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IThe Carolina Parakeet t in binocular vision, but it was just a little squarish spot in the middle, when they turned their eyes forward, generally when feeding. Otherwise it was that side by side big eyed vison of the whole world around them. Also, looking up, watching for hawks.

#thelongrescue
December 11, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Lennon’s “Imagine” was the first thing I saw this morning.

The Nuclear Weapons Singularity is the unspoken version of that line
“imagine there were no nations.”

Most of the danger for 80 years hasn’t been between nations — it’s been inside the system itself.
December 9, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Kickstarter for the production of the General Theory of Nuclear Weapons Corpus (Special Theory is already done).

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December 9, 2025 at 4:45 AM
I've yet to have a dream about the Carolina Parakeet. I'm going to try to see if I can bring that about. The best strategy I have from past experience is to "put it in the cue."

Like this: I want to dream about the Carolina Parakeet soon.

#thelongrescue
December 8, 2025 at 8:17 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
December 2, 2025 at 11:23 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
November 30, 2025 at 11:00 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.
November 30, 2025 at 10:59 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
November 29, 2025 at 11:36 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
November 28, 2025 at 4:53 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
November 27, 2025 at 8:32 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.
November 27, 2025 at 1:30 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
November 26, 2025 at 9:46 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.
November 26, 2025 at 9:42 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.
November 24, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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
November 24, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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.
November 22, 2025 at 10:30 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
November 22, 2025 at 10:05 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
November 22, 2025 at 12:43 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.
November 21, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Ugh too mad to work. I’m taking a potoo break.

📸Sparkle Motion, Sebastian Lescano, unknown, Melissa Garoo
November 21, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Wild native azaleas along lake Lanier shore in North Georgia.
#scape #landscape #bloomscrolling #nativeazalea #flowers #flowerscape #eastcoastkin
November 21, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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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 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.
November 20, 2025 at 9:14 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.
November 20, 2025 at 9:07 PM