iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 1h

I hope that at some point in your life, you experience music in a way that you lose yourself in completely, that makes the rest of the world disappear. If only for as long as the song.

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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 13h

Forget about drugs, keep your kids off of ChatGPT.

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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Kinda sad how every monkey book review is basically “An infinite number of me could have written this.”

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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

People at work are curious about what my hobbies are, so I want to make sure I’m spelling this correctly: catastrophizing?

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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Can’t decide if this is a good omen or a bad omen.

Albino squirrel drinking out of a puddle in a city street.

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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s never too late to become a problem child.

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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In the fall of my first year of college, I saw my two favorite bands play live for the first time — R.E.M. on the Document tour followed by U2 on The Joshua Tree tour. On consecutive nights. I don’t think I could have understood at that time just how gobsmackingly, impossibly unlikely that was.

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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There are many things about the realities and challenges that high schoolers have to navigate today that I’m forever grateful to have avoided through the sheer good fortune of being born in different times. Specifically, promposals.

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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The person who demonstrates their grasp of the obvious as though they’ve just split the atom.

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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Simple things done well beat complicated things done half-assed or on the cheap, every single time.

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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“Wisconsin girls Daisy's age are driving the farm truck to The Sportsman's Club and picking up their folks because Ron and Sheila got real tuned up at bingo night.” Have a chortle, courtesy of @randballsstu.bsky.social midwest-excellence.ghost.io/first-americ... randballsstu.bsky.social

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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

And that was the last time they let Thor play Whack-A-Mole at Chuck E. Cheese.

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mollypeonies @mollypeonies.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Is local media not picking up on this story--with the MPD documents right there in it--because it would poke holes in their own coverage of the Jan. 9th "clearing" operation? Or is it bc of their institutional relationships with MPD? Something else? I have some thoughts on this this below:

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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

As a rule, I don’t often think about economists. But I do think about this 1963 quote from economist John Kenneth Galbraith quite a lot: “The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”

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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“Write conversationally” is a useful maxim, especially after figuring out that “conversationally” means “Not the way *you* talk, Charles.”

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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Grateful for all of the things I’ve learned through the experience of being wrong, of making mistakes. Really wish my brain would cling with barnacle-like tenacity to the former and not the latter, but here we are.

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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

You know, the UN General Assembly hasn’t been the same without Muammar Gaddafi around to go on endless, rambling, incoherent verbal rampages that make people long for a cataclysmic event of some sort just to make it a stop.

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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

No visit to my personal museum is complete without a tour of the Maybe This Will Fix Me wing. It houses about 75% of the permanent collection, so you literally can’t miss it.

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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Being a writer involves learning about a large number and broad range of very specific things that give the decidedly false impression that I know a whole lot more about said things than I actually do.

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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The thing about logic and emotion is that they’re not on the same control panel. Heck, most of the time they’re not even on speaking terms.

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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I haven’t given up on my dreams. I’m just having a hard time remembering what they were, and the parts I do recall are all kinda weird.

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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In a culture that regularly equates wealth with virtue, it seems significant that artists are consistently expected to act with conscience — and excoriated for their failures to do so — to a degree that more powerful people with more leverage to make meaningful change are not.

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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It’s easier and more socially acceptable to be nice than it is to be honest. And like a lot of folks, I was raised to believe that the former was “polite.” In truth, it just made me and a lot of other people in my life miserable. The latter is a lot harder to do, but also a lot easier to live with.

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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is an awesome story and you should read it. You should also probably subscribe to @racketmn.com if you do not already do so.

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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I’m beginning to wonder if my misanthropy is simply blossoming into full flower with age, or if it’s just finally in emotional soil that allows it to flourish as it was always meant to. A bit of both, perhaps.

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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

One of my favorite things about living in Minneapolis is that I can just go straight from “Summer” to “Seasonal Affective Disorder.” One day it’s shorts and t-shirts, the next it’s sweaters and existential dread.

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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I try to pay just enough attention to men’s apparel trends to have a sense of just how far out of style I am. But it seems like it’s in to wear shirts as if your torso doesn’t exist, which is not really an option for me.

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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I don’t have a short, simple explanation for what’s kept me here far, far longer than I expected. I just have about a zillion moments like this.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We started a trade war with these people because the president, who has some sort of degenerative brain disease with visible bruises on his hand's injection site that the press doesn't talk about, was bored.

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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

There are days you can feel the whole world shifting under your feet as you pass through them, knowing that you’re exiting one reality and moving into another one, never to return. This was one of them.

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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

One of the most mind-blowing things you learn when you’re a writer is just how many people truly don’t understand how language works or what words mean.

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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Is it too late to point out that “What could possibly go wrong?” was supposed to be a rhetorical question?

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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The speaker at my @macalestercollege.bsky.social commencement was the CEO of Cargill. Not bitter. Not. At. All.

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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

As a reader, I no longer have the patience to slog my way through the sort of obtuse, clever, contrived language that I used to think was the hallmark of great writing. And I think that’s helping me become a better writer. I want to write what I’d find interesting enough to keep reading.

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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The best thing about working in an open office space is that you get to experience what high school would have been like if you had to do all of your homework in the cafeteria during lunch except it lasts all day.

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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If you ever need to out someone as a Minnesotan, make them say “cheese toast.”

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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Maybe it’s always been so and I’m just naive. But it still shocks me how completely we seem to have gone from “Every generation does better than the last” to “My life sucked so yours should, too.”

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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Enjoying a bourbon rocks after futzing with various bicycles in the garage while listening to the Allman Brothers Band’s “At Fillmore East,” and given when and where I grew up (70-80s, St. Louis), there’s a good chance I saw somebody doing that when I was a kid and thought “That guy’s got it made.”

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It would be nice if someone could explain this community note to him. Having a president with a basic understanding of how trade works doesn’t seem like a ton to ask. Meanwhile our farmers are getting crushed.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Again, I am just a man standing in front of the Democratic Party, begging them to make a bigger deal of this deeply unlikeable racist billionaire asshole who is constantly pushing things everyone loathes.

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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Nothing gets in the way of learning more than what we’re sure we already know.

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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Your honor, in my defense, I was fairly high at the time.

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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Nothing remotely interesting ever happens after the words “It’s official”

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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A couple years back, I listened to the audiobook of Robert Caro’s biography of Robert Moses, “The Power Broker.” Which has proven sadly useful in reckoning with the President’s wanton, reckless, shameless disregard for laws and court orders regarding the appropriation of public lands and buildings.

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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I started playing bass when I was in my early teens, and I used to divide music I’d hear into two categories: Music that makes me want to practice, and music that makes me want to quit. The latter being music that felt so technically advanced or complex that I felt like I’d never be able to play it.

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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Be kind, and be brave. Whenever you can. In whatever ways you’re able. That’s all.

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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I think my lizard brain probably wins a few arguments that it shouldn’t.

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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I haven’t gotten any less weird in the process of getting older. I just have more confidence in being the kind of weird I am and care a lot less about what other people think.

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