bayesian asian @etirabys@qoto.org

me, beset by a new life obstacle: "this seems unfair, but I’m sure that in the process of reacting to this hardship, I’ll be a rotten human being in ways that will render the hardship cosmically just"

oh my goodness, one of Dian Fossey’s first close up observations with gorillas happened when she was trying to climb a tree to see them better, but SO BADLY that by the time she’d gotten up the entire group had come out of hiding to look at her: “Nearly all members of the group had totally exposed themselves, forgetting about hiding coyly behind foliage screens because it was obvious to them that the observer had been distracted by tree-climbing problems, an activity they could understand.”