Post B1WK0WI0fpz22o1Y2a by quinn@social.circl.lu
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(DIR) Post #B1NNQu8AwEcKUJIogi by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-18T14:45:58Z
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She is excited to help you recycle and compost that tree!
(DIR) Post #B1NNs3Hb1HA6gtebWy by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-18T14:50:55Z
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dang forgot the antennae
(DIR) Post #B1NPmw8wKwxP0ZIGtE by freequaybuoy@mastodon.social
2025-12-18T15:12:21Z
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@futurebird Yay, everyone gets a presANT
(DIR) Post #B1NPzPle1KDiMSLb2O by tofugolem@mastodon.social
2025-12-18T15:14:37Z
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@futurebird Favorite comic book trivia:In the comic version, Ultron was created by Hank Pym (instead of Tony Stark as in the movies), who made his head look like that of an ant because he thought it would make Ultron look friendlier.Hank Pym does not seem to grasp that other people do not like ants as much as he does.
(DIR) Post #B1NQT7x0pJnVn7pgUS by Tattie@eldritch.cafe
2025-12-18T15:19:59Z
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@futurebird tiny tree, or gi-ant?
(DIR) Post #B1NZCssnypQc0tC6kq by krnlg@mastodon.social
2025-12-18T16:57:52Z
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@futurebird😆 Love it!
(DIR) Post #B1O47XDSCtq9wgmWxM by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-18T22:44:19Z
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@Tattie Yes.
(DIR) Post #B1O7VUvUfgXdemV0JU by Tattie@eldritch.cafe
2025-12-18T23:22:15Z
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@futurebird I'm now picturing the ant as the size of like a spaniel. Cute!
(DIR) Post #B1VoQt4xMupTijRoOm by alper@sfba.social
2025-12-22T16:26:10Z
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@futurebird a friend is visiting Medellin, Colombia, sent me this yesterday.
(DIR) Post #B1W0TiMIsi8an6fyPA by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-22T18:41:12Z
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@alper OMG.(Those are queens, some people eat them, I didn't know they were considered an aphrodisiac too. )
(DIR) Post #B1WIvUsUOXk0GR7zu4 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-22T22:07:54Z
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@alper I kind of wish people wouldn't eat ants, however I have never had two pounds of fat-bottmed queen ants fall on my farm, and been aware that they could each set up a nest that could destroy an orchard OR I could fry them and have what everyone claims is a delicious snack. Poor girls. But also respect for dealing with an agricultural pest in this way... and if people want to eat them?They won't use sprays that could kill other more rare ants. So in the the end munch away I guess.
(DIR) Post #B1WK0WI0fpz22o1Y2a by quinn@social.circl.lu
2025-12-22T22:19:58Z
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@futurebird @alper I'm a big fan of crickets and grasshoppers. With a Sriracha mayo and garlic.
(DIR) Post #B1WnK6pjvROFYYUguO by alper@sfba.social
2025-12-23T03:40:11Z
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@quinn @futurebird I used to see articles saying bugs are the future protein source. I vaguely remember that we couldn't digest chitin. Can we? Or did we find some artificial enzymes?
(DIR) Post #B1WnK8IUU1yy60xAMS by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-23T03:48:30Z
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@alper @quinn The exoskeleton isn't most of the bug... I think the muscle tissue and fat is what contains the calories and nutrition. We can't digest cellulose either but eat a lot of it with vegetables. Now... I don't eat any bugs. And probably never will. But that's just "cultural" as in I don't get it, and it makes me sad. But, they are highly nutritious. And some of them taste good. (enough people claim this I believe them.)
(DIR) Post #B1Wong26EZS14qwDq4 by alper@sfba.social
2025-12-23T04:05:03Z
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@futurebird @quinn I agree. Cultural. It may change. I remember my first snail, luckily deliciously made, in Greece. So it didn't leave me with a bad memory.
(DIR) Post #B1WovQCeyL6cIbZQwK by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-12-23T04:06:26Z
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@alper @quinn I mean I love lobster and crayfish so it's really just a learned thing.
(DIR) Post #B1XIJ5AJjszCfk6qCu by quinn@social.circl.lu
2025-12-23T09:35:38Z
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@futurebird @alper I'm a vegetarian, and don't eat insects often, but I supported it from an ecological/climate change perspective. It would be great if we got our protein from sources like crickets etc, so I learned to cook them. I have not learned how to source them.