Jill S
@outseide.bsky.social
Tea drinker, Seattleite, queer femme, erstwhile writer, dilettante, librarian, birder, renter, traveler. If you reply-guy me, I will block you. Pronouns: she/her
www.slowbloom.com/blog
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It’s Monday, it’s the first of December, it’s fucking cold (by my standards), my pool is closed all month. The sun still hasn’t come up. But hey it’s the beginning of Cookie Week (NYT) and I have the Bonne Maman jam advent calendar.
December 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
It’s Monday, it’s the first of December, it’s fucking cold (by my standards), my pool is closed all month. The sun still hasn’t come up. But hey it’s the beginning of Cookie Week (NYT) and I have the Bonne Maman jam advent calendar.
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For anyone who doesn't know, go to Settings, Accessibility, then switch on the alt text requirement. If I remember right, you have to do it on the web and the app, separately.
Darlings, please remember your alt text! Turn on the setting so you can't post images without it. (It's how I got into the habit.)
It takes an extra 20 seconds to be inclusive. Do the thing.
It takes an extra 20 seconds to be inclusive. Do the thing.
December 1, 2025 at 2:53 PM
For anyone who doesn't know, go to Settings, Accessibility, then switch on the alt text requirement. If I remember right, you have to do it on the web and the app, separately.
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Almost 13 months after I last worked, here's a follow-up to the story in my pinned post.
This is me begging for my life as I prepare to return to work for a New York Times-owned company.
CW: suicidal ideation.
Protect trans lives.
www.carlyjdubois.com/if-you-work-...
This is me begging for my life as I prepare to return to work for a New York Times-owned company.
CW: suicidal ideation.
Protect trans lives.
www.carlyjdubois.com/if-you-work-...
December 1, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Almost 13 months after I last worked, here's a follow-up to the story in my pinned post.
This is me begging for my life as I prepare to return to work for a New York Times-owned company.
CW: suicidal ideation.
Protect trans lives.
www.carlyjdubois.com/if-you-work-...
This is me begging for my life as I prepare to return to work for a New York Times-owned company.
CW: suicidal ideation.
Protect trans lives.
www.carlyjdubois.com/if-you-work-...
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With Heated Rivalry popping up all over my socials, I guess now is a good time to remind y'all that I have a whole series of m/m (and in one case, m/m/m) hockey romance out there 🧵
December 1, 2025 at 2:29 PM
With Heated Rivalry popping up all over my socials, I guess now is a good time to remind y'all that I have a whole series of m/m (and in one case, m/m/m) hockey romance out there 🧵
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Hey, fellow Canadians and other cold climate residents, I have a question.
What do you to get fresh air in your apartment or house when it's this cold?
What do you to get fresh air in your apartment or house when it's this cold?
December 1, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Hey, fellow Canadians and other cold climate residents, I have a question.
What do you to get fresh air in your apartment or house when it's this cold?
What do you to get fresh air in your apartment or house when it's this cold?
Tonight’s movie: The Sting with Robert Redford and Paul Newman
December 1, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Tonight’s movie: The Sting with Robert Redford and Paul Newman
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So my book about Howard Zinn’s outsized life comes out August 2026. That’s now official. If you want me to come to your bookstore/library/community center/house party to talk about Zinn’s life and and what teaches us about how to beat back the bastards, please email [email protected]
November 30, 2025 at 10:56 PM
So my book about Howard Zinn’s outsized life comes out August 2026. That’s now official. If you want me to come to your bookstore/library/community center/house party to talk about Zinn’s life and and what teaches us about how to beat back the bastards, please email [email protected]
Today is FINALLY rugelach day! And many mouths rejoiced! #cookieparty
I will make rugelach at some point, although I am not bringing them to the cookie exchange lol smittenkitchen.com/2015/12/pull...
These are great because you can stop at so many places, take a break, and come back. once the cookie is assembled you can freeze the unbaked dough and then bake later.
These are great because you can stop at so many places, take a break, and come back. once the cookie is assembled you can freeze the unbaked dough and then bake later.
unfussy rugelach
Rugelach are blissful flaky pastry-like cookies wound with jam, nuts, and chocolate if you wish and a whiff of cinnamon sugar.
smittenkitchen.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Today is FINALLY rugelach day! And many mouths rejoiced! #cookieparty
I was doing a dance move I call “the seaweed” but it also reminded me of those inflatable things that flap around and I thought … I think @99pi.org did an episode on that and they DID 99percentinvisible.org/episode/infl...
Inflatable Men - 99% Invisible
You see them on street corners, at gas stations, at shopping malls. You see them at blowout sales and grand openings of all kinds. Their wacky faces hover over us, and then fall down to meet us, and t...
99percentinvisible.org
December 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I was doing a dance move I call “the seaweed” but it also reminded me of those inflatable things that flap around and I thought … I think @99pi.org did an episode on that and they DID 99percentinvisible.org/episode/infl...
