Gareth Gaston @cggaston.bsky.social · 37mFound this book in my dad’s office. I feel like conservatives have been thanked a bit too much of late. Democrats could learn a lot from them about how to play the long game. 010
Gareth Gaston @cggaston.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I guess it’s encouraging that I can’t easily find a parking spot for my e-bike at the main hospital. But maybe they could add some racks 130
Gareth Gaston @cggaston.bsky.social · 04/08/2026If only Mamdani could appoint the UVA Board of Visitors www.bloomberg.com/news/article...bloomberg.comMamdani Dismisses Business Leaders Advising NYC’s Mayor’s FundNew York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani dismissed the business and civic leaders who advised a multimillion-dollar fund that channels private donations into public programs, removing a longstanding group o... 061
Gareth Gaston @cggaston.bsky.social · 18/01/2026My social media gets very strange when there is a big sporting event going on and I have no idea what anyone is talking about. 040
Gareth Gaston @cggaston.bsky.social · 13/12/2025I am disappointed that on their 2nd interview with a Harvard educated rock musician @weisenthal.bsky.social and @tracyalloway.bsky.social did not talk about their interview with @dadadrummer.bsky.social and how terrible Spotify is. But I guess that would have been impolite. 120
Gareth Gaston @cggaston.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Anybody know what the back story is here? Is there really something wrong with the zoning code or were the developers trying to do something outside the code? c-ville.com/lewis-mounta... @mtgillikin.bsky.social @stevenljohnson.orgc-ville.com 020
Gareth Gaston @cggaston.bsky.social · 21/11/2025The If Books Could Kill ( @ifbookspod.bsky.social ) gang have another banger of an episode. I knew I should be suspicious of Sapiens but I did not see the “western colonialism was actually OK because they mostly cared about knowledge” argument coming. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...podcasts.apple.comSapiensPodcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m 020
Gareth Gaston @cggaston.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Usually I leave the NY Times criticism to folks more experienced in the genre, but wow I did not see this coming. Waxing nostalgic for a “clubby” world that’s “all but gone”. You know what folks did in that club, right?? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/s...nytimes.comEpstein Emails Reveal a Lost New York 1315
Gareth Gaston @cggaston.bsky.social · 01/11/2025Everyone is saying how “unprecedented” it is that King Charles is stripping in his brother of his royal titles and paying for him to live in a slightly less nice house. Well Edward IV locked his brother up in the Tower of London, personally prosecuted him, and had him executed. 250
Gareth Gaston @cggaston.bsky.social · 27/10/2025I am so relieved to learn that AI is not going to put folks out of work but rather give them super powers. And anyone it does put out of work was not a “real” worker anyway. 050
Gareth Gaston @cggaston.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Found this in a letter from my dad to his dad, written Thanksgiving 1974. He had made full professor a few years earlier, and it's interesting to see the younger professors starting to freak out about the end of the post-war academic boom. Austerity never ends well. 010
Gareth Gaston @cggaston.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Oh look, the housing crisis is going to solve itself as the baby boomers sell their houses. Now we just need to get those annoying YIMBYs to stop insisting that houses be in walkable areas with good public transit. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...washingtonpost.comOpinion | Forget YIMBY. The housing shortage could disappear on its own.Demographic shifts and construction surges are likely to resolve the housing crisis without federal intervention. 240
Gareth Gaston @cggaston.bsky.social · 08/08/2025Think of the hours wasted stopping at red lights: 1193
Gareth Gaston @cggaston.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Here is a clip of Paul Mahoney, UVA's new acting president, at a Federalist Society panel. It's clear why no-one from the College was appointed to the presidential search committee -- Mahoney says outright that humanities professors are all a bunch of commies. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpUq...youtube.comShowcase Panel II: The Mission of Law Schools [NLC 2022]YouTube video by The Federalist Society 2113
Gareth Gaston @cggaston.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Maybe it could start by just causing fewer problems. 1385
Gareth Gaston @cggaston.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Two days of driving from mid Missouri and now back in Charlottesville. So nice to be greeted by the amazing entrance corridor on Ivy Road. 3110
