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(DIR) Post #AxbWKlx6kR4gS8PDw8 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-27T19:03:18Z
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I have a stuffed plush clam but it only had two eyes so today I corrected that.
(DIR) Post #AxbWRdAbnZOxF4zVU8 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-27T19:04:32Z
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Doing the most critical tasks before the first day of school.
(DIR) Post #AxbWirDMpoC9iuUn3o by 1moremin@mastodon.ie
2025-08-27T19:07:26Z
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@futurebird it's Sept. 1 for us in Greece.Happy new year :)
(DIR) Post #AxbWvXPxkZIW5aQwoi by thepoliticalcat@mastodon.social
2025-08-27T19:09:54Z
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@futurebird Just guessing, but life with you is probably VERY interesting. I mean, I've done some interesting things too, but adding eyes to a stuffed plushy clam is not among them.
(DIR) Post #AxbX4yNMtDoqIwidUW by clew@ecoevo.social
2025-08-27T19:11:35Z
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So puzzling that someone would make such a nice cloth clam but not do the final amazing eyes @futurebird
(DIR) Post #AxbX6TQmueoUuU2BEW by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-27T19:11:51Z
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@clew I know, right??
(DIR) Post #AxbX9GK26lCh7dCjDs by clew@ecoevo.social
2025-08-27T19:12:22Z
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More fun for you! @futurebird
(DIR) Post #AxbXwJ3siAC1oA2GkC by khleedril@cyberplace.social
2025-08-27T19:21:12Z
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@futurebird Is a plush clam a useful thing to have?
(DIR) Post #AxbY0vxm1CpzcKNwZM by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-27T19:22:07Z
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@khleedril Yes it goes well with your plush ant, bee, and giant beetle grub?
(DIR) Post #AxbY6NYGs7Gud73LkG by scrottie@anarchism.space
2025-08-27T19:22:56Z
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@futurebird Angel.
(DIR) Post #AxbaKPlddAyhSp7rjE by 4bz@freeradical.zone
2025-08-27T19:48:02Z
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@futurebird biblically accurate clam
(DIR) Post #Axbafoyz4n8LkUZlGS by weinhold@ieji.de
2025-08-27T19:51:50Z
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@futurebird @khleedril I would love to see the plush giant beetle grub, pretty pleasssse! 🥺🙏🏼
(DIR) Post #AxbatsjtuDCBSEE1om by mina@berlin.social
2025-08-27T19:54:24Z
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@futurebird 😍 I haven't seen a plush clam yet, let alone one with a full set of eyes!
(DIR) Post #Axbb7UHjcg9hfHXS5o by jstatepost@mstdn.social
2025-08-27T19:56:50Z
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@futurebird How many eyes DO clams have, @Futurebird?(Eye'm too lazy to look it up.But if Eye DID look it up, Eye'd want to know if they're googly eyes.)
(DIR) Post #AxbdW7ZlOMy6NhqT3Y by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-27T20:23:47Z
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@4bz In fact all clams are biblically accurate ... or basically angles because that's just how their eyes are.
(DIR) Post #AxbdeTCyqYWxn3AaSe by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-27T20:25:18Z
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@jstatepost Clams have so many eyes and they are spread out along the shell edge (although some have no eyes at all)A big open question about clam vision is if they integrate the shadows and light they see with all of those eyes into some sense of the space and creatures around them.
(DIR) Post #AxbdwF1kJKKj1KOAwi by jstatepost@mstdn.social
2025-08-27T20:28:28Z
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@futurebird We're gonna need some research money, @Futurebird, to find out what the clams are looking at and what they're seeing.(Thank YOU for your kind response to my goofy question.)
(DIR) Post #AxbdxTsAbJQRLvV7D6 by johnefrancis@cosocial.ca
2025-08-27T20:28:41Z
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@futurebird @jstatepost we need the ClamTV experiement
(DIR) Post #AxbeC6LwKTZGkcOgOe by edwilk@mstdn.social
2025-08-27T20:31:20Z
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@futurebird @jstatepost "Clams have so many eyes and they are spread out along the shell edge (although some have no eyes at all)"That's kinda poetic. There's a song there.
(DIR) Post #AxbeJVbkpVwp6aKIGu by Iwillyeah@mastodon.ie
2025-08-27T20:32:31Z
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@futurebird @jstatepost I'm always astounded by the methods people come up with to answer things like that. I'm not even smart enough to ask the question.
(DIR) Post #AxbeKdLBZ6HrNT73AG by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-27T20:32:22Z
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@u0421793 @jstatepost Totally agree, but with clams we know a lot less about their neurology, (they don't have brains) and frankly there is less going on in there than with an ant or bee. Or what's going on is more alien to what we know than an ant or bee.Really we have a lot more in common with insects. They have brains, two eyes, heads...
