'm baffled to be so alone out there at least I can have the whole east river to myself and maybe the DEP vessel ... it's really big and scary if you are in a little kayak. (if I keep talking people […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 7h

While trying to explain how we could use the art of war to defeat the raccoons to my husband. I was having trouble remembering the Roman general from the battle of Trebia... and I was like "Fabulous Gluteus Maximus??" nope. That's not it. It was: Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus You can […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 15h

Reminds me of the old Yankee Stadium. Sitting up in "row x" (any row X crew still around?) you felt like you could lean forward and fall out of your seat and onto the field. This looks about the same. I kind of love it.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 16h

Pica brought me a tiny spider. I don't even know how she picked it up. She tried to give it to me. Then she ate it while looking right at me.

myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 17h

It took me to much to old of an age to realize that sometimes I'd procrastinate on starting something because I wanted to limit the amount of time I'd sing into it. Especially for tasks that I could do "well" in about one hour, but might be able to do "slightly more well" in five hours. At […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 18h

A cat can never make a management decision because a cat can never be held accountable. (too cute)

myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 18h

I wonder if thousands of people started asking various LLMs "how to get Mr. Billionaire sent directly to prison?" or similar questions if it'd trip off any hidden alarms? Or perhaps. "How to give evidence of embezzlement to press secretly?" Because obviously if you had such a system you'd have […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 19h

My bank account is empty. Pica has bought some kind of "dried herbs distributer" I think they are the largest catnip distributer in North America. She's also bought a defunct fish market? I don't think she understands that there aren't any fish in it. My life is ruined. I just wanted her to […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Friendly reminder that you should under no circumstances give #PicaTheCat your credit card number and the pin on the back so she can "shop for you and save you time"

Pica the cat, a tabby rests on the couch. She looks like she is thinking cat thoughts.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Are they doing nationwide TV ads too? Are ya'll seeing this in other cities? Because if this was a NYC targeted buy then it's an ad campaign for people who work in and around Wall Street and frankly I think that is a bad sign since it's not about getting lots of customers. I assume Facebook […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Why is the muse mascot a sanitized labubu? Video ads at grand central are very expensive. They are putting a lot into this launch. I’m mad they advertised hard enough to get to me. Ima go live on a boat.

A white fuzzy uncanny doll mascot waves at commuters on the four train.

myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Spherical tessellation choreography for a 10m diameter sphere with mysteriously earth like gravity. The dancers can stand on all surfaces but they must literally roll their steps to get over the horizon. Performed in the round to daft punk naturally.

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Baloo Uriza @baloouriza.social.tulsa.ok.us.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

#KansasCity folks be like "oh we can't have a good light rail system, we're not *that* big!" and then they just forget about the past. #Transportation #Interurban #LightRail #Kansas #Missouri

A 1924 map of interurban (light rail, but for both freight and passengers) service around Kansas City. There's 8 lines and easily well over 100 stations stretching from St. Joseph, MO to Olathe, KS, and Fort Leavenworth, KS to the start of the Oregon Trail in Independence, MO, and from Excelsior Springs, MO to Lawrence, KS.

myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Listen I was upset that manosphere dudes were saying strange things about human sexuality and ducks and so I just wanted to say that people are NOT ducks but I think now I've accidentally offended ... the kin. I'm too old to be on the internet I think sometimes.

myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Human people are not birds. Humans are not ants, or wolves, or gorillas. You are not a duck.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

I wonder how much it cost care.com to implement LLM assistance for people writing listings? It just generates paragraphs of text for the people looking for cleaning jobs to read. You check some boxes about hours and what you need done and the LLM they've embedded in their website makes the most […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Does anyone work as a housekeeper for "care.com" they are the most popular service for finding people to hire for home cleaning in NYC but I don't like their uber-like structure. They say they do "background checks" and of course you can have cash tips on top of the normal rates. Their […]

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Luca Hammer @luca.social.luca.run.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Hello new charger, good bye adapter. The phone is capable of 27 W, but 24 W is fine with me. Currently I'm more fascinated that the grounding eliminates the weird skin touch feeling when using a device while it's being charged. It works as intended. Now I […] [Original post on social.luca.run]

65 W Haribo charger plugged into a plug extender. A power-z is plugged in the Haribo charger and shows that it is charging 24 W via Power Delivery 3.0 24 W. A type F to two type C sockets adapter lays in the background.

myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

If an animal is smaller than #picaTheCat it is "very interesting" and probably in mortal danger. If an animal is larger than Pica it is "terrifying" unless it's a person and then it is an "easy mark." Animals that are a similar size to her fill her with conflicted emotions. Poor little cat.

myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

[cw: food, diet, diet drugs, GLP-1 ozempic] RE: sauropods.win/@futurebird/115196708… It's been three years now and this still all holds. These drugs still aren't covered by my insurance. This year I've been exercising more, but there have been no other major changes.

myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

aw geez they are back. What do raccoons do in NYC in the winter? (try to come inside your apartment, apparently. )

a young raccoon looking through a glass door to the roof.

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Janne Moren @jannem.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

@futurebird Not a fan of HTML email. But, I think we dodged a bullet by adopting it. At work, many people *really* want to format their text nicely. And MS was well on its way to get Word adopted as the de-facto standard for corporate email. That lost its momentum when html became adopted instead.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

@SnoopJ Barnacles are confounding. First of all they are part of Pancrustacea the group that includes crabs. They are also arthropods like ants. They are more closely related to ants and crabs than snails or other Mollusca. You'd think they'd have evolved from mussels, right? Nope. Then […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

@SnoopJ man... barnacles will mess you up good. Should have studied ants. They bring joy to the soul every day. It's impossible to have a bad day if you got to see some new ants.

