Post B1hweVAEDAlF8MR2sS by Phosphenes@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #B1grTuJNgABp0tswnw by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2025-12-28T00:22:13Z
       
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       This book is SO GOOD.  Someone on here told me to read it. I want to read it like a podcast with commentary.  I have many comments. #books #ants
       
 (DIR) Post #B1grjDtLABpi5F0Z6m by lerxst@az.social
       2025-12-28T00:24:56Z
       
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       @futurebird I'm not much of an audio book guy, but I'd listen to that for sure!
       
 (DIR) Post #B1hweVAEDAlF8MR2sS by Phosphenes@mastodon.social
       2025-12-28T12:54:50Z
       
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       @futurebird Oh man I read that back in the 1970s. A woman wrote a sort of response story to that based on the same premise but with different outcomes. Unlike Consider Her Ways, the extinction of men did not mean the end of sex, and society did not become a hive.  Wish I could remember the title.
       
 (DIR) Post #B2G15iQqfnHiLZOXoG by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2026-01-13T23:24:48Z
       
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       @Phosphenes That's a different story. I'm talking about the book about ants by Frederick Philip Grove
       
 (DIR) Post #B2G4BiXVUDl8HQ3wsS by Phosphenes@mastodon.social
       2026-01-13T23:59:27Z
       
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       @futurebird Wow, they're only 9 years apart:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consider_Her_WaysThe sci fi version must have copied the title.
       
 (DIR) Post #B2G4W0MgvAabMAg4fo by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2026-01-14T00:03:10Z
       
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       @Phosphenes I think they are both copying proverbs 6:6Look to the ant lazy one,consider her ways and be wise,She has no boss, no overseer or king,yet she stores provisions in summershe gathers her food at harvest.
       
 (DIR) Post #B2G4dFztCPjRrlTDbk by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2026-01-14T00:04:28Z
       
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       @Phosphenes The "King James" version of the bible uses "it" rather than "she" ... but in some other texts they get the pronoun right for a worker ant which makes me wonder if some people knew that all of the workers are female or if it's just a coincidence.