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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 · 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 · 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 · 09/09/2026

Pregame portable toilet army stands ready

All the portable toilets in Seattle, stationed in the parking lot north of Lumen Field

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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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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 · 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 · 18/08/2026

Just grabbed this pic in my Seattle neighborhood at our stadium, assume it came about from dingalings setting up patio umbrellas and charcoal grills several stories underground.

A parking garage sign reading NO tailgating in the garage | strictly enforced

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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 · 06/08/2026

Same, I was able to grab a screenshot still tho

A screenshot from an ad wanting to stop the ban on surveillance pricing that says "Protect Seattle Savings" Groceries are expensive enough already. The Mayor & City Council could put our grocery rewards at risk. Tell them to stand up for Seattle families."

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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 · 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 · 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 · 26/06/2026

Well. More are coming but also: join me in my "wow this is lame" reaction

Apartment balconies partly obscured by a maple tree. Behind the leaves, a few Progress Pride flags are flapping in a breeze.

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Happy National Pigeon Day, especially to the Sandown Town Council.

A grubby plastic cover sign reading in all caps: Sandown Town Council is aware of a pigeon issue within these toilets. This matter cannot be fully dealt with until the nesting period is over. Please enter at your own risk.

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Peony season is best season. The white ones are super fragrant.

A long raised bed made of concrete chunks filled with a gazillion bright pink and white peonies in bloom. At the back, there's a painted goldfinch panel about 4' tall

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

And with the standard Hershey's Best Brownies online recipe, I use high-fat cocoa (22-24%, any brand), a pinch of espresso powder and an extra pinch of salt, and 3 whole eggs + 1 yolk instead of 4 eggs, adapted for the tips in King Arthur. I clearly need to combine all of this into one!

A glorious pan of crackle-top brownies still in the oven

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

My dog is a cat, and my cat is secretly a potato

Gray and brown tabby sitting on a wood floor sun patch with his back to the camera, looking out a black screen door. His ears are enormous. His name is Freddie Potato.

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Two months ago the neighbors started building a catio. This weekend they made good progress on the second story. This brave princess was exploring early this morning and spotting a cat here never stops being a ridiculous little joy.

Fluffy Himalayan cat up on the second story of a screened cat patio, debating whether to go do a level.

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

My personal gritty is back in their lucky shirt

An itty bitty gritty stuffie wearing a shirt that reads It took a lot of violence to become this soft

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

This is in a piece about unionizing a workplace so I am inclined to feel solidarity with everyone involved at "sort of Damocles" in the pull quote but also good lord

Screenshot from Seattle Times including the pull quote "It feels like a sort of Damocles just looming over us."

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Oh hey me too! These are brown butter oatmeal with toasted coconut and caramel chips.

Oatmeal cookies on a baking tray with parchment

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

A pal with a Smith Tower office share took me to the observation deck/bar yesterday. Goofy beautiful, great raspberry mint fizz drink, now noticing how much better it would be without all the car business. Habitat beach is also 10/10. (My slow self crossed ok, but two scooter dopes didn't yield.)

Distant view of Mt Tahoma from the Smith Tower. The foreground is low- and mid-rise brick building separated by two major arterials. There are almost no cars on the streets.

Smith Tower as shown from the tide line of Habitat Beach. Big rocks and a log in the foreground, winter trees and mid-rise brick buildings in the middle.

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Cars in this Canadian transit center are essentially 1:1 with the stout bollard shorties here

Bollards between a mall and a transit center in Surry BC. So many short little bollards! Cars and a sky train line are in the background with two highrises

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Not just Hollywood! @tomasaurus.bsky.social rocked this brooch last summer at a wedding and I lost track of the number of compliments he got. Also, vintage brooch shopping with awkward straight men is fun, you'll know immediately which salespeople deserve your money.

White haired white guy in a silver suit with sunglasses and a big-ass rhinestone brooch on his lapel

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

New posters in my neighborhood or maybe they're depressing word search pages

Poster on a telephone pole with CRIMINAL in red and a ton of ways the US federal government is breaking or has broken laws, including illegal tariffs, abuse of prosecutorial power, executive overreach and the Epstein files

A white poster with Remember Nuremberg as a red and black title in the middle, surrounded by words like grift, extortion, Alien Enemies Act, jailing innocent citizens, war crimes and ethnic cleansing

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Today's most societally boring/most personally exciting news: the neighbors are building a catio, stage 1 is complete and this brave chap is ready for it.

