Chebucto Regional Softball Club

@futurebird welp, they've found out how much sugar the human mind requires, and they're taking steps.

@futurebird I've been ignoring it. Or trying to. The news industry wanted a cross between _The Godfather_ and _A Confederacy of Dunces_, and that's what rump and his goons pretend to give them. That's how they won the support of the news industry.

@futurebird technically the story of the four hobbits and thier companions wasn't written in English; it was written Westron, the language the hobbits spoke. Tolkien had to translate it. Your story was written in ant thoughts, but you must translate it for human readers.

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"From its probable beginnings as a simple, practical work-garment, the toga became more voluminous, complex, and costly, increasingly unsuited to anything but formal and ceremonial use. It was and is considered ancient Rome's "national costume"; as such, it had great symbolic value; however even among Romans, it was hard to put on, uncomfortable and challenging to wear correctly, and never truly popular. " (quote continues next toot)

@futurebird global warming has made suits obsolete. People will just have to give them up.

@futurebird I've often thought that if star-wars-like hyperdrive was real (or even star-trek-like warp drive), the alien equivalent of a plant or a fungus without anything we'd call intellect would evolve the ability to use it to spread from one star system to the next.