Alex Haist

I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul. she/her/queer #ADHD #UrbanForestry #wolves #coyotes #furry #SFF #disability

Avatar: Picture of Alex, a 30s woman of Euromutt/Ashkenazi Jewish descent with short dark hair.

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2025-10-11 16:31:11 UTC

#caturday kitten puddle. These two recently joined my parents' household and have the unpromising names of Sylvester, tabby, and Felix, tuxedo.
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2025-08-19 10:28:14 UTC

I need to hire someone to go through all my medical records (of which there are many) and put them in a form, probably a spreadsheet, coherent to the US social security administration and Massachusetts disability evaluators. Anyone meticulous have experience filing for disability in the US who would take on the job? Can discuss payment, minimum $25 an hour. #fediHire #disability

2025-08-13 14:55:41 UTC

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@nprofile…kyj5 I'm not sure about most, but as an American I would advise avoiding traveling here except for desperate necessity.

2025-08-10 11:25:43 UTC

#silentSunday
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2025-08-08 17:36:37 UTC

House finch soaking up the sun.
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2025-08-07 16:06:00 UTC

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@nprofile…fe4j oh good. I may be queer, but I do love to make use of a straight line.

2025-08-07 15:08:02 UTC

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@nprofile…fe4j yup, definitely your turn in the barrel. Edit: this is rather crass and I apologize if it's too much. https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/in_the_barrel

2025-08-06 22:35:38 UTC

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@nprofile…gk57 ...now that's gotta be a story and a half.

2025-08-06 18:39:57 UTC

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@nprofile…fe4j a monkey pony monster is the truest form of love

2025-08-06 14:37:15 UTC

Chipper music about terrible things is my favorite genre.

2025-07-25 11:02:54 UTC

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@nprofile…kln7 I think about animal perception a lot, and I hadn't thought of this, but of course! Whiskers!

2025-07-13 16:40:49 UTC

I admire the ability of doves to sit down and become entirely oblivious to their own peril. It seems like such a peaceful way to exist.
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2025-07-11 21:55:45 UTC

In the absence of seeds, the birds have taken to using the deck as a serenade spot. Here we have a singing house wren--the song is much bigger than the bird, as is the way of wrens.
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2025-06-15 01:56:19 UTC

Gonna be scarce again for a while. Health and watching a friend's kitties.

2025-06-11 12:02:38 UTC

Welp. No feeding the birds for a week or two. I even had to turn down the bluejay fledgling who made begging noises at me through the window, but we cannot be feeding bears.
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2025-06-07 18:38:15 UTC

Grosbeaks are having a wet tux contest out there.
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2025-06-03 22:24:35 UTC

Another floofy deck friend. She must be doing the neighborhood rounds. Time for a little break from seeding the deck.
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2025-06-03 21:31:11 UTC

Yesterday's squirrel has perfected their sploot.
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2025-06-01 20:07:10 UTC

Grosbeaks grosbeaks grosbeaks! #BirdCallOut

2025-05-30 20:14:30 UTC

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@nprofile…fe4j yes let us all go feed ducks responsibly together.

2025-05-29 21:40:05 UTC

I wish I could be friends with a coyote.

2025-05-29 10:23:40 UTC

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@nprofile…jlsl @nprofile…hnj0 In retrospect, I'm surprised we had to wait for your exceptional silliness for this joke to happen.

2025-05-27 21:26:05 UTC

A question for other disabled people, if you feel up to answering: What keeps you going?

2025-05-27 11:28:18 UTC

Squirrel with a unique tail.
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2025-05-23 22:31:50 UTC

Our Lady of Sitting, the one-legged cardinal who has been visiting my deck for the last year or two, continues to be a regular at the sunflower seed bar.
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2025-05-21 12:16:54 UTC

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@nprofile…jlsl those extraordinary patterns on their wings

2025-05-13 15:45:16 UTC

I'm still on a physical health break from mastodon but I had to share this bird right now. They were attacking the window! Clinging to the window frame and thumping the glass with their beak!
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2025-05-06 22:41:47 UTC

The whippoorwill has returned. We are in for a month of loudly cooed romantic aspirations throughout the night. #birdCallOut

2025-05-05 14:42:22 UTC

Our Lady of Sitting is having a trying day. She does not wish to sit on a wet surface, and so she stands.
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2025-05-03 20:15:35 UTC

Sometimes you can tell an animal is a dork even though they're a completely different species
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2025-05-03 17:23:55 UTC

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@nprofile…wv74 @nprofile…wx6u omg, you could have won!!

2025-05-03 17:18:31 UTC

I was trying to take bird pictures, but my wife's cat Harriet crawled up to my face and started tilting her head to show me her itchy cheeks until I put the phone down. Happy #Caturday
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2025-04-30 12:55:18 UTC

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@nprofile…jlsl so pleasingly tiny

2025-04-29 22:02:50 UTC

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@nprofile…jlsl I love those times on campus.

