I kind of want .social to close for new accounts at 100,000. I'm more & more concerned that the task of moderating & nurturing a meaningful community within the instance will become far too large for the resources of our tiny, basically volunteer team. :S
I also feel like massing so many people on one instance weakens the potential of mastodon in general to play with models of building interconnected, human-scale communities.
zombie ant fungus
Woahh. Cordyceps fungus doesn't hijack ant brains, it bypasses the brain and directly controls the muscles.
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/11/06/1711673114.full
While I understand why "wear a bomb suit and don't get within 50 feet of anything live" rules exist, it doesn't reflect the reality of most work environments.
Researchers found a frilled shark - normally found 100-1500m deep - swimming in shallow water of the coast of Portugal. Frilled sharks are cool because they've remained essentially identical for about 80 million years. They're so perfectly adapted to their environment that they haven't needed to change.
http://www.newsweek.com/dinosaur-era-frilled-shark-insane-teeth-found-portugal-708764
Monsterhearts: violence, sex
Setup: me and two freinds feign emotional distress to get into the guidance counselor's office with the intent of stealing something.
End result: the vampire physically attacks then feeds on the counselor, I run out screaming, and then the vampire and the witch bang each other on his desk.
...well, that certainly escalated in an unexpected way.
I love this game.
Moving to @starkatt
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