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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 · 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 · 29/06/2026

I resent having to go to work today. I just want to sit at home and look at my idiot sons.

Grey tuxedo cat Ham Panther stares into the distance with the tiniest blep as his brother Snack Falcon, a black tuxedo cat, plots crimes in the background.

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Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 11/06/2026

The receptionist at the vet just said “Snack Falcon. Snack Falcon! I love that name! It makes me laugh every time I see it. Can I meet him?” Thanks to @bombsfall.bsky.social for creating such a memorable setting that, years later, we named our food-motivated cats after the bodega and supermarket.

Ham Panther, a grey tuxedo cat, sits in the cat yurt.

Snack Falcon, a black tuxedo cat, sits in the cat yurt.

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Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 22/05/2026

Imagine saying this without a single shred of irony. I wish nothing but misery on each and every person who worked toward this result.

I have underlined the text from Sarah Owens MP that reads: "those that wish to exclude trans men and women from their spaces also need to know how to do so without breaching individual rights to privacy."

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Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 17/12/2025

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

Digital display that threatens or promises that "Ohio will be eliminated."

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Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 20/10/2025

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...

Screenshot showing that Feminist Bird Club has so far raised $35,508 for Palestine on a $30K goal.

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Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 22/09/2025

My colleagues at Bird Inc remain undefeated in the "weird notes to each other" category, in this case posted above The Slowest Water Fountain On Earth. That, or my dad re-emerged on this mortal plane just to send me a hello in these trying times. 😭

Note Title: Things to do while waiting for your water bottle to fill up

1. Sigh, repeatedly
2. Sing Itsy Bitsy Spider
3. Make a mental shopping list
4. Recite as much as you know of the Gettysburg Address
5. Sing the theme to Gilligan's Island
6. Do self-affirmations
7. Don't stop thinking about tomorrow
8. Cry
9. Laugh about something you heard earlier
10. Read a sonnet, like this one.
(Sonnet is "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" by Kit Marlowe - this choice is extremely Martha's Dad-coded)

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Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 06/08/2025

Love it when I'm on a call and @zgrueling.bsky.social slides this across my desk. Going to demand people give me treats for every meeting I successfully attend going forward.

Sticker with a drawing of a white gull
standing in front of a blue sky chomping on a crinkle french fry.

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Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 23/04/2025

My colleague @robyniwitz.bsky.social draws incredible scenes at NYHQ. And then my pedantic ass rolls in and adds important caption information.

Original sketch showing two Black-and-white Warblers flirting with "U+me, babe. How about it?" Props to Robyn for getting the undertail coverts correct.

Sketch with a rainbow text saying "Let's Go Birding Together," which is Audubon's queer-inclusive birding program. Because both of Robyn's birds are clearly male with those dark cheek patches. Females have pale cheeks.

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Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 23/04/2025

Incredible innovations in the toasted corn sector happening at work today

Bags of corn snacks, from top left clockwise: Doritos Golden Sriracha, Doritos Spicy Sweet Chili, Doritos BBQ Flavor Shots, Karamucho Spicy Curry

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Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 28/03/2025

Gotta say, when you have to migrate (and rewrite/edit on the fly) a crap-ton of web pages, Sons of the Northern Darkness is an absolutely clutch choice to keep you focused.

Photoshopped photo of the band Immortal in full corsepaint, plus a husky dog. text says "Day 28: They still don't know I'm a dog."

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Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 07/11/2024

My colleague just dropped this in bird Slack with the caption "I vant to eat your peanuts" and I've been wheezing for five minutes straight.

A blue and black bird, commonly known as a Steller's Jay, stands on a broken-off tree branch. Some cheeky wag has photoshopped white eyebrows, white fangs, and pinpoint red dots onto the birds face, beak, and eyes. Somebody should tell it that $20 can buy lots of peanuts.

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Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 11/08/2024

I've been doing this for years and yet every year it's the same damn struggle.

Tired Ben Affleck with the text "me on the first day of fall shorebird ID" across the middle

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Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 25/05/2024

It's FEMALE BIRD DAY all weekend!!!! If you are a birding type, go outside and appreciate one of the most unappreciated birds on the planet. I promise you, it'll be fun. femalebirdday.wordpress.com

Female Eastern Towhee. Note brown head, breast, and back; male towhees have black feathers instead. The orange flanks in females are also slightly desaturated. Photo by OHFalcon72 on Flickr CC2.0 https://flic.kr/p/2pDTKfq

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Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 27/02/2024

It's the very earliest days of spring migration and I am back on my bullshit

Standing on a subway platform staring into the mist

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Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 23/02/2024

The only good thing about late February is that it's SEXY POTATO TIME

An American Woodcock standing in the snow, looking very fetching and also potato-ish.

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Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 29/12/2023

Absolutely terrible photo of 30-foot waves off Bodega Head. Haven't seen a sea like that for quite a while!

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Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 10/12/2023

Cleaned out a very cluttered closet today and I think I might be ready for winter birding. (These were bought at different times so you know what my main concern is these days.)

Four stacked boxes, one an Amazon box and three others labeled HOT HANDS. All four are filled with toe warmers.

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Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 03/07/2023

This creature has been yelling at me for three days.

Boop alert: Close-up of a brown cat's face.

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Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.northsky.social · 02/07/2023

This motherfucker tried to kick my ass and steal my donut.

Brown and black goose running away after I gave it the gimlet eye.

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