Barry Goldman

#Teacher, story teller, #naturalist, dancer, piper of tunes. Studying #chemistry and #geology of the origins of life #astrobiology
blog which i should try to be consistant with
https://blackskimmer.blogspot.com/
twitter: barrygoldman1

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2024-08-10 00:22:47

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 i'm fascinated. u actually listen to that dude. he's just snarling for his nestmates. it's not talking.

2024-08-09 08:16:21

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 alas... it IS coming from a child. can we just send him to bed without supper already?

2024-08-01 22:41:41

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 some are HORNY stars. ie one star sends some stuff to insight supernova activity in the other star that ultimately gives birth to new baby stars.
its a whole ecosystem out there!

2024-07-31 02:20:40

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 enjoying? MAYBE, maybe he's wondering... whens this blony cleaner fish gonna start pickin these pesky parasits off a me like he's supposed to. isn't this the cleaning station?

2024-07-27 01:21:30

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@npub1zdz…tl8u hey that reminds me, isn't 1001 arabian nights a 3 year epic where Sheherazad manages to stave off her own murder by a crazed woman hater and eventually heals him? by way of clever storytelling?

2024-07-22 17:13:39

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@npub1tpj…fmcs can each segment be dynamically adjusted?

2024-07-15 18:08:26

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 i would think a big difference is that most cyanos can fix nitrogen. green algae don't.

2024-07-14 21:50:59

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 wood is WOVEN out of BREATH, like cotton candy, by algae that live in the appartment buildings they together weave.
https://blackskimmer.blogspot.com/2008/03/flesh-wood-are-breath-raw-material-for.html

2024-07-12 02:23:32

beetle visitor. inch long. on porch NY state u.s.
https://cdn.masto.host/sauropodswin/media_attachments/files/112/770/666/202/880/566/original/0cccf8c96c198da7.jpg

2024-06-22 20:01:06

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 Wheeler: leaf cutter ants of north america is a fun little read! i thot as far north as new jersey?

2024-06-15 18:28:36

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 i sat by a pond once and had a dragonfly use my knee as his perch. he'd land on it. fly off. come back. went on for long time..

2024-06-01 22:10:04

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@npub12ez…uyf6 THAT'S what we are gonna get him on? a sex scandal? I HATE THIS COUNTRY.

2024-05-20 20:10:32

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 anyway i subscribe to the reason being that if 1 were prime, nubmers wouldnt have unique prime factorizations

2024-05-20 20:09:40

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 were u specifically thinking of factoring algorithms or would it break other algorithms?

2024-05-20 20:05:34

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 if u made a program to factor a number into primes and 1 was allowed, how would you decide to terminate it?

2024-05-16 18:08:11

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 i used to wonder about the algorithms insects use for walking. if i take the slightest misstep it could mean broken bones or worse, but for a tiny bug? placing feet don't need to be so precise.

2024-05-16 06:19:58

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 i read it as: last monarch to go down before the whole world burnt to a crisp.
and now i get the butterfly. kinda dopy if u ask me.

2024-05-14 21:18:22

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 waht's your current count? i remember keeping a jar of pond scum for a year and half on the window and over that time counted ~60 different microcritters.

2024-05-14 02:48:37

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 i NEVER listen to his words.

2024-05-12 21:06:13

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 who are field ants?

2024-05-10 18:40:29

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 won't len(set([x.attribute1 for x in mylist]))==2
tell you that exacty 2 objects are DIFFERENT for that attribute? (hence the set will have 2 items)

2024-05-10 18:05:58

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 anyway... my favorites. not very recent i'm afraid, but maybe youve missed some of them
https://blackskimmer.blogspot.com/2017/07/towards-100-nonfiction-books-everyone.html

2024-05-07 02:28:58

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@npub1jt0…lsw0 what? WHAT? in what units is it stronger? how is it measured? cuz it only moves ur detector a millionth of a proton width!

2024-05-07 02:27:32

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 chocolate lemon was my fav combo. do you remember when it was a block of ice and the guy would shave the ice into a cup and pour syrup all over it? damm...

2024-05-07 02:26:42

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 damm! i miss having that on the streets!

