J. Clark🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦🇭🇰🇵🇷
LightNews LightNews
banner
clarkjosephf.bsky.social
J. Clark🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦🇭🇰🇵🇷
@clarkjosephf.bsky.social
1.8K followers 1.2K following 2.7K posts
Ohioan, autistic. Enthusiast for gardening; left-ish politics; American pragmatism; and hard sf, particularly spec-evo. (they/them)
Posts Replies Media Videos
clarkjosephf.bsky.social
JEB BUSH WILL BE THE NEXT MAYOR OF #NewYorkCity, IT'S THE UPSET OF THE CENTURY, WE ARE WITNESSING A MIRACLE ON THE HUDSON, THIS IS THE BIRTH OF A NEW POLITICAL ORDER, THIS IS THE TURNING POINT WHEN #AMERICA STARTS TO HEAL #MiracleOnTheHudson
A fake NYC 2025 mayoral election map showing Jeb Bush claiming 100 percent of the vote.
November 5, 2025 at 4:29 AM
clarkjosephf.bsky.social
One more thing:
A late thirty something masc person wearing a rumpled shirt, dark green tie, and tan raincoat. They are scratching their head as if in deep thought.
November 3, 2025 at 2:31 AM
clarkjosephf.bsky.social
Me, at a Halloween party as Colombo:
A late thirty something masc person wearing a rumpled shirt, dark green tie, and tan raincoat. They are scratching their head as if in deep thought.
November 3, 2025 at 2:30 AM
clarkjosephf.bsky.social
Too many people in 2025:
A marquee sign which says “WELCOME BIG BROTHER,” underneath a sign for Malley’s Chocolates and Ice Cream Parlor. Malley’s is a company endemic to Northeast Ohio.
October 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
clarkjosephf.bsky.social
Also…it’s a yellow straw hat with a red band. Forget theming and subtext, Thiel is misrepresenting the *visible, physical appearance* of the main character of the media he is discussing.
Luffy in a One Piece anime adaptation. He is wearing a yellow straw hat with a red band. Also an impossibly wide goofy grin.
October 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
clarkjosephf.bsky.social
It’s October!🦇🎃🍫
To get in the #spooky mood, what are everyone’s top four favorite skulls? In no particular order, mine are

•OH 5, aka “Zinj”
•Kabwe 1
•Le Moustier
•the Harbin Skull, aka “Dragon Man”
A Smithsonian photograph of the Paranthropus boisei holotype Oldewan hominin 1, aka OH 5 and Zinj. The African Homo heidelbergensis skull Kabwe 1. It has a large, long, low brow case; heavy brow ridges; and a forward-projecting maxilla. Image via the 2020 Nature paper “Dating the skull from Broken Hill, Zambia, and its position in human evolution” by Grün et al. An archival photograph of the Neanderthal skull Le Moustier, in its pristine condition before being damaged during WWII bombing. Multiple perspectives of the Harbin skull, the holotype specimen for Homo longii. The skull has a very flat face, enormous eye sockets, large brow ridges, and an enormous, rugby-ball shaped brain case.
October 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM
clarkjosephf.bsky.social
Reskeet if you, too, are pro-autism!
September 25, 2025 at 9:46 PM
clarkjosephf.bsky.social
“tree lawn”
A meme of a colorful USA map and a world map that say, " tell me where you are from using only 2 words"
September 4, 2025 at 5:45 PM
clarkjosephf.bsky.social
I was briefly added to a Signal chat which included multiple members of President Trump’s cabinet. I didn’t get the chance to read any posts, but did see this image before being removed from the group and blocked:
Vladimir Lenin’s embalmed cadaver in his mausoleum
August 30, 2025 at 10:25 PM
clarkjosephf.bsky.social
I am far too self-conscious to take spontaneous selfies but here’s a mushroom, some moss, and clover!

This is @scgriffith.bsky.social pandering.
An off-white mushroom growing in soil. It is maybe half as tall as an adult human thumb is long. A clover is growing to its right, and both are surrounded by a carpet of moss.
August 24, 2025 at 11:25 PM
clarkjosephf.bsky.social
This small round man orients his life around eucalyptus and naps:
A koala perched in a tree. Though incapable of human facial expressions, the angle of its glance looks as if it is giving side eye. A koala perched in a tree. Though incapable of human facial expressions, the angle of its glance looks as if it is giving side eye. A koala perched in a tree, eyes lazily held half-open, half-shut. A koala perched in a tree, looking upwards.
July 28, 2025 at 8:20 PM
clarkjosephf.bsky.social
Do tortoises yawn? It looked like this giant tortoise was yawning.
A giant Galapagos tortoise with its beak open, showing off its pink, almost perfectly triangular tongue. A giant Galapagos tortoise with its beak open, showing off its pink tongue.
July 28, 2025 at 8:10 PM
clarkjosephf.bsky.social
A black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) enjoying hay:
A black rhino with a mouthful of hay. An extreme closeup of the rhino's mouth, highlighting the long, triangular lip at the end of its snout.
July 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
clarkjosephf.bsky.social
A few weeks ago, @velcrocandy.bsky.social and I went with @katiyathewitch.bsky.social on her first trip to the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo!

