remembrance of things future
Oct. 18th, 2016 07:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yamamanamaThe merlin, which are falcons and not the smallest raptor in the area (that would be the kestrel) and only coincidentally share their name with the wizard Myrddin lasted five days and then died. This merlin had head trauma of some sort. They don't live in Massachusetts but they do migrate through Massachusetts. Some of them don't bother migrating anymore because they're so adapted to city life.
The squirrel had a broken and twisted spine, and we couldn't really do anything. I feel like most of the adult squirrels we see have spinal injuries. Death under sedation is better than being eaten and being eaten is better than dying from exposure or starving to death.
Muskrat didn't make it either. On the bright side, Priya took a slow-motion video of one of the screech owls shitting and then taking off into the woods without a sound, without even the feel of wind on her face.
So right now we have a few geese, a mallard, a couple of rodos, one of which escaped and was strutting about on the top of the goose cage, a red-tailed hawk, and an American robin.
We have a mouse infestation and we fed a few of them to Falco (actually a Buteo) and used a few of them to live prey test some raptors and let that be a lesson to the rest of you mice.
To cheer you up, here's a rescued domestic duck riding a spur-thighed tortoise.
They don't make gloves that fit Donald Trump's ego.
Back in the summer, a lot of the fledgeling birds had tufts of feathers like Bernie Sanders. Bernie Sanderling. Just kidding, sanderlings don't breed in New England.
Tiffany says duck meat is very greasy.
which led to: priya once ate a turducken or at least has seen a turducken. I once read a book which had an even more decadent turducken: bustards stuffed with turkeys stuffed with pheasants stuffed with partridges stuffed with quails stuffed with chestnuts.
A quick search tells me it was No Present Like Time. I knew it was by Steph Swainston and it wasn't Dangerous Offspring and I knew there were quails when I brought it up.
which led to: priya knew a girl ten years ago who said she was vegetarian and then she was eating chicken.
which led to: Nicole knows people who are allergic to nuts but were just fine eating peanut butter ice cream and she was like "what the fuck" and then "they're legumes." But they're processed with tree nuts so they have to be careful anyway.
Nicole has mostly red-brown hair with streaks of vivid purple that I thought was a trick of the multicolored lights except there weren't any multicolored lights.
which led to: epi-pens are like 700 dollars now.
which led to: Martin Shkreli was at an art show where Donald Trump supporters do to art what the Mad Genius Club does to literature. You could pay at least 65 dollars for the privilege of seeing the half-red half-blue pill (along with a pile of scorched textbooks and apologia for the genocide of indigenous people and rape and slavery and Milo Yannipolis bathing in pigs' blood and a deck of cards with Tila Tequila and Alex Jones and oversized prints of unclothed men wearing Trump hats taken by probably the same assholes who made Xenoblade, no I am not over the Wii being optimized for a television that is widescreen but at a standard definition) or 20,000 dollars to buy it.
Tiffany knows what I'm talking about: they're appropriating their imagery from a movie by two trans women and you could interpret the red pill as a metaphor for transsexuality.
which led to: Nicole says that she thinks Trump supporters in New Hampshire are looking up younger independent voters who will most likely be away for college and voting in their name.
which led to: there's going to be much hardship no matter what.
Colleen doesn't know how to dress for mid-October because it's always cold in the morning but it was a very warm afternoon but all autumn warmth is fleeting, much like all spring warmth. I think she has a triceratops backpack. Some kind of dinosaur, anyway.
burning question: if you were sentenced to die, how would you choose to go out?
The squirrel had a broken and twisted spine, and we couldn't really do anything. I feel like most of the adult squirrels we see have spinal injuries. Death under sedation is better than being eaten and being eaten is better than dying from exposure or starving to death.
Muskrat didn't make it either. On the bright side, Priya took a slow-motion video of one of the screech owls shitting and then taking off into the woods without a sound, without even the feel of wind on her face.
So right now we have a few geese, a mallard, a couple of rodos, one of which escaped and was strutting about on the top of the goose cage, a red-tailed hawk, and an American robin.
We have a mouse infestation and we fed a few of them to Falco (actually a Buteo) and used a few of them to live prey test some raptors and let that be a lesson to the rest of you mice.
To cheer you up, here's a rescued domestic duck riding a spur-thighed tortoise.
They don't make gloves that fit Donald Trump's ego.
Back in the summer, a lot of the fledgeling birds had tufts of feathers like Bernie Sanders. Bernie Sanderling. Just kidding, sanderlings don't breed in New England.
Tiffany says duck meat is very greasy.
which led to: priya once ate a turducken or at least has seen a turducken. I once read a book which had an even more decadent turducken: bustards stuffed with turkeys stuffed with pheasants stuffed with partridges stuffed with quails stuffed with chestnuts.
A quick search tells me it was No Present Like Time. I knew it was by Steph Swainston and it wasn't Dangerous Offspring and I knew there were quails when I brought it up.
which led to: priya knew a girl ten years ago who said she was vegetarian and then she was eating chicken.
which led to: Nicole knows people who are allergic to nuts but were just fine eating peanut butter ice cream and she was like "what the fuck" and then "they're legumes." But they're processed with tree nuts so they have to be careful anyway.
Nicole has mostly red-brown hair with streaks of vivid purple that I thought was a trick of the multicolored lights except there weren't any multicolored lights.
which led to: epi-pens are like 700 dollars now.
which led to: Martin Shkreli was at an art show where Donald Trump supporters do to art what the Mad Genius Club does to literature. You could pay at least 65 dollars for the privilege of seeing the half-red half-blue pill (along with a pile of scorched textbooks and apologia for the genocide of indigenous people and rape and slavery and Milo Yannipolis bathing in pigs' blood and a deck of cards with Tila Tequila and Alex Jones and oversized prints of unclothed men wearing Trump hats taken by probably the same assholes who made Xenoblade, no I am not over the Wii being optimized for a television that is widescreen but at a standard definition) or 20,000 dollars to buy it.
Tiffany knows what I'm talking about: they're appropriating their imagery from a movie by two trans women and you could interpret the red pill as a metaphor for transsexuality.
which led to: Nicole says that she thinks Trump supporters in New Hampshire are looking up younger independent voters who will most likely be away for college and voting in their name.
which led to: there's going to be much hardship no matter what.
Colleen doesn't know how to dress for mid-October because it's always cold in the morning but it was a very warm afternoon but all autumn warmth is fleeting, much like all spring warmth. I think she has a triceratops backpack. Some kind of dinosaur, anyway.
burning question: if you were sentenced to die, how would you choose to go out?
