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@marthaharbison.northsky.social
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That person at the party who won't shut up about birds. They/them. NYC.

https://femalebirdday.wordpress.com/
https://www.feministbirdclub.org
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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
August 24, 2026 at 12:22 AM
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Important updates from the couch (per my spouse).
The cats have reversed positions with black tuxedo Snack Falcon in the foreground and relaxed Ham Panther (grey tuxedo) lounging in the background.
June 29, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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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.
June 29, 2026 at 12:41 PM
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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.
June 11, 2026 at 4:16 PM
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A+ ad game on the subway
Ad with photos of four birds, from left to right: Hooded Merganser, Indigo Bunting, Blackburnian Warbler, and Osprey. Text says: The birds are headed North. Why not you? And the New York Birding Trail logo.
June 2, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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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."
May 22, 2026 at 11:13 AM
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I said what I said.
Logo with the number 30 and an illustration of an orange fish with yellow whiskers next to it. Text reads: Pokémon: Since 1996. (Editor's note: Magikarp 4eva.)
March 1, 2026 at 3:43 PM
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Every day, I do one dumbshit thing
Screenshot of my weather app with 12F circled and overlay text that says "wow I hate it"
January 2, 2026 at 1:03 PM
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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."
December 17, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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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.
October 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Go home, Wikipedia. You're drunk.
Screenshot of chromatic mapping for Roseate Spoonbill and it's roughly 40 percent kelly green, 60 percent white, and what looks like a single pixel-width's line of pink sandwiched between them.
October 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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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)
September 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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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.
August 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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It's RTO so that means @robyniwitz.bsky.social is up to her regular hijinks
Drawing of two hummingbirds battling while knocking down buildings. Stick people are fleeing the carnage while one stands resolute and says "Let Them Fight."
May 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Incredible things happening in Bushwick today
Homemade trebuchet (approximately 8 to 9 feet tall) attached to the back of a larger passenger car, found parallel parked in a residential portion of Bushwick, Brooklyn.
April 27, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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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.
April 23, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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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
April 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Real time shot of me on this Acela
Perky smiling blond person giving thumbs up next to a Satanic goat head. Under the blond person is the text "my personality" while under the goat head is "my taste in music"
April 12, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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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."
March 28, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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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.
November 7, 2024 at 6:42 PM
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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
August 11, 2024 at 6:33 PM
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never been roasted so hard in my whole life
August 7, 2024 at 11:36 PM
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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
May 25, 2024 at 12:51 AM
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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
February 27, 2024 at 12:09 PM
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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.
February 23, 2024 at 4:33 PM