Doxxing myself here, but I spent my life ages 2-18 in New Zealand, so I have a Kiwi accent

Well I have picked up a little Aussie twang after living here for over a decade, but still.

Fush and chups.

I have a love/hate relationship with Australia, love the nature, love the first nations people, love medicare. Hate that most of the people here are destroying that all for the sake of imperialism. The vast majority of Australians don't even know their own country. Like most Aussies don't even know anything about our unique edible plants, or our native bee honey or anything. We had giant gumtrees, the last of which was illegally cut down by a development company in the 2010s, nobody knows or cares. We bulldoze our koalas for mulch factorys and rental complexs and nobody cares. They have this whole unique identity we ignore to chase this weird American cowboys and McDonalds shit instead.

New Zealand has the same problem, but at least the Maori have managed to keep a tiny, tiny bit of power and have saved NZ from being a total shitheap US vassel like Aussieland. New Zealand has a bunch of bougie farmers with too much money and power, but juuust enough sovereignty from total 5 eyes bullshit that we haven't completely ruined everything quite yet.

Holy crap, I just realised I have the same approach to animals and animals tend to trust me because of it

Get into bugs and you can just like.. check under a rock for guys. They're also the secret animals and they do so much cool shit. A lot easier to casually observe for a lil while here and there too. Birds are the next level. I keep an eye on the crows in my neighborhood, some ducks around town, some bugs in the park I go to. Sometimes I look em up and sometimes I just learn on first principle and make little observations as if im the first person to discover a lil critter. Watching animals do stuff and writing notes is super fun! I used to live out in the sticks and knew the roaming patterns of a few groups of deer who came in and out of the woods nearby. You'll begin to tjink maybe agriculture was a mistake and will go vegan, but just hanging out in one place for days until animals around just decided I was part of thr landscape and went about their business like I wasnt there was super rewarding. And I got a lot of reading done in the meantime.

i loved zoboomafoo

I must be out of touch, I dunno who they are - _-;