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alright it's fuckin spooky out in LA right now, fuckin spooky in the world right now, let's watch some goddamn huge ants #monsterdon

read that like a wesley willis ad lib, "spooky over london, spooky over chicago" #monsterdon

they didn't even ask her if she needed help they just kidnapped her #monsterdon

@jonny classic Police #monsterdon

@diazona she could be a desert dwelling person from a culture who doesn't talk to cops! we don't know anything about her! #monsterdon

@jonny I suppose it's true, this is #Monsterdon after all

Personally I kind of want her to be an ant in disguise

@diazona @jonny she's a human-lure #monsterdon

the presence of sugar is actually the opposite of proof of a giant ant attack in the same way that the presence of cash in the register is proof it wasn't a robbery. a giant ant would have eaten all the sugar! you all are jumping to conclusions #monsterdon

@jonny idk jonny a scout would probably return to the hive to let everybody know about the sweet sweet sugar rather than just eating it all on the spot

@SnoopJ dont you suck up all the sugar you can and puke it back on the sugar pile back at base or idk how that works #monsterdon

@jonny we're going to have to settle this one in discovery

those goggles whip where are my bugeyed spherical lab goggles #monsterdon

out in the deserts in their fancy suits no scarves or anything, they are gonna have to blow their nose for a week after this. suffering for gender. #monsterdon

WE HAVE ANTS BABEYYYY #monsterdon

what?!?!?! conventional weapons effectiev!?!??!? ripoff!!! #monsterdon

stridulatory organs are primarily found among arboreal ants, and the airborne sound of stridulation is only used in very close range communication, and usually is directed as vibrational communication through a common substrate like a leaf or a branch. so the stridulation being extremely loud is like they are treating the earth as just one of their branches, that they are 'arboreal' as their arbor is the galaxy, and should be causing a ton of earthquakes and causing gravitational waves as an alert signal to ants on neighboring planets #monsterdon

noting the timing here, usually we only reach "front yard broad day with the flamethrower directly at the monster" in the last 15 minutes or so, we haven't even learned anything about the hubris of the atomic era. there has gotta be at least one more level of ant above this #monsterdon

please yes film within a film for some exposition this is peak 1950s #monsterdon

having a pre-canned lecture that is perfectly timed with the one educational film you have in the stock is so extremely academia it's not even funny. you can tell this prof has given this talk every semester for the past 30 years #monsterdon

@jonny And you know he travels with the film in a can, AND the rolldown charts he used earlier. #monsterdon #them

in case no one has already posted it: that wilhelm scream was one of the first uses of it, since the source movie was only filmed 3 years before Them! #monsterdon

why is everyone involved with the sugar trade so unbelievably cool and slick talking, making me think there is something going on with sugar around here #monsterdon

@jonny Sweet talking

if they really wanted people to be safe they would tell them about the SUGAR because if you put the SUGAR outside then you don't have anything the ants are interested in #monsterdon

@jonny the appeasement strategy? it's a bold play

Good to see everyone's focused #Monsterdon

What *would* giant ant footprints look like, @futurebird? #Monsterdon

(High-pitched stridulation) #Monsterdon

The radio announcer isn't subtitled in this version so I can't really catch everything, but they mentioned "malaria" and "sleeping sickness" (both spread by insects) wiped out, so I'm guessing it's some freaky insecticide that ends up affecting the ants or something? #Monsterdon

A homicidal maniac? After sugar?

RENFIELD HAS PLANS GUYS

"There was enough formic acid in him to kill 20 men." Uh, how much formic acid would it take to kill one man? Just wondering #Monsterdon (cc @futurebird)

@nev @futurebird I wonder if there's an answer in here: https://www.chemicalbook.com/msds/formic-acid.htm

"THEM! THEM!" That's the name of the show! #Monsterdon

They're heeeeeeere #Monsterdon

_Camponotus vicinus_! <https://www.antwiki.org/wiki/Camponotus_vicinus> Points for picking a species native to the setting, at least… #Monsterdon

"And the Beasts shall reign over the earth…" Well, it ain't no "I am become Death, destroyer of worlds," but it's okay I guess

You know what you gotta do. You need a GIANT ANT-MIMIC SPIDER. <https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/223684992>

Okay but who wouldn't pass up a chance to wander around inside a giant ant nest????>? Just daub some pheromones on you and you're good!!! #Monsterdon

Imagine giant sentient ants in the 1950s being like "take us to your leader" and getting fed up like "the REAL leader! We want to talk to someone who isn't a useless drone!!!"

Oh, the formicity! #Monsterdon

aldkjfaldkjlfkj ;l explanation of the difference between workers and alates!!! This is WAY more than I expected from this movie, honestly. #Monsterdon

If there's an aerial planes vs. gynes dogfight I'm going to shit myself and die #Monsterdon

Wait., _C. vicinus_ Mayr? Ernst Mayr? Daaaaamn! #taxonomy #Monsterdon

Flashback to when I found a _Lasius_ gyne right after she took off her wings! https://inaturalist.ca/observations/242803347 #Monsterdon