Please look at this perfect creature 😭🦭 Elephant Seal, San Simeon CA, 9.30.25

This bird looks chill, but he straight up screamed at me when I picked him up (an honor tbh) 🪶

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There was some Weather™️ on the Central Coast last night ⚡️🌊

Once again, a tiny bird is utterly unappreciative of my life-saving efforts Northern Parula in Long Island City, 9.18.25 💛🪶

Mallard and Fifth Avenue in the Model Boat Pond 🌊🦆🌊 Central Park, 9.14.25 🪶

Can’t believe they just let anyone buy a laminator

The visiting Ruby-throated Hummingbirds simply must sample every single jewelweed flower Central Park has to offer 🌿🧡🪶 The Ramble, 9.14.25

Scheduled my Covid vaccine for next week, at which point it will be just over a week since testing negative, do we think this is a terrible idea

Obsessed with this firefly plate, actually

Extreme mood

🌫️🖤🌫️ Starlings in flight over the East River, August 2025 🪶

Anyway, back to birds ✈️💛🪶 Laughing Gull in Astoria, August 2025

It is such a pet peeve when someone goes rogue and copies other people when replying to an email I sent without asking me first.

There’s also a yak and a zebra involved

My job can be stressful and all-consuming, but it also occasionally involves receiving emails that say “would you like me to arrange for a dromedary?”

And yes I did have to continue working more or less full time (from home), because I work in event production, and there’s stuff that does unfortunately have to be done by certain dates, and if I don’t work I don’t get paid, and I cannot afford to not get paid. Great system we have here!

It’s great that the updated Covid vaccine became available in NY the same week I got Covid for the third time

Swing by TOMORROW noon to 6 pm to our Craft Fair Fundraiser for Gaza in Brooklyn - come early to get the good stuff, lol.

It’s all an attitude of being fine with authoritarianism, just not in their preferred cities. High crime rates in Republican-led states isn’t a gotcha! It’s a tragedy and a canary in a coal mine about what systemic racism and poverty beget. Do better, y’all. Not one city should be occupied.

me

Hey NYC, this is very cool! I’m sad I won’t be able to be there. (also, if you’re maybe interested in one or two owl prints that aren’t for sale in my Etsy shop, now’s your chance)

I am tired of the circumstances of my life being determined by men on the brink of non-existence who think they’ll never die if they have enough power.

I only answer to the ravens 🖤🖤 Common Ravens, Astoria, August 2025 🪶

“They said ‘she stands out there for three hours everyday taking pictures’” sir have y’all heard of neurodivergence

Like truly cannot stress enough how much I do not give a shit what these people are doing

Apparently someone almost called the cops on me just now for taking pictures of birds in a public park, how’s everyone else’s evening

still thinking about her 🏙️🐦

Finally met the big pigeon 🐦🏙️ Dinosaur by Iván Argote - the High Line, NYC

Befriended a small crab yesterday 🦀🥹

I’m going to say this louder this time: if you are lying about having a high-risk condition to get a Covid vaccine, all good, do what you want to do BUT show some actual goddamn respect for people who *actually* have that condition and start masking.

🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛✈️✈️ Common Ravens on patrol over Astoria, 8.29.25 🪶

☁️🌅☁️ Sunset was dramatic the other day East River, Astoria, 8.28.25

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lol my doctor’s office also does not have any concrete information because shit is fucked 🙃

You just had to be there.

New Orleans, I love you

Is anyone having success booking a Covid booster in the greater NYC area? Because so far every CVS I’ve checked says it’s “out of stock” and Walgreens lists it as “unavailable.” 🫥

Consider this my belated letter to the editor. I wrote about the legacy of Katrina, the use of criticism, Robert Polidori's images of my destroyed New Orleans neighborhood, and John Updike's review in the New York Review of Books for @oxfordamerican.bsky.social. oxfordamerican.org/oa-now/what-...

You guys, I’m aware that the East River has been known to serve as an intermediary resting place for some unfortunate souls, among other things. Please just let me have the tiniest bit of peace lol

Sometimes I need to just go stare at the water for several minutes/hours, so here’s some of that, if you need it. East River, August 2025 🌊

I was taking the train home very late one night about 15 years ago, and the people sitting on either side of me BOTH kept falling asleep, on each of my shoulders. This sounds like something that I would hate, but it was actually very funny (the people sitting across from me were losing it)

🐦🇺🇸🐦 Astoria NY, 8.18.25 🪶

two Glorious Pigeons for u 🩶🩶 Astoria NY, 8.18.25 🪶

✈️🩶🪶 Astoria NY, 8.18.25

on the one hand I should absolutely put my phone down but on the other hand what if the forces attacking democracy operate on weeping angels logic

another Glorious Pigeon for u 🐦✈️ Astoria NY, 8.18.25 🪶

It bamboozles my brain when unmasked people panic and move away from me with wild terrified eyes because I’m masked. Like somebody with a gun backing away from a person in a bullet-proof vest, like “Whoa hey, you expecting some violence?” I don’t know, man, you tell me. You’ve got the fucking gun.

My for you feed on tiktok right now is like 25% people absolutely letting the MTA board have it at the public hearings about the proposed fare hikes yesterday and it is . . . good

Oh hey 🌿🦝🌿 Raccoon in Central Park, 8.19.25 #mammals #nycwildlife