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Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 17h

I get that different people like different things but every time I have to spend days in the suburbs I can feel my mental health die in real time.

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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 21h

Thank YOU. I believe profoundly that the only correct response to pleasure is gratitude rather than guilt

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Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 23h

ahahahahahaha oh god we updated the DNS redirect file and now nothing is resolving in my browser.

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Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ice cream for dinner and my day has improved remarkably.

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 26/09/2026

reading fiction isn't escape, it's a genuine necessity. Feeding the imagination is essential for staying free.

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Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 26/09/2026

@jaykaydee.bsky.social said it and I'll second it: Reach out and I will take you birding. It will light up portions of your brain and heart that you forgot existed. We don't even need to be together: we can do it asynchronously. We can voice chat from our respective locations.

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Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's Friday and I am getting unreasonably enthusiastic about neotropical birds.

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meetar @fjord.style · 25/09/2026

Toward the end of his life, my extremely laconic Nordic grandfather would sit in a chair for hours. My grandmother asked him: "How can you just sit there all day?" ... "Practice"

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Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 25/09/2026

oh my god we're slightly changing up the cats' food (and thus feeding schedule) and they are being the biggest shits right now. TAKE A NAP YOU MANIACS

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Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 25/09/2026

I had planned on my ashes being launched from a trebuchet into a suitable body of salt water, but I am reconsidering that in light of Jeff's plans.

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Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 23/09/2026

Love it when the collective work of @jerutter.bsky.social @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social (I think this is how we met, right?), myself, and others shows up unexpectedly in the literature. (We were all part of Bird Names For Birds.) Science showing that the haters can die mad.

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Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 23/09/2026

Oh hey. Yes, I am yelling in the NYC office slack channel about breakfast potatoes. No, it isn't weird and if you were a righteous person who is pure of purpose, you would realize that breakfast potatoes are a perfectly cromulent topic of discussion in all contexts.

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Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 23/09/2026

Bird walk successfully led and I almost started crying because we found multiple Rose-breasted Grosbeak foraging in some jewelweed and those birds are just so good????

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Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's 6am and I am back on my bullshit (leading bird walks)

Looking at the sunrise from an elevated subway platform in Brooklyn.

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Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ever meet someone who you immediately think "damn, that is a lawsuit waiting to happen?"

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Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 21/09/2026

Totally separate from my other challenges today around that bird walk, my voice started cracking. I don't notice anything under normal circumstances but the second I have to project, things start going weird.

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Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 21/09/2026

It shouldn't bum me out this much, but damn I really struggle when I have to be the bird-shaped entertainment during what is essentially a networking function. Like the birding equivalent of a wedding singer.

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Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 21/09/2026

Ahahahaha I forgot to pack my own binoculars for the bird walk I am leading. Today is going to be great. I can feel it.

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Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 21/09/2026

Gotta lead two separate bird walks for NY Climate Week and honestly I am OK with this because it means I don't have to go to some accursed panel discussion for networking.

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Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 19/09/2026

Living my best filthy transsexual life by getting outside and looking at some birds.

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Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 18/09/2026

I will never, ever forget who abandoned trans people.

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Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 18/09/2026

My cat has flopped down on my keyboard/computer at least three separate times this morning and while he's adorable I would like to actually get some work done?

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Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 17/09/2026

You've tried everything else and still aren't happy. Why not see if this is what fixes ya?

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Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 15/09/2026

I had my first appt with a new doctor yesterday and it turns out we somehow know each other but neither of us can figure out how. Now I'm paranoid that past me was an awkward freak and also how the fuck did I manage to randomly meet one of the only trans-competent gynecologists in New York City?

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Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 14/09/2026

I need to finish up a line edit of a feature story. Let us see if I can make my brain coöperate.

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Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 13/09/2026

We are *so* back! Went to a resurrected Saint Vitus; Immolation absolutely crushed it; I got pummeled by the pit and had the breath knocked out of me with a comically loud OOOF. Anyway, proof that death metal will heal all that ails you, because I feel fucking GREAT.

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Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 11/09/2026

this is great but the cat needs to be shoving R off the countertop to show it who is boss.

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Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 11/09/2026

Filling out an application requesting access to a museum collection and stymied by the "affiliation" field. My options are to use my day job (very recognizable) or the project with the groan-worthy pun in the title.

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Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 08/09/2026

And they've been like this all along. I met some of the dumbest, least curious or interesting people in my life in SV/Bay Area in the 90s.

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Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 07/09/2026

I've become That Person that terrorizes random birders at the hotspot with too much bird information. Sorry, random couple from upstate New York. I'm thrilled we found you your lifer Clapper Rail but I am sorry that I also explained too much about peep identification and how to sex American Avocet.

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Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 04/09/2026

Love to see my medical care provider, including transgender healthcare, being giant pieces of shit at a time when switching doctors is absolutely beyond me. Also love that when I search for transgender medicine in the same system as my oncologist, the highest hit is the fucking psychiatry portal.

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Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 03/09/2026

The only computer worth keeping is my Zojirushi rice cooker. The rest: Into the pit!

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Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 03/09/2026

the discourse is, as always, terrible. I recommend that you spend some time with a stream restoration project instead. Much better for the cortisol levels/soul.

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Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 02/09/2026

I learned this lesson the hard way. It caused me immense grief and put incredible strain on my cis colleagues and our working relationship. (My colleagues staunchly supported me throughout.) I deserved better. My colleagues deserved better. The story deserved better. The birds deserved better.

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Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 29/08/2026

Wasn't expecting to get bodied by @judedoyle.bsky.social at 7am on a Saturday but 2026 has been that kind of year.

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Claire G. Griffin @polargriffin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This is just Lake Erie

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Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 27/08/2026

We also talked about......uh......OK we talked a lot about poop.

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Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 27/08/2026

You know how little kids will do something mildly wrong and scare themselves, then run to you for hugs because they need the reassurance? The Snack Falcon just did that and I can't stop laughing. (This is the cat who generally does not like a lot of contact.)

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Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 26/08/2026

There is nothing more pathetic and irritating than a bunch of people, mostly men, declaring that they'd definitely intervene in regular-degular street harassment with violence. That is how you know that they've never done an uncomfortable but helpful thing in their entire fucking lives.

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Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 26/08/2026

I must have finally cracked some kind of code because I see various folks muttering dark things about discourse and I have seen literally none of it. My entire timeline is people talking about Dolly and her support of queer/trans people.

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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 24/08/2026

There is something so frustrating about watching basically every staff sports writer completely mangle this story about transphobia in the WNBA, while so many trans journalists who would do a great job (and who have been pitching stories about this!) are struggling to get hired and make ends meet.

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Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 24/08/2026

We're staying in a hotel with a champagne vending machine.

Dusk view of a small bottle of champagne with some train tracks in the background

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Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 20/08/2026

I was about to get into a "won't come back from this" fight at work, but then this showed up on my timeline and I am calm enough to stay employed for another day.

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