Posts by JSteven@wandering.shop
(DIR) Post #B1cqVxzu4LJqRCLxei by JSteven@wandering.shop
2025-12-26T01:35:28Z
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One thing about Mastodon, I really wish an instance name and/or logo could appear on the menu bar. Now that I have accounts on two different instances, it is getting VERY confusing. I'll adapt, but...#mastodon
(DIR) Post #B1rUqWUcF4xFauVxia by JSteven@wandering.shop
2026-01-02T03:30:23Z
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@futurebird Glad I'm not the only one attracted to retro-industrial housings that I could build into SOMETHING.
(DIR) Post #B1rVA3ogZNZ0RqDad6 by JSteven@wandering.shop
2026-01-02T03:33:48Z
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@futurebird @copiesofcopies Vaguely recalling a story from years ago when a (AIR) female artist/maker was pulled from a flight and interrogated because she was wearing a decorative pin made from a solderless-breadboard, a few discrete components, a battery, and a blinking LED. Anything these simple-minded buffoons don't recognize MUST be a weapon of mass destruction.
(DIR) Post #B31tTb8HQiZ1fJl8dM by JSteven@wandering.shop
2026-02-06T01:45:35Z
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@futurebird Yttrium - So they can suffer from the alphabetical curse just like I do. (Useful when they line us up for the firing squad, though...)
(DIR) Post #B3X5TyBMxAI2VGuD7w by JSteven@wandering.shop
2026-02-21T02:56:09Z
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@futurebird I watch a LOT of YouTube, and the length is all over the place. But under 15 is an impulse buy. Up to half an hour is usually fine if I'm interested. Over 45 is for topics and creators I'm REALLY interested in, and for an hour or more, I really have to plan for it. Those sometimes get pushed down the queue never to emerge.
(DIR) Post #B4h5Lqw75KE2oe9oBM by JSteven@wandering.shop
2026-03-27T20:33:54Z
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@futurebird @poleguy @Moondancer Wow. I've been around earwigs my whole life, and I don't think I've ever seen one fly or with wings extended. I always wondered how these little crawling things managed to get EVERYWHERE.
(DIR) Post #B4jNRW081OKD7BnxMu by JSteven@wandering.shop
2026-03-28T23:05:59Z
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@futurebird I eat plain vanilla a lot, but my favorite flavor is "both" half regular vanilla and half regular chocolate. That's all the excitement I can handle.
(DIR) Post #B5hcQc8SstuAeEKOzQ by JSteven@wandering.shop
2026-04-27T00:36:36Z
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@futurebird I go with the cube-shaped folding shopping totes, but I somehow feel funny using my Safeway ones anywhere but big, Evil Safeway. The Fred Meyer (Kroger) ones are just another big, Evil megachain, but their-totes are much less branded (and much nicer to look at) so they get used EVERYWHERE else.
(DIR) Post #B5wPzVA2QJnX7Qlgga by JSteven@wandering.shop
2026-05-04T03:57:56Z
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Wow! This is like a person standing next to a semi-truck!@futurebird @Jaicup
(DIR) Post #B5wQLLSHBquTO5iN60 by JSteven@wandering.shop
2026-05-04T04:01:52Z
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Just curious, are there any extinct species of ants larger than any of our surviving ones? It seems like, given the size of some other terrestrial arthropods (tarantulas, giant beetles, coconut crabs, to name a few) that much, much larger ants might at least be POSSIBLE.@futurebird @Jaicup
(DIR) Post #B5yTVsA58C7jtppsNU by JSteven@wandering.shop
2026-05-05T03:46:49Z
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@futurebird @Jaicup Not THIS big, of course...
(DIR) Post #B6AeN1xYlOph4eU4uG by JSteven@wandering.shop
2026-05-11T00:42:57Z
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@DM_Ronin @futurebird Yikes! Do not want!
(DIR) Post #B6AkJff3oMfclzc2HQ by JSteven@wandering.shop
2026-05-11T01:05:22Z
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For a couple years now, our house has seen these little visiting friends wandering through our space. They are tiny, quick, travel alone or in small groups, are elusive, and they don't eat much, so I've never gotten a photo of one before and don't worry about them enough to do anything. They seem to come in from my front yard where I suspect they nest, and enter our living room and my adjacent garage office under doors and walls. Would like to know what it is. Any guesses?#ants #entomology
(DIR) Post #B6AkJpcEniM1e8MvGi by JSteven@wandering.shop
2026-05-11T01:13:17Z
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Yes, I know this is a terrible picture. Here's a "zoom and enhance" (literally zoomed, but NOT enhanced) from the photo. This is complicated by how tiny they are. The SD card case I momentary contained this one is might as well be a terrarium, and despite it's being closed and locked, it found a crack to escape through no more than a minute after I took this.
(DIR) Post #B6AkJqIQGs69ky6c1Q by JSteven@wandering.shop
2026-05-11T01:14:52Z
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Additional info: Location, Oregon, North America, central coast (HIGHLY temperate climate, mostly 35-80 degrees year round), wet, salty soil.
(DIR) Post #B6AkK3W17dhGktZ9W4 by JSteven@wandering.shop
2026-05-11T01:20:26Z
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They will crawl and explore on anything, including people. That's how I usually notice them. I find one crawling on my bare skin and feel it. Rarely bite or sting (only when they accidently get squeezed against skin, and I suspect that's a bite, not a sting). Never seen them swarm on a food source, though they'll show up in larger numbers if I accidently leave something tasty in the living room overnight.
(DIR) Post #B6H6NCKZYG5QmkcZaC by JSteven@wandering.shop
2026-05-14T03:27:01Z
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@futurebird My impression is that they live outside the house, possibly in the plantings in the corner between my living room and the semi-attached garage that has been semi-finished for my office, both locations where the ants appear. Or perhaps they're under the lawn. There are easy accesses for the ants from there, especially when they're so small. Under the door in the living room, and under the frame wall in my office.
(DIR) Post #B6H6Wu1EUQJYt6Cd16 by JSteven@wandering.shop
2026-05-14T03:28:50Z
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@futurebird Or maybe under the poured concrete front porch? At any rate, let me go look up Tapinoma Sessile and see what I think. Thanks for the help!
(DIR) Post #B6H83n49SfE0ploWpc by JSteven@wandering.shop
2026-05-14T03:45:59Z
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@futurebird One thing that does line up is that we mainly see them inside other than solitary foragers, is after heavy rain. Figured it might be flooding their nests, but from what I'm reading, it's that the honeydew that is their main food source washes way. Never would have guessed that!