@thebirdist.bsky.social and I have been honing our hottest, most unhinged takes in preparation for this. Join us on Tuesday for CHAOS (and birds).

I see that Pennsylvania is cursed all around for City Connect designs. Unlike the Phillies, whose City Connect gear is stupid beyond belief, the Pittsburgh option is both stupid and boring.

I would like to travel back in time and prevent ESRI Storymaps from ever being created.

Working in the office for the first time since my cancer diagnosis in early February and boy do I have a lot of complicated ✨ feelings✨

Just read the shittiest food writing/personal essay I've run across in literal years, and if this is what's being lauded as "excellent" in that field then we might as well chuck the whole thing in the household food waste compost bin.

Another day, another opportunity to be stuck in a doctor's waiting room for 30 minutes.

I've been diligent at doing exercises at home to regain range of motion and all of that frustration and depression actually paid off. I was able to bird for three hours on Saturday and even saw some canopy species like Blackburnian Warbler. Most of my canopy IDs were audio, tho, and that's still OK.

This A train is aggressively heterosexual. Send help

You know it!

every time I see this again, I vow to become a little more annoying >:)

Just discovered I'm on a blocklist that specifies "birders," and I am thrilled. What an incredible concept. "These people out there *observing birds.* Preposterous! I cannot support it."

Our last pontiff had bars but this guy is gonna OPEN UP THIS PIT.

I thought my marriage was solid but the spouse just switched the TV to the Spurs match and who would do that to someone you claim to love?

Still cannot get over how ugly the Phillies CityConnect uniforms are. Pure abomination.

I feel terrible for ignoring things happening in the wider world -- even just the unhinged racists losing their shit about the very existence of Mamdani -- but I have absolutely no reserves right now. I can't even get through basic PT without dissolving into a depressive crying sesh.

Jobs were a mistake. I need to become moss.

Prepping for my first day back at work after surgery and I am not sure how ready I am for this.

I love how some of the accounts I'm randomly following -- an illustrator, a stand-up comic, a games designer -- just post bird stuff unprompted. I didnae follow them for birds and yet they still deliver birds. Perfect.

Everybody deserves a crush, as a treat.

started doing post-mastectomy arm exercises and fuuuuuck.

I was able to use my own binoculars very briefly this weekend, but I have serious doubts that canopy warblers (or really any bird that's above eye-level) are in the cards for me this migration.

sure you can become a slopper instead of writing your own words and stories, but how else are you going to dye your hands teal while swapping out the ink in the fountain pen you found buried under a bunch of papers on your desk?

Can't wait to get blocked by a Spruce Grouse (my current nemesis).

listen. my book has a bunch of nude transsexuals in it. what do you want from me. that's visible as hell

Happy Trans Day of Visibility from your local transexual currently rotting on the couch after a bilateral mastectomy. I hope that every single person who was "just asking questions" has to go through the pain that I've been through because that's the future they're promising trans kids.

Took my first post-surgery shower and am feeling great, but also tired. Many thanks to @mikeymongol.bsky.social who, many years ago, gifted me a Bad Dragon lanyard that I put to great use as drain support. hornt purveyors 🤝 transexuals remain undefeated

I cannot stress enough how true this thread is. You are never too old to transition, and the rewards far outweigh the challenges. If you want to transition, you can try it for a weekend, a week, a month. And then, if you are not feeling it, you can always quit.

A couple of cringe MFers wearing bright green Kalshi t-shirts are sitting behind homeplate at this Giants game and I've rarely wanted a foul ball to drill right through the protective netting like I do right now.

Just bought sneakers with zippers because I foresee ten weeks or more of just struggling like hell to do basic shit.

I survived top surgery (well, a bilateral mastectomy because I was diagnosed with breast cancer last month, but I also chose to get gender-affirming reconstruction at the same time) and now I'm going to spend my weekend eating comfort food, watching TV, and feeling grateful for my loved ones.

@jerthorp.bsky.social I see our misery is extended for another week (as opposed to just being resigned to relegation).

Today was my last opportunity to bird for quite some time: I was diagnosed with cancer a few weeks ago and I have surgery scheduled on Friday. Thrilled to report that we saw our lifer Harris's Sparrow in a hedge in New Jersey and that feels like a good note to start this next phase of my life.

If you happen to have a few dollars that could use a good home and you also love raffle prizes, head over to Stellathon. All funds help Stella recover from massive wage theft.

The time of the juncos is over. The age of robin freakouts has begun.

I love hearing the unhinged cackling of Laughing Gulls over this spring training broadcast. Just one of my favorite sounds of summer.

Here's a cool idea if you need to *do something* in the face of The Horrors.

I think we should just go ahead and formally abolish the Senate, because this current thing where they don't do their jobs but draw a paycheck isn't really working for me

It’s so weird that not so long ago, like, less than 20 years, the progressive feminist position was gender de-segregation in sport and other male dominated spaces. Then the terfs came along and convinced the mainstream that the most progressive feminist position is that women are weak and feeble.

Love to be stranded in a virtual waiting room awaiting the doctor's arrival. Am I in the right place? Are they having technical difficulties? Am I going to have to wait here for three hours?

blogged about crying at films and superman (2025) newsletter.bijanstephen.blog/us-and-them/

I said what I said.

I try to stay measured and grounded in how I much I can possibly accomplish as one person to make the world a better place, but days like today really test my mental framework. Nothing to do about it except do what I can tomorrow, but what the fuck.

there is not a strong enough 'death to america' vibe on this website if we're being quite honest

The Phillies score bug appears to be typeset in Comic Sans? @robyniwitz.bsky.social your medium large sons are on one.

"time to launch some hotdogs" is the truest sign of spring

watching my spouse try to reason with our teenage cats and it's going about as well as expected

I've become a person who watches spring training games.