Jess Wayde
@jaydestone.bsky.social
Or Jessica, if you're not into the whole brevity thing.
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There was a time in this country, a great time, where a man could ask for some spare change, just to get his car fueled up, just to get away, and everyone within hearing range would reply "Yep!" What a concept.
November 25, 2025 at 3:02 AM
There was a time in this country, a great time, where a man could ask for some spare change, just to get his car fueled up, just to get away, and everyone within hearing range would reply "Yep!" What a concept.
Back in my day, we called it "it rots their brains!"
November 15, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Back in my day, we called it "it rots their brains!"
The truth is, I don't believe you're a Portland resident unless you've been threatened by a singing band of demons that if you don't shop at a specific electronics store, "you'll be sorry."
November 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
The truth is, I don't believe you're a Portland resident unless you've been threatened by a singing band of demons that if you don't shop at a specific electronics store, "you'll be sorry."
I always know when I've drawn "expressionless" properly because it looks like a Bitmoji.
November 6, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I always know when I've drawn "expressionless" properly because it looks like a Bitmoji.
Turns out it's difficult to connect with your parents about having difficult parents.
November 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Turns out it's difficult to connect with your parents about having difficult parents.
Reposted by Jess Wayde
They probably shouldn’t have said publicly that they were using ai to program windows 11. I probably wouldn’t have said that part
November 4, 2025 at 6:14 AM
They probably shouldn’t have said publicly that they were using ai to program windows 11. I probably wouldn’t have said that part
I wrote a very long retrospective on the 2016 puzzle game The Witness. I don't know why I did. This is what happens when I am not distracted by employment.
Why Do I Love The Witness?
On Hidden Images and Authorial Intent
open.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I wrote a very long retrospective on the 2016 puzzle game The Witness. I don't know why I did. This is what happens when I am not distracted by employment.
Reposted by Jess Wayde
Katamari is my favourite series of all time but the problem with making a new katamari is that a) keita takahashi doesn’t get paid and b) nobody can ever improve upon we <3 katamari!! there’s nowhre to go but down
October 26, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Katamari is my favourite series of all time but the problem with making a new katamari is that a) keita takahashi doesn’t get paid and b) nobody can ever improve upon we <3 katamari!! there’s nowhre to go but down
I'm rereading IT, sort of because it's October and sort of because the themes struck me and sort of because it is, truly, one of my comfort books. Few books make me feel as warm and happy, or make me smile and laugh, as IT. It makes me nostalgic for childhood like nothing else.
October 25, 2025 at 4:07 AM
I'm rereading IT, sort of because it's October and sort of because the themes struck me and sort of because it is, truly, one of my comfort books. Few books make me feel as warm and happy, or make me smile and laugh, as IT. It makes me nostalgic for childhood like nothing else.
I wrote a long-ish essay about what it feels like to mourn someone you were close to. It’s entirely off-the-cuff and I have no idea if it’s contributing anything important to any kind of conversation, but hey, here it is.
Grief is Like Falling on Your Butt, Over and Over
On the stupidity of brains and their expectations.
illusorywalls.substack.com
October 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I wrote a long-ish essay about what it feels like to mourn someone you were close to. It’s entirely off-the-cuff and I have no idea if it’s contributing anything important to any kind of conversation, but hey, here it is.
Just had a flashback to pulling my shirt collar down around my shoulders because I wanted to look like Jasmine. I thought she was awesome.
"No signs" my ass.
"No signs" my ass.
October 21, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Just had a flashback to pulling my shirt collar down around my shoulders because I wanted to look like Jasmine. I thought she was awesome.
"No signs" my ass.
"No signs" my ass.
It's funny because I feel like I'm very good at predicting human behavior, but I have no capability to predict/understand what compels a human to think in the necessary manner to produce that behavior.
October 20, 2025 at 8:32 PM
It's funny because I feel like I'm very good at predicting human behavior, but I have no capability to predict/understand what compels a human to think in the necessary manner to produce that behavior.
It is always nice hearing a customer service agent go from "I can't believe this person thinks there's a bug in our system" to "goddamnit there's a bug in our system and this person is rightfully annoyed."
October 20, 2025 at 5:23 PM
It is always nice hearing a customer service agent go from "I can't believe this person thinks there's a bug in our system" to "goddamnit there's a bug in our system and this person is rightfully annoyed."
I read way too much into people's textual tones, when they're probably just being neutral and brief. That reads to me as "annoyed", "disinterested", or "trying way too hard to be laconic and witty".
