mx. clara sparks
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eclectical engiqueer, catmom, silicidal ideator, she+they
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mx. clara sparks
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· May 11
the year is two thousand and four. I am listening to “1985” on my headphones. the pc in my bedroom is not connected to the internet. I have never heard of william stencil, aaron rodrigo, or jessy single. the sky outside my window is blue.
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It is funny (in the joker way, as per usual) how so many people's lives were completely shattered over copyright trolling from companies who treated downloading a song as a capital offense but the moment they could make money on it themselves it instantly stopped being relevant
They hounded Aaron Swartz to death for downloading papers from jstor but society is now supposed to just accept mass theft because this thing can write that TPS report *for* you.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_S...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_S...
October 6, 2026 at 1:36 PM
It is funny (in the joker way, as per usual) how so many people's lives were completely shattered over copyright trolling from companies who treated downloading a song as a capital offense but the moment they could make money on it themselves it instantly stopped being relevant
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I feel like it's been totally memory holed the way these ghouls were going after college students in 8 figure lawsuits over downloading and "distributing" and album but now that they're all stealing shit for AI it's totally fine, the march of progress, can't be helped, etc
October 6, 2026 at 1:39 PM
I feel like it's been totally memory holed the way these ghouls were going after college students in 8 figure lawsuits over downloading and "distributing" and album but now that they're all stealing shit for AI it's totally fine, the march of progress, can't be helped, etc
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Me: these Democrats are turning on trans people
Liberal: but what if I LIKE that about them
Liberal: but what if I LIKE that about them
Turning a big dial that says "Wrecking" on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval. like a contestant on the Price is Right.
"Democrats aren't abandoning trans people! Maybe just one or two..." Here's every Democrat who's either voted to strip human rights away from trans people and/or has campaigned on anti-trans propaganda in the last year.
October 6, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Me: these Democrats are turning on trans people
Liberal: but what if I LIKE that about them
Liberal: but what if I LIKE that about them
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I’m realistic enough to know that we’re not going to fix the campus rape problem overnight, because patriarchy is multifaceted and cockroach-like in its survival abilities, but something I think we could get in place fast is a program for letting victims transfer without penalties.
October 6, 2026 at 8:05 PM
I’m realistic enough to know that we’re not going to fix the campus rape problem overnight, because patriarchy is multifaceted and cockroach-like in its survival abilities, but something I think we could get in place fast is a program for letting victims transfer without penalties.
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Lafayette Square isn't "a historic protest site." It's a fucking park. And it's packed on nice days. Calling it a protest site is White House framing.
They're closing a popular public park to create a presidential palace Saddam Hussein would love.
They're closing a popular public park to create a presidential palace Saddam Hussein would love.
Inside Trump's Plan to Fence Off a Historic Protest Site (Gift Article)
The president’s proposal to enclose a park in Washington could alter how the space has been used for generations.
www.nytimes.com
October 6, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Lafayette Square isn't "a historic protest site." It's a fucking park. And it's packed on nice days. Calling it a protest site is White House framing.
They're closing a popular public park to create a presidential palace Saddam Hussein would love.
They're closing a popular public park to create a presidential palace Saddam Hussein would love.
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back in the pre-marriage equality era I once heard a close friend from church earnestly say to someone “I just can’t understand why gay people want to DESTROY my marriage by redefining the meaning of it”
I’ll remember the way she said the word “destroy” until the day I die, because she meant it
I’ll remember the way she said the word “destroy” until the day I die, because she meant it
one of the deepest sicknesses in the world are the people who feel personally attacked over other people getting the same rights as them
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito says marriage equality turned US “against religious liberty” - buff.ly/srirzs6
October 6, 2026 at 7:26 PM
back in the pre-marriage equality era I once heard a close friend from church earnestly say to someone “I just can’t understand why gay people want to DESTROY my marriage by redefining the meaning of it”
I’ll remember the way she said the word “destroy” until the day I die, because she meant it
I’ll remember the way she said the word “destroy” until the day I die, because she meant it
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i think the biggest ideological divide in america is between people who think everybody deserves dignity, and people who think dignity is a zero-sum game
October 6, 2026 at 6:41 PM
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one of the deepest sicknesses in the world are the people who feel personally attacked over other people getting the same rights as them
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito says marriage equality turned US “against religious liberty” - buff.ly/srirzs6
October 6, 2026 at 6:36 PM
one of the deepest sicknesses in the world are the people who feel personally attacked over other people getting the same rights as them
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This is completely unconstitutional. Congress never authorized this money. We are sliding further and further into autocracy
Just got a $500 check from the US Treasury with a campaign letter from Donald Trump. The country is extremely fucked up.
