doe @exiliaex@masto.anarch.cc

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

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

honestly its in no way limited to schooling. its just frustrating listening to people take the subjectivity of apparatuses of control as their own.

i get so frustrated listening to certain kinds of leftists talk about schooling it drives me crazy

i miss the group of 4 crows that would come visit me. but, there's still 2 that come and see me. one large one small. the small one is still nervous.

i love seeing critters remember gifts given to them and returning the favor! mutuality is really so beautiful i love being alive i love my relationships with all the different critters and plants in my life i want to take them all so much further

what i mean is - learning plant identification is obviously useful. but i want to develop a set of reproducible practices which can be passed down, separate from any knowledge of a plant, to safely learn what the plant would be useful for.

i wanna develop a set of practices i can apply to the plants i find to determine what properties are imbued in them

yesterday was crow/eagle/osprey day - i wonder what we'll see today

saw some ospreys yesterday flying around the neighborhood - they make funny sounds

look at how they spit in the face of values of freedom and cooperation in the name of democracy. and then to claim the locals' 'violent response' is a sign of dark hours ahead.

on the contrary - dark hours were brought on by the violent colonial project of indigenous genocide.

maybe it's just me, but i don't think the French should be importing police to a tiny island nation to stop the locals from rioting against deepening French control of the island - especially at the expense of the indigenous population

here's the example i saw that was on my mind