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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 21h

Omg all those angry emails for YEARS made a difference? (I don't actually believe they did, I expect it was polling or something)

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

By the time I finished high school, I knew 13. Half were athletes in a single bus crash, all others involved impaired driving. Add one fairly recent death of a colleague and 3 pals who survived incidents with traumatic injuries (one driver, one pedestrian, one cyclist).

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Anyone else remember the back-to-school campaign when Target had Sir Mix-a-lot say "I like backpacks and I cannot lie" or it is just me with that goofy-ass line in my head

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Raisins @youlikeraisins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

@juliareedwa.bsky.social can we please look into getting this type of law passed for WA? I was unaware that most universities can hide this critical information.

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

No see it would have been bad luck to not break our winning streak here. We are not the 13s!

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 24/09/2026

This, for people who don't follow US soccer, is the coach of the Seattle Sounders donating to the GoFundMe of the fields director at Starfire Sports (where the Sounders used to train), who was just abducted by ICE.

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Accidentally typed a query into Google again. Not surprised that the terrible AI is incorrect, but am surprised that it managed to be incorrect twice for Nilu Jenks.

A screenshot of Google's idiotic AI results regarding a special election for Seattle District 5. Candidate Nilu Jenks is misidentified as both Neil Jensen and Nilo Jens. The other candidate's name is Julie Kang, which is correct. I suspect what they have each candidate as "focusing on" is also incorrect because it makes little sense.

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My household would buy at least three of these for the ID and Columbia City stops, and I think we'd all chip for a commemorative Mount Baker shirt for that one driver from earlier this summer.

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My spouse will get on the Bloodworks NW Tree of Life (100 gallons) in 3 more donations, but for now, he just proudly showed me his newest badge of honor.

A page from the Bloodworks NW site showing donor achievement badges. The top right badge is Jimothy, the world's most famous and beautiful raccoon.

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The biggest downside to my generally wonderful new neighborhood is realizing just how many dupes there are of that Belltown Hellcat fool.

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My favorite gay wizard friend has introduced me to the combo of cashews + candy corn--those ridiculous fondant triangles benefit from the salt and the texture combo is ideal. I hope you all have at least one gay wizard friend texting their frivolous wisdom to you.

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Because tech bros don't wear helmets or because of something more sinister & interesting

Lime rental bike with graffiti on its green plastic handlebar basket that reads THIS MACHINE KILLS TECH BROS

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

My cousin is a high school band teacher on the Eastside and today the kids were scheduled for a big thing at the Husky stadium. So they took light rail. I think sousaphones and bass drums got a van ride from school to station? Everyone else rode all kitted out. We're a real city now.

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

There is a sports betting app set up across the street by the Seahawks stadium giving out free hot dogs once you download their app and, I quote, get your bag. Sports betting is illegal in WA unless you're at a tribal casino. I don't understand some things about modern life.

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Together these quizzes think I'm a college student from Montana

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Woke up at blerg o'clock but hey a bit later it was cheese biscuit thirty

A tall and flaky biscuit on a metal baking sheet that looks fucking spectacular and tasted even better when I ate it

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Andromeda @ulveheksa.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Questionnaire by Wendell Berry

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I would like to know which businesses reported a drop in sales from a lack of cars so I go spend as much money as possible with them on Fridays and only Fridays. Idk what else I can do that I'm not already doing to get cars gone from here.

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Tasveer also has excellent popcorn!

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

More crop art! Including hot dogs in pants! This week tides me over until we get to the Krewe of Red Beans season.

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

ECS out in full form today, nice to see after the last few games

Emerald City Supporters parade before a Seattle Sounders game. Big black and white banner, tons of blue and green flags and jerseys

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Someone has been playing 9 to 5 on repeat outside this morning and the way it bounces around the buildings it's like the neighborhood is wonderfully haunted by the ghost of solidarity past. Hopefully it's the Embassy Suites strikers, but impossible to pinpoint.

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Jennifer Nelson’s entry to this year’s Minnesota State Fair crop art

A localized version of Guernica with a loon at the center and a person holding an ICE OUT sign

“My piece was inspired by Picasso's Guernica, a work that was his response to the Nazi's bombing of the Basque town. I thought there was a fitting parallel between these incidents about the high price paid by ordinary people when aggressive regimes try out new tactics of war, as well as a fitting juxtaposition of the darkness of living such an experience and the light we shone through it in our own resistance and care for one another. The patterns near Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s mouths are actually their last words in Morse code: ‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’”

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Street art in her honor from SE Seattle

A glittery tinsel-fringed illustrated portrait of Dolly Parton on a telephone pole. There's a cartoon voice bubble with a quote from her that says "find out who you are and do it on purpose."