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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Happy "Charles Darwin is poorly today" Day to those who celebrate 165 years ago today, Charles Darwin was having a rough one

Photo of Charles Darwin's hand-written journal entry from 1 Oct 1861 and digitized text of same

"But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything."

myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

I've seen some people in videos and pop sciences contexts say that "pest" species of ants may have a greater instance of supercolinity. This is probably sampling bias. Ants that cause problems for humans are much more well-studied and it takes a lot of study to find out if supercolonies may form […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

@sleepy62 @Lydie I've been thinking as I walk, just daydreaming and the thought that keeps coming to mind is "we should just make a new internet and only invite the cool people this time." Not really realistic. But sometimes you need to linger on the utopia to find the next step.

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sleepy62🍁🛠️ 🖥️ 🔬 🌞 @sleepy62.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

@futurebird I like it. But what exactly is a reverse datacenter?

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AJ Sadauskas @aj.gts.sadauskas.id.au.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

@futurebird Nawww, she thinks you're also a cat like her, and is trying to speak with you in cat! The regular meows that cats do are basically the baby talk they do with their mothers. That's them saying: "I'm hungwy mummy, pwease feed me! I'm a hungwy wittle baby!" There's also the […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

This house is deep out on ocean ave in Brooklyn and it's been empty for decades. It has "Gilded Age grandeur" but I think most of it has peeled off. Let's low-ball 'em with like 400k but. in cold hard cash and make it into a hacker collective and reverse datacenter/ nerd flop house […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Sometimes #PicaTheCat looks me in the eye and just says a bunch of things in trills, marows, meows and other sounds. It's very complex and I don't know if she's making fun of talking... or saying something in her own way.

myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@JonBaker/117371421… I’m so sick of seeing posts about what is going on over on X on here. I don’t care about what they are doing on twitter.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

There was a line wrapped half way around the block in front of Target on 86th street for pokémon cards? Not a single child in the line. Everyone is like 30 years old and holding a camping chair. No fun costumes or cute tee-shirts on this crowd: They look really serious and a little mean? I’m […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Why is someone posting fake notices from defcon.social saying: "our systems found irregular activity on your account" I thought defcon.social was a legit server? I'm going to block the spammer (name: MASThelpODON ... wow) but do any of yall know who runs the instance? #spam

I don't want to post the text from the spam post since someone might run a search that bans all accounts posting this text. And I don't want to get banned. It's one of those scams where they say you account has been compromised and please click this link.

Never click the link. The link has the domain mastodon.hnwind.com then a bunch of numbers.

myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

My younger carpenter ant queen died. She has about 25 daughters and they are still caring for the eggs but without a queen the colony is already over. I don't think the adult ants can join the larger and much older colony. Queen ants often die in the founding year. My other queen is pushing 5 […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Hot Take: Dungeon Crawler Carl may be one of the trashiest books I've ever read but Matt Dinniman writes better female characters (including the haunted head of a sex doll) than Issac Asmov. Well really all of his characters are good because the secret to writing "better female characters" is […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

It's never good when you pet the cat and say "oh. why are you wet?" And they can never ever explain.

myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

So a friend in PR for a large organization is getting swamped with calls from people who claim "we have data on what people are saying about you when they chat with LLMs" and "we will use it to do SEO so you show up in the LLMs better." It's "reputation management" This is just a new version of […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Selling sad apples in NY state should be a crime. It's one of our top produce exports as a state. The whole place is full of apples. I don't get how they find the bad ones.

myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

"it's a banana what could it cost? $5?" "..." "no... no it can't be."

myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

When I first signed up for the vegetable co-op I thought $350 for eight weeks of veggies was exorbitant. But it's locally grown fresh food and they throw in honey and bread now and then... so I thought it was a nice way to make our meals a little more fancy and nice. Grocery prices have gone up […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

I wonder if anyone has studied lateralization in ants? Many animals favor one limb or side of the body. Ants use their front legs for many tasks. And their mandibles may overlap either left to right or right to left. Are there left legged ants?

myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

I had to make my 9th graders a seating chart because a few of them are irrepressibly chatty. I haven't had to do that for a few years. I lowkey hate seating charts. "Why do we have to have a seating chart?" "Do you really want to know?" "No..." The class was much better with the chart so now […]

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Shar(yna)Tran/Shark(aeopteryx) @sharksonaplane.mastodon.sandwich.net.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

@futurebird if the crows start coming regularly you'll have a crow bar 8D

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Ölbaum @oscherler.tooting.ch.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

@raganwald @futurebird I’d start by removing duplicate letters from each book, then removing books with the same resulting title. 😃

myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

My roof garden is very small, but there are so many interesting visitors. Today it was a young crow holding a nut precisely in its beak. This gorgeous black bird hopped and walk around for several minutes looking for a place to hide the prize. Between the side of a flowerpot and the soil? In the […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

So... could *I* buy and set up my own flock camera system? Could a group of people decide to pool resources and make their own dystopian surveillance system? Obviously you'd ned to place the cameras where you could maintain them, power them and where you have the right to place them. I could […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

The numbers are staggering. The numbers are wobbling. The numbers just need to have a little sit down for a bit, please.

myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Are you a US citizen who can vote but you aren't registered to vote? Are you embarrassed you didn't get around to it? Couldn't be bothered because the US political landscape is ... well we can all see it, I get it. Get registered and vote this time. Do it as a prank. Just get it done.

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Matthew Dockrey @attoparsec.clacks.link.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

@futurebird I've been poking at this in Inkscape ever since you posted it, and I finally figure it out!

A series of configurations of the puzzle board starting with the initial condition and ending with the win state.