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jabberwoCKY

@ckyonwords.bsky.social
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Copywriter + Creative Director. From St. Louis, now in Minneapolis. Domestically supplied infant. Deeply flawed biped. Aspiring human. Probably doing a bit. he/him/his Portfolio: charleskyouel.com

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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 17m
If you wanted to build a system that actively works to enable worst-case scenarios instead of preventing them, it’d look an awful lot like the one we’ve got. That this is currently true of multiple systems is a real knee-slapper.
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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 19h
My superpower is turning what should be a simple “I don’t know” into a ten-minute rambling monologue about what I DO know, which may or may not be tangentially related to I’m sorry what was the question?
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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Some days, loss is measured in the conversations you can no longer have.
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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
There seem to be a whole lot of folks who are still listening to the version of our cultural ideology that was recorded in mono. I’d say that they have no idea what they’re missing, but it’s nothing they have ears to ear.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Yes, yes, the authoritarian president is leading a hate-filled rally in which he urges his followers to physically assault protesters but do NOT call any of these people Nazis or you will make David Brooks sad.
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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Doing my best to savor and enjoy this unexpected return to schadenfreude season temperatures without being all insufferable about it. Probably failing.
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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It must be awesome to be someone who doesn’t read, listen, take notes, or pay attention at work because every day brings something surprising and new.
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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
There’s the first draft. And then there’s the first draft you like enough to let someone else see.
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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The best ideas stand out because they create tension that engages people’s minds. That tension can be uncomfortable because it’s unfamiliar, and initially we don’t know what to do with it. It literally asks us to change our minds, and that’s a scary thing to do.
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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Mediocrity persists because it doesn’t stand out. It’s neither impressive nor offensive. It’s comfortable because it doesn’t ask anything of its audience. No question to wrestle with, no problem to solve, no revelation to process. It just is.
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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
These are the crowds who cheered the idea of Iran destroying cities in California last night, just as they cheered ICE invasions of L.A., Chicago, Minneapolis and other places, along with the violence, suffering and death they brought to innocent people. What common cause am I to make with them?
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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
There is a segment of our population enthralled with harassing, persecuting and brutalizing people they don’t like. Human beings who differ from them in various ways they find intolerable. They are single-issue voters supporting whoever promises to deliver the vengeance they believe they deserve.
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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
16 year old me would not believe who I am today. Or the path I took to becoming that person. Which is kind of the point, I guess.
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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Experience is only the best teacher if you make a point of learning something from it.
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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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 · 02/10/2026
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
Dammit, baseball.
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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“This outfit isn’t doing it for me, and it won’t do it for you, either.”
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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 · 26/09/2026
Rodents of unusual size? I don’t believe they exist.
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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
This precisely.
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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Two things I try to ask myself before buying clothing online: 1. Do you already own this, or something just like it? 2. Is this useful in the life you have, or a life that you want to imagine you will have at some unspecified point in the future?
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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I used to wait a solid one-one-thousand-two-one-thousand after a light changed before biking through intersections to make sure no one was going to blow through the red. Now, it’s closer to six. Just nuts.
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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
My plan to slowly but surely adjust to the Minnesota climate is entering its fourth decade, and…well, I’m still here. Steady on.
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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I appreciate the call to meaningful investment and fiscal prudence, but the failure to address Macalester’s gargantuan defense budget undercuts the argument.
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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Is it a Vintage bitch hat, or a Vintage Bitch hat?
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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 · 20/09/2026
Relatable.
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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
Let’s just say that if the FBI announces that they’re hiring former British PM David Cameron, all of this will make a lot more sense.
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jabberwoCKY @ckyonwords.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
You’re welcome, Em. A lot of familiar experiences and emotions re: my own mountain biking (mis)adventures. As Mark Twain put it, “Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.”
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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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