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

this is just to say that your plums are all over the sidewalk please, Seattle you should clean that shit up

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This is probably what I should do with my worst imaginary memoir title, which is The Story of My Life: The Jill Lightner Story

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Bellowing "we. did not. care" in my best Mike Mac impression, although I'm mildly glad his column just got so easy for me to never read again and deeply glad that his editors did their job.

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I was raised an atheist. That book and "American religious history" are inescapable in standard American curriculum, I promise. If you don't understand what Texas wants is a bad idea, your entire public school 8th grade English class wasn't made to memorize and individually recite the 23rd Psalm.

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

but I *want* to set up a patio umbrella and charcoal grill several stories underground and surely it's my football gods-given right to do so

A parking garage entrance with an angry sign that reads NO tailgating in the garage strictly enforced

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

This intersection of S King and Alaska Way S needs to get the bike route clearly marked. As a ped on the sidewalk side you get cyclists zipping by and then u-turning and zipping by again as they realize they missed the curving bike lane because of the heap of Limes + zero effective signs.

A big stretch of sidewalk blending with a bike lane. Lime bike and scooters are on the right, Port of Seattle cranes are in the back, and some maple trees are on the left. The sky is nice whispy clouds.

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Owen Beach (and all these kitties) will keep their secrets

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I was given a single medium-sized zucchini via my building's P-patch gardener network. I turned it into a pan of muffins and two loaves of zucchini bread, leading me to think one zucchini plant per 25 households is about right.

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Maybe my favorite thing about people who vote in Seattle: we fucking love funding our library system.

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The only headline I will allow re: our WNBA team this week

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Holy shit, finally timed my visit to The Pastry Project for a crème brûlée croissant. Seattle people: highly recommend you go get one. I believe they're Fri/Sat mornings only. Walk or bike em over to Habitat Beach for a waterfront breakfast and you are living life right.

A circular ring of croissant dough filled with burnt sugar and custard. It's on a bamboo cutting board and black granite countertop.

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Anderson's The Fir-Tree but for whatever hopes and dreams that stadium dirt may have had

An absolute mountain of dirt in the north parking lot of Lumen Field in Seattle

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I have had the Jimothy song stuck in my head since yesterday afternoon send help

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Well hey, the Reign beat the Thorns just the other day and I love my new block very much

Looking down on a block-wide parade of people shown marching behind a banner that reads Emerald City Supporters and a lot of blue and green smoke

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

That one thunderstorm began less than 2 minutes after I walked out to run some errands. Mom let me play in the crick during them as a kid and I am a happy idiot when they happen here, I think "go indoors!" and then don't.

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Counterpoint to the Seattle Times: Doy. Approve the library levy, it benefits every single person here in both immediate and long-term ways. Among other things, you can read and comment on ST stories by logging in via your library card.

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

So many man-eagle hybrid creatures in Seattle yesterday, these were my favorites

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

My balcony overlooks Seattle's US-Belgium pedestrian zone and so far I've seen a Paul Revere hat + flag cape guy on a Lime bike, a half man-half eagle, and a teen who turned himself into a flag. Three attempts at a chant have failed entirely thus far. It's perfect, by which I mean ridiculous.

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Only drowned out the bullhorn bully for 5 minutes as they all marched in, might as well be a Mariners crowd! On pure fan energy, BIH remains challenged locally only by Mexico.

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The Belgium-Senegal crowd is off to a far chiller start than Bosnia-Herzegovina or the Socceroos, but I'll delay my full evaluation of pedestrian zone joy for another hour. Iran-Egypt defies ranking, my block had some anger and weirdness amid the excitement.

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Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

This November, we have the chance to fix this in WA state. A billionaire GOP donor has bankrolled a trans sports ban initiative that will be on our Nov ballots. We see what’s at stake with this federal ruling and we can’t allow this in WA.

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

This is my first morning living in the middle of Seattle's World Cup pedestrian zone. I would not have guessed I'd be charmed at being awakened by a Very Excited Horn Guy and yet: charmed!

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