2025-04-29 19:15:24 UTC

Grosbeak! First one I've snapped a photo of this year.
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2025-04-28 16:38:47 UTC

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@nprofile…fe4j one time in general waiting room, this woman kept walking a rigid rectangle around the space available for ten minutes, and I really related to that.

2025-04-28 11:18:58 UTC

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@nprofile…jlsl the antler antennae get me every time

2025-04-27 13:48:54 UTC

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@nprofile…jlsl have you noticed that parrots always go for people's teeth? I think lots of birds find teeth weird. Then there's everything about emus, to say nothing of the geese. We definitely have material to frighten the masses with only a little effort.

2025-04-27 13:01:02 UTC

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@nprofile…jlsl people are strangely not that afraid of birds, I feel

2025-04-27 11:52:38 UTC

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@nprofile…jlsl stomp stomp stomp!

2025-04-27 11:32:26 UTC

It's hard to describe what hulking giants crows are compared to the songbirds and usual assorted friends on the deck. #BirdCallOut
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2025-04-24 22:12:43 UTC

Our Lady of Sitting has returned! She set some boundaries with a goldfinch and then they both went back to eating.
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2025-04-20 12:17:01 UTC

This is not a drill! Tiny downy woodpecker is stuffing his face with the marscapone the raccoons did not eat!
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2025-04-19 12:01:41 UTC

Clean a bean for Caturday.
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2025-04-14 19:54:49 UTC

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@nprofile…fe4j I didn't catch the inciting incident, but the usual way is to be politely friendly and otherwise ignore them, like feral cat protocol.

2025-04-09 17:36:41 UTC

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@nprofile…fe4j I had to stop Brigerton when friends started fighting.

2025-04-09 16:35:56 UTC

Wren butt.
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2025-04-07 15:39:05 UTC

Our Lady of Sitting is here with the grackles and jays, methodically stuffing herself. I admire her commitment to food.
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2025-04-03 20:23:01 UTC

How fluffy are a woodpecker's pantaloons when it comes right down to it?
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2025-04-03 13:18:22 UTC

With the summary racooning of the apple, which is now entirely gone, we are back to birds as usual.
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2025-04-01 19:12:31 UTC

I solved a problem with scissors. I am sure you are all pleased for me.

2025-04-01 18:18:25 UTC

A meditation on shininess.
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2025-03-30 15:02:32 UTC

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@nprofile…hnj0 flooded with mergansers!

2025-03-30 11:37:13 UTC

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@nprofile…jlsl I play a phone game scattered with random ants facts, and one of those is that ants can survive in water for 28 days. I think they mean rafting fire ants, though. I am glad this one found a leaf.

2025-03-26 15:47:41 UTC

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@nprofile…fe4j at this point in my life, I have come to believe that vast incompetence is the standard mode of operation.

2025-03-26 12:15:30 UTC

Point of view: you are a rival northern flicker about to get jumped.
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2025-03-25 20:33:24 UTC

Our Lady of Sitting ponders the sky.
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2025-03-25 19:07:29 UTC

Continuing the tradition of sitting birds, one of the hairy woodpeckers. He's been just sitting there and peering around for the last several minutes.
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2025-03-25 17:18:09 UTC

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@nprofile…fe4j good advice. Thank you.

2025-03-22 13:41:03 UTC

Bluejays screaming like red-tailed hawks (default movie eagle noise), red-wing blackbirds screaming like laser guns, and first phoebe of the year flying around the yard inside search of the best place to scream.#birdCallOut

2025-03-22 12:06:32 UTC

The Triumph of the Seed
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2025-03-21 14:48:45 UTC

I think the blue jays are imitating red-tailed hawk calls, possibly even calling back to the local hawks. I don't know why.

2025-03-18 18:11:44 UTC

Loading those cheeks up.
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2025-03-18 16:08:24 UTC

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@nprofile…fe4j ...is it wrong to giggle? I may have giggled.

2025-03-17 19:29:30 UTC

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@nprofile…njna ahh, what good and important time spent. Happy to see you here, but glad you're doing something necessary!

2025-03-17 18:36:04 UTC

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@nprofile…njna oh that's great! What are you doing with volunteering, if you feel like saying?

2025-03-17 17:14:47 UTC

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@nprofile…njna hey! Good to see you posting again. What a fancy bird.

2025-03-07 15:54:30 UTC

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@nprofile…jlsl My wife and I call them boob lights, but seraph is a better interpretation here since it accounts for the wings.

2025-03-06 22:12:17 UTC

We are back in our house after almost half a year of exile. It is gorgeous and so, so quiet in comparison to my parents' basement apartment. A balm to my senses. This is our new ceiling fan.
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2025-02-19 16:14:50 UTC

I'm watching some documentary, and I can't help wondering: what evolutionary path dictated large, low-hanging balls flapping around in the wind? Wouldn't it make more sense to have them internal and safe?

2023-08-29 03:49:58 UTC

Cat drama woke me up so I get to ask a weird question for no good reason: How do you, a human, cope with the reality that words like fleshy, moist, squishy, etc. are default applicable to you? Like, how do you cognitively process being a bag of wet meat that thinks? I find it challenging personally.