Gray and white tuxedo cat peeping at the photographer through a screened-in catio with white stairs in the background

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Because being American isn't embarrassing enough yet

Two audience members at the Olympics are wearing hideous outfits of rubber eagle masks and shirt/shorts sets that are blue and white stars, red and white horizontal stripes and additional giant eagle heads in the middle of the shirts. Just remarkably ugly top to bottom!

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Parade ready, with what "12 as 1" means to me

White woman with white hair with her back to the camera. Her shirt has a Seahawks 12 below the words Fuck Ice

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

This Cooper's hawk absolutely did not care that I was a few yards/meters away. Nice to spot on my block today, possibly summoned by the endless Seahawks chat.

Tan and white striped Cooper's hawk sitting on a chain link fence next to some shrubs in the winter. She's looking to the side toward a small brick apartment building

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

NHL fans beg teams to stop hiring sex offenders and frequently fail at that very low bar. P Dub fans strive for a more equitable/better world. (From the Golden eyes/Torrent season opener)

Fan in a Goldeneyes sweater holding a sign in rainbow text that says "PWHL where is your gender inclusion policy?"

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Freddie is helping our whistle kit project

Tabby cat in a sunbeam, lying on top of freshly printed papers explaining whistle code to keep each other safe from ICE

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Seattle Times headline writer absolutely nailing priorities today

Screenshot of text reading "Is Costco open? What to know about Martin Luther King Jr. Day."

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Gene Hackman in Night Moves eating his post-fuck fondue would have dipped a cheeseburger into his melty cheese if he'd thought of it

Gene Hackman is in bed with a woman who looks exactly like Ziggy Stardust and smiling at a piece of bread he's putting on a fondue fork. There is a fondue pot set up at the end of the bed.

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

I saw this wall toaster in a movie last year and still cannot fathom just how much asbestos would have to exist for a house to not immediately catch fire. I both covet and fear the wall toaster.

A Modern Maid metal toaster set into wood paneling on a wall with a mug rack right above it. A crowded table is below it. Picture is from a movie about the Feast of 7 Fishes, set in Pittsburgh in the 1970s.

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Algerian irises just getting started in WA. #flowerreport

A lavender and yellow iris blooming under a lilac tree in January. Lots of long, straight iris leaves, too.

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

Starting the year off right with motivational Pop-Tarts, hoping to manifest precisely nothing with this sweet spackle absurdity

Cinnamon roll pop tarts with printed pictures on the frosting. One reads "dreams really do come true" and the other features a cartoon pop tart sticking out of a toaster, holding a sign that says EAT ME!

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Caramel apple pies are maybe just an excuse to make a full sheet pan's worth of sentient pie cookie pals

Five spiral cookies decorated with candy eyes looking like snails and crustaceans

Lattice topped pie decorated with one-eyed bats wearing winter clothes

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Today is the first annual Feast of Seven Potatoes. Dessert is what I've named a Dirt Princess Potato Cake: vintage potato fudge cake, crème diplomat and marzipan like a Swedish princess cake, finished with grated black marzipan "dirt" and marzipan potatoes.

Sheet cake covered in grated black marzipan "dirt" and cocoa-dusted marzipan potatoes

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Once again the Christmas cookies have had a fist fight

Round, tan cookies with little blobs of cherry jam. Candy eyeballs are positioned so the jam becomes a bloody mouth on each cookie.

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

New sewing kit just dropped (as soon as I finish the cookies, damn the brunsli is delicious). Not sure if Temple Pastries is sold out of these beauties yet, Seattle, good luck.

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

This dress was in my family's possession for at least 3 generations. This month marks 5 years since it was returned to the Oglala Lakota Sioux people, after 30ish years badgering my mom and a lengthy research project.

Fringed buckskin dress sized for a large child/small adult. Beautiful beadwork across the shoulders and down the arms is mainly sky blue with white, black, orange and green accents. Each fringe section has 2 beads at the top.

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

La Liberté guidant les dindes / Liberty leading the turkeys / art but make it goofy pies

Pumpkin pie with cutouts decorating the top. 3 small turkeys are holding knives or axes, two appear dead and a large one holds a crumpled flag

Wikipedia commons version of Delcroix's painting la liberté guidant le peuple.

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Jill Lightner @jilllightner.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

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.

A rainbow striped rain shelter protects a big cabinet with little compartments for everything from socks to condoms to first aid supplies, pens and snacks.

A laminated sign with a QR code and an explanation of a free Futel phone below. Then there's the phone and another laminated sign below that, explaining what this stand is all about

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