Chebucto Regional Softball Club

@futurebird sharks are only winning because the supporters of extinct clades fought amongst themselves, instead of uniting behind a single candidate.

@futurebird the Devonian swamp would be full of weird bugs, many belonging to groups that aren't around any more. Of course, so would the shallow Ordovician seas of the Hudson bay.

@futurebird history is innocent. I blame the future.

@futurebird right? I totally expected Felis chaus, but Curtis Sliwa, what the heck,

@futurebird @jhavok
I guess for me it all started with seeing speed as change in position per unit time. Position is 𝑥, time is 𝑡, 𝑑 is change, and / is the relationship between the two, and so speed is 𝑑𝑥/𝑑𝑡 .

And then seeing acceleration as change in speed per unit time.

@futurebird dunno. Maybe some kind of selective agar, laced with some kind of toxin that makes it inhospitable to lots of organisms. A weird media in which only weird thing grow. That's what tumblrs would really be into, I think.

@futurebird
place value without zero seems almost as confusing as semantic distinctions between tabs and spaces.

@futurebird brings a whole new meaning to the phrase "information wants you to pay me a dollar"

@futurebird For most of my life, I thought self-driving vehicles would require purpose-built roads, designed and built for self-driving vehicles, and not allowing human drivers. Even now, I'm not entirely sure modern self-driving efforts have found a way around that requirement. (I suspect trams probably carry more people than self-driving cars even today.)

@futurebird do you mean, back in the early 2000s? Or the 1990s?

@futurebird well, the usually offered etymology is that they come from the same Italian word ... : ) A doublet, as the linguists say ... ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublet_(linguistics) )

But "galleria" usually refers to a covered area with shops, while "gallery" usually refers to some place art is exhibited, whether for sale or for public appreciation.

@futurebird
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some of the "great sea serpent" reports of the 18th and 19th centuries were probably whales. But often poorly understood whales, such as the sei whale, or the beaked whales.

some of the "great sea serpent" reports were probably sea turtles dragging fishing nets they were entangled with.

some were probably due to oarfish, which are truly odd-looking, very thin and long fish. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oarfish

@futurebird gives "got up early for graveyard shift" feel to the morning, doesn't it?

@futurebird I used to have hand-drawn spreadsheets of characters, places, concepts, and so forth, as well as weird diagrams of boxes and arrows, all on graph paper. And all of that for stories I never finished, and for D&D dungeon-mastering prep.

@futurebird
may aunt anna guide you in this darkness.

@futurebird I guess "fossil soil" and "palaeosol" are less disturbed.

@futurebird if only I hadn't donated all that money to Pica's Giant Cat Fund

"... , including the larvae of the Painted Nest Wasplets. For an hour at noon during heavy rain, the column weakened and almost disappeared, but when the sun returned, the lines rejoined, and the revolution of the vicious circle continued ..."
-- William Beebe, _Edge of the Jungle_
https://archive.org/details/edgeofjungle00beeb/page/290/mode/2up

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"— to the outhouse again, and on a large fallen log, a few feet beyond the spot where their nest had been, the ends of the circle actually came together! It was the most astonishing thing, and I had to Verify it again and again before I could believe the evidence of my eyes. It was a strong column, six lines wide in many places, and the ants fully believed that they were on their way to a new home, for most were carrying eggs or larvae, although many had food ..."

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"At six o'clock the following morning I started out for a swim, when at the foot of the laboratory steps I saw a swiftly-moving, broad line of army ants on safari, passing through the compound to the beach. I traced them back under the servants' quarters, through two clumps of bamboos to the out -house. Later I followed along the column down to the river sand, through a dense mass of underbrush, through a hollow log, up the bank, back through light jungle —"
#ants
#Beebe

#antMill