status: ungruntled
activity: attempting to gruntle
likelihood of success: extremely uncertain
also got replacement/supplemental green hair dye, which I'll be messing with probably this week, because I need my green back dammit, and that "arctic fox" stuff wasn't hacking it. :P
got a lot accomplished today--not everything I'd intended, but most of it.
also positively identified the hawks out in the forest as Cooper's hawks, three of them! they were doing the whistling juvenile call that first got my attention, then one of them did--a juvenile imitation of an adult call, which I recognized. when I used my birding app to play the adult Cooper's hawk call back at them they all got VERY EXCITE and there was much rustling and whistling. I was grinning like a loon. :D
If you ever wondered "how did our (Western) calendar get this way?" and/or "why did Julius Caesar name a month after himself?", wonder no more: https://pastebin.com/rFM0XcLP (2- to 3-minute read, slight swearing)
also! I saw two (? might have been a third) young hawks in the woods on the way to the rental office. can't figure out what kind of hawks they are for sure; very likely Cooper's, but they didn't have adult plumage and weren't making adult calls, so I couldn't figure out for sure. I spent about 15 minutes staring up into the trees overhead and whistling back at them, trying to get a better view and positive ID. XD
http://laguna-with-no-pants.tumblr.com/post/163364698926/sevdrag-babyanimalgifs-this-husky-is-mad
"no"
"I'm not turning on the water"
"get out of the tub"
*thus oops
people who fail to be "productive" tend to fall into a few categories:
1. they work, but their work is not viewed as productive, despite being _anything_ but bourgeois
2. they _would_ work if it weren't for an economic environment that is actively hostile to their livelihood
3. they are unable to work due to disability
all three deserve respect and inclusion for what should be obvious reasons. all are "useful" if we can change our cultural context to include them
simple example: marx despised panhandlers, sex workers, and even migrant peoples (yes, he was kinda racist), because he viewed them as "not interested in production" and this not useful to the cause, without realizing that such a definition was created by capitalists, and bears re-examination.
thus why i can't call myself a "marxist"
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pronouns: they/them
location: Seattle
phenotype: dracosaur
alignment: chaotic well-intentioned
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aka Sprackraptor, Rasha, elynne, Yahvahzensil, & etc.
40-something ace/aro
an identity under construction in a badly-fitting human suit.
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