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Christian and Yet Not @cwwilkie.org · 4h

Getting started on packing. Little things, things I haven't touched in years, decorations, crap like that. Took down my Writers Wall. I'm not a writer anymore, this inspires nothing. I don't think I'll put it up at the new place.

A collection of postcards on a wall, pictures of writers like Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, WH Auden, Kurt Vonnegut, Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein and Alice B Toklas, Toni Morrison, James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, and many others.

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Christian and Yet Not @cwwilkie.org · 5h

BLUESKY: I put it to you that Jack McBrayer could stun everyone in a heartfelt biopic of WH Auden.

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Christian and Yet Not @cwwilkie.org · 04/10/2026

Probably want to mute me for the next two months. I'm not going to stop wailing to the heavens.

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Christian and Yet Not @cwwilkie.org · 04/10/2026

My heart hurts for this. I offer my sympathies.

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Christian and Yet Not @cwwilkie.org · 03/10/2026

Option? Most of the time it's my first, and second, choice.

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Christian and Yet Not @cwwilkie.org · 03/10/2026

I qualify for senior housing. How about that.

Christian standing on the shore of Lake Superior at the harbor in Grand Marais. He's smiling, glasses hanging from his neckline.

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Christian and Yet Not @cwwilkie.org · 03/10/2026

Happiest of birthdays to Lynne!

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Christian and Yet Not @cwwilkie.org · 03/10/2026

Very much enjoyed seeing Søndergård lead the MN Orchestra through White's Tumblebird Contrails, Stefan Jackiw soloing Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 5, and Prokofiev's Symphony No. 6. Could not believe the woman who clomped out in heels on hardwood floor, during the PENTATONE recording.

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Christian and Yet Not @cwwilkie.org · 03/10/2026

Not really. I'm still raging through the injustice. I worked to build up this community, caretake this place, and some guy buys the building and kicks us out, two professionals in their 50s, lived here for ten years. The realtor's advice: "Let us know if you'd like to move out sooner."

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Christian and Yet Not @cwwilkie.org · 03/10/2026

Woke up today, sat on the edge of the bed, and realized I'm never going to have a peaceful morning for two months. My first thought will always be, we're getting kicked out of our home. Every single day.

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Christian and Yet Not @cwwilkie.org · 03/10/2026

I tried the paid version, the free version is fine for me. I have little playlists set up to put me to sleep, the routine has become super effective.

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Christian and Yet Not @cwwilkie.org · 03/10/2026

So far, Insight Timer is human-run. I reported a guided meditation that sounded like GenAI, and they acted on it. It does, however, appear to use an AI recommendation system for their human-centered content.

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Christian and Yet Not @cwwilkie.org · 03/10/2026

Oh, no. I know where this is headed.

Clip from The Prisoner, in which Patrick McGoohan wears a serious expression and a black blazer with white trim around the lapels.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So when one stands in a cherished place for the last time before a voyage without return, he sees it all whole, and real, and dear, as he has never seen it before and never will see it again.

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Christian and Yet Not @cwwilkie.org · 01/10/2026

I know Lava soap has volcanic pumice in it, but I suspect the name is a useful pun as well (Latin lavàre).

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Christian and Yet Not @cwwilkie.org · 01/10/2026

Losing my home brings other realities sharply into focus. My annual income raises are not commensurate to inflation, and each year my "progress" puts me 17% behind purchasing power. Maybe I have to think about a new job and losing the benefit of remote work. Which limits shopping for a home.

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Peter Sokolowski @petersokolowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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 and Yet Not @cwwilkie.org · 01/10/2026

Update: We have to move out in 60 days. This has been our home for ten years, I've worked to build community here. The buyer wants to be an owner-occupier, and our lease was month-to-month so he declined to renew. I've reached out to negotiate. If nothing else, he gets to meet who he's fucking over.

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Christian and Yet Not @cwwilkie.org · 30/09/2026

Guessing he only sent the note when he confirmed the owner-occupant buyer finally closed on it.

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Christian and Yet Not @cwwilkie.org · 30/09/2026

The original Cho-Pat product was a knee strap developed around 1980 specifically to treat *chondromalacia patella* and related kneecap-tracking problems.

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Christian and Yet Not @cwwilkie.org · 29/09/2026

Today I had the notion: transitioning from "this meeting could've been an email" to "this meeting could've been an LLM prompt."

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Christian and Yet Not @cwwilkie.org · 29/09/2026

People have rarely strictly adhered to reason and logic when charting their paths. Maybe there are aspects of the game they really enjoy, but which got drowned in the kvetching. Maybe they compulsively buy games, prioritizing those that are familiar. Gods only know.

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Christian and Yet Not @cwwilkie.org · 29/09/2026

The ambition isn’t new, but making GenAI the interface between the public and gov't information is the latest "innovation." Strikes me less as “we finally unified the federal government’s computer systems” and more as “we put an AI concierge in front of them.” And not a great one.

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Making government services easier to find | USAGov

Find government benefits, services, agencies, and information at USA.gov. Contact elected officials. Learn about passports, Social Security, taxes, and more.

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Christian and Yet Not @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 and Yet Not @cwwilkie.org · 28/09/2026

That took me a second. I thought it was a prominent typo.

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Christian and Yet Not @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 and Yet Not @cwwilkie.org · 25/09/2026

Yeah, this is his last residential property. Our lease is good for at least another year, so nothing can change regardless of who purchases the building. But still. It feels like an end to a good run, just as I was building community here. Have to work faster next time.

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Christian and Yet Not @cwwilkie.org · 25/09/2026

This, coupled with the $225M budget cut announced for UMN, have built in me a certain amount of energetic tension. I suppose I've been too comfortable for too long, and the universe necessarily needs to teach me a lesson.

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Christian and Yet Not @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 and Yet Not @cwwilkie.org · 24/09/2026

They went with gu-DOH, but i didn't find a rationale in the playbill.

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Christian and Yet Not @cwwilkie.org · 24/09/2026

It's a question of whether one requires dust to settle on authenticity or not.

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Christian and Yet Not @cwwilkie.org · 24/09/2026

Happiest of birthdays to you, sir.

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Christian and Yet Not @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 and Yet Not @cwwilkie.org · 23/09/2026

Why not in Shakespeare's dialect?

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Christian and Yet Not @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 and Yet Not @cwwilkie.org · 22/09/2026

Took Mom to see 'Runner' tonight. Interesting to see Ritchson flexing his acting chops a bit, but I've only seen him in 'Reacher.' The fight choreography was surprisingly tight, appreciated that. Not all of it was great but it did a lot of things well.

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Christian and Yet Not @cwwilkie.org · 21/09/2026

Even more improbably, this s → r development may be hinted at in "was/were" and "better/best." Which I haven't had enough coffee to understand.

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Christian and Yet Not @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 and Yet Not @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 and Yet Not @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 and Yet Not @cwwilkie.org · 17/09/2026

Thank you. That's one of the most distasteful things, for me.

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