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Jessica @jessbepuzzled.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

gaaaah that thing where someone's on your Bitch Eating Crackers list but you can't say anything without getting petty about it

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Jessica @jessbepuzzled.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I'm reading Daggerbound by @tkingfisher.com (Swordheart book 2) and look, if you haven't yet read her Temple of the White Rat universe, you absolutely should. And I just got to chapter 32 and eeeeeee! I was hoping for this! ok back to reading!

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Jessica @jessbepuzzled.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Tired of this Smokegust bs. We just got rid of the wildfire smoke and now suddenly it's back this evening. 😝

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Jessica @jessbepuzzled.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Got to experience the delight(?) of my Diet Coke flash-freezing when I opened it in the car this morning. Very weird, because it's summertime and the bottle had been sitting in my car for about 10 minutes after taking it out of the store fridge. I didn't know this could happen at normal temps!

A 20 ounce bottle of partially frozen Diet Coke in the cup holder of a car. Next to it is another unopened (and presumed unfrozen) bottle of Diet Coke

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Jessica @jessbepuzzled.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Older son asked me to help him create an oversized jellyfish hat for camp this month. He even offered to chauffeur younger son all week to free up more crochet time for me. Oh, twist my arm 😂

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 23/06/2026

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through 6/26, enjoy free standard shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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Jessica @jessbepuzzled.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

This probably makes me a weirdo but recently I've been binging episodes of Mayday: Air Disaster on YouTube. It's really interesting seeing the different paths the investigation follows and the recommendations that result from it. That thing about how safety regulations are written in blood? So true.

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Jessica @jessbepuzzled.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Filed under "Signs That My Brain is Currently Mush" is the fact that it's taken me a whole week to remember to pin @agb.bsky.social's #LoveIslandUSA feed. (once again delighted that Adam made this 😂)

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Jessica @jessbepuzzled.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Dear my meds that I took an hour ago, START WORKING ALREADY DAMMIT Yours in desperation, Me

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Jessica @jessbepuzzled.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Years ago when I was active on the Straight Dope message boards there was a poster (Hi, Opal!) who was adamant that a list HAD to have at least 3 items. So people started adding Hi Opal! as their "required" 3rd item. (sadly, she is no longer with us. I bet she would've had a lot of fun here.) #sdmb

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Kenneth Trease @kptrease.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I want people to stop wailing and gnashing their teeth about how bluesky doesn’t have the juice and start shitposting more.

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Jessica @jessbepuzzled.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Norwescon is over, alas, and my copy of A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking is back in its place of honor among the cookbooks, now signed by the author T. Kingfisher (Ursula Vernon). She was an absolute delight to meet and to listen to, and I'm so glad I got the chance to do so!

A dark brown bookshelf with several cookbooks either upright or stacked on the shelves. The book A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking is also on the bookshelf next to the cookbooks, turned so that the front cover is fully visible to a viewer.

Title page of A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking, autographed by the author. The inscription says "For Jessica" and is signed "T. Kingfisher"

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Jessica @jessbepuzzled.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

🎶 I am that weirdo who sings to herself at the grocery store... 🎶 (very quietly I promise)

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Jessica @jessbepuzzled.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

@oliviawaite.com soooo ebook releases usually drop at midnight *eastern* time, right? no reason, just planning out my evening.... 👓📖

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Jessica @jessbepuzzled.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

My SOTU experience this year is reading @kbspangler.com's livetweet while vaguely listening to my teen live-rant upstairs.

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Eddie Kay @ichthyos.com · 23/02/2026

Does anyone happen to know where I can watch Ellie Kam & Danny O'Shea's free skate from the team event two weeks ago? I'm trying to show a friend who missed it

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Jessica @jessbepuzzled.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Fun fact: if you live in a recently-built residence, the builder likely installed all the smoke alarms at the same time, from the same batch, which means they all start expiring around the same time several years later. Such a delight (not) having to track down the beeping one on a weekly basis. 😬

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ScaryCatalyst 🎃 @straycatalyst.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Awww c'mon Seattle, don't break shit when partying about the Seahawks Just be cool and have fun

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Post-Super Bowl celebrations resulted in some property damage, arrests

YouTube video by KING 5 Seattle

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Jessica @jessbepuzzled.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I second this recommendation! And her next book in the series comes out in just a few weeks, so now is an ideal time to get this first one. (btw space sci-fi fans who #knit might find this book of particular interest ☺️🧶)

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Jessica @jessbepuzzled.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

SEATTLE: important question for the locals after last night's celebrations: Did the pergola survive?

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Colin Durant @colindurant.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

So the intersection of SW Alaska and California Ave SW is a 4-way pedestrian signal — all cars stopped while fans rushed into the middle of the street with the walk sign and ran out when the red hand came back.

People celebrating the Seahawks in West Seattle

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Jessica @jessbepuzzled.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

For those who missed it 12 years ago, this was people in Ballard making sure to obey traffic lights while celebrating the Seahawks' first-ever Super Bowl win. 😁💙💚

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Ballard / Seattle SuperBowl celebration with no jaywalking

YouTube video by Joel VanderHoek

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Jessica @jessbepuzzled.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

I am so looking forward to this round of #howSeattleRiots 😂😂😂

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Jessica @jessbepuzzled.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Earlier today I spent like an hour in a room that I suspect has a serious mildew/mold problem (NOT my house or anywhere I regularly spend time, thank goodness) and now I'm going all hypochondriac thinking every little thing like watery eyes and runny nose are signs that I've been mold poisoned.

