Jill Lightner

@jilllightner.bsky.social

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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

An absolute mountain of dirt in the north parking lot of Lumen Field in Seattle
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
A USMNT fan wearing a flag cape and a furry eagle mask
Apartment balconies partly obscured by a maple tree. Behind the leaves, a few Progress Pride flags are flapping in a breeze.
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.
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
A glorious pan of crackle-top brownies still in the oven
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.
Fluffy Himalayan cat up on the second story of a screened cat patio, debating whether to go do a level.
An itty bitty gritty stuffie wearing a shirt that reads It took a lot of violence to become this soft
Screenshot from Seattle Times including the pull quote "It feels like a sort of Damocles just looming over us."
Oatmeal cookies on a baking tray with parchment
A gallery window with some colorful art chairs including an amazing curvy orange shrimp chair
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.
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
White haired white guy in a silver suit with sunglasses and a big-ass rhinestone brooch on his lapel
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
Gray and white tuxedo cat peeping at the photographer through a screened-in catio with white stairs in the background
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!
Graffiti on a electric box on the side of a commercial building. It reads: Seattle cops will run you over and laugh
White woman with white hair with her back to the camera. Her shirt has a Seahawks 12 below the words Fuck Ice
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
Fan in a Goldeneyes sweater holding a sign in rainbow text that says "PWHL where is your gender inclusion policy?"
Tabby cat in a sunbeam, lying on top of freshly printed papers explaining whistle code to keep each other safe from ICE
Screenshot of text reading "Is Costco open? What to know about Martin Luther King Jr. Day."
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.
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.
A lavender and yellow iris blooming under a lilac tree in January. Lots of long, straight iris leaves, too.
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!
Five spiral cookies decorated with candy eyes looking like snails and crustaceans
Sheet cake covered in grated black marzipan "dirt" and cocoa-dusted marzipan potatoes
Round, tan cookies with little blobs of cherry jam. Candy eyeballs are positioned so the jam becomes a bloody mouth on each cookie.
A round gold tin with a black wreath and the words 2025 Temple Pastries below a 3-eyed deer and the bakery's logo
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.
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
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.
Swan in a peaceful lake with her head and neck submerged completely
Sleeping cat with two fabric googly eyes dropped on his side.
A Katie Wilson versus Bruce Harrell campaign flyer that says "not paid for by either candidate". It calls Katie a loving mother and Bruce a grumpy grandpa.
A big outdoor pantry with labeled bins for all sorts of basic supplies people might need but not have money for. Some assorted charging cables are at the bottom, and paper zines and pamphlets are at the top.
Behold it is I, a turnip with an extremely simple and sloppy face lit with a candle like a jack o'lantern! Look on my works ye mighty and despair!
Itty Bitty Gritty stuffie wearing a white shirt that says It took a lot of violence to become this soft
Foo dog statue on a porch wearing a witch hat and a fake moustache
Screenshot of a text: While waiting for the light at Rainier, I handed 4 kids some meebles. One kid exclaimed "Oooo mine has the F-word!"
Wooden game pieces holding shrinky dink protest signs reading Land Back, Tyranny Fears The Free Press, Hands Off Our Media, Unite Against Fascism, What's More Punk Than the Public Library, Ask Me About the Guillotine, Proud Union Home, Resistance Melts ICE, Go Birds, Fuck ICE, Free Palestine and Protect Your Neighbors By Any Means Necessary
Screenshot of Bernice King requesting that people stop sending her AI videos of her father
Vintage cookbook titled Dishes Men Like with a grid of 15 gross food illustrations on a blue background
White woman with messy white hair holding an enormous limp cat upright. He's got his eyes closed.
Wooden game pieces holding protest signs made of shrinky dinks. One in front says "protect your neighbors by any means necessary"
Two slightly puffy tan bear cookies with swedish fish smooshed into their bellies.
...white socialist Norman Thomas founded the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union (STFU) in eastern Arkansas, which, within two years, had thirty-one thousand members across Texas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Tennessee. From the beginning, the union was interracial, and through strikes and massive demonstrations, it was able to pressure President Franklin Roosevelt to establish the Farm Security Administration in 1937, after he was re-elected for his second term. Yet this high-water mark of working-class solidarity wouldn't last for long. STFU membership declined by the 1940s...
A compostable paper box containing a raised donut with pink glaze and powdered sugar with a little cherry clafoutis hat in the middle.
Sheepish white lady with white hair wearing a black t-shirt that reads "I JUST HOPE ICE FUCKS OFF"
The Seattle skyline with the Space Needle flying a Pride flag on the left, and Mount Rainier on the right. Also on the right are beautiful white arches designed by Minoru Yamasaki in 1962. Everything else is either a lower brick condo building or a tall glass skyscraper on a gorgeously sunny day.
A box of Fisher original scone mix. It's the beloved state fair food for Washington.
Three dried tomatoes on a bamboo board, dried following an 1845 recipe called Tomato Figs
Wooden boardgame pieces called meeples carrying tiny protest signs. One reads "these marchers fight fascists" and the other reads "congress stop kissing the ring". They're tiny and cute as hell.
A black guillotine on white paper with No Kings above it
Itty Bitty Gritty with their arm around a Little Orphan Orange stuffy. If you didn't grow up with them, Little Orphan Orange is a long-ago character from Otter Pops frozen popsicle things.
Text is all caps in the original and reads: GO HOME YOU ARE THE MOST HATED AND FEARED PEOPLE ON EARTH ARE YOU PROUD OF THAT? THE USA IS A ROGUE COUNTRY WITH INSANE FASCIST RULERS NO COUNTRY WANTS YOU AS VISITORS OR INVADERS YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CRIMES OF YOUR GOVERNMENT THE TORTURE AND SLAUGHTER OF INNOCENTS AND THE RAPE OF THE WORLD IS ON YOUR HANDS SHAME ON YOU ALL BRING HOME ALL YOUR TROOPS/KILLERS FROM EVERYWHERE NOW GO FIX YOUR STINKING WRETCHED MESSED UP EXCUSE FOR A COUNTRY LEAVE THE WORLD ALONE AND FOR GOD'S SAKE..... STAY HOME!!!!!