Nostr notes by Jae

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2026-10-29T23:14:16Z

The trans agenda is restoring what has been lost.

I wish more Democrats would point out that Republican’s ...

2026-10-28T20:16:14Z

I wish more Democrats would point out that Republican’s anti-trans policies involve creating an incredibly paranoid nanny state that wants to catalog your children’s DNA, check their genitals, and monitor what they talk about and how they refer to themselves.

We’re fighting 4chan nazis and you’re worried about being too ...

2026-10-27T15:29:57Z

We’re fighting 4chan nazis and you’re worried about being too concerned about human rights.

I always have a bit of dissonance when people talk about how ...

2026-10-27T04:51:43Z

I always have a bit of dissonance when people talk about how small the trans community is. In absolute terms, if you take us as a share of population and dependent on how one qualifies “trans,” we land at somewhere between 1% and 2.4% of the adult population. Sounds tiny right? Except here in Jersey City, if you take the lowest estimates that’s still just a bit north of 2,300 trans adults. Enough that most people have shared space with us, but seemingly are unaware of that.

I keep asking what people expect elderly trans people to do if ...

2026-10-26T20:53:41Z

I keep asking what people expect elderly trans people to do if their care is banned from federal funding. Or poor trans people. Or trans prisoners. Or trans kids. I thought we all learned the extent that everything is federally funded after DOGE, but apparently not.

Banning federal funds towards all trans care is not some blasé ...

2026-10-26T05:33:10Z

Banning federal funds towards all trans care is not some blasé minor inconvenience. It’s elderly trans people suddenly being unable to maintain the care they might have had for decades. It’s entire hospital networks dropping trans care because they don’t want to get blacklisted from grants and any federally subsidized insurance. It’s support services shutting down. It’s all that throughout the United States, millions of Americans abandoned for so-called political expediency.

Imagine you are a trans Medicaid patient in long-term care, and ...

2026-10-26T05:33:10Z

In reply to nevent1q…ulrr
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Imagine you are a trans Medicaid patient in long-term care, and now your nursing home refuses to give you HRT because your care is funded in part by the federal government. So depending on what your transition consisted of, you are now faced with forced detransition or your body’s systems going out of wack from having no primary sex hormone.

That is the “lesser evil” you are asking trans Iowans to vote for. I need you to own that before you call them selfish.

Stills from Lackawanna Station, captured on a Canon AE-1 with ...

2026-10-22T01:58:11Z

In reply to nevent1q…l4tc
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Stills from Lackawanna Station, captured on a Canon AE-1 with Kodak Ektar 100, Reto Pano with Kodak Gold 200, and on iPhone 16 Pro Max using Koloristika app. 2/2

#photography

Stills from Lackawanna Station, captured on a Canon AE-1 with ...

2026-10-22T01:58:00Z

Stills from Lackawanna Station, captured on a Canon AE-1 with Kodak Ektar 100, Reto Pano with Kodak Gold 200, and on iPhone 16 Pro Max using Koloristika app. 1/2

#photography

If you’re Black in the Americas and tried to trace down your ...

2026-10-14T23:20:26Z

If you’re Black in the Americas and tried to trace down your ancestry, you eventually hit the slavery wall, where it becomes impossible to go back any further. This release is going to useful for a lot of people, and me directly.

https://mastodon.social/@audubonballroon/117434378397137445

Brooklyn Bridge Park in the rain #photography #BlackAndWhite ...

2026-10-09T14:57:58Z

Brooklyn Bridge Park in the rain

#photography #BlackAndWhite

I think I have the right amount of angst for the moment ...

2026-10-04T00:48:47Z

I think I have the right amount of angst for the moment

#photography #selfportrait

Metropolis #shotoniphone #photography ...

2026-10-03T13:24:36Z

Metropolis

#shotoniphone #photography

City in motion #photography #shotoniphone ...

2026-10-03T00:21:47Z

City in motion

#photography #shotoniphone

Today is my fifth HRT anniversary! Before I started medically ...

