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Jess Zimbabwe @jzimbabwe.bsky.social · 10h

Here’s to the nonprofits keeping old buildings—and communities—going, one mysterious light switch at a time.

Photo of some light switches in an old building with three mis-matched plate covers. Each switch is labeled, but one says “what’s this”

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Jess Zimbabwe @jzimbabwe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It might be time for another cheese party, people!

My husband Sam holding an 8 pound block of Beecher’s cheese that we won at the El Centro de la Raza gala.

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Jess Zimbabwe @jzimbabwe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Dress for the former mayor you want, not the former mayor you have.

Lorena Gonzalez speaking at the El Centro de la Raza “Beloved Community” Gala.

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Jess Zimbabwe @jzimbabwe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There’s a special circle of hell reserved for people who man-spread at the convention center luncheon 10-top. Bro, there is only room for all of our knees to be directly in front of us here. Close it up and enjoy your salad.

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Jess Zimbabwe @jzimbabwe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This table is full of hot takes: Sesame oil in the fridge? Fish sauce in the pantry? How many of these guidelines do you follow? cooking.nytimes.com/article/does...

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Do I Need to Refrigerate Ketchup? An A-to-Z Guide to Storing Condiments

Soy sauce? Peanut butter? Maple syrup? Settle some scores with this breakdown.

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Jess Zimbabwe @jzimbabwe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I am with Smalls at the Le SSERAFIM concert. We have these light sticks that the artists will control during the show, but I’m playing around with mine before the show starts. She just saw me and said, “there goes my mom…doin’ stuff.”

The stage and crowd at the Tacoma Dome. The stage says “Le SSERAFIM purely Tour 2026”

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Jess Zimbabwe @jzimbabwe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I love camping in Washington state because you get to wake up to views like this:

View of a boggy clearing in an old-growth forest.

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Britt Lundgren @brittlundgren.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“This time capsule of species interactions, I think, is just so cool,” said Scott V. Edwards, an evolutionary biologist at Harvard who was not involved in the new study. “You’ve got this three-species interaction in this one tiny piece of poop.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/s...

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A Feather Found in Dinosaur Poop Might Explain How Birds Beat Extinction (Gift Article)

It’s the only example of a dinosaur-era feather found within rock that wasn’t completely flattened through the centuries.

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Jess Zimbabwe @jzimbabwe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Can’t he assemble like a Pink, Boy George, and Morgan Wallen line-up or something?

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Unlike Macklemore, these support acts don’t have big followings and they are giving up their chance to perform to stadiums to push back against censorship, not of themselves but of a fellow artist. Respect.

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Jess Zimbabwe @jzimbabwe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Our car got stolen overnight, and when the police officer arrived at our house to take the report, he stepped inside, looked at the wall shelving unit that occupies the focal wall of our living room and said, “I see you’ve got the J Dilla there.” This is the J Dilla displayed in my living room:

An oblong-shaped vinyl record that reads “Fuck the Police” by J Dilla

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Jess Zimbabwe @jzimbabwe.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I’m in the line for Julien Baker tickets at Neumos because I’m a great mom of teens.

A line of people around the block for tickets.

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Jess Zimbabwe @jzimbabwe.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

My favorite actor of late is Thaddea Graham, based on her hilarious performances as 1) Detective Houlihan in the Irish dark comedy Bad Sisters and 2) as Susie in Margo’s Got Money Troubles. These are both clever character roles, but she fills them out brilliantly.

Photo of Thaddea Graham sitting in a chair.

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Jess Zimbabwe @jzimbabwe.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

On my patio, following the football game by yells and screams in the neighborhood.

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Jess Zimbabwe @jzimbabwe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Has anyone who parents teens devised a per mile (or other) charging scheme to help the teen understand, internalize, or cover the costs of making discretionary trips by car?

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Jess Zimbabwe @jzimbabwe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Do they think the “adult” section = pornography? Have these people ever visited a library?

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Join us in celebrating the people who labor in the fields to put food on our tables. #WeFeedYou #LaborDay

illustration of two farm workers loading the crop onto a truck, with “Happy Labor Day!” text, UFW eagle emblem in a red circle, and 09.07 date.

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Jess Zimbabwe @jzimbabwe.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Other countries must be so jealous of the incredible intellect we have leading our country. What a mastermind!

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The_Lady_Red @theladyred.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Over four weeks this summer, at least three men murdered their families. Together, the three men killed 17 people, 12 of them children. And within a day or two, each story had vanished from the national news. 1/2

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Over four weeks this summer, at least three men murdered their families, killing 12 children among them.

On July 24, in Michigan, Kristopher Karolkiewicz shot his wife and their six children and set the house on fire.

On July 31, in Wisconsin, Jeffrey Manke killed his two daughters, 11 and 16.

On August 23, in Montana, Alan Smith gunned down eight of his relatives -- his parents, his grandmother, his sister, and four children -- at a Sunday dinner.

Together, the three men killed 17 people, 12 of them children. And within a day or two, each story had vanished from the national news.

Compare this to the coverage of the Lindsay Clancy case. For weeks, the trial of the Massachusetts mother, who killed her three children in 2023, has been a media fixation.

Cable networks have carried it live. CNN, NBC, the Boston Globe, and others have run day-by-day live blogs. Reporters have packed the courthouse by the dozen, some sitting on the floor for lack of room. And the trial is only the latest chapter: the case has been dissected in the national press and on true-crime podcasts for years.

A mother killing her children becomes a national obsession; a father doing the same quickly becomes yesterday's news.

The obvious explanation for the discrepancy is timing: Clancy is on trial, while these three men killed themselves and left no one to prosecute.

But it doesn't hold up. Men who murder their families do stand trial -- and their cases almost never command this kind of sustained, wall-to-wall attention.

