J. I. Swiderski, MURP
@swiderski.bsky.social
// 🚶, 🚲, & 🚌 advocate & planner
// DC Michigander; Pitt+VATech alum
// fan of PGH, SF, cities; walking, bikes, & buses; libraries; maps; baseball, football, & hockey; puns; oxford commas; & semicolons
// Opinions mine, but you can have 'em
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// DC Michigander; Pitt+VATech alum
// fan of PGH, SF, cities; walking, bikes, & buses; libraries; maps; baseball, football, & hockey; puns; oxford commas; & semicolons
// Opinions mine, but you can have 'em
// 💜🤍💚 they/he
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Trump, when asked if he has committed extreme misogynist abuse, responds with less extreme, but still quite impressively extreme, misogynist abuse.
When asked if there was anything "incriminating" in Epstein's emails, Trump pointed a finger in a female reporter's face and snapped. 'Quiet. Quiet, Piggy.'
people.com/donald-trump...
people.com/donald-trump...
Donald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy'
Donald Trump Says 'Quiet Piggy' to Female Reporter Asking About Epstein Files
people.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Trump, when asked if he has committed extreme misogynist abuse, responds with less extreme, but still quite impressively extreme, misogynist abuse.
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This part! As someone who has barely seen any tv or movies I always appreciate finding out what actor or show something is in alt text.
Or just knowing what it is you’re trying to show, in general!
PLUS I loooove alt text on a selfie. I love knowing how my beautiful friends see themselves.
Or just knowing what it is you’re trying to show, in general!
PLUS I loooove alt text on a selfie. I love knowing how my beautiful friends see themselves.
If you don't use ALT out of consideration for people who are visually impaired, do it because half the time your image does not on its own clearly convey (even to those without impairment) whatever the hell you think it conveys.
November 18, 2025 at 7:48 AM
This part! As someone who has barely seen any tv or movies I always appreciate finding out what actor or show something is in alt text.
Or just knowing what it is you’re trying to show, in general!
PLUS I loooove alt text on a selfie. I love knowing how my beautiful friends see themselves.
Or just knowing what it is you’re trying to show, in general!
PLUS I loooove alt text on a selfie. I love knowing how my beautiful friends see themselves.
Wait, DDOT is hiring for someone who will "[manage] the planning for route modifications as well as for the introduction of new routes in the Circulator system" which was shut down a year ago?
careers.dc.gov/psp/erecruit...
careers.dc.gov/psp/erecruit...
An error has occurred.
careers.dc.gov
November 18, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Wait, DDOT is hiring for someone who will "[manage] the planning for route modifications as well as for the introduction of new routes in the Circulator system" which was shut down a year ago?
careers.dc.gov/psp/erecruit...
careers.dc.gov/psp/erecruit...
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Share your thoughts on DC's Strategic Bikeway Plan. Ride your bikes with the Littles at the reopening of Garfield Park. Save the date for a celebration of GGWash writers.
And more in community events:
And more in community events:
Events: Strategic Bikeways Public Workshops coming to a ward near you
View this post on ggwash.org
ggwash.org
November 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Share your thoughts on DC's Strategic Bikeway Plan. Ride your bikes with the Littles at the reopening of Garfield Park. Save the date for a celebration of GGWash writers.
And more in community events:
And more in community events:
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“In the United Methodist tradition, we have something called connectionalism, which, in this moment, we are saying means: If you come for one United Methodist, you have come for all of us."
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Methodist pastors march into courtroom to support 'boring suburban dad' indicted for protesting
CHICAGO (RNS) — ‘If you come for one United Methodist, you have come for all of us,’ said a Chicago area UMC pastor.
religionnews.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:04 AM
“In the United Methodist tradition, we have something called connectionalism, which, in this moment, we are saying means: If you come for one United Methodist, you have come for all of us."
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It's also weird, and a little alarming, that @wmata.com still refuses to use ALT text on images. But I suppose it's not that surprising.
