That uncanny feeling when the words "brood parasitism" first flash across your mind
One month of owlet. Watching airplanes, ambushing ants, chasing entirely unconcerned squirrels.
Red fox, Dublin
Rereading Nick Groom's marvellous The Vampire: A New History
“…Spribille told me about a paper called ‘Queer theory for lichens.’ Its author argues that lichens are queer beings that present ways for humans to think beyond a rigid binary framework: the identity of lichens is a question rather than an answer known in advance.”
The bones of full 50 men lie STREWN about its lair...
American kestrel in suburbia
"When I called Donald Trump Idi Amin, I thought I was paying him a compliment," Soyinka said. "He's been behaving like a dictator."
Wole Soyinka is a riot. (One that Trump's spineless henchmen can't shut down.)
Lobaria.
Sheldrake: “Lichens are places where an organism unravels into an ecosystem… they never stop lichenizing; they are verbs as well as nouns.“
So glad to hear that @chloedalton.bsky.social is writing a new book, Pet, about human-pet relationships and the wild counterparts of the animals we keep. We need a subtle voice like hers to stir conversation on this.
