Jill Lightner

The Dark Little Free Bakery Book sounds very poison-y and possibly still a satisfying way to build community

Solidarity! *shakes pompoms but not booty because my back hurts*

This was really something, especially after seeing Eureka Day at the Rep on Friday. If I hadn't, I don't think I would have been able to find some of it funny. "There are more crashes one block away" is not the gotcha data they think it is.

Unexpected number of speeders? Have they met drivers because

I will forever miss the old neighborhood plate-o-cheese Mexican place with the framed local review featuring this giant alt-weekly headline: Charmingly adequate. It was! Which made it perfect.

I'd turn my sub-basement storage locker into a cheese cave and keep it well fucking stocked

The people demand answers

Y’all, I hate to rain on the dead bot parade, but the Yandex data center destruction doesn’t seem to have significantly impacted social media bots. I made temporal graphs of X posts about AfD around the time of the attack and there’s no sign of a sudden dip or residual impact on that conversation.

Amazing to be lightly hungover while Blue Thunder plays right outside my apartment. Most people pay big money for this experience.

Really glad to see this, Kate is a terrific reporter and writer. Among much else, I hope her coverage helps boost the crowd at Reign games. And it sounds like she'll keep covering my favorite kind of Kraken stories. (Also, remember you can log in via the library system if need be.)

You can also dip into the perfect Cafe Allegro and see a lot of my sister-in-law's lovely art. The Ave shouldn't have cars most of the time, and also sorry to all the students who had to listen to my family & I play Remember When about The Ave.

Fuck yeah, Salish Supersonics www.seattletimes.com/opinion/why-...

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

@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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

what if we kissed at the

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

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

Questionnaire by Wendell Berry

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.

Tasveer also has excellent popcorn!

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

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

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.

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

Street art in her honor from SE Seattle

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

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

Gift link to a glorious pro-editor, anti-dipshit sports columnist blog, Tom Ley read the spiked column so we don't have to. defector.com/matt-calkins...

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.

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.

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