Gail Swanson
@joyinthecenter.bsky.social
Founder of Haymarket Studio
UX | Trauma-informed Design | User Research | Writer | Artist
I ask a lot of questions.
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UX | Trauma-informed Design | User Research | Writer | Artist
I ask a lot of questions.
Subscribe https://haymarketstudio.beehiiv.com
I’m enjoying photo editing and prepress much more than I thought I would.
November 30, 2025 at 4:57 AM
I’m enjoying photo editing and prepress much more than I thought I would.
To anyone else out there who fate has landed you alone on a big holiday, there’s no shame in it. Took myself out for a solo dinner, had the loveliest time chatting with the lovely waitstaff, and I’ll go spend an evening in peace. It is hard being alone sometimes, but I believe in us.
November 27, 2025 at 11:15 PM
To anyone else out there who fate has landed you alone on a big holiday, there’s no shame in it. Took myself out for a solo dinner, had the loveliest time chatting with the lovely waitstaff, and I’ll go spend an evening in peace. It is hard being alone sometimes, but I believe in us.
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They did it again! NYC subway Thanksgiving 2025, via @scootercaster.com!
November 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
They did it again! NYC subway Thanksgiving 2025, via @scootercaster.com!
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Impeach, convict, remove.
And if our current leaders won’t do it, they need to step aside for people who will.
And if our current leaders won’t do it, they need to step aside for people who will.
November 25, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Impeach, convict, remove.
And if our current leaders won’t do it, they need to step aside for people who will.
And if our current leaders won’t do it, they need to step aside for people who will.
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November 25, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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This makes me excited enough to go visit despite the dank weather.
Graceland Cemetery seems to have a few black squirrels now. On recent visits, I've seen two or three of them in various places.
November 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
This makes me excited enough to go visit despite the dank weather.
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We always see a surge of infectious disease, including COVID, RSV, etc etc around Thanksgiving and Christmas. Unless you want to gift your fam with a few weeks sick this year, mask up as you travel!
November 24, 2025 at 12:24 AM
We always see a surge of infectious disease, including COVID, RSV, etc etc around Thanksgiving and Christmas. Unless you want to gift your fam with a few weeks sick this year, mask up as you travel!
Something rotten is going on with DHS payroll. Inconsistent payouts to TSA agents who worked without pay during shutdown. Other component employees not getting their regular pay and not yet seeing a dime of backpay while some have.
November 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Something rotten is going on with DHS payroll. Inconsistent payouts to TSA agents who worked without pay during shutdown. Other component employees not getting their regular pay and not yet seeing a dime of backpay while some have.
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November 22, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Share TF OUT OF THIS!#TrumpCrushesYourDreams
November 22, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Share TF OUT OF THIS!#TrumpCrushesYourDreams
Check on your federal employee friends. The shutdown backpay has been botched for a lot of folks. Many are still waiting for their first check in several weeks and regular pay deposits are not showing up on time either.
Resigned and RIFd folks aren’t getting processed and can’t get leave payouts.
Resigned and RIFd folks aren’t getting processed and can’t get leave payouts.
November 22, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Check on your federal employee friends. The shutdown backpay has been botched for a lot of folks. Many are still waiting for their first check in several weeks and regular pay deposits are not showing up on time either.
Resigned and RIFd folks aren’t getting processed and can’t get leave payouts.
Resigned and RIFd folks aren’t getting processed and can’t get leave payouts.
Being a responsible old, got my shingles vaccine. This means I never have to see that disturbing commercial again, right?
November 20, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Being a responsible old, got my shingles vaccine. This means I never have to see that disturbing commercial again, right?
If you make things for people who aren’t you —
November 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
If you make things for people who aren’t you —
There is a rule
just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
What Tom Holland’s historic lip-sync showcase taught us about stormwater management
Grab your umbrella and your tights.
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November 19, 2025 at 12:29 AM
There is a rule
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Listen, Linda. It’s pretty simple—you don’t have the power to do that.
This plan gets an “F” from me.
This plan gets an “F” from me.
November 18, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Listen, Linda. It’s pretty simple—you don’t have the power to do that.
This plan gets an “F” from me.
This plan gets an “F” from me.
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i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate
This whole NYT account about the weaponization of DOJ is beyond disturbing. Kinda feels like the US government fell in January.
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November 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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Alice Wong's Teen Vogue articles were archived before their removal, for anyone looking.
Alice Wong's Teen Vogue articles were archived before their removal, for anyone looking.
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November 15, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Alice Wong's Teen Vogue articles were archived before their removal, for anyone looking.
Alice Wong's Teen Vogue articles were archived before their removal, for anyone looking.
Shocked, I’m absolutely shocked. Meanwhile, FEMA expenditure over $100k is log jammed on her desk. www.propublica.org/article/kris...
Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...
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November 15, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Shocked, I’m absolutely shocked. Meanwhile, FEMA expenditure over $100k is log jammed on her desk. www.propublica.org/article/kris...
If y’all are curious how this may end, I recommend learning about narcissistic collapse.
November 15, 2025 at 2:12 AM
If y’all are curious how this may end, I recommend learning about narcissistic collapse.
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November 14, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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Sometimes I get to thinking my life has been disappointingly unadventurous. Then I remember nights like when I rode my guzzi through the crisp air of a fall Chicago night to see Richard Thompson play 1952 Vincent Black Lightening live from the 3rd row.
November 14, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Sometimes I get to thinking my life has been disappointingly unadventurous. Then I remember nights like when I rode my guzzi through the crisp air of a fall Chicago night to see Richard Thompson play 1952 Vincent Black Lightening live from the 3rd row.
Please check in on sexual abuse survivors today. We aren’t OK.
November 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Please check in on sexual abuse survivors today. We aren’t OK.
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Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
Not surprised, yet disappointed
November 10, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Not surprised, yet disappointed