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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

She likes to hang out here so she can look you in the eye when you come around the corner. #PicaTheCat

Pica the cat looks around the corner at eye level. She is cute, curious and maybe a little judgemental.

myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

[US Pol: Firing Squad] "... and it's going to be soldiers with rifles executing the firing squad... heh ..." Said the the United States Secretary of War, breathlessly to the reporter. It was clear that he found the idea of a firing squad exciting, titillating […] [Original post on sauropods.win]

Still from a TV news broadcast showing Pete Hegseth talking about the firing squad.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

[AI map of NYC that broke my husband] You just need to find the right AI image and it will break the spell. This view of NYC sent him into ... a state. I bet if you don't live here it looks kind of OK. So just show them something they know and it'll all fall apart.

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

This store on etsy sells felt cicadas that come in a little tin with various plants and a little wooden bed so you can tuck the bug in for a nice nap. This is just so cute. The shop name is little green fern, but it's also just a neat gift idea for the right sort of kid... or adult...

A felt cicada, altoids sized tin, felt leaf, and little bed.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Dave Mandl’s photograph book of the elevated came today. I really love these kind of NYC scenes.

A photograph of the book elevated landscapes Dave Mandl. It has a stencil style cover with a sky blue background. I’m holding the book up to my screen door outside Bronx high-rises tower above us.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Yay they are fixing it. They won’t let me try the keyboard and I got shoo’d away 🥺

a keyboard hooked up to the internals of the terminal.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Thinking about the intrinsic privacy protections of paper vs. digital bureaucracies. In my search for photos of hall passes I found this company that makes forms for schools. Many of them have duplication layers. So you could write a hall pass and keep a copy […] [Original post on sauropods.win]

a pad of "notes from teacher" with duplicate paper

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

Listen if this post gets removed I hope someone has saved a copy. Her lawyers have been activated again.

Pica talking to me from the couch. Her mouth is open mid-meow

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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

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.

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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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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.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Today’s outfit is extra cute. (and warm) Fall is the most fun time to dress. #fashion

A blue V-neck vest, large pearls white blouse, and tweed jacket with red belt and black pants

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

I'm kind of obsessed with this old puzzle. You need to move the piano to the lower LEFT corner by sliding the pieces. Curious if anyone has done any math things with such tile puzzles? It's easy to move it to the lower right, and possible but kind of hard to […] [Original post on sauropods.win]

An "promotional" wooden puzzle from the Argonne van and storage co. It is nearly 100 years old. You slide rectangular blocks labeled as boxes.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

And the protests? They materialized instantly. Because I assume if you saw this if this happen outside of your house, near where you work, you too would be just as upset as all of the people they didn't show in those protests. And I think that's why they did […] [Original post on sauropods.win]

CBS news, a female reporter is describing the protests and the images is police in riot gear, a lot of them holding their batons walking backwards as if something it going on, but we never see what.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

When ants fight they don't always fight to the death. Sometimes they see which ant has longer legs by standing as tall as they can next to each other. Sometimes two ants who enjoy boating will get into such a fight near the water. This is called "The pair of docks of taller ants"

Meat ants engaged in ritualized fighting. They do not know how to operate boats. That was just for the bit.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

The Untouchables This pitch calls them the "untouched audience." These are people who avoid ads. Sometimes I wonder just how large we are? I think it is likely that a significant portion of people with disposable income, the exact people advertisers want to […] [Original post on sauropods.win]

1. The untouched audience opportunity is real

ChatGPT reaches people who have effectively opted out of traditional advertising. Digitally native, ad-blocking, disengaged from social feeds. These are not easy people to reach.

Across our clients, 95% of traffic generated through ChatGPT was new users, compared to a lower
average across other paid channels.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

stop throwing empty moet chandon bottles in the ant sanctuary or you will know the wrath of the little sisters There were 23 bottles WTF

Collection of empty champagne bottles, sitting next to a rail in a public park. These are the ones that I pulled out of the bushes.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Here is an image of me doing some geometry.

A William Blake "The Ancient of Days"
It shows God with a long white beard and mysterious white eyes in the sky reaching out from the dark clouds with a massive compass to divide the heavens and earth.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

What you'd most likely find are paintings from the Renaissance or worse yet, from the Victorian era. The painting tried to imagine and recapture the distant past. But, it's all kind of made up? Here is "The School of Athens" by Raphael which shows Socrates […] [Original post on sauropods.win]

Renaissance painting, "The School of Athens" a figure that art historians say is meant to be Euclid is using a compass on a wax tablet that's on the floor?

Vase painting from 600 BC showing how people used wax tablets. A young man sits on a chair and holds it like a laptop, in the other hand he has the stylus. It seems like he's reading from one panel and writing on the other?

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

If you are a simple math teacher and if, like me, you like to tell a little bit of the history you might mention Euclid, and that he was Greek, how he compiled and wrote a textbook that has some of the same structure found in geometry textbooks today. And you […] [Original post on sauropods.win]

Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 29, a fragment of Euclid's Elements dated to c. 3rd–4th century AD.

From the wikipedia

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

[9/11 news graphic that bothered me.] This is a bad copy of the info graphic used by 9 News in NYC on 9/11 I remember seeing it on TV sitting with my brother huddled in the apartment being scared and all these years later I feel like maybe enough time has […] [Original post on sauropods.win]

A graphic of the US flag with the words "America Under Attack" in sort of angry disturbed letters.