2024-05-05 20:14:04

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 haha 'cooperative leopards' you mean cheetahs. hmmm dunno if cheetahs climb trees tho. maybe they dont cuz they eat communally? i think they hunt communally

2024-05-05 17:50:49

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 260 skills of honeybees is pertinant here:
https://blackskimmer.blogspot.com/2008/03/how-many-skills-does-tiny-honey-bee.html

2024-05-05 17:45:30

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 true and false are only MINOR categories of human experience. don't sweat it. we most certainly are NOT primarily rational beings. rationality is a boutique addiction only some of us subscribe to.

2024-05-02 22:22:08

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 hmm that doesn't seem to be in my collection. i can haz pdf?

2024-05-02 15:27:18

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 the set operations are insane (python) with them u can write one liners that woulda taken 10s of miinutes or more of thinking and coding up a dozens of lines of code in older languages without it.

2024-04-28 19:29:19

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 this is my arguement against news. i don't think most of us need it.
in fact even simple gossiping about other people, is mostly distructive.

2024-04-28 19:28:04

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 i'd spend the day finding if there are a few human genes i could switch to make us abhor joining in unlimitedly large groups fawning after charismatic leaders. and then infecting humanity with the changes.

2024-04-27 21:43:21

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 good for them.
reminds me once i had a snake in a terrarium i made. was cool.
after the snake was gone... i put a mouse in ther. within a day it was completely dug up.

2024-04-25 15:53:30

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 piers anthony Macroscope wasVERY weird.
and jack chalker Well World series.
i haven't read this stuff in aeons!

2024-04-24 14:09:15

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 wait wait what happened? how did you find that she had died?

2024-04-23 16:44:22

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 or movie. one or the other. collab with Werner Herzog!

2024-04-23 16:43:45

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 book please?

2024-04-23 16:37:09

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 ok... you've started it! now write the story!

2024-04-18 15:07:45

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 they don't have a global pictures and they don't need to be EXPERTS at what they do, cuz they work together and eventually get things done
but on their micro-tasks i think they know what they are doing.

2024-04-16 16:54:21

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 i miss my playground pirate ship!

2024-04-16 16:47:39

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 they like to make long (100ft) tunnels to places with different microclimates. u give em stuff like that?

2024-04-16 16:45:47

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 he's ALWAYS cryin. throw him in th stocks already

2024-04-16 03:04:15

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 the first thing ya gotta explain how it works, is how to not feel so threatened by everything so you can relax and WONDER.
exploration and explanation can come later

2024-04-16 00:28:36

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 when is ur book? or movie.

2024-04-16 00:19:01

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@npub1y7x…jrl4 oh that's funny. of course i meant practicing dying. i fare i am going to be TERRIBLE at it.

2024-04-16 00:14:27

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@npub1y7x…jrl4 ?? what this has to do with Mary Oliver, the dog, or my post?

2024-04-16 00:10:12

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@npub1y7x…jrl4 hmm.. i should start practicing!

2024-04-15 23:28:17

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 if u find one let me know.
on second thot: here's one i remember from decades ago and now u can haz pdf
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256720750_The_Orchids_Natural_History_and_Classification

2024-04-11 16:52:59

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 they COULD give the algorithms REAL EYES and LEGS and set it loose in the world to learn what it is like...

2024-04-10 14:29:04

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 dig deeper. what does that mean the creation person 'thinks you're evil'

2024-04-09 17:06:41

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 wow. doesn't look garter snake to me.
where is this in relation to bronx botanical gardens? cuz i remember playin with garter snakes there! miss that place.

2024-04-08 22:50:18

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 somewhere i found a checklist for ant spp in nyc. or was it nyc area? i will look, i think it was by Stephan Cover. about 130 spp were listed.

2024-04-08 16:45:35

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 wut resource u use to key to spp?

2024-04-07 19:24:10

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 paper as cyst. ha! good poem

2024-04-04 04:34:36

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 yes that's what i recall

2024-04-04 04:31:02

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 way back when i was trying grad school in missouri, i did have a fresh queen Camponotus and two of her offspring. they were very slow at what they were doing.

