Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️⚧️
@marthaharbison.bsky.social
Journalist; editor; that person at the party who won't shut up about birds. They/them. NYC.
https://femalebirdday.wordpress.com/
https://www.feministbirdclub.org
https://femalebirdday.wordpress.com/
https://www.feministbirdclub.org
Pinned
Digging around in the couch cushions looking for some patience to deal with people today and it is not looking good for you finches.
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Wouldn't be surprised of the Altoona police messed up a backpack search, I mean have you seen what that city did to pizza?
January 12, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Wouldn't be surprised of the Altoona police messed up a backpack search, I mean have you seen what that city did to pizza?
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Filled a few more spots yesterday! Get in there!
Spring cohorts of my 🐦📊🎨 courses are limited to 16 people. They're already filling up!
If you want to come on this strange and magical adventure with me (you should!)... register now?
I promise it will change the way you think about data and birds and your little slice of the world.
If you want to come on this strange and magical adventure with me (you should!)... register now?
I promise it will change the way you think about data and birds and your little slice of the world.
For the last two years I've been teaching an online course about birding and data visualization.
It's a course about noticing. About learning to be critical about data. About incubating and encouraging environmental care.
www.jerthorp.me/learning
It's a course about noticing. About learning to be critical about data. About incubating and encouraging environmental care.
www.jerthorp.me/learning
January 12, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Filled a few more spots yesterday! Get in there!
my timeline is currently a perfect split between people losing their shit about the NFL and people losing their shit about Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie (the two leads of Heated Rivalry) at the Golden Globes. Almost every single person posting about these topics is queer or trans (or both).
January 12, 2026 at 1:20 AM
my timeline is currently a perfect split between people losing their shit about the NFL and people losing their shit about Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie (the two leads of Heated Rivalry) at the Golden Globes. Almost every single person posting about these topics is queer or trans (or both).
this essay is fantastic, and touches on a lot of the things I've been grappling with privately for a few years, both in broad human terms and more specifically as a queer transmasc person.
i wrote about dissociation, reading as comfort, vice and self obliteration during times of horror, and also about reading exclusively about gay love for like. a year
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My Own Inner Elba
Let me start by saying that the news is incredibly awful. I’m very aware of this, in the way you’re aware of, say, a ninety-seven degree day with one hundred...
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January 12, 2026 at 12:40 AM
this essay is fantastic, and touches on a lot of the things I've been grappling with privately for a few years, both in broad human terms and more specifically as a queer transmasc person.
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Spring cohorts of my 🐦📊🎨 courses are limited to 16 people. They're already filling up!
If you want to come on this strange and magical adventure with me (you should!)... register now?
I promise it will change the way you think about data and birds and your little slice of the world.
If you want to come on this strange and magical adventure with me (you should!)... register now?
I promise it will change the way you think about data and birds and your little slice of the world.
For the last two years I've been teaching an online course about birding and data visualization.
It's a course about noticing. About learning to be critical about data. About incubating and encouraging environmental care.
www.jerthorp.me/learning
It's a course about noticing. About learning to be critical about data. About incubating and encouraging environmental care.
www.jerthorp.me/learning
January 11, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Spring cohorts of my 🐦📊🎨 courses are limited to 16 people. They're already filling up!
If you want to come on this strange and magical adventure with me (you should!)... register now?
I promise it will change the way you think about data and birds and your little slice of the world.
If you want to come on this strange and magical adventure with me (you should!)... register now?
I promise it will change the way you think about data and birds and your little slice of the world.
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check this shit out motherfucker *hits self in dick with kettlebell, its not clear what kind of move I was trying to do*
Wait a second why can’t anyone in this video do a kettlebell swing lmao
Hegseth had cameras recording him working out with recruits today at UCLA
January 10, 2026 at 3:18 PM
check this shit out motherfucker *hits self in dick with kettlebell, its not clear what kind of move I was trying to do*
I remember a time when I could get through an whole-ass week without having to check in on traumatized friends and colleagues.
January 7, 2026 at 7:17 PM
I remember a time when I could get through an whole-ass week without having to check in on traumatized friends and colleagues.
who says we can't have nice things? I ask for coot feet, someone delivers me coot feet, and now we all have COOT FEET. My day is now 4,000 percent better.
I completely agree. Coot feet are quite the - um - 'feat' of evolution! Neither webbed nor not. Feedback noted regarding future Coot pictures 🫡
January 6, 2026 at 2:32 PM
who says we can't have nice things? I ask for coot feet, someone delivers me coot feet, and now we all have COOT FEET. My day is now 4,000 percent better.
I need everyone to look at this fabulous bird. photos need moar feet tho. (coot feet Coot FEET COOT F.E.E.T.)
Finally! Whilst out Swan-ringing this morning, I managed to catch and colour-mark the first Coot for my Bucks Wildfowl Study. Compared to London, where I have caught countless Coots for @bh-wlbirding.bsky.social, Bucks birds have proven (almost) impossible to hand-catch! #CootStudy
January 6, 2026 at 2:17 PM
I need everyone to look at this fabulous bird. photos need moar feet tho. (coot feet Coot FEET COOT F.E.E.T.)
Confused but thrilled to discover even more friends who want to talk about Heated Rivalry purely because of the bird content. The Common Loon providing a bridge to collective smut appreciation is the energy I demand from 2026.
January 6, 2026 at 12:11 AM
Confused but thrilled to discover even more friends who want to talk about Heated Rivalry purely because of the bird content. The Common Loon providing a bridge to collective smut appreciation is the energy I demand from 2026.
OK @aauerbach.bsky.social I watched the last episode of gay hockey and, as predicted, my brain struggled to pay attention to the action because of the birdsong.