October 6, 2026 at 2:08 PM
This is completely unconstitutional. Congress never authorized this money. We are sliding further and further into autocracy
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The fine line between not being snide to people who have finally decided they know better, and welcoming them with open arms and places of prominence. I'm glad you got out, there's work to be done, and this whole song and dance is more common than it's made out to be.
October 6, 2026 at 3:05 PM
The fine line between not being snide to people who have finally decided they know better, and welcoming them with open arms and places of prominence. I'm glad you got out, there's work to be done, and this whole song and dance is more common than it's made out to be.
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This applies not just to conservative women but to POC who vote Republican too.
Especially WOC.
Especially WOC.
I love a good "mea culpa" as much as the next hairy bra-burning man-hating [insert euphemism for "dyke" here].
But we really need to stop treating the conservative woman as some kind of misbegotten curio and come to terms with the banality of conservatives who happen to be marginalized.
But we really need to stop treating the conservative woman as some kind of misbegotten curio and come to terms with the banality of conservatives who happen to be marginalized.
You Will Not Be The Exception
On finding the collective fascination with conservative women incredibly, maddeningly boring.
taliabhattwrites.substack.com
October 6, 2026 at 6:03 PM
This applies not just to conservative women but to POC who vote Republican too.
Especially WOC.
Especially WOC.
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like sorry to be annoyingly HUMAN with all these UNTIDY EMOTIONS but if someone in one of my D&D games revealed that they were just letting Claude run their character because the ROI of actually playing with us was too low, I would be very hurt actually????? in addition to embarrassed for them
October 6, 2026 at 6:18 PM
like sorry to be annoyingly HUMAN with all these UNTIDY EMOTIONS but if someone in one of my D&D games revealed that they were just letting Claude run their character because the ROI of actually playing with us was too low, I would be very hurt actually????? in addition to embarrassed for them
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talking with "good faith" conservatives about policy is incredibly frustrating because you eventually figure out that the basis for their beliefs is a combination of easily disprovable factual assertions that act as window dressing for unshakable reactionary gut feelings
October 5, 2026 at 7:28 PM
talking with "good faith" conservatives about policy is incredibly frustrating because you eventually figure out that the basis for their beliefs is a combination of easily disprovable factual assertions that act as window dressing for unshakable reactionary gut feelings
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The preprint goes into much more detail on the experiences young people consider most harmful, what support they consider most effective, and the potential psychological consequences of this framing for young people
For more detail, please read the preprint at: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
(6/7)
For more detail, please read the preprint at: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
(6/7)
October 6, 2026 at 7:31 AM
The preprint goes into much more detail on the experiences young people consider most harmful, what support they consider most effective, and the potential psychological consequences of this framing for young people
For more detail, please read the preprint at: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
(6/7)
For more detail, please read the preprint at: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
(6/7)
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I do not much give a fuck who said what to whom in nineteen dickety-two, and it IMO has absolutely no relevance to questions like “should countries we have sentimental attachments to get a special Get Out Of Crimes Against Humanity Free Card”. No: censure, sanctions, arrest, jail.
October 6, 2026 at 12:32 PM
I do not much give a fuck who said what to whom in nineteen dickety-two, and it IMO has absolutely no relevance to questions like “should countries we have sentimental attachments to get a special Get Out Of Crimes Against Humanity Free Card”. No: censure, sanctions, arrest, jail.
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“International censure, sanctions and prison for war crimes” is not at all controversial for e.g. Russian or Syrian leaders, nor was it for Slobodan Milosevic or Saddam Hussein, and these leaders have committed war crimes every bit as egregious as any of these infamous criminal scumbags.
October 6, 2026 at 12:31 PM
“International censure, sanctions and prison for war crimes” is not at all controversial for e.g. Russian or Syrian leaders, nor was it for Slobodan Milosevic or Saddam Hussein, and these leaders have committed war crimes every bit as egregious as any of these infamous criminal scumbags.
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I'm addition, it's not just to sell democrats to queers, it's to sell "democrats love queers" to cishets. it's straight up pinkwashing. rainbow flag ai-powered genocide.
trans people say fuck no and we get tossed out on our asses for it. and we still say fuck no.
trans people say fuck no and we get tossed out on our asses for it. and we still say fuck no.
every "pride" Democrat org: "For party leadership, the caucus is simply a recruitment and sales team. The job, in their eyes, is not to represent the LGBTQ+ community to the party, but to sell Democratic candidates to the LGBTQ+ community, regardless of the harm those candidates may cause."
Today, I resigned as Vice Chair of the ODP Pride Caucus.
The state party expects us to be a sales team, censoring our voices when we beg candidates not to trade on trans lives. I am still a Democrat, but I will not value party approval over true, defiant advocacy.
Full text below. 👇
The state party expects us to be a sales team, censoring our voices when we beg candidates not to trade on trans lives. I am still a Democrat, but I will not value party approval over true, defiant advocacy.
