mx. clara sparks
@xgdr.net
eclectical engiqueer, catmom, silicidal ideator, she+they
A delightful novel and I’m awaiting each new chapter with bated breath!
It's Wednesday, and that means it's time for more of The Tower! Today we're back with the rest of Ch. 7, Distortion. Therese tries to have a useful dream but instead just manages to get very sick to her stomach, and Brynn tells an extremely nasty bedtime story!
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November 26, 2025 at 4:57 PM
A delightful novel and I’m awaiting each new chapter with bated breath!
gosh, bsky really is an efficient and effective means of showing me information that makes me upset
November 25, 2025 at 10:08 PM
gosh, bsky really is an efficient and effective means of showing me information that makes me upset
Just finished *Spread Me* by Sarah Gailey, and … well, now I guess I need to actually watch *The Thing* and be disappointed when it’s not nearly as horny as what I just read.
November 25, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Just finished *Spread Me* by Sarah Gailey, and … well, now I guess I need to actually watch *The Thing* and be disappointed when it’s not nearly as horny as what I just read.
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Christians I beg you please stop naming your organizations Hebrew words
like, you have a whole tradition & language(s) & religious culture that's your own
our traditions broke up a long time ago
you have a lane? This is not it?
and it's v confusing for me personally when I click on stuff, ok
like, you have a whole tradition & language(s) & religious culture that's your own
our traditions broke up a long time ago
you have a lane? This is not it?
and it's v confusing for me personally when I click on stuff, ok
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Christians I beg you please stop naming your organizations Hebrew words
like, you have a whole tradition & language(s) & religious culture that's your own
our traditions broke up a long time ago
you have a lane? This is not it?
and it's v confusing for me personally when I click on stuff, ok
like, you have a whole tradition & language(s) & religious culture that's your own
our traditions broke up a long time ago
you have a lane? This is not it?
and it's v confusing for me personally when I click on stuff, ok
Blockers. Were. The. Compromise. Option.
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Blockers. Were. The. Compromise. Option.
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Periodically I see people justifying means-testing to ensure The Rich don't get stuff for free when they can afford it.
I see the logic, but we can just tax them more.
Plus, the BIGGEST thing not means-testing solves is
*deep breath*
IT STOPS RICH PEOPLE FINANCIALLY-ABUSING THEIR KIDS ANYMORE.
I see the logic, but we can just tax them more.
Plus, the BIGGEST thing not means-testing solves is
*deep breath*
IT STOPS RICH PEOPLE FINANCIALLY-ABUSING THEIR KIDS ANYMORE.
November 24, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Periodically I see people justifying means-testing to ensure The Rich don't get stuff for free when they can afford it.
I see the logic, but we can just tax them more.
Plus, the BIGGEST thing not means-testing solves is
*deep breath*
IT STOPS RICH PEOPLE FINANCIALLY-ABUSING THEIR KIDS ANYMORE.
I see the logic, but we can just tax them more.
Plus, the BIGGEST thing not means-testing solves is
*deep breath*
IT STOPS RICH PEOPLE FINANCIALLY-ABUSING THEIR KIDS ANYMORE.
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What I’ve been trying to point out for years now is that there is a money maker behind this sentiment, invested in it staying set this way. You can’t have billion dollar industry forcing autistic children to mask without scaring everyone about autism first
I think my biggest problem with the "vaccines cause autism" bullshit is that, even assuming they did (they don't, actually), neurodiversity is...good?
"Oh no, instead of polio and measles, people are cool and have new and different ways of thinking about things" is, uh, a really weird flex
"Oh no, instead of polio and measles, people are cool and have new and different ways of thinking about things" is, uh, a really weird flex
November 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
What I’ve been trying to point out for years now is that there is a money maker behind this sentiment, invested in it staying set this way. You can’t have billion dollar industry forcing autistic children to mask without scaring everyone about autism first
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(sorry yes i know i won't shut up about this)
i put The Tower on Scribblehub, if that's more your thing.
www.scribblehub.com/series/19586...
i put The Tower on Scribblehub, if that's more your thing.
www.scribblehub.com/series/19586...
The Tower and the Final City
Just beyond our reality: an ancient, dying world dominated by an endless crumbling City that stretches in every direction from the monolithic Tower at its heart. In that Tower, an Academy that teaches...
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November 4, 2025 at 12:43 AM
(sorry yes i know i won't shut up about this)
i put The Tower on Scribblehub, if that's more your thing.
www.scribblehub.com/series/19586...
i put The Tower on Scribblehub, if that's more your thing.
www.scribblehub.com/series/19586...
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Toxic, discriminatory people are also poor thinkers. Every one of the ideas that R1 faculty members mocked and belittled in grad school have come back to be things that I've used to help real working teams in my career now.
