Jill Lightner
@jilllightner.bsky.social
Decorative hermit with a titanium spine. Writes about food, kitchen gardens, the sharing economy and solitary bees. Runs the Little Free Bakery Columbia City Seattle. 5th book coming early 2026, 6th in early 2027. Cookietarian.
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GAH! My pal April was Sarah's campaign manager and they went to some effort for a low-waste, low-plastic campaign. Glad to see the hard work of Spokane door-knocking paid off.
(WA Dems didn't bother caring, and neither did WA GOP.)
(WA Dems didn't bother caring, and neither did WA GOP.)
Meanwhile, in Eastern WA, @sardixit.bsky.social has officially defeated Jonathan Bingle for the Spokane City Council by 129 votes with all votes counted! 🥳🎉
Dixit flipped this seat Democratic and by a larger margin than requires an automatic recount!
Dixit flipped this seat Democratic and by a larger margin than requires an automatic recount!
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 AM
GAH! My pal April was Sarah's campaign manager and they went to some effort for a low-waste, low-plastic campaign. Glad to see the hard work of Spokane door-knocking paid off.
(WA Dems didn't bother caring, and neither did WA GOP.)
(WA Dems didn't bother caring, and neither did WA GOP.)
Happy Katie Wilson Pulls Ahead Day to all who celebrate
November 11, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Happy Katie Wilson Pulls Ahead Day to all who celebrate
This sure changes up the drama of the two-stabbed lady beetle
The 'lady' in 'ladybugs' refers to the Virgin Mary.
First of all, there are over 5,000 varieties of ladybugs.
However, the first type of these beetles to be called a 'ladybug' had 7 spots which were thought to symbolize the 7 sorrows she suffered.
First of all, there are over 5,000 varieties of ladybugs.
However, the first type of these beetles to be called a 'ladybug' had 7 spots which were thought to symbolize the 7 sorrows she suffered.
November 9, 2025 at 4:10 PM
This sure changes up the drama of the two-stabbed lady beetle
The Dixit-Bingle Spokane race is notable, and Dixit is less than 80 votes behind. If the Katie v. the Bully race isn't drawing all of your attention.
A turn to the left? Following national and statewide trends, progressive candidates and ballot measures in Spokane win big. Here’s where they stand as of Friday, with one race being simply too close to call:
A turn to the left? – RANGE Media
Following national and statewide trends, progressive candidates and ballot measures in Spokane win big. Here’s where they stand as of Friday.
rangemedia.co
November 7, 2025 at 11:04 PM
The Dixit-Bingle Spokane race is notable, and Dixit is less than 80 votes behind. If the Katie v. the Bully race isn't drawing all of your attention.
Wait, do we think the Reign, with their amazing queen logo, has...a weather motif? Does being a homophone for rain count as a motif?
Seattle’s new hockey team opted to stick with the weather motif used by the city’s other professional women’s teams.
Seattle's new women's hockey team finally has a name
www.kuow.org
November 6, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Wait, do we think the Reign, with their amazing queen logo, has...a weather motif? Does being a homophone for rain count as a motif?
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[Goose meme]
Ruin the workplace for who
RUIN THE WORKPLACE FOR WHO, MOTHERFUCKER????
Ruin the workplace for who
RUIN THE WORKPLACE FOR WHO, MOTHERFUCKER????
November 6, 2025 at 1:47 PM
[Goose meme]
Ruin the workplace for who
RUIN THE WORKPLACE FOR WHO, MOTHERFUCKER????
Ruin the workplace for who
RUIN THE WORKPLACE FOR WHO, MOTHERFUCKER????
Reposted by Jill Lightner
Notably, this is about where Wilson was on the first night of the primary, and she wound up winning with 52% of the vote.
Stay tuned!
Stay tuned!
November 5, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Notably, this is about where Wilson was on the first night of the primary, and she wound up winning with 52% of the vote.
Stay tuned!
Stay tuned!
