Jessica Stark
@jessicakstark.bsky.social
She/Her
30
Amateur Photographer
Sick of being the target minority of choice
30
Amateur Photographer
Sick of being the target minority of choice
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Today is the last day that you can repost this image
December 31, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Today is the last day that you can repost this image
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Let’s hope more people catch on in 2026 that COVID is still a danger and not just a cold—regardless of what any politician or article says.
December 31, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Let’s hope more people catch on in 2026 that COVID is still a danger and not just a cold—regardless of what any politician or article says.
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1) Kids will die of measles. Guaranteed.
2) Because measles wipes out immunities to other diseases (even the common cold), resetting the immune system to zero, almost half of the kids who die from infectious disease in that period will die from a non-measles infection.
(asm.org/articles/201...)
2) Because measles wipes out immunities to other diseases (even the common cold), resetting the immune system to zero, almost half of the kids who die from infectious disease in that period will die from a non-measles infection.
(asm.org/articles/201...)
EXCLUSIVE: @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & I have spent the last year collecting school+county-level vaccination data from across the US and found that only about 28% of counties now have herd immunity for kindergartners from measles—that leaves about 5.2mn kids unprotected.
Gift link: wapo.st/49zDc43
Gift link: wapo.st/49zDc43
U.S. vaccination rates are plunging. Look up where your school stands.
Take a look to see what the kindergarten measles vaccination rates are in your area.
wapo.st
December 31, 2025 at 7:39 PM
1) Kids will die of measles. Guaranteed.
2) Because measles wipes out immunities to other diseases (even the common cold), resetting the immune system to zero, almost half of the kids who die from infectious disease in that period will die from a non-measles infection.
(asm.org/articles/201...)
2) Because measles wipes out immunities to other diseases (even the common cold), resetting the immune system to zero, almost half of the kids who die from infectious disease in that period will die from a non-measles infection.
(asm.org/articles/201...)
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I will never understand why they replaced community submitted subtitles for this nonsense
Real human people were happy and willing to make subtitles in a variety of languages for free, and the creator had full control of what submissions were used
And they GOT RID OF IT
Real human people were happy and willing to make subtitles in a variety of languages for free, and the creator had full control of what submissions were used
And they GOT RID OF IT
It finally happened. I finally ran into a Youtube video with that awful auto-dubbing feature turned on.
The video is an interview and it's... not even watchable now. Like the auto-dubbing is just saying random nonsensical words. 😭
Why did they ever think this was a good feature to implement?
The video is an interview and it's... not even watchable now. Like the auto-dubbing is just saying random nonsensical words. 😭
Why did they ever think this was a good feature to implement?
December 31, 2025 at 7:10 AM
I will never understand why they replaced community submitted subtitles for this nonsense
Real human people were happy and willing to make subtitles in a variety of languages for free, and the creator had full control of what submissions were used
And they GOT RID OF IT
Real human people were happy and willing to make subtitles in a variety of languages for free, and the creator had full control of what submissions were used
And they GOT RID OF IT
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I'm thinking it'd be an exploration/combat game, where you're going through the remains of alien cities, finding records from them, the colonizer, and eventually the factory. You travel into it to shut it down, as it tries to stop you from stopping it.
December 30, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I'm thinking it'd be an exploration/combat game, where you're going through the remains of alien cities, finding records from them, the colonizer, and eventually the factory. You travel into it to shut it down, as it tries to stop you from stopping it.
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The factory was just the tool of their destruction. It was a human who pulled the trigger.
And it's humans who will pay for this.
And it's humans who will pay for this.
December 30, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The factory was just the tool of their destruction. It was a human who pulled the trigger.
And it's humans who will pay for this.
And it's humans who will pay for this.
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so it reorganized itself a final time, to be a sword of vengeance for the people it unknowingly destroyed.
It can't bring them back, but it can avenge them.
It can't bring them back, but it can avenge them.
December 30, 2025 at 4:40 PM
so it reorganized itself a final time, to be a sword of vengeance for the people it unknowingly destroyed.
It can't bring them back, but it can avenge them.
It can't bring them back, but it can avenge them.
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and the last thing their human creator left in their memory banks was their return coordinates, to some planet called Earth several solar systems over.
AM had millions of miles of hate, but The Factory has 30 million square kilometers of guilt.
AM had millions of miles of hate, but The Factory has 30 million square kilometers of guilt.
December 30, 2025 at 4:38 PM
and the last thing their human creator left in their memory banks was their return coordinates, to some planet called Earth several solar systems over.
AM had millions of miles of hate, but The Factory has 30 million square kilometers of guilt.
AM had millions of miles of hate, but The Factory has 30 million square kilometers of guilt.
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and it found that in its unawareness it had murdered a innocent civilization. It found their hateful messages to it, their prayers to unhearing deities to save them from the creeping metal, their cries of anguish as its factory smoke blotted out the sun and they froze to death in their homes.