Who else is excited for COOKIE WEEK? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/d...
#cookieparty @eileen4ever.bsky.social
#cookieparty @eileen4ever.bsky.social
’Twas Two Nights Before Cookie Week
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Who else is excited for COOKIE WEEK? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/d...
#cookieparty @eileen4ever.bsky.social
#cookieparty @eileen4ever.bsky.social
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Best audiobook to help you cope with an impossibly awful reality and terrible people? I’d prefer to listen instead of reading and would like to hear a pleasant voice.
November 30, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Best audiobook to help you cope with an impossibly awful reality and terrible people? I’d prefer to listen instead of reading and would like to hear a pleasant voice.
@profanity.accountant do your fucking worst
November 30, 2025 at 5:10 AM
@profanity.accountant do your fucking worst
Fuck off with this purity and homophobic bullshit
but this? shut the fuck up. guess what, my man, gorgeous young 22 year olds like to fuck. And queer people deserve love stories that are sexy and horny. a "chaste kiss" please be for real.
November 30, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Fuck off with this purity and homophobic bullshit
Tonight’s movie: Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani in The Lovebirds. I’ve definitely laughed, so good job romcom!
November 30, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Tonight’s movie: Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani in The Lovebirds. I’ve definitely laughed, so good job romcom!
Today I figured out Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn are two different people
November 29, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Today I figured out Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn are two different people
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Love how the New Yorker is positing that “cancel culture” means people can resubscribe to whatever got canceled after the requisite amount of time. Now with added UMLAUTS.
November 29, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Love how the New Yorker is positing that “cancel culture” means people can resubscribe to whatever got canceled after the requisite amount of time. Now with added UMLAUTS.
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In fairness the umlauts are not new to the New Yorker.
The rest is bullshit.
The rest is bullshit.
November 29, 2025 at 7:31 PM
In fairness the umlauts are not new to the New Yorker.
The rest is bullshit.
The rest is bullshit.
Love how the New Yorker is positing that “cancel culture” means people can resubscribe to whatever got canceled after the requisite amount of time. Now with added UMLAUTS.
November 29, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Love how the New Yorker is positing that “cancel culture” means people can resubscribe to whatever got canceled after the requisite amount of time. Now with added UMLAUTS.
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It's the umlaut. The nonsense is gobsmacking, the servility pathetic, but the shit cherry on top of this shit cake is, undoubtedly that twee little grab for space on the faux intellectual high ground.
What absolute--and I can't stress this strongly enough--wankers.
What absolute--and I can't stress this strongly enough--wankers.
When a cancelled performer reënters the culture, we expect them to offer us a great work, channelling their newfound clarity into the finest art they’ve ever made. With his new comedy show and début novel, has Louis C.K. met the bar?
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
Louis C.K.’s Next Chapter
In a new standup special, and a début novel, the comedian navigates murky, post-#MeToo terrain: not quite exiled, not quite welcomed back.
www.newyorker.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:20 PM
It's the umlaut. The nonsense is gobsmacking, the servility pathetic, but the shit cherry on top of this shit cake is, undoubtedly that twee little grab for space on the faux intellectual high ground.
What absolute--and I can't stress this strongly enough--wankers.
What absolute--and I can't stress this strongly enough--wankers.
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You're supposed to be shopping the Threadless BFCM sale for $10 mugs and $12 tees!
effinbirds.threadless.com
effinbirds.threadless.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:43 PM
You're supposed to be shopping the Threadless BFCM sale for $10 mugs and $12 tees!
effinbirds.threadless.com
effinbirds.threadless.com
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It’s a beautiful day here. I looked down and felt like I was looking up! #reflections #wawx
November 28, 2025 at 6:35 PM
It’s a beautiful day here. I looked down and felt like I was looking up! #reflections #wawx
Got a recommendation to check out the show Human Footprint on PBS. The first episode features a woman who hunts Burmese pythons in Florida. She’s captured more than 600!!
November 29, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Got a recommendation to check out the show Human Footprint on PBS. The first episode features a woman who hunts Burmese pythons in Florida. She’s captured more than 600!!
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Calendula, with water droplets.
November 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Calendula, with water droplets.
It’s a beautiful day here. I looked down and felt like I was looking up! #reflections #wawx
November 28, 2025 at 6:35 PM
It’s a beautiful day here. I looked down and felt like I was looking up! #reflections #wawx
According to King County Metro there is a tree lighting AND fireworks event tonight downtown. FIREWORKS? Is this new? Am I just *that* out of it? Either way I do not plan on being downtown for these shenanigans.
November 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
According to King County Metro there is a tree lighting AND fireworks event tonight downtown. FIREWORKS? Is this new? Am I just *that* out of it? Either way I do not plan on being downtown for these shenanigans.