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So when Trump decides to go get Greenland he’s just going to fly in and kidnap our prime minister. Great. You have a unscrupulous and clinically insane idiot elected as your president and he wants to own the world. I have absolutely no trust in any of you Americans whether you are pronounced MAGA or if you “didn’t vote for the guy”: Your elected president is a megalomaniac dictator and it’s your fucking responsibility to stop him.
Maja needed extra tlc today. She's injured the tip of her tail and it hurts..
#catsofmastodon #cat #bellyrub

This oughta really wind up the wingnuts.

"Living organisms are assumed to produce same-species offspring1,2. Here, we report a shift from this norm in Messor ibericus, an ant that lays individuals from two distinct species. In this life cycle, females must clone males of another species because they require their sperm to produce the worker caste. As a result, males from the same mother exhibit distinct genomes and morphologies, as they belong to species that diverged over 5 million years ago. The evolutionary history of this system appears as sexual parasitism3 that evolved into a natural case of cross-species cloning4,5, resulting in the maintenance of a male-only lineage cloned through distinct species’ ova. We term females exhibiting this reproductive mode as xenoparous, meaning they give birth to other species as part of their life cycle."

#formicidae
#ants

@futurebird

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09425-w

One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - Nature

In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same mother having distinct genomes and morphologies.

Nature
After all that hard work, a much needed catnap.
Very helpful.. she managed to click around a lot before I tried to rake back control of the mouse.. She then moved on to use the keyboard.
#cats #catsofmastodon #catstodon
The art of cat-naps. Anything can be a pillow.
#catsofmastodon

A judge has ruled in favor of Meta, saying training AI from copyrighted and pirated books is fair use.

In a similar case a judge ruled in favour of Anthropic.

It is a sad day for book writers. You have been robbed of revenue by the world’s richest people. They will make tons of money while book writers struggle to pay rent and food. There is no justice for artists and writers. My heart goes out to them.

The people throwing the Nazi salutes and the systemic targeting of vulnerable communities aren't what bother me the most. They're awful, don't get me wrong. But what truly bothers me is the people who downplay these things, who tell us it's not so bad, that see fear of all of this as unjustified.