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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"Hot Minutes"

recent poem by me #smallpoemsunday
February 8, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Reposted by Nikki Wallschlaeger
utter of wisconsin apples, painted by mary daisy arnold
February 8, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Reposted by Nikki Wallschlaeger
people need to understand that EVERY ISRAELI ADULT IS IN THE IDF. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM. the ONLY ones who arent had to go to prison and there are not very many of them
There is simply no moral argument for allowing war criminals to compete at the Olympics.
February 8, 2026 at 1:46 PM
sportsbowl
for people who use the word sportsball, today is their super bowl
February 8, 2026 at 1:43 PM
Reposted by Nikki Wallschlaeger
I Thought Freedom Would Set Me Free (And You Gave Me A Song), 2020, by African American artist Arcmanoro Niles (born in 1989)

Oil, acrylic, and glitter on canvas

178 x 128 cm

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
February 8, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Beautiful
Where Do I Turn to When I Can’t Take It Anymore (All the Hope I Had I Hope I Wasn’t Wrong), 2025, by African American artist Arcmanoro Niles (born in 1989)

Oil, acrylic, and glitter on canvas

69 x 85 cm

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
February 8, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Reposted by Nikki Wallschlaeger
This poem is for you:
February 4, 2026 at 5:40 PM
😆😂🤣
Kid Rock looks like he argues with gas station cashiers every time cigarettes go up in price
February 8, 2026 at 1:12 PM
February 8, 2026 at 3:31 AM
Looting dinosaur bones on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation.
February 8, 2026 at 2:57 AM
Why am I on here? This is a waste of time.
February 8, 2026 at 2:11 AM
shut up
February 8, 2026 at 2:09 AM
Why are ppl fixated on how he typed his emails? For the love of all that is holy who gives a fuck!
February 8, 2026 at 2:01 AM
Reposted by Nikki Wallschlaeger
Buena Vista Social Club (1999) A documentary directed by Wim Wenders about the old musicians and the wonderful music they make in Cuba.
February 6, 2026 at 5:29 PM
having a breakdown at work because the fucking president posts a video of the Obamas as monkeys and I have to serve white people food all fucking day
February 6, 2026 at 6:38 PM
why doesn't that son of a bitch just die
February 6, 2026 at 6:36 PM
well no shit Sherlock
Donald Trump is a racist.
February 6, 2026 at 4:46 PM
intelligence is called neurodivergence now lol
"When your mind can intuitively grasp complex systems, rapidly synthesize information from multiple sources, and identify patterns others miss, it becomes genuinely difficult to understand why others cannot do the same."

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Neurodivergent Mind: When Your Common Sense Is Not Common
You thought everyone understood the way you did. Realizing they don't creates a sense of aloneness few understand.
www.psychologytoday.com
February 6, 2026 at 4:19 PM
I clicked on curling match thinking it would be coverage of that odd and wholesome white folks sport but
February 5, 2026 at 10:25 PM
cake crumbs at work
February 5, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Billie Cold Eyes is getting roasted by the Tongva tribe lol
February 5, 2026 at 12:15 AM
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7:00pm EST: Moon in Virgo sesquiquadrate Mars in Aquarius. Thwarted action, bafflement, frustration. Don't work harder, work weirder. 24°Vi51' D 09°Aq51' D

February 5, 2026 at 12:12 AM
February 4, 2026 at 11:41 PM
the starling family in the eaves of my bedroom are having an argument
February 4, 2026 at 11:35 PM
Michael Dukakis '28
Democratic Presidential Polling:

🔵 Harris 34%
🔵 Newsom 20%
🔵 Shapiro 10%
🔵 Buttigieg 10%
🔵 AOC 7%
🔵 Booker 6%
🔵 Moore 3%

Rasmussen / Jan 27, 2026
February 4, 2026 at 11:34 PM