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Colin Williams

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Pittsburgh 🤘🏻 Nazis bad, metal good Once and future City Paper editor 🖤 colinbwilliams.com Tips colin@pghcitypaper.com or Signal @wimbles.70

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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 2h
You know what? Good for them.
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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 3h
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 · 3h
This book actually did teach me mortality 😭 Nice piece from Short Reads today
short-reads.org
Charlotte’s Web Revisited
by ​​​Ira Sukrungruang | This lovely world, these precious days.
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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 3h
He owns a hedge fund with the predictable name of Citadel LLC.
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James Santelli @santelli.bsky.social · 4h
juxtaposition on @wesa.fm
WESA headline that reads: "Hedge fund CEO Ken Griffin gives record $3B to Carnegie Mellon to build Miami campus" next to "Pittsburgh Controller urges caution, slowed funding for housing and anti-violence programs in 2027"
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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 8h
The actual news is a step in the right direction but my gawd people
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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 8h
If you spell Pittsburgh without an H in your press release, I am likely not going to respond/attend.
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autumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just talk to another human already jesus fucking christ
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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 9h
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 · 21h
America dot gov
Has there ever been an interruption of the peaceful transfer of power between U.S. Presidents?
I'll look up official records on presidential transitions and whether any transfer of power was interrupted.

