Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” 063
Reposted by Kim WilsonLuca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Still holds up today #MontyPython1975 IG: @thecinevoidclub www.instagram.com/thecinevoidc... 448112493441
Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The Germans have a word (of course they do) for vicarious embarrassment about someone else's cringeworthy behavior: die Fremdscham. It's all Fremdscham all the time now, isn't it? 120
Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"Pictures of perfection make me sick and wicked." - Jane Austen 010
Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 13/09/2026OTD in Jane Austen's life, 1804: Jane walks for an hour on the Cobb at Lyme Regis. She attends a ball at the assembly rooms and meets some "bold, queer looking people, just fit to be Quality at Lyme." 0111
Reposted by Kim WilsonCathy Pegau 📚🌈🥊 - I should be writing! @cathypegau.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Make a band edible: The Who-opie Pie 031
Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026No words on the screen A blankness I cannot write Haiku fills the timestatic.klipy.comComputer Eyes BlinkAlt: A cartoon stick character blinks slowly while staring blankly at a computer. 040
Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Heaven knows I'm not against college game days and tea parties, but I also encourage going to your English classes. 010
Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026You would not believe the clever replies I start to make in people's comment sections but then don't 161
Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Just one more thing: Can you believe it's been 55 years since "Columbo"? It still holds up - my kids love the show. 150
Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger made from imported mystery meat today. 031
Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 09/09/2026"Look at that frightful ass Spode swanking about in footer bags! Did you ever in your puff see such a perfect perisher?" P.G. Wodehouse in The Code of the Woosters, 1938, which I highly recommend for comic relief in these dark times. 062
Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Remembering that people and the world can be lovely. 🥹 020
Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 09/09/2026This is probably the best argument I've seen for why we shouldn't use AI for writing or in lieu of thinking. 041
Reposted by Kim WilsonGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Sixty years ago today, the starship Enterprise launched and with it, a vision of the future where humanity had moved beyond its divisions. I was there at the beginning, and I can tell you... 685265994803
Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026"I live for the ferocity of human connection" 020
Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 06/09/2026As Amazon and AI companies scan and then shred rare books, we have this. 160
Reposted by Kim WilsonCarole King @carolekingofficial.bsky.social · 03/09/2026As we elders, our daughters, and our granddaughters continue the fight for power, equality, and respect, we hold you in our hearts with love and gratitude. Rest in peace and power, Gloria Steinem. 🤍nytimes.comGloria Steinem, Personification of the Women’s Movement, Dies at 92 (Gift Article)She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large. 368182014370
Reposted by Kim WilsonJonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Still a long way to go but wow she was amazing 1039591
Reposted by Kim WilsonMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I feel like I’m living In a dystopian novel written in 1993 that was rejected by dozens of publishers because it was incredibly stupid. 352117332247
Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Bambi's mother and every mother character killed for a little pathos.static.klipy.comBambi and His MotherAlt: Bambi and His Mother 41267
Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: Two men come to an area so one of them can rent a house and one of them likes a local girl and then the other one eventually likes her sister. 140
Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Jane Austen's full poem with Lake Ontario: "In measured verse I’ll now rehearse The charms of lovely Anna: And, first, her mind is unconfined Like any vast savannah. Ontario’s lake may fitly speak Her fancy’s ample bound: Its circuit may, on strict survey Five hundred miles be found. 130
Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Jane Austen compared Lake Ontario to a favorite niece in a poem, therefore that is its name for all time: "In measured verse I'll now rehearse The charms of lovely Anna: ... Ontario's lake may fitly speak Her fancy's ample bound: Its circuit may, on strict survey Five hundred miles be found." 080
Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 26/08/2026"What an illiterate villain must that man be!...What a total want of delicate refinement must he have, who can thus shock our senses by such a brutal noise! He must I am certain be capable of every bad action! There is no crime too black for such a Character!" - Jane Austen, Love and Friendship 060
Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Authors and librarians: "DID YOU NOT READ THE BOOKS ON THIS EXACT THING?" 210
Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Amazon is scanning and then shredding rare books. 020
Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 23/08/2026"Well-behaved women seldom make history." - historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich 050
Reposted by Kim WilsonRae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 22/08/2026See, you don't need to rush... #BookSky 752913519
Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Mrs. Bennet: Have you heard that Netherfield Park has a cup at last? 030
Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Jane Austen: It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good cup must be in want of a wife 010
Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 19/08/2026How large a tattoo would you need for "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."? 030
Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Is it true that people have the historical memory of a goldfish? 031
Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 11/08/2026My article for the Jane Austen Literacy Foundation just dropped! "A Shrubbery of One’s Own - Reflection and Refreshment in Jane Austen’s Gardens" janeaustenlf.org/pride-and-po...janeaustenlf.orgIssue 136: A Shrubbery of One’s Own - Reflection and Refreshment in Jane Austen’s Gardens — Jane Austen Literacy FoundationAuthor Kim Wilson takes readers on a stroll through Jane Austen’s gardens and examines how the great outdoors appear throughout Austen’s novels. 1153