The true-crime sagas that grip the nation for years overwhelmingly feature women who kill. The gender of the killer, it turns out, matters more than the crime.

The numbers tell a different story than the headlines. Family annihilation in America is neither rare nor evenly distributed.

According to a 2023 investigation by the Indianapolis Star, drawing on data from the Gun Violence Archive, someone in this country murders their own family roughly once every five days.

And the people who do it are almost always men -- by expert estimates, some 91 percent of the time. A gun is used in about nine of ten cases. The victims, disproportionately, are children.

The silence has a dangerous cost. Violence by men has become so normalized that even its most extreme form -- a man murdering his own family -- barely registers. And that silence compounds itself: because these killings rarely break through the noise, most people have no idea how common they are, or how overwhelmingly they are committed by men. The pattern disappears into the background, one fleeting headline at a time.

None of this diminishes the horror of a mother who kills. It only raises the question: why does that horror seize our full attention, while the far more common version -- committed by fathers, husbands, sons -- slips past us in a day?

--> If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic violence, the National Domestic Violence Hotline is available 24/7 at 1-800-799-7233, or text START to 88788.

--> The Danger Assessment, developed by Dr. Jacquelyn Campbell, is a free tool that helps a woman gauge her risk of being killed by an abusive partner --

https://www.dangerassessment.org/DA.aspx

For a potentially life-saving book for older teens and adults about the early warning signs of abusive relationships, myths about abusive personalities, and how to get help, we highly recommend "Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men" at

https://www.amightygirl.com/why-does-he-do-that

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Jess Zimbabwe @jzimbabwe.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The mermaid was a very sweet addition to Bumbershoot.

A carnival trailer with a tank of water and a lovely mermaid swimming in it. The mermaid is blowing a kiss underwater to a small child at the glass of the tank.

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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I love the dedication in My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinhem

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Jess Zimbabwe @jzimbabwe.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Wut. They sell Buddy’s pizza at Thriftway now?

Photo of a grocery freezer door with Buddy’s in it.

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Jess Zimbabwe @jzimbabwe.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

So, Seattle, when do we find out if school is on for tomorrow?

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Jess Zimbabwe @jzimbabwe.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Look, I already knew I was hysterical decades before these doctors started talkin’ ‘bout how we should remove my uterus. (Everything went great and I’m resting and recovering. See everybody soon.)

Me, sitting in a hospital bed with a stuffy of a uterus.

Me in hospital garb just before surgery.

A visitor! (My husband Sam peeking through the hospital curtains.

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Jess Zimbabwe @jzimbabwe.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Someone kept trying to sneak a dip of my coffee, but seeing his own image made him self-conscious. #nomarGarciaparrot

Me, with an African Gray Parrot, who is named Nomar.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Mitch McConnell can get 75 days off as a US Senator, but women can’t get maternity leave. Welcome to America.

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Jess Zimbabwe @jzimbabwe.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I clipse, you clipse, she clipse, he clipse, we clipse, y’all clipse, they clipse.

A photo in my neighborhood of the lunar eclipse with some trees and power lines nearby. It’s a crappy phone photo, but it’s still pretty!

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Jess Zimbabwe @jzimbabwe.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This particular piece of crop art is stunning, but you should click through to the PDF and see them all. Minnesota goes hard.

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Jess Zimbabwe @jzimbabwe.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I’m definitely going to try to buy him a Hawaiian Sun next time I see him at our neighborhood teriyaki joint.

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Jess Zimbabwe @jzimbabwe.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It seems normal and healthy to have a friend or confidante that you can meet up with and complain a little about your spouse or partner. This morning, a dude did that on the bus so loudly that the whole back of the bus could hear.

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Jess Zimbabwe @jzimbabwe.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

We have a large horse chestnut tree that is failing. The arborist reports it almost certainly needs to go. It’s just inside the fence, in the corner of our yard and the block. Its prominent location makes me want to leave the trunk in situ and have someone carve it. But as what? I need ideas.

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Jess Zimbabwe @jzimbabwe.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I have a great name for a restaurant that serves baskets of deep-fried things: “Living My Life Like It’s Golden.” Since I am unlikely to get this venture off the ground anytime soon, the name is available, and I’ll let you have it if you promise me a basket of fried cauliflower when I visit.

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Jess Zimbabwe @jzimbabwe.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Parenting a teenager in 2026, in three acts via text message: 1) I’m wiring you dinner money; 2) watch out for the latest food-borne illness; and 3) a wish and a prayer for a better America to come.

3 text messages from me:
1. Okay, cool. I’ll put $20 on your greenlight. Have fun. Love you.
2. Oh, and there’s a national salmonella outbreak that has been traced to raw jalepenos at Chipotle, so probably don’t get those or like the salsa Fresca that might include them.
3. (Good lord willing and the creek don’t rise, we might have a functioning federal government again by the time you reach adulthood.)

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Jess Zimbabwe @jzimbabwe.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Is Erie really just a “town”?

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Jess Zimbabwe @jzimbabwe.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I want to remind everyone that make-a-fake-bacon-BLT-and-eat-it-while-leaning-over-your-kitchen-sink-so-it’s-easy-to-wash-up-if-you-overstuffed-it season is upon us!

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Jess Zimbabwe @jzimbabwe.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I didn’t notice this until I got it home, but Delta must have like dropped my suitcase out of the airplane:

Suitcase with a huge dent in the corner.

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Jess Zimbabwe @jzimbabwe.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Odie with the unhinged dog napping position.

A husky mix lying in a dog bed with his back legs airborne and spread eagle, while his front shoulders are rotated so that his head is off the bed.

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Rian Watt @rianwatt.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I am not sure why there is so much media coverage of the “recall effort” for Mayor Wilson when it carries only slightly more legal weight than an angry Facebook comment

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