myrmepropagandist
myrmepropagandistDid you know someone named an extinct hell ant after David Bowie?
Haidomyrmex davidbowiei
IT WAS NOT ME. (Lattke & Melo, 2020 anyone know these two?)
I would never name an animal after a person.
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BUT ... that is a sick name. So metal. So hair. So everything.
myrmepropagandistI've heard many liberals say things along the lines of "ICE aren't real police" this often goes hand in hand with "ICE is poorly trained."
This can feel like a safe bit of middle ground. You aren't one of those radical crazies who are always so critical of the police. It's not that what they are trying to do is wrong, no, it's how they are going about doing it.
But, the ICE officers who have killed have been long-time veterans. It's not about "training."
myrmepropagandistThere is no "right way" to grab a person from their home and send them out of the country or to a detention camp just to keep the numbers up.
Either you think there are a class of people who ought to be treated the way cops often treat Black people, the way that ICE treats protestors and anyone who seems "foreign" and this violence is "unfortunate" but somehow pragmatic for your safety and fear... OR ?
myrmepropagandistI've heard many liberals say things along the lines of "ICE aren't real police" this often goes hand in hand with "ICE is poorly trained."
This can feel like a safe bit of middle ground. You aren't one of those radical crazies who are always so critical of the police. It's not that what they are trying to do is wrong, no, it's how they are going about doing it.
But, the ICE officers who have killed have been long-time veterans. It's not about "training."
myrmepropagandistI think the most masterful writing seems simple and plain-spoken, but still manages to use interesting, obscure words, whilst always neatly framing these oddballs in a little tableau with other words so the meaning is perfectly clear.
This is kind of the opposite of how most jargon are applied: Jargon makes you stop reading and look things up. The writing may be more concise and precise but it's like stumbling over rubble to read it.
myrmepropagandistUse obscure words in a way that makes your readers feel smart and that makes them want to use those words too.
Don't use them to make people give up and feel lost. (and if you do that by accident, explain the word or fix it)
COOL: I'm using obscure words because they are so neat and I want to share them.
NO COOL: I'm using obscure words to keep people out, and make them feel like they can't keep up with me.
myrmepropagandistI think the most masterful writing seems simple and plain-spoken, but still manages to use interesting, obscure words, whilst always neatly framing these oddballs in a little tableau with other words so the meaning is perfectly clear.
This is kind of the opposite of how most jargon are applied: Jargon makes you stop reading and look things up. The writing may be more concise and precise but it's like stumbling over rubble to read it.
myrmepropagandistHumans domesticated dogs before they invented written language... and now they never will.
(via tumblr)
myrmepropagandist"I never really wanted to be an inkjet printer, no, I always wanted to be an actor ... Let me show you my death monologue. "
myrmepropagandistWhen printers "act up" they are just expressing themselves, showing you one of their musical numbers. Try to sympathize a little. Their mom always said they had "so much talent"
myrmepropagandist"I never really wanted to be an inkjet printer, no, I always wanted to be an actor ... Let me show you my death monologue. "
myrmepropagandistYou must choose a cat-themed minor super power:
myrmepropagandistI like how the leafcutter majors stand to tiptoe and loom down at the army ants.
Army ants are blind so, the direction the feel the leafcutter coming from might inform how the weight the threat.
The army ants often raid the nests of other ants for larvae and the leafcutters have behaviors to deter this.
myrmepropagandistHere is a video of what army ants can do to a colony.
Shocking really.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzPQgfDLNpg