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Jonathan Speights
@jspeights.bsky.social
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Park anywhere you say?
A Lime bike becoming a fish habitat in Lake Washington.
December 13, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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A graphic of an angler fish where the lure is labeled “rebuilt recommendation algo” and the rest of the fish is labeled “Nazis”.
December 12, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Street art.
A phone in a park that has been tattooed with stickers and tags.
December 10, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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That is not the artwork I was looking for, Apple. Maybe @themountaingoats.bsky.social knows about another setting that will fix this.
The cover art for Live Laugh Love by Earl Sweatshirt is actually an album of the same name by Clay Walker, who appears to be a white country artist. The cover art for Private Music by Deftones is actually an album by DJ Dasten (?) called Baila (???). It's not clear, but the art is obviously wrong.
December 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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🎯
On the UX side, something equally distorting happened. Most of my UX design colleagues, trained under advertising creative directors, obsessed over “surprise and delight.” They were raised on campaign thinking (story arcs, emotional reveals, clever transitions) and that vocabulary became their definition of “good design.” But surprise and delight is an earned property of a product that works, not a goal you decorate the product with. UX Designers will spend 6 weeks creating characters to design things that surprise and delight them. Product designers care about the product—the outcomes, the behaviors, the value created. Two very different mindsets, often confused as one.
December 8, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Screencap of a classic Pepperidge Farm commercial with title text that says "PEPPERIDGE FARM REMEMBERS". Some may also remember Sean Duffy lamenting that people using air travel don't dress up and it would be nice if they did.
December 8, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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"empower every user" is really bringing this energy:
December 7, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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I have lost all self control. #BandcampFriday
Confusion Gate by Yellow Eyes Beside Myself by dj haram The Spin by Messa Die In Love by Greet Death Lost Within the Astral Crypts by Morbikon The Womb of the World by QRIXKUOR The Dreaming Prince in Ecstasy by Lamp Of Murmuur Rampage / Shadow Valse by Atomic Ape Tranquilizer by Oneohtrix Point Never Clams As A Main Meal by Elijah Minnelli Mercy by Armand Hammer & The Alchemist Stygian Bough: Volume II by BELL WITCH & AERIAL RUIN SickElixir by Blawan Atonement by exhalants Every Rock, Every Half-Truth Und... by Kayo Dot The Spiritual Sound by Agriculture Kuboa by GAWTHROP Magnetism by Kali Malone + Drew McDowall Les Chants de l'Aurore by Alcest Stimulation Festival 2023 remaster by Pain Teens EARTHWORKS by STRAW MAN ARMY Berceuses des deux mondes by Rien Virgule FULL COLOR ECLIPSE by STREET SEX Dry Drunk by Street Sects Irrevocably Drubbed by Lust Hag
December 6, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Aww, thanks TikTok.
App notification from TikTok that says "Proud of you" with a shooting star and heart emoji.
December 3, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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They're doing it for screens now?
Screencap of The Onion with a headline "Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Blades".
December 2, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Coaches should have cowcatchers and it should be legal for drivers to use them to clear bus stops with cars parked in them. Even if they have their hazards on.
Display of a black train with a red cowcatcher attached to the front.
November 20, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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Street art.
A rodent trap against the side of a building. Someone has tagged it with "MRSA" in white capital letters.
November 18, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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No Diving
One lane at the Ballard Locks is completely drained. The whole concrete structure is visible and covered with algae from the waterline up. In the background you can see heavy equipment dwarfed by the walls around it.
November 18, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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how it started / how it's going
A carved pumpkin with beady eyes and a tongue hanging out of its pumpkin mouth. Its bright, vibrant orange color stands out against the pale gray and red brick entryway. A decayed and moldy pumpkin has collapsed on itself. Some orange portions remain, but it is being overtaken by gray mold. The tongue, still visible is now the same pale color as the brick entryway.
November 17, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Dropped off my first batch of whistles for @wawhistles.bsky.social. Lots of folks on hand assembling kits, which was great to see!
November 14, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Street art.
A line art snail character spray painted on the structure of a pier in the Arboretum on Lake Washington. In the background on a sunny Fall day you can see Husky Stadium.
November 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Nature is healing.
November 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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O! I am fortune’s fool!
November 9, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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The frustrated crying wojak behind a smirking wojak mask
November 8, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Getting some creative juices flowing by embellishing someone else's 3D model. Works great...very loud.
Image of the model for a 3D printed whistle that has a message embossed in one of the surfaces: "FUCK ICE".
November 5, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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The logo for the Cuomo mayoral campaign updated with some clip art hands to make it an accidental goatse.
November 5, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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The Borg Cube has endorsed Andrew Cuomo.
Image of the brutalist Borg Cube ship featured in Star Trek.
November 4, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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Literal Fall
Image of a large tree with yellow and gold Fall leaves and a very large branch that fractured in a wind storm and fell to the grass below.
November 2, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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✨💪✨
Visualization showing the 6 completed stages of vote by mail ballot tracking in King County, WA. ✓ Ballot sent ✓ Ballot delivered ✓ Mailed back ✓ Ballot received ✓ Signature verification ✓ Ballot counted
October 31, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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I voted.
Image of the I Voted sticker for the ballot in King County. It has an illustration of a sunset and Puget Sound visible through a cluster of evergreen trees. Vote by mail is great!
October 29, 2025 at 3:12 AM