Nikki Wallschlaeger
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Nikki Wallschlaeger
@nikkimwalls.bsky.social
Poet, photographer, occasional visual artist. Latest book of poems is Hold Your Own from Copper Canyon Press (2024).

Virgo x2 with a Cancer moon, Libra Mercury ⭐

Driftless region of Wisconsin. Goddess country.

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The only immediate family I have in my life are my two children.

I just felt like I needed to say that.
December 7, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Thank you!!!
December 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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My back is getting better, but its still healing from whatever happened last week. If anyone can send me enough in a doordash card to last me until Wed, id appericate it

The email is [email protected]
December 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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I've been struck by this attitude in several works of utopian literature. The most glaring case is The Southern Land, Known (1676) by Gabriel de Foigny, in which giant hermaphrodite Australians have done away with all the insects in their country.
This passage shocked me to my core.

The loss of biodiversity isn't a tragic accident or oversight, it was the plan!
December 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I should read this.
There’s a book titled “Mothers Who Can't Love: A Therapist's Guide to Healing from the Emotional Damage of Unloving Mothers,” I recommend this book and years of therapy for women who struggled with mothers who were unloving! Helped me tremendously.
December 7, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜

feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote, +/or small poems you love by somebody else :)

here’s one by John Wieners, from Behind the State Capitol: Or Cincinnati Pike (an absolute marvel of a book freshly reissued by @thesongcave.bsky.social)~
December 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Ishmael Reed
December 5, 2025 at 7:53 PM
finally some good art
daughter moving into the Thought-Provoking artistic commentary phase
December 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
"surveillance technology vendor SmartRent"
December 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Is there an online store?
Japan one-off: they sell model folding chairs at the 100 yen store
December 7, 2025 at 2:22 PM
the heel
What do you call this where yall from?
December 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Dreamed I was wearing a red dress and red shoes. I was also riding a red bike through a city. That's the second dream I've had lately where I was wearing something red.
December 7, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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You only have to go back a few generations in my family to find Irish people forced to leave their homeland because British colonialism manufactured a famine and made it impossible to stay. It destroyed the region I descend from.

It's the literal reason I'm English.
This is so disgusting.
December 7, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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By the way everyone, what right-wing politicians say about immigrants is literally also what they believe about you.

You having an ordinary job is a kind of favour your generous employer and the nation has done you, allowing you to reproduce your existence despite not being AN ENTREPRENEUR
December 7, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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You might think that the "Labour" Party would consider labour itself to be a contribution to society, alas no, only "having lots of money" is a real contribution.

Perhaps they need to change their name to the Capital Party?
December 7, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Hey everyone, here's the news, if you aren't a high earner, entrepreneur or a "skilled frontline worker" (whatever the fuck that means) the "Labour" Party says you aren't contributing, you're a taker!
This is so disgusting.
December 7, 2025 at 8:57 AM
look at the mini folding chairs
December 7, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I want this
Japan one-off: they sell model folding chairs at the 100 yen store
December 7, 2025 at 12:10 AM
to read
The radicalization of Silicon Valley is the subject of my forthcoming book, "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and The War on Democracy."

It exposes a decades-long campaign to use tech power to overthrow democracy and destroy nations. Pre-order here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
The Nerd Reich
A fearless and urgent chronicle of the tech-authoritarian movement from its early days in San Francisco politics to its current moment on the inter...
www.simonandschuster.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:49 PM
fuck you bitch
A teacher in Greenville, North Carolina told her black students that if it wasn’t for the constitution, they would be her slaves.

Other students began using the N word and when a black student spoke out, the teacher replied “it’s ok we’re all a little bit racist”
December 6, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Occasionally you need an emotional support item.

This is my emotional support milkshake.
December 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Personally?

I welcome a world where people are truly afraid to cross Black women.

It'd be a nice fucking change of pace.
December 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Waymo is killing pets
new video shows Kit Kat did not “dart underneath” the vehicle as waymo originally claimed. he was sitting under the car in front of the right wheel before it just ran him over. someone even approached the vehicle to try and get him to move seconds before it happened. missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...
December 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM
there is a terrible idea in the world that to even love women makes a man gay
December 6, 2025 at 5:48 PM
blonde white girls infighting
December 6, 2025 at 5:38 PM