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Peter Sokolowski @petersokolowski.bsky.social · 12h

I'm thrilled to announce my upcoming book: BY DEFINITION: The Surprising History of the English Dictionary To be published in February! read.macmillan.com/lp/by-defini...

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Christian @cwwilkie.org · 29/09/2026

Had a good strategic meeting for our college. Expressed sourness over the necessity of staying cutting-edge with AI. Shared my concern re healthcare: demand is exploding, but career is unsustainable. Voiced support for our high school programs/int'l students, and helping ppl wrap up their degrees.

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Quote Investigator @quoteinvestigator.com · 28/09/2026

QI helped the brilliant language maven Nancy Friedman @fritinancy.bsky.social find citations for vagmaxxing. Now, Nancy has posted a piece about the terms: pervert glasses, meat proxy, and vagmaxxing Before clicking, please note the content warning: ickiness

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Christian @cwwilkie.org · 26/09/2026

Meh. Someone parked too close to my Vespa, tore through the rain cover to scrape the front hub. I bought a replacement cover, but gods only know how much longer I'll have the scooter at all. If you have to ask whether they left a note, I fear for your safety in public.

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Christian @cwwilkie.org · 24/09/2026

Went to #UptownVibes last weekend. Thrilled to catch Dres/Black Sheep perform this. Shout-out to DJ Mickey Breeze, who deserved a better audience.

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Black Sheep - The Choice Is Yours (Official Music Video)

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Christian @cwwilkie.org · 24/09/2026

@diedofennui.bsky.social All the best to you on this day, friend.

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Christian @cwwilkie.org · 24/09/2026

Watched 'Waiting for Godot' at the Guthrie. Cannot shake the feeling my entire life feels like a Beckett play. I'm confident this is a popular reaction.

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Christian @cwwilkie.org · 22/09/2026

Guess we gotta start looking for somewhere else to live.

A bright red Edina Reality sign stands in my front yard.

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Christian @cwwilkie.org · 21/09/2026

Among the difficulties I find in learning Old Norse language and studying the reconstructed futharks is the rhotacism: s → z → rhotic-like sound → r How nauðiz becomes *naudiʀ is one or two huckleberries beyond my persimmon. Or lingonberries beyond my rutabaga, as the case may be.

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Christian @cwwilkie.org · 20/09/2026

Yesterday I grilled in the rain, supporting a friend's art pop-up as she sold weaving and original prints. Another friend asked if she could sell floral arrangements, and each of them did very well. I grilled Reykjavik-style hot dogs with homemade remúlaði, relaxed with an Icelandic lager.

Three dressed hot dogs rest on a package of buns. They are beef franks in plain buns, with sweet brown mustard, ketchup, remúlaði, and fresh and fried onions.

A large drinking horn rests in an iron stand, on a table covered in a beautiful blue and purple batik tablecloth. The horn is full of beer, frothing over, and nearby is a blue can of Einstök Arctic Lager.

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Christian @cwwilkie.org · 17/09/2026

Every time my wife asks me what time it is—every time—I have to stifle my reflexive response: (brightly) "Time for a Happy Meal at McDonalds! Regular hamburger, regular soft drink, regular fries: all regular size!"

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Christian @cwwilkie.org · 14/09/2026

This tracing of the woman in the poster and the clip-art cat do suggest something outside my framework of fear. Would love to learn what that M means, seriously.

Newspaper ad for the movie Eye of the Cat, 1969. It features a line drawing of a flailing woman in a wheelchair juxtaposed with a grainy photograph of a standing cat with its tail raised.

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Rúnskrá @runskra.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🎵I've come to wive it wealthily in Padua-a-a!🎵

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Christian @cwwilkie.org · 12/09/2026

Make a band edible: Soundgarden Salad

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Christian @cwwilkie.org · 12/09/2026

Make a band edible: Simon & Garfungerbread

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Christian @cwwilkie.org · 12/09/2026

Make a band edible: Panic! at the Bistro

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Christian @cwwilkie.org · 12/09/2026

Make a band edible: Run DMCheese

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M. Florence @mflorence.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

💙my story!!!!