2026-10-01T14:06:04Z

Today is my fifth HRT anniversary! Before I started medically transitioning, I always thought of the fifth anniversary as being this milestone, an end to second puberty and some major turning point. I’d watch people’s anniversary videos on YouTube, and on the fifth one they always seemed like they felt that nothing much had changed over the last year. I, having the privilege of seeing a year past between videos in minutes, couldn’t believe they thought that.

And now here I am.

I still love this photo because there’s something so dissonant ...

2026-10-01T01:11:54Z

I still love this photo because there’s something so dissonant about these robots, their surroundings, and the film used to capture them.

#filmphotography #photography

All I’m saying is that when trans people could use whatever ...

2026-09-19T05:26:06Z

All I’m saying is that when trans people could use whatever bathroom, diesel wasn’t $8/gal. It’s the same ideology that’s made changes to both.

I was driving back from Montauk Point Lighthouse and turned into ...

2026-09-16T21:13:32Z

I was driving back from Montauk Point Lighthouse and turned into the Old Montauk Highway, and came across this sculpture. Apparently the neighbors hate it, and are trying to get it removed. It got me to pull over and awe.

Impromptu selfies. Really feel like the film shooting is paying ...

2026-09-14T00:20:30Z

Impromptu selfies. Really feel like the film shooting is paying off when I go back to digital.

I was 11 years old in Brooklyn on 9/11. The city changed that ...

2026-09-11T14:25:40Z

I was 11 years old in Brooklyn on 9/11. The city changed that day, a militarism that never went away. National Guard in the subways, NYPD intelligence, suspicion. That never went away, and overtime its purpose has shifted.

Same agencies created after 9/11 are shooting people in the streets—throwing people in camps. I think that’s what feels so heavy about this 9/11 in particular. That all the while, America still hates New York while using our trama as justification for subjugation.

The amount of energy put towards the hypothetical disaster of a ...

2026-09-10T17:09:39Z

The amount of energy put towards the hypothetical disaster of a super intelligent AI compared the actual current disaster of global warming boggles the mind. The coasts are washing away, civilizations destroyed by glacial collapse, but maybe one day someone will prompt Claude to kill all humans.

If you’re upset about kids developing identities outside of ...

2026-08-24T20:40:01Z

If you’re upset about kids developing identities outside of their parent’s expectations then don’t have kids. Maybe imaginary friends are more your speed. Or house plants.

Womanhood predicated on capacity to give birth enables womanhood ...

2026-08-13T13:45:11Z

Womanhood predicated on capacity to give birth enables womanhood to be judged on if you have given birth. It’s the very millstone that desires to unmake all of feminism and women’s rights writ large.

We’re at the logical extreme of conservative thought in that ...

2026-06-25T16:27:58Z

We’re at the logical extreme of conservative thought in that words are effectively meaningless. If explicit statements of prejudice can’t be used as evidence of prejudicial intent and disparate impact can’t be used as evidence of prejudicial intent, how in the world can you ever prove that prejudice ever took place?

SpaceX is preparing to issue a $20b+ bond after having the ...

2026-06-19T04:16:15Z

SpaceX is preparing to issue a $20b+ bond after having the largest IPO ever if you’re wondering how bullshit the market is these days. What’s the money for? To refinance debt SpaceX took to acquire xAI, who itself took on debt to bail Elon out of Twitter.

Already planned on going out two weeks ago before I knew Brazil ...

2026-06-13T19:26:06Z

Already planned on going out two weeks ago before I knew Brazil was at MetLife and the Knicks might win the final on the same night. Tonight will either be fun or disasterous, maybe both.

Wouldn’t have to threaten my livelihood to buy a Chinese EV. ...

2026-05-12T18:23:27Z

In reply to nevent1q…sdde
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Wouldn’t have to threaten my livelihood to buy a Chinese EV. But I guess it’s beatings for us until we buy the products our oligarchs want us to buy.

No one ever had to yell “adapt or die” to get me to use any ...

2026-05-12T18:19:46Z

No one ever had to yell “adapt or die” to get me to use any other bit of technology in my life.

Parent chat turned racist after I, the black trans mom, stood up ...

2026-05-02T12:31:22Z

Parent chat turned racist after I, the black trans mom, stood up for trans kids. How dare I deign to speak up, let alone disagree.