(ALT for quoted post: photo of a bus with front sign reading "C63 Deanwood")
(ALT for quoted post: photo of a bus with front sign reading "C63 Deanwood")
🚌 You spoke. We listened. Starting Dec. 14, DC's C63 route, serving Washington Hospital Center, will extend to Georgia Av-Petworth, providing a connection to the Green line and neighborhoods to the west of the hospital center.
November 16, 2025 at 1:47 PM
It's also weird, and a little alarming, that @wmata.com still refuses to use ALT text on images. But I suppose it's not that surprising.
(ALT for quoted post: photo of a bus with front sign reading "C63 Deanwood")
(ALT for quoted post: photo of a bus with front sign reading "C63 Deanwood")
Glad to see the C63 (Deanwood–WHC) route extended — several Ward 1 ANCs passed resolutions requesting the restoration of front door access to the hospitals from the west — but Georgia Ave–Petworth seems like a curious choice.
Looks like a hard place to turn a bus around from the south, for one….
Looks like a hard place to turn a bus around from the south, for one….
🚌 You spoke. We listened. Starting Dec. 14, DC's C63 route, serving Washington Hospital Center, will extend to Georgia Av-Petworth, providing a connection to the Green line and neighborhoods to the west of the hospital center.
November 16, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Glad to see the C63 (Deanwood–WHC) route extended — several Ward 1 ANCs passed resolutions requesting the restoration of front door access to the hospitals from the west — but Georgia Ave–Petworth seems like a curious choice.
Looks like a hard place to turn a bus around from the south, for one….
Looks like a hard place to turn a bus around from the south, for one….
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Dec 13th @ 10:30am. Free hot chocolate, free cookie decorating and free kids craft. Food & beer specials…. No better holiday party!
November 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Dec 13th @ 10:30am. Free hot chocolate, free cookie decorating and free kids craft. Food & beer specials…. No better holiday party!
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TODAY. See you at 11am outside Foggy Bottom Metro.
Just a few days away. Join us this Sun 11/16/25 for World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims. 💛 Details below ⤵️
Join @safestreetsdc.bsky.social on 11/16 as we walk to remember and honor the lives lost and forever changed by traffic violence and then rally at the Lincoln Memorial with the Ride for Your Life.
RSVP: dcfamiliesforsafestreets.org/2025/10/12/w...
RSVP: dcfamiliesforsafestreets.org/2025/10/12/w...
November 16, 2025 at 1:04 PM
TODAY. See you at 11am outside Foggy Bottom Metro.
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nicely timed for World Day of Remembrance #wdor
The dam is breaking. The world's leading public health news organization is now reporting US driver violence as a public health crisis.
"American roads have become more dangerous than violent crimes in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, and other major cities." t.co/BEcu5JJ457
"American roads have become more dangerous than violent crimes in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, and other major cities." t.co/BEcu5JJ457
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/traffic-deaths-pedestrian-safety-vision-zero-los-angeles-dot-nhtsa/
t.co
November 16, 2025 at 7:58 AM
nicely timed for World Day of Remembrance #wdor
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We hope you'll stop by OP's office this Saturday to talk about how DC can grow.
OP Director Anita Cozart and @ddotdc.bsky.social Director Sharon Kershbaum will be there to take your questions.
Let's plan for DC's future together:
📆11/15 from 11am-1pm at 899 N. Capitol St. NE
OP Director Anita Cozart and @ddotdc.bsky.social Director Sharon Kershbaum will be there to take your questions.
Let's plan for DC's future together:
📆11/15 from 11am-1pm at 899 N. Capitol St. NE
November 13, 2025 at 9:11 PM
We hope you'll stop by OP's office this Saturday to talk about how DC can grow.
OP Director Anita Cozart and @ddotdc.bsky.social Director Sharon Kershbaum will be there to take your questions.
Let's plan for DC's future together:
📆11/15 from 11am-1pm at 899 N. Capitol St. NE
OP Director Anita Cozart and @ddotdc.bsky.social Director Sharon Kershbaum will be there to take your questions.
Let's plan for DC's future together:
📆11/15 from 11am-1pm at 899 N. Capitol St. NE
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Workers should be able to move as freely and easily as owners do.