Here is an Amur leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis) and their toe beans:
An Amur leopard laying against a chain link fence barrier. The leopard has pale green eyes. Rather than the pale yellow of an African leopard, the fur is a deep gold, almost orange color. They are panting in the summer heat, showing off a pink tongue and large lower canines. One of their paws is pressed against the wire mesh of the fence, showing off the black pads of their toes and foot sole.
July 28, 2025 at 8:02 PM
clarkjosephf.bsky.social
A domestic rabbit sitting in some grass. It is a lop with low hanging ears and brown fur. Via Getty Images. A close up of a lop rabbit’s face. An extreme closeup of a lop rabbit’s eye.
July 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
clarkjosephf.bsky.social
Mark Zuckerberg, who doctored video to announce the debut of legs to the Metaverse despite the fact legs were not, in fact, forthcoming to the Metaverse, said he will oversee the invention of artificial general intelligence.
A GIF of video fabricated by Meta depicting Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse avatar jumping and flexing its legs. The avatar of a pale, dark-haired woman is kicking the air opposite Zuckerberg. They are in some kind of wood-paneled lounge.
July 14, 2025 at 4:21 PM
clarkjosephf.bsky.social
Superman has gone woke, time for a new hero who doesn’t have an immigrant sob story origin:
A screenshot from Dragon Ball Z, in which Goku transforms into a Super Saiyan for the first time. This form has gold hair and blue eyes.
July 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
clarkjosephf.bsky.social
Paleontologist and illustrator Mauricio Anton’s Instagram profile seems to have been taken over by a grindset inspiration influencer:
An Instagram page whose handle indicates it is owned by m_anton_paleoart, but whose bio is for Connor•Lin Feng, who bills himself as a Miami-based entrepreneur.
July 5, 2025 at 11:52 PM
clarkjosephf.bsky.social
The dolly zoom shot from Jaws in which the camera simultaneously zooms in on Martin Brody (Roy Schneider) while being pulled back on a track. This captures the moment Brody realizes, with horror, a shark is attacking beachgoers at the beach he is currently sitting on.
July 4, 2025 at 11:51 PM
clarkjosephf.bsky.social
A Buteo hawk, probably a sub-adult red-tailed hawk or red-shouldered hawk, perched in a tree.
June 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
clarkjosephf.bsky.social
A bald eagle, photographed in flight from a couple hundred meters away. It has a large fish in its talons. A bald eagle, photographed in flight from a couple hundred meters away. It has a large fish in its talons.
June 22, 2025 at 4:34 PM
clarkjosephf.bsky.social
A chipping sparrow perched on a concrete curb. They have a straw-like piece of dried vegetation in their beak, presumably for nest building. It is very thin but longer than the entire length of their body. The chipping sparrow has a light gray underside and brown and black striped back. A chipping sparrow perched on a concrete curb. They have a straw-like piece of dried vegetation in their beak, presumably for nest building. It is very thin but longer than the entire length of their body. The chipping sparrow has a light gray underside and brown and black striped back.
June 22, 2025 at 4:32 PM
clarkjosephf.bsky.social
A barn swallow perched on a phone line. It has a light orange brown underside and iridescent navy blue back.
June 22, 2025 at 4:07 PM
clarkjosephf.bsky.social
cc: @scgriffith.bsky.social
Two red-bellied woodpeckers clinging vertically to a tree. One, perched higher on the trunk, is a male, and has a red "cap" of feathers extending from the base of his beak to the base of his neck. The one perched lower on the tree is a female; her cap only extends from the base of her neck to the back of her head. Both have wings with black and white stripes that mimic tree bark. An Eastern cottontail bunny. They have a leaf from a swamp milkweed plant in their mouth. Red Penstemon flowers appear out of focus in the foreground.
June 22, 2025 at 3:52 PM
clarkjosephf.bsky.social
Wildlife photos from the last few weeks and months:
A black racer snake. It is coiled up atop a log floating in a pond. The decomposing log is covered in moss and other plants. A female northern flicker. They are a woodpecker, about ten inches long. It is standing in grass. It has a sandy brown body, with a white underside with black spots. The wings have black stripes. The back of the head has a black stripe. A groundhog in the golden hour. They are standing in grass which reaches their knees. The mouth is slightly open, showing their incisors and pink tongue. An eastern bluebird perched in a tree.
June 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM