diff --git a/thoom-emacs/init.el b/thoom-emacs/init.el
index 7786d89..398f2c9 100644
--- a/thoom-emacs/init.el
+++ b/thoom-emacs/init.el
@@ -548,6 +548,10 @@
 (setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil)
 (setq-default tab-width 4)
 (setq-default sentence-end-double-space nil)
+
+;; Don't clobber the OS clipboard completely
+(setq save-interprogram-paste-before-kill t)
+
 ;; automatically cleanup whitespace on save
 (defun my-whitespace-cleanup ()
   "Run `whitespace-cleanup' except for TSV files."