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Jamie Swedler

@jswedler.bsky.social
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I bike and I ski. I'm often a software engineer, but not right now. Seattle he/him

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MSG enthusiast @artificalmcb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I’ve only been out of the workforce for a year & a half…has all of corporate America been hit repeatedly in the head with a 2x4 since I’ve been gone?
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 01/10/2026
sorry, it's me, minutes-at-home georg
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Dragon "Gay'ed Too Close to the Sun" Fish @dragonfish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Imagining a world where you get a draft letter to "defend your country" next year, but instead of going to war it's to force you into a ten year lease on a base model Chevy Traxx
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samuelwa.de @samuelwa.de · 28/09/2026
My “Involved in Human Trafficking“ shirt has a lot of people asking questions that are making me want to stop wearing my shirt rather than reconsider my involvement in human trafficking
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David Kroman @kromandavid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Debora Juarez, 2020: "When I hear people say there's just a few bad apples on the police force I adamantly disagree with that. It's just not a healthy tree. We need to plant a new tree, we have to completely re-imagine, re-vision what community policing is." www.kuow.org/podcast/news...
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Bad apples? Seattle Police 'not a healthy tree' says city council member
Chants of "defund S-P-D" have become a common message at protests in Seattle, and for the first time the idea is getting serious attention from the city council.
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
next episode of Tran Girlismo, we cross-shop a new 911 Carrera S with bribing a senator
Porsche 911 Carrera S on the official site, from $156,200
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 23/09/2026
Transing your kids? In this economy?! I can barely afford to trans MYSELF!
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Joe Veyera @joeveyera.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
They have to put their resources where it really matters: Writing a new story every single time a Starbucks closes. No, really, go to their home page right now. I'll wait.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/09/2026
remembering when a certain pundit challenged my “the administration is ideologically opposed to clean energy for gender reasons” with “i think they just want cheap energy”
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.
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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 10/09/2026
Some of those that work forces Are the same that fuck horses
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The Ken In Yellow @kenlowery.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
watching THEY LIVE, a 30-year-old movie that frames a homeless camp sweep as an obvious evil conducted by violence-addicted cops
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DC Pierson @dcpierson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
me: we’ll never get this done if we keep checking our phone every five minutes

My brain: and five minutes ago, i would’ve agreed with you. But think of all the stuff that could be on there now!!
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David Seater 🚶‍♂️🚴🏻‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 @davidseater.com · 13/09/2026
Hot take: If @flysea.bsky.social wants to run a golf cart along the only pedestrian connection to the light rail they should just drive it at walking speed instead of taking half the space and honking at people.
Photo of a sign in the pedestrian walkway to Link at SEA that reads: "Pedestrians Stay to the RIGHT; Shuttle in use."
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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 12/09/2026
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
an underappreciated thing about Turning Point USA’s “Professor Watchlist” is that never in its ten years of existence — ten years during which “liberal” media treated TPUSA as a “free speech” group and rarely mentioned the list or its purpose — did its makers figure out how to alphabetize by surname
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The price of my fist is going to zero because the SUPPLY IS HUGE
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Feminist theory remains undefeated in explaining the weirdest parts of the Trump administration. I'm just going to keep posting this skeleton-key-to-MAGA passage, written over 40 years ago, until everyone gets it.
"To say that straight men are heterosexual is only to say that they engage in sex (fucking exclusively with the other sex, i.e., women). All or almost all of that which pertains to love, most straight men reserve exclusively for other men. The people whom they admire, respect, adore, revere, honor, whom they imitate, idolize, and form profound attachments to, whom they are willing to teach and from whom they are willing to learn, and whose respect, admiration, recognition, honor, reverence and love they desire… those are, overwhelmingly, other men. In their relations with women, what passes for respect is kindness, generosity or paternalism; what passes for honor is removal to the pedestal. From women they want devotion, service and sex.

