Pet parrots which typically live alone (whilst those in the wild live in large flocks) were given the technology to call each other. They would use it for up to three hours a day, and developed favourite friends 💔
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Nothing quite like watching a hawk chow down on a huge rat in a city park

I wrote about one of my favorite things: how to snoop through property records in New York!!! for all my nosy girls

I wouldn't mind having binoculars for city walks, specifically. For when I'm just out getting coffee but there's a tiny, unfamiliar bird in a big ol tree. Something that fits in a pocket?

I think one of the worst quirks of online spaces is the idea that if someone doesn't post about something, they don't care about it. It encourages performative posting often makes things worse.

I care a lot. I just don't want to add another poorly-informed voice. I'm reading & thinking.

Hello, World!

Scary debt aside - I forgot how stressful the *act* of submitting a student loan payment is.

Brb, gotta catch the least efficient train to write all of my letters. 💌💌💌

It really took being stuck underground on the train for 🕰️? to text a handful of people back.

an old man at the dunkin said "you look nice. where are you headed" and i said "the cemetery," did not elaborate, and left

Late night in Logan Square

PSA: the CDC has a program that pays for your COVID vaccine if your insurer won't. The guy at CVS told me that my insurer had not added the new vaccine to its formulary yet, so I'd need to pay $190. I told him about this program, showed him the website, and paid nothing. 🤗

New appreciation for oil pastels is emerging.

Just thinking about all the pumpkin girlies skipping out on in-season tomatoes & figs 😢

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This new account thing is a lot of pressure!!!