The noise I just made

It is entirely too goddamn early to be at an airport

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.

print this out, share it with your friends and family, give it to your homophobic aunt and make sure she knows they’re both supposed to be red ❤️

Headcanoning the Grinch as aromantic and NOT asexual. He fucks, but he doesn't fall in love. That's Who stuff

Bari Weiss trying to perform an abortion and accidentally delivering 1,000 babies

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-...

Read the @assignedmedia.org 2025 trans news roundup and am grateful of the work that @evanurquhart.bsky.social and crew do, both as an independent news org and uplifting excellent work being done elsewhere by cis and trans journos alike.

Going to spend the rest of 2025 upgrading my siege engines and launching every cis person who did me wrong this year into the nearest brick wall.

I am *spiraling* about how rancid and grossly obsessed cis people are with subjugating trans kids. Go to therapy, you bigoted freaks.

Cuellar, Gonzalez, and Davis should never know a moment's peace until they're deep in the cold, cold ground.

My phone delivering powerful memories of dreams that never manifested. Maybe 2026 is our year.

There is a sankey diagram in this research paper I'm reading and I want to get into a fistfight with it.

Truly an underrated life joy

Lasted 20 minutes at the holiday party, introduced myself to somebody who I apparently already met, and decided that was enough.

Gender — and restrictive gender roles — are core to authoritarian projects. Society uses concepts of gender to sort people. Data both reflects and imposes these social definitions. Some notes from a speech about this last week: buttondown.com/stetdele/arc...

Apparently I have meetings today? What the fuck just let me hibernate in peace, you monsters.

My friends that was one of the most brutal birding days I've had in a long time. My bins became so encrusted with snow and ice they were useless by the second hour. The snow was so wet I couldn't wear gloves because they were getting water-logged. Can't wait to do it again next year!

Me frowning severely out the window at the snow as I prepare to head outside for this year's Central Park Christmas Bird Count.

The Epic of Gilgamesh:

some day, my pri--refrigerator technician will come.

I'm a sector lead in Central Park again this year (SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY!) in case anyone is feeling some kind of way.

oh man, literally was just reading a paper whose conclusions partially hinge on carotenoid expression in wood-warbler hybridization, so very eager to dig into this.

I expend so much energy* November through March to keep the Ravening at bay. *half-assing my humidifier maintenance routine

Love it when friends try to assure me that whatever accursed upstate town they've decided to move to is "just like Brooklyn, but cheaper," except that it's full of cishet white people. Yes, because nothing says "safe for visibly trans people" like that demographic triple-threat.

My tarot deck is On One this week. First, it delivered the horniest Celtic Cross I've ever seen, then I got the grimmest shit when I was wondering about my job, and now it's telling me to YOLO something unhinged. Universe is really trying to make me relive my 20s ISTG.

Not me out here avoiding medical transition for a bazillion years because then I'd have to grapple with the fallout (mostly fear of triggering an immune flare but also all the other stuff).

extremely rude that I have "do my job" when I really want to just sprawl on my stupidly large couch and be gay.

I admit, I was not prepared for how gay and horny the gay horny hockey show is.

When the guy from Monster Mash said he was working in his lab late one night he was referring to the USGS Bird Banding Lab

Cis allies, *you* need to be part of the "us" in this. When (not if) an institution sacrifices me and people like me rather than being creative or doing something hard, *you* need to band together and make those motherfuckers pay, and pay dearly.

Happy anniversary to those who celebrate www.todayintabs.com/p/turn-that-...

Ok I said I did kitchen crimes today, but I rescind my claim to such shenanigans in the face of this beautiful transgression.

Fending off the sads by doing crime in the kitchen

We will no longer be silent. We must make this happen.

This was such a great way to start my morning.

The minute I hear Isaac Chotiner has noticed a bird is the minute I start activating my escape routes to South America.

my refrigerator stopped screaming! (that's good) my freezer defrosted and everything melted. (that's bad)

Every day we stray further from god.

Watching some classic horror and ngl I think my favorite thing about it is the Eastern Phoebe that you can hear screaming in the background of all the outside shots.

England losing a wicket in the first over? We're so back, baybeeee! 🏏

Underfunded humanities departments giving knowing looks to society as tech companies reckon with the poetry knowledge gap in their AI safety teams.

This is hitting hard in a way it hasn't for years. And not just generally, although it's been very bad: I've been Through It this year specifically due to others' carelessness and malice because I'm trans. I'm still here because my people told me how much I matter to them.

my refrigerator is screaming

you cannot make me read the excerpts. I refuse.

Good gods I love this

5,000 geese and a few dozen Sandhill Cranes fixed me.

I see the NYT is having a normal one (again). Just burn that place to the fucking ground and salt the earth underneath it.