alexhaist

alexhaist, 8 months ago to random

Cat drama woke me up so I get to ask a weird question for no good reason: How do you, a human, cope with the reality that words like fleshy, moist, squishy, etc. are default applicable to you? Like, how do you cognitively process being a bag of wet meat that thinks? I find it challenging personally.

alexhaist, 8 months ago to random

Is there a way to hide polls in #Tusky ? I am weirdly compulsive about them and would like to stop having to exert willpower.

alexhaist, 9 months ago to random

If she doesn't stare directly at the turkey, surely she cannot be called rude.

alexhaist, 3 months ago to random

Starlings in the trees. When you walk under them, their chatter is so loud that it falls on you like rain.

alexhaist, 1 month ago to random

An ant drowned herself in my sugary tea. Rest in sweetness, worker girl.

alexhaist, 2 months ago to random

I'm in a weirdly good mood, and so it's tempting to boost every other post I see. This is great, oooh, this is awesome, too. Here, everyone look at my entire timeline!

alexhaist, 3 months ago to random

Love a book where the protagonist is chosen by the one indigenous dragon seen on her island in hundreds of years, cuts through colonial societal bullshit like a sharpened scythe, and builds community with a kind of adult competence I rarely see in actual adults. If you've heard To Tame a Dragon's Breath is very good, trust that person who told you. #amReading

alexhaist, 11 months ago to random

need... dopamine...

If you've got a funny picture/gif/quote and are so inclined, please share. Cute and/or shocking bugs also great.

alexhaist, 4 months ago to random

If you've ever fantasized about having one of those beautiful gold and white palomino horses, you might consider what my mom's looks like in winter.

alexhaist, 8 months ago to random

When you find a hair in your mouth, do you examine it to see who it came from?

alexhaist, 8 months ago to random

Domestic dog and pampas fox hybrid! https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/13/15/2505

alexhaist, 9 months ago to random

Surgery tomorrow cancelled because bureaucracy at the university grinds slowly, and I am still technically not enrolled this semester, which means no health insurance, which means the hospital will neither schedule me nor perform surgery on me until insurance is verified.

alexhaist, 13 days ago to random

An odd part of the last few years is my realization that I am living in a culture where the bad guys won and are still largely dictating policy. The odd thing about it is how much better it makes me feel to just accept that, and to accept that we are living in dystopian times. It allows me to pull strategies from those stories like Fallout, where people find crumbs of kindness and morality in a wasteland...

alexhaist, 4 months ago to random

One thing about disability is that I am still seeking ways to feel a sense of accomplishment when I can't move or think much, and I realized today that I have become inordinately proud of making a lap for my cat Wimsey. She loves laps and will sit on me for hours if allowed. It is often allowed now, and I have a small, purring purpose.

alexhaist, 15 days ago to random

Been a rotten week, but I did see my first ever indigo bunting, which was a little flash of electric blue in the trees, so that's a bit of all right.

alexhaist, 7 days ago to random

In Northampton today, I found my bumper sticker twin. And what a twin!

alexhaist, 3 months ago to random

Unboxing from inside the box: How to Reclaim Your Inner Muppet

A blue merle Australian shepherd standing inside the ruins of a large cardboard box. She is kill-shaking a piece of cardboard while bracing a paw on one of the structurally intact bits of the box.

alexhaist, 4 months ago to random

Good morning.

alexhaist, 7 months ago to random

ah morning! that time in a middle-aged woman's life where she consents to playing tug of war with the hyper dog with the dog's favorite six foot snake stuffy while in bed and subsequently has to mop up three glasses of water from the bed and environs

alexhaist, 1 month ago to random

Porch grape update!!!!

The squirrel is now inspecting a specific grape!
The squirrel rears up with a grape in its mouth!!!

alexhaist, 1 month ago to random

Squirrel is nibbling on the stems of the old porch grapes. I have hope she will soon turn her attention to the new ones.

alexhaist, 8 months ago to random

Curious if anyone has ideas of who to volunteer for if I would like to see insurance companies scorched from the face of the earth. I am feeling better than I have in three years, and I want to sink my teeth into the companies that made being ill extra horrible. #HealthInsurance

alexhaist, 1 day ago to random

Blissful sun kitty. #whiskersWednesday

alexhaist, 4 months ago to random

I get to use the line "How are trees like wolves?" in one of my thesis project lectures. Let's hear it for trophic cascades!

alexhaist, 28 days ago to random

Our neighbor let her dog bark at us for 20 minutes while she was right out there in the garden, so I started barking and howling back, which seems to have shamed her into shutting the dog up. It was fun to let loose and make a ruckus regardless.