Charles R. Miller @charlesmiller.bsky.social · 11/10/2026PSG is so weird, it's like if Man City had the fan culture of Celtic. 010
Charles R. Miller @charlesmiller.bsky.social · 11/10/2026The thing I was actually looking for, the order of crustaceans that they belong to, is Decapoda, "ten feet." 000
Charles R. Miller @charlesmiller.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Appropriate that when I search for "crawfish," the LLM overview gives me the same response some dull people in Montgomery gave me when I introduced a bill to create an official state migratory fish -- "can I eat it?" 100
Charles R. Miller @charlesmiller.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Gonna try to do more #sincerityposting #onhere 010
Reposted by Charles R. MillerEloise Powers @elnopower.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Belted Kingfisher. The belted kingfisher is a large, conspicuous water kingfisher, native to North America. This species has a large head with a shaggy crest. Its long, heavy bill is black with a grey base. These features are common in many kingfisher species. 📸: @sriram.udhayab 161290128
Reposted by Charles R. MillerTibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Wendell Berry, revered American novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist, and farmer. August 5, 1934 - August 31, 2026. Rest in Peace, sweet soul. ❤️🩹🕯️🕊️ 1429767
Charles R. Miller @charlesmiller.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Wore this to the Arsenal bar in Birmingham (which is in the ground floor of our apartment building) and got cussed out by an Arsenal fan after PSG won. Celtic Football Club, we are massive. 020
Charles R. Miller @charlesmiller.bsky.social · 27/05/2026"Hi everyone, this is an automated message to let you know my Tactiq extension: is transcribing this meeting for me so I can give my full attention to you." You're not giving the presenters your full attention, if you were, you wouldn't need the transcription!!! 000
Charles R. Miller @charlesmiller.bsky.social · 11/05/2026"Kids" was inescapable at my public liberal arts college in 2008, but outside nomination here (given when it was actually recorded/released): "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" 210
Charles R. Miller @charlesmiller.bsky.social · 10/05/2026Knew someone who did 3rd party NLRB complaint investigation. Told me that in January '24, all of the sudden, all meritorious complaints were put on the back burner, and they were told to start prioritizing ones that were (to him) non-obviously meritorious. Told my Congressperson's CoS. Crickets. 000
Charles R. Miller @charlesmiller.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Maybe I take this a bit personally because I do legislative work in a red state, but it does really chap my hide to see coastal elites roll over for powerful lobbying interests. Meanwhile folks here are fighting them tooth and nail, from more angles, with fewer resources. 000
Charles R. Miller @charlesmiller.bsky.social · 16/03/2026To which I'd say yeah, obviously that's the political reality, but if we ever want to escape big oil having a veto power over Congressional policy, we should probably fight that reality rather than give into it. 101
Charles R. Miller @charlesmiller.bsky.social · 16/03/2026"WE have to compromise with fossil fuel interests on permitting reform in Congress because that's just ~political reality~." 100
Charles R. Miller @charlesmiller.bsky.social · 16/03/2026The most stark example of this I've seen was when Zach Liscow and other permitting reform proponents on a panel at Yale practically screamed at an environmental lawyer for "making common cause with fossil fuel companies," then immediately turning around and saying... 110
Charles R. Miller @charlesmiller.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Again, I'd be much, much less skeptical of "abundance" if it ever required the rentiers and polluters to compromise in favor of protecting public resources. Instead, we're always forced to give away power and control over those resources to profiteers and polluters. Funny how that works. 100
Charles R. Miller @charlesmiller.bsky.social · 16/03/2026www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... The president's lack of enthusiasm about the Warren-Scott housing bill gives the game away here. Just like all other "permitting reform" and "abundance" actions, this isn't about affordability, it's about giant polluters' deregulatory wishlists.whitehouse.govRemoving Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Home ConstructionBy the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose. 100
Charles R. Miller @charlesmiller.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Open loop cooling consumes about 80% of the water they withdraw, so yes, they are losing an incredible amount of it to evaporation. 1482
