i was going to go to yellowstone a few days after my birthday for like a week - and i was real nervous about flying there, almost making me not even want to go... but the trip got cancelled and now there's no flight to be nervous about and my brain is like "damn wish i could've gone" - so stupid lololol
now if only i had any programming skills (it said to itself, knowing that it worked as a software dev for 5 years)
i'm thinking of building a map tool with user generated data for urban citizen ecological/environmental science. seeing https://hoodmaps.com has made me realize what might be possible.
i am so routinely frustrated at people who are all "noooo don't interact with wild animals in any way" - i don't understand how anyone can watch the Forward March Of Progress as it eliminates species after species, radically decreasing the biodiversity of ecosystem after ecosystem as it translates all organic production into Value and still say "actually leaving out water for critters is bad" - "actually feeding critters is bad" - "actually talking to critters is crazy"
i promise you, developing a relationship with the life around you will make you see the world in radically new ways and open your eyes to new possibilities, new ways to live that don't push every life but Humanity's to extinction.
i'm declaring the airshow as an Enemy of Critters and demanding they pay for the damages of sending my dog into the same freakout mode that fireworks do
you mean to tell me you can fly ear ripping machines made to go beyond twice the speed of sound over large populated areas and not even for anything useful? just for an excuse to sell overpriced beer?
A wandering deer, building shrines along the way.