Jessica Stark
@jessicastark.northsky.social
She/Her
30s
Amateur Photographer
Sick of being the target minority of choice
30s
Amateur Photographer
Sick of being the target minority of choice
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I don't _like_ when a red state Dem attempts to triangulate away my rights because they think it will get them elected, but I can at least sort of build a theory of the mind as to how they ended up there. (Still think they should eat shit.) But Newsom? Has no reason to be an asshole! He just is!
September 22, 2026 at 6:38 AM
I don't _like_ when a red state Dem attempts to triangulate away my rights because they think it will get them elected, but I can at least sort of build a theory of the mind as to how they ended up there. (Still think they should eat shit.) But Newsom? Has no reason to be an asshole! He just is!
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dating a trans person is like “well i haven’t heard from them in a few hours they’ve either been hate crimed or they are having a pleasant time at their outing”
(this is not supposed to read as a joke, this is a real thing i think about and im so mad we even have to worry about this shit)
(this is not supposed to read as a joke, this is a real thing i think about and im so mad we even have to worry about this shit)
September 22, 2026 at 3:47 AM
dating a trans person is like “well i haven’t heard from them in a few hours they’ve either been hate crimed or they are having a pleasant time at their outing”
(this is not supposed to read as a joke, this is a real thing i think about and im so mad we even have to worry about this shit)
(this is not supposed to read as a joke, this is a real thing i think about and im so mad we even have to worry about this shit)
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dems catering to transphobes for votes should by all rights be a CRAZY and RIDICULOUS position
there's NO difference between the phrase 'no gender ideology' and 'no civil rights for certain groups'
there's NO difference between the phrase 'no gender ideology' and 'no civil rights for certain groups'
September 21, 2026 at 12:18 PM
dems catering to transphobes for votes should by all rights be a CRAZY and RIDICULOUS position
there's NO difference between the phrase 'no gender ideology' and 'no civil rights for certain groups'
there's NO difference between the phrase 'no gender ideology' and 'no civil rights for certain groups'
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If you're in Ohio, do not vote for Marcy Kaptur. She needs to lose. It's just anti trans ad after anti trans ad.
September 21, 2026 at 12:12 PM
If you're in Ohio, do not vote for Marcy Kaptur. She needs to lose. It's just anti trans ad after anti trans ad.
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"We've gone from bomb threats to children's hospitals in 2022 to Democrats taking the same position as the guys who sent bomb threats to children's hospitals here in 2026. I think maybe we all need to take a step back and figure out how that happened."
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For my newsletter, I wrote about Democrats coming out against "trans surgery for kids" (which do not happen) and how the myth took over our politics. www.burnsnotice.com/the-trans-ki...
The "Trans Kid Surgery" Myth
The big lie worked because it played on your protective instincts
www.burnsnotice.com
September 21, 2026 at 5:26 PM
"We've gone from bomb threats to children's hospitals in 2022 to Democrats taking the same position as the guys who sent bomb threats to children's hospitals here in 2026. I think maybe we all need to take a step back and figure out how that happened."
bsky.app/profile/kate...
bsky.app/profile/kate...
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really is a motherfucker knowing that if dem leadership/seniority signaled that trans rights were worth standing up for, every single person scolding and berating about how this sacrifice just HAS to happen would 180 overnight to "we draw the line here. abandoning people in need would be cruel"
September 21, 2026 at 6:27 PM
really is a motherfucker knowing that if dem leadership/seniority signaled that trans rights were worth standing up for, every single person scolding and berating about how this sacrifice just HAS to happen would 180 overnight to "we draw the line here. abandoning people in need would be cruel"
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Outside the obvious timebomb of selling out trans kids to appeal to ~16 bigots in deep Ohio, an underplayed part of the whole "trans kids in youth sports" stuff is making the most psycho Little League parents the most important political demo in America. They're joy vampires for the kids themselves!
September 21, 2026 at 1:29 PM
Outside the obvious timebomb of selling out trans kids to appeal to ~16 bigots in deep Ohio, an underplayed part of the whole "trans kids in youth sports" stuff is making the most psycho Little League parents the most important political demo in America. They're joy vampires for the kids themselves!
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remember when Biden replied to some right-wing bait question about how many genders there are with, "at least three. don't play games with me, kid." and then got elected president?
that was their last winning strategy.
dems: "you're a dipshit. fuck off" was your last winning strategy.
that was their last winning strategy.
dems: "you're a dipshit. fuck off" was your last winning strategy.