Major tech figures becoming drug-addled eugenicists was ...

2026-04-20T03:28:05Z

Major tech figures becoming drug-addled eugenicists was absolutely predictable from the mid-2000s. You just didn’t hear much about it because tech journalism is super uncritical about everything.

Upon reflection, screaming into the void didn’t feel right for ...

2026-03-25T18:11:40Z

Upon reflection, screaming into the void didn’t feel right for Trans Day of Visibility, but I already took these photos so here you go.

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2026-01-31T18:35:04Z

In reply to nevent1q…52y5
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It’s my birthday and I took another set of portraits to ...

2026-01-31T18:31:51Z

It’s my birthday and I took another set of portraits to celebrate. I started taking portraits on my birthday after my egg cracked, and I’m keeping up with the tradition. 1/4

ICE, the overpolicing of black people, the harassment of the ...

2026-01-26T16:25:03Z

ICE, the overpolicing of black people, the harassment of the unhoused, the permit of violence and sexual assault in prisons, and the implicit or explicit favor of v-coding trans women within prisons all stem from the social permit of carceral force against perceived problem persons. The main difference now is that the scope of who this use of force is acceptable to use against has expanded.

The buried lede in this is that in the last Trump admin, Maduro ...

2026-01-03T12:54:36Z

The buried lede in this is that in the last Trump admin, Maduro was indicted for leading Cartel de los Soles, an organization that does not exist and is a turn of phrase in Venezuela that describes corruption. Nevertheless, Trump declared it a terrorist organization back in July. Keep this in mind for the future when it comes to ANTIFA.

Today we learned that ████████ ...

2025-12-20T02:26:58Z

Today we learned that ████████ ████████████ █████ ███████ ███ ████████

Democrats Henry Cuellar, Vicente Gonzalez and Don Davis have ...

2025-12-18T01:23:27Z

Democrats Henry Cuellar, Vicente Gonzalez and Don Davis have voted to make gender affirming care for trans youth a felony. Shame on them for their demonization of trans people and inflicting suffering on those we are meant to protect.

People have a hard time quantifying that 1% of a population is ...

2025-11-16T18:06:56Z

People have a hard time quantifying that 1% of a population is still a lot of people. That’s one in a hundred. That’s 3,000 people in my city of 300,000. People just absolutely flabbergasted that statistically they’ve been in spaces with trans people and just never realized it.

Walking around shots #streetphotography ...

2025-11-09T14:30:35Z

Walking around shots

#streetphotography

Passports didn’t list sex until the 1970s when governments ...

2025-11-06T23:46:31Z

Passports didn’t list sex until the 1970s when governments around the world stated freaking out about men with long hair and unisex clothes. Now we pretend like this was some always set, eminently important thing that must carry value. We only got it as enforcement of binary gender.

I honestly don’t understand why universal day care is some ...

2025-10-31T20:01:26Z

I honestly don’t understand why universal day care is some frought political issue when everyone with a kid will tell you just how much daycare is costing them and how much it factors into the composition of their family. Bitch about the birth rate but do fuck all about it except force births.

But government reflects the ideologies and cultures of the people ...

2025-10-25T04:48:10Z

In reply to nevent1q…qa48
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But government reflects the ideologies and cultures of the people who enable it. I think there’s this white leftist blind spot of one big idea that covers all issues. That racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia ultimately leads back to classism and by extension capitalism. Defeat that, defeat all.

It’s not really surprising then that a lot of trans people get ...

2025-10-25T04:48:10Z

In reply to nevent1q…c48y
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It’s not really surprising then that a lot of trans people get preoccupied with the form that government takes. I think there’s this idea that a liberal or leftist government of some sort, either a reformation of our current system, or a new one, like communism would solve these issues.

Trans life is so precariously tied to government that all it ...

2025-10-25T04:48:10Z

Trans life is so precariously tied to government that all it takes is one bad election to make life inhospitable. I’m in NJ, there’s a governor’s race. Depending who wins, I might have to move. It’s a level of stress that other kinds of people don’t experience to the same degree. Not yet anyway.

