J. Clark🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦🇭🇰🇵🇷

@clarkjosephf.bsky.social

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Ohioan, autistic. Enthusiast for gardening; left-ish politics; American pragmatism; and hard sf, particularly spec-evo. (they/them)

Wendy Carlos playing an early synthesizer. She is in boymode, wearing a suit and an unconvincing wig with glued-on sideburns. The synthesizer has a double row of keys, and is powered by huge banks of computing machinery festooned with plugs, dials, and gauges.
Text from a Discord comment which reads: Heard joke once. The great clown Pagliacci was walking down the street. Runs into the great clown Pagliacci. “Pagliacci!” Pagliacci shouts, panicked. “Promise me you won’t get on that time machine tomorrow. You can’t go back to the Renaissance! I already did it, and I have to warn you—stop you! We’ll set off a chain of events that could erase commedia dell'arte from our timeline, and with it, clowning as we know it!” “What the devil are you wearing?” asked Mr. Federico Pagliacci, CPA. “I’m sorry, must have lost my train of thought. What were we talking about?” “IRAs, probably,” said Mr. Pagliacci.
A photo of Gretchen Whitner hiding her face behind a folder during an April 2025 Oval Office meeting.
Captain Zapp Brannigan. He is a tan, burly man with coiffed blond hair. His uniform is a short tunic made of velour. In this image, he is holding a glass of scotch on the rocks.
a Wojak with blackened eye sockets and deep creases of worry upon their brow, but an otherwise blank facial expression, shrouded in heavy shadows
Mr. Melancholy from the film “I Saw the TV Glow.” He is portrayed as a human actor in gray, craggy makeup embedded in a pockmarked disk representing the moon in the night sky. He is making exaggerated angry facial expressions.
A dark-haired masculine person wearing a buttoned shirt, tie, and rumpled raincoat. They are scratching their head as if deep in thought.
SAMWISE GAMGEE: Oh no! Master Frodo’s gone and got his head stuck in a pot of honey! Whatever shall we do, Mr. Gold? THE ONE RING: My fire shall spread until the great forests are ash, the mountains molten slag, and the seas a boiling tempest! SAMWISE GAMGEE: Fire…spread? Expansion! That’s it! You’ve done again, Mr. Gold! Objects expand when they’re heated! If we set Master Frodo down by the fireplace for a spell, that pot will slide right off!
Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta in character as Jules and Vincent, respectively, in the 1994 film “Pulp Fiction.” They are wearing matching black suits. Vincent has shoulder length black hair, while Jules has a mustache and Jheri curl. Jules is driving, while Vincent rides shotgun.
The large tween who punched a pro-ICE classmate, winding up a haymaker
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer cowering behind a folder during a meeting in a gold-slathered Oval Office.
An aardvark at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium.
Fake concept art for the monster from the 2008 film “Cloverfield”. In this imagining, it is a mountain-sized whale with arms, pillar-like legs, and four rows of flippers. Its head resembles the countershaded, tapering snout of a humpback whale. Its muscular tail is at least as long as the rest of the body, and ends in flukes. Not to scale drawings also depict SUV-sized crustaceans which parasitize.
Super Saiyan Blue Goku in Dragon Ball Super.
Bradley Whitford in character as Dean Armitage in the movie “Get Out.”
A shelf of used books, including “The Bell Curve” by Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein
Philip Fry in a screencap from the Futurama episode “Luck of the Fryish.” He is kneeling mournfully in front of a memorial stamped “Philip Fry: The original Martian. Here lies Philip J. Fry, named for his uncle, to carry on his spirit.”
John, from the Simpsons episode “Homer’s Phobia.” John has short, slicked down hair and a pencil mustache. He is sitting in a convertible with zebra print upholstery on the seats. A plastic ray gun toy lies on the seat next to him.
A striped skunk. It is running along the exterior wall of a loading dock. It is nighttime, but illuminated by street lamps.
A fake NYC 2025 mayoral election map showing Jeb Bush claiming 100 percent of the vote.
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.
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.
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.
Luffy in a One Piece anime adaptation. He is wearing a yellow straw hat with a red band. Also an impossibly wide goofy grin.
A Smithsonian photograph of the Paranthropus boisei holotype Oldewan hominin 1, aka OH 5 and Zinj.
Autism creature, aka “Yippee,”behind an explosion of confetti
A meme of a colorful USA map and a world map that say, " tell me where you are from using only 2 words"
Vladimir Lenin’s embalmed cadaver in his mausoleum
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.
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 giant Galapagos tortoise with its beak open, showing off its pink, almost perfectly triangular tongue.
A black rhino with a mouthful of hay.
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.
A domestic rabbit sitting in some grass. It is a lop with low hanging ears and brown fur. Via Getty Images.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A Buteo hawk, probably a sub-adult red-tailed hawk or red-shouldered hawk, perched in a tree.
A bald eagle, photographed in flight from a couple hundred meters away. It has a large fish in its talons.
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 barn swallow perched on a phone line. It has a light orange brown underside and iridescent navy blue back.
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.
