Citation is how we knit the world.

Every day, getting back up just to spite the haters.

Out here getting mad at textile designers for being weird about women and saddling female birds with the baggage.

Another day of touching grass* *staring intently at birds via expensive optics

you ever think about the works progress administration? I sure do. I wish that was a thing now. I would be so glad to contribute my labor to like. A random ass local bridge

your daily reminder to never talk to the NYT about anything regarding trans issues.

Don't trust a New York Times reporter. Don't talk to a New York Times reporter. They are the most ambitious journalists on the planet and will do anything to get the story their editor wants. The truth doesn't matter to them, only getting the story their editor wants so they can move up.

I hope every last bigot and billionaire in this country spent the night in a cold sweat. May their bowel-curdling indigestion make them miserable for weeks.

Can confirm that Robyn will make your org look good and will definitely make your whole life a better place.

In case anyone on here hasn't seen the news on the old boards or on FB, but Iain (mormont) passed away yesterday.

happy Humidifier Babysitting Season to all who celebrate.

Saw my first-of-season Fox Sparrow last week and damn I have missed those bulbous delights. Universe! Bring me your finest NYC winter birds!!!

This story was so much fun to read. Love a good niche hobby deep-dive.

Reading an unexpectedly horny book about witches and transexuals and I'm gonna need 1,000 more like it before the year is out.

This upcoming week is a real mixed bag of demons and delights and I hope I can find or manifest enough magic to enjoy the good parts and survive the bad ones.

Another Friday, another vacation day. Going to see how much progress I can make on either the 1) personal tarot card I'm drawing or 2) the zine about birds that I'm drawing/writing.

I ate an entire ice cream sandwich, and while my innards are definitely telling me I'm an idiot, I regret nothing.

I am a bad occultist but also very gay, so of course I will be going to this event tomorrow.

Glad that my brain and AWS are experiencing parallel operational challenges today. Work is gonna be great.

Extremely pleased to see the birding community coming together this weekend to fundraiser for Birders of Palestine. My role was mostly in the "pledging funds to my friends' efforts" but I'm proud to have helped Jeana reach her 50-species goal as well. charity.pledgeit.org/2025fbcbirda...

Am very proud to have contributed today (and every day that I possibly can) to a better world for everyone. No, I didn't go to a protest -- I focused on material support and community solidarity in a different way.

Not going to tag them (they got enough shit going on) but I hope that Northsky can get through their dev queue soonish so I can migrate this account. Otherwise, going to have to go with myatproto (and hope that I can then re-migrate at a later date).

Supposed to be doing seventeen edits but instead I'm just irradiating my fractious neurons with Initiate and hoping for the best. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoNQ...

the speed at which I mashed the pre-order button tho

cishet people on thin fucking ice these days

YOU HEARD THEM

I took another day off work today and I think I may have finally gotten below the magic number where vacation stops accumulating. But definitely not stopping here because it turns out that working 4 days a week is doing amazing things for my mental health.

Oh hell yeah murder bat

It is terrible to discover that I speak like I'm translating directly from the German. "Yes I will answer this question but I am going to insert four clauses and three parentheticals while I get to the actual point." MY GOD.

If you require a distraction from The Horrors, you could listen to @captaintimh.bsky.social @n8swick.bsky.social and I deliver the hottest takes in birding, including my plan to weaponize swans. www.aba.org/09-41-take-i...

Today's grim thought is wondering what I could have done to build more of an ethical spine into the writers I edited or the editorial colleagues I used to have who are now at NYT. Yes, I was disabled by illness for a lot of that time period, but I still feel like I am culpable for these cowards now.

Every time @kissane.myatproto.social writes something amazing, I get I NEED TO VOLUNTEER MY SKILLS energy, which is good except those opps are basically "make my day job 24/7" and there is no faster way to cook my brain than that. I need to be content to be the person who helps people touch grass.

Bring back the megagay exorcism you cowards

Still one of the best tattoos on the planet but I won't tag the recipient in case she likes to keep that knowledge for centaur-appreciators only.

I hope a meteorite crushes newsom into a fine meat paste.

Got great views of the Manhattan skyline from the roof tonight and I'm crouched in a corner drawing pictures of Herring Gulls from memory.

If you love fantastical fine art and illustration, you really should be following Michael Whelan's bsky account. You're gonna recognize so many images that you might not have known were his creations. I get so happy every time one hits my timeline. Bonus: ALT text on images!

I've taken so little vacation in the last 15 months that I stopped accruing time off, which is frankly an indictment of a lot of things too numerous to explore here. So I took today off and am considering taking every Friday off until winter break. I will STILL have time left over if I do this.

Another world is possible. We can make this happen again.

At the annual switching point where iced coffee cedes the floor to hot tea and I wonder just how bad my focus will be today with the slight decrease in caffeine.

I've seen this play out among my peer group, esp cis/het journalists. They get so mad. "You can't just decide to be a guy while wearing a dress, or make your own rules about what ethical journalism is outside of 'accepted wisdom!'" Fuckin' WATCH ME. I'm here to make that better world we all deserve.

love to stare hatefully at my email inbox

Out: body count In:

once my mighty transgender army of catgirl gamers and himbo gardeners takes over the government, getting roasted before noon on a Sunday will be illegal

I bought many art supplies today so now I no longer have any excuses about not starting the project that has been dropkicking my neurons for more than a month now.

Honestly? goals.

We both won -- I got the pigeon into a box after chasing it down the block like a lunatic, and it got an express trip to Wild Bird Fund for a checkup after it zoomed into a window.

I'm supposed to be writing copy for a fun little print story slated to run this winter, but instead I'm spiraling for the 200th time this month over the professional, ethical, and emotional incompetence of cis journalists in this moment.

Wrestled a pigeon this morning on the way to work. As far as I am concerned, I have fulfilled any obligations that I had to anyone for the next 24 hours.

Fair warning @woodcreeper.bsky.social, my plan to help Stephanie achieve her next WSoB goal involves us stealing your boat. It's OK, you can still pilot it. You just need to whisper "I'm being kidnapped by bird pirates" as we leave harbor. @birdv.fish and @spiffybirder.bsky.social will back me up.