Yes, in one documented sense: the joint session of Congress that counts electoral votes was interrupted on January 6, 2021, then resumed the same day.
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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 21h
I can't stop listening to this insane PEB record after seeing them in Berlin the weekend before last. FFO Death Grips, Dälek, The Knife:
edelfaulrecordings.bandcamp.com
PYRN, by PΞB
from the album IAMCHAINSAW
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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 29/09/2026
INBOX: A bipartisan 115-88 Pa. House has voted to open primaries in the commonwealth to independent voters, in part citing a disproportionate number of I-registered veterans. Polls show 75% of Pennsylvanians support the move.
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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 29/09/2026
Student journalists are eating the MSM's lunch and are doing it largely unpaid.
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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 29/09/2026
Congratulations at least!
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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 29/09/2026
A better world is possible, and in it there are fewer layers of revolving-door admin positions at every university.
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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 29/09/2026
Won't someone think of the poor hospitals?
publicsource.org
UPMC’s profits return and executive pay increases as expansion efforts continue
According to UPMC’s latest tax filings, the nonprofit showed a profit of more than $380 million during the last fiscal year.
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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 29/09/2026
Can't really react to this comment without more specifics, but I'll note this is all coming during a pretty tense contract negotiation period with the unions.
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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 29/09/2026
Pitt just started a $3 billion fundraising campaign while telling Dietrich School people they cut 23 staff and might be combining departments, cutting courses, and raising the minimum class size. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm
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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 29/09/2026
Missouri is the explanation
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kyle @kylebutoverhere.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Every day I pick up my phone to see if any of my friends have made funny little jokes online and instead I have to read about how stupid the worst people in the world are all day long
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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 29/09/2026
Triclavianism but for the butt
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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 29/09/2026
Guys...
A Pentecostal Temple Church Pittsburgh sign reading You can't enter heaven unless Jesus enters you lmao
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Pittsburgh City Paper @pghcitypaper.com · 29/09/2026
In some ways, there are silver linings to what's happening with public transportation in the Steel City...
pghcitypaper.com
Transit Talk: Pittsburgh is not Berlin
In some ways, that's a bummer, but there are silver linings to what's happening in the Steel City.
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Andrew Schreck @andrewschreck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i don't think cis guys realize how much power they can shift in a conversation just by casually telling their friends
"that's fucked up, man" when someone says something
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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 28/09/2026
Sounds like it's time to retire, Chuck!
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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 28/09/2026
INBOX: Allegheny County's board of health has unanimously passed the revised paid 12-week parental leave bill. The bill now heads to county council for a final vote.
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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 28/09/2026
static.klipy.com
Joe Biden: C'mon, Man!
Alt: Joe Biden: C'mon, Man!
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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ireland's artist basic income returned €1.39 for every €1 spent. They made it permanent. South Korea just announced plans to follow. Now Scotland too.
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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 26/09/2026
Just saw this news. Bummer. Without more blogs like this to replace NH, Revolver, whatever else, I worry kids are just gonna belly up to the algorithm trough.
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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 25/09/2026
Please support the Evanses, a wonderful family who deserved less than none of this.
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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 25/09/2026
Log off, touch grass, etc.
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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 25/09/2026
Correction: he doesn't think anything at all
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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 25/09/2026
Can we not?
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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 25/09/2026
I played this album for my frogs and they all turned gay
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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 25/09/2026
I have many frustrations with These Times, but the supreme tastelessness of it all is fairly high on the list
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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 25/09/2026
I have many frustrations with These Times, but the supreme tastelessness of it all is fairly high on the list
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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 25/09/2026
I just saw one of these yesterday. The wheels look ridiculously large for how small the cars are.
triblive.com
Golden Tesla ‘cybercabs’ appear in Pittsburgh
Tesla’s robotaxis — golden coupes dubbed “cybercabs” — have emerged on Pittsburgh-area roadways in recent weeks, though they can’t yet be hailed for service. The dr...
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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 25/09/2026
Ahem
rattle.com
On Rereading Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus in the Age of Generative AI by Maryann Corbett - Rattle: Poetry
Simple enough: the man wants what he wants.
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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 25/09/2026
Ich war ganz ehrlich verblüfft, dass sie bei meinem letzen Besuch schon bei 4€ waren. Nachhaltig ist das nicht
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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 25/09/2026
OCTOBER BASEBALL IN CLEVELAND BABYYYYYY
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
War powers resolution fails. 49-50. All three of these vulnerable GOPers vote NO: Dan Sullivan Roger Marshall Jon Husted John Cornyn and Mitch McConnell both voted no, too. And John Fetterman.
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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 24/09/2026
If it's busted, maybe leave it outside the can for scrappers. If not, Goodwill or another thrift store...?
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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 24/09/2026
I also use the sheets! They work great! Yeah recycling is basically a plastics industry psyop, but I insist on doing it correctly anyway in hopes of some sort of karmic payoff.
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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 24/09/2026
Finally getting over the WBC six months later I see
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Pittsburgh City Paper @pghcitypaper.com · 24/09/2026
Deesha Philyaw, author of the acclaimed short story collection "The Secret Lives of Church Ladies", follows the wife of a megachurch pastor in her novel The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman:
pghcitypaper.com
Deesha Philyaw returns to church ladies with The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman
Deesha Philyaw, author of the acclaimed short story collection The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, follows the wife of a megachurch pastor in her novel The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman.
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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 24/09/2026
My issue isn't bagging the whole thing, it's people tossing dirty clamshells, pizza boxes, Giant Eagle bags, Saran wrap etc. into the recycling. None of that is recyclable as such.
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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 24/09/2026
I know this doesn't matter in the scheme of things, but it drives me NUTS how many people think you can toss plastic bags and shrink wrap into the recycling.
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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
LOL - dashare.zone ADMIN
A SKELATEN IN GROCEY STORE "LOL IF YOUR USING TWITTER IN 2026, IF I WANTED TO BEYELLED AT BY A BOT I WOULD MOVE ITEMS TO THE BAGGING AREA WITHOUT SCANNING THEM " DONT KNOW IF YOU SAW IT LATELY BUT ITS SOMEHOW EVEN WORSE THAN IT WAS IN 2025, AND THAT WAS WORSE THEN 2024, AND THAT WAS WORSE THEN 2023, ETC, BY THE TIME THE SHIT GOT SOLD TO ELLON IT WAS ALREADY ALMOST DEAD, THE LAST HANDFUL OF HUMAN USERS WANDERING IN ALGORITHM HELL WHILE BOTS RESPONT TO THEM IN GPT SPEAK, THE AGING SNARKY COMMENTERS REFUSING TO MOVE TO BSKY OR THREADS BECAUSE THE PEOPLE ONE NOTCH DUMMER THEN THEM ARE STILL ON TWITTER AND THEY HAVE TO DUNK THEM BECAUSE WITHOUT THAT THEY HAVE NOTHING TO SAY AND NO WAY TO PROVE THERE SELF WORTH, AND THE PEPE NAZI'S FEEL EMBOLDENED TO START NEW SLURS AND SMACK THEM SELF IN THE FACE WITH OBJECTS TO INCREASE THEIR JAW LINE, BUT EVEN THEY DONT LIKE IT BECAUSE "THE LIBS" ARE NO LONGER THERE TO GET MAD AT THEM, AN APP FOR NO ONE WITH A SOUL, OWNED BY DEVIL, STILL FULL OF YOUR DEAD FRIENDS POSTS FROM YEARS PAST, AN ENTIRE ERA OF YOUR LIFE ONLINE NOW ONLY EVIDENCED BY OLD WORDS CARVED INTO THE CLIFFS OF HELL,,,,, BUT WHAT DO I KNOW IM JUST A SKELETIN - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 24/09/2026
Oh I'm certain someone's furiously typing one up at this very moment
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Colin Williams @colinbwilliams.com · 24/09/2026
Sucks to suck!
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