Post B32eDeEapEjOUvbmfg by amenonsen@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #B32dtU4Qu9sNBRF1I8 by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2026-02-06T10:25:43Z
       
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       RE: https://mastodon.green/@plazi_species/116023192433967796Story concept: Consider myrmecophilous beetle but it fools myrmecologists into thinking it's an ant too. Even thought it's totally NOT an ant, when you look at it soon after you forget what you saw and think "that was an ant, a nice ordinary ant" ... it takes decades to discover.
       
 (DIR) Post #B32eBIVubxpmYMaYOe by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2026-02-06T10:28:56Z
       
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       A fight breaks out at a conference over it. "It's and ANT. What do you mean it's a beetle. We can all see it is a perfectly normal ant!"
       
 (DIR) Post #B32eDeEapEjOUvbmfg by amenonsen@mastodon.social
       2026-02-06T10:29:22Z
       
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       @futurebird I was already feeling a bit disturbed that this looks like it's assembled from leftover bits of corn cobs, and now you go and give it mentalist powers (which it clearly also has the antennae for).
       
 (DIR) Post #B32fsjrCvO2VlPpMeW by cavyherd@wandering.shop
       2026-02-06T10:47:58Z
       
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       @futurebird Oh, so •that's• the dye used for the lasers in the MIB Flashy Thingie.
       
 (DIR) Post #B32g9MXgrU1uNRcps0 by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2026-02-06T10:51:00Z
       
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       @cavyherd Love this. It's better than the concept the "SCP" people came up with for why mind erasing drugs might exist which was "well there is a giant sea snake that everyone keeps forgetting about"Psychic myrmecophilous beetles explain everything.
       
 (DIR) Post #B336SIQB0QZ7uDndr6 by hattifattener@wandering.shop
       2026-02-06T15:45:44Z
       
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       @futurebird There is no ant-y memetics division.
       
 (DIR) Post #B337moYZKx7HJl4aDQ by ranjit@friend.camp
       2026-02-06T15:59:28Z
       
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       @hattifattener @futurebird spies dabbing a bit of myrmecomimesis hormone on their clothes so they can sneak into any facility without being noticed - the guards just think "ugh, another ant, gotta tell the guys to stop leaving open food around the lunchroom"
       
 (DIR) Post #B35yILmbR5ZhHEuprU by CliftonR@wandering.shop
       2026-02-08T00:58:24Z
       
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       @futurebird That must be the myrmememetophilous genus of beetle, I suppose.
       
 (DIR) Post #B35yPJe1mhP0fkE5TM by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2026-02-08T00:59:43Z
       
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       @CliftonR I don't think all of the myrcophiles even come from the same genus. It's so popular that it's evolved multiple times.