Reading a dolphin chuff rn

Saw your tags on the Dodgers/Rockies bee delay. According to CBS they did call a beekeeper who safely relocated the swarm:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bees-dodgers-diamondbacks-game-delayed-2-hours-arizona/

GOOD. We love safe beelocation!

"My God, your entire life rests on how you do in three exams in your last year." My god Siobhan, same. The whole American experience is wild to me, that last year is where you're done with everything. Last year meant everything for our High Schools, where if I failed even one exam I was fucked. I'd have to take an elective year just for the chance of fixing that fuckup. I was one ball of stress throughout that whole fucking year, and then I got math and biology as my exams. I thought I was going to die.

So, I guess, nice (??) to know someone else at the table had the experience of their last year in HS being a nightmare of a time. Also, horrifying. What is up with us Europeans where everything hinges on just a few exams that are randomly selected and can be in your worst subject?

posting all about college on here, but i keep having thoughts..

i just feel like i'm missing something in these classes this semester. maybe it's because i'm so exhausted, or putting off a lot of my work, just putting things off. but it really feels like the learning is so surface level? i do all of the readings, i do notes, i even do a few extra things sometimes out of my own interest, and it's only when i do those extra things that i feel like i'm really learning something valuable and past the surface.

which is great and all, but i didn't really give these people my money to be the one educating myself. i could have done this kind of research when i'm bored on a saturday afternoon without splurging 10k on tuition fees.

it's mostly my american literature class giving me grief. it moves quickly. we read and talk about 1-2 authors a day, then move on after that hour is over. why are we learning about these people? what is their significance in american literature? what did they really achieve? what did their writing mean to people? how did it impact americans? why am i writing a response paper about w.e.b. du bois and booker t. washington if we never will come back to them and only learned about them for one day in a very surface level, digestible, quick manner?

overanalysis is one thing, but at least it paints a bigger picture in an american literature class.

i realize you put your own significance to these things, but what's unclear to me is, is this an english class or a history class? it's so formulaic. it feels like talking about literature to people who don't know anything about literature, or about history to people who just want to get the history down for an exam. it feels like a generalized class for high school students. i see the attempts to make it not so but the class is just organized poorly. not really digging it

i don't know, i just expected more. i feel like there should be more. i feel like there should be focus, instead of a wandering general theme. i guess it's because it's a 200 level course at a small college.

Lila, you're so lovely and i love your fics and hearing you talk about and you're cool interests & all your dogs and how much you care it brings me so much joy

send me your anonymous opinions of me

i think i would have gone loco if jo and aoki got to meet up just once after ichi breaks through to him like. the damage to my psyche id have wouldve been immeasurable, irreparable even

If you have a nervous dog and are sick of people not respecting their space, i cannot recommend a basket muzzle enough. I got one for my dog to keep him from eating mice during walks and not only did it do that without making him too uncomfortable, its had the side effect of people no longer just letting their dogs get in my dogs space or feeling entitled to pet him without asking, which is great because all those things freak him out

i can’t do this anymore. i can’t take another rude and disrespectful client yelling at me when all I’m doing is trying to offer the best care for their animals

will get to DMs in the morning. too adhd rn

Today’s been an anxious one (might ramble about it in the tags... idk yet) so I’d love questions to answer or anything of the sort! Feel free to gush about your F/Os to me too :3

I just want to show off my dog since we went hiking today lmao

by this point i am just waiting for the academic path on how to become a vet to drop into my lap within a dream or something. too much of a headache

why does my cat lay her gigantic ass down to drink water like she's a slothful and decadent lord wtf

the more i think about it the more fucked up it becomes that the biggest reason behind me going on to study psychology is playing outlast at 10 years old which started a fascination with mk ultra which led me to read documents i had no business reading at that age and now im here

Having a pet cat in the family with chronic illness, as a veterinary worker and student, is lots of nights studying CBC trends, and lots of phone calls between family and the hospital back home. It’s a tense mission, but an interesting one at that.

So many thoughts on Aaron Bushnell

1. Even he acknowledges his sacrifice doesn’t compare to the suffering of Palestinians and so we mustn’t treat his action as worth more of a statement than those killed and/or fighting

2. By making his connection to the military a focus, he forces opponents to tread carefully for fear of disrespecting an institution that America holds above all others. Insult to his service would piss off even those who disagree with his actions

3. Despite his military path, his community involvement and protection and service rivals that of keyboard activists who wish to discredit him

4. Damn near every screenshot of his final facebook post by non-anarchist leftists and non-leftists crops out the circle A banner for his twitch. Even in death leftists who don’t like anarchism will remove the reference to it to suit their specific brand of leftism and claim his action as part of a larger “left”

5. You do not have to agree with the method to comprehend the action. It IS horrific, that is the point. If one horror does not shock you into action, another might. One that happens to a most (symbolically) coveted category of American

6. The military is highly worshipped in the US and yet it is an extremely predatory body. What circumstances led to his enlistment? Does his community good offset his role? Does his death? Can his death reignite the conversation for allowing servicemembers a way out? What do we do with “leftist” vets? How do we reconcile their positions past and present?

7. If this act horrifies you above anything else you’ve seen out of Palestine, why? What’s special about him? What’s unworthy about Palestinians to you? While you debate his sanity and his politics and his humanity, where are yours?