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Will Wilkinson @wlknsn.xyz · 04/09/2026

Though I live in Iowa and grew up in Iowa, I’ve never really had a distinctive Iowa dialect or accent and what I did have largely washed out from moving around so much.

Dialect heat map of the United States indicating that my dialect is most similar to people in California and south central Colorado and least similar to Mississippi, Alabama, Massachusetts, New Hampshire or Maine

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Will Wilkinson @wlknsn.xyz · 15/12/2025

From my read of the immigration and citizenship page, the residency requirement only applies going forward. So, I think second generation born abroad before today is automatic, which would be my kids.

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Will Wilkinson @wlknsn.xyz · 16/06/2025

Thinking about this piece I wrote eight(!) years ago, for some reason. www.washingtonpost.com/posteverythi...

Honduran cooks in Chicago, Iranian engineers in Seattle, Chinese cardiologists in Atlanta, their children and grandchildren, all of them, are bedrock members of the American community. There is no "us" that excludes them.There is no American national identity apart from the dynamic hybrid culture we have always been creating together. America's big cities accept this and grow healthier and more productive by the day, while the rest of the country does not accept this, and struggles.

In a multicultural country like ours, an inclusive national identity makes solidarity possible. An exclusive, nostalgic national identity acts like a cancer in the body politic, eating away at the bonds of affinity and cooperation that hold our interests together.

Bannon is right. A country is more than an economy. The United States is a nation with a culture and a purpose. That's why Americans of every heritage and hue will fight to keep our cities sanctuaries of the American idea - of openness, tolerance and trade - until our country has been made safe for freedom again.

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Will Wilkinson @wlknsn.xyz · 08/01/2025

There is now a second fire in the San Gabriels

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Will Wilkinson @wlknsn.xyz · 08/01/2025

My line of sight, pointing at the glow.

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Will Wilkinson @wlknsn.xyz · 08/01/2025

Don’t like the look of this at all.

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Will Wilkinson @wlknsn.xyz · 01/01/2025

Gorgeous New Year’s Day in LA. Braced for Rose Bowl Blimp sightings.

View of Northeast LA looking towards the San Gabriel mountains, growing faint in the distance, blue skies streaked with wispy clouds above

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Will Wilkinson @wlknsn.xyz · 01/11/2024

Silver Lake Halloween is wild.

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Will Wilkinson @wlknsn.xyz · 19/10/2024

The moon was crazy coming up over the San Gabriels tonight.

A huge glowing orange “super moon” rising behind the hazy outline of the San Gabriel mountains over a middle ground of glittering lights in Northeast Los Angeles viewed from a high vantage in Los Feliz, the black silhouette of trees in the foreground.

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Will Wilkinson @wlknsn.xyz · 16/10/2024

Actually, bicycles offer excellent structure for reefs around which fish thrive.

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Will Wilkinson @wlknsn.xyz · 09/10/2024

Like, on the surface this nets out terribly for Rs. But if we assume that this reflects diverging “has shit together” trends, it’s even worse. “Still lives with mom,” “Won’t look for a job,” “Didn’t finish freshman year at State,” surely don’t correlate with “registers to vote,” “mails ballot,” etc

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Will Wilkinson @wlknsn.xyz · 11/08/2024

Just checked it out. Looking forward to generous evaluation.

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Will Wilkinson @wlknsn.xyz · 29/07/2024

It really is a generational shift in messaging. Thank god.

Thomas Friedman › Age
71 years
The New York
Image: Suhaimi Abdullah

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Will Wilkinson @wlknsn.xyz · 15/07/2024

The Democratic Party is cultlike because, like, half of it doesn't agree with internal mutineers who want to unelect the incumbent president who decisively won every state nominating election? The reality is OBVIOUSLY tolerance for internal dissent gone absolutely buck wild! My brain is bleeding.

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Will Wilkinson @wlknsn.xyz · 30/05/2024

Like this! (Bad viz today.)

A view from Los Feliz over northeast Los Angeles toward the San Gabriel mountains, which are almost entirely obscured by smog.

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Will Wilkinson @wlknsn.xyz · 22/02/2024

If you see this post a robot.

Product photo of Teddy Ruxpin, an animatronic stuffed bear from the 1980s, sitting against a white backdrop

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Will Wilkinson @wlknsn.xyz · 07/02/2024

I found this damning review of the Isaacson Musk biography in the SLC airport…

A photo of Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk abandoned on a shelf over a toilet in an unusually clean airport bathroom stall

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Will Wilkinson @wlknsn.xyz · 09/10/2023

Went over there and this is the first thing I saw. For a second I was sure he was joking but then kept reading and it really is “pretty sure if I practiced for a couple weeks I could take LeBron one on one” and, well, this is the dunning-krugerest thing I can imagine.

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Will Wilkinson @wlknsn.xyz · 20/06/2023

Definitely unlocked a Gen X dad badge here…

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Will Wilkinson @wlknsn.xyz · 02/05/2023

Can any of our resident hornithologists help me ID this beaut? (I’m in LA, if that helps.)

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