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shadowsminder

@shadowsminder@mas.to

Author of poetry, microfiction, short stories, and online experiments that cross genre boundaries.

Keeper of a private library that includes their own unfinished works.

Supporter of public libraries and 🏳️‍🌈.

Moving to mas.to from Wandering Shop and The Dragon's Cave. (still following in bursts)

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. For a complete list of posts, browse on the original instance.

archaeohistories , to random
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In 1850, a farmer found a secret village. It was later determined to be older than the Great Pyramids of Egypt. Archeologists estimated that 100 people lived in this village named Skara Brae, the "Scottish Pompeii." The houses were connected to each other by tunnels, and each house could be closed off with a stone door.

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Photo of a fantastical-looking, green grassy mounds that are made of overlaid ash-colored stone with rectangular doorways open to dark interiors. A sidewalk leading to a large body of water is in the background.

shadowsminder ,
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@archaeohistories alt text:

Photo of fantastical-looking, green grassy mounds that are made of overlaid ash-colored stone with rectangular doorways open to dark interiors. A sidewalk leading to a large body of water is in the background.

futurebird , (edited ) to random
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… and the stupid wind took my hat. I didn’t even have it on I was holding it worried about the wind — pulled it right out of my hand. How did people live wearing hats all the time!?

Maybe the MTA people have some kind of grabber??

shadowsminder ,
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@futurebird hat pins— large hair pins that supposedly can hold hats to the head—and scarves.

I'm not sure how well these tricks work with current hair conditioning while we tend to go more for clean or slick than powdered and thick hair.

Anyway, I'm pleased your hat was recovered. The photo with the grabber is fun.

luckytran , to random
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Hospitals in South Australia have paused elective surgeries and declared an internal emergency due to staff being sick with COVID. The pandemic is not over. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-30/sa-public-hospitals-in-internal-emergency/103915690

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@luckytran

"We know the government is trying to turn it around, but this is turning around the Titanic of our health system" is an excellent quote.

molly0xfff , to random
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back in my day we called this spyware

#AI #privacy #Microsoft

shadowsminder ,
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@molly0xfff what are the storage requirements for that? Yikes.

futurebird , to random
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Trump is upset he may miss his son's graduation because he's on trial.

Yeah, we do treat people in the criminal justice system harshly. People you have never thought about, people who have kids, and graduations, and moments missed forever.

But it's different now. He cries. It's happening to ME. To Me!

Nothing, no one, exists beyond the tip of some people's noses. They cannot see pain unless they feel it. Cannot recognize suffering unless it's their own.

What a stunted perspective.

shadowsminder ,
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@futurebird

I feel sorry for Barron that Donald Trump is his father.

The former POTUS is also saying his trials are preventing him from visiting states like Georgia and Florida to campaign for himself. One of his trials in Georgia. According to voting records, he's a Florida resident. He's not being kept out of these states.

Nothing in his campaign is about justice system reform, because he obviously cares only cares about himself.

He cries about everything to maintain a paying audience.

shadowsminder ,
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@futurebird

I feel sorry for Barron that Donald Trump is his father.

The former POTUS is also saying his trials are preventing him from visiting states like Georgia and Florida to campaign for himself. One of his trials in Georgia. According to voting records, he's a Florida resident. He's not being kept out of these states.

Nothing in his campaign is about justice system reform. He obviously cares only about himself.

He cries about everything to maintain a paying audience.

ElleGray , to random
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this is mars’s moon phobos eclipsing the sun. this is what passes for a total solar eclipse there. second-rate planet. just sad

shadowsminder ,
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@ElleGray it's an egg! /j

CultureDesk , to histodons group
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Between the 1920s and 1940s, hundreds of debutantes signed up to be horse-riding couriers for the Frontier Nursing Service, a network of nurse-midwives in rural mountains of Kentucky. Smithsonian Magazine tells the story of what they did, and why. "They got to wear pants, they got to act independently,” historian Melanie Beals Goan explains, adding that couriers were “really clinging to this idea of a nostalgic, isolated place where traditional American values continue to survive. Part of [the couriers’] adventure is the idea that they’re escaping from [parental] authority, but also that they’re going to go in back in time to this really quaint place.”

https://flip.it/ulIIQb

#History #Histodons @histodons #America #USA #Kentucky #WomensHistory #WomensHistoryMonth

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@CultureDesk @histodons

source article: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-debutantes-volunteered-to-be-horse-riding-couriers-in-rural-kentucky-180984010/

futurebird , to random
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It's always bothered me that when people adapt Kafka's Metamorphosis they depict Gregor Samsa as a roach. Cockroaches do not undergo metamorphosis. They are born as nymphs which are just smaller wingless versions of the adult form.

Kafka writes that Gregor can only enjoy rotten food. Which also makes him not at all roach-like. Roaches strongly prefer fresh vegetables to rotten ones.

I always imagined him as a beetle. Which implies that the man Gregor was a larvae for all his pre-bug life.

shadowsminder ,
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@futurebird this is the first time I've been interested in reading the actual story.

futurebird , to random
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Sparrmannia flava, the African Wooly Chafer Beetle. AKA "fuzzy flying peanut"

I need you to look at these beetles with me for a moment. I need you to see they way they look when they get stuck on their back... loook!

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/690383-Sparrmannia-flava/browse_photos

The same kind of beetle on its back, it's fuzzy underneath like a cat.
A sad little creature being photographed by an entomologist who wanted to show the ventral side... the fuzzy side.

shadowsminder ,
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@futurebird that is a mouse beetle. :O

I didn't know our world has mouse beetles!

futurebird , to random
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Still thinking about the concept of studying ant communication by getting down to ant level. Make a tiny robot (we don't know how to make walking robots that small, so wheels it is) the robot would have a camera, little pads to collect pheromones (which could be dropped off to be analyzed) antennae IR sensors and maybe a way to stridulate?

Then one could really find out what's going on in there.

Worst case you have made an immersive ant VR experience!

shadowsminder ,
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@futurebird won't defensive ants attempt to destroy a robot their size for smelling and acting strangely?

I imagine immobile sensors in items ants would willingly take into their homes would work better.

shadowsminder ,
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@futurebird I've been under the impression that ants tend to clear dead(-looking) insects away.

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