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was outside earlier and a bird Came Up, squatted down, fluttered it’s wings at me and opened its mouth like a hatchling begging for food (it was a grown female) so I went and checked the seed cube in the feeder and the thing was completely covered in mold. this is one of the weirdest things that’s ever happened to me. how did she know im the one in charge of the birdseed. How Did She Know To Pantomime Hunger At Me. Hello.

i have spent my afternoon confusedly getting dressed, driving to the store, purchasing a new seed block, driving home, washing the cage, and getting the feeder set back up. i don’t take this much care for my Own nutrition. ive been bullied into a grocery store run by a tufted titmouse. i feel so loved

Reblogging in honor of Marjane Satrapi, one of THE great graphic novelists. Her comic Persepolis was a crucial text for shaping my belief that comics can deeply explore identity, culture, politics, and history.

I've posted about this before but back home at my old job I used to get pho so fucking often that the owners of the place stopped asking me what I wanted and stopped handing me menus when I walked in. After I moved to NY and I could only go back to Chicago like once a year, I sat down and they gave me a menu and I was like "Oh no I already know what I want, can I get--" and they were like OHHH #36 WITH EXTRA NOODLES YOU'RE BACK and I almost cried

saying "question mark?" and "however comma," out loud are game changers. punctuation on the go. and it's always the funniest thing that anyone around you has ever heard

a dude at the gym just reached in his bag, pulled out a bottle of Hershey’s chocolate syrup, smiled & shook his head like that’s just something that happens to people, put it back and then pulled out a bottle of water instead

burnout from not doing anything

growing up i feel like i absorbed the narrative that you shouldn't have wild animals as pets because no matter how much you think you have a bond with them they are still wild and will eventually get you. and while i don't think that's wrong per se it's interesting to me how that folk wisdom boils down to protecting oneself from the unpredictable and illogical beast which will harm you, whose love you can never really trust (cría cuervos y te sacarán los ojos), which completely circumvents thinking about why a wild animal would be pushed to react unpredictably and violently to a known friendly human caretaker who is really ultimately a captor. real animal lovers know the reasons not to keep wild animals as pets have far more to do with the welfare of the individual animal and the perception of their species as a whole by other humans. even if you were a millionaire who could allegedly provide a sufficiently enriching facsimile of, like, a tiger's natural habitat, there's still the question of whether it is good for the beast herself to have a close relationship with a human, how that affects her natural behaviors, what weird unexpected psychological neuroses could be accidentally instilled into the animal (such as how many parrot owners don't know not to pet their parrot's body, which the parrots register as sexual, which triggers hormones that cause them to be distressed by the lack of a mate and present all kinds of psychosomatic symptoms of stress). case in point, the human likely doesn't know everything there is to know about the wild animal's internal experience and might trigger her to defend herself. i guess the reason why i'm going on about this is that none of it precludes the animal's ability to bond with a human. the reason is not that animals can't bond with you (in fact arguably all animals from snakes to spiders to fish are able to experience feeling safe and comfortable around someone who has proven will not harm them), and it bothers me that the onus of why captivity is unethical is put on the risk of oneself being hurt and not the violence that would inevitably be enacted on the animal by captivity itself, neither of which proves animals aren't capable of love or loyalty. subtle distinction! but this is why i think a lot of the underlying principles that are the foundation of animal rights overlap with the principles of like, children's liberation. stewardship does not inherently entitle one to submission from the stewarded

I don't give an amazing digital fuck

ok guys but imagine how hard it's gonna hit if something good ever happens again