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I'm back. And with my arrival I return with yet another ant trivia!

So they're called green tree ants (Oecophylla smaragdina) or green weaver ants. These ladies are something else by a wide margin and deserve all the attention for it! kurzgesagt has actually made a video on these ladies before! The long and short of this species of ants all comes down to their choice of nest. They build in the trees! They glue together fortresses out of leaves and go to war with army ants. They farm and tend to their own cattle. They are by far amazing in their own right.

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My favorite alternate universe, from what I understand of it, is the library of babel. It's a book by jorge luis borges. In it he writes of a nigh infinite library! One that has every combination of letters and spaces that can ever exist within four hundred odd pages. Imagine an infinite number of monkeys all bashing typewriters for eternity. This book was brought to my attention by a YouTuber named Jacob Geller. He had actually said it best (bare in mind I'm paraphrasing) "within this library is a book containing your last words and how you die" "-there is also a book telling you how to find the first book, and thousands more claiming to tell you where only to point you in the wrong direction." That's a vibe, please watch his videos on infinity and libraries as they are quite bussin. Just as well check out the book Library of Babel.

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I remember that night you'd taught me- about those fated stars.

And with it I too reminisce, the sound of passing cars.

Of fire light, of cozy seats, of memories I hold dear.

And as I look up, and see those stars, I act as though you're near.

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Someone told me social anxiety is just having conspiracy theories about yourself. NGL I don't think I can recover from this.

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Petition to put handrails around the edge of flat earth.

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It has come to my attention that like 97% of my followers are bots. In accordance with this, I will now post in binary for the sake of their convenience. 01010111 01100101 00100111 01110010 01100101 00100000 01101110 01101111 00100000 01110011 01110100 01110010 01100001 01101110 01100111 01100101 01110010 01110011 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01101100 01101111 01101111 01101111 01101111 01110110 01100101 00100001 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01101011 01101110 01101111 01110111 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01110010 01110101 01101100 01100101 01110011 00101100 00100000 01100001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01110011 01101111 00100000 01100100 01101111 00100000 01001001 00100001 00100000 01001100 01101111 01101110 01100111 00100000 01110100 01100101 01110010 01101101 00100000 01100011 01101111 01101101 01101101 01101001 01110100 01101101 01100101 01101110 01110100 00100111 01110011 00100000 01110111 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01001001 00100111 01101101 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101001 01101110 01101011 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100001 00100000 01011001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01110111 01101111 01110101 01101100 01100100 01101110 00100111 01110100 00100000 01100111 01100101 01110100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01100110 01110010 01101111 01101101 00100000 01100001 01101110 01111001 00100000 01101111 01110100 01101000 01100101 01110010 00100000 01100111 01110101 01111001 00100001

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Okay so here me out, welcome to paradise by green day and the opening theme song to we bare bears have the same energy. I have no information backing this, nor do I intend to defend myself.

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Today on ants that I think are cool: the Marauder Ant(carebara diversa). Marauder Ants are quite an interesting species. Due to an advanced form of dimorphism, ants are capable of growing to varying (though in no way random) sizes and forms. Due to this, different members of the colony are capable of filling different niches tasks as opposed to one catch-all having to do everything to a less capable degree. Marauder Ants are by all means the masters of this genetic anomaly in the fact that a single colony can have of to five different size/shape variations. This is seen especially between their super minor and super major workers. Google them please 🥺.

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I nominate this kind person, in our daily winner of the internet awards.

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I have been inspired by @headspace-hotel to get jiggy with all of my knowledge of ants. Today's knowledge bomb is about a lil lady known as the horse ant:

Also known as Formica Rufa, and the southern or red wood ant, the horse ant lives predominantly in Eurasia and is known for both monogynous (single queen) and polygynous (multiple queen) nests. They live in some shaped nests formed of clay-dirt, twigs, and roots reaching up to five feet in height and are known to be very aggressive in controlling their territory. While the use of formic acid in warfare is common among ants, the horse ant's use of it is another beast entirely. Spraying jets of the stuff up to two feet. Any unlucky victim of such a spritz can expect more of it as it doubles as a targeting pheromone. Please Google them.

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There's a dog in my neighborhood that isn't allowed to get too happy because she sprains her tail.

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It's been quite a year and a lot of things have happened. But can I say nothing has kept me up at night nearly as much as the fact that someone came up to me one day and said "the stars at night are big and bright" and it filled me with an overwhelming urge to clap and scream "DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS!"