Chebucto Regional Softball Club

@llewelly The infamous “wasp to ant pipeline” it all starts with communal nesting advantages and next thing you know you have 8 casts and can only survive on mushrooms.

@llewelly this is making me think of questions that I haven’t before: why aren’t there any ants that fly? (You can say “those are bees,” but that’s not what I mean.) Why aren’t there any eusocial insects with the metaplural gland and scapes: closely related to ants that ever retained or decided to re-adapt their wings? is there something about the nature of eusociality of ants that makes wings a problem?

@jacqueline
This would look so cute next to my "lipo pillow"

@KimPerales @wdlindsy

"Can New Yorkers envision such a scene in Central Park?"

We don't need to "envision" it we are looking right at it.

@nordkommission @diningcar

It looks so industrial.

@black_intellect

NJ is the real 5th boro???

@DieWespe

I can at least confirm it's Lasius.

But if it is niger, brunneus, or emarginatus it's harder to say. But here are some photos:

Photos of Subgenus Lasius · iNaturalist

iNaturalist (www.inaturalist.org)

@randomgeek

It is, however, helpful that he keeps being, well honest about what he's been instructed to do. Eg. that statment about not needing probable cause. That's how they operate.

And we're all being tested to see if we will tolerate this outrageous and obvious abuse of the constitution and human rights.

On the matter of "immortal souls" I'm worrying that I'm failing.

@randomgeek

Tom Homan should consider the consequences for his immortal soul of the work he has chosen. It must be very exciting to be promoted to a position beyond your wildest dreams, but not only is he not up to this work, and out of his depth, but there is a reason they had to go all the way down the list and pick him.

This is the most ugly work. This won't ever wash off.

I guess I find it striking how blithely he seems to be walking into it.

@DieWespe

There are some Lasius sp. ants who make these kinds of "dirt castle" nests, especially if the ground is damp or their original nest got flooded. They don't come in houses often, mostly like to drink nectar and eat small insects in gardens. If I had a close photo I might be able to tell what sp it was. Though, the common name is simply "black garden ant"

Tom Homan thinks he sounds tough, but in reality he sounds sloppy and totally unconvincing as he stumbles through justifications for the atrocity he is directing.

He is working in a position beyond his abilities. And it only makes him more dangerous.

@DieWespe

Are there any closer photos of the ant? It looks like a "Lasius" sp based on size and color, but that isn't reliable.

@DieWespe

Is this in Germany? Is it a native plant?

I ask because this kind of nest made of debris on a stem isn't as common in temperate zones.

I'm looking into it, but it's not obvious.

@maloki

If captured enemy solidiers were being held like that during a war it'd raise questions.

These are civilians. They can't even tell you a pretext for any of them being there.

@maloki

It has bunkbeds in a cage and three metal toilets behind a little wall and they don't feed them enough.

It's disgusting.

It would be disgusting if you could show me they were all convicted of crimes. But these are just people that got swept up some might even be US citizens, they are targeted based on race and where they work and the language they speak.

Also he's lying. It's worse than a typical US prison and that is very alarming.

There are no words missing from this post.

Tom Homan "US Border Czar" said he would proudly compare his internment camp in Florida "to any US Prison."

Prison is where people are sent when convicted of crimes. I do not think that prisons should be, but this notion of comparing a place where ICE "detains" people uncharged, in limbo to a prison as if that were the standard misses the mark.

The people in "Alligator Alcatraz" as the conservatives have named it, are not convicted of crimes.

A scary ghost story about a haunted youTube channel and the lost soul can't move on until they reach 100k subscribers.

"The Bell! The Bell! Ring the Bell!"

@PalmAndNeedle

"who is the entity named 'Gifta Dischor'? A demon?"
"No. Something much worse."