Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata)

October 23, 2025

Southeastern Pennsylvania

(Birds safely handled, banded, and released under state and federal permits for research purposes.)

Blue jays get so little respect but they're such great birds. When cats are pugnacious and spicy and yell a lot, we love them, but when it's a bitchy blue bird, we call them a nuisance.

Also they're sincerely just GORGEOUS.

Look, they're gorgeous birds, but when they're screaming two feet outside my window -- so loud through the glass that it's still hard to hear my TV -- they are my enemy.

Sometimes I yell back at them.

I mean, my response to Raidah in today's comic was pretty much just this:

...Did she, though? Like, all she did for most of that conversation was be homophobic directly at Joyce. She didn't actually meaningfully call out her actually problematic behavior until literally the very end of the conversation where she was walking away, and when Joyce tried to bring up the nuance of "hey this is the first time I'm able to comfortably live as myself without repressing it due to my religious fundamentalist upbringing" Raidah didn't even acknowledge it.

In retrospect, that conversation kind of ends with neither being quite right. Raidah is blaming Joyce for a choice made by the school paper, and Joyce isn't getting that the problem isn't her being her authentic self, it's that she's seemingly centering her own experiences.

So Raidah has a point, she's just blaming the wrong person.

Of course, probably the most realistic part of the whole exchange is that everybody's at least a little bit wrong.

why is this post completely broken in every way imaginable

Broken notes… deactivated account… removed image….

Finally, we have them all.

In addition: OP’s name is just… gone. No “[insert username]-deactivated[insert a bunch of numbers]” as is the standard for deactivated blogs.

Just the world “deactivated.” Look upon their post, ye mighty, and despair.

It’ll be almost impossible to find this post unless it wanders across your dash.

It wandered across mine. I shall help it travel forward.

this is not a place of honor

@hellsite-hall-of-fame

i saw some comments on tiktok where people were talking bout how they found tumblr too hard to use and part of it being that there was no lack of dates so “what if you reblog or like something from five years ago?!” 

buddy… we have posts circulating still from 2011, its literally just how it is

Being on tumblr for years like:

this post is 2 years old and it’s only going to get funnier as it gets older

This is how the entire internet was supposed to be. Before social media we made webpages and a webpage was supposed to be timeless, a permanent “shrine” to something we liked, intended to keep getting visitors and comments for as long as it stayed up. When “blogging” became a concept every blog post was supposed to be the same sort of long term fixture.

The idea that posts have some sort of freshness date comes solely from the poisonous garbage world of the engagement farming business.

Like I've been maintaining the same personal blog since 2001. It's still online, and still my current blog. If you want shitty takes from when I was 20? You can find them there. But you can also find the terrible takes I had at 30.

And 40.

And now 45.

Tumblr is one of the few social media sites that still roughly acts like the way the internet is supposed to -- but it doesn't change the fact that we really need to get off of centralized platforms. Because if Tumblr goes down, where else will people go if we haven't built our own spaces?

Homeless Fundraiser

Well. First update of November.

The beginning of this month hasn't been Quite as hard as last month. Financially abusive sister managed to get $75 from Moms first check but I got all of the second one.

As of 11AM Wednesday the 5th, we have the room paid for until Friday the 7th, I've got all our medications, some food that I hope to stretch as far as I can and have enough left to pay for 4 more days [which I think gets us to the 11th(?)].

I've finally got Moms Chronic Bronchitis calmed back down to a manageable place [chronic illness is such a bitch] without having to take her to the hospital but now my HS is in a Flare up and I've also got this Brain Fog thing happening thats kind of scaring me... Also, it's my birthday on the 19th. It would be nice to not have to stress quite so hard this month.

I have art for sale on my Redbubble and in my Ko-Fi shop, if anyone is interested in that. I'm trying to figure out how to do commissions with the tools[and skills lol] I have.

I know how hard things are out there for everybody and it's not getting easier for anyone but please know that Literally any amount of support is so incredibly appreciated and needed. Even a reblog helps immensely because the more people who see this the more likely someone who can afford to help will see it.

PayPal / Ko-Fi / Redbubble

Rough Draft Mockup of what would be my initial comission offer..... I'll remake it prettier tomorrow but for now, *shrug* here ya go....

Much thanks to the wise and wonderful @traegorn, I'm seriously going to make a big deal out of Modemnia the goddess of Good WiFi now.

I feel like she applies to all local internet connections, both wireless and wired. With hair of blue ethernet cables, dancing across the spread spectrum.

All hail Modemnia.

online communities are so strange because people slip away so easily. you can be on here for years, folding people you've never met into the fabric of your daily life, and then they disappear, leaving only ghost posts scattered across tumblr behind. or their blog stays dormant, for weeks, months, years, until you're only still following them because you remember that they love sunflowers or they were kind to you when they didn't have to be or the last thing they posted was sad and raw and you still worry about them sometimes.

and sometimes they come back when you least expect it, years later, even, and there's this sudden rush of relief like there you are, there you are, even though you barely knew each other.

there's a strange kind of love to it. i don't know you and i want to hold your hand across miles and time zones and oceans. i can still see the imprint of you in this community you left. you don't think anyone will notice or care when you're gone, but we notice and we care and we wish you well.

i hope you're all okay out there. i hope the sun is shining on your face and you are breathing deeply. i miss you.

"Why are you replying to the comment I made in the replies of this very popular public post" is the tumblr version of talking loudly on speakerphone on public transport and then getting offended when other people overhear. We can all see you, gang. You initiated this conversation with the whole bus, by your actions.

please invent an imaginary friend to go to a museum with this winter please for the love of all things holy

please also remember that your imaginary friend is not a fucking deity and does not exist outside of your head... we have created enough fake gods in our history, we don't need anymore.

feed it with blood and devotion. court it with candles and incense. chant its name in the small hours of the night. Stephanie, the Goddess of Being Slightly Less Socially Anxious In Museums, is already stepping coltishly out of the sea foam and the dawn has never been so bright.

I mean, it's true we don't need any more fake gods.

Which is why it's very important to MAKE THEM REAL.

ALL HAIL MODEMNIA, GODDESS OF GOOD WIFI.

most common household invertebrates originate from caves so it's not that weird that this was done by T. domestica of all things but it's still incredibly funny. are you telling me the guy who lives behind the furniture could do this if i got him a few friends

Boys, it's time to pull georg out of retirement.

I DIDN’T LEARN ABOUT THIS IN DRIVING SCHOOL

Stop says the red light, go says the green

Wait says the yellow light, twinkling in between. 

KNEEL, SAYS THE DEMON LIGHT WITH ITS EYE OF COAL  SAURON KNOWS YOUR LICENSE PLATE  AND STARES INTO YOUR SOUL

THIS IS ALWAYS FUNNY

@irritatedlifeguard I agree with your tags.