Jae

If you follow for the photos, more are coming soon, it's just that time of year where I have to confront existential threats towards my continued existence

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

It is not harm reduction to actively make things worse than they already are.

Let's gamble: my roll of Kodak Ektachrome from my Holga is ready for development. I expect this roll to be absolute trash, but who knows?

So all you motherfuckers that said that you saw us trans people and would stand with us, where are you at? It’s feeling real fucking lonesome.

Vote blue no matter who for transphobes but not for socialists or anyone with an Arab name. That's going too far.

This year's Monopoly game at McDonalds is so recession-coded. What do you mean the food prizes are worth $1.50? What can you even buy at McDonalds for a $1.50?

Passing through Reto Pano | Ilford HP5 Plus #filmphotography #ilfordhp5plus #blackandwhitephotography #photography

I think that trans mortality is so normalized that almost no one considers us when it comes to aging.

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.

A senator isn't just some guy, let's be so for real.

Remember when Ta-Nehisi Coates spoke about the morality of supporting Palestine and Ezra Klein responded with concern about Democratic support? The way I'm seeing people defend Turek, especially to trans people, shows me that so many of you did not get what Coates was talking about.

I could write it in metaphor, someone mutilated by the mob in hopes of good crops, and the horror that person realizes when they are seen as a monster for trying to escape that doom. But if I say it more literally, that you are asking for trans bodies to be sacrificed for politics, it does not land.

Said it before and I'll say it again: you can't have universal healthcare if any random treatment can become politicized and subject to exclusion. That's abortion, access to medical transition, and any medicine it becomes en vogue to hate on, like GPL-1s.

No, you won't hold these politicians accountable to not be transphobic when they're in office because YOU HAVEN'T DONE IT FOR YEARS! WE'VE HEARD YOU SAY IT AND YOU NEVER DO IT! YOU GUYS DONT EVEN KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING!

You'd think people would bother to learn about how people transition with how much they talk about trans people.

The worst TERFs you know are having fits because they're worried about a sea change.

Farm on film - Back and Whites Olympus Trip MD5 | Ilford HP5 Plus #photography #blackandwhitephotography #filmphotography #ilfordhp5plus

Night loosies #photography #filmphotography #streetphotography

Brooklyn Bridge Park on a cloudy day #photography #blackandwhitephotography

One day my son will go to college or otherwise leave the house, and on that day Apple, the petty bitch, will show him as a two year old in the random photo widget I foolishly put on my Home Screen.

Trying out the 120 medium format film with a Holga, and man I hate it. Take me back to the promise land of 35mm film where loading is relatively straightforward. Also, assuredly wrecking this first roll of film, but that doesn't matter, I don't know WTF I'm doing so it's expected.

Anger Party outraged by mailer sent by Anger Party about thing to be angry about. "I just wish they'd just leave us alone and keep it to themselves" said long-time Anger Party voter Susan Falls of the mailer sent out by her own party. "They just keep pushing in our faces."

DeMoCrAtS sHoULd aVoiD SoCiAL iSsUeS! Republicans are sending out mailers claiming to be trans students who want to emancipate kids. Stop ducking the fade or you're gonna get swept.

You can feel the AI in everything as a dev because every app and service you use is randomly broken far more frequently. You know that it's because code reviews and QA got thrown into the trash because you've had those meetings too.

The walk back Captured on iPhone 16 Pro Max with Koloristika #photography #streetphotography #blackandwhitephotography #shotoniphone

Oh no, the 5 pack of film I bought was 120 medium format! Dang, guess I don't have a choice but to scrounge up a Holga.

We had a decade of media mergers that seemed predicated on the idea that tech, with their shit ton of cash on hand and good credit ratings, would come through and buy. Then AI happened and all the tech companies are in debt with no free cash. And no mega-buyer for deeply indebted media companies.

The next-gen XBOX is rumored to cost between $1200-$1800. Just cancel it bro, we’re in the old tech era.

There's something about the film advance crank on the Canon AE-1. It's just so tactical and satisfying, captures the shooter feeling of photography in ways I haven't experienced in a camera before.

My grandmother lived to be 99 years old, her mother 101. I aspire to be something simple and radical at the same time: a long-lived woman of trans experience.

Somewhere in Texas, a trans kid has heard exactly what their family thinks of trans people and now has to quietly deal with the ramifications. Someone sacrificed an unknown number of trans kids on the alter of Ken Paxton.

Republicans turning to blood libel against trans people doesn’t surprise me, it’s an obvious escalation of their anti-trans fervor. What disturbs me is how people don’t recognize it as blood libel nor what call to action is being proposed when a group of people become a “problem” to be “solved.”

I was talking to some coworkers the other day about universal 2K, and how when NYC manages to establish it, it becomes a matter of time for NY State, NJ, and CT to match.

I've got three rolls of film to drop off for development, two from a camera I've never shot on before. So, lots of anticipation for how all of that turns out.