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Nick Harkaway
@harkaway.bsky.social
Author, screenwriter. Occasional consultant. Husband of much better person. Father of similar. New novel into my father’s George Smiley/Circus universe coming October 2024. Still a rootless cosmopolitan. (He/him) www.linktr.ee/harkaway
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Cannot imagine this is a great time for the ants.

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newscientist • 1h
Simply placing as few as four live ants into a container of milk provides enough microbes, enzymes and acids to kickstart the fermentation process that creates yogurt.
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DDdavidralin.bsky.social

So unplug the salton, and double down on:

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DWdjangowexler.bsky.social

Imagining four astronauts sent to an inhospitable alien world. They're shocked to find there's no provision for their survival or return. Turns out they're really there to catalyze terraforming with their gut biome and rotting corpses.

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DSduanemoody.bsky.social

They get to become part of something greater and everyone gets what they've always secretly wanted, yogurt with ants in it

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JHjheijndermans.bsky.social

Christopher Walken: "Four ANTS...fell...into a bucket of...CREAM."

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TTtadethompson.bsky.social

Same effect from washing your skin into the milk. Fewer dead ants...

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JCdysamoria.com

Amazing. Finding new ways to make animal torture an active feature of food.

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JLarchaicjohn.bsky.social

I want to know why ants are secretly cultivating yogurt, personally.

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RDcelsius1414.bsky.social

“Frickin’ mammals…” a tiny voice mutters over the sounds of sodden antennae and mandibles.

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Nick Harkaway
@harkaway.bsky.social
Author, screenwriter. Occasional consultant. Husband of much better person. Father of similar. New novel into my father’s George Smiley/Circus universe coming October 2024. Still a rootless cosmopolitan. (He/him) www.linktr.ee/harkaway
4k followers1.1k following3.9k posts