Jay Eskay
@jshykta.bsky.social
Mum; nerd; internationally recognized gender traitor (they/she). I get sat on by cats a lot.
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I don't follow back, and you shouldn't either.
Meanjin, Australia.
💛🤍💜🖤// ❤️💜💙 // 🌶🧠 // 😷
I don't follow back, and you shouldn't either.
Meanjin, Australia.
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If you're cis, trans people are your coalmine canary for a collection of civil liberties.
BODILY AUTONOMY: does your body belong to you, or to your parents/husband/state?
PRIVACY: do you owe everyone you meet a full medical history?
EXPRESSION: to what extent is your clothing a legal matter?
BODILY AUTONOMY: does your body belong to you, or to your parents/husband/state?
PRIVACY: do you owe everyone you meet a full medical history?
EXPRESSION: to what extent is your clothing a legal matter?
September 29, 2025 at 6:38 AM
If you're cis, trans people are your coalmine canary for a collection of civil liberties.
BODILY AUTONOMY: does your body belong to you, or to your parents/husband/state?
PRIVACY: do you owe everyone you meet a full medical history?
EXPRESSION: to what extent is your clothing a legal matter?
BODILY AUTONOMY: does your body belong to you, or to your parents/husband/state?
PRIVACY: do you owe everyone you meet a full medical history?
EXPRESSION: to what extent is your clothing a legal matter?
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had to see what this disambiguation hatnote was about and sure enough, apple's original thumbnail (before they fixed it):
November 13, 2025 at 7:26 PM
had to see what this disambiguation hatnote was about and sure enough, apple's original thumbnail (before they fixed it):
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“I’m not worried AI will take my job. I’m worried some executive or management person is going to *think* it can.”
-Random YouTube comment
-Random YouTube comment
October 24, 2025 at 11:33 PM
“I’m not worried AI will take my job. I’m worried some executive or management person is going to *think* it can.”
-Random YouTube comment
-Random YouTube comment
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Precisely. Banning young people from social media just so ill-informed boomers can get over their made-up moral panic simply ends up harming the most vulnerable, for whom social media are a critical lifeline. 👇👇👇
LGBTQIA+ advocates say social media ban will 'cut off' regional queer teens
LGBTIQA+ advocates are concerned the social media ban will have a significant impact on queer youth in regional and remote areas of Australia. They say there are not enough offline, physical supports for these teens to access when the ban comes into effect.
www.abc.net.au
October 13, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Precisely. Banning young people from social media just so ill-informed boomers can get over their made-up moral panic simply ends up harming the most vulnerable, for whom social media are a critical lifeline. 👇👇👇
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How about "RBA companies' utter incompetence at raising productivity means they will have to accept lower profit growth"
October 15, 2025 at 11:26 PM
How about "RBA companies' utter incompetence at raising productivity means they will have to accept lower profit growth"
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Your periodic reminder that "biological sex" is a propaganda term spread by anti-trans groups, largely pushed by Christian Nationalists orgs like Alliance Defending Freedom; Family Resource Council & Family Policy Alliance; and the Heritage Foundation.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Sex and Gender Definitions in Legislation
docs.google.com
October 5, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Your periodic reminder that "biological sex" is a propaganda term spread by anti-trans groups, largely pushed by Christian Nationalists orgs like Alliance Defending Freedom; Family Resource Council & Family Policy Alliance; and the Heritage Foundation.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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I had to expunge my thoughts on Bluesky's current, uh, choppy waters into a proper blog post (which jay can't take down for being too mean or saying 'lol' in a threatening way)
azhdarchid.com/delusions-of...
azhdarchid.com/delusions-of...
Delusions of a Protocol
On vaporware as an ideological product.
azhdarchid.com
October 2, 2025 at 3:36 AM
I had to expunge my thoughts on Bluesky's current, uh, choppy waters into a proper blog post (which jay can't take down for being too mean or saying 'lol' in a threatening way)
azhdarchid.com/delusions-of...
azhdarchid.com/delusions-of...
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I accidentally glitched out an animation I was working on and created a perfect example of what the passage of time feels like to someone with ADHD
October 5, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I accidentally glitched out an animation I was working on and created a perfect example of what the passage of time feels like to someone with ADHD
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Today's article is about a form of bad-faith speech somewhat akin to bullshit, which I'm calling (because why not) wank. I don't quite think I've focused the ideas down as much as I can, but I think it says some interesting things regardless:
An essay on wank | deadSimpleTech
This captures well the uncomfortable, slightly disorienting feeling that wank creates when you're subjected to it, wherein you're expected to speak about and think about the statement as though it say...
deadsimpletech.com
September 29, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Today's article is about a form of bad-faith speech somewhat akin to bullshit, which I'm calling (because why not) wank. I don't quite think I've focused the ideas down as much as I can, but I think it says some interesting things regardless:
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These are all people who wanted to kill their enemies before Charlie Kirk was shot, are more vocal about it now, and will keep lusting for it long after Charlie Kirk has been buried. Today’s biggest event could have been a dog farting and they would have reacted by wanting you dead.
September 11, 2025 at 3:32 AM
These are all people who wanted to kill their enemies before Charlie Kirk was shot, are more vocal about it now, and will keep lusting for it long after Charlie Kirk has been buried. Today’s biggest event could have been a dog farting and they would have reacted by wanting you dead.