(DIR) Post #AxbefiG4TdnCi5lv9M by GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai
2025-08-27T20:36:41Z
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@futurebird Back in my scuba diving days on one dive trip I was collecting rock scallops. And I have to say the experience was weird one time when I was prying one off the rock because I had this sub audible sensation of a cry despair going out that was spread to all the other scallops on the rock..So many experiences underwater of hunting sea life dramatically changed my perception. All those beady little eyes.
(DIR) Post #Axbf9dhA0UfbFHiFPc by DiarrheaLad69@ni.hil.ist
2025-08-27T20:42:06Z
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@futurebird I always do this with spiders!
(DIR) Post #AxbfBUHFzdHScFTgVE by ohmu@social.seattle.wa.us
2025-08-27T20:42:21Z
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@futurebird @u0421793 @jstatepost Attention: @dantheclamman There is an active clam discussion!!
(DIR) Post #Axbh39hmnONsP82cwC by 4bz@freeradical.zone
2025-08-27T21:03:18Z
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@futurebird I didn't know they even had eyes lol
(DIR) Post #AxbiQwY7Sc6mVRQVpg by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-27T21:18:45Z
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@u0421793 @jstatepost Some of them can swim and they will flap flap flap away from danger and I never get tired of it.
(DIR) Post #AxbkYEt9sDaDJtsFk0 by photovotary@beige.party
2025-08-27T21:42:30Z
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@futurebird That’s very cute!
(DIR) Post #AxblVaKfn0acuc2ftw by avatastic@avatastic.uk
2025-08-27T21:53:16Z
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@futurebird biblically accurate clams for president 2028.
(DIR) Post #AxboBO9RfVnxChqrce by electropict@mastodon.scot
2025-08-27T22:23:11Z
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@futurebird Do let me know if you get around to mounting that with propellors as a drone and fly it around videoing random people's responses. Would watch.
(DIR) Post #Axbop4YJxJOM0EPSvg by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-27T22:30:29Z
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@4bz Not all species have them, but the ones who do have a lot of simple light sensing eyes.So not googly eyes, but I can have a little fun.
(DIR) Post #AxbplclyspCWvmidBw by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-27T22:40:57Z
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@dantheclamman @nellie_m @johnefrancis @jstatepost Really? I thought that was just a theory. That's so cool.
(DIR) Post #Axbqo4I1eBaoo3R8Hg by ahimsa_pdx@disabled.social
2025-08-27T22:52:38Z
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@futurebird How many eyes do clams have?One of the cool facts I remember (from playing trivial pursuit !) is that scallops have a lot of eyes! And they're blue!I can't remember exactly how many eyes though, I'd have to look that up.
(DIR) Post #AxbqtyMcamjwAIOyGG by GGMcBG@mstdn.plus
2025-08-27T22:53:44Z
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@futurebird These are the small things count much.
(DIR) Post #AxbtNaUk6KEKjTRwBM by hattifattener@wandering.shop
2025-08-27T23:21:29Z
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@futurebird @jstatepost Ive read that sea urchins might do this — they have photoreceptors at the base of their upper tubefeet, and their spines provide directional shadows, and experiment suggests they can resolve light/dark regions as if they were one giant compound eye
(DIR) Post #AxbzHNUu6ypAPQwnZI by Shanmonster@c.im
2025-08-27T22:47:46Z
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@futurebird I love it! But that looks more like a scallop to me.
(DIR) Post #Axc13W3jgLlSojl1pA by THMcGuire@mastodon.social
2025-08-28T00:47:28Z
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@futurebird @u0421793 @jstatepost Ed Yong’s An Immense World is a breathtaking view into so much awesomeness in animals that are not us.
(DIR) Post #Axc1DaBnBKykWQKH0y by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-28T00:49:21Z
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@THMcGuire @u0421793 @jstatepost That book is mandatory reading in these parts of the Fedi. Best non-fiction I've read in five years.
(DIR) Post #Axc31SxoQ6dkXu8Yoy by cavyherd@wandering.shop
2025-08-28T01:09:32Z
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@futurebird Has anybody made the obvious "Biblically-accurate clams" joke yet?
(DIR) Post #Axc363PcqZdUkPKmbQ by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-08-28T01:10:20Z
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@cavyherd Yes! But they are angles so it's OK to say it again.
(DIR) Post #Axc3II89wzeJs203Fo by cavyherd@wandering.shop
2025-08-28T01:12:35Z
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@futurebird @u0421793 @jstatepost I wonder what the neural tissue per unit critter is, though.
(DIR) Post #AxcXIB19OU0eR0aCHo by damadegambitas@shrimply.social
2025-08-28T06:48:41Z
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@futurebird Biblically accurate clam 🤣 i love it.
(DIR) Post #Axe03m1qb2NShxLwrQ by ninetiger@writing.exchange
2025-08-28T23:45:45Z
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@futurebird 💗
(DIR) Post #Axf9vBhSyWfiQ4KBGK by JoshuaACNewman@xeno.glyphpress.com
2025-08-29T13:10:58Z
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@futurebird This is a scallop, not a clam! Which is good because scallops are the ones with eyes.