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Christian @cwwilkie.org · 09/09/2026

This weekend was my first time up in Grand Marais. I attended a blacksmithing course at North House Folk School, where I made various grilling implements, plus a ladle and spoon for my copper-loving wife. No matter how much time I spent hiking around Lake Superior, it was never enough.

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Christian @cwwilkie.org · 02/09/2026

Food tour of the #MNStateFair: – Walking Chopped Italian Grinder – Maple Cream Nitro Cold Press Coffee – Summer Lakes Bootlegger Shandy – Sweet Corn on the Cob, Roasted in the Husk – Elote Tots – Peanut Butter-Honey Cream Soda Float – Hmong Corndog #MinnesotaStateFair

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Christian @cwwilkie.org · 01/09/2026

People in this city drive according to only two rules: 1) The rules don't apply to me 2) I don't know what the rules are #Minneapolis

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Christian @cwwilkie.org · 29/08/2026

Online Etiquette: When someone expresses enjoyment of something, literally anything, it is any user's imperative to diminish that joy with a homophobic slur.

A user's response to my participating in a Coffee Crawl: I wish to point out that coffee in the United States does truly suck the fat one. Signed, Australia

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Christian @cwwilkie.org · 29/08/2026

This wasn't my original intent, I merely wanted to water my tomatoes and basil, but ... I'm not ruling anything out.

Photo of a 2.5 gallon plastic watering can in action. Superimposed text advertises "long spout to pour wine farther."

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Christian @cwwilkie.org · 28/08/2026

Big-ass month. Taught myself how to smoke and slow-BBQ meats, went camping for a week, started a workout regimen in earnest, and toured 14 coffee shops in the #Minneapolis #CoffeeCrawl. All that's left is a Twins game and a wedding, all weekend long. May Sept. give me a break.

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SOPHIA @sophia-familiar.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

put something down. see who picks it up.

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Christian @cwwilkie.org · 26/08/2026

LOOK AT ALL THIS FREAKIN' BASIL I've already done the ribbons-in-olive-oil ice cube tray trick. I've already thrown it into sandwiches and made pesto. I've given away so much. Today? I don't know, all I can do is wash it, try it out, stuff it all into the dehydrator. Running out of ideas.

An abundant pile of large leaves of basil is stuffed into a large sieve, resting on a kitchen counter.

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Christian @cwwilkie.org · 16/08/2026

Thrilled to see @grammartable.bsky.social before and after #RebelWithAClause at Main Cinema, #Minneapolis. My question for her: What grammatical traits have you seen most associated with moral judgment? #AmEditing

Ellen Jovin wears an I Heart Grammar T-shirt. Brandt Johnson wears a Rebel with a Clause T-shirt. They stand with microphones before a movie screen featuring their movie.

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Christian @cwwilkie.org · 10/08/2026

Momentarily breaking my hiatus for two important announcements. One: I've successfully smoked baby back ribs and brisket on my WSM cooker. Two: Bluesky now allows us to hide others' reposts. Either of these is cause for celebration. Together? The needle drifts toward summum bonum.

Two sections of baby back ribs on a large stoneware plate. The one in front has a dry rub of seasonings; the one behind it is slathered in BBQ sauce. There are both tender and juicy.

A pound-and-a-half of packer brisket, sliced thin against the grain, showing a picture-perfect smoke ring around the edges. It is likewise tender and juicy.

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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Hey Minnesota won and the nudification technology ban will go into effect tomorrow at 12:00AM!

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Christian @cwwilkie.org · 31/07/2026

Busy morning. Dropped my wife off at work, ran out to First Precinct for National Night Out supplies, stopped by the liquor store to pick up this Finnish Long Drink I've heard so much about. Currently shopping for a remote meat thermometer, because tomorrow I'm properly smoking a rack of ribs.

