doe @exiliaex@masto.anarch.cc

unless youre prepared to go to war on behalf of Seattle's Great Crow Satan - do not dress up as a caveman in Seattle.

you have been warned.

these are my friends and i love them so much, i talk to them every day and some of them have started talking back. the first time it happened i cried. i cant wait to keep developing with them 😇

@DetritusBooks a small collection of malatesta works for the broad category of "Anarchy'

on the plus side, my relationship with the neighborhood crows is developing a lot! we greet each other every day, and the group has gone from 3 to 6 at minimum, every day.

stormy days theyre not around as much and i get a little sad about it, but i get it

i got sucked back into the birdsite, its so stupid i dont know why i even look over there anymore

goodness the covid shot hits like a bus

100 years was too long for him.

@ch4r10t_tv i really enjoyed this video. i thought my excitement for Invincible had waned to the point of me being uninterested in the new season but this pulled me back into the world. keep up the great essays!!

@ZiaNitori yeah there's a lot of crows and a few gulls at the nearest grocery store parking lot. it seems to be a no man's land for the birds. the grocery is right around a lot of fast food so there's always trash food for them to eat so it makes interacting with them a bit harder.

you could probably encourage the ones in the more public areas away from the public areas with food still though.

i don't know how good gulls are at recognizing people. i know crows are very good at it. so like, you'd have to make it a regular activity - walking from the parking lot to more private areas while spreading food for them. you can't do it just every once in a while if you want them to recognize you.

@ZiaNitori i usually avoid it because the gulls are usually just like, at beachfronts and stuff so they're more interested in stealing from all the random people instead of developing relationships.

i live close to a big lake with lots of seagulls, but my neighborhood is crow territory, the seagulls get kicked out by the crows around here. gull territory here is the area more directly around the lake.

if you want to start though, i would try looking into what foods they prefer (so like, *not* just bread) and talk to them and call out to them in sounds similar enough to their own that you get their attention as you toss out food to them

it's gotten to the point where every morning, as i'm walking my dog for the first walk of the day, i'm joined by 3-5 crows who follow me for the whole walk. flying by and landing on nearby street signs, electrical cables, houses, fences, all until we get back home and then i feed them some (usually nuts or dog food)

i rewatched The Platform tonight with my pack and it was pretty good. i think i liked it better on this second watch than i did after the first watch. the metaphors are heavy but they work well~

today i made a pizza

separately and - you'll have to take my word on this - completely unrelated to that, i also really fucked up a pizza and i dont think i need any more salt for the next few days

"It seems to me that at least one of Marx’s observations is true: every minute devoted to the capitalist production process, every thought contributed to the industrial system, further enlarges a power that is inimical to nature, to culture, to life... Nationalism is not flown in from abroad. It is a product of the capitalist production process, like the chemical agents poisoning the lakes, air, animals and people, like the nuclear plants radioactivating micro-environments in preparation for the radioactivation of the macro-environment.

As a postscript I’d like to answer a question before it is asked. The question is: “Don’t you think a descendant of oppressed people is better off as a supermarket manager or police chief?” My answer is another question: What concentration camp manager, national executioner or torturer is not a descendant of oppressed people?" -Freddy Perlman, The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/perlman-fredy/1984/nationalism.htm

"The warrior is in the position of betraying everything, including the function of the military, or understanding nothing.

It happens that historians, both bourgeois and Soviet, will follow this negative tradition and explain how Genghis Khan understood nothing: he "didn't understand" the phenomenon of the city. An easy thing to say..." -D&G, A Thousand Plateaus

@eris lmaooooo fat chance

"How does society progress?"