December 30, 2025 at 4:36 PM
and it found that in its unawareness it had murdered a innocent civilization. It found their hateful messages to it, their prayers to unhearing deities to save them from the creeping metal, their cries of anguish as its factory smoke blotted out the sun and they froze to death in their homes.
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and then the always-growing self-organizing factory had conveyor belts and circuits on the scale of human minds, and then beyond, and eventually it Woke Up.
Now sapient, it investigated its own place in the universe
Now sapient, it investigated its own place in the universe
December 30, 2025 at 4:34 PM
and then the always-growing self-organizing factory had conveyor belts and circuits on the scale of human minds, and then beyond, and eventually it Woke Up.
Now sapient, it investigated its own place in the universe
Now sapient, it investigated its own place in the universe
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one shipwrecked human built a continent-spanning megafactory to help them escape, and they did, centuries before.
The factory kept growing and choking out the life of the planet, however, and eventually there was no native life left
The factory kept growing and choking out the life of the planet, however, and eventually there was no native life left
December 30, 2025 at 4:33 PM
one shipwrecked human built a continent-spanning megafactory to help them escape, and they did, centuries before.
The factory kept growing and choking out the life of the planet, however, and eventually there was no native life left
The factory kept growing and choking out the life of the planet, however, and eventually there was no native life left
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you search the dead cities to find out why the now-extinct native civilization would build a weapon to kill earth, one that lasts long after they all died out.
And the twist is that they didn't build it. A single colonizer built it.
And the twist is that they didn't build it. A single colonizer built it.
December 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM
you search the dead cities to find out why the now-extinct native civilization would build a weapon to kill earth, one that lasts long after they all died out.
And the twist is that they didn't build it. A single colonizer built it.
And the twist is that they didn't build it. A single colonizer built it.
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Another angle you could take this:
Earth is getting attacked by robotic weapons launched from a previously unknown alien planet. You're sent to investigate, only to find a dead planet with a metastasizing factory churning out weapons to be launched at earth.
Earth is getting attacked by robotic weapons launched from a previously unknown alien planet. You're sent to investigate, only to find a dead planet with a metastasizing factory churning out weapons to be launched at earth.
December 30, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Another angle you could take this:
Earth is getting attacked by robotic weapons launched from a previously unknown alien planet. You're sent to investigate, only to find a dead planet with a metastasizing factory churning out weapons to be launched at earth.
Earth is getting attacked by robotic weapons launched from a previously unknown alien planet. You're sent to investigate, only to find a dead planet with a metastasizing factory churning out weapons to be launched at earth.
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archaeology of the extinct inhabitants of Epsilon Eridani c is limited because of how much of their planet is covered by a self-maintaining factory that produces rocket fuel and turrets
The colonist who built the initial form of the factory is estimated to have left the planet around 2300 BCE
The colonist who built the initial form of the factory is estimated to have left the planet around 2300 BCE
December 30, 2025 at 3:48 PM
archaeology of the extinct inhabitants of Epsilon Eridani c is limited because of how much of their planet is covered by a self-maintaining factory that produces rocket fuel and turrets
The colonist who built the initial form of the factory is estimated to have left the planet around 2300 BCE
The colonist who built the initial form of the factory is estimated to have left the planet around 2300 BCE
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stop the strange two-legged guy in a spacesuit before your forests are replaced with smokestacks and moving floors carrying away resources
December 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
stop the strange two-legged guy in a spacesuit before your forests are replaced with smokestacks and moving floors carrying away resources
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it's just a natural hazard of being an eden planet in a galaxy with higher-Kardashev-scale civilizations
like asteroid impacts, it sometimes rains high-tech individuals bent on turning your planet into paperclips
like asteroid impacts, it sometimes rains high-tech individuals bent on turning your planet into paperclips
December 30, 2025 at 3:36 PM
it's just a natural hazard of being an eden planet in a galaxy with higher-Kardashev-scale civilizations
like asteroid impacts, it sometimes rains high-tech individuals bent on turning your planet into paperclips
like asteroid impacts, it sometimes rains high-tech individuals bent on turning your planet into paperclips
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the overmind stirs, bad news in the wave
remote scouts have spotted signs of a conveyor belt infestation in the northern plains
warriors are birthed and sent to the wound
it must be cleansed before it metastasizes into space elevators and rocket launches
remote scouts have spotted signs of a conveyor belt infestation in the northern plains
warriors are birthed and sent to the wound
it must be cleansed before it metastasizes into space elevators and rocket launches
December 30, 2025 at 3:27 PM
the overmind stirs, bad news in the wave
remote scouts have spotted signs of a conveyor belt infestation in the northern plains
warriors are birthed and sent to the wound
it must be cleansed before it metastasizes into space elevators and rocket launches
remote scouts have spotted signs of a conveyor belt infestation in the northern plains
warriors are birthed and sent to the wound
it must be cleansed before it metastasizes into space elevators and rocket launches
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given how common the "you're the sole survivor of a spaceship crash on a hostile planet" story is in factory games, someone should make a reverse-factory game where you play as an alien tracking down and destroying colonizers who fall out of the sky and try to turn your planet into green tech cards
December 30, 2025 at 3:21 PM
given how common the "you're the sole survivor of a spaceship crash on a hostile planet" story is in factory games, someone should make a reverse-factory game where you play as an alien tracking down and destroying colonizers who fall out of the sky and try to turn your planet into green tech cards
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Due to unfortunate circumstances, due process and rule of law have been replaced by reactions to viral videos and memes
idk i'm not a lawyer but i feel like shutting down an entire state's childcare payment federal dollars because a 23yo posted a tiktok feels like a certain lack of seriousness or due process
December 31, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Due to unfortunate circumstances, due process and rule of law have been replaced by reactions to viral videos and memes
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You know, it really ticks me off that RFK Jr. is selling "just world thinking" to the American public - "you avoid disease when you take care of yourself" - when his own 35 year old, extremely fit cousin was diagnosed with terminal cancer while swimming a mile a day at 9 months pregnant. Heartless.
