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The Nice William

@nicewooliam.bsky.social
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he/him, local oaf

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The Nice William @nicewooliam.bsky.social · 13h
I don’t know what to say beyond I hope we can all stick around and fight together to end the evil of capital punishment. I need to believe we can be better than this
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 14h
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Calvinball Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
now, consider that every single woman you know has had a piece of her ripped away by someone whose future was too bright to hold responsible.
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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
me: iggy i think if a witch offered you a pastry you would fall for it immediately and eat the pastry right? iggy: no! me: what about a cookie? iggy: (has forgotten about the witch) yummmm i love cookies. and also pastries and that is why it works in the stories
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The Nice William @nicewooliam.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Literally every historian will tell you this about every socioeconomic revolution in history too
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I've spent a lot of years studying a lot of collapses, and the truth of the matter is that they're always mundane: mild climatic shifts that reduce crop yields, a dumbass in power who makes some terrible decisions, neglecting things that obviously matter but the will to fix them can't be summoned.
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Gore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Know the Bluesky Posting Rules
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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I understand that humans thinking about math is Luddite behavior and humans making art is Luddite behavior and so on. But I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be doing instead. What's the non-Luddite behavior for those of us who aren't wealthy investors?
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It's weird that so many of you are always apologizing to some cool guy you're imagining from 15 years ago before you can say Macklemore is good and cool. That cool guy is probably dead. He was having a hard time. You are free.
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 14/09/2026
anyone know a good website where some small-potatoes online pundits can tell me what’s good for my particular marginalized community in a completely condescending way.
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The Nice William @nicewooliam.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This guy is gonna lose by double digits
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The Nice William @nicewooliam.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I’ve spent most of my adult life living around red-ass country people, and they generally respect you when you stand on principle. But they’ll shred you if you’re a dissembling phony
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my good bitch 💎 @clozilla.cryptoanarchy.network · 09/09/2026
jessica lange from american horror story saying your liberation is bound up with mine you stupid slut
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The Nice William @nicewooliam.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I can’t stop watching it lol
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Realizing the extent to which this is true wildly changed my opinions about how to deal with Trumpism, since they're never going to be satisfied unless they're actively dominating everyone else. You can't give them some concessions and go back to the status quo: they're reactionary revolutionaries.
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The Nice William @nicewooliam.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is a good song for when you’re going through it m.youtube.com/watch?v=qsu5...
m.youtube.com
Johnny Cash - Streets Of Laredo
YouTube video by CashFan
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The Nice William @nicewooliam.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I have former friends who laughed and jeered at her and wakefield and their ilk with me 20 years ago who wouldn’t get a vaccine to save their own mother now. The harm she’s caused is incalculable
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The Nice William @nicewooliam.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Saw the Nathan fielder/Elizabeth Holmes trailer and I’m gonna need to take some personal time wandering in the woods to ponder existence
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The Nice William @nicewooliam.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is an amazing piece. Warts and all
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The Nice William @nicewooliam.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Minneapolis fucking rules
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The Nice William @nicewooliam.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
If roxy music taught us anything it’s that bryan/brian collabs are the most powerful force in existence
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The Nice William @nicewooliam.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
There are a bajillion other engaging older child/ya lit series that are just as good and often better than hp. It’s like the biggest genre and there’s no excuse for supporting a bigot (even buying used)
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I'm reading Lonesome Dove for the first time in maybe 20 years and there's a line that keeps coming back to me where Gus McCrae describes Jake Spoon as "too leaky a vessel for anyone to put much hope in." What a book, man.
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The Nice William @nicewooliam.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
JRR Tolkien next question
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YKS @yourkickstartersucks.com · 04/09/2026
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I’m sick…and tired of white former rappers only being insanely over the top rehabilitated in the racist public eye and judicial systems when
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Both Dolly Parton and Tim Curry had such a genuine enthusiasm for performing that it was impossible not to love them for it, there were things more highly and lowly regarded in their bodies of work but both of them threw themselves into everything because it was pure joy for them and that rules
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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Just watched a video where a highschool student asked Dolly Parton for advice she'd share with teenagers and she said, "Act like it's raining every day and wear your rubbers." God, she ruled
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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Jane Fonda’s tribute to Dolly is perfect.
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I am devastated. I just learned that Dolly has moved on. I know that millions are mourning and I want to say this - more than anyone I have ever known, Dolly will always be with us because she was so present, so powerful, so generous and playful that she is woven into all our lives and hearts forever. We have our memories of her, her songs, Dollywood, "9to5," the millions of books she got into the hands of children, all the iconic images that bring her to us. And they are all blessings. Let's be grateful for all that she has left us to ease our sadness now. I never knew anyone like her. She was simultaneously a naughty, playful southern gal from the hollows of
Tennessee and a deep, soulful thinker who could see through people right down to their true selves. She was many things...lyricist, songstress, player of many instruments, writer, prankster, visionary, loyal friend, who'd never go to bed before she and her friends had laughed so hard
they'd have to cross their legs.
She had a survivor's instinct and seemed to always know just what to do, just what to say, to make things right....and then she's stick her butt out the car window and moon Kenny Roger's home. She was the voluptuous embodiment of empathy. That's something of hers she'd want us all to take with us.
To her gay and trans fans, I want you to know that she loved you. You know that without me telling you. She loved all her fans and they are legion. And you know she doesn't want y'all to mourn now. Dress up and celebrate her spirit. But first, watch the final episode of Grace and Frankie where she's an Angel, the head honcho working class angel in Heaven.
RIP, beautiful woman. We love you.
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Timmy Jackpots, The $13,250 Diamond Dazzler @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 26/08/2026
my wife has a friend who sent Dolly Parton a painting she made & a letter explaining how much Dolly's music meant to her while she was transitioning. Dolly responded to it personally & paid for her top surgery. Sounds like an urban legend but it's real. I think we're going to more stories like this.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
By almost any measure Dolly embodied "the American Dream." Some people will come from nothing and make it big and consider the problem now solved. Others will remember that there are still others with nothing and use what they have to help.
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The Nice William @nicewooliam.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
80 is a fine old life. May we do as much with the time we have as she did
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
It was frustrating in the 2010s when people didn’t recognize fascist dog whistles. But also understandable—you needed to know some abstruse nazi references. Now they’re out and out calling for mass murder and some people refuse to hear.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The spider women live longer than the spider men obviously. No hyphens. Pretty much across the board. I don’t know why that also tends to be true in most species including ours. www.welcometohellworld.com/protesting-a...
My ailments
I spent like five or ten minutes trying to coax a little spider out of the bathtub so I could get in to soak in peace. On account of my ailments. 