November 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Toxic, discriminatory people are also poor thinkers. Every one of the ideas that R1 faculty members mocked and belittled in grad school have come back to be things that I've used to help real working teams in my career now.
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I wrote about the exhaustion and dissonance of writing about TDOR for the past 15 years
I’m sick of writing about dead trans people | Xtra Magazine
For 15 years, I hoped my words would change something. Now I’m grieving the world that could’ve been
xtramagazine.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I wrote about the exhaustion and dissonance of writing about TDOR for the past 15 years
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I really dislike this question of whether trans people are "really" women/men. It's the framing the anti-trans activists prefer, and as far as I'm concerned it's also completely irrelevant.
November 17, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I really dislike this question of whether trans people are "really" women/men. It's the framing the anti-trans activists prefer, and as far as I'm concerned it's also completely irrelevant.
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Bsky hasn’t heard the story about the time that I was giving a virtual colloquium to the Aspen Center for Physics in September 2020 and Lawrence Krauss, Geoff Marcy, Christian Ott all attended as a group
ACP now has a policy that would prevent this from happening, because of that incident 🔭
ACP now has a policy that would prevent this from happening, because of that incident 🔭
November 16, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Bsky hasn’t heard the story about the time that I was giving a virtual colloquium to the Aspen Center for Physics in September 2020 and Lawrence Krauss, Geoff Marcy, Christian Ott all attended as a group
ACP now has a policy that would prevent this from happening, because of that incident 🔭
ACP now has a policy that would prevent this from happening, because of that incident 🔭
Thank you @esqueer.net for being there and speaking the truth.
BREAKING: Protesters both in and outside the annual Fenway Health Gala decried the LGBTQ community health center's recent decision to end care for trans youth and young adults.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Protect Trans Futures and ACT UP Disrupt Charity Gala at Fenway Health — Assigned
The LGBTQ+ community health center recently announced they would no longer offer gender-affirming care to trans young people under the age of 19.
www.assignedmedia.org
November 15, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Thank you @esqueer.net for being there and speaking the truth.
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"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 9:10 AM
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
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The most powerful question a journalist could ask of the rich and powerful is "what do you mean by that?" with the tenacity of a kid asking "why?"
Which is why they don't.
Which is why they don't.
July 16, 2025 at 8:34 AM
The most powerful question a journalist could ask of the rich and powerful is "what do you mean by that?" with the tenacity of a kid asking "why?"
Which is why they don't.
Which is why they don't.
a +1 amulet of persuasion inscribed with EX IGNE CALOR, EX CALORE IGNIS
November 4, 2025 at 9:56 PM
a +1 amulet of persuasion inscribed with EX IGNE CALOR, EX CALORE IGNIS
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people who want other people to stay in sad little grey boxes forever and never be happy in their bodies or desires are villains and cowards and they may be winning right now but by god they will lose as water smooths stone and roots break it, because that fierce joy is roots and water and life
September 16, 2025 at 7:24 AM
people who want other people to stay in sad little grey boxes forever and never be happy in their bodies or desires are villains and cowards and they may be winning right now but by god they will lose as water smooths stone and roots break it, because that fierce joy is roots and water and life
I'm making yet another FPGA dev board! What's special about this one? It's got a big Kintex UltraScale+ with power delivery to match, 28 Gbps SERDES, and high-speed expansion connectors: PCIe, QSFP28, DDR4, SYZYGY (TXR4 + dual STD). Launching soon on Crowd Supply: www.crowdsupply.com/autonoe-syst...
Ceres FPGA Development Board
A powerful FPGA dev board with PCIe, DDR4, and 28 Gbps I/O
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October 8, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I'm making yet another FPGA dev board! What's special about this one? It's got a big Kintex UltraScale+ with power delivery to match, 28 Gbps SERDES, and high-speed expansion connectors: PCIe, QSFP28, DDR4, SYZYGY (TXR4 + dual STD). Launching soon on Crowd Supply: www.crowdsupply.com/autonoe-syst...
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Trans people: can we have rights?
GOP: no because you're mentally ill freaks and we want you to die
Centrists: No because I don't want my kids to be trans, and because you asked us we're voting GOP
Democrats: No because asking us is purity politics and that makes fascism your fault, how dare you
GOP: no because you're mentally ill freaks and we want you to die
Centrists: No because I don't want my kids to be trans, and because you asked us we're voting GOP
Democrats: No because asking us is purity politics and that makes fascism your fault, how dare you
August 17, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Trans people: can we have rights?
GOP: no because you're mentally ill freaks and we want you to die
Centrists: No because I don't want my kids to be trans, and because you asked us we're voting GOP
Democrats: No because asking us is purity politics and that makes fascism your fault, how dare you
GOP: no because you're mentally ill freaks and we want you to die
Centrists: No because I don't want my kids to be trans, and because you asked us we're voting GOP
Democrats: No because asking us is purity politics and that makes fascism your fault, how dare you