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Alejandro Ramirez @alejandroramirez.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Wonder if Beyonce gonna drop a love-letter album to Latin music at some point. The old and new Spanish tracks on B'Day are fun.

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Alejandro Ramirez @alejandroramirez.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This sucks. I proposed to my wife under a giant dragon-turtle lantern at Zoolumination years ago. We looked forward to it every year.

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Alejandro Ramirez @alejandroramirez.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

OK the thing is even if Hardy was way worse at rapping you'd still have a Czarface album providing a solid chassis

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Alejandro Ramirez @alejandroramirez.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This thread from one of the city's at-large councilmembers highlights many of the questions I had going into this AI story and a few that remain afterwards.

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Alejandro Ramirez @alejandroramirez.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I read through a lot of documents and even AI prompts to get a sense of how the Nashville government is approaching AI. Like other cities, the approach seems slow and cautious. But there are still calls for more clarity on AI guidelines and evaluation of usage. www.nashvillescene.com/news/coverst...

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Humans in the Loop: What Role Is AI Playing in Nashville Government?

AI slop has taken over Nashville. Posters and logos made with image generators abound on social media and on business signs. The uncanny aesthetics, betrayed by cluttered imagery and fonts, bold outli...

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Alejandro Ramirez @alejandroramirez.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

My latest article is this week's cover story: a look at how Metro developed its AI policy and how the city is overseeing the use of these tools.

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Alejandro Ramirez @alejandroramirez.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

hey guys, no one is obligated to use the phrase "woke 1.0" at all

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Alejandro Ramirez @alejandroramirez.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Open Mike Eagle and Channel Tres were a weekend soundtrack combo that worked better than expected.

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Alejandro Ramirez @alejandroramirez.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I've never seen footage of the Language Police killing someone with an illegal chokehold.

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Alejandro Ramirez @alejandroramirez.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Packed house at the Belcourt for the Mary Oliver doc with a post-screening poetry reading. Feels like a good excuse to reshare my article exploring Nashville's lack of a poet laureate (and why it could be nice to have one). www.nashvillescene.com/arts_culture...

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Despite a Thriving Literary Scene, Nashville Lacks a Poet Laureate

Asking poets about what an established laureate could bring to the city

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Alejandro Ramirez @alejandroramirez.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

A new generation of ratfuckers rises

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Alejandro Ramirez @alejandroramirez.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

We stopped the game for ... All this

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Alejandro Ramirez @alejandroramirez.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

this was such a good deep cut, shout out to these prolific graff writers

You know Oprah vs. Moist is the real Nashville Super Bowl. —Andy Gasparini

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Nashville Scene @nashvillescene.com · 16/07/2026

Our 38th annual “You Are So Nashville If …” issue is here! See this year’s winners, honorable mentions and more. www.nashvillescene.com/news/coverst…

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Alejandro Ramirez @alejandroramirez.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

'Pokémon Go' turned 10 years old this week. I spoke to the Nashville fans building community around the game, many of whom have been fans of the Pokémon franchise since its start 30 (!) years ago. www.nashvillescene.com/arts_culture...

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In the Club: 'Pokémon Go' Nashville

Nashville fans build community around the hit phone game from 2016

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Alejandro Ramirez @alejandroramirez.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

i think even the most serious godzilla movies should have the infamous tail slide at one point

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Alejandro Ramirez @alejandroramirez.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Speaking of Marsha Blackburn, check out Eli's story on the race for the governor's seat in Tennessee.

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Nashville Scene @nashvillescene.com · 09/07/2026

U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn's fortune cookie ad is the latest in the gubernatorial frontrunner's storied career of anti-Chinese bigotry.

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Marsha Blackburn Has Always Been This Racist

The Tennessee senator’s fortune cookie ad is the latest in her storied career of anti-Chinese bigotry

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Julianne Akers @julianneakers.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Still feeling a little delirious after leaving the courthouse at 2:00 a.m. this morning, but I can’t stop thinking about this moment from the Nashville Metro Council’s public hearing on data center regulations.

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Alejandro Ramirez @alejandroramirez.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

seeing this in Chicago really surprised me

Paris Street; Rainy Day, 1877
Gustave Caillebotte

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Alejandro Ramirez @alejandroramirez.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I noticed this trend in Nashville, which is why I spoke to the folks at Grand Palace about silk-screen printing in the AI era. (I also spoke to prominent tattooist and fine artist Elisheba Israel Mrozik!) www.nashvillescene.com/arts_culture...

