hello I will do an #introduction

i am not coming from twitter but thought i would use this opportunity to join one of the few internet applications that i think is cool and would like to support.

i am interested in #wildlife #birding #conservation and probably will use this site mostly as a repository for my pictures of birds and other animals that i see around #ottawa and #easternontario where i live

will follow people doing interesting work in #ecology, #communityscience, #citizenscience, #limnology

i will also boost tech industry critics who do good research and writing about silicon valley hubris and the harms caused by the internet

politically i feel some affinity towards #luddism #ecosocialism #marxism #dialecticalbiology #historicalmaterialism #socialecology #politicalecology #anticapitalism #convivialconservation but i am not particularly dogmatic or sectarian and not interested in arguing about politics on the internet; and am interested in connecting with people who share common interests even if they are not 100% philosophically or politically aligned with me

other interests include #folkhorror #horrorfiction #horror
as well as music, particularly #metal #punk and more lately, #ambient; i guess in some ways a synthesis of many of these interests are ideas related to #hauntology #psychogeography and the #weird