Since weâre talkin about petty ass elephants: a handful of years back I was workin at a zoo that had a handful of female African elephants. The most dominant one was named Leah (or Lea. Who cares she ainât readin this)
Home girl Leah HATED dogs. Like she beefed hard with em. And no one quite knew why. Was it trauma? Was it racism? Whoâs to say
Well any time her ass saw a service dog sheâs start touchin the ground with her trunk
A passerby wouldnât know but the keepers knew whatâs up
Feb 17, 2022 ⢠4 tweets ⢠1 min read
As always, if you see someone stealing baby supplies no you didnt
If your lookin at this thinking âwell it depends on _____â ask yourself: am I subconsciously trying to justify the impulse to act in the defense of a system that has trained me from birth to defend capital rather than my community and itâs members.
Jun 2, 2021 ⢠11 tweets ⢠2 min read
I saw a pride tweet talking about the ones who came before us and it made me think of Mr Jay Henderson.
He was an elderly Black man who subbed at my high school. Dude was beloved by almost all the students.
He was the kinda old dude who would had the same intro to every class he taugh and wrote his name the exact same on that chalkboard
Jun 1, 2021 ⢠21 tweets ⢠6 min read
While I FW her love of bees and respect her obvious skills in apiaryâher use of âsaving the beesâ hits me wrong.
Sheâs saving the bees in the same way raising cows is saving bison.
Honey bees arenât native to the US. Afak the first honey bees came to the NA with colonizers. Before the honey bee and Europeans showed up, there were as many as 4000 species of bees here, many specialized to fill certain niches in the NA ecosystems.
Jan 7, 2021 ⢠8 tweets ⢠1 min read
British COVID-19? I fink you mean The Queens Covid, innit.
Who is responsible for this đ
Me: [shutting the door] now that I have you here, white followers, itâs time we talk. Every one of you who liked this is tasked to donate whatever you can afford to an anti-fascist or mutual aid fund.
Jan 6, 2021 ⢠5 tweets ⢠1 min read
So the national guard let armed fascists raid our entire nationâs capital. Thatâs what youâre telling me?
Just to be clear: the military whoâs job it is to protect the country from foreign invasion isnât able to keep a bunch of Linuses from invading one of our most important federal buildings. Is that what youâre telling me?
Nov 19, 2020 ⢠18 tweets ⢠3 min read
Racism in American Zoos: a thread
Much of this is going to structural and generalized. Iâm not interested in calling anyone out in particular, but am identifying areas of growth.
If zoos are interested in reducing racial bias here are some starting points.
Oct 12, 2020 ⢠11 tweets ⢠2 min read
The amount of violent suggestions in the replies of those cougar video tweets is exactly why wildlife professionals are desperately trying to the video framed correctly:
He had stalked her and her cubs for a vid and she was responding. Not the other way around.
There is almost an insignificant chance that youâll ever be stalked by a large predator in North America. Weâre talking roughly one person every other year is killed by a wild cougar and thatâs not strictly predation, thatâs just a general lethal encounter.
Me: [shutting the door] now that I have you here, white followers, itâs time we talk. Every one of you who liked this is tasked to donate whatever you can afford to an anti-fascist or mutual aid fund.