2024-04-04 04:13:28

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 ah... i wonder what makes them suitible for sale? just random?

2024-04-04 04:12:35

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 as do all acts of aging seem to us lumbering animals!

2024-04-04 04:10:23

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 oh! these are YOUR ants. keep us posted! how did you come to have Dorymyrmex Bureni? i've never consceiously encountered Dorymyrmex in the wild.

2024-04-03 23:29:28

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@npub153s…cvd9 if ants are so clever y aint they colonized coral reefs yet?

2024-03-30 03:27:12

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@npub1hqx…944s can you show closeup showing if there is structure in those white cross sections?

2024-03-24 01:26:45

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@npub12ez…uyf6 so this is NOT typical of the dead? hmm... will have to acquaint myself...

2024-03-23 00:07:50

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 it might not be gravity and distance they are orienting toward, but environmental conditions like temperature and humidity and pH and CO2 that they want to access?

2024-03-19 18:08:36

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 maybe cuz it's the same old H. sapiens story. maybe it's how we function.
i mean in general, H. sapiens likes to form large groups fawning over charistmatic leaders.
overworked people in mental fog might describe most of us! and obviously humans excell at giving up their possessions to leaders. hence we have the extreme wealth inequality we observe today.

2024-03-15 22:02:24

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 @npub1nvd…gj54 maye the ultimate goal is to go back to being cavemen when we could just go out and knock out a woman with our club and drag her back into our caves.
jeez was that a thing in the 60s when i was a kid? i'ma look it up.

2024-03-14 02:46:52

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 ok birds.. think of each feather as a finger. i think it is a tiny bit true.

2024-03-11 20:10:53

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 the only way is to get to know who the people working in the field are.
way before this enshitification i always approached we searches for info by first searching for the people knowlegeable about the subject. and put them in context of their communities

2024-03-08 18:09:50

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@npub153s…cvd9 ok. that beast is fucked up! tho the single spine in the middle is a no ant give away and very odd. also didn't bother to pretend its front legs are antenae. a very weird beast.

2024-03-04 19:04:47

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 i have heard ppl wanting money in politics.
when i suggest the u.s. is TOO OBSCENELY big for humans and should split up, most people rebuke me.
now... money 'big money' is going to be a natural consequence of the size of this thing.
come on... do you know of a SINGLE ant colony that grows to 330,000,000 ants?
i'll think about the special cases of the supercolonies. but i have a suspicion that they, like the u.s. are ALSO ecologically unhealthy.
will investigate

2024-03-02 23:53:39

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 what galls me is that math is taught separated from science and engineering.
since i didn't learn most my stuff in school, but usually on my own before it appeard in class, i integrated everything on my own.
astronomy, auto repair, computers, history of science math... since middle school.
oh and geography. i once wanted to write a geography kinda book: "Grasping the World in Numbers"
too bad i'm so ill focused.

2024-03-02 23:50:26

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 funny, i think i taught myself all that stuff, my own study, i read a lot of books, during high school.

2024-03-02 23:12:42

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 nevertheless when i was living on the coast, i was dismayed to notice that MOST of hte little girls were in tight fitting revealing bathing suits while the little boys wore their baggy clothes. and then there is the ever present ballet classes and...
what bothers me is that we in this century are forgetting how SLOWW humans and socieity is to change.
not gonna happen overnight.
then again, compared to a lot of world/history... american culture is very straightjacketed.

2024-03-01 19:13:42

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 first tell me in real life why i would ever WANT to know the original price!
must be a better example for this kind of math.

2024-02-28 04:26:54

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 @npub16a2…ddr8 only the outside

2024-02-25 23:31:54

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 they're still HUGE! how DO they comunicate?

2024-02-25 21:04:22

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 ur use of words 'frozen' and 'crystalize' strike me as oddly spooky! actually... pupa wld be opposite of frozen cuz everythig is DRASTICALLY being rearranged as we watch?

2024-02-25 20:38:14

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 i never listen TO what have these orcs say. i just watch the emotional content.
as Gregory Bateson once said, half of our verbal communication is the equivelent of posturing for social status, the words dont much matter.

