doe @exiliaex@masto.anarch.cc

still not seeing the aurora where i live - the last time was my first and so cooool

i'm going to invent a lottery for whoever can brand decentralized social media as something better than "the fediverse" - just saying it makes me feel like i'm glowing

oh also you all should stop complaining when people call the fediverse "mastodon" - it's not their fault masto has better branding than "the fediverse"

STOP CENTRALIZING SOCIAL MEDIA

- posts were not supposed to be seen by everyone!

- years of posting and yet NO REAL WORLD USE found for putting them all in one place

- wanted more people to see your post anyway? we had a tool for that it was called FORWARDING

- "yes please show me the random musings of transphobic celebrities on the same site i jerk off to porn on" - statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged

this, of course, is yarrow

okay now that i'm more certain the Unidentified plant in my neighborhood is Queen Anne's Lace i should pluck a specimen for my book

I think i've got Yarrow down pat, it's really QAL vs Poison Hemlock that i struggle with, and that struggle is a lot more serious, poison hemlock can mess with your head just from touch, let alone eating any on the mistaken thought that it's wild carrot.

in order: Yarrow, Queen Anne's Lace, and Poison Hemlock

the most notable part of the yarrow, in contradistinction is the fern like leaf patterns.

the difference between Queen Anne's Lace vs Poison Hemlock, as i've heard it, is that The Queen has hairy legs - the stem has lots of little hairs on it. And that the Hemlock has purple splotches on the stems.

but what i see in my neighborhood seems not to have either hairs *or* purple splotches. so i'm at a loss.

i've got probably a group of 10 to 20ish neighborhood plants scattered in grasses and in between cracks of sidewalk that i'm pretty good at identifying against lookalikes and whatnot.

though, there is a group of 3-4 shared lookalikes that i really struggle to identify - Yarrow, Queen Anne's Lace (Wild Carrot), and Poison Hemlock.

on that note - my group of 4 crows became a group of 5 and i don't know why. is it a different group entirely? did a straggler need a pack? at the beginning there seemed to be a lot of animosity regarding the extra member but i don't see that much anymore.

i don't *think* it's a different group entirely, the rest of them still have a connection to me. on some days they'll still follow me, they still come up to the expected feeding spots.

love bird spotting around the neighborhood through the different seasons - you start to pick up on certain areas they like more than others, certain "hot spots" where multiple flocks can be found, and noting, even without words, the differing group-styles they exhibit at different parts of the year.

lindsay nikole thank u for yr videosssss

we've apparently only seen what we think was a newborn LAST YEAR what the FUCK

wait WHAT — we've NEVER seen a great white shark give birth???

after 500 boosts and 750+ likes i think its time for me to mute this

dear mastodon, i know it goes against your ethos but you could really group notifs together, it wouldnt hurt.

fedi virality hits different

there's something especially funny about the way certain circles talk about which softwares or products they use - an infinite circle of boycotts

shamelessly stealing this from a law professor on twitter

omg this page from the FTC vs Amazon complaint