So no change in system, in of itself, would lead to the ...

2025-10-25T04:48:10Z

In reply to nevent1q…8hwg
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So no change in system, in of itself, would lead to the eradication of prejudice. It would just change the means of which power is conferred and distributed. And without actual cultural change, there is no guarantee of any directional change in policy. You could get something worse.

But as a black person, I’m not so enamored with this concept ...

2025-10-25T04:48:10Z

In reply to nevent1q…hm24
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But as a black person, I’m not so enamored with this concept since I have to experience how deep, how base something like racism is. Like, babies display outgroup prejudices, kids discriminate on sex and race at three. There’s no Elon Musk that made them that way, they just are.

If you’re reading this on Bluesky or Threads, know that the ...

2025-09-18T03:47:31Z

If you’re reading this on Bluesky or Threads, know that the moderation will be going crazy from here on out. Even if the law cannot compel these companies to filter out speech, they will act to preserve themselves. The future of American social media is information blackouts. By extension the world.

Lunch break selfies #selfie #photography #portraitphotogaphy ...

2025-08-29T12:09:24Z

Lunch break selfies

#selfie #photography #portraitphotogaphy

Washington #photography #shotoniphone ...

2025-04-26T12:29:14Z

Washington

#photography #shotoniphone

Together with you. #photography #selfie #shotoniphone #candid ...

2025-04-26T04:11:02Z

Together with you.

#photography #selfie #shotoniphone #candid

Prism #photography #shotoniphone ...

2025-04-24T02:21:58Z

Prism

#photography #shotoniphone

Unclear Path #photography #shotoniphone ...

2025-04-13T12:13:33Z

Unclear Path

#photography #shotoniphone

Grid shift #photography #shotoniphone ...

2025-04-06T02:10:04Z

Grid shift

#photography #shotoniphone

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2025-04-02T21:30:43Z

Oh we’re getting liberated from having money today. And jobs.

B-sides from the Trans Day of Visibility shoot #tdov ...

2025-03-31T22:02:26Z

B-sides from the Trans Day of Visibility shoot

#tdov #transdayofvisibility #photography #portrait

It’s a dark time, but still I remain resilient. I hope all of ...

2025-03-31T19:06:54Z

It’s a dark time, but still I remain resilient. I hope all of you are doing well, and hope that we can return to brighter times in the future. For now though, you are all beautiful and precious, in ways intrinsic and immovable. Happy Trans Day of Visibility.

#transdayofvisibility #tdov #photography

Selfie #photography #shotoniphone #portraitphotography #selfie ...

2025-03-20T01:28:43Z

Selfie

#photography #shotoniphone #portraitphotography #selfie

I haven’t used this linear filter in a while, but I did have ...

2025-03-16T22:06:43Z

I haven’t used this linear filter in a while, but I did have some fun with it. I think I should scout for a good location to take advantage of it with.

#photography #cityscape #streetphotography #abstractphotograpy #art

Views from a lot #photography #shotoniphone #cityscape #landscape ...

2025-03-13T11:46:02Z

Views from a lot

#photography #shotoniphone #cityscape #landscape

Nightlight #photography #shotoniphone ...

2025-03-11T10:48:19Z

Nightlight

#photography #shotoniphone

America has started jailing political dissidents. You can try to ...

2025-03-10T17:41:57Z

America has started jailing political dissidents. You can try to wrap that in whatever package you want, but it’s the truth.

Full Bloom #scannerart #scanography #photography #floral #art ...

2025-03-02T19:01:09Z

Full Bloom

#scannerart #scanography #photography #floral #art

Shining down #scanography #scannerart #photography #floral ...

2025-02-28T02:11:09Z

Shining down

#scanography #scannerart #photography #floral #floralart

Through the portal #photography #blackandwhitephotography ...

2025-02-22T13:21:10Z

Through the portal

#photography #blackandwhitephotography #shotoniphone

Dysphoria #scanography #photography #scannerart #portrait ...

2025-02-18T12:23:31Z

Dysphoria

#scanography #photography #scannerart #portrait #portraitphotogaphy #art

Old shit: facades & textures. Several years old, but for a ...

