Chebucto Regional Softball Club

@KydiaMusic

Looking like a baroque painting of debauched royalty in a garden of delights.

@MCDuncanLab

Is this in the US? If it's in the US the ants didn't make that gray stuff, perhaps whatever aphids they are farming or some other insect made it.

HOWEVER, in SE Asia some ants can build "carton" rather like what wasp nests are made of.

@nova

Why did you post a photo of an empty basket?

@Nightmancore

There are people who are even disgusted by St. Louis.

NYC is just a more superlative version of whatever it is that sets them off.

@loganer @gsuberland

Neat~! How can you tell? (guessing insects are female is often a good bet generally. but not knowing my moths I'm wondering what tipped you off)

@gsuberland

Try "what kind of nectar do you like best?" or maybe "did you see those new cool burning LEDs they have?"

@alec

I agree with your larger point, but I think there are some nuances here.

The biggest divide is about the age of the voters and turnout. And the key job to have better elections is to increase youth turnout.

This is a lot of work but I think it can be done.

@alec

I don't think checking if an area in NYC is less than 10 percent white captures if it's "diverse" very well.

I'm in the Bronx and Mamdani didn't do well here compared to the rest of the city, but this is mostly due to low turn-out. Only the older people vote and they simply have not caught up yet on who he is, or even what Cuomo or the current excuse for a mayor we have.

Even in an area that's 80 percent white in NYC you have diversity... but those areas are wealthy.

I could have a much bigger house if I moved to some other city. But, I'd never "fit in" like I do here or in the other cities, and communities that are like this (NYC isn't the only one, but it's the largest one where English is one of the main languages.)

And it's not just about religion or ethnicity... it's something that people who know what it's like to NOT fit in will seek out. It's the whole point in many ways.

@llewelly @neia

30 percent of the reason people think I'm "good at fixing things" is down to the fact that I have a multi-tool in my bag and can always cut, unscrew or pry open whatever needs that tool.

It's not that hard, but it kind of makes you seem like a wizard to some people.

And obviously it's not something everyone in NYC buys into, but it's a pretty big deal for a lot of us.

And I think people underestimate how important this is for the kind of people who make their way to this city.

How much it makes it *home*

It's been really "interesting" to see that there are people who find this whole project not just naive and idealistic, but that there are people that are basically disgusted that it's happening at all. Even if they don't have to ride on the subway car where you can find 16 different religions and 25 different languages. Even if no one is forcing them to participate but they can't abide that somewhere people are trying to live like this.

To them I say "bite me."

One of the main reasons people come to NYC, stay in NYC and like NYC is because it's one of the places in the US where a large number of people share a common value system built on the celebration of diversity and the power we derive and joy we find in living together not just tolerating but actively seeking out people who see the world differently. THIS is how you learn.

Finding the way to do this without compromising any of these individual identities.

Obviously Jamie isn't her real name. I always use fake names for cute stories about my students.

@luebbermann

every day I'm bummeln

One of my kids in robotics camp had this running joke where she'd just randomly do 'outros' and 'intros' like:

"Will the motor start? Find out in the next episode of robotics camp!"

"... And we're back!"

"Writing code! Let's get right into it!"

To which I'd say "WHO are you talking to, Jamie???"

But this is, one of those contagious jokes so I'm now constantly saying "And we're back!"

@Moss

I would guess they were living nearby, possibly in the walls of the mailbox or in the post, but flooding has suddenly forced them to relocate and they thought your mail was a good place to dry out their babies.

@maddiefuzz

They are very preper adjacent.

@maxpearl

OK. But.

You could just have an actual knife. Are the zombies putting us through metal detectors now?

@maddiefuzz

They have already literally done this.

EDC communities are wild.