I always hate the dawning recognition that I’m inside of a metaphor but even more so when I can tell it’s a pedestrian one. This spider's life or death wasn't even creatively inspiring. I already did a whole spider routine last time. 

How are the people who kill us walking around out there not constantly bedeviled? I am routinely bedeviled and I haven’t even done anything evil. I can barely kill a spider without having an existential crisis over it. I am sometimes overcome by weltschmerz whenever I throw out an old toothbrush. 

You’ve served me well old friend but now it is your time to go to the trash dump. We have the watch. 

That type of thing. 

And yet these people whose job it is to represent our interests seem to float freely through the world unbothered and unmolested by either conscience or grief. What has it got to be like to be able to live like that?

I saved it anyway. The spider. Insisted upon it the emancipation of the open screen window like Simba’s annunciation whereafter it presumably went on to live a long and fulfilling life as a spider however long that is on average. Eating as many bugs as it cared to. Ok well I looked it up and it’s between thirty years on the upper end if you're a tarantula which is fucking crazy to think about and a few months on the low end if you’re a common household spider which sounds about right and which this guy surely was. I guess there is a species called a trapdoor spider than can live up to forty or thereabouts. The oldest one they ever knew of was forty three. That spider was losing its spider hair and had joint pain.

So many joints too. 

The spider women live longer than the spider men obviously. No hyphens. Pretty much across the board. I don’t know why that also tends to be true in most species including ours. Probably because God wants them to have a little respite at the end there to be left alone. To not have someone in their house.   

Every now and again you hear about a type of insect mating where the gal lets the guy hit it and then chops his head off and you go lol I wish that were me. 

Which part though? Which part do we long for more? 

I just remembered the song about spiders and water spouts and now I feel stupid. I didn’t have to do anything to help in the first place. It would have lived a happy life whether I had ever come along or not and so would you.
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The Nice William @nicewooliam.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
When my Mormon relatives are gonna run out of sparkling cider before dessert on thanksgiving
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The Nice William @nicewooliam.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Billy budd OR the handsome sailor? You repeat yourself my dear hermy
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The Nice William @nicewooliam.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The thing about people who have otherwise good opinions but don’t like Bob Dylan is that they’re still pretty ok
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The Nice William @nicewooliam.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Worth remembering that Macklemore put out one of the most unequivocal anti-zionist anti-genocidal songs in the past few years imo
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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 19/08/2026
75 years in prison for a crime he may not have committed. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Spared execution eight times, US's oldest inmate dies at 101
Francis Smith was one of a growing number of elderly people who are incarcerated.
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The Nice William @nicewooliam.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Wait that Bible shit was in the Atlantic?!? Harder to imagine how much lower they can sink at this point
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 19/08/2026
"are texas christian nationalists forcing kids to read the bible to give them a thorough education in classical western letters or are they doing it to indoctrinate kids into their fascist death cult" seems like an easy question to answer
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
the fact that john ossoff can kick off a two-day media cycle by saying that the president is uninterested in doing his job and is sleeping through meetings and traveling around with a young blonde, suggests that not enough of these guys are speaking plainly and effectively about these assholes
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The Nice William @nicewooliam.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Few things worse than a typo in a good reply but you get such a quick like from one of your faves so you can’t delete and repost
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The Nice William @nicewooliam.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
It’s legit kinda sexist to suggest women lack the ability to become scheming evil grand viziers
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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
There shouldn't be child stars, at all
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The Nice William @nicewooliam.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Hakeem “the nightmare” Jeffries amirite
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The Nice William @nicewooliam.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Genuinely can’t wait till my breath’s as hot as kerosene
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The Nice William @nicewooliam.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Some truly heinous shit. Fuck prosecutors
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 10/08/2026
this isn't a troll btw. everyone gets mad at me when i say it but it's pretty well established culinary history. if you like the really good pizza we have now available all over the united states today you should thank Alice Waters and the good folks of southern california who made it possible
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The Nice William @nicewooliam.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
If all the friendliest and coolest people online were yelling at me I would simply delete my bad posts. If they continued yelling at me I would probably [redacted]. In either case the world would be better.
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DBJ @deadblossomjesse.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
For the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund, we're raising money all day this Thursday the 13th?? Me and @hcjustin.com ? Featuring some of our favorite games, a brand-new fucked up quiz, singing every song I've ever written in a row, NEW songs, new bits, and live readings? With guests????? What??
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