Wandering Adventure Party

@pikhq @ShaulaEvans so the metaphor of mayflies being ephemeral is just about adolescence?

@AdamStuartSmith @inj4n @lavievagabonde @ShaulaEvans I believe it was one of her students, but yeah, finding a grasshopper in your mainframe would be a hell of a bug

@mossesandbees @inj4n six legs and four wings. Huh. They actually have ten limbs, like lobsters.

@mossesandbees @ShaulaEvans and elytra in Minecraft are named for beetle elytra, implying that an update to the End dimension should include giant beetles

That might be too much of a digression, but I really want craftable elytra

@DMakarios @ShaulaEvans speaking of bug spray, some species of birds have learned to rub ants on themselves, using the ants' formic acid to help keep their feathers clean

@EthanJMooney @ShaulaEvans wait what

@growfediverse @ShaulaEvans How we learned that bees experience time like humans do:

- teach them that food will be available just outside the hive at the same time every day
- once they've figured that out, move an entire hive from Paris to New York
- bees come looking for the food when it would be available in Paris, not the same time of day in New York

And that's how we learned bees get jet lag.

@stevegis_ssg @Akki @KaraLG84 @ShaulaEvans is that anything like why pigeons are so loud and owls are completely silent?

@exlibrarykris @ShaulaEvans no, that's definitely a bug fact

@Mux @afewbugs @ShaulaEvans real life tribbles

@wanderingprofessor @proscience I look forward to seeing you there! The next #MakersHour is in a little over five hours.

@alice hi! I'm Alex, transmasc yarn dragon and #hopepunk word wizard. #AMA about #knitting, #Minecraft, and #linguistics including grammar/usage and #etymology. If I didn't know it, I'll know how to find out!

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