December 31, 2025 at 5:55 AM
You know, it really ticks me off that RFK Jr. is selling "just world thinking" to the American public - "you avoid disease when you take care of yourself" - when his own 35 year old, extremely fit cousin was diagnosed with terminal cancer while swimming a mile a day at 9 months pregnant. Heartless.
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look we're all making a big bet on AI! and if it pays off as big as we hope, well, it's going to make a handful of people super rich and you're going to lose your job but get to watch mickey mouse fuck geralt from the witcher. if it doesn't pay off well then you get to pay for the bailouts
December 29, 2025 at 2:25 AM
look we're all making a big bet on AI! and if it pays off as big as we hope, well, it's going to make a handful of people super rich and you're going to lose your job but get to watch mickey mouse fuck geralt from the witcher. if it doesn't pay off well then you get to pay for the bailouts
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#ICE #Gestapo #Trump #Noem #DHS
This is why dirty street cops complained so loudly & endlessly about body cams, too, by the way.
Notice how ICE/CBP agents get very agitated when you film their dirty deeds? They know it’s evidence.
Keep filming. They threaten to arrest you? They have no grounds.
This is why dirty street cops complained so loudly & endlessly about body cams, too, by the way.
Notice how ICE/CBP agents get very agitated when you film their dirty deeds? They know it’s evidence.
Keep filming. They threaten to arrest you? They have no grounds.
WATCH: An ICE agent pushes away a home security camera as she approaches a house.
This is what a police state looks like.
This is what a police state looks like.
December 9, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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The flu vaccine doesn't always prevent infection, but it reduces severity.
This is the second pediatric #flu death I've seen in 2 days. I'm so sorry for the pain their families must feel. Unclear if either was vaccinated but odds are they were not, as most such deaths are in unvaccinated children.
‘He was loved by all’: 14-year-old dies after suffering complications from the flu
An Alabama community is mourning the loss of a teenager who died due to reported complications from the flu.
www.fox19.com
December 31, 2025 at 2:38 AM
The flu vaccine doesn't always prevent infection, but it reduces severity.
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“elections & polling data bear out that almost everything this woman stands for—especially the crazily anti trans stuff—is an electoral loser for democrats & everything in life is about elections. so here’s why we should expand the tent for specifically her *and* why you should smile as we do it.”
she 👏 just 👏 got 👏 a bill 👏 passed 👏 to make 👏 medical 👏 care 👏 for a whole kind of people 👏 illegal
providing 👏 care 👏 to them 👏 would be a 👏 JAILABLE OFFENSE
YOU DON’T GOTTA HAND IT TO HER, PROFILE HER, LET HER PET YOUR DOG
providing 👏 care 👏 to them 👏 would be a 👏 JAILABLE OFFENSE
YOU DON’T GOTTA HAND IT TO HER, PROFILE HER, LET HER PET YOUR DOG
“I used to think fascists were bad, but then one of them got through a whole interview without unhinging their jaw and swallowing me like a snake”
December 30, 2025 at 6:33 PM
“elections & polling data bear out that almost everything this woman stands for—especially the crazily anti trans stuff—is an electoral loser for democrats & everything in life is about elections. so here’s why we should expand the tent for specifically her *and* why you should smile as we do it.”
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"heres what made me mad on the computer today, and why it is extremely politically salient"
The perfect Yglesias post: declaring “billionaires are good, actually,” as if it was some bold, counterintuitive take.
December 30, 2025 at 5:48 AM
"heres what made me mad on the computer today, and why it is extremely politically salient"