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Jaye Was

@jayewas.bsky.social
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Queer nonbinary gadfly who pays attention to things other people ignore. Antifascist, feminist, aspiring humorist. (they/them) Mdni

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Jaye Was @jayewas.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Cursed guy fieri dropped
Guy fieri with brown hair pulled to the right, wearing a conservative checked collar shirt, no facial hair
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Jaye Was @jayewas.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Investment markets, insurance agencies and banks all profit off of chattel slavery both historically and in modern times in prisons and internationally. www.bbc.com/news/busines...
In recent years, US banks have made public apologies for the role they played in slavery.

In 2005, JP Morgan Chase, currently the biggest bank in the US, admitted that two of its subsidiaries - Citizens' Bank and Canal Bank in Louisiana - accepted enslaved people as collateral for loans. If plantation owners defaulted on loan payment the banks took ownership of these slaves.

JP Morgan was not alone. The predecessors that made up Citibank, Bank of America and Wells Fargo are among a list of well-known US financial firms that benefited from the slave trade.

"Slavery was an overwhelmingly important fact of the American economy," explains Sven Beckert, Laird Bell Professor of American History at Harvard University
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Jaye Was @jayewas.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Man standing meme
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Jaye Was @jayewas.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Also: eat shit Mike
Kuow headline reads controversial Seattle Police Union leader Mike Solan to step down by Scott Greenstone with Solan's head shot underneath
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Jaye Was @jayewas.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Imagine your obituary just being shade about your most notorious act
Google News results for Cecilia Giménez obituary

"Spanish woman scorned then loved for botched fresco restoration"

"The artist 'restored' the face of Jesus has died"

"famed for 'Monkey Christ' mural mishap dies at 94"
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Jaye Was @jayewas.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
2016
Bild,a German tabloid with a front page of Trump smugly mugging with the headline Ist Donald Trump ein Sexmonster
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Jaye Was @jayewas.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Why no boop tho
A very round cartoon orca mascot with rosy cheeks holding orca cards
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Jaye Was @jayewas.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
"did I do that?"
A CBS News article that reads shark kills woman, seriously injures man with her at beach in Australia. A picture of a very beady eyed blue and white shark swims with it's mouth slightly agape and pointed teeth evenly spaced jutting out
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Jaye Was @jayewas.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
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)
Seattle times headline reading Seattle's next mayor is willing to meet with anyone, including Trump
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Jaye Was @jayewas.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
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...
It’s not that there’s no truth to these rejoinders. But they amount to trivializing what anyone who spends some time walking around Seattle’s streets can plainly observe: People with acute mental illness whose behavior is disturbed and occasionally aggressive. People using drugs, often incapacitated or passed out on the ground. People in dire need of medical care, suffering and in some cases slowly dying in public. And trash, and excrement, and broken windows.How We Can Win

