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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 01/10/2026

You may want to sit down for this lol...

REPORT: Mike Tomlin says he banned Antonio Brown from his Minecraft server after he used TNT to bomb a hospital.

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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 30/09/2026

This book is so dope. Might I recommend:

Pattern and Paradox: The Quilts of Amish Women, with a cover showing a semi-geometric crazy quilt

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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 30/09/2026

Ken Griffin just donated $3 billion to CMU. His past largesse to Dems included the largest single contribution to Rahm Emanuel's mayoral bid. He was also a big DeSantis guy.

A graph showing that Ken Griffin has donated 100% to Republicans since 2010.

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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 21/09/2026

All that said I've gotten two Fulbright Germany grants and both have filled up my brain. Prost!

Me giving the thumbs up by a neon Fulbright Germany sign

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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 11/09/2026

I'm missing Gregor's golden birthday today because I'm in Berlin. Happy 11th to my little man!

Simply the handsomest brown and white tabby looking casual with his big eyes and one shoulder over the edge of his little hammock

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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 08/09/2026

I've been tracking how many water bottles the Elkay EZH2O fountain outside my classroom is saving and it looks like about 450 a week. Adding to my delight here is the vast world of Elkay water fountain memes.

A meme plotting Elkay water fountains on a political spectrum, with the EZH20 libertarian left, the EZS8L libertarian right, the curved-front one authoritarian right and the "brutalist" LMABF8 labeled authoritarian left.

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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 04/09/2026

Can yinz go dahnna store 'n get me a hoagie n'at

A dialect map that says I sound like I'm from Pittsburgh, DC or Baltimore

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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 28/08/2026

We're going through the @pghcitypaper.com archives and wowza. You sweet summer children

A 2008 City Paper article with the dek Just in time for the holiday season, Barack Obama's election could take us past years of political fear-mongering and divisiveness. Lol, lmao

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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 19/08/2026

One thing I did not get to touch on in this piece is that Hamilton Stadium has a whole room just for popcorn.

A sign reading Popcorn Room/Stockage Maïs Soufflé 3E-406

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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 16/08/2026

Are people from Smooth Town called Smoothies?

A place in Ontario literally called Smooth Town

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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 11/08/2026

I fear this goes beyond toenail fungus for me...

A green burial thingy that looks like a lush garden inside some sort of iron-lung bank vault

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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 11/08/2026

Lots of this stuff, too. Am I secretly dying and the internet knows it first? Am I already AARP eligible?

An add about low vitamin B (the real enemy) giving you gout or something and a weird AI belly drawing about "empty[ing] your bowels like clockwork"

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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 06/08/2026

Wow. Some Pittsburgh schools' vaccination rates are quite low!

Allegheny Harvest Baptist Academy Kindergarten 24 66.7% 45.8% 41.7% 62.5% 4.2% 41.7% 4.2% 50.0% 0.0% 4.2% 0.0% 0.0%
Allegheny Penn Woods Classical Academy Kindergarten 20 65.0% 65.0% 60.0% 60.0% 0.0% 60.0% 0.0% 40.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Allegheny Neighborhood Academy 7th Grade 29 62.1% 62.1% 62.1% 62.1% 0.0% 65.5% 62.1% 62.1% 0.0% 10.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 27.6%
Allegheny Edgewood El STEAM Academy Kindergarten 82 65.9% 65.9% 65.9% 65.9% 0.0% 65.9% 0.0% 0.0% 22.0% 0.0% 0.0% 12.2%
Allegheny South Hills Catholic Academy Kindergarten 51 74.5% 66.7% 66.7% 74.5% 0.0% 64.7% 0.0% 7.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 29.4%
Allegheny Penn Hills El Sch Kindergarten 223 66.8% 68.6% 67.7% 72.2% 0.0% 66.4% 0.0% 2.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 42.2%
Allegheny The New Academy CS 12th Grade 26 73.1% 73.1% 69.2% 73.1% 0.0% 73.1% 69.2% 7.7% 30.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 61.5%
Allegheny Pittsburgh Sunnyside K-8 Kindergarten 35 71.4% 71.4% 71.4% 97.1% 0.0% 68.6% 2.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 28.6%
Allegheny Logan El Sch Kindergarten 104 73.1% 71.2% 72.1% 81.7% 0.0% 73.1% 0.0% 0.0% 3.8% 19.2% 0.0% 14.4%
Allegheny Pittsburgh Arlington K-8 7th Grade 36 72.2% 72.2% 72.2% 72.2%

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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 05/08/2026

Gotten some good early feedback on TVAM! Snag a copy over at bottlecap.press if you haven't yet 😊

The tender violence of an American man by Colin Williams, a poetry chapbook with a black-and-white photo of a barrack-like house with a small silhouette smoking on the stoop

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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 30/07/2026

I know all politics is national etc. but c'mon

A graph of Fetterman donations:
In-State
$423,029
22.82%
Out-of-State
$1,430,702
77.18%
Undisclosed
$75
0.00%

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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 29/07/2026

Of course it started as his dad's lol

An alien frat bro saying my dad owns a dealership!

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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 27/07/2026

Unfortunately, Gregor is not one of these cats

An extremely handsome brown and white tabby cat with a lil lighning bolt charm on his collar

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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 10/07/2026

Very stoked to discover this morning that I won an AAN award for Arts Feature – Shorter Form for covering @jenntaiga.bsky.social's 2025 release Sanguine Descent!!!