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A flash of green fire drops to the riverbank: Carolina parakeets tear cockleburs no other creature can stomach. Upside down on stems, chattering triumphantly, sovereign over poison. A toxic plant becomes their feast, their vanished signature on the land.
#thelongrescue
#thelongrescue
December 2, 2025 at 11:23 PM
A flash of green fire drops to the riverbank: Carolina parakeets tear cockleburs no other creature can stomach. Upside down on stems, chattering triumphantly, sovereign over poison. A toxic plant becomes their feast, their vanished signature on the land.
#thelongrescue
#thelongrescue
Sometime this week I'll formalize the principles of The Long Rescue and publish them on my Substack--should give the project a good start.
Isn't it about time we let Ole' Mother Earth in from the cold and really finally recognize all that she has done for us?
#thelonjgrescue
Isn't it about time we let Ole' Mother Earth in from the cold and really finally recognize all that she has done for us?
#thelonjgrescue
November 30, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Sometime this week I'll formalize the principles of The Long Rescue and publish them on my Substack--should give the project a good start.
Isn't it about time we let Ole' Mother Earth in from the cold and really finally recognize all that she has done for us?
#thelonjgrescue
Isn't it about time we let Ole' Mother Earth in from the cold and really finally recognize all that she has done for us?
#thelonjgrescue
The diet of the Carolina Parakeet was so varied. For instance, the CP loved grapes. This gives me a flash of a vision of flocks of CP enjoying grapes. This is for some reason impossibly cute to me, and I realize how my idea of the CP has completely turned around in just a week.
#thelongrescue.
#thelongrescue.
November 30, 2025 at 10:59 PM
The diet of the Carolina Parakeet was so varied. For instance, the CP loved grapes. This gives me a flash of a vision of flocks of CP enjoying grapes. This is for some reason impossibly cute to me, and I realize how my idea of the CP has completely turned around in just a week.
#thelongrescue.
#thelongrescue.
Their two color morphs of the Carolina Parakeet (“lutino” and “green-backed”) were not male/female but behaved like two tribal castes!
Evidence from 19th-century showed flocks breaking down by coloration, and some regions saw only one color form for decades. No one knows why. ❤️
#thelongrescue
Evidence from 19th-century showed flocks breaking down by coloration, and some regions saw only one color form for decades. No one knows why. ❤️
#thelongrescue
November 29, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Their two color morphs of the Carolina Parakeet (“lutino” and “green-backed”) were not male/female but behaved like two tribal castes!
Evidence from 19th-century showed flocks breaking down by coloration, and some regions saw only one color form for decades. No one knows why. ❤️
#thelongrescue
Evidence from 19th-century showed flocks breaking down by coloration, and some regions saw only one color form for decades. No one knows why. ❤️
#thelongrescue
Turns out the Carolina Parakeet was a chaos-gourmet.
Favorite food: thistle seeds.
Fields we avoid? They dove right in—little green lanterns chomping merrily.
Chomp chomp chomp.
Nature has a sense of humor.
#thelongrescue
Favorite food: thistle seeds.
Fields we avoid? They dove right in—little green lanterns chomping merrily.
Chomp chomp chomp.
Nature has a sense of humor.
#thelongrescue
November 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Turns out the Carolina Parakeet was a chaos-gourmet.
Favorite food: thistle seeds.
Fields we avoid? They dove right in—little green lanterns chomping merrily.
Chomp chomp chomp.
Nature has a sense of humor.
#thelongrescue
Favorite food: thistle seeds.
Fields we avoid? They dove right in—little green lanterns chomping merrily.
Chomp chomp chomp.
Nature has a sense of humor.
#thelongrescue
Today I am thankful for the Carolina Parakeet.
The last known wild specimen was killed in Okeechobee County, Florida, in 1904, and the last captive bird died at the Cincinnati Zoo on February 21, 1918.
#thelongrescue
The last known wild specimen was killed in Okeechobee County, Florida, in 1904, and the last captive bird died at the Cincinnati Zoo on February 21, 1918.
#thelongrescue
November 27, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Today I am thankful for the Carolina Parakeet.
The last known wild specimen was killed in Okeechobee County, Florida, in 1904, and the last captive bird died at the Cincinnati Zoo on February 21, 1918.
#thelongrescue
The last known wild specimen was killed in Okeechobee County, Florida, in 1904, and the last captive bird died at the Cincinnati Zoo on February 21, 1918.
#thelongrescue
Tony Millionaire the cartoonist just sent me this. The figure in black is myself thirty-five years ago. I saw Tony completely drunk outside the bar in the East Village called 2a. He was hanging onto a stop sign, crying his eyes out. At the time I told him it was the funniest thing I ever saw.
November 27, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Tony Millionaire the cartoonist just sent me this. The figure in black is myself thirty-five years ago. I saw Tony completely drunk outside the bar in the East Village called 2a. He was hanging onto a stop sign, crying his eyes out. At the time I told him it was the funniest thing I ever saw.