Anything short of open borders is bigotry. I mostly keep this one quiet because it's so far from political reality that it's not worth talking about, but there's really no morally justifiable reason that I should be able to move to Utah, but a Guatemalan guy should not.
November 14, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Workers should be able to move as freely and easily as owners do.
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In case any dc council members were curious about what this looks like…
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:39 AM
In case any dc council members were curious about what this looks like…
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THIS IS WHY WE NEED THE HUMANITIES IN SCHOOL
This is a real flight school, teaching people to fly planes!!! Like????
November 14, 2025 at 2:31 AM
THIS IS WHY WE NEED THE HUMANITIES IN SCHOOL
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Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
November 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
for folks who drive to an office with an integrated garage:
did you have to sign a waiver for access to the garage?
did you have to sign a waiver for access to the garage?
November 13, 2025 at 7:16 PM
for folks who drive to an office with an integrated garage:
did you have to sign a waiver for access to the garage?
did you have to sign a waiver for access to the garage?
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the Montgomery County animal shelter has become overcrowded because families are giving up their pets due to housing insecurity— meanwhile, a new subsidized housing complex here in Silver Spring won’t allow pets. these things are connected: to clear the shelters, we need pet-friendly housing
November 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
the Montgomery County animal shelter has become overcrowded because families are giving up their pets due to housing insecurity— meanwhile, a new subsidized housing complex here in Silver Spring won’t allow pets. these things are connected: to clear the shelters, we need pet-friendly housing
it's almost like being back in Pittsburgh a dozen years ago, when Uber was hiring half of CMU's robotics program to help it make driverless cars……
I’m really tired of the Waymo policy machine, and how it’s bought up bike/ped/disability advocacy.
Great, your robot cars will do some of the basics that human drivers won’t do, like use turn signals and pay attention. In return, we can’t regulate you, and our transit systems will die.
We give up.
Great, your robot cars will do some of the basics that human drivers won’t do, like use turn signals and pay attention. In return, we can’t regulate you, and our transit systems will die.
We give up.
November 13, 2025 at 6:43 PM
it's almost like being back in Pittsburgh a dozen years ago, when Uber was hiring half of CMU's robotics program to help it make driverless cars……
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DC is on the forefront in requiring Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA) for aggravated reckless driving offenses, looking forward to that being the pilot that proves the concept. dmv.dc.gov/service/inte...
November 13, 2025 at 4:58 PM
DC is on the forefront in requiring Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA) for aggravated reckless driving offenses, looking forward to that being the pilot that proves the concept. dmv.dc.gov/service/inte...
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Today’s reporting reminds me of this recent picture from right outside one of our local high schools. We’re seeing a lot of youth use bikeshare to get to school these days—and in case you missed it, DC’s school attendance crisis is currently grave. Maybe we should be encouraging this!
November 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Today’s reporting reminds me of this recent picture from right outside one of our local high schools. We’re seeing a lot of youth use bikeshare to get to school these days—and in case you missed it, DC’s school attendance crisis is currently grave. Maybe we should be encouraging this!
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a “Space Force”, if you will
November 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
a “Space Force”, if you will
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More funny if you forget that instead of actually caring about sex abuse by elites, the right-wing tried to shoot up a great local music venue
Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
November 13, 2025 at 1:33 PM
More funny if you forget that instead of actually caring about sex abuse by elites, the right-wing tried to shoot up a great local music venue
Gee, guess he really is On a Mission From God...
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Gee, guess he really is On a Mission From God...
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A more accurate headline would be Lawbreakers Caught Creating Multiple Safety Violations. #bicycle #bikelane www.wpxi.com/news/local/r...
Rideshare drivers say bike lane cameras are hurting business
The drivers tell Channel 11 that they’re just trying to do a job and the parking authority is getting in the way and cutting into their profits. They say they need something to change, and fast, or th...
www.wpxi.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:24 PM
A more accurate headline would be Lawbreakers Caught Creating Multiple Safety Violations. #bicycle #bikelane www.wpxi.com/news/local/r...
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX