@futurebird history is so wonderful :blobcatmelt:​

@futurebird about five years ago I was stuck in a traffic jam on a section of the A303 - it's famous for summer traffic jams - with deep, thick woodland either side of the road.

I glanced left and was surprised to see a small herd of wild deer, stags with impressive antlers, sitting down in the forest as close to the edge of it they could be, relaxing in the summer afternoon heat and lazily watching the slowly-crawling traffic

@futurebird How curious! I always thought deer wouldn't need roads. Ask Rudolph.

@futurebird this is touching me at a level i cannot explain

@futurebird Hexagons are the bestagons. Also thanks for alt text :3

@futurebird I'm sorry to inform you that the bees actually make circles, not hexagons. Expansion of the cells then causes them to become hexagons. Bees don't know what a hexagon is. :pensive_cowboy:​

@futurebird that's a crime against graphing right there

@futurebird wow, even with your hint this is so misleading. I looked at both axes and thought "no these units match" and checked really carefully, until it finally hit me. That's not even misleading, it's a graphical lie, displaying an intersection (one of the things we learn to treat as significant on a graph) where there is none.

I was looking for something sneaky and this was too blatant to notice 😳

@futurebird oh wow that is just... nefariously disingenuous

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I wonder how fast those Libertarians started crying, “Insulin should be cheaper” after they were diagnosed as diabetics?

@futurebird my friend is part if a group that gets targeted on titter but wont leave, I think it is because of the art scene?

@futurebird (1) Glad I have multiple accounts, because you are not found at my others. (2) beside the racism and stupidity you mentioned, there's obvious bad logic. Insulin is available, Nina Turner is not, so of course it's not free, but they are free to as stupid as they can.

@futurebird that’s the corporate calculus.😑😖

@futurebird I'm feeling seen here

@futurebird This has in my experience never produced any useful results. Not once. Ever.

@futurebird If I believed in Hell, it would include this. I enjoy the breakouts; it is the need to come back that stings.

Don't let them shop online unsupervised. That's all I'm saying.

@futurebird Done!

(Although they're getting off Twitter, I'm guessing somebody is still monitoring responses for a while.)

@futurebird

Just out of curiousity, how does having one's own instance, versus having an account on an existing instance, change things? Does an instance name make it more searchable? Will all other instance members be able to find it.

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They are here

@futurebird Were you futurebird there too? I’ve been wondering if you were ever since I got here

@futurebird something that most of white people not only never experienced but haven't even considered. I am sorry.

@futurebird We need a Wiki encyclopedia that specifically includes "fighting white supremacy" in their bylaws because it takes effort to be an island of inclusiveness in the West.

If you try to be an "unbiased source" and you literally just present Western culture as it is today, you've already lost the inclusiveness/diversity/factual accuracy fight.