I did say this adoption process would be easy and in fact, it is. 7 days i have an image in mind of a big friendly Carolina Parakeet hanging with me,
It seems thankful that someone finally decided to pay just friendly attention. Seems vulnerable and ill-confident.
#thelongrescue
It seems thankful that someone finally decided to pay just friendly attention. Seems vulnerable and ill-confident.
#thelongrescue
November 26, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I did say this adoption process would be easy and in fact, it is. 7 days i have an image in mind of a big friendly Carolina Parakeet hanging with me,
It seems thankful that someone finally decided to pay just friendly attention. Seems vulnerable and ill-confident.
#thelongrescue
It seems thankful that someone finally decided to pay just friendly attention. Seems vulnerable and ill-confident.
#thelongrescue
Reading about farmers who hated the Carolina Parakeet: flocks would land in an apple tree, strip every apple, drop them uneaten. “They didn’t even eat them,” the farmers said. Obviously they were feeding other animals. Maybe orchards were too geometric. Long-rescue work.
November 26, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Reading about farmers who hated the Carolina Parakeet: flocks would land in an apple tree, strip every apple, drop them uneaten. “They didn’t even eat them,” the farmers said. Obviously they were feeding other animals. Maybe orchards were too geometric. Long-rescue work.
Day #5 Carolina Parakeet. Lotta' stuff gong on with the CP. This process is very fast. Not much attention is paid to these birds, and for a long time.
November 24, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Day #5 Carolina Parakeet. Lotta' stuff gong on with the CP. This process is very fast. Not much attention is paid to these birds, and for a long time.
Someone asked me today if the Carolina Parakeet's flocking behavior meant they all turned together when flying. I think it means yes they all turned together, but some could pare off. Will have to resolve focus further on flocking behavior.
#thelongrescue
#thelongrescue
November 24, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Someone asked me today if the Carolina Parakeet's flocking behavior meant they all turned together when flying. I think it means yes they all turned together, but some could pare off. Will have to resolve focus further on flocking behavior.
#thelongrescue
#thelongrescue
Witnesses said Carolina Parakeet flocks felt unsettling.
Not because they swarmed—
but because 300 birds would turn toward you at the same moment,
600 eyes locking into one gaze.
A distributed intelligence, not a mob.
Not because they swarmed—
but because 300 birds would turn toward you at the same moment,
600 eyes locking into one gaze.
A distributed intelligence, not a mob.
November 22, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Witnesses said Carolina Parakeet flocks felt unsettling.
Not because they swarmed—
but because 300 birds would turn toward you at the same moment,
600 eyes locking into one gaze.
A distributed intelligence, not a mob.
Not because they swarmed—
but because 300 birds would turn toward you at the same moment,
600 eyes locking into one gaze.
A distributed intelligence, not a mob.
Paradise wasn’t a garden.
Paradise was a fully staffed intelligence system—
species as processors, Dreamtime as the OS.
Extinction broke the network.
#thelongrescue #carolinaparakeet #adoptextinctionspecies
Paradise was a fully staffed intelligence system—
species as processors, Dreamtime as the OS.
Extinction broke the network.
#thelongrescue #carolinaparakeet #adoptextinctionspecies
November 22, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Paradise wasn’t a garden.
Paradise was a fully staffed intelligence system—
species as processors, Dreamtime as the OS.
Extinction broke the network.
#thelongrescue #carolinaparakeet #adoptextinctionspecies
Paradise was a fully staffed intelligence system—
species as processors, Dreamtime as the OS.
Extinction broke the network.
#thelongrescue #carolinaparakeet #adoptextinctionspecies
Day 3 with the Carolina Parakeet.
I think it gave me a nightmare.
This is the hardest extinct animal to “adopt” in my mind.
It’s like approaching an alien nation that we exterminated.
#longrescue
I think it gave me a nightmare.
This is the hardest extinct animal to “adopt” in my mind.
It’s like approaching an alien nation that we exterminated.
#longrescue
November 22, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Day 3 with the Carolina Parakeet.
I think it gave me a nightmare.
This is the hardest extinct animal to “adopt” in my mind.
It’s like approaching an alien nation that we exterminated.
#longrescue
I think it gave me a nightmare.
This is the hardest extinct animal to “adopt” in my mind.
It’s like approaching an alien nation that we exterminated.
#longrescue
I adopted the Carolina Parakeet as my LONG RESCUE animal. I thought about the bird today and wondered what it would be like to have a flock of 20 million of these beautiful beings on my side.
November 21, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I adopted the Carolina Parakeet as my LONG RESCUE animal. I thought about the bird today and wondered what it would be like to have a flock of 20 million of these beautiful beings on my side.
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Ugh too mad to work. I’m taking a potoo break.