2025-02-18T03:57:40Z

Old shit: facades & textures. Several years old, but for a while I got really big into photographing exteriors for textures. Here are some surviving shots.

#photography #architecturephotograhy

Falling out #scanography #scannerart #photography #floralart ...

2025-02-17T23:33:50Z

Falling out

#scanography #scannerart #photography #floralart #florals #art

Together #scanography #photography #scannerart #art ...

2025-02-15T22:56:38Z

Together

#scanography #photography #scannerart #art

False Bloom #scannerart #scanography #photography #floral ...

2025-02-14T15:36:54Z

False Bloom

#scannerart #scanography #photography #floral #floralart #art

The facade of what was #scannerart #scanography #photography ...

2025-02-12T15:17:14Z

The facade of what was

#scannerart #scanography #photography #floralart #floral #art

Falling in order #art #scanography #scannerart #photography ...

2025-02-10T12:10:11Z

Falling in order

#art #scanography #scannerart #photography #stilllife #floralart #floral

As the lights turn on at dusk #photography #cityscape #citylife ...

2025-02-09T21:37:48Z

As the lights turn on at dusk

#photography #cityscape #citylife #shotoniphone

It’s a snow day and like every time it snows, me and my son ...

2025-02-09T15:48:46Z

It’s a snow day and like every time it snows, me and my son made snowmen together. The snow was really icy today, so perfect to build with

Plains #photography #architechture #shotoniphone ...

2025-02-07T17:45:29Z

Plains

#photography #architechture #shotoniphone #streetphotography

Cycles #scanography #photography #stilllife #scannerart ...

2025-02-07T05:07:25Z

Cycles

#scanography #photography #stilllife #scannerart

What little I have to give #scanography #scannerart #photography ...

2025-02-07T00:10:34Z

What little I have to give

#scanography #scannerart #photography #stilllife

Grids #photography #shotoniphone ...

2025-02-06T12:19:19Z

Grids

#photography #shotoniphone

Some walk around throw aways #photography #streetphotography ...

2025-02-04T01:45:03Z

Some walk around throw aways

#photography #streetphotography #cityscape

And it also tests the waters of what a “child” is, bumping it ...

2025-01-28T23:33:19Z

In reply to nevent1q…v9w4
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And it also tests the waters of what a “child” is, bumping it up to 19, which opens doors to attempts to include up to under 25s, which has been a pretty common refrain of Republicans in state government.

Concerningly, it calls for the complete elimination of all ...

2025-01-28T23:32:47Z

In reply to nevent1q…62ce
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Concerningly, it calls for the complete elimination of all policies derived from WPATH, and seeks to find “alternative facts” similarly to the Cass Review in the UK, whilst also banning any research into gender affirming care.

It looks to prosecute any doctors performing bottom surgery for trans mascs under female genital mutilation statutes, seemingly regardless of age.

Yet another anti trans executive order, this one seeking to ...

2025-01-28T23:31:16Z

Yet another anti trans executive order, this one seeking to forcibly detransition and disallow transition of anyone under 19, and seek the prosecution of anyone who supports them.

This one follows the paternalistic language that’s pretty common with anti-trans policies regarding children. Namely it defines gender affirming care as “genital mutilation”, and uses language talking about how trans men may miss breastfeeding their children

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/protecting-children-from-chemical-and-surgical-mutilation/

Going to be real important to have the Progress flag with the ...

2025-01-22T21:32:49Z

Going to be real important to have the Progress flag with the intersex symbol on it this year. The feds don’t even think they’re real anymore.

Distortions #photography #portrait ...

2025-01-22T10:47:32Z

Distortions

#photography #portrait

It’s been a while since I’ve last done it, but I want to take ...

2025-01-18T13:00:05Z

It’s been a while since I’ve last done it, but I want to take another series of photos using Vaseline diffusion. I love the way it turns the subject so abstractly.
#photography #blackandwhite

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2025-01-10T02:50:36Z

The Meta town square is in a sundown town.

Take a walk with me #photography #portrait #photowalk ...

2024-10-14T00:20:42Z

Take a walk with me

#photography #portrait #photowalk