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Physical Education: Commercial Artists Don’t Fear AI … Yet

Talking with silkscreen printers and a tattoo artist about maintaining customers despite the rise of generative AI art

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Alejandro Ramirez @alejandroramirez.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Nixon one of the top 10 worst theater kids, right?

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Alejandro Ramirez @alejandroramirez.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I saw a webinar where a journo mentioned taking note in Excel and after trying it out ... I don't hate it. I wouldn't use it for interview notes but for connecting little story beats, dumping links and adding to-dos, it kinda works for me. Think white board or murder board.

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Alejandro Ramirez @alejandroramirez.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Yglesias argument is obviously dumb and in bad faith but I always liked my history teacher's argument it was a gumbo: you can recognize the components but they've all added and absorbed flavor.

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Alejandro Ramirez @alejandroramirez.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Seeing Justin Long and John Hodgman reunite for Ozempic commercials feels like one of the darker corners of reboot culture.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

New from me: Bari Weiss's Free Press has been amplifying the lie that "Biden's open borders policy" pushed thousands of kids into sex slavery -- and that Trump is now rushing to rescue them. What Trump is actually doing: separating kids from their families, jailing them, and deporting them.

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How The Free Press spun Trump's cruelty toward migrants as a heroic campaign to "save" kids

As Bari Weiss guts CBS News -- and sets her sights on CNN -- the publication she founded continues to sanitize this administration's worst abuses

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Anita Wadhwani @anitawadhwani.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Just in: Nashville judge issues a temporary restraining order barring Tennessee health officials from reporting children to a state immigration enforcement division as a condition of keeping healthcare through a public program for chronically ill kids tennesseelookout.com/2026/06/24/d...

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Judge issues restraining order in doctors' challenge to TN plan to report disabled immigrant kids • Tennessee Lookout

A Nashville judge on Wednesday swiftly issued a temporary restraining order preventing the Tennessee Department of Health from turning over the names of about 400 disabled and critically ill kids to a...

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D. Patrick Rodgers @dpatrickrodgers.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I drove out to my native Sumner County to interview Steve-O about his burgeoning animal sanctuary, The Radical Ranch.

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Alejandro Ramirez @alejandroramirez.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I saw Tay Keith perform a set after a show featuring lots of Tennessee rappers and singers shortly after my move to Nashville in 2019. Was crazy he was already such a big name. www.nashvillescene.com/music/nashvi...

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Tay Keith Has Died

Memphis hitmaker Brytavious Lakeith Chambers, better known as Tay Keith died Friday night. Metro Nashville Police confirmed his death to various outlets after performing a welfare check on his apartme...

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Alejandro Ramirez @alejandroramirez.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Began reading "The Left Hand of Darkness" while listening to the "Lilith's Brood" series and it's like I accidentally built a mini-course on sci-fi and sex and gender politics.

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Nashville Scene @nashvillescene.com · 10/06/2026

Fisk University alumni and North Nashville community members gathered outside the historically Black college’s campus Wednesday to speak out against the school’s plan for a data center.

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Fisk University Alumni Protest Data Center Plan

Rep. Justin Jones is joined by health experts and community leaders in speaking out against the university’s proposed innovation center

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Alejandro Ramirez @alejandroramirez.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Longtime activist Karl Meyer, 88, is scheduled to appear in court tomorrow to face a trespassing charge over his one-man protest against the War in Iran. I wrote about Karl's action back in March. www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithint...

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Lifelong Activist Stages One-Man Protest Against War in Iran

On Monday morning, an 88-year-old anti-war activist set up a chair and three signs outside the entrance of the Fred D. Thompson Courthouse and Federal Building to protest the joint U.S.-Israel bombing...

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Alejandro Ramirez @alejandroramirez.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Ladies and gentlemen The Weeknd (visiting Atlus studios for some reason)

The weekend standing next to a life sized mascot of Mona, a cat-like being from Persona 5

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Alejandro Ramirez @alejandroramirez.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

this game was such silly fun. no clue why they're bringing it back but glad to see i'm not the only one who enjoyed it. (it was kinda just me and my best childhood friend who even knew this game lol)

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