📸Sparkle Motion, Sebastian Lescano, unknown, Melissa Garoo
📸Sparkle Motion, Sebastian Lescano, unknown, Melissa Garoo
November 21, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Ugh too mad to work. I’m taking a potoo break.
📸Sparkle Motion, Sebastian Lescano, unknown, Melissa Garoo
📸Sparkle Motion, Sebastian Lescano, unknown, Melissa Garoo
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Wild native azaleas along lake Lanier shore in North Georgia.
#scape #landscape #bloomscrolling #nativeazalea #flowers #flowerscape #eastcoastkin
#scape #landscape #bloomscrolling #nativeazalea #flowers #flowerscape #eastcoastkin
November 21, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Wild native azaleas along lake Lanier shore in North Georgia.
#scape #landscape #bloomscrolling #nativeazalea #flowers #flowerscape #eastcoastkin
#scape #landscape #bloomscrolling #nativeazalea #flowers #flowerscape #eastcoastkin
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The Coffret Rose the buds start out a pale green, showing a hint of light lavender as they begin to open. As the blooms unfold, the petals layer like delicate jewels, with slightly green-tinted edges. The flowers forming a classic cupped shape, and they carry a light citrus-and-tea fragrance.
November 20, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The Coffret Rose the buds start out a pale green, showing a hint of light lavender as they begin to open. As the blooms unfold, the petals layer like delicate jewels, with slightly green-tinted edges. The flowers forming a classic cupped shape, and they carry a light citrus-and-tea fragrance.
The Long Rescue is beginning its next work:
We are forming a Compendium of your First "Earth" Memories —
the earliest moments when the planet first revealed itself to you.
For me, it was helicopter seeds from the Big Maple spinning around me like little pieces of sky. Dad was there.
Add yours.
We are forming a Compendium of your First "Earth" Memories —
the earliest moments when the planet first revealed itself to you.
For me, it was helicopter seeds from the Big Maple spinning around me like little pieces of sky. Dad was there.
Add yours.
November 20, 2025 at 9:14 PM
The Long Rescue is beginning its next work:
We are forming a Compendium of your First "Earth" Memories —
the earliest moments when the planet first revealed itself to you.
For me, it was helicopter seeds from the Big Maple spinning around me like little pieces of sky. Dad was there.
Add yours.
We are forming a Compendium of your First "Earth" Memories —
the earliest moments when the planet first revealed itself to you.
For me, it was helicopter seeds from the Big Maple spinning around me like little pieces of sky. Dad was there.
Add yours.
Got this idea for applying RESCUE principles—like in dog rescue—to good old, kind of used-up, planet Earth.
First application:
I remember my “oldest” experience of nature: the helicopter samaras from the Big Maple.
Second application:
Adopt an Extinct Species.
I thought of the Carolina Parakeet.
First application:
I remember my “oldest” experience of nature: the helicopter samaras from the Big Maple.
Second application:
Adopt an Extinct Species.
I thought of the Carolina Parakeet.
November 20, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Got this idea for applying RESCUE principles—like in dog rescue—to good old, kind of used-up, planet Earth.
First application:
I remember my “oldest” experience of nature: the helicopter samaras from the Big Maple.
Second application:
Adopt an Extinct Species.
I thought of the Carolina Parakeet.
First application:
I remember my “oldest” experience of nature: the helicopter samaras from the Big Maple.
Second application:
Adopt an Extinct Species.
I thought of the Carolina Parakeet.
"Girl at the End of the World" is a coming play, born of relics, converging on the stage, mastering the meaning of the age--initiating The Long Rescue (rescuing good old Mother Earth in her golden years).
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November 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
"Girl at the End of the World" is a coming play, born of relics, converging on the stage, mastering the meaning of the age--initiating The Long Rescue (rescuing good old Mother Earth in her golden years).
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Ever wanted to give your kids a sense of wonder about nature balance, and the wildlife in Alaska? This book tells a story featuring some of the nature found in the Alaskan tundra.
www.amazon.co.uk/Girl-Red-Cap... #actionadventure #wildlifesky #protect #conserve #Alaska #naturebalance #wolves #dogs
www.amazon.co.uk/Girl-Red-Cap... #actionadventure #wildlifesky #protect #conserve #Alaska #naturebalance #wolves #dogs
October 25, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Ever wanted to give your kids a sense of wonder about nature balance, and the wildlife in Alaska? This book tells a story featuring some of the nature found in the Alaskan tundra.
www.amazon.co.uk/Girl-Red-Cap... #actionadventure #wildlifesky #protect #conserve #Alaska #naturebalance #wolves #dogs
www.amazon.co.uk/Girl-Red-Cap... #actionadventure #wildlifesky #protect #conserve #Alaska #naturebalance #wolves #dogs
"Girl at the End of the World."
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November 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
"Girl at the End of the World."
Print it, circulate, compost or
fertilize: studio.buymeacoffee.com/dashboard
Print it, circulate, compost or
fertilize: studio.buymeacoffee.com/dashboard