The quality is terrible.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

A curated collection of native plants and grasses that I will plant in the pollinator garden that I’ve started for the ants in the local park. This is a variety test to see which plants can best improve the diversity and native resilience of this garden and […] [Original post on sauropods.win]

starter plugs of a variety of plants and grasses wrapped in plastic sitting in a bin to rehydrate next to a window. I’m so excited to get all of these into the ground.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

Didn’t grow much at all but the garden was still worth it. #picathecat

A blissful tabby cat rests in a vegetable garden box on a city roof.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

I think i see NYU? why is this corn so big? is this the other side???

someone has planted a variety of corn that grows to abnormally large size it’s over 15 feet tall and one of the planters on the sidewalk in New York

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Also, I can't get over how bad his haircut is. He's not real and ya'll couldn't even get that right? This is like a subtile thing but the way his hair is tells me that a white person made this. It's also odd that he has fancy board games as the background but […] [Original post on sauropods.win]

Screenshot of the AI generated guy from the videos. He looks like he just woke up.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

They have stuck to the format and spent tons and tons of tokens posting 100s of these videos. They all have the same format. First they show clips from the news, sometimes of a real story, sometimes not. Then the fake young man recites a kind of summary of the […] [Original post on sauropods.win]

A link showing how all of the thumbnails are the same with a yellow headline and still from TV news media.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

[US Pol: trumpian foreign policy theory] Oh, this is "the face"

A yellow emoji with a face with clenched teeth expressing disgust and exhaustion.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

I have been looking forward to this day for weeks. today is the day that my husband and I could harvest the carrot not a typo. There is just the one the others fell victim to the raccoon and to other .. perils (#picathecat ) I had such high hopes for this […] [Original post on sauropods.win]

A rather thick but extraordinarily stubby carrot. In fact it is spherical.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

[US Pol: caution, deeply annoying image] Is this meant to "trigger the libs" ? It's not some great victory to say your aren't triggered and upset when the emperors is nude and gushing about how thin and fine his garment are. Or how funny his "jokes" are. This […] [Original post on sauropods.win]

strange AI image, probably made by Harp for Trump to post on his social media. It's an army of geese with human arms and guns standing on "Lake America" They have on the same wig as the president.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

The "local models" I've tried might not be slick enough for this "boss" ... I guess I want to know if we really need this? Also why is it flying through space?

Nvidia gpu promotional photo. It's a black box with a fan and it's in space.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

She will sit like this for hours if I let her which means I need supervisor she’s watching the sparrows up on the higher level diabolical

Pica, the small tabby cat is hidden behind several plants in the garden box

Pica nestled in greenery looks up at the birds

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

A safe and friendly place for every bird there is no reason to worry at all when visiting the garden box.

A roof garden in a city a wooden box contain several plants. If you look closely, perhaps you can notice something else.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

I'm reading an interesting paper about how some ants, Harpegnathos saltator, use both of their back legs and middle legs to jump, while others take the more typical insect route of jumping with only their back pair to jump like grasshoppers. The illustration […] [Original post on sauropods.win]

A graph with a parabola showing the arc of an ant jumping with illustrations showing the leg positions at various points in the jump.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

My new book on the ants of Florida came and this is how it starts. Look out Gov. DeSantis

The cover of the ants of Florida identification and natural history by Mark Deyrup the cover features five pencil drawings of various ant species

A photo of the text from the introduction it says ants are in charge of the state of Florida

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

Even when you try to use chatGPT like a dry research tool it will preferentially generate text that contains statements to affirm your feelings. My interaction with it is minimal. I have a year long premium subscription because of a work-sponsored workshop […] [Original post on sauropods.win]

Me: where can i find more photos of ant gardens

GPT response: Yes. Searching specifically for “ant gardens” can be frustrating because most of the best photographs are buried in papers or indexed under the ant/plant species. These are some particularly good places to look:

(Photos of ant gardens taken from search.)

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

I said I *didn't* think Taylor Lorenz was an industry shill but... wow... now I'm starting to rethink that. You know I might be wrong, but what is wrong with watermarks?

Taylor Lorenz youTube thumbnail for "secretly tracking you" AI watermarking is a massive disaster.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

@iwein She changed the thumbnail so it didn't have the title, and changed the title from "Meta is losing the AI race" to "Meta is losing the AI race and panicking" Interesting.

Screenshot of the video thumbnail which is now "6500 word manifesto" but the title is still "Meta is losing the AI race and Panicking"

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

Happy 5th Birthday! I’ve known her for five years and today is the day, Aug. 19, that I think of as her birthday. She was an egg in a tree stump on a busy Bronx street. Her home colony was massive and at least 4 years old when she emerged from her silk cocoon […] [Original post on sauropods.win]

A large, shiny black queen, carpenter ant. She’s resting in a wood chamber, surrounded by several of her daughters.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

The raccoon has returned. #picaTheCat was displeased. I'd been putting off putting a motion sensing light in the roof garden, but I'm not putting it off anymore. I live seven floors up in NYC this is not what I'd expect. But, they can climb from a tree to the […] [Original post on sauropods.win]

Pica looks at the raccoon through the glass door. Her ears are back. We only knew it was there because she was hissing.

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