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iDGS

@iDGS@mas.to

Web enthusiast, developer, ...occasional visionary! Worthless superpower: easily spots #FourLeafClover. Rochester, NY area. http://idgs.1e6.com/ (defunct; will make new site)
(Was https://twitter.com/iDGS Deleted W. 25 Jan ‘23)
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@futurebird @sashin @Bron1954 Unscientific experiment: Many years ago, a section of my house siding was replaced, revealing many carpenter ants. Just to see what would happen, I scooped a few dozen into a plastic bag and put them into the freezer… Took that bag out into sunlight a year later, and was amazed to see about a third revived. Back in the freezer the survivors went for another year, then again into sunlight, and about a third of those revived! Tough little things, eh?

iDGS ,
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@futurebird @sashin @Bron1954 Nope. It was in warm weather.

ElleGray , (edited ) to random
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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood

iDGS ,
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@ElleGray Hilarious! 🤣😹

futurebird , to random
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Exciting ant queen collecting trip in AZ. Why does it feel like all the coolest ants are in the South and South West. It's not fair.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV1CkkkKbOM

iDGS ,
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@SapoconchaTradutora @futurebird @kechpaja 😹 Heh! Reminds me of a time when I simply could not find a REALLY LOUD cricket CHIRPING AWAY in our kitchen. Finally located it in the metal echo chamber of an empty tea kettle sitting right on the counter. 🤦‍♂️

iDGS ,
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@futurebird @SapoconchaTradutora @kechpaja Well, in admiration and recognition of his cricket genius, I did at least carry him in that vessel of honor to the great outdoors and set him free.

🦗💨

…Plus, ever since, I ALWAYS keep the lid on that kettle! 🤣

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Sunday caption contest: Taking bump stock https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-caption-contest-taking-stock?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

iDGS ,
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@rbreich “Some ‘Supremes’ have no ‘R-E-S, P-E-C-T’ for life.”

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UPDATE: NY Governor Kathy Hochul said on CNN last night that she is considering a ban on masks.

This is absolutely shameful! New York has suffered so much from COVID, and COVID is not over. We should be normalizing and depoliticizing masks, not banning them.

Source: https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/icymi-audio-rush-transcript-governor-hochul-guest-cnn-laura-coates

Laura Coates, CNN: There is also a call some have talked about, some Jewish leaders actually in New York are calling tonight for a mask ban. Saying that covering faces allows protesters to have some level of anonymity to be more aggressive, to me more entitled to say what they want because they don’t fear repercussion in the same way. Would you support that endeavor? Governor Hochul: There was a ban on masks before the pandemic that you couldn't have face coverings that didn't serve a purpose. For example, a surgical mask for someone who is elderly or ill — the pandemic removed that from our State Law. It was repealed at the time, but I absolutely will go back and take a look at this and see whether it can be restored because it is frightening to people. You're sitting on a subway train and someone puts on a mask like this and comes in — you don't know if they're going to be committing a crime, they're going to have a gun, or whether they're just going to be threatening or intimidating you because you are Jewish, which is exactly what happened the other day. Absolutely unacceptable in the State of New York.
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    iDGS ,
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    @luckytran Called & left message: No mask ban, please. Masks are helping keep school bus drivers healthy, while lots of kids coming aboard are coughing, sneezing, and having all kinds of respiratory issues but get sent to school anyway. Many drivers and attendants who don’t mask up are getting ill, paying a high price for “freedom.”

    But what about our freedom of choice—to do the smart thing?

    futurebird , to random
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    I had the eusocial cat dream again. Perhaps it is better described as a reoccurring nightmare! Basically everyone had these cat colonies— but the cats were super intelligent— on the colony level and manipulating global politics.

    What’s your reoccurring dream?

    iDGS ,
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    @futurebird Been a while… For years, would occasionally dream I could run, jump, tuck up my legs and fly low over water. Like in a go-cart, but no cart. Just tummy muscles, and skim over lakes, the ocean…

    Then one day, for real, I saw a toddler walking between his parents. Each held a hand, and as they came to a little puddle in the sidewalk, they both lifted him up by the arm they held. Kid tucked up his legs, and “flew” over that little bit of water!

    So I realized it was a very early memory!

    pluralistic , to random
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    Cyberpunk trifecta

    Me with Bruce Sterling on the streets of Turin
    Me with Neal Stephenson at a bookstore in Seattle

    iDGS ,
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    @pluralistic Teeeeensy bit jealous, NGL, but hey, they were there and I wasn’t, so I guess it’s OK they got to rub shoulders with you! 😉

    ElleGray , to random
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    oh but I will

    iDGS ,
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    @ElleGray @patrick_h_lauke Never got a photo, but once saw a sign staked in a lawn in winter, lotsa snow on the ground:

    DRIVE LIKE
    YOUR KIDS

                  • (snow line)
                    LIVE HERE
    taylorlorenz , to random
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    “These emails tell a dramatic story about how Google’s finance and advertising teams, led by Raghavan with the blessing of CEO Sundar Pichai, actively worked to make Google worse to make the company more money.” https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

    iDGS ,
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    @futurebird @taylorlorenz Related?

    https://indieweb.social/@johnallsopp/112325504957266002

    JanisKay , to random
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    @GottaLaff have you seen this? “Post News will be closing up shop within a few months.”

    iDGS ,
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    @GottaLaff @JanisKay Thx for the reminder. Account unused for 2 years, and now deleted.

    futurebird , (edited ) to random
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    He was a fungus, an algae, a lowly thing, a colony of simple organisms posing as a man. And he reveled in his own debasement. The only thing that mattered more to him than that was writing, his profession.

    "lichen sub-scribe"

    iDGS ,
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    @futurebird Up to almost the end I thought you were talking about TFG 🎃

    ben , to random
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    If you were buying a new car for a family today, what would you buy? EV preferred.

    (Please don’t say “public transit”. Yes, I’d prefer functional public infrastructure too, and resent the need to own a car, but I live in America.)

    iDGS ,
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    @GottaLaff @ben FWIW, wife bought the all-electric Ford Mach-E Mustang a coupla years ago. She loves it. We had Ford’s fastest charger (level-3) installed at home, giving ~ +10%/hr.

    Issues:
    • Last Fall a software update “bricked” the car. Luckily, in our garage. AAA got it out and to local dealer for fix.
    • Flat/touchscreen controls—I’m not a fan. Gimme tactile, to keep eyes safely on the road.
    • Range: meh.

    Quibbles:
    • Seats don’t tilt.
    • Door handles cup upward—fills w/ ice & snow.
    • etc…

    futurebird , to random
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    As woman who loves ants and loves capturing them on video I've lusted after the "Laowa 24mm f/14 2X Macro Probe" camera lens for three years. It costs. $1.5k

    Now there is a knock off probe lens "AstrHori 28mm F13 Probe Lens 2X Macro" for about half the price. Really it's still too expensive.

    Maybe I could ... rent a lens and try it out?

    I don't think it would be useful for my pet ants, but for shooting in the wild? It could be amazing.

    Anyone use these? Feelings?

    iDGS ,
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    @futurebird I wonder if maybe reaching out to other science and nature filmmakers for info might be useful? https://www.google.com/search?q=science+and+nature+movies+about+ants

    iDGS ,
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    @futurebird Also, maybe adding keyword hashtags at the end of such queries might give them further reach.

    iDGS ,
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    @futurebird Also, not me, but people out there do go-fund-me, kickstarter, etc. campaigns to raise funds for all kinds of things.

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    iDGS ,
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    @hourlyfops Kit and kaboodle? 😹

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