Heterosexual male culture is homoerotic; it is man-loving.”
― Marilyn Frye, The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 03/09/2026
this dude was driving a Dodge Charger with Thin Blue Line & Punisher skull bumper stickers, so I actually have a good idea of his battles (family court, Woke)
old guy in a tee reading 

everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing About
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
With neighborhood commercial now legal in Seattle, the queer community has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever
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Jamie Swedler @jswedler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
You gotta have a cop motor, cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks to try that.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/09/2026
moulton is a good example of someone who fucked up his career because he misread 2024. many such cases.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
logging on to the earnest high-info neurotics website every day during the everything going wrong decade: 'you know, the vibes here could be better'
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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 31/08/2026
The article mentions the area was once home to dozens of strawberry farms owned by Japanese immigrant families who were dispossessed of their land during their WWII internment. It fails to mention that Freeman's grandfather founded the Anti-Japanese League that advocated for internment. Weird.
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Bellevue's retail core is for sale after 80 years of family ownership
A whopper is hitting the real estate market: The Bellevue Collection, a 5.5 million-square-foot mixed-use complex in downtown Bellevue.
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NASFACTS @nasfacts.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
almost no one in any nascar movies is real. Ricky Bobby FAKE. Cole Trickle FICTIONAL. Stronker Ace NOPE. The only exception is Tomato from the film Cars because I have seen him in dreams often
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
A far-right ethnonationalist movement turning the machinery of the state against its early activists once they are deemed insufficiently loyal — now I’ve heard everything.
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Really, he should be flattered. They're probably just flirting.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
hosts of the dumbest business podcasts all saying “wow” in unison
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 25/08/2026
Lots of reasons to celebrate this news but my petty favorite is that you just know it bugs the *fuck* out of Jeff Bezos.
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Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah
An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026
these people really want to make "racist" akin to a slur rather than what it is, a straightforward label for a set of beliefs and views. if you don't like the label because you, correctly, associate it with degenerate chuds, then get better beliefs
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Elliot 🫪 @nameoftheyear.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Oh I fuckin hate it out here. Yesterday I had to search Gmail for the quotation-enclosed string “code of conduct” and Gmail showed me every email that contains the word “of”
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 21/08/2026
Some of that "masculine energy" Zuckerberg promised.
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Meta Ran Ads for an App That Promised to Nudify Female Politicians
One advertisement featured a pornographic video with a deepfake closely resembling a prominent US politician. Apple removed the app from the App Store after an inquiry from WIRED.
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Gordon Padelford @gordonofseattle.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
We'll always have the Taco Bell/KFC combined drive through to bathe in the "sense of theater, mystery and surprise...the visual and aural simulation" if Pike Place Market permanently restricts general car traffic
kfc taco bell combined drive through in Rainier Beach, Seattle
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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Actually pretty funny for a bunch of ex-Republicans to join the Democrats and then immediately start asking other Democrats if they're secret Republicans
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Gonna be hard to outthink those neural networks when the only thoughts the they have are “KILL ME” on a loop.
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Three Flats Bettcher @bettchergonnabike.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
it’s pretty crazy that we still have people arguing to restore the third-worst* driving experience the city can offer * the other two are driving to the platform in Mt Baker light rail station and driving off the end of the pier as the ferry you want to take pulls away
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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Vast and Trunkless Leg of Stone, Standing in the Desert from classic poem Ozymandias.
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
you wouldn't know it from the sophie cunningham discourse but there actually are some cis people who understand sports. i mean i don't, but i know some who do
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
two panel animated meme with left panel showing a character dialing on a phone (meme edit has added "Gender Studies" to the above the number pad) and right panel showing a stone faced animated character with their phone to their ear
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 02/08/2026
let's take a moment also to celebrate the first absolute meatball down the middle getting fucking crushed. the first woman in pro baseball league history to get her shit rocked
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Yeah this works on Southwest flights from Provo to Phoenix, but if you try this on Alaska Airlines we’ll throw you outta the emergency exit as one indivisible collective, like the New Yorkers saving Spider-Man in the subway
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Seattle Bike Blog @seattlebikeblog.com · 16/07/2026
You vote against transit, you’re anti-transit. Pretty simple.
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Kelli Refer @kellireef.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I am very curious how often the Seattle City Councilmember’s who are harping on “unsafe” buses actually ride transit.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
This is a good depiction of Kalshi's worth, because MLB actually did end segregation in 1947, and everyone knew it was coming because Jackie Robinson integrated Brooklyn's minor league team the year before. So 100% of real people knew it would happen in 1947, but Kalshi predicts, uh, 31%? Brilliant
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Dan Olson @foldablehuman.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
But Obi Wan, I sell death sticks to the community!
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Library recommendations from the same Seattle Times that is opposing the library levy?
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Crippled Giraff Decals @crippledgiraff.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Having my organs removed and preserved in my collection of Dunkin' Canopic Jars.
Eagle headed Dunkin cupsGilded Egyptian Canopic Jars
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
a sunny day at the beach? hell. a windswept afternoon gazing out at the boundless wine-dark sea, its icy waters gently roiling beneath a grey and uncaring sky? sensational
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