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
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If writing is so easy why do people argue that they can’t do it without the pablumatic verbiage extruder
And if it’s so difficult then why do people think it’s not labour and writers are not workers
And if it’s so difficult then why do people think it’s not labour and writers are not workers
November 27, 2025 at 4:10 AM
If writing is so easy why do people argue that they can’t do it without the pablumatic verbiage extruder
And if it’s so difficult then why do people think it’s not labour and writers are not workers
And if it’s so difficult then why do people think it’s not labour and writers are not workers
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Thanksgiving food prep is happening. First up, blueberry cornmeal shortbread tart!
cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1020...
cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1020...
Blueberry Cornmeal Shortbread Tart (Published 2019)
cooking.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Thanksgiving food prep is happening. First up, blueberry cornmeal shortbread tart!
cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1020...
cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1020...
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I would also like stores to have and advertise their Christmas music-free hours during the holidays. Like maybe before 11am or something. Sometimes you just need to be able to avoid it.
November 26, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I would also like stores to have and advertise their Christmas music-free hours during the holidays. Like maybe before 11am or something. Sometimes you just need to be able to avoid it.
Now whenever @theferocity.bsky.social talks about turkeys I am just going to see this gorgeousity in my mind
I love this photo of a male ocellated turkey (Meleagris ocellata) by Charles J. Sharp because it looks like it's mid-ballet. The 'danseur noble' takes the stage.
'Ocellated' is from Latin 'ocellus' meaning "little eye", referring to the eye-like spots on the tail feathers...
(📷: Charles J. Sharp)
'Ocellated' is from Latin 'ocellus' meaning "little eye", referring to the eye-like spots on the tail feathers...
(📷: Charles J. Sharp)
November 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Now whenever @theferocity.bsky.social talks about turkeys I am just going to see this gorgeousity in my mind
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
We have started Ken Burns’ The American Revolution on PBS. I really like how they are presenting the formation of an American identity at that time, and the multiplicity of voices. I wish we had learned about the revolution like this in school.
November 26, 2025 at 2:24 AM
We have started Ken Burns’ The American Revolution on PBS. I really like how they are presenting the formation of an American identity at that time, and the multiplicity of voices. I wish we had learned about the revolution like this in school.
I am trying a new ganache recipe with cashew cream instead of coconut milk. I just chucked 1 cup of water and 1 cup of nuts in the Vitamix and blended it for 1 minutes to make the cream. It tasted great in the ganache. Will report back once it firms up and I roll it in the toasted coconut.
November 26, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I am trying a new ganache recipe with cashew cream instead of coconut milk. I just chucked 1 cup of water and 1 cup of nuts in the Vitamix and blended it for 1 minutes to make the cream. It tasted great in the ganache. Will report back once it firms up and I roll it in the toasted coconut.
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Soon it will be time to make pie crust. But I am going to say this as someone who has been making pie crust since I was 11 years old. If you do not have the gift or the desire to make pie crust, buy the pie crust. Seriously. Buy it. It will be okay.
November 25, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Soon it will be time to make pie crust. But I am going to say this as someone who has been making pie crust since I was 11 years old. If you do not have the gift or the desire to make pie crust, buy the pie crust. Seriously. Buy it. It will be okay.
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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Weddell seal pups can be curious if you’re sitting next to them quietly. Here, we were collecting a scat sample and the little one leaned a bit closer to see what I was doing.
Permit # ACA 2025-010, AMLR LARUE2025
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Permit # ACA 2025-010, AMLR LARUE2025
🧪🌎🦑🦊
November 25, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Weddell seal pups can be curious if you’re sitting next to them quietly. Here, we were collecting a scat sample and the little one leaned a bit closer to see what I was doing.
Permit # ACA 2025-010, AMLR LARUE2025
🧪🌎🦑🦊
Permit # ACA 2025-010, AMLR LARUE2025
🧪🌎🦑🦊
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This was very interesting to me! especially because we basically have a Frankfurt kitchen in our apartment www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Why Your Kitchen Looks Like That (Gift Article)
A century of American kitchen design, from the dawn of electricity to the kitchen island.
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:57 PM
This was very interesting to me! especially because we basically have a Frankfurt kitchen in our apartment www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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What boils my blood is when people in other creative areas do it and brag about it.
For example: YouTube creators talking about pirating a novel or game book when they themselves rely ad revenue and Patreon themselves for income. That’s some “crabs in a bucket” shit right there.
For example: YouTube creators talking about pirating a novel or game book when they themselves rely ad revenue and Patreon themselves for income. That’s some “crabs in a bucket” shit right there.
November 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
What boils my blood is when people in other creative areas do it and brag about it.
For example: YouTube creators talking about pirating a novel or game book when they themselves rely ad revenue and Patreon themselves for income. That’s some “crabs in a bucket” shit right there.
For example: YouTube creators talking about pirating a novel or game book when they themselves rely ad revenue and Patreon themselves for income. That’s some “crabs in a bucket” shit right there.
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On tour, my event rider is literally one thing: no Ryanair, ever.
Ryanair expects me to take the financial hit for helping others
Ryanair expects me to take the financial hit for helping others
As a doctor I stepped in to tend to an elderly passenger … but it won’t waive £100 transfer fee to rebook
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:30 PM
On tour, my event rider is literally one thing: no Ryanair, ever.
