Kirk Wolcott
@kirkwolcott.bsky.social
Writer of fiction, believer of facts
Pro-vax, -choice, -democracy, -environment
Recovering diplomat, former journalist, forever student, ⚽️ aficionado, 😺 dad
Read books, ban intolerance! 📚
Have faith in yourself & our one known 🌎
kirkwolcott.com
Pro-vax, -choice, -democracy, -environment
Recovering diplomat, former journalist, forever student, ⚽️ aficionado, 😺 dad
Read books, ban intolerance! 📚
Have faith in yourself & our one known 🌎
kirkwolcott.com
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Kirk Wolcott
@kirkwolcott.bsky.social
· Oct 10
Treat yourself this scary season -- the choice is Simple!
Enjoy a thrilling ride with a group of terrorists holding the world hostage by killing off our biggest sports stars ... and the one man who may be able to stop them.
#books #booksky #thrillers #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #Halloween
Enjoy a thrilling ride with a group of terrorists holding the world hostage by killing off our biggest sports stars ... and the one man who may be able to stop them.
#books #booksky #thrillers #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #Halloween
Wise Words ✍️
"You know a real friend?
Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone."
- William S. Burroughs, American writer, visual artist & author of Naked Lunch, born this day 1914
#authors #birthdays #books #writingcommunity #readingcommunity #amwriting
"You know a real friend?
Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone."
- William S. Burroughs, American writer, visual artist & author of Naked Lunch, born this day 1914
#authors #birthdays #books #writingcommunity #readingcommunity #amwriting
February 5, 2026 at 12:50 PM
Wise Words ✍️
"You know a real friend?
Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone."
- William S. Burroughs, American writer, visual artist & author of Naked Lunch, born this day 1914
#authors #birthdays #books #writingcommunity #readingcommunity #amwriting
"You know a real friend?
Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone."
- William S. Burroughs, American writer, visual artist & author of Naked Lunch, born this day 1914
#authors #birthdays #books #writingcommunity #readingcommunity #amwriting
The worst & the dimmest...
Administration's policies crippling America's future
#education #pro-democracy #resist
www.thebanner.com/education/hi...
Administration's policies crippling America's future
#education #pro-democracy #resist
www.thebanner.com/education/hi...
Some of Maryland’s brightest immigrant students can’t go to college
Some undocumented immigrants can’t get in-state tuition in Maryland, making college unaffordable.
www.thebanner.com
February 5, 2026 at 12:25 PM
The worst & the dimmest...
Administration's policies crippling America's future
#education #pro-democracy #resist
www.thebanner.com/education/hi...
Administration's policies crippling America's future
#education #pro-democracy #resist
www.thebanner.com/education/hi...
Sick, short-term greed...
C'mon humans, we can do better!
🌎 > 💰
#environment #future #NoKings
share.google/v5D9wiEA99Si...
C'mon humans, we can do better!
🌎 > 💰
#environment #future #NoKings
share.google/v5D9wiEA99Si...
The Trump Administration Is Prepping to Sell off Alaska's Arctic to Oil and Gas Companies
In a series of recent moves, the administration is opening most of the vast and precious Arctic ecosystem to drilling.
share.google
February 5, 2026 at 12:18 PM
Sick, short-term greed...
C'mon humans, we can do better!
🌎 > 💰
#environment #future #NoKings
share.google/v5D9wiEA99Si...
C'mon humans, we can do better!
🌎 > 💰
#environment #future #NoKings
share.google/v5D9wiEA99Si...
January 30, 2026 at 4:11 PM
A bright light in this time of darkness!
Glory, glory, Man United!!
👹⚽️😃
#manchesterunited #ARSMUN #football
Glory, glory, Man United!!
👹⚽️😃
#manchesterunited #ARSMUN #football
January 25, 2026 at 6:31 PM
A bright light in this time of darkness!
Glory, glory, Man United!!
👹⚽️😃
#manchesterunited #ARSMUN #football
Glory, glory, Man United!!
👹⚽️😃
#manchesterunited #ARSMUN #football
Braving frigid weather to help melt ICE intentions in Baltimore!
✌️ ⚖️ 🇺🇸
#Protests #AbolishICE #NoKings #pro-democracy #resist #Baltimore
✌️ ⚖️ 🇺🇸
#Protests #AbolishICE #NoKings #pro-democracy #resist #Baltimore
January 20, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Braving frigid weather to help melt ICE intentions in Baltimore!
✌️ ⚖️ 🇺🇸
#Protests #AbolishICE #NoKings #pro-democracy #resist #Baltimore
✌️ ⚖️ 🇺🇸
#Protests #AbolishICE #NoKings #pro-democracy #resist #Baltimore
January 6, 2026 at 3:27 PM
January 5, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Wise Words ✍️
"If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them."
- Isaac Asimov, American author & biochemistry professor, born this day 1920
#authors #birthdays #sciencefiction #books #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #amwriting
"If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them."
- Isaac Asimov, American author & biochemistry professor, born this day 1920
#authors #birthdays #sciencefiction #books #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #amwriting
January 2, 2026 at 12:19 PM
Wise Words ✍️
"If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them."
- Isaac Asimov, American author & biochemistry professor, born this day 1920
#authors #birthdays #sciencefiction #books #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #amwriting
"If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them."
- Isaac Asimov, American author & biochemistry professor, born this day 1920
#authors #birthdays #sciencefiction #books #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #amwriting
December 31, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Happy Boxing Day all!
C'mon United, we could use a holiday miracle!
🎁⚽️🍗🍺😃
C'mon United, we could use a holiday miracle!
🎁⚽️🍗🍺😃
December 26, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Happy Boxing Day all!
