William Aegerter @[email protected]

Seeking higher ground, this slime mold plasmodium climbed up onto a dirt clod, toppled it, then retreated. Did the trauma of toppling have an effect? Did it retreat simply because it failed to maintain the high ground, or some other reason? Speed: 120x-5000x. #Myxomycetes

@CT_Bergstrom I think they realized there were softer targets.

たくあんみたいなキノコを食べに来ていたトビムシ キノコをというよりはそこから出た胞子を食べてるように見える。 やわらかそうな質感の無防備なボディでヨチヨチ歩いている様子はこれで大丈夫なのか？と少し心配になるけど、そこが可愛いなと惹かれる要素なのだろうなあ…

@TimothyJonas Not that slime molds can move, of course twitter.com/waege/status/1…

Thought this was a tiny slime mould until I took a closer look and saw that it was (very slowly) moving. No idea what it is though...

@GlennF But who's counting crows?

@goldman Since lists already exist, this just requires displaying list membership along with account identity, which would be useful for plenty of other use cases. List microservice probably already on the shutdown list, though.

A power user feature for Twitter2 I’d like is the ability to add private tags to users as you can to players on some poker sites. That way when you bump into tweets from them again you can quickly see “oh right DONKEY”

@behindyourback I suspect that the increasing number of really loud cars over the past couple of years is mostly courtesy of catalytic converter thieves. It doesn't matter that you have a muffler when it is no longer connected to the exhaust system.

@TimothyJonas Do you have an approximate diameter for the sphere?

I wonder what this is then? 🤔🔍

@dendromecon27 "Sweet" as well, largely due to: "When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb."

@goldman Account's not wrong. It's just the wrong account.

It was this one

I got duped

もう柴犬はなさんがいないので、十和田湖周辺へゆっくり粘菌撮影に行ってきました。それにしても、まあ、キララホコリの美しいこと。直径１mmの粘菌に心を奪われてしまいました。小人の職人が、子実体の表面に、金で細工を施しているに違いありません！

@_oatc_ @pfhmarsden @karaswisher @SEP Perhaps, but what were the other investors expecting, if not this? It’s not like anything that’s happened so far is surprising.

@pfhmarsden @karaswisher @SEP The other money people aren't going to wear this. EM will get "an offer he cannot refuse" to walk away, take the 💰 hit, & let professionals put things back together. It's too much money from powerful institutions, & Twitter is a heavy calibre part of 🇺🇸 global soft-power

@BeauregardJohn @blahouti @needcoffee46355 @bennyjohnson @elonmusk @yoyoel True government censorship, to the extent that it actually exists, is more generically totalitarian, not specific to fascism.

@waege @blahouti @needcoffee46355 @bennyjohnson @elonmusk @yoyoel It’s been demonstrably proven through FISA requests that Biden’s FBI has a conduit to social media sites through which they encourage the censoring of views they find objectionable. Do you believe that’s one of the hallmarks of fascism? The silencing of speech?

Dear @elonmusk, I want you to succeed at Twitter. This critique is based only on cold hard facts: You will never restore "public trust" at Twitter when the guy in charge thinks 100,000,000 Americans who support America First are "Literal Nazis" Not possible. @yoyoel must go

@BeauregardJohn @blahouti @needcoffee46355 @bennyjohnson @elonmusk @yoyoel Republicans have used all of these as cultural grievances. All correspond to entries in most ur fascism checklists. CRT in schools is the most extreme example, since it is entirely invented.

@waege @blahouti @needcoffee46355 @bennyjohnson @elonmusk @yoyoel Which party used these “cultural grievances”, many based on lies, as a cudgel to maintain electoral power: BLM Wage differential between men and women Anti-gun Reparations CRT Trans children Drag queen story time for children

@BeauregardJohn @blahouti @needcoffee46355 @bennyjohnson @elonmusk @yoyoel Fascism does, of course, depend on lies; small as well as famously big, random and curiously enduring. But it's not the use of misinformation alone that is definitional. Ur fascism is a playbook for leveraging cultural grievances to gain and maintain power.

@waege @blahouti @needcoffee46355 @bennyjohnson @elonmusk @yoyoel Every elected official ever elected has used the same false premise tactic in one case or another, “my opponent won’t be able to fix this issue, I will (false promise). I guess everyone’s a fascist.

@BeauregardJohn @blahouti @needcoffee46355 @bennyjohnson @elonmusk @yoyoel Anyone who wants to understand the enduring appeal of simplistic fascist slogans cares. Yes, "America First" has no inherent fixed meaning. For fascists, it's a false premise (those others don't prioritize America's interest) combined with a false promise (we will).

@waege @blahouti @needcoffee46355 @bennyjohnson @elonmusk @yoyoel Who cares what fascists say as a slogan? I’m asking you, if American politicians have the best interests of America in their proscribed policies, does that make them fascists? Because saying “America first” can have many different meanings. You ascribing it to fascism is nuts.

@BeauregardJohn @blahouti @needcoffee46355 @bennyjohnson @elonmusk @yoyoel I’m talking about history. It’s a slogan consistently used by fascists. And no, those fascists don’t usually put America first, despite the slogan. In each era they have had alliances with foreign powers.

@waege @blahouti @needcoffee46355 @bennyjohnson @elonmusk @yoyoel Are you saying that the putting of America’s interests first in the list of an American politicians priorities is “fascist”? What a weird fucking thing to say.

@blahouti @needcoffee46355 @bennyjohnson @elonmusk @yoyoel The phrase has been used prominently by ur fascists in America since long before Mussolini coined the term Fascism. It isn’t an accident that it’s being used now.

@needcoffee46355 @bennyjohnson @elonmusk @yoyoel Yikes. Haven’t seen this one before. Branding research was not done before promoting it it seems. 🤨

@xercessociety Also brings fall visitors twitter.com/waege/status/1…

This is what leaving the leaves looks like. Let's normalize it — it's beautiful. Sure, it's not minimalist. It's a natural & organic beauty, where variety is all part of the appeal. It's full of color, wonder & most importantly life. xerces.org/leave-the-leav…

@petersagal @davidfolkenflik Letting confirmation bias do the heavy lifting.

@EricaJoy The Boring Company engineers do have experience removing deep content, but that’s not going to help.