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Jill Lightner

@jilllightner.bsky.social

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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. she/her

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 2h

With all his butt-adjacent product sponsorships he seems to be pretty good at embracing it. Maybe a gold plug named The MVP is next up, who knows.

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 2h

Given that Big Dumper has sponsorships with a portable toilet company, a plumber and a brewery named Scuttlebutt, maybe a butt plug is next up. Ideally shiny gold and named The MVP.

Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 4h

Here's to a Humpy Dumper jamboree

Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 5h

Even though I have nothing in common with Nancy Reagan, I am certain I would instantly be her doppelganger in that coat. I need lessons in pro athlete swagger.

Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 12h

What an embarrassingly silly idea. Especially a few days after Bernice King posted a request to stop using her dad as the basis for AI nonsense.

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 1d

Downtown could have "like, a 10-foot wall" where people could talk to AI versions of historical figures. "How cool would this be if we had like, a 10 foot wall. It's interactive and it's historical. And you could talk to Martin Luther King."...

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 1d

Flashback to the time my engineer dad told me all we needed to do to solve Al Gore's climate problem was to cover a lot of the ocean in reflective sheets, like giant aluminum foil panels what could go wrong

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 1d

Think about how for decades, one of the ingredients of a crackpot was: retired engineer.

Retired engineers, for *generations* have been a fertile ground for crackpot theories in everything.

They get that golden watch and bam, incoherent manifesto about quantum archeology inbound.

Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 1d

Many fireworks there for a bit

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KUOW Public Radio @kuow.org · 2d

Starting Oct. 11, the Vashon Island water taxi is adding Saturday sailings. People can now walk or bike to Vashon Island with seven sailings over the course of the day.

For the first time, the Vashon Island water taxi is running on Saturdays

It’s a new era for the Vashon Island water taxi: Boats are now running on Saturdays. The one-year pilot project has islanders excited for more service on the weekends.

www.kuow.org

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 2d

You wanted to call it tight, didn't you

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 2d

Yesterday I misremembered the title of this Lea & Perrins book as Dishes Men Love, and regret that it is only Dishes Men Like. It's about a hundred pages of remarkably bad ideas, but I admit I'm curious about deviled eggs held together with vinegar.

Vintage cookbook titled Dishes Men Like with a grid of 15 gross food illustrations on a blue background

A few paragraphs introducing worcestershire sauce in an extremely silly fiction

A pick-me-up for husbands who are hungover. One variant suggests adding worcestershire to sauerkraut juice. Possibly because your morning isn't already bad enough.

A deviled egg recipe for a very dry, very intense filling, moistened with vinegar.

Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 2d

Perhaps that cat is cousins with Mr. Freddie Potato here. A shovel would be useful to move him, he's a very liquid animal.

White woman with messy white hair holding an enormous limp cat upright. He's got his eyes closed.

Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 2d

Every so often this afternoon you'll need to lower your hood and absolutely skewer each player by seeing them more clearly than they are comfortable with

Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 3d

I hope the cute little upstairs concessions booth is functional now, but that'd just be an add-on to the return of regular movies.

Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 3d

Hope you land somewhere great!

Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 3d

I just read the recent Emerald piece on Tasveer and it seems like more frequent movies are coming soon, after this festival? With masala popcorn, no less!

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 3d

It's been weirdly low thus far, bet that means the deluge begins today.

Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 3d

I can imagine him chuckling with Adrian Smith, who represents the enormo/rural part of the state, about this take. (It's currently a 4 hour drive from the tiny town in NE where my mom grew up to the big/good hospital. Assuming no weather impacts.)

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 3d

Rep. Mike Flood (R-NE) didn't seem the least bit concerned that the Senate’s supplementary $50B fund—only 1/3 of the estimated loss in federal funding—would force hospitals to “think creatively about what kind of services we need."

It’s unclear how the money would be distributed. trib.al/UFyL8Hc

Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 3d

I will dig it out! It is up there with my 276 Cranberry Recipes book that Ocean Spray paid for. You can sense how much the recipe developers loathe the project, unlike the Velveeta: For People Who Eat Food booklet.

Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 3d

I hope Tasveer is able to open for more than occasional special events someday. The Grand in Tacoma is a joy, and seems to operate almost entirely by volunteers. I've wondered if that's what the SIFF cinemas need to move toward but am ignorant of basically everything in the cinema business.

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 3d

I have a truly amazing vintage cookbook from Lea & Perrins titled Dishes Men Love. Basically every recipe has at least a quarter cup of worcestershire sauce, and it's why I also once finished a bottle. I wanted Men to Love my Dishes (it set the tone of mockery when I hosted regular game nights).

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 4d

Where is the app that only shows the good plays for all my teams so I can think they all have perfect seasons

Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 4d

Just finished it a couple days ago, enjoyed the hell out of it

Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 4d

Gift link because @finchfrii.bsky.social needs baseball things to read since she's neither watching nor listening to the game. defector.com/what-mariner...

What Mariners Magic Looks Like Now | Defector

It felt impossible, after fine margins decided the first two games of their ALDS series, that the Seattle Mariners would be capable of winning a game comfortably, and yet here we are. They weathered T...

defector.com

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 4d

The glorious superstitions I'm seeing from lifelong M's fan friends right now is like they've been hoarding a secret pile of crackpot behavior for 24 years.

Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 4d

You can watch it on repeat while today's game happens!