October 16, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I read way too much into people's textual tones, when they're probably just being neutral and brief. That reads to me as "annoyed", "disinterested", or "trying way too hard to be laconic and witty".
There's something extremely frustrating to be specifically brought onto a project as the "frontend expert" and then be sent a heck of a lot of backend tasks.
I would feel differently about it if they had been upfront about it being a full-stack job.
I would feel differently about it if they had been upfront about it being a full-stack job.
October 16, 2025 at 3:57 PM
There's something extremely frustrating to be specifically brought onto a project as the "frontend expert" and then be sent a heck of a lot of backend tasks.
I would feel differently about it if they had been upfront about it being a full-stack job.
I would feel differently about it if they had been upfront about it being a full-stack job.
Maybe Tide Pods shouldn't have gone with "New Look, Same Great Taste".
October 15, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Maybe Tide Pods shouldn't have gone with "New Look, Same Great Taste".
Two weeks ago I posted this comic to Instagram, and now you, my loyal follower(s?) can see it. It's about tattoos, ragrets, and life in the time before Goo Gone.
October 15, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Two weeks ago I posted this comic to Instagram, and now you, my loyal follower(s?) can see it. It's about tattoos, ragrets, and life in the time before Goo Gone.
This might be a topic for a future journal comic, but recently I got into a "disagreement" with my spouse over something. Once we both cooled off and spoke more openly about it, we realized we both had some assumptions about how humans work, so I dove into research on the topic. (1/5)
October 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
This might be a topic for a future journal comic, but recently I got into a "disagreement" with my spouse over something. Once we both cooled off and spoke more openly about it, we realized we both had some assumptions about how humans work, so I dove into research on the topic. (1/5)
If I could, I'd respond to 99.9% of Twitch/Youtube Live/any kind of streaming's chatroom: "WHO CARES"
October 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
If I could, I'd respond to 99.9% of Twitch/Youtube Live/any kind of streaming's chatroom: "WHO CARES"
Praying for guidance makes sense to me. You have an all-powerful deity, they'll know what the best thing for you to do is.
Praying for the deity to intercede on your behalf, though, is probably the most self-centered thing you can do.
Praying for the deity to intercede on your behalf, though, is probably the most self-centered thing you can do.
October 13, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Praying for guidance makes sense to me. You have an all-powerful deity, they'll know what the best thing for you to do is.
Praying for the deity to intercede on your behalf, though, is probably the most self-centered thing you can do.
Praying for the deity to intercede on your behalf, though, is probably the most self-centered thing you can do.
My favorite part about reading updates on the Portland ICE protests in @theguardian.com is the very clear disdain they have for the fact they even have to report on it. It is *chef's kiss*.
Anyway, Portland remains beautiful and autumny! I never want to live anywhere else. Please leave, haters.
Anyway, Portland remains beautiful and autumny! I never want to live anywhere else. Please leave, haters.
October 9, 2025 at 2:42 PM
My favorite part about reading updates on the Portland ICE protests in @theguardian.com is the very clear disdain they have for the fact they even have to report on it. It is *chef's kiss*.
Anyway, Portland remains beautiful and autumny! I never want to live anywhere else. Please leave, haters.
Anyway, Portland remains beautiful and autumny! I never want to live anywhere else. Please leave, haters.
Re-reading Bone and realizing a character I wrote years ago was basically Gran'ma Ben. There are worse accidentally homages to make.
October 7, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Re-reading Bone and realizing a character I wrote years ago was basically Gran'ma Ben. There are worse accidentally homages to make.
Oh thank god Kit Kittredge's real first name is "Margaret". I was worried that some parent, even a fictional one in the American Girl universe, had named their daughter "Kit Kittredge".
October 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Oh thank god Kit Kittredge's real first name is "Margaret". I was worried that some parent, even a fictional one in the American Girl universe, had named their daughter "Kit Kittredge".
My favorite Jane Goodall fact is that, as a child, she raced snails with her friends.
October 2, 2025 at 6:18 PM
My favorite Jane Goodall fact is that, as a child, she raced snails with her friends.
I have arguments in my head constantly, and the really big problem is that the people I argue with are super good at making their arguments. Not enough to convince ME, but at least enough to convince THEMSELVES.
October 1, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I have arguments in my head constantly, and the really big problem is that the people I argue with are super good at making their arguments. Not enough to convince ME, but at least enough to convince THEMSELVES.