the river runs through my heart

every time i think about anything happening under this US presidential administration I cannot wrap my head around how it's not even midterms. it's not even midterms

perhaps I should stop even trying to model this, but I am so at a loss about what the end goal is for so much of the nonsense. breaking these systems and consolidating power in order to what? cutting funding here and there in order to what? like I feel like much of the first 20 years of my life, politics could be followed largely as "we disagree about the ends" or "we disagree about the means" or "we disagree about both, but there's generally an end that your means point towards" whereas here there seems to be some sort of national consolidation around Breaking Things For Fun

Took Ollie to the vet today. And I'm not gonna say who. But ONE of us had a panic attack immediately after the checkup and wouldn't get out of the sink

You're in her DMs. I'm identifying her plants on iNaturalist. We are not the same

You're in her DMs. I'm sending her information about the ecology and characteristics of local lizards on iNaturalist. We are not the same.

You're in her DMs. I'm marking her observation captive/cultivated on iNaturalist because it's clearly a garden plant but identifying it anyway to help encourage curiosity. We are not the same and also can you please also tell her to mark garden plants as cultivated? pls and thanks

You're in her DMs. I'm also in her DMs. We are all going hiking together because we met on iNaturalist and we are going to appreciate the natural world together and look at bugs :) we are very much the same :3

They missed. 😔

In a meeting today a PhD physicist whom I respect very much pronounced "leeward" like "lee-ward" instead of how it's actually pronounced ("loo-ard") and I had to psychically fight off the spirit of my New England Fisherman grandfather from correcting his pronunciation in front of like three VP's.

trauma dumpling