Jaye Was
@jayewas.bsky.social
Queer nonbinary gadfly who pays attention to things other people ignore.
Antifascist, feminist, aspiring humorist.
(they/them)
Mdni
Antifascist, feminist, aspiring humorist.
(they/them)
Mdni
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Narrating the horrors is not enough.
December 1, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Narrating the horrors is not enough.
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Picky Orca Calf Won’t Eat Rich Unless Cut Into Little Yacht Shapes: tinyurl.com/2uwf6ezp
November 28, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Picky Orca Calf Won’t Eat Rich Unless Cut Into Little Yacht Shapes: tinyurl.com/2uwf6ezp
The proliferation of coffee shops selling the Costco bacon egg and cheese croissant is so funny.
Like yes, there is a customer base who would pay 6 bucks for a minimum wage worker to heat up a frozen breakfast sandwich because that customer doesn't want 5 of those sandwiches in their home freezer
Like yes, there is a customer base who would pay 6 bucks for a minimum wage worker to heat up a frozen breakfast sandwich because that customer doesn't want 5 of those sandwiches in their home freezer
November 26, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The proliferation of coffee shops selling the Costco bacon egg and cheese croissant is so funny.
Like yes, there is a customer base who would pay 6 bucks for a minimum wage worker to heat up a frozen breakfast sandwich because that customer doesn't want 5 of those sandwiches in their home freezer
Like yes, there is a customer base who would pay 6 bucks for a minimum wage worker to heat up a frozen breakfast sandwich because that customer doesn't want 5 of those sandwiches in their home freezer
Seattle is a city of middle managers and now we're seeing tech reduce those roles, so ecosystems of business lunches and craft breweries are eating shit.
November 26, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Seattle is a city of middle managers and now we're seeing tech reduce those roles, so ecosystems of business lunches and craft breweries are eating shit.
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tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
Loving those Mamdani comparisons
(You don't win elections by being combative but you don't beat fascism with appeasement to corporate interests. Also looking at you Girmay)
(You don't win elections by being combative but you don't beat fascism with appeasement to corporate interests. Also looking at you Girmay)
November 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Loving those Mamdani comparisons
(You don't win elections by being combative but you don't beat fascism with appeasement to corporate interests. Also looking at you Girmay)
(You don't win elections by being combative but you don't beat fascism with appeasement to corporate interests. Also looking at you Girmay)
Ideological battles reduced to who has a better q score
November 21, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Ideological battles reduced to who has a better q score
Oh it's like death spasms I think, huh
November 18, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Oh it's like death spasms I think, huh
Magical realism in which I can speak through a photograph to the subject but I only ever use it for cute animal friend pics
November 18, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Magical realism in which I can speak through a photograph to the subject but I only ever use it for cute animal friend pics
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It was announced on October 16, 2025 that VIBE was "joining forces" with Rolling Stone. As a result, the majority of VIBE employees were laid off. If you have the means to give, this team could use the support! www.gofundme.com/f/support-vi...
Donate to Support VIBE Staff After Sudden Layoffs, organized by Mya Abraham
It was announced on October 16, 2025 that VIBE was "joining forces" with Rolling S… Mya Abraham needs your support for Support VIBE Staff After Sudden Layoffs
www.gofundme.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
It was announced on October 16, 2025 that VIBE was "joining forces" with Rolling Stone. As a result, the majority of VIBE employees were laid off. If you have the means to give, this team could use the support! www.gofundme.com/f/support-vi...
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those of us laid off from Teen Vogue were really fortunate to complete our fundraising goal — the laid-off staffers at VIBE deserve the same support, as Black media outlets and journalists continue to be targeted and discriminated against in “austerity” measures
It was announced on October 16, 2025 that VIBE was "joining forces" with Rolling Stone. As a result, the majority of VIBE employees were laid off. If you have the means to give, this team could use the support! www.gofundme.com/f/support-vi...
Donate to Support VIBE Staff After Sudden Layoffs, organized by Mya Abraham
It was announced on October 16, 2025 that VIBE was "joining forces" with Rolling S… Mya Abraham needs your support for Support VIBE Staff After Sudden Layoffs
www.gofundme.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:38 PM
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue were really fortunate to complete our fundraising goal — the laid-off staffers at VIBE deserve the same support, as Black media outlets and journalists continue to be targeted and discriminated against in “austerity” measures
Hating this marketing trend of "hey the world is on fire but buy my product"
Saw it for an artisan chocolate advent calendar which just felt way too let them eat cake.
Saw it for an artisan chocolate advent calendar which just felt way too let them eat cake.
November 16, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Hating this marketing trend of "hey the world is on fire but buy my product"
Saw it for an artisan chocolate advent calendar which just felt way too let them eat cake.
Saw it for an artisan chocolate advent calendar which just felt way too let them eat cake.