Reposted by Jill Lightner
would be nice if this country loudly and decisively told all the people running on blatant, horrifying racism and bigotry to get fucked over and over and over again in every place and every race
November 5, 2025 at 1:33 AM
would be nice if this country loudly and decisively told all the people running on blatant, horrifying racism and bigotry to get fucked over and over and over again in every place and every race
I need another book-length obituary from Jacobin. Cheney deserves it almost as well as Kissinger did.
Cheney expressed no regrets about the Iraq War, even after it plunged the U.S. into debt, killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, and destabilized Iraq so much that ISIS was able to gain a foothold.
Later in life, Cheney broke away from the GOP, but never faced accountability.
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Later in life, Cheney broke away from the GOP, but never faced accountability.
trib.al/Q2d1qVD
November 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I need another book-length obituary from Jacobin. Cheney deserves it almost as well as Kissinger did.
If the announcers are going to talk about Leonard Williams as a spearfishing guy they are required to talk about Leonard Williams as a plant daddy.
November 3, 2025 at 4:08 AM
If the announcers are going to talk about Leonard Williams as a spearfishing guy they are required to talk about Leonard Williams as a plant daddy.
Speaking as a person who set up a little free bakery box so passersby can snag home-baked stuff: people trust their neighbors! I thought nobody would take a cookie and almost everyone does in fact take a cookie, although some occasionally ask "can I really just have one?" with big "ask mom" energy.
Seattle Police Department getting in on a fear-mongering falsehood that was going around when I was a little kid in the '80s—check your kids' candy closely, your neighbors might be secretly injecting it with poisons!
spdblotter.seattle.gov/2025/10/30/3...
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36 Spooky Safety Tips for Halloween - SPD Blotter
The Seattle Police Department wishes Seattle residents a Happy Halloween and offers these safety tips as little ghouls and goblins prepare to roam from home to home. The weather is going to be rainy a...
spdblotter.seattle.gov
October 31, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Speaking as a person who set up a little free bakery box so passersby can snag home-baked stuff: people trust their neighbors! I thought nobody would take a cookie and almost everyone does in fact take a cookie, although some occasionally ask "can I really just have one?" with big "ask mom" energy.
Idk if these are all over the city or just my neighborhood but it's my favorite campaign messaging this year.
October 28, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Idk if these are all over the city or just my neighborhood but it's my favorite campaign messaging this year.
Since I opened the little free bakery, I've become auntie to a couple dozen kids in the neighborhood. It never occurred to me that my brother had several secret families within a couple blocks of my house but CNN thinks that would be the correct take I guess.
In the final days of New York City’s mayoral race, Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani has faced pushback over a story he told about his aunt being afraid to wear her hijab while riding the subway after the September 11, 2001, attacks. https://cnn.it/432IAcr
October 28, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Since I opened the little free bakery, I've become auntie to a couple dozen kids in the neighborhood. It never occurred to me that my brother had several secret families within a couple blocks of my house but CNN thinks that would be the correct take I guess.
This somehow reminded me of that Jimmy Carter "lusting in his heart" for women thing, except our precious lil candidate here is talking about Red Bull.
Does he ZYN? Does he blast darts? At the live recording of the Hell Gate Podcast last Friday, we asked Zohran Mamdani what every New Yorker wants to know: Does he have any chemical vices? Here's how he responded.
October 28, 2025 at 4:34 PM
This somehow reminded me of that Jimmy Carter "lusting in his heart" for women thing, except our precious lil candidate here is talking about Red Bull.
In recent years my family has given me a stack of books relating to poison. Another arrived yesterday. I enjoy them, yet I wonder if it's some kind of very long con where they're setting me up. Like how many books about poison should one food writer have before it gets extremely sketchy.
October 26, 2025 at 11:08 PM
In recent years my family has given me a stack of books relating to poison. Another arrived yesterday. I enjoy them, yet I wonder if it's some kind of very long con where they're setting me up. Like how many books about poison should one food writer have before it gets extremely sketchy.
