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

Wow! I love that colorway. Nice job pushing through to the end, it's gorgeous!

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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

extremely annoying that ADHD stimulants seem to be either fast acting or long lasting but rarely both

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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 · 09/05/2026

They even got a special exemption from new signage regulations recently. Big community pushback when people realized that the regulations would affect the signs around the Truck Eating Bridge, so the existing ones were grandfathered in. 😂

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Jessica @jessbepuzzled.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Our local one is rated 4.9 stars maps.app.goo.gl/hbDYNAjWP5en...

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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 · 15/02/2026

My LJ posts from 20 years ago would get flagged as AI if em-dashes were a reliable indicator of LLM generation. You can't boil it down to whether one particular piece of punctuation is present.

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

(which we solved by replacing them all at the same time, thereby kicking the can down the road another ten years)

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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 · 10/02/2026

That's really cool! We had small kids then so didn't get to go party, but yeah. An amazing night.

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

And then people accidentally broke the pergola in Pioneer Square, causing $25K in damages... and crowdfunded the repair costs.

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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

(which might not even be a thing)

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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 · 06/02/2026

Last night's episode had me, as the kids put it, shook. I have to stop myself there because it's too good to risk spoilers. 😯😯😯

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

Are you watching him on The Traitors this season? It's pretty good.

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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 · 21/01/2026

You reminded me that I’d been thinking of buying this pattern. Done!

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

Stimulants don't replace that missing dopamine, btw. They just build a big wooden fence around the track so that we can't see the carnival across the street.

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

By the way, that last part is critical. For those of us with ADHD, our brains have been conditioning us since childhood to expect this overpromising and underdelivering. No wonder our minds try to wander off to something that "pays" better (i.e. actually gives us a dopamine hit)

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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

So anyway I have good memories associated with this game. I picked up the remastered versions a couple years ago and have tried occasionally to convince my kid to give it a shot. I'm excited to see how (whether) he takes to it.

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

Halo 1, 2 and 3 all came out while Jeff & I were still at MSFT. My workgroup would play after-hours PvP on the giant screens in the conf rooms. When Halo 2 was released Jeff & I stayed past midnight one night playing co-op (not an innuendo) in the lounge all the way through story mode. #howgeeksdate

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

Not sure whether this is just "humor Mom since it's her birthday" or a genuine interest in the game (he and his friends usually play Helldivers and such) but either way I'll take it! I love that game. It's one of my favorite video game franchises.

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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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