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people still think that showing neo-fascists the respect we wish they would show us will somehow teach them to do better or compel them to stop hurting us
this is flawed logic & morally repugnant, let it go
this is flawed logic & morally repugnant, let it go
charlie kirk has received infinitely more sympathy and support from liberals than every single trans person, immigrant, and palestinian combined
September 11, 2025 at 3:28 AM
people still think that showing neo-fascists the respect we wish they would show us will somehow teach them to do better or compel them to stop hurting us
this is flawed logic & morally repugnant, let it go
this is flawed logic & morally repugnant, let it go
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It’s fine to say that violence is never the answer, but I can’t help but observe that for Charlie Kirk violence was always the answer, and it was the only answer he offered, and, because of the privilege that he refused to admit he had, he could enact it from a comfortable and respectable place.
September 10, 2025 at 11:43 PM
It’s fine to say that violence is never the answer, but I can’t help but observe that for Charlie Kirk violence was always the answer, and it was the only answer he offered, and, because of the privilege that he refused to admit he had, he could enact it from a comfortable and respectable place.
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Summary thread & call to action on payment processor censorship, and why it's become a big issue among in the LGBTQ community and among artists.
Lobbied by conservative activists, payment processing companies have pressured businesses into removing games, books, etc from online stores. 1/
Lobbied by conservative activists, payment processing companies have pressured businesses into removing games, books, etc from online stores. 1/
July 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Summary thread & call to action on payment processor censorship, and why it's become a big issue among in the LGBTQ community and among artists.
Lobbied by conservative activists, payment processing companies have pressured businesses into removing games, books, etc from online stores. 1/
Lobbied by conservative activists, payment processing companies have pressured businesses into removing games, books, etc from online stores. 1/
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There is a counter-campaign to call the payment processors and demand they reverse the censorship, see here for who to call and write bsky.app/profile/melt... 10/
i worked with our director RJ to put together a web page compiling phone numbers, emails, and petitions where you can make your voice heard - protect queer artists and sex workers and tell payment processing companies to end their awful policies harming safe spaces for creative art
July 25, 2025 at 8:19 PM
There is a counter-campaign to call the payment processors and demand they reverse the censorship, see here for who to call and write bsky.app/profile/melt... 10/
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When Jude and Lizzie re-meet at a house party, they practically don't recognize each other. In fact, they have to re-introduce themselves with their new names! Read this sweet story by @fizzfloat.bsky.social about reconnecting with old friends as your true self.
www.ohjoysextoy.com/meeting-agai...
www.ohjoysextoy.com/meeting-agai...
July 22, 2025 at 6:40 PM
When Jude and Lizzie re-meet at a house party, they practically don't recognize each other. In fact, they have to re-introduce themselves with their new names! Read this sweet story by @fizzfloat.bsky.social about reconnecting with old friends as your true self.
www.ohjoysextoy.com/meeting-agai...
www.ohjoysextoy.com/meeting-agai...
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Melinda Tankard Reist is on the advisory board of Australia’s age assurance tech trial
July 19, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Melinda Tankard Reist is on the advisory board of Australia’s age assurance tech trial
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I have a banger thread on informal feminized labor and "male loneliness epidemic discourse" cooked up in my head, but I can't get my kids to leave me along long enough for me to write it
July 15, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I have a banger thread on informal feminized labor and "male loneliness epidemic discourse" cooked up in my head, but I can't get my kids to leave me along long enough for me to write it
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We are not lonely because we COULD NOT SURVIVE THIS alone.
For a lot of men, loneliness is a problem, sure, but a problem borne of relative privilege.
They are not in relationship because their survival (and/or the survival of their children) does not hinge on existing in relationship.
For a lot of men, loneliness is a problem, sure, but a problem borne of relative privilege.
They are not in relationship because their survival (and/or the survival of their children) does not hinge on existing in relationship.
July 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM
We are not lonely because we COULD NOT SURVIVE THIS alone.
For a lot of men, loneliness is a problem, sure, but a problem borne of relative privilege.
They are not in relationship because their survival (and/or the survival of their children) does not hinge on existing in relationship.
For a lot of men, loneliness is a problem, sure, but a problem borne of relative privilege.
They are not in relationship because their survival (and/or the survival of their children) does not hinge on existing in relationship.
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Visa and Mastercard should not have control over speech and it's very strange this is a position that even needs to be argued.
Banks like Visa and Mastercard are now backdoor moral authorities. They already pressured Patreon, OnlyFans, and others to remove NSFW content. Now Steam is next. And guess who they’ll target first? Queer, transgressive, or “unusual” games.
July 16, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Visa and Mastercard should not have control over speech and it's very strange this is a position that even needs to be argued.
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streaming services: [high monthly fee incentivizes waiting until a series is finished before subscribing to binge]
also streaming services: “this series didn’t perform well enough right out the gate, so we’re cancelling it before the season’s even over”
also streaming services: “this series didn’t perform well enough right out the gate, so we’re cancelling it before the season’s even over”
July 12, 2025 at 2:46 AM
streaming services: [high monthly fee incentivizes waiting until a series is finished before subscribing to binge]
also streaming services: “this series didn’t perform well enough right out the gate, so we’re cancelling it before the season’s even over”
also streaming services: “this series didn’t perform well enough right out the gate, so we’re cancelling it before the season’s even over”
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i think lauren is being rhetorical here but iirc there's some significant feminist thought on the way pre-"AI"/proto-"AI" "personal assistants" are always by default "women"
it's not like in the top 50 concerning things about AI but why do they all default to talking like a servile little creep
July 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
i think lauren is being rhetorical here but iirc there's some significant feminist thought on the way pre-"AI"/proto-"AI" "personal assistants" are always by default "women"