Sexy little free failure of capitalism, which is this amazing thing and not just any old failure of capitalism
October 25, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Sexy little free failure of capitalism, which is this amazing thing and not just any old failure of capitalism
The basic-ass marketing idea of "what would you do with the advertised product" is something I don't see often enough in transit ads anywhere
I really like King County Metro's new ad campaign, centered on transit destinations, much more than Sound Transit's current campaign that paints drivers as mindless zombies.
kingcountymetro.blog/2025/09/02/k...
kingcountymetro.blog/2025/09/02/k...
October 24, 2025 at 9:33 PM
The basic-ass marketing idea of "what would you do with the advertised product" is something I don't see often enough in transit ads anywhere
Does Harrell want this or am I smooshing together his silly AI wall with his wasteful admiration of shot spotter tech
"An artificial intelligence system (AI) apparently mistook a high school student’s bag of Doritos for a firearm and called local police to tell them the pupil was armed." 🤨
US student handcuffed after AI system apparently mistook bag of chips for gun
Baltimore county high schools have gun detection system that alerts police if it sees what it deems suspicious
www.theguardian.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Does Harrell want this or am I smooshing together his silly AI wall with his wasteful admiration of shot spotter tech
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This is exactly what the NYC subway is like, and it's beautiful (trimmed video by Ian O'Connor via instagram.com/p/DAbHW7txiiv)
September 30, 2024 at 2:21 AM
This is exactly what the NYC subway is like, and it's beautiful (trimmed video by Ian O'Connor via instagram.com/p/DAbHW7txiiv)
Carve the janky turnip you need to see in this world
October 22, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Carve the janky turnip you need to see in this world
"But in a time of monsters, you can at least respect yourself."
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What Job Is A Guy With A Nazi Tattoo Qualified For? | Defector
The man that my wife and I found ourselves talking to at the bar of a restaurant in Rockland, Maine in the summer of 2019 had arrived in town as your fancier visitors do, which is by boat. He told us ...
defector.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:39 PM
"But in a time of monsters, you can at least respect yourself."
defector.com/what-job-is-...
defector.com/what-job-is-...
In August I enjoyed Adventures in the Louvre by Elaine Sciolino. It confirmed why I disliked my visit while making it easy to imagine all sorts of heists. It's enormous! Tourists + security are mainly clustered in a few areas! Congratulations to the heist crew for not getting lost on the way out.
October 21, 2025 at 8:05 PM
In August I enjoyed Adventures in the Louvre by Elaine Sciolino. It confirmed why I disliked my visit while making it easy to imagine all sorts of heists. It's enormous! Tourists + security are mainly clustered in a few areas! Congratulations to the heist crew for not getting lost on the way out.
One of the many reasons I voted for @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social. He has actively shown to not care about traffic calming, even (or particularly) on the street where his 7,000 sq ft house is.
While Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell is touting a drop in the number of pedestrian deaths in the city last year, that number has shot up again in 2025.
Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/10/21/c...
Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/10/21/c...
Cherrypicking Data, Harrell Paints Misleading Picture of Seattle’s Traffic Safety Progress » The Urbanist
# While Bruce Harrell is touting a drop in the number of pedestrian deaths in Seattle last year, that number has shot up again in 2025. And despite his promotion of safety spending in a newly approved...
www.theurbanist.org
October 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
One of the many reasons I voted for @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social. He has actively shown to not care about traffic calming, even (or particularly) on the street where his 7,000 sq ft house is.
Years ago some high school volleyball coach pals got fired because one blowhard parent was absolutely certain their kid was being deprived of a full-ride volleyball scholarship and it was easier for the admins to cave.
Settle down, parents, it was not the coaching, it was the kid's mid skills.
Settle down, parents, it was not the coaching, it was the kid's mid skills.
the whole skyline high school football coaching staff said “nope, we’re out” last night (via gino simone’s ig) www.instagram.com/p/DQAX3zuEpNA/
October 21, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Years ago some high school volleyball coach pals got fired because one blowhard parent was absolutely certain their kid was being deprived of a full-ride volleyball scholarship and it was easier for the admins to cave.
Settle down, parents, it was not the coaching, it was the kid's mid skills.
Settle down, parents, it was not the coaching, it was the kid's mid skills.