Resignation countdown when
November 15, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Resignation countdown when
Feel like some of the inflation is after shocks of all the COVID money that companies wanted to hoover up and every one of them built their five year plans off of 2021.
November 14, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Feel like some of the inflation is after shocks of all the COVID money that companies wanted to hoover up and every one of them built their five year plans off of 2021.
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As “technically it’s ephebophilia…” arguments metastasize out of the libertarian fringe into GOP orthodoxy, it’s worth remembering back when @thestranger.com was still employing “just asking questions” transphobe, “lesbian-not-queer” alt lite writer Katie Herzog
www.thestranger.com/crime/2019/0...
www.thestranger.com/crime/2019/0...
November 13, 2025 at 7:51 PM
As “technically it’s ephebophilia…” arguments metastasize out of the libertarian fringe into GOP orthodoxy, it’s worth remembering back when @thestranger.com was still employing “just asking questions” transphobe, “lesbian-not-queer” alt lite writer Katie Herzog
www.thestranger.com/crime/2019/0...
www.thestranger.com/crime/2019/0...
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People don't drink Starbucks because they like coffee.
They drink Starbucks to send a message, and the message is "I don't have to care about what YOU PEOPLE care about — I'm better than you."
They drink Starbucks to send a message, and the message is "I don't have to care about what YOU PEOPLE care about — I'm better than you."
Is it really that hard for people to give up Starbucks? Everything there tastes like it has a fine coat of plastic. Even the “coffee.”
November 13, 2025 at 1:20 PM
People don't drink Starbucks because they like coffee.
They drink Starbucks to send a message, and the message is "I don't have to care about what YOU PEOPLE care about — I'm better than you."
They drink Starbucks to send a message, and the message is "I don't have to care about what YOU PEOPLE care about — I'm better than you."
Flamin hot Reese's peanut butter cups shaped like chilis
November 13, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Flamin hot Reese's peanut butter cups shaped like chilis
My moral disgust is constantly simmering but I'm finding it hard to mask right now.
More at how many powerful people knew and didn't use all the resources at their avail to stop the ascendance to power because calling his supporters deplorable was too divisive and money speaks louder than decency.
More at how many powerful people knew and didn't use all the resources at their avail to stop the ascendance to power because calling his supporters deplorable was too divisive and money speaks louder than decency.
November 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
My moral disgust is constantly simmering but I'm finding it hard to mask right now.
More at how many powerful people knew and didn't use all the resources at their avail to stop the ascendance to power because calling his supporters deplorable was too divisive and money speaks louder than decency.
More at how many powerful people knew and didn't use all the resources at their avail to stop the ascendance to power because calling his supporters deplorable was too divisive and money speaks louder than decency.
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🧵. Note that Divest believes 2 of the 3 officers involved in the shooting were rookies. There will be many rookies flooding into SPD from the hiring spree this year.
UPDATE: The Office of Police Accountability has opened an investigation into the three officers who fatally shot a man in SODO on Oct. 30.
While OPA has opened investigations into every 2025 shooting, this one is different. The allegations are "Conformance to Law," not force.
While OPA has opened investigations into every 2025 shooting, this one is different. The allegations are "Conformance to Law," not force.
CW: Shooting/Death
New video of last week's shooting in SODO.
Officers told him to drop his gun. He did. They killed him.
New video of last week's shooting in SODO.
Officers told him to drop his gun. He did. They killed him.
November 11, 2025 at 8:25 PM
🧵. Note that Divest believes 2 of the 3 officers involved in the shooting were rookies. There will be many rookies flooding into SPD from the hiring spree this year.
This got me blocked, but y'all need to divorce yourself from the celebrity of politicians.
Comparing Mamdani to Wilson is marketing not policy. Both are going to struggle to achieve campaign promises. Not to say it's futile to try, but starry eyed fandom is not going to build the better world.
Comparing Mamdani to Wilson is marketing not policy. Both are going to struggle to achieve campaign promises. Not to say it's futile to try, but starry eyed fandom is not going to build the better world.
The comparison is so gd sweaty. She had something in the Stranger earlier this year on how the left™️ got their approach to homelessness wrong and the solution was sympathizing with suburban fears
www.thestranger.com/katie-wilson...
www.thestranger.com/katie-wilson...
November 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
This got me blocked, but y'all need to divorce yourself from the celebrity of politicians.
Comparing Mamdani to Wilson is marketing not policy. Both are going to struggle to achieve campaign promises. Not to say it's futile to try, but starry eyed fandom is not going to build the better world.
Comparing Mamdani to Wilson is marketing not policy. Both are going to struggle to achieve campaign promises. Not to say it's futile to try, but starry eyed fandom is not going to build the better world.
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Dems trusting Republicans like
November 11, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Dems trusting Republicans like