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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Tom Bombadil, after sticking a spear in the cyclops’s eye: “I am no merry fellow!”

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Christian @cwwilkie.org · 29/07/2026

Very much enjoyed Noël Coward's 'Private Lives' at the Guthrie. Unfortunately, phones rang no fewer than eight times during the performance. Laura Odeh, my new hero, bowed her head and halted the performance until the ringing was managed. Twice.

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Christian @cwwilkie.org · 29/07/2026

Another day, another cliché added to Muted Words & Tags.

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Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Why is everything so transparently evil now?

"Print books from the pre-LLM era are structurally guaranteed to be free of this contamination. That alone is a significant advantage," it explains in an article on its website, as quoted by
404. "Physical books published before this date [pre-2022] are structurally clean of modern poisoning tools."
Once focused on helping libraries, distributors, and book shops find and sell books, ISBNdb now helps Al companies bulk-buy anywhere between 1,000 to one million books per order, according to 404.

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Christian @cwwilkie.org · 28/07/2026

#Minnesota enacted the country’s first broad ban on commercial access to AI nudification tools. Days before its August 1 effective date, Musk-owned X.AI sued, arguing that the law’s wording reaches beyond nonconsensual abuse and suppresses constitutionally protected image creation.

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Christian @cwwilkie.org · 28/07/2026

Newsmax and Meta are collaborating on AI-generated news, as if the dead internet weren't bad enough. #Meta paid contractors to pose as teens and flood rival AI engines with alarming content. #Newsmax settled for $100M, for false election information. Two great tastes that taste great together.

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Online bot traffic will exceed human traffic by 2027, Cloudflare CEO says | TechCrunch

AI bots may outnumber humans online by 2027, says Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince, as generative AI agents dramatically increase web traffic and infrastructure demands.

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Christian @cwwilkie.org · 28/07/2026

It still disappoints me that bellwether (bell + male sheep) isn't cognate with belvedere (beautiful view). The v/w and th/d shifts seem spot-on to me. But probably one of them flows in the wrong direction, chronologically. But still. They almost hold the same meaning of someone with vision.

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Christian @cwwilkie.org · 28/07/2026

Before there was the desert … Before the bitter heart … This summer, you will know what it means to cling to your own pain. IN THE DESERT: ORIGINS "I mean, it's mine. That makes it good, right?"

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Christian @cwwilkie.org · 27/07/2026

It's so funny when someone gets mad at you because you don't hate the same people they hate for the reasons they hate them, but even when you do they still don't like you very much.

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Christian @cwwilkie.org · 26/07/2026

I went to a "goth convention" today. I used to be goth, thought it might be fun to revisit it. It was just an alternative-market bazaar. Crystals, scented oils, wands, and so fucking many rings; all it was missing was elf-ears. Goth doesn't mean anything anymore. The kids have no idea.

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Christian @cwwilkie.org · 26/07/2026

Seven years ago, I preserved the seeds from Roma tomatoes. I planted them last week, watered them almost every day, and now they're sprouting.

A large planter of soil, with a wire plant scaffold. In the soil are several paired sets of tiny green leaves.

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Johannah @johannah.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

zepbound & gagged dissolution: an anthology (La Rotonde Review)// July 10, 2026

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dissolution: an anthology (La Rotonde Review)// July 10, 2026

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Christian @cwwilkie.org · 25/07/2026

Jesus. I literally just pulled my wife's plum from the icebox. I didn't know that really happened.

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Christian @cwwilkie.org · 25/07/2026

Jesus. I literally just pulled my wife's plum from the icebox. I didn't know that really happened.

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Christian @cwwilkie.org · 25/07/2026

Holy crap, I just learned how to read Substack through an RSS feed rather than showing up and giving clicks to a platform that promotes Nazis. Now I can read all the articles I've been missing. You just get an RSS reader (Vivaldi has one built in), enter the URL and add /feed to the end. Goddamn.

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