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@julieofthespirits @ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs@kolektiva.social i always think about how many critters (over 1 million a day) are killed by cars for the 'efficiency' of speed that roads provide and the way they're generalized over so much space humans have claimed.

@ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs@kolektiva.social i like things to work better than before, i can get down with some 'efficiencies' but "at the expense of what" is an indispensable question and the kind of efficiency we have now refuses even to acknowledge that its at the expense of anything! instead its always framed as Abstract and Pure Efficiency.

i met a man the other day while trying to catch a little dog that was scurrying around the neighborhood, he was really kind, and gentle with animals, and offered to let me use his back yard to catch the little dog

and today he was working in front of his house and saw me and he called my name and said "here!" and gave me one of his white rose clippings! it's like 5 or 6 flowers on one branching stem!

furiosa feels like george miller is sending love-letters to kojima

i still don't understand why she gets called the 5th rider of the apocalypse!! she's the fourth!

Dementus takes on the colors of every other rider! he starts white, turns red, turns black, and by the end has been stripped of his apocalyptic power! she finishes the job! how is she not the fourth rider!!!! aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

yeah okay okay furiosa was pretty fun

@agreedyboi lmao yeahhhhh - but somehow those other people are still powerfully-relevant in the (brain dead and moronic) works of plenty of current 'leftists' and 'communists' so... i'm still here cheering for my boy karl

keep finding snoozing bees throughout the neighborhood 🐝 💤

look at all these little critters!!! (ladybug adults, ladybug larvae, aphids)

!!!
while on a walk in the neighborhood we found a plant growing right outside of a sewer grate that was absolutely COVERED in aphids and ladybugs it was so cool

and we thought that was gonna be the end of things but nope!

we were thinkin about that dog all day and, right as me and my partner were about to go on a walk with our own dog someone from Doctor's Without Borders knocked on our door asking for a donation. we let him give his whole spiel and gave a little bit of money, and he ended the conversation by being like

"hey there's a dog walking around the neighborhood. a little white dog. have you seen that?" and we explained the story to him before saying our goodbyes. and then we went venturing for that dog again.

we found him at a neighbor's house, someone we hadn't talked to before. he was friendly and asked if the dog was ours. we said no, but that we were trying to catch it. he offered to help, offered to let us use the enclosed space of his backyard for a few hours to try to catch the dog. (when we tried the dog escaped through the tiniest of crevices in the fence)

we met another man on a bike who was offering to help and rode around with us.

eventually, after following the dog around the neighborhood again, someone showed up who said it was their friends dog, and the dog, who was too skittish to let us touch it really basically ran right up to him.

it was *quite* an adventure, but i'm just glad the doggy is safe.

last night, while we were hanging outside on our porch we noticed a collarless dog go running down the road - fearing for it, we all got our shoes on and followed it.

we spent about an hour and a half trying to get it to let us touch it. a sniff of our hands before running off was as close as it'd get. we followed it as it was walking the streets, trying to make sure any cars that came by slowed, since it wouldn't come to our calls.

eventually we gave up and decided that it didn't want to be caught, and it didn't want to be touched, so, after giving it some treats over the hour or so we were out there we decided to turn home. but it decided to follow us.

when we reached our yard she wouldn't come in. she noticed it as an enclosed space and wouldn't come in. so, we left some food for her on the steps and let her be.

i watched I Saw the TV Glow tonight with my pack and it left us all with a lottt of emotions

@aurelia i hope the other group comes back, but, i their leaving is less to do with seasonal spreading - they left the day that our neighbor cut their large magnolia nesting tree down, so, i'm not sure how far they had to go to find a new one.

i am excited to continue my relationship with the other crows who visit now though!

so, the 4 crows i used to talk to don't come back anymore ever since that tree got cut down. i have 2 (maybe 3) that visit me now, but they're a different group.

the group of 4 talked to me. not the usual "caw caw" we hear from crows, but a quiet voice with a bowed head - a sort of 'awa-awa' sound with a click noise.

for the first time one of the new group talked to me. it does the same bowed-head motion but it makes a much different sound. much more of a click-honk.

god the limits people will go to save face