Post Az6IHRNeOjzPlm5ldQ by nyrath@spacey.space
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 (DIR) Post #Az6Gu2SWmyh7rYeObg by annaleen@wandering.shop
       2025-10-11T03:59:02Z
       
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       I cannot stop thinking about this paper about how Iberian harvester ants can produce offspring of two entirely different species. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02524-8cc: @futurebird
       
 (DIR) Post #Az6IAecelYqGoOsJ4i by nyrath@spacey.space
       2025-10-11T13:11:08Z
       
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       @annaleen @futurebird That is just begging to be used in a science fiction story.  Because yet again truth is stranger than fiction
       
 (DIR) Post #Az6IAgAN1hP7bFekGO by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2025-10-11T13:12:42Z
       
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       @nyrath @annaleen It's in the story I'm working on! Not a major plot point ... but part of the history of the moon ants. Yes. The moon ants. But I promise this is a "grounded" SF story.
       
 (DIR) Post #Az6IHRNeOjzPlm5ldQ by nyrath@spacey.space
       2025-10-11T13:13:57Z
       
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       @futurebird @annaleen Fantastic! Looking forwards to it.
       
 (DIR) Post #Az6MOYNBCMnVIeWELo by Frantasaur@mastodon.ie
       2025-10-11T13:16:10Z
       
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       @nyrath @annaleen @futurebird Martha Wells wrote a whole series about a civilization that did this cross species thing. I highly recommend.
       
 (DIR) Post #Az6MOZhmFGrrQpAC5w by nitpicking@mstdn.party
       2025-10-11T13:52:00Z
       
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       @Frantasaur @nyrath @annaleen @futurebird Octavia Butler also had a series that had similarities. Decades ago. Also, she was Octavia Butler. (I love Wells, just bought one of her books. But Butler.)
       
 (DIR) Post #Az6MOb21JUedXtdsHo by Frantasaur@mastodon.ie
       2025-10-11T13:59:04Z
       
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       @nitpicking @nyrath @annaleen @futurebird yeh, I have just started on Butler myself, got a lovely hardback box set of the parable of the sower and the parable of the talents. The first one was a really tough read emotionally speaking, so I had to take a break before tackling the second!
       
 (DIR) Post #Az6Mi6ltWsiTUHP58q by llewelly@sauropods.win
       2025-10-11T14:03:37Z
       
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       @futurebird @nyrath @annaleen I imagine the ants grounded it up by digging a deep hole and sticking a lighting rod in the hole so the voltage has somewhere to go when the reader is shocked
       
 (DIR) Post #Az6VhcotmtdEBKeYmu by cstross@wandering.shop
       2025-10-11T15:44:15Z
       
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       @futurebird @nyrath @annaleen It's in my stack of notes for the (currently merely hypothetical) third Authority novel. (It's a space opera setting that isn't in print yet, because I'm working on a huge mid-career pivot back to space opera in the next few years.)
       
 (DIR) Post #Az6nsgUoG7qZwWgCyO by annaleen@wandering.shop
       2025-10-11T19:07:57Z
       
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       @futurebird @nyrath heck yeah! I should have known you were already on it.