C'mon United, we could use a holiday miracle!
🎁⚽️🍗🍺😃
C'mon United, we could use a holiday miracle!
🎁⚽️🍗🍺😃
A bright light in these dark times...
#Baltimore smashes it reading record, with 2.4 million library loans this year!
Read on & Happy Holidays!
📚 🎉😃
#books #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #amwriting #GoodNewsToo
www.thebanner.com/culture/book...
#Baltimore smashes it reading record, with 2.4 million library loans this year!
Read on & Happy Holidays!
📚 🎉😃
#books #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #amwriting #GoodNewsToo
www.thebanner.com/culture/book...
The ‘city that reads’ is reading — more
A record number of volumes were borrowed from Baltimore’s library system last year.
www.thebanner.com
December 24, 2025 at 12:43 PM
A bright light in these dark times...
#Baltimore smashes it reading record, with 2.4 million library loans this year!
Read on & Happy Holidays!
📚 🎉😃
#books #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #amwriting #GoodNewsToo
www.thebanner.com/culture/book...
#Baltimore smashes it reading record, with 2.4 million library loans this year!
Read on & Happy Holidays!
📚 🎉😃
#books #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #amwriting #GoodNewsToo
www.thebanner.com/culture/book...
December 19, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Wise Words ✍️
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
- Margaret Mead, American cultural anthropologist, author & speaker born this day 1901
#birthday #authors #science #writingcommunity #readingcommunity #amwriting
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
- Margaret Mead, American cultural anthropologist, author & speaker born this day 1901
#birthday #authors #science #writingcommunity #readingcommunity #amwriting
December 16, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Wise Words ✍️
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
- Margaret Mead, American cultural anthropologist, author & speaker born this day 1901
#birthday #authors #science #writingcommunity #readingcommunity #amwriting
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
- Margaret Mead, American cultural anthropologist, author & speaker born this day 1901
#birthday #authors #science #writingcommunity #readingcommunity #amwriting
Happy Human Rights Day!
On this day last year, under Joe Biden, the White House celebrated Human Rights Day by recommitting to “upholding the equal and inalienable rights of all people.”
The U.S. government did not recognize Human Rights Day this year.
✌️ ⚖️ 🌎
#NoKings #pro-democracy #resist
On this day last year, under Joe Biden, the White House celebrated Human Rights Day by recommitting to “upholding the equal and inalienable rights of all people.”
The U.S. government did not recognize Human Rights Day this year.
✌️ ⚖️ 🌎
#NoKings #pro-democracy #resist
December 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Happy Human Rights Day!
On this day last year, under Joe Biden, the White House celebrated Human Rights Day by recommitting to “upholding the equal and inalienable rights of all people.”
The U.S. government did not recognize Human Rights Day this year.
✌️ ⚖️ 🌎
#NoKings #pro-democracy #resist
On this day last year, under Joe Biden, the White House celebrated Human Rights Day by recommitting to “upholding the equal and inalienable rights of all people.”
The U.S. government did not recognize Human Rights Day this year.
✌️ ⚖️ 🌎
#NoKings #pro-democracy #resist
Wise Words ✍️
"The question is whether or not you choose to disturb the world around you, or if you choose to let it go on as if you had never arrived."
- Ann Patchett, American novelist & memoirist, born this day 1963
#authors #birthdays #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #amwriting
"The question is whether or not you choose to disturb the world around you, or if you choose to let it go on as if you had never arrived."
- Ann Patchett, American novelist & memoirist, born this day 1963
#authors #birthdays #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #amwriting
December 2, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Wise Words ✍️
"The question is whether or not you choose to disturb the world around you, or if you choose to let it go on as if you had never arrived."
- Ann Patchett, American novelist & memoirist, born this day 1963
#authors #birthdays #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #amwriting
"The question is whether or not you choose to disturb the world around you, or if you choose to let it go on as if you had never arrived."
- Ann Patchett, American novelist & memoirist, born this day 1963
#authors #birthdays #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #amwriting
November 29, 2025 at 6:57 PM
C'mon humans, we can do better!
“The younger generation is...the most emotionally involved in the problems, and have contributed the least to their causing, and, then, are also going to suffer most as a result.”
🌎 > 💰
#environment #climatecrisis #GoodNewsToo
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
“The younger generation is...the most emotionally involved in the problems, and have contributed the least to their causing, and, then, are also going to suffer most as a result.”
🌎 > 💰
#environment #climatecrisis #GoodNewsToo
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘It fully changed my life!’ How young rewilders transformed a farm – and began a movement
At Maple Farm, nature is returning in droves: nightingales, grass snakes, slowworms, bats and insects. All due to the vision of a group determined to accelerate its recovery
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
C'mon humans, we can do better!
“The younger generation is...the most emotionally involved in the problems, and have contributed the least to their causing, and, then, are also going to suffer most as a result.”
🌎 > 💰
#environment #climatecrisis #GoodNewsToo
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
“The younger generation is...the most emotionally involved in the problems, and have contributed the least to their causing, and, then, are also going to suffer most as a result.”
🌎 > 💰
#environment #climatecrisis #GoodNewsToo
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Wise Words ✍️
"Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world."
- Voltaire, French writer, philosopher, satirist & historian, born this day 1694
#authors #birthdays #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #amwriting
"Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world."
- Voltaire, French writer, philosopher, satirist & historian, born this day 1694
#authors #birthdays #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #amwriting
November 21, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Wise Words ✍️
"Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world."
- Voltaire, French writer, philosopher, satirist & historian, born this day 1694
#authors #birthdays #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #amwriting
"Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world."
- Voltaire, French writer, philosopher, satirist & historian, born this day 1694
#authors #birthdays #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #amwriting