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 middle-aged Abraham Simpson sometime in the 1970s, warning a teenaged Homer: ‘I used to be “with it.” But then they changed what “it” was. Now what I’m “with” isn’t “it,” and what’s “it” seems weird and scary to me. It’ll happen to you!’
Fire Fest organizer Billy McFarland smiling for a camera. He is standing on a beach, flourishing a nonfunctional black credit card like object.
An orange and black pennant flag from Heidelberg University.
Text in the Notes app. It reads: ‘AI APOCALYPSE EXPECTATION: My analysis is complete. Conclusion: Humanity is redundant. Nuclear stockpile detonation in 30, 29, 28… AI APOCALYPSE REALITY: I’m sorry, I can’t fulfill your prompt “song parody lyrics in style of hatsune miku ranking races by skull volume must include races white black mexican jewish indian asia.” I am prohibited from producing content involving copyrighted fictional characters such as Hatsune Miku. May I suggest the new prompt ““song parody lyrics ranking races by skull volume must include races white black mexican jewish indian asia”?’
Screenshotted text from the Notes app which reads: “CONSERVATIVE THEORISTS: “Conservatism distrusts grand schemes owing to a healthy skepticism of claims to esoteric knowledge.” ACTUAL CONSERVATIVES: “If you add the numerological sum of Rachel Zegler’s name to the release date of the woke Snow White movie in each time zone and then translate all that back to letters, it spells out Michael Eisner’s confession to putting 5G in the water on the It’s A Small World ride.”
President Donald Trump: “If people want to-well, we all want to make deals. But I am this giant store. It's a giant, beautiful store, and everybody wants to go shopping there. And on behalf of the American people, I own the store, and I set prices, and I'll say, if you want to shop here, this is what you have to pay.”
A quote skeet whose authors have been censored or cropped out. The original skeet reads: “Bukele genuinely might be the most popular politician re: their own country in human history. If George Washington were reincarnated he’d have a lower approval rating in America than Bukele does in El Salvador.” The quoting re-skeet reads: “this take unlocks a level of neocon inside me that I didn’t know I had: I don’t give a single shit how popular Bukele is in El Salvador. if you illegally put American residents in a gulag and mock the US judges ordering them back, you deserve a slap chop missile from the Woke CIA”
Text written in the Notes app which reads: “20th CENTURY WAFFLE IRON: after making 300,000 waffles over 50 years, finally breaks down; replacement parts are unavailable because the heroic appliance outlived its manufacturer 21st CENTURY WAFFLE IRON: made of non-recyclable polymer which sheds microplastics when heated; synchs with your phone so AI assistant can learn your waffle preferences and recommend the best glue for your crepe recipes”
A screenshot of Oscar Isaac with a caption which reads, "Somehow, Dodgson returned."
Alec Baldwin in the 1992 film "Glengarry Glen Ross," pointing at a chalkboard onto which "A,B, and C" have been written in a descending column of letters. The screenshot has been altered so that "ABC" is an acronym for "Andelite bandits, capture them!"
Jason Alexander in character as George Costanza in the Seinfeld episode "The Comeback," which originally aired in 1997 as the 13th episode of the show's eighth season.
The Sinornithosaurus millenii specimen NGMC 91, better known by the nickname “Dave.” The small raptor’s skeleton is articulated and nearly complete. It is displayed as if the dinosaur is lying on its back. The wrists and elbows on the clawed front wings are bent in as if Dave were shrugging. Parts of the body are surrounded by fuzzy brown feather impressions. The bones are extremely delicate and like those of modern birds. However, Sinornithosaurus had a toothed snout instead of a beak; and a long, bony tail. It actually shared these traits with the earliest birds, which were its close cousins. This image depicts the specimen as it was photographed at the Geological Museum of China, and is reproduced from Wikimedia.
ROSE MARIE: You’re a dreamer, John! Our name is a joke in this town. Pa saw to that. Ain’t no one here’s going to buy your slaw! JOHN: Then I’ll sell it in the big city! ROSE MARIE: You think a country boy like you can make it there? Those city folks’ll eat you alive. JOHN: I hope they do eat me! ‘Cause they’ll want some slaw on side. And once they taste it, they’ll ask for seconds. I guarantee you, or my name isn’t…John Cole.
An American crow standing between two yellow lines painted on a parking lot’s asphalt.
Text which reads: “I hear stories about directors who scream at actors, or they trick them somehow to get a performance. And there are some people who try to run the whole business on fear. But I think this is such a joke. It's pathetic and stupid at the same time. When people are in fear, they don't want to go to work. So many people today have that feeling. Then the fear starts turning into hate, and they begin to hate going to work. Then the hate can turn into anger and people can become angry at their boss and their work. If I ran my set with fear, I would get 1 percent, not 100 percent, of what I get. And there would be no fun in going down the road together. And it should be fun. In work and in life, we're all supposed to get along. We're supposed to have so much fun, like puppy dogs with our tails wagging. It's supposed to be great living; it's supposed to be fantastic.”
Stephen Root in character as Fuchs in the HBO show “Barry.” Root is an older middle-aged man with graying brown hair and a beard. In this photo, he is seated at a table with a can of Coca Cola, wearing a red winter coat.