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  • Close, but this guy has these eye like holes towards the upper center of his wings, and the lower lobe is a slightly different shape where it attaches to the body. I wish I had been able to got a pic while his wings were open.

    Edited to add: thanks for the idea though :) someone else did ID what I think is the right species, the polyphemus moth






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    3 months ago

    Do you ever think about how confused far future archeologists will be when they dig up old museums with all these fossils from wildly varying time periods?

    Would they infer that it must have been some museum? Will they think those life forms coexisted? Will they blame it on aliens? Will they be capable of reading the engraved plaques if those survive in the wreckage?

    Would a monstrosity like the one pictured above confuse them?




  • Makes sense, there are lots of pro action spaces already and its probably better to post in those than create another one.

    I do think with the current name it will attract people who do want to change peoples minds and if it gets enough votes to get onto main probably a lot of backlash. If youre down to moderate that though, its probably best to quarentine the arguments onto one community than having it overwhelm other anarchist communities. If it gets traction im thinking itll be a headache to mod, but i commend you for taking that role.

    But also maybe itll turn into a space where like minded people can discuss their frustrations with voting & find other people who have decided to divest from the current system.

    Either way i think itll be interesting to see what happens & i do think the comminity has a place on this instance. Kudos for the work my undead friend.


  • I get why you created the community and agree having a space for those discussions is important. I think maybe the name and narrow focus kind of encourage it to be a space that will attract a lot of negative attention.

    Do you think a space focused on encouraging other direct actions could serve a similar purpose while avoiding some of the inherent antagonism of its current form? Maybe something like “beyondvoting” or “directaction”. Then even people who do vote are encouraged to go beyond 4 year single day actions. It opens the space for dicussing the limitations of american democracy while still looking beyond it at what else people can do.