Joyce Feral Oates 🏳️⚧️
@marthaharbison.bsky.social
Journalist; editor; that person at the party who won't shut up about birds. They/them.
https://femalebirdday.wordpress.com/
https://www.feministbirdclub.org
https://femalebirdday.wordpress.com/
https://www.feministbirdclub.org
Pinned
Digging around in the couch cushions looking for some patience to deal with people today and it is not looking good for you finches.
This was such a great way to start my morning.
Happy Flytrap Tuesday! We are really honored to post this one, a comic in the Anishinaabemowin language about the Aadizookaan spirit, a foundational story to Indigenous trans identity.
Written by Waabanokiizhick Mandosking, illustrated by Shaawan Francis Keahna.
Written by Waabanokiizhick Mandosking, illustrated by Shaawan Francis Keahna.
Berdache
A comic by Shaawan Francis Keahna and Waabanokiizhick Mandosking.
the-flytrap.ghost.io
November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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.
I generally try not to comment on Twitter but Isaac Chotiner is over there giving Semafor body blows right now and I just want to say I find it alarming that he's allowed to come for you without warning (asking for an interview)
November 25, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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)
my freezer defrosted and everything melted. (that's bad)
my refrigerator is screaming
November 24, 2025 at 4:14 AM
my refrigerator stopped screaming! (that's good)
my freezer defrosted and everything melted. (that's bad)
my freezer defrosted and everything melted. (that's bad)
I see Spurs are taking their cues from the English Test cricket performance.
November 23, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I see Spurs are taking their cues from the English Test cricket performance.
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Scarleteen is one of the absolute best things that still remains of the internet I grew up on
A reminder that I'm raising $4k to support @scarleteen.com's staff and volunteer health fund to ensure that sex educators doing some of the BEST sex ed around are able to access health care. In an era of misinfo where most kids don't even get the most basic in school, Scarleteen is critical.
Scarleteen Staff and Volunteer Healthcare Fund
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www.classy.org
November 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Scarleteen is one of the absolute best things that still remains of the internet I grew up on
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Perennial reminder that you absolutely do NOT have to hand it to MTG under any circumstances
Marjorie Taylor Greene managed to tolerate being subjected to the sort of abuse, that she has subjected trans people to for years, for approximately one week.
November 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Perennial reminder that you absolutely do NOT have to hand it to MTG under any circumstances
Every day we stray further from god.
Seems like you don’t hear about felching so much these days. Well, time to take a big sip of heavy cream and see what’s on my favorite news website, telos dot news
November 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Every day we stray further from god.
oh my god I didn't think that this was going to happen. And yet! Two-day Test goblins have been rewarded.
Let's have a second innings spectacular collapse! Two of them, even! The goblin in me wants this Test finished by the time the light fails tonight.
November 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
oh my god I didn't think that this was going to happen. And yet! Two-day Test goblins have been rewarded.
Let's have a second innings spectacular collapse! Two of them, even! The goblin in me wants this Test finished by the time the light fails tonight.
November 22, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Let's have a second innings spectacular collapse! Two of them, even! The goblin in me wants this Test finished by the time the light fails tonight.
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.
November 22, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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.
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We're reprinting another Bitch mag classic today and celebrating @scarleteen.com, the internet's best sex-ed site.
Red Letter Day
The enduring legacy of Scarleteen, the internet’s best sex-ed site.
the-flytrap.ghost.io
November 21, 2025 at 6:45 PM
We're reprinting another Bitch mag classic today and celebrating @scarleteen.com, the internet's best sex-ed site.
England losing a wicket in the first over? We're so back, baybeeee! 🏏
November 21, 2025 at 2:38 AM
England losing a wicket in the first over? We're so back, baybeeee! 🏏
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Underfunded humanities departments giving knowing looks to society as tech companies reckon with the poetry knowledge gap in their AI safety teams.
November 21, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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.
Not much to say about Trans Day of Remembrance anymore besides “try loving and celebrating us while we are alive”
November 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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
November 19, 2025 at 11:13 AM
my refrigerator is screaming
you cannot make me read the excerpts. I refuse.
November 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
you cannot make me read the excerpts. I refuse.
Good gods I love this
November 16, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Good gods I love this
5,000 geese and a few dozen Sandhill Cranes fixed me.
November 15, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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.
November 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I see the NYT is having a normal one (again). Just burn that place to the fucking ground and salt the earth underneath it.
Doing the adult thing and not picking a fight on social media. (no, I have not been replaced by a pod person.)(that I know of.)
November 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Doing the adult thing and not picking a fight on social media. (no, I have not been replaced by a pod person.)(that I know of.)
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Citation is how we knit the world.
Was listening to the new ep of the Allusionist this morning, and Helen was interviewing So Mayer who promptly name-checked @carriem.co.uk because the Internet is a tiny tiny village
November 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Citation is how we knit the world.
Every day, getting back up just to spite the haters.
November 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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.
November 9, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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
*staring intently at birds via expensive optics
November 8, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Another day of touching grass*
*staring intently at birds via expensive optics
*staring intently at birds via expensive optics
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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
November 7, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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