So what do we do? If the left wants to win, we need to preach beyond the choir. Where better to find the average Seattle voter than in the comment section? “Left Leaning Patriot,” who wrote this response to a New York Times article on homelessness, actually hails from Mercer Island, but I think represents well the kind of person whose support we can’t afford to lose:
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Jaye Was @jayewas.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Scruffy got time for his magazine
Scruffy from Futurama reading national pornographic
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Jaye Was @jayewas.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
T'Challa for Dog Mayor: he may not be a dog, but he is a good boy
A black cat with Instagram dog ears
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Jaye Was @jayewas.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
I think about modernism and postmodernism as philosophical epochs and honestly it means nothing outside of the academy I have inside my head where I'm both the dean and every incoming frosh.
What does the end of history mean with TiVo and Tubi and quibi
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Jaye Was @jayewas.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Presented by amex
Conan o brien tour poster with orange text stating the legally prohibited from being funny on television tour. Presented by American express
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Jaye Was @jayewas.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Seems like engagement bait. Because of lower agricultural diversity in a/b, there's not a ton of reason to choose it.
Brilliant maps account asking for the rest of your life you can only eat food from one of these regions, which do you choose. Image with world map,a being Iceland b being northern Europe, c being Russia and China, d being se Asia and Australia, e East Africa and a lil bit of oman I think, f being most of South America, g bring being central and most of Mason Dixon South North America, h being north of Mason Dixon North America
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Jaye Was @jayewas.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Saw the mayor at a bar last night
Clock out lounge a small bar and theater packed with guests looking at a stage where a shaggy bearded white man in a button up and t shirt, Emmett Montgomery, a slight white woman with a bun sitting on a stool and wearing a light blazer, Katie Wilson, and a crew cut bearded white man in a black t shirt stand
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Jaye Was @jayewas.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Modernist cuisine guy is in the Epstein book. The Microsoft exec who sold $500 cookbooks of frying pans cut in half is also a wildlife photographer who shared pictures of animals fucking. We gotta eat these billionaires.
Nathan Myhrvold, a multimillionaire and former Microsoft executive who illustrated his thoughts with graphic photographs of wildlife sex. (Myhrvold did not respond to my request for comment but told The Wall Street Journal that “he didn’t recall the submission and that he is a wildlife photographer who ‘regularly shares photos of and writes about animal behavior.’”) Another man, listed in the “friends” section of the book, refers to Epstein as “you very dear boy,” before disturbingly recounting a night in London that “had you howling with laughter.” In the story, a man named Toto “reached down and pulled [redacted] skirt up to her panties and put his hand on her pussy,” he writes, noting, “The old man smiling sweetly leaned over stuffed his hand into her pants.” The letter also chronicles the “good times that we had together,” the pair “inspecting the Royal School girls dorms.”
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Jaye Was @jayewas.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
These dork asses just surveiling poor people
3 yellow jacketed fare enforcement scabs take a long coffee break at a bus stop while someone is trying to sleep sitting up on the bench and two other folks wait 12 feet away from the bus stop
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Jaye Was @jayewas.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
The moon looks like the sun
The moon orange hued rising over a shadowy cups of trees with street lamps illuminating a suburban road
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Jaye Was @jayewas.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Still a cyber truck ennit
Cyber truck with a Palestinian flag wrap
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Jaye Was @jayewas.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Just sayin war is more decisive
Cheryl lynn Eaton skeet saying the presidential candidate who runs on the slogan "there will be trials" has my vote
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Jaye Was @jayewas.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
You wanna be part of the commentariat or proletariat, bub?
Castro with a wolverine mask pasted over his face
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Jaye Was @jayewas.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Will Ferrell 2028
Will Ferrell in a crop top and bikini bottoms with usa while Rachel dratch and seth Meyer look on in fear and disgust
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Jaye Was @jayewas.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Can check
A can from holy mountain called as within so without, an illustration of a window with a snake sitting on a cloud with a hop on the back of its head staring up at a single blue eye
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Jaye Was @jayewas.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Between the heaven for peace in Ukraine and this, I think he's just flailing for his evangelical base. (The revival has been moved to gasworks park but they still want to harass people in the name of their faith)
Revive in 25 Christian groups reportedly set for return to cal Anderson for August 30th rally
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Jaye Was @jayewas.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Even their sentencing is a dog whistle
Department of Justice headline reading leader of third cell of Aryan prison gang drug distribution ring sentenced to 14 years in prison
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Jaye Was @jayewas.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Saw this and thought of u
A painting of a humanoid pig in a leather jacket with some sort of camera on its shoulder leers out a window of a multi story brick building
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Jaye Was @jayewas.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Princess Cookie from adventure time
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Jaye Was @jayewas.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Just gotta show you my man tho
Waluigi as a pale vampire with a cravat, velvet lapels and slicked back hair
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Jaye Was @jayewas.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Occupying armies have been testing this abroad for years and now fascist chickens come home to roost. Feels like 2020, 2017, like 1999 like 1970.
Hegseth said 800 National Guardsmen would be deployed to start. He later told Fox News' Laura Ingraham that how long the Guard members are deployed is "the president's call."

The Defense secretary said the Guard would serve similar functions as those deployed to Los Angeles earlier this summer in reaction to anti-ICE protests. While they won't be performing law enforcement functions, "They're going to be proactive. If you take an action or a shot at them, there will be a consequence,” he said.
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Jaye Was @jayewas.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Which film have you seen an unhealthy number of times?
Juno
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Jaye Was @jayewas.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Yipes
Imports plunge at Seattle, Tacoma ports as tariffs take toll
A sharp drop in shipping volume threatens local businesses that rely on steady two-way trade.
Author: Dalton Day
Published: 4:49 PM PDT August 8, 2025
Updated: 9:27 PM PDT August 8, 2025
SEATTLE — International imports through the ports of Seattle and Tacoma dropped by about a quarter last week, raising alarms among trade and business leaders about cascading impacts for Washington consumers and small businesses.

