@futurebird I just got back from a trip to rural Texas, and took some photos of the large ant nests that are ubiquitous on our family farm. The ants are quite large and red, and move with deliberation rather than the quick movements of the fire ants that also dot the landscape. The nest is a hole surrounded by cleared ground for a couple of feet around the opening. I’ve always loved these ants growing up — they are large but not at all aggressive, and the nests are so distinctive.

I believe they are more formally known as “harvester ants”, but we just always called them “red ants”.

Time for the annual holiday re-watch of Pride and Prejudice. It’s always a delight.

@krismicinski@types.pl it used to be that you could get better answers by, instead of asking "how do I do X?", posting "Linux sucks because it doesn't do X" and waiting for someone to show up and indignantly explain how to do it.

...and now it occurs to me that this was the original prompt engineering.

This place is an icebox, and part of a system of iceboxes

Highly esteemed plums are commemorated here

The plums are not present in your breakfast time, but they were in mine

What was here was delicious, so cold and so sweet

@jsnell Listening to the latest @sixcolors made me wonder — in the context of Apple Intelligence and Siri, is Apple Intents the spiritual successor to OpenDoc? They both can take small bits of functionality from various apps and assemble them to do a specific task, likely without surfacing a full app UI to the user.

Help! I have the opening hook to “Brand New Colony” stuck in my head! Goddamn The Beths & Pickle Darling for their delightfully twee cover!

@Alice I’m a casavetty.

Delightful discovery of the day: While we have watched both The Court Jester (1955) and While You Were Sleeping (1995) many many times, we only just noticed that the female romantic lead in the former is the same actor as the grandmother in the latter — both are played by Glynis Johns, 40 years apart.

@hannah Sad that "A truth universally acknowledged" isn't a fifth option.

Hey @ianbetteridge, this is the first time I’ve seen your titular law used to address a physics conundrum:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHxoM9lvzVA&t=317s&pp=ygUQZmVybWlsYWIgZ3Jhdml0eQ%3D%3D

So, this happened yesterday in Toronto.

I didn’t realize bees swarmed this time of year, or that they’d find a mailbox an attractive rest stop.

@nev @futurebird