Full text below. 👇
October 6, 2026 at 2:04 AM
I'm addition, it's not just to sell democrats to queers, it's to sell "democrats love queers" to cishets. it's straight up pinkwashing. rainbow flag ai-powered genocide.
trans people say fuck no and we get tossed out on our asses for it. and we still say fuck no.
trans people say fuck no and we get tossed out on our asses for it. and we still say fuck no.
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the Ohio Democratic party is purging its ranks by forcing trans people to either resign or go along with politicians who threaten their existence and calling a pride group an "unwelcoming distraction." If we're just a distraction, then win without our votes and get rid of the fake "pride" orgs 👍🏾
October 6, 2026 at 2:24 AM
the Ohio Democratic party is purging its ranks by forcing trans people to either resign or go along with politicians who threaten their existence and calling a pride group an "unwelcoming distraction." If we're just a distraction, then win without our votes and get rid of the fake "pride" orgs 👍🏾
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The debate continues,
October 6, 2026 at 2:04 AM
The debate continues,
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If the were just about not wanting to associate with them I would agree but it was much more. Honestly, I withstood as long as my nerves and moral compass would allow.
October 5, 2026 at 10:45 PM
If the were just about not wanting to associate with them I would agree but it was much more. Honestly, I withstood as long as my nerves and moral compass would allow.
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I am once again saying that white flight private schools are engines of fascism, not only because of what they teach, but more importantly you have zero chance of getting your ass beat for being racist.
being bused to an inner-city school significantly increases White support for the Democratic Party and its candidates more than forty years later
www.nber.org/papers/w33365
www.nber.org/papers/w33365
A Different World: Enduring Effects of School Desegregation on Ideology and Attitudes
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
January 21, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I am once again saying that white flight private schools are engines of fascism, not only because of what they teach, but more importantly you have zero chance of getting your ass beat for being racist.
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Very pleased to say I have now gotten the approval. Overwhelming medical consensus on this. However, every other person covered by UC with my condition still has to slog through unnecessary delay and stress to because of this outdated coverage criteria. How many will have permanently worse outcomes?
Tell me why my wife teaches every pre-med student that goes through UCSD and nevertheless, her employer provides us with a pharmacy benefits plan that consistently attempts to take away my medication against all of the scientific and clinical consensus
October 5, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Very pleased to say I have now gotten the approval. Overwhelming medical consensus on this. However, every other person covered by UC with my condition still has to slog through unnecessary delay and stress to because of this outdated coverage criteria. How many will have permanently worse outcomes?
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Today, I resigned as Vice Chair of the ODP Pride Caucus.
The state party expects us to be a sales team, censoring our voices when we beg candidates not to trade on trans lives. I am still a Democrat, but I will not value party approval over true, defiant advocacy.
Full text below. 👇
The state party expects us to be a sales team, censoring our voices when we beg candidates not to trade on trans lives. I am still a Democrat, but I will not value party approval over true, defiant advocacy.
Full text below. 👇
October 5, 2026 at 9:34 PM
Today, I resigned as Vice Chair of the ODP Pride Caucus.
The state party expects us to be a sales team, censoring our voices when we beg candidates not to trade on trans lives. I am still a Democrat, but I will not value party approval over true, defiant advocacy.
Full text below. 👇
The state party expects us to be a sales team, censoring our voices when we beg candidates not to trade on trans lives. I am still a Democrat, but I will not value party approval over true, defiant advocacy.
Full text below. 👇
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"they're crazy"
guess what rape does to your mental health!
"she's broke"
guess what rape does to your finances!
"he's bitter"
guess what surviving rape does to your vision of the world!
guess what rape does to your mental health!
"she's broke"
guess what rape does to your finances!
"he's bitter"
guess what surviving rape does to your vision of the world!
did you know that the characteristics that deem a victim "not credible" also overlap with the characteristics of the people most likely to be abused? not credible ≠ not victimized
October 5, 2026 at 7:40 PM
"they're crazy"
guess what rape does to your mental health!
"she's broke"
guess what rape does to your finances!
"he's bitter"
guess what surviving rape does to your vision of the world!
guess what rape does to your mental health!
"she's broke"
guess what rape does to your finances!
"he's bitter"
guess what surviving rape does to your vision of the world!
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In 1997 I was at an art conference where everyone was saying cozy things about close-knit deeply rooted small communities so I stood up and said "I am a San Franciscan and I live among people those close-knit deeply rooted small communities wanted to kill."
Anand Giridharadas | City Arts & Lectures
www.cityarts.net
October 5, 2026 at 8:50 PM
In 1997 I was at an art conference where everyone was saying cozy things about close-knit deeply rooted small communities so I stood up and said "I am a San Franciscan and I live among people those close-knit deeply rooted small communities wanted to kill."