Reposted by Charles R. MillerAlabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · 04/02/2026Via Anna Barrett: The Alabama Senate Tuesday approved a bill that would prohibit the state from having stricter environmental regulations than the federal government. Democrats said the bill would leave the state vulnerable as the Trump administration weakens protections. ow.ly/ZYob50Y8xSZ 21612
Reposted by Charles R. MillerMadison Earhart, PhD @madisonearhart.bsky.social · 31/01/2026happy #sturgeonsaturday yall 🧪👩🏻🔬 🌎 Did ya know that during winter sturgeon do a thing i call cuddle puddle? they find a deep hole to overwinter in & hang out cuddle puddling until spring! we are working to identify & protect these areas now support the sturgies, get a sticker: tinyurl.com/2fjnxy7w 07224
Reposted by Charles R. MillerBrian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 31/01/2026My column from Monday. Alabama politicians give voters little but paranoia and niche right-wing issues, which may be why just 37% of voters turned up for the last midterm in 2022. Those politicians who truly want to make a government for Alabama have to restore Alabamians’ faith in the process.alabamareflector.comA better Alabama government requires a bigger Alabama electorate | Alabama ReflectorWhat Alabama voters want is not necessarily what Alabamians want. Because in state elections, most Alabamians don't vote. 15226
Charles R. Miller @charlesmiller.bsky.social · 31/01/2026Some of our friends fighting the hyperscale data center in Bessemer were in the NYT: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/u...nytimes.comTrump Pushes A.I. Data Centers, but the G.O.P. Is Cool to One in Alabama 130
Charles R. Miller @charlesmiller.bsky.social · 28/01/2026*impeachment, removal, conviction for treason specifically is some kind of superimpeachment 000
Charles R. Miller @charlesmiller.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Right, but the crazy premise of the original post was that impeachment, removal, conviction is some kind of superimpeachment that wipes out the whole admin. That + character limit is why I only mentioned treason. 110
Charles R. Miller @charlesmiller.bsky.social · 27/01/2026There are 2 different interpretations here. The OP is saying "If the president is impeached and removed for treason, then the VP, et al are automatically removed." Not the case. The correct interpretation is that each can be removed individually through conviction after impeachment for treason. 140
Charles R. Miller @charlesmiller.bsky.social · 27/01/2026The photo is of a piece of scrip from the Ravensbruck women's concentration camp. It belonged to my late grandfather who was a U.S. Infantryman in WWII. I don't know how he got it, since Ravensbruck was in the East, and was liberated by the Soviets. 000
Charles R. Miller @charlesmiller.bsky.social · 27/01/2026But it is necessary to say "never again," even if we know we have failed, to renew a commitment to eradicating not only the horrific expressions of hatred that is genocide, but also to combat the conditions which lead to genocide, totalitarianism, and fascism. 100
Charles R. Miller @charlesmiller.bsky.social · 27/01/2026It is difficult to say "never again," after genocide has happened again, in every single succeeding decade. None of them plumb the depths of the Shoah, but they also show us we are not so civilized as we would like to think. 100
Charles R. Miller @charlesmiller.bsky.social · 27/01/2026The Holocaust was not only a uniquely evil expression of the darker aspects of human and social nature, but was a result of a politics which allowed people to see others as less than human. 100
Charles R. Miller @charlesmiller.bsky.social · 27/01/2026To address this, we must confront past totalitarianism and see where it is reflected in our present political lives. Not only where it breaches the surface as genocide, repression, or war, but also its subterranean elements - politics based in discourses of ignorance, greed, fear 100
Charles R. Miller @charlesmiller.bsky.social · 27/01/2026I still think that. But I also think that many of the critical prerequisites for that kind of informed and meaningful participation are under attack throughout the "developed" or western world. 100
Charles R. Miller @charlesmiller.bsky.social · 27/01/2026In undergrad, I studied democratization and totalitarianism. In order to achieve the highest and best form of government -- one that allows all people meaningful participation in decisions that will shape their lives -- I thought you also had to understand its opposite. 100
Charles R. Miller @charlesmiller.bsky.social · 27/01/2026"Nach Auschwitz ein Gedicht zu schreiben, ist barbarisch" 100
Charles R. Miller @charlesmiller.bsky.social · 26/01/2026BWorks is one of the best things about St. Louis! 020
Charles R. Miller @charlesmiller.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Honestly, it is an insult if you send me LLM output. Also an insