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@kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social
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Books: Tea with Jane Austen, At Home with Jane Austen, In the Garden with Jane Austen.Traveling Lecturer 2023 Jane Austen Soc. N. America. 18th & 19th century material culture & food history. kimwilsonauthor.com. 🚫👑

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Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 19h
Ruin a book by adding a word: Northanger Abbey Road (Though mixing Jane Austen and the Beatles might be fun.)
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Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 19h
Ruin a book by adding a word: Mansfield Park 'n Ride
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Bethanne Wills @bethannewills.bsky.social · 22h
Ruin a book by adding a word: Moby Dick Head
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Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 19h
Ruin a book by adding a word: The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck and Cover
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Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 19h
Ruin a book by adding a word: Pride and Extreme Prejudice
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Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hey, overseas Americans! Request your Vote from Abroad ballot here:
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Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Real type for unreal times.
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Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
That feeling when Teen Vogue was way more into investigative journalism than the Washington Post.
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Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Again, the German word for vicarious embarrassment is Fremdscham, as in, "We are all just going to sink through the floor and die of Fremdscham."
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Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Don't make me tap the parchment.
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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.”
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Still holds up today #MontyPython1975 IG: @thecinevoidclub www.instagram.com/thecinevoidc...
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Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
My vet's, dentist's and ophthalmologist's offices were all bought out by national groups, and my local auto repair shop, too. The original owners remained as employees. In each case they didn't tell us unless we asked when something seemed different. Did their contract stop them or embarrassment?
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Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I was promised salmon.
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Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It's all so mortifying.
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Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The Germans have a word, of course, for vicarious embarrassment about someone else's cringeworthy behavior: die Fremdscham. It's all Fremdscham all the time now, isn't it?
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Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The 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?
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Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
So anyway, tomorrow I thought I might start listening to the audiobook of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice yet again. Her books were meant to be read aloud to friends, and I often hear new and funny things that had previously escaped my too-fast reading. Juliette Stevenson is my favorite narrator.
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Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Thank you! It's like being trapped in a car with a drunk driver. I see really hopeful signs in the polls, though, so fingers crossed.
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Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I would like to apologize, individually and severally, for the rich assortment of nincompoops we've inflicted on the world lately, particularly our Nincompoop-in-Chief. We hope to resume our regular service as soon as possible.
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Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Pictures of perfection make me sick and wicked." - Jane Austen
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Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"incalculable," "cajoled," "annals of History" - that's some wild cleanup of what must have been a wall-splattering tantrum.
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Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
That time you visited for your cousin's wedding in August was just a fluke. It rained all the other days of that year, so grey you'd never see the mountains. You'd find it depressing if you moved here. Though of course we'd be polite to you about your poor decision.
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Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
OTD 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."
"A Long-Headed Minuet!!" - 1807, by Isaac Cruikshank. The satirical caricature shows a ballroom with people with exaggeratedly long heads dancing and sitting.
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Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Our foxes own the sidewalks at night. I often think I've spotted a loose dog, but it's a fox going about its private fox night business.
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Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I need to up my crochet game.
A cream-colored, hand-crocheted cover protects the spare tire on the back of an SUV.
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Freydis @stoutwoman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Orange Floyd!
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Freydis @stoutwoman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Meatloaf ... er, never mind
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Cathy Pegau 📚🌈🥊 - I should be writing! @cathypegau.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Make a band edible: The Who-opie Pie
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Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Make a band edible: Buffalo Spring Roll
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Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
No words on the screen A blankness I cannot write Haiku fills the time
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Computer Eyes Blink
Alt: A cartoon stick character blinks slowly while staring blankly at a computer.
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Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Heaven knows I'm not against college game days and tea parties, but I also encourage going to your English classes.
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Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Timeline cleanse - Delilah boop break!
Delilah, a small cattle dog mix with a boopable nose, sleeping in a lap.
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Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I haven't been, but I'd like to. And afterward I'll go and gaze upon beautiful Lake Ontario.
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Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
And every one of them SO clever, but maybe just a little too snarky on reflection.
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Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I can't help but see drone light displays through a sci-fi lens. I hope I'm overreacting.
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Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
You would not believe the clever replies I start to make in people's comment sections but then don't
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Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Just one more thing: Can you believe it's been 55 years since "Columbo"? It still holds up - my kids love the show.
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Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger made from imported mystery meat today.
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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.
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Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Remembering that people and the world can be lovely. 🥹
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Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Cartoon Fry in his tighty whities is labeled as adult content! 😄
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Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
For the discerning bachelor or incel.
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Futurama Fry Eats Bachelor Chow
Alt: Futurama Fry pours himself a big bowl of Bachelor Chow.
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Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is probably the best argument I've seen for why we shouldn't use AI for writing or in lieu of thinking.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Sixty 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...
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Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A woodcut from the early 20th century with panels. Each is headlined with "8 hours." At the bottom, the panels show, on left, a shop assistant Labeled "for work", the middle pane shoessskein ms
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Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"I live for the ferocity of human connection"
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Kim Wilson @kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
That's what I call my brain.
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