Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for March 23, 2023

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    sevaar777  over 1 year ago

    Native Americans believe(d) they belong to the earth mother, not the other way around.

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    HappyDog/ᵀʳʸ ᴮᵒᶻᵒ ⁴ ᵗʰᵉ ᶠᵘⁿ ᵒᶠ ᶦᵗ Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Damselfly? I thought it was a dragonfly.

    I tried to look it up but biologists use a whole different dictionary.

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    comixbomix  over 1 year ago

    Get to the chapter where the Red-Winged Blackbirds devour all the damselflies.

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    wolfiiig  over 1 year ago

    As long as they stay away from my crabgrass I won’t resort to violence!

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    Vet Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Next up Dung beetles. All your crap is belonging to us!

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    backswordmaster  over 1 year ago

    Damselfly = Ukraine?

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    Bill Löhr Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Actually, Red-winged blackbirds live in marshes not woodlands, not that it’s really relevant to the story.

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    hmofo813 Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Here’s a summary of the background: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pKMV6e5kEo

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    GaryCooper  over 1 year ago

    If damselflies could talk, apparently they’d never shut up.

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    fritzoid Premium Member over 1 year ago

    The Turks have only been in Istanbul (not Constantinople) since 1453, and only in Anatolia as a whole about 400 years longer. I’m not aware of any popular movements to make Turkiye Byzantine again (been a long time gone, Constantinople), but wars have been fought over more remote claims…

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    anomaly  over 1 year ago

    Having seen red-winged blackbirds only in enormous flocks, I’d be surprised if they were at all territorial.

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    Decepticomic  over 1 year ago

    I don’t think I can handle a 2023 version of this; I’m black-pilled enough.

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    jpozenel  over 1 year ago

    Can’t imagine what an aching thorax would feel like.

    Anything like a toothache?

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    wostraub  over 1 year ago

    I think “ephemeral fly” more adequately describes the species, but it might be the same as the damselfly. At any rate, Bolling shows just how fleeting our lives are in a deep-time universe.

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    Kevin Parker Premium Member over 1 year ago

    I’ve long said that the lovely sound of bird song would translate as either “This is my tree!” or “I want to have sex right now!”

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