September 21, 2026 at 1:47 AM
remember when Biden replied to some right-wing bait question about how many genders there are with, "at least three. don't play games with me, kid." and then got elected president?
that was their last winning strategy.
dems: "you're a dipshit. fuck off" was your last winning strategy.
that was their last winning strategy.
dems: "you're a dipshit. fuck off" was your last winning strategy.
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feels like the same sort of mindset that led a bunch of ai boosters to deliberately figure out how to scrape the anti-ai artist platform cara
"no" is an insufficient sentence or rationale for too many of them
"no" is an insufficient sentence or rationale for too many of them
when some people say "Bluesky is a toxic anti-AI place" I am always a little irritated. Most of social media is teeming with AI generated images and other media, and the pro-AI crowd is all over politics, media and power. What makes you so resistant to the idea critics might have ONE space?
September 21, 2026 at 1:15 AM
feels like the same sort of mindset that led a bunch of ai boosters to deliberately figure out how to scrape the anti-ai artist platform cara
"no" is an insufficient sentence or rationale for too many of them
"no" is an insufficient sentence or rationale for too many of them
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This is why I hate "just a tool" so so so much.
You can make a calculator without access to every calculation. You can make photoshop without access to all photos.
Someone show me a genai tool that didn't require all of our labour in its production. It's plagiarism software.
You can make a calculator without access to every calculation. You can make photoshop without access to all photos.
Someone show me a genai tool that didn't require all of our labour in its production. It's plagiarism software.
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft.
Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
September 18, 2026 at 12:31 PM
This is why I hate "just a tool" so so so much.
You can make a calculator without access to every calculation. You can make photoshop without access to all photos.
Someone show me a genai tool that didn't require all of our labour in its production. It's plagiarism software.
You can make a calculator without access to every calculation. You can make photoshop without access to all photos.
Someone show me a genai tool that didn't require all of our labour in its production. It's plagiarism software.
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the pope is anti-trans too and i'm nooticing a lot of you seem to be chill with that
September 20, 2026 at 9:11 PM
the pope is anti-trans too and i'm nooticing a lot of you seem to be chill with that
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I was in the best shape of my life before I got covid the first time. by the third time I was disabled to the point that I can't hold down a normal job but also can't get help because there's a weird insistence that long-covid doesn't exist. a mass disabling event and we pretend it didn't happen.
I developed blood clots after COVID
COVID-19: The Elephant in the Room Everyone Keeps Ignoring
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September 21, 2026 at 12:44 AM
I was in the best shape of my life before I got covid the first time. by the third time I was disabled to the point that I can't hold down a normal job but also can't get help because there's a weird insistence that long-covid doesn't exist. a mass disabling event and we pretend it didn't happen.
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I bristle at the use of “thinking” applied to AI models.
Thinking is more than computation or even the reasoning inherent to problem-solving.
Thinking involves interaction between the interiority of the mind and the sensorial realities of the external world.
It involves curiosity and wonder.
Thinking is more than computation or even the reasoning inherent to problem-solving.
Thinking involves interaction between the interiority of the mind and the sensorial realities of the external world.
It involves curiosity and wonder.
September 20, 2026 at 5:34 PM
I bristle at the use of “thinking” applied to AI models.
Thinking is more than computation or even the reasoning inherent to problem-solving.
Thinking involves interaction between the interiority of the mind and the sensorial realities of the external world.
It involves curiosity and wonder.
Thinking is more than computation or even the reasoning inherent to problem-solving.
Thinking involves interaction between the interiority of the mind and the sensorial realities of the external world.
It involves curiosity and wonder.
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it literally could not be easier to run against an opponent who is fixated on a microscopic minority that isn’t actually harming anyone! focusing on imaginary threats posed by trans people instead of the world burning down around us is bad politics! point that out! loudly!
"My opponent wants to hire creeps to inspect your daughter's genitals if she wants to play soccer. I wouldn't trust him or any hired weirdo from his pedophile-protecting party alone in a room with any kid."
Go on the offensive, you cowards! It's not that hard!
Go on the offensive, you cowards! It's not that hard!
"This election is about the threat of trans kids" is the worst possible messaging for Dems yet so many candidates are leaning into it. No voter will flip R->D over it. Low-info voters read this as "you're focused on bullshit that doesn't affect me" while the base reads this as "you're an asshole."
September 20, 2026 at 10:27 PM
it literally could not be easier to run against an opponent who is fixated on a microscopic minority that isn’t actually harming anyone! focusing on imaginary threats posed by trans people instead of the world burning down around us is bad politics! point that out! loudly!
