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I like the idea of aliens that aren't "intelligent" in any way that we'd recognize. They just mastered space flight to keep doing what they have always done. In the case of ants? Raising queens and drones to fly far and wide to make new colonies.

:: An alien spacecraft lands on Earth. However, because it is so small, almost no one notices. It is like a tiny meteor—a shooting star entering the upper atmosphere. Then the spacecraft opens, and the ants exit: perfectly ordinary ants, not super-intelligent just regular ants.

They've found a new way to conduct their nuptial flight. They're going places ants have never gone before.

Which isopod are *you* feeling like today? (tag yourself.)

I feel like a creeper tbh.

Saw this on tumblr and tracked down the original source: Invertebrate Biodiversity as Bioindicators of Sustainable Landscapes
Maurizio G. Paoletti, Mark Hassall, 1999

@catsalad

*angry old lady noises*

I'm honestly just psyching myself up for if I need to do this kind of thing again. I might.

It's the whole "we're just doing it to go along with what's happening now" ethos that I think might hold the most little victories for us.

So many terrible things happen because of people just going along with a bunch of little bad things that come together into a much more ugly and unstoppable bad thing.

With the sheepish ones just letting them know you won't do it, (that it crosses the bright line) can make them back off some of the time.

This can be very scary and if you are thinking "but I could be fired" I understand that. Ask for help. Talk about it outside of work or with people you trust. Don't go looking for an excuse to comply and not feel bad about it. If you do you should feel bad.

Find a way to NOT do it instead.

I know someone who rebuffed such a request. Boss was apologetic "it's what the higher ups want, oh *I* think it's a lot of nonsense, but I don't want us to be out of step ... blah blah"

It was proposed to them in sheepish way. They said it would be a lot of work, not add anything of value, and most important they would not do it. It didn't come up again.

Fascism can be the work of zealots, but there are also many sheepish middle management helping hands who "don't even believe in this really"

Do not help them to build any more of this machine.

Depending on your job you probably have in the past made compromises. Maybe to keep your job. Maybe to survive. This is a bright line. If you are asked to be the one to update the table don't let it be your fingers typing those changes.

If you can't just say "No I won't do that." Stall, run away, feign incompetence. Just don't let it happen.

I suspect this might be where the rubber hits the road first for us around here.

Nothing has changed. You do not have to do it. It is not even ordained.

If you work with a database and are asked to alter the table structure to comply in advance for citizenship or gender categorizations it's really important to NOT do it.

"The governor is concerned about all this stuff they want us to update our record keeping so we store both gender AND biological sex."

"We need fields to store the country of origin of people's parents."

If you don't have the power to rebuff this yourself, ask for help. At minimum ask for help online anonymously.

Pica, the cat, is pleased to announce her entry into the democratic primary as a candidate for Mayor of the City of New York. Her bold slogan “is the bowl full?!” cuts to the heart of the issue voters care about most.

“A 2/3 full bowl is NOT a full bowl! A bowl with food u do not like today for some reason? NOT FULL. The only *fools* are the ones they are making of us with this gaslightin’ & bamboozlen’!” raved Pica in a stump speech to wild applause from her acolytes.
#PicaTheCat #nyc #cats

There are deep sea isopods with legs like sea spiders.

This is Paropsurus. IDK man. No idea WHAT is going on down there.

Isopod literally means "same leg" like the legs are supposed to be "the same" Not... not "crazy out of control legs"

Feels wrong to call it an isopod. More like a spindly-productus-sopod

They are just making creatures up now to see if I'll buy in to it.

Wanting to live in the end times is kind of cowardly since it absolves of you of the burden of building a better future. Some great compelling force will come down from on high and sort it all out.

Since you don't really know what times you face it's more responsible and brave to live as if these are the "Beginning Times" instead. And with great effort you may do a tiny bit of good that lasts a few decades beyond your grave.

It came! (Did I get this just because of the monster ant? maybe!) #monsterdon