Jill Lightner

@jilllightner

Decorative hermit with a titanium spine. Writes about food, kitchen gardens, the gifting economy and solitary bees. Runs the Little Free Bakery Columbia City Seattle. 6th book out early 2027. Cookietarian. she/her

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Jill Lightner@jilllightner· 5d

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."

Jill Lightner@jilllightner· 18d

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.

Jill Lightner@jilllightner· 22d

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

Jill Lightner@jilllightner· 26d

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

Jill Lightner@jilllightner· Jun 26

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.

Jill Lightner@jilllightner· Jun 13

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.

Jill Lightner@jilllightner· May 28

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

Jill Lightner@jilllightner· May 22

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

Jill Lightner@jilllightner· May 12

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.

Jill Lightner@jilllightner· May 11

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.

Jill Lightner@jilllightner· May 7

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

Jill Lightner@jilllightner· Apr 29

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."

Jill Lightner@jilllightner· Apr 29

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

Oatmeal cookies on a baking tray with parchment

Jill Lightner@jilllightner· Apr 20

All you can seat shrimp

A gallery window with some colorful art chairs including an amazing curvy orange shrimp chair

Jill Lightner@jilllightner· Apr 6

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.

Jill Lightner@jilllightner· Mar 27

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

Jill Lightner@jilllightner· Mar 16

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

Jill Lightner@jilllightner· Mar 9

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

Jill Lightner@jilllightner· Feb 23

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

Jill Lightner@jilllightner· Feb 17

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!

Jill Lightner@jilllightner· Feb 12

Graffiti on a electric box on the side of a commercial building. It reads: Seattle cops will run you over and laugh

Jill Lightner@jilllightner· Feb 11

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

Jill Lightner@jilllightner· Feb 11

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

Jill Lightner@jilllightner· Jan 31

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?"

Jill Lightner@jilllightner· Jan 24

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

Jill Lightner@jilllightner· Jan 19

Seattle Times headline writer absolutely nailing priorities today

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

Jill Lightner@jilllightner· Jan 19

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.

Jill Lightner@jilllightner· Jan 18

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.

Jill Lightner@jilllightner· Jan 18

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.

Jill Lightner@jilllightner· Jan 1

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