Me: Ah yes, very hot
Some asshole, offscreen: DEE DEE DEE
Me: FUCK
Me: Ah yes, very hot
Some asshole, offscreen: DEE DEE DEE
Me: FUCK
January 5, 2026 at 5:09 PM
OK @aauerbach.bsky.social I watched the last episode of gay hockey and, as predicted, my brain struggled to pay attention to the action because of the birdsong.
Me: Ah yes, very hot
Some asshole, offscreen: DEE DEE DEE
Me: FUCK
Me: Ah yes, very hot
Some asshole, offscreen: DEE DEE DEE
Me: FUCK
First bird of 2026: Ring-billed Gull. Honestly, an excellent option.
January 2, 2026 at 11:33 PM
First bird of 2026: Ring-billed Gull. Honestly, an excellent option.
Worth it because we saw our ✨ lifer Tundra Bean-Goose ✨
January 2, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Worth it because we saw our ✨ lifer Tundra Bean-Goose ✨
Still on vacation but up early to look at some WEIRD SEA DUCKS.
January 2, 2026 at 12:21 PM
Still on vacation but up early to look at some WEIRD SEA DUCKS.
I suppose at some point I will need to do a 2025 retrospective of Things I Did and Things That Happened, but that's work and I fucking refuse to do that on my vacation. From now until Jan 5, all I want to hear about are 1) cats 2) birds 3) straight guys getting into gay hockey.
December 31, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I suppose at some point I will need to do a 2025 retrospective of Things I Did and Things That Happened, but that's work and I fucking refuse to do that on my vacation. From now until Jan 5, all I want to hear about are 1) cats 2) birds 3) straight guys getting into gay hockey.
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You could put Elaine May, Dorothy Parker and William Shakespeare in a room together and they'd never write a punchline this funny.
December 31, 2025 at 1:09 AM
You could put Elaine May, Dorothy Parker and William Shakespeare in a room together and they'd never write a punchline this funny.
It is entirely too goddamn early to be at an airport
December 28, 2025 at 12:56 PM
It is entirely too goddamn early to be at an airport
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I continue to believe that there's nothing fortuitous about the fact that a society so devoid of divinatory practices (and which treats them so dismissively) is utterly primed to be taken in by LLMs...
December 27, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I continue to believe that there's nothing fortuitous about the fact that a society so devoid of divinatory practices (and which treats them so dismissively) is utterly primed to be taken in by LLMs...
This was such a fun conversation with three excellent people. @rheisman.bsky.social taught us how to talk to gulls, @jodyallair.bsky.social went long on what it's like to live in a hybridization hot zone, and @n8swick.bsky.social reminded us that Indigo Buntings only show up once the cows leave.
Check out the last TMIB podcast of 2025. I always enjoy being a guest panelist on these episodes, especially when I’m surrounded by some pretty amazing bird people. @marthaharbison.bsky.social @rheisman.bsky.social @n8swick.bsky.social
New American Birding Podcast episode!
Jody Allair, Martha Harbison, and Rebecca Heisman join host Nate Swick for the last American Birding Podcast episode of the year, with a wide-ranging discussion of some of the latest bird and birding news.
Listen here: www.aba.org/09-52-this-m...
Jody Allair, Martha Harbison, and Rebecca Heisman join host Nate Swick for the last American Birding Podcast episode of the year, with a wide-ranging discussion of some of the latest bird and birding news.
Listen here: www.aba.org/09-52-this-m...
December 26, 2025 at 4:37 PM
This was such a fun conversation with three excellent people. @rheisman.bsky.social taught us how to talk to gulls, @jodyallair.bsky.social went long on what it's like to live in a hybridization hot zone, and @n8swick.bsky.social reminded us that Indigo Buntings only show up once the cows leave.
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Headcanoning the Grinch as aromantic and NOT asexual. He fucks, but he doesn't fall in love. That's Who stuff
December 24, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Headcanoning the Grinch as aromantic and NOT asexual. He fucks, but he doesn't fall in love. That's Who stuff
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I tried this at my bodega and the cat hissed at me
told my landlord he no longer has to apologize for being white and he lowered my rent by 25%. told the grocer it's now the trump kennedy center and he sold me potatoes for $1. told PG&E it's a christian nation now and electricity is free. try it sometime
December 22, 2025 at 3:24 AM
I tried this at my bodega and the cat hissed at me
By absolutely wild coincidence (or maybe not, considering how much my mom has complained to me about it recently), @redford.bsky.social and I have been out there this week informing folks about the inescapable clammy embrace of tule fog. defector.com/what-is-the-...
What Is The Tule Fog, And Will It Ever Go Away? | Defector
California’s Central Valley is a 400-mile long expanse, penned in by the Sierra Nevadas to the East and the Coast Ranges to the west. The flatland is composed of remarkably fertile soil, as both mount...
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December 20, 2025 at 12:31 AM
By absolutely wild coincidence (or maybe not, considering how much my mom has complained to me about it recently), @redford.bsky.social and I have been out there this week informing folks about the inescapable clammy embrace of tule fog. defector.com/what-is-the-...
I am *spiraling* about how rancid and grossly obsessed cis people are with subjugating trans kids. Go to therapy, you bigoted freaks.
December 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I am *spiraling* about how rancid and grossly obsessed cis people are with subjugating trans kids. Go to therapy, you bigoted freaks.
My phone delivering powerful memories of dreams that never manifested. Maybe 2026 is our year.
December 17, 2025 at 9:22 PM
My phone delivering powerful memories of dreams that never manifested. Maybe 2026 is our year.