Jill Lightner
@jilllightner.bsky.social
Decorative hermit with a titanium spine. Writes about food, kitchen gardens, the gifting economy and solitary bees. Runs the Little Free Bakery Columbia City Seattle. 6th book out early 2027. Cookietarian. she/her
this is just to say that your plums are all over the sidewalk please, Seattle you should clean that shit up
This is probably what I should do with my worst imaginary memoir title, which is The Story of My Life: The Jill Lightner Story
wade of mutilation@waderockett.bsky.social · 6d agoThis is an INCREDIBLE OFFER. Get a terrible cover made for your book, which may or may not be real!
Gift link to a glorious pro-editor, anti-dipshit sports columnist blog, Tom Ley read the spiked column so we don't have to. defector.com/matt-calkins...
Seattle Times Dipshit Quits Because His Editors Were Smart Enough To Spike His Stupid Columns | Defector
People sometimes wonder what editors do. It’s a fair question to ask, given how difficult it is to read a column or blog post and be able to discern exactly how much influence an editor did or did not...
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Bellowing "we. did not. care" in my best Mike Mac impression, although I'm mildly glad his column just got so easy for me to never read again and deeply glad that his editors did their job.
Ryan@12thmanryan.bsky.social · 7d agoFile this under the least surprising things of the day.
I was raised an atheist. That book and "American religious history" are inescapable in standard American curriculum, I promise. If you don't understand what Texas wants is a bad idea, your entire public school 8th grade English class wasn't made to memorize and individually recite the 23rd Psalm.
Jonathan Ladd@jonathanmladd.com · last wk.This is correct. You can't understand American literature and history without some understanding of the Bible and of American religious history. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
but I *want* to set up a patio umbrella and charcoal grill several stories underground and surely it's my football gods-given right to do so
This intersection of S King and Alaska Way S needs to get the bike route clearly marked. As a ped on the sidewalk side you get cyclists zipping by and then u-turning and zipping by again as they realize they missed the curving bike lane because of the heap of Limes + zero effective signs.
Owen Beach (and all these kitties) will keep their secrets
The Sacramento Bee@sacbee.com · 3w agoThe Tacoma Police Department estimates over 30 cats were free-roaming on board a deserted watercraft Thursday - with no sign of the owner.
I was given a single medium-sized zucchini via my building's P-patch gardener network. I turned it into a pan of muffins and two loaves of zucchini bread, leading me to think one zucchini plant per 25 households is about right.
Maybe my favorite thing about people who vote in Seattle: we fucking love funding our library system.
The only headline I will allow re: our WNBA team this week
Defector@defector.com · 4w agoWNBA suspends Seattle Storm minority owner for being rude to transphobic shitheads:
Holy shit, finally timed my visit to The Pastry Project for a crème brûlée croissant. Seattle people: highly recommend you go get one. I believe they're Fri/Sat mornings only. Walk or bike em over to Habitat Beach for a waterfront breakfast and you are living life right.
Anderson's The Fir-Tree but for whatever hopes and dreams that stadium dirt may have had
I have had the Jimothy song stuck in my head since yesterday afternoon send help
Well hey, the Reign beat the Thorns just the other day and I love my new block very much
That one thunderstorm began less than 2 minutes after I walked out to run some errands. Mom let me play in the crick during them as a kid and I am a happy idiot when they happen here, I think "go indoors!" and then don't.
Scott Sistek@scottseattlewx.bsky.social · last mo.Just that one thunderstorm this morning thru 11 a.m. in #Seattle has dropped July 2026 from a tie for the driest July on record to 22nd driest so far. 😂 More rain on the way today.
Counterpoint to the Seattle Times: Doy. Approve the library levy, it benefits every single person here in both immediate and long-term ways. Among other things, you can read and comment on ST stories by logging in via your library card.
So many man-eagle hybrid creatures in Seattle yesterday, these were my favorites
My balcony overlooks Seattle's US-Belgium pedestrian zone and so far I've seen a Paul Revere hat + flag cape guy on a Lime bike, a half man-half eagle, and a teen who turned himself into a flag. Three attempts at a chant have failed entirely thus far. It's perfect, by which I mean ridiculous.
Only drowned out the bullhorn bully for 5 minutes as they all marched in, might as well be a Mariners crowd! On pure fan energy, BIH remains challenged locally only by Mexico.
Jill Lightner@jilllightner.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe Belgium-Senegal crowd is off to a far chiller start than Bosnia-Herzegovina or the Socceroos, but I'll delay my full evaluation of pedestrian zone joy for another hour. Iran-Egypt defies ranking, my block had some anger and weirdness amid the excitement.
The Belgium-Senegal crowd is off to a far chiller start than Bosnia-Herzegovina or the Socceroos, but I'll delay my full evaluation of pedestrian zone joy for another hour. Iran-Egypt defies ranking, my block had some anger and weirdness amid the excitement.
This November, we have the chance to fix this in WA state. A billionaire GOP donor has bankrolled a trans sports ban initiative that will be on our Nov ballots. We see what’s at stake with this federal ruling and we can’t allow this in WA.
ElieNYC@elienyc.bsky.social · 2mo agoSee, people always want to make this just about "sports," but the real upshot here is that, 6-3, trans women can't make a claim under the Equal Protection Clause. And if they can't do that, it's hard to see how they have constitutional rights.
This is my first morning living in the middle of Seattle's World Cup pedestrian zone. I would not have guessed I'd be charmed at being awakened by a Very Excited Horn Guy and yet: charmed!
It's pub week for The Cruelty of Nice Folks! I started off writing a book about the death of George Floyd and the treatment of black life in Minneapolis. It took five years to bring this book into the world, and I never knew where it would take me. Let's talk about it:
Happy National Pigeon Day, especially to the Sandown Town Council.
Andrea Fucking Bocelli. Also anything spoken by Elmo. Swanky toy store 90s mashup hell.
Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 3mo agoevery person who has ever worked retail for even a week has at least one song they can never hear again without being involuntarily transported back to the store
First move in 17 years, did not mean to move to the pedestrian-only zone amid World Cup, Juneteenth and Father's Day but here we are. Scheduled everything so carefully, but have learned that Shaq is DJing a block party I didn't know about. There's chaos mode and then there's whatever this is.