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congratulations to everyone on reinventing Worse Cable
Disney+ has altered its user agreement to clarify that ads will be allowed on all subscription tiers. https://bit.ly/4hhOjBo
September 21, 2026 at 12:52 AM
congratulations to everyone on reinventing Worse Cable
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This is why we need more trans people in media since points like these don’t get brought up in context from a cis perspective.
I'm really glad that Code Switch included this part of my interview, because I think these are the points that so often get lost in the discussion of trans panic and why the WNBA might be an ideal target for those anti-trans groups to latch onto. www.npr.org/2026/09/15/n...
September 21, 2026 at 12:28 AM
This is why we need more trans people in media since points like these don’t get brought up in context from a cis perspective.
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everyone I care about and love is struggling emotionally, underemployed, worked to the fucking bone, forsaken by basically everyone outside of their communities. I’m inclined to be a lot more forgiving toward my trans siblings right now than I otherwise might in a perfect world, and so should you
September 20, 2026 at 8:46 PM
everyone I care about and love is struggling emotionally, underemployed, worked to the fucking bone, forsaken by basically everyone outside of their communities. I’m inclined to be a lot more forgiving toward my trans siblings right now than I otherwise might in a perfect world, and so should you
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every trans person in America is basically praying to whatever deity will accept them that the democrats don’t turn into Labour and decide to take turns with republicans throwing us into wood chippers. trans women have like a 30% unemployment rate. everybody fuckin’ Chill Out toward us a little
September 20, 2026 at 8:44 PM
every trans person in America is basically praying to whatever deity will accept them that the democrats don’t turn into Labour and decide to take turns with republicans throwing us into wood chippers. trans women have like a 30% unemployment rate. everybody fuckin’ Chill Out toward us a little
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(the reason is that establishment Dems have no beliefs and no principles, they are empty husks repeating talking points fed to them by corporate donors and consultants)
September 20, 2026 at 2:53 PM
(the reason is that establishment Dems have no beliefs and no principles, they are empty husks repeating talking points fed to them by corporate donors and consultants)
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even if the Dems were campaigning on solving hunger and ending all of our wars (which they're not) they could still give trans people rights
while they're at it, they could also give back other groups rights that the GOP has taken away, another thing they're not campaigning on for *some* reason
while they're at it, they could also give back other groups rights that the GOP has taken away, another thing they're not campaigning on for *some* reason
September 20, 2026 at 2:52 PM
even if the Dems were campaigning on solving hunger and ending all of our wars (which they're not) they could still give trans people rights
while they're at it, they could also give back other groups rights that the GOP has taken away, another thing they're not campaigning on for *some* reason
while they're at it, they could also give back other groups rights that the GOP has taken away, another thing they're not campaigning on for *some* reason
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to put it bluntly, you have no right to speculate on what the level of priority should be of protecting the lives of an oppressed group that you are not a part of. it reeks of entitlement and betrays that you believe your opinion is more valuable than that of the group you speak for
September 20, 2026 at 3:07 PM
to put it bluntly, you have no right to speculate on what the level of priority should be of protecting the lives of an oppressed group that you are not a part of. it reeks of entitlement and betrays that you believe your opinion is more valuable than that of the group you speak for
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these were not cases of extant law simply being overlooked and now they're applying new scrutiny - these are things that were explicitly rights that we had won. i was out when informed consent became the standard of trans care in large parts of the country and they're stripping that away over time
September 20, 2026 at 2:59 PM
these were not cases of extant law simply being overlooked and now they're applying new scrutiny - these are things that were explicitly rights that we had won. i was out when informed consent became the standard of trans care in large parts of the country and they're stripping that away over time
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have you ever even taken a second to think about what "no longer allowing trans women to compete with cis women" or "banning trans care for minors" mean? it means we previously had the right to those things, rather explicitly, and both parties have been gradually taking those rights away since 2016
September 20, 2026 at 2:57 PM
have you ever even taken a second to think about what "no longer allowing trans women to compete with cis women" or "banning trans care for minors" mean? it means we previously had the right to those things, rather explicitly, and both parties have been gradually taking those rights away since 2016
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the democratic party isn't not making securing our rights a priority. they're prioritizing organizing and arguing *against* rights we've already had in order to court conservative "moderate" votes that aren't there. they're going *out of their way* to do this, that's their priority
September 20, 2026 at 2:54 PM
the democratic party isn't not making securing our rights a priority. they're prioritizing organizing and arguing *against* rights we've already had in order to court conservative "moderate" votes that aren't there. they're going *out of their way* to do this, that's their priority