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Incidentally, theft like this is why there won’t be a second Steelflower trilogy, why the Bannon & Clare series was canceled by the publisher, and why I will never do another collected SquirrelTerror book.
I did a thread a few weeks ago of "authors link your stuff" & one of my author friends who is one emergency away from being homeless had a massive spike in downloads on Anna's Archive from people *who follow me* complaining about how they are poor & should be allowed to steal from other poor people
November 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Incidentally, theft like this is why there won’t be a second Steelflower trilogy, why the Bannon & Clare series was canceled by the publisher, and why I will never do another collected SquirrelTerror book.
This was very interesting to me! especially because we basically have a Frankfurt kitchen in our apartment www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Why Your Kitchen Looks Like That (Gift Article)
A century of American kitchen design, from the dawn of electricity to the kitchen island.
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:57 PM
This was very interesting to me! especially because we basically have a Frankfurt kitchen in our apartment www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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If you would like to read my work but cannot afford to buy it or lack access to library resources for whatever reason, you can ask me for a copy. I'm pretty chill.
If you are a pirate as a personality trait, or because nobody's going to tell you what to do or whatever, I'm disappointed in you.
If you are a pirate as a personality trait, or because nobody's going to tell you what to do or whatever, I'm disappointed in you.
November 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
If you would like to read my work but cannot afford to buy it or lack access to library resources for whatever reason, you can ask me for a copy. I'm pretty chill.
If you are a pirate as a personality trait, or because nobody's going to tell you what to do or whatever, I'm disappointed in you.
If you are a pirate as a personality trait, or because nobody's going to tell you what to do or whatever, I'm disappointed in you.
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Someone bought a bunch of the turkeys and hams at our local grocery in town and told the manager to make them available for free to folks that need them. There’s a whole freezer case with a sign on it that just says “If you need one take one, if you don’t then leave it for someone else.”
November 24, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Someone bought a bunch of the turkeys and hams at our local grocery in town and told the manager to make them available for free to folks that need them. There’s a whole freezer case with a sign on it that just says “If you need one take one, if you don’t then leave it for someone else.”
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Actually in the spirit of this conversation, what’s a decision you made about a past Thanksgiving holiday that really paid off? I think people often feel trapped by their lives. Sharing our experiences can liberate us from that sense of claustrophobia.
On the most recent episode of VIBE CHECK, we answer listener questions about Thanksgiving, most importantly “do you go celebrate with the family members you don’t even like?”
Do You Taste the Love?
Podcast Episode · Vibe Check · 11/21/2025 · 40m
podcasts.apple.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Actually in the spirit of this conversation, what’s a decision you made about a past Thanksgiving holiday that really paid off? I think people often feel trapped by their lives. Sharing our experiences can liberate us from that sense of claustrophobia.
Ah Oatly has a “cream” so the next time I’m at the store I will get some to try
@leighharlen.bsky.social I got Lagusta’s cookbook! Have you ever tried making the truffles? I am curious because they call for coconut milk and I just … don’t like it as a replacement for dairy/cream because it tastes like coconut. Unless there’s a coconut milk that doesn’t taste like coconut?
November 24, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Ah Oatly has a “cream” so the next time I’m at the store I will get some to try
I like knowing that I have new followers. I don’t like the giant FOLLOW BACK button in the UI. meh.
November 24, 2025 at 12:06 AM
I like knowing that I have new followers. I don’t like the giant FOLLOW BACK button in the UI. meh.
@leighharlen.bsky.social I got Lagusta’s cookbook! Have you ever tried making the truffles? I am curious because they call for coconut milk and I just … don’t like it as a replacement for dairy/cream because it tastes like coconut. Unless there’s a coconut milk that doesn’t taste like coconut?
November 24, 2025 at 12:05 AM
@leighharlen.bsky.social I got Lagusta’s cookbook! Have you ever tried making the truffles? I am curious because they call for coconut milk and I just … don’t like it as a replacement for dairy/cream because it tastes like coconut. Unless there’s a coconut milk that doesn’t taste like coconut?
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Falcon hovering over Whidbey Island, Ebey's trail.
November 23, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Falcon hovering over Whidbey Island, Ebey's trail.
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reposting this because this is what saved my life post-covid.
We've enrolled more than 700 participants (of 1,000 planned) in 3 weeks to a randomized trial for treatment of #LongCovid
Founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, @erictopol.bsky.social, and Julia Moore Vogel, co–principal investigator of the Long COVID Treatment Trial, were featured in @wired.com, sharing insights on a nationwide study testing GLP-1s for long COVID.
November 23, 2025 at 11:46 PM
reposting this because this is what saved my life post-covid.
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Sorry to everyone who thinks there should be fewer romances involving grief, but we all just lived through a mass death/disabling historical event with absolutely zero public rhetoric about it (or the fact that it’s ongoing) and grief romances is one big way we’re all Working That Out
November 24, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Sorry to everyone who thinks there should be fewer romances involving grief, but we all just lived through a mass death/disabling historical event with absolutely zero public rhetoric about it (or the fact that it’s ongoing) and grief romances is one big way we’re all Working That Out