For the week ending July 25, the Northwest Seaport Alliance — which oversees both ports — reported a 25.9% year-over-year decline in imports, down 24.5% from the previous week. Ryan Calkins, alliance co-chair and Port of Seattle Commission president, said the sharp drop in shipping volume threatens local businesses that rely on steady two-way trade
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Jaye Was @jayewas.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Jesus never seen this warning before
Text from sound Transit reading update 1 line is expecting high ridership volumes. Passengers are encouraged to seek alternate service options
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Jaye Was @jayewas.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
To get even more specific election-results-pdf.kingcounty.gov
Katie wilson 44,457 votes for 46.21% vs Bruce Harrell 43,160 for 44.86%
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Jaye Was @jayewas.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
I was on my way out of fed fandom by 2023 but that Vickie Guerrero story is bad.
Vickie Guerrero feuding with daughter over sexual assault accusations
By Ryan Glasspiegel
Published April 6, 2023, 11:44 p.m. ET
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Jaye Was @jayewas.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Think partner and I should be these two warios for Halloween.
Wario in a bee costumeWario in denim jeans a denim vest and a trucker hat
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Jaye Was @jayewas.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Seattle police department can't drive
Seattle police cruiser totaled after deal with another car while responding to callVideo from a city traffic camera shows the civilian car had a green light and started to go through the intersection when the officer’s car came from the right and crashed into them.
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Jaye Was @jayewas.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
A foundation called outdoors for all had them out by Genesee
A picture of two adaptive bike riders, 3 wheeled bikes with high steering columns. Underneath text reads cycling program remote acc day job outdoors for all for free adaptive bike rides for people with disabilities on Sunday July 27 from 10am to 2pm at Genesee Park
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Jaye Was @jayewas.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Before apple launched the colorful translucent imac series, it loved beige. After a temporary Y2K repose, white earphones became a status symbol of iPhone ownership. When I Google beige i... The search auto complete delivers beige apple watch band.
A beige square Macintosh 128kA Google image search of white wired iPhone headphonesGoogle search results suggesting beige apple watch beige apple watch band beige apples beige watch wallpaper beige apple watch strap beige apple case
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Jaye Was @jayewas.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
I remember this story during the global lockdown where the Vietnamese army was just delivering meals to every apartment block
Vietnam deploys military to get good to people trapped in homes by strict COVID lockdowns from Newsweek August 20 2021
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Jaye Was @jayewas.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Andre the giant I don't like to speak badly of people. I have grown up thinking that if you cannot say something nice about someone you should not say anything at all. But I must break that rule in this case because I hate hulk Hogan very much. He is a big ugly goon and I want to squash his face
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Jaye Was @jayewas.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Rest in piss hulkster
Andre the giant quote "I don't like to speak badly of people. I have grown up thinking and being told that if you cannot say something nice about someone you should not say anything at all. But I must break that rule in this case because I hate hulk Hogan very much. He is a big ugly goon and I want to squash his face
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Jaye Was @jayewas.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
What is his "I'm leaving but I won" expression gonna be
Nixon resigning
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Jaye Was @jayewas.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Sara's husband got to promote a new beer at Seafair
A LinkedIn post sharing how the CEO of Fremont got to unveil a new beer at the most heritage saturated Seattle event
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Jaye Was @jayewas.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Lenny from the Simpsons fingers steepled between upper lip and bottom of his nose, looking intensely Martin from the Simpsons playing my dinner with Andre arcade cabinet and tilting the joy stick toward tell me more at the top position. The left has trenchant insight, the right has bon mot
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Jaye Was @jayewas.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
See this is where I can't carry water for Bouie Dude's rock (semi detached non ironic) over the murder machines that sometimes make dudes go crazy
Jamelle bouie posting a picture of the USS Alabama with the title had a very dude's rock morning exploring the USS Alabama with a follow up there was also a WWII era submarine which served as a good reminder of how psychotic you had to be to serve as a submariner in the Pacific theater
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Jaye Was @jayewas.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Y'all hear Sound Transit announced the CID to Bellevue train is coming early 26? Feels like they buried the lede announcing on July 3rd but progress is progress
Seattle to Bellevue rail opening planned for early 2026
The agency announced this week that live wire testing will begin in July on the floating span of Interstate 90 that stretches Lake Washington.
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Jaye Was @jayewas.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
FBI informants were at CHOP. Not surprising but confirmed. www.kuow.org/stories/seat...
What does the FBI know?
A 2020 intelligence briefing and Seattle Police Department emails obtained by The Times show that the FBI had an informant at CHOP as well as special agents. The informant meandered through the encampment, taking photos of right-wing agitators with guns and later described the scene to their FBI handler. The same informant expressed confidence that they could get recruited by CHOP security. The FBI then shared its information with Seattle police.
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Jaye Was @jayewas.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
I hit up a neighborhood pride kimya Dawson was at
A patch that has a humanoid rabbit with a sign that says fuck fascism then the words your thoughts and words are powerful heart kimya on a red and white checker backpack
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Jaye Was @jayewas.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Full of shit for this one #thel8te
One bus away app showing an 8 left two minutes ago when I was standing here 5 minutes at least
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