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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La Liberté guidant les dindes / Liberty leading the turkeys / art but make it goofy pies
November 26, 2025 at 8:48 PM
La Liberté guidant les dindes / Liberty leading the turkeys / art but make it goofy pies
Here's to my city's Little Free Failure of Capitalism and its neighborly kindness with an attitude. They were switching over from summer needs to fall/winter when I swapped by, so an unusual number of bins are labeled but empty.
November 26, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Here's to my city's Little Free Failure of Capitalism and its neighborly kindness with an attitude. They were switching over from summer needs to fall/winter when I swapped by, so an unusual number of bins are labeled but empty.
Ok listen it was not the chef's fault that buttermilk and eggnog both come in 1-quart green and white cartons. Cheerfully, eggnog mashed potatoes are delicious.
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
November 25, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Ok listen it was not the chef's fault that buttermilk and eggnog both come in 1-quart green and white cartons. Cheerfully, eggnog mashed potatoes are delicious.
Slightly bitter shout-out to the CEO who made a whole-ass company rule about the first person into the office (often me) having to turn on allllll the lights because they were once surprised by me sitting at my computer in a mostly dark office
Advice from a Reddit discussion about using ring lights while avoiding eyeglass reflections
November 25, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Slightly bitter shout-out to the CEO who made a whole-ass company rule about the first person into the office (often me) having to turn on allllll the lights because they were once surprised by me sitting at my computer in a mostly dark office
The menu has been formalized for the first annual Feast of Seven Potatoes and idk when I was last this excited about a December holiday. It's Finnish-American-Korean and potatoes will definitely be getting harmed. As will our dignity.
November 22, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The menu has been formalized for the first annual Feast of Seven Potatoes and idk when I was last this excited about a December holiday. It's Finnish-American-Korean and potatoes will definitely be getting harmed. As will our dignity.
May Bruce have an uncomfortable bunion for all of his remaining years
Welp, after years of planning, pots of dedicated funding, promises that despite other elements getting yanked from the plans that sidewalk repairs were still on the table, the only sidewalk on LWB that got repaved this year was the segment right in front of Bruce's house.
November 22, 2025 at 6:43 PM
May Bruce have an uncomfortable bunion for all of his remaining years
Add Seattle's favorite drug store (RIP), a ton of vet care places, and apparently kid sports leagues. Let's elect more Liz Warrens.
Private equity is looting our malls, doctors' offices, and nursing homes.
Heck, you name it, and private equity has probably already bought it.
Their scheme spares no one. I’m fighting to stop it.
Heck, you name it, and private equity has probably already bought it.
Their scheme spares no one. I’m fighting to stop it.
November 20, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Add Seattle's favorite drug store (RIP), a ton of vet care places, and apparently kid sports leagues. Let's elect more Liz Warrens.
Somehow it is even worse than this fucking hideous headline
This is one of the worst, most horrifying exposures we have ever seen. It is hard to overstate how bad the things that people are using tools like for are, and it's insane to pretend like these tools are anything other than nonconsensual porn machines
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Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn
Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social me...
www.404media.co
November 19, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Somehow it is even worse than this fucking hideous headline
Reposted by Jill Lightner
Absolutely cannot wait to bust down the doors for a drink made by a company whose unionized workers are on strike in a store that doesn’t want to hire minorities anymore.
Beginning Monday, a Frozen Peppermint Hot Chocolate drink will be available exclusively at Starbucks cafés inside Target stores.
The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
November 17, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Absolutely cannot wait to bust down the doors for a drink made by a company whose unionized workers are on strike in a store that doesn’t want to hire minorities anymore.
#birdoftheday face down in her snacks like we wish we were
November 14, 2025 at 5:28 PM
#birdoftheday face down in her snacks like we wish we were
I really hope Julie Wise has gotten an apology from Harrell for the election nonsense in his concession speech. Assume if it comes up in public he'll claim he was joking. Yes, I'm still mad about it.
Voter turnout in the Seattle election has reached 55.95%. That's the highest mayoral election voter turnout this century for the city, besting even the 2009 election when there was 54.99% voter turnout.
November 14, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I really hope Julie Wise has gotten an apology from Harrell for the election nonsense in his concession speech. Assume if it comes up in public he'll claim he was joking. Yes, I'm still mad about it.
He finally actually said Katie's name!
Harrell says that he “spoke with Mayor-Elect Katie Wilson to congratulate her.”
November 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
He finally actually said Katie's name!
We asked for functional pockets and they responded with something "born out of the idea of creating an additional pocket"
November 11, 2025 at 6:11 PM
We asked for functional pockets and they responded with something "born out of the idea of creating an additional pocket"
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
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?
Reposted by Jill Lightner
[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.
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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!
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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.