myrmepropagandistThis is a sleeping bag for polar conditions but... IDK I feel like if you use this you might wake up with wings or something.
maybe it's just me...
Amy Maybe@futurebird It would get dirty in 10 minutes!
*tucking into my sleeping bag*
Ant Who Has Been Judging Me All Day: "Well I see you have finally decided to grow up and start pulling your own weight around here. Hmph. Good!"
If you are wondering yes, there *is* an "ant who has been judging you all day." She's watching you now and shaking her head at your inefficiency.
Michael Gemar@futurebird I’m much more of a grasshopper kind of person.
Brian Marick@michaelgemar @futurebird Let me put in a good word for cicadas. Two years ago, we had a cicada in our front tree that kept chirping long after the other cicadas had given up or died.
We named him Boris and enjoyed him for a wildly long time as we sat out on our front stoop.
I have a tee shirt with a memorial image on it. It says “RIP Boris, 2007-2024”. (Not the actual Boris. Stock art.)
@marick @futurebird The cicada life cycle is so wild. Decades under ground, and then a few weeks above as adults.
Biology can be bizarre.
Cicadas are like the kind of perfectionist who won't share their book until they have been working on it for 17 years and it's perfect.
I like to think they spend all that time composing their little songs. Getting all of the screaming just right.
Irenes (many)
Jack the Frosted Count@futurebird Marvin Gaye didn't develop that honeyed smoke voice in the womb. It takes years, and hard practice, to stridulate with the dulcet tones of a wheelless dumpster being dragged across a parking garage. @michaelgemar @marick
Sy Taffel@futurebird @michaelgemar @marick
Also, they're absolutely stunning https://flic.kr/p/rbSn4F
Cicada
@futurebird @michaelgemar I read that to Dawn, and she grinned at me, and she said “You’re a cicada!” (She has perhaps heard too much over 35 years about how hard it is to get the explanation right.)
Dave Fischer@marick @michaelgemar @futurebird Previous cat Kobaïa once brought me a wounded Cicada in the middle of the night. Woke up quite suddenly when it decided we needed to hear the song of its people...
(But then I got a nice photo out of it, so fair's fair.)
@davefischer @marick @michaelgemar
It's always so confusing when they do this "look it's a creature! It's still alive, I was carful just for you! Let's chase it together! Mom? Why are you crying?"
@futurebird @marick @michaelgemar
a. The cats bring me a slightly chewed, but still active mouse in the middle of the night, drop it next to my head.
b. Mouse immediately tries to hide in my dreds.
c. I wake to the cats attacking my hair.
@davefischer @marick @michaelgemar
Moments that make one question everything.
Carolyn@michaelgemar @futurebird And now the noble name of the cicada is associated with a coronavirus strain.
"New ‘Cicada’ COVID variant is spreading in the U.S.” www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-cicada-covid-variant-is-spreading-in-the-u-s-heres-what-to-know/
Most unjustly maligned insect? Next, perhaps, to the earwig.
Amazing Earwig Wings in Action!
morgan@futurebird joke's on her tbh i wasn't planning to be efficient
Floaty Birb@futurebird that's fair, little ant, that's fair
@futurebird What is the lifespan of the average ant? :)
Queens live for decades but most workers live two years.
And if an ant were on an arctic camping trip she need tiny heated gloves and shoes and a little parka and knit cap with holes for her antennae.
@futurebird Wow. I had no idea. Thanks. I kind of expected they might all live a couple of years.
Chris JagsOr its for very sensitive vampires
Claire, The Ultimate Worrier@futurebird i want to sleep in the big q tip
Rachel Rawlings@futurebird It's... bloody awesome?
Kind of makes me want to plan a winter camping trip just to have an excuse to try it.
@futurebird You could lay it right on the tent floor, no need for an extra pad.
Or "In soviet campground, sleeping bag goes in you."
Bytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇬🇱I 'Read A Thing' that said that if you want to visit an Antarctic research station, you *must* have your appendix removed beforehand.
Is any of that still true?!
I think that one is still true. But this was because of an infamous incident where the resident doctor did that surgery on himself and it freaked everyone out so much (they had to help him) that they made a rule.
Dr. 🏔️❄️🗺️📊🎨⛷️🧗🏻♂️🛶@futurebird @bytebro in the Australian program not true. Pretty sure also for Aotearoa. Appendixes-havers are ok :)
Can't speak for others.
Em@futurebird if you bleed out inside, there will be NO stain on the outside!
Flipper 🐬🏳️🌈@futurebird i can't sleep in a bag unless I can put my feet outside - I start getting claustrophobic. This bag would not work for me.
@futurebird i would wear that everywhere
diana 🏳️⚧️🦋🌱My vestigial butterfly wings are itching to get one of these sleeping bags 🦋
What's it to you?@futurebird I tested one of these in my living room once, and you absolutely will wake up as an organic soup if the temperature outside isn't low enough.
Terry Hancock (Director/Producer)
Quasit@futurebird
Or hundreds of years in the future in a world gone MAD! 🤪
Or hundreds of years in the future in a world gone MAD! 🤪
Open Klaus (Klarname)@futurebird It looks a bit like a tampon.
CJGood. Scrolled a while to see it wasn't just me XD
gloriouscow@futurebird new Kotex brand sleeping bag
accela@futurebird My only fear is that it's some kind of a trap set by a smartass spider.
But having a good sleep for once and possibly turning into a fluffy moth?
Pfff-fantastic.
But having a good sleep for once and possibly turning into a fluffy moth?
Pfff-fantastic.
stephaniepixie 🏳️🌈@futurebird Did they test this with blue liquid and get Amy Schumer to sleep in it? 😆
“Ultra size for a good night’s sleep”
“Ultra size for a good night’s sleep”
@futurebird Does it get webbed to a tree limb, or do you have to construct a subterranean chamber for it?
Seachaint@futurebird Which sounds great until you eclose with no mouth
leon 🏳️🌈 🇵🇱@futurebird tampon sleeping bag...
Faith, Purple haired feminist 🧋 
@futurebird Possibly with a new gender.
Saffron 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 #1 covid hater@futurebird so i can be very warm and undergo metamorphosis?? double win
@stevewfolds@futurebird
Metamorphosis brand mummy bags?
Metamorphosis brand mummy bags?
Seiðr@futurebird Delenn had one in her quarters.
William@futurebird for when you really don't want to be rescued from an avalanche.
Clayfoot@futurebird who are the people going on these polar expeditions? How is there enough of them to support their own product line?
You are right. Doesn't add up. These must be for the coming ant army.
The real answer is gear like this is mostly handmade and VERY expensive because they only sell a few of them.
@futurebird and why are they ordering white sleeping bags? Seems like they would want flourescent orange or yellow, optionally with emergency strobe lights.