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Jessica @jessbepuzzled.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Feeling lazy, going to see how well it works to use gnocchi instead of homemade dumplings in this chicken stew.

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Siobhan Beeman @siobhan.northsky.social · 27/01/2026

DHS is already required by law to cooperate with state probes. CBP is not ICE. Warrants for arrests are already required by law + 4th Amendment. ICE is perfectly content with standing outside churches/schools and kidnapping people as they come out. Democrats think we‘re stupid and easily fooled.

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Jessica @jessbepuzzled.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

I'm still kind of spinning my wheels trying to get this crochet editing thing off the ground. I did identify two key things I feel like I need to have in place before I can move forward, so that's progress I guess? I am extremely lucky that this is a side gig and I have the luxury to flail around. 😬

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Jessica @jessbepuzzled.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Imagine someone says every time you run a lap I'll hand you $5. You start running laps, but they hand you only $2 each lap or even $1 or $0. How long do you keep running? Now imagine the $5 is dopamine, the lap is basically any task, & you've been under-rewarded this way all your life. That's ADHD.

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Jessica @jessbepuzzled.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I am thrilled to report that my 16yo asked me this morning if I'd like to play Halo this weekend. I played it cool and said yeah, that would be great! while inside I was jumping around like YES PLEASE YES YES YES YES 😄😄😄

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Jessica @jessbepuzzled.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

I know a bunch of us have or had LJ accounts. If that's you, consider it a 2026 goal to get your content there backed up elsewhere. Scroll to the top of the thread quoted below for fuller info, but in a nutshell: the signs are on the horizon that LJ could be going away soon and with little notice.

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Jessica @jessbepuzzled.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Well, those were some lovely fogworks at the Space Needle this year. ☁️🎆☁️ Happy New Year!

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Jessica @jessbepuzzled.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Anyone want to double check a short Spanish translation? (Central American dialect, not European Spain dialect) I'd like to leave a gratuity and thank you note for our yard maintenance crew, most of whom are not English speakers, and my college Spanish is rusty and probably outdated.

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Jessica @jessbepuzzled.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

alternate theory: answer bank for next month's MIT Mystery Hunt

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Jessica @jessbepuzzled.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

I had this whole post roughed out in my head about the pattern tech editing stuff and how I'm in that pinch point of needing experience to get work yet needing work to get experience, blahblahblah but also, it's been holidays and stuff so I haven't had time to do anything workish ugh. overwhelmed.

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Washington State Dept of Natural Resources @wadnr.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Pineapple is terrible on pizza, but even worse on an Express currently hitting Washington

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Jessica @jessbepuzzled.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Time spent today fine-tuning my stitch counting spreadsheet: about 2 hours and change Time spent today actually working out the pattern’s stitch counts: 0 minutes I… might have a teeny problem with priorities here. 😂

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Jessica @jessbepuzzled.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

📚 Sci-fi fans, here's a holiday treat: The Rook is a delightful read along the lines of a mashup of Torchwood and MI-6, with a mystery that hooks you right from the first paragraph. It's the first in a series following members of Her Majesty's Supernatural Secret Service... the Checquy.

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Jessica @jessbepuzzled.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

I have now stayed up Way Too Late trying to decide which stitch combo I want to use in a cuff on a fingerless mitten. This is the peril of crocheting late at night after the ADHD meds have worn off. 🤪🧶🙃

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Jessica @jessbepuzzled.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

I've started appending "-ai" to all my google searches and it's a breath of fresh air not to have to see the LLM slop at the top of the results So much so that I'm toying with the idea of making an extension or something that will automatically append it. (as if I'm not busy enough already, LOL)

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Snow Burrow @bostonjerry.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

There's no reason to follow Aaron Rupar when Phil Lewis exists. If Rupar posts anything you need to see, someone who does a better job aggregating breaking news will repost it to your feed.

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Jessica @jessbepuzzled.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

I am kicking ass making Thanksgiving dinner this year and for once I'm not being modest about it. So far everything's on schedule and we haven't had to do any big pivots. The turkey might even be done a little early which actually is a good thing in this case. Probably jinxed myself now but oh well.

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Jessica @jessbepuzzled.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Hey! I’m delighted to share that we are set now - thank you!! ❤️😊 and thanks as well to those who boosted the signal, we greatly appreciate it.

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Jessica @jessbepuzzled.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

This is a long shot, but anyone have a ticket to either the Bellevue or Federal Way showing of Shattered: Battle for Dream Island Again they’re willing to sell? Both are sold out (we found out about it late) and my 12yo is the kind of devastated where he’s heartbroken but trying not to show it.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 20/11/2025

The Punctuation Collection™️

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Jessica @jessbepuzzled.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Unpacking is such a satisfying game and the storyline is really lovely. Definitely worth taking a look. If you're not a Steam person, it's available on mobile platforms too!

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