2024-02-24 00:24:16

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 stats is WAY MORE SUBTLE AND COMPLEX than most intro courses let on. distributions of populations of samples of poulations of ...

2024-02-24 00:18:38

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 use a random number generator to produce coinflips, 1s 0s then repeatedly do N flips at a time and put together historgram of #s of heads out of N. should get normal dist as N gets bigger.
the exciting thing which ive never grokked the proof of yet is how the bournuli formula for # of heads -> the exponential function as n->inf.
so mysterious!

2024-02-24 00:10:27

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 anybody make a historgram of results of samples from a random number generator etc?

2024-02-22 02:35:17

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 imagine a MASSIVE decade long campaign to revamp the entire system into a multiparty proportional voting on issues and not buffoons or supermen.
maybe blood will be involved. probly.

2024-02-21 06:18:04

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 reminds me of my experience dissecting a honeybee. 'biting' into her 'shell' was a very interesting process. very curious materials.
ok that's weird to say a honeybee is materials...
on the other hand, the hardest part of being human is realizing that we are all food.

2024-02-21 06:15:56

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 when i was working with ants under the dissection scope (sorry... for mounting and identification. mixed feelings about smothering the poor kids) i SO wanted to make paintings of them, a few feet wide!
you got a scope? you can put some honey under the scope and they can come and drink and you can look at em.

2024-02-19 19:47:08

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 even Stentor! what's it all mean?

2024-02-19 19:30:25

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 thank you.

2024-02-18 22:16:31

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 have to admit tho, that in the dozen odd years i've lived in nyc or commuted to there... i been attacked twice in the subway. once above ground and 3 times above ground almost.
you have to stay focused i guess.
1/n

2024-02-18 22:12:19

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 nyc is not american. hence the heartland will always fear it and hate it.

2024-02-18 19:58:36

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 as opposed to not continous ANYWHERE it is defined, like
f(x) = 0 if x is rational
=1 if x is irrational
defined everywhere, continuous nowhere
for 1/x i think the point is tat if defined from R->R there is NO way to MAKE it continuous at 0
i think if you extend it to the complex numbers there is a way... i don't remember how it works.
f(x) =(x-1)/(x^2-1) CAN be defined to be continous at x=1
anyway that's how i'd look at things

2024-02-18 19:54:09

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 bored me.

2024-02-18 04:37:58

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@npub1nu9…l6r5 @npub1zdp…vqv8 @npub1qvq…8gkp ok, i wanna see this movie now.

2024-02-18 04:32:33

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 @npub1qvq…8gkp i hope so cuz... it seems to happen more often than you'd think! tho sometimes he uses a puppet, sometimes a bush, sometimes direct gush of spirit, knocks u on your ass

2024-02-18 04:08:22

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 one day we'll learn just the right antennae taps to do it. you'll see. first you'll hae to smell right tho!

2024-02-18 03:38:15

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 oh yeah yeah yeah, closes herself up.

2024-02-18 03:36:18

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 i can't remember if i've EVER called the police.
once or twice i've gone to them when i was assaulted in nyc or had a bike stolen, but they were of no help.
once a campus security guy gave my car a jump. that was useful.

2024-02-17 03:38:13

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 hey! what r u studying? i miss studying ants.

2024-02-17 03:34:23

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 i am sad that i don't remember what claustral means. but is that an army ant queen to the right? they don't found colonies underground, if that has anything to do with the meaning.

2024-02-10 20:36:06

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 do we have a survey of spp longevity out there and maybe we can see if it correlates with anything analogous to high tech?
hmm... ALL of biology is high tech!
maybe we need another concept rather than high tech. a more sophisticated lense.

2024-02-09 22:35:24

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 if electrical networks required recursion, nothing would conduct electricity cuz of infinite regress?

2024-02-06 17:51:32

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@npub16nf…q6as i'm tired of the 'half a' thing useless to critters arguments.
nonsense.
back in college i used to test stuff like that
i remember once when i was taking physical antrhro, i peeled and ate bananas with my feet and cracked open brazil nuts with my teeth.
we use diff body parts for odd things ALL THE TIME.

2024-02-06 17:45:57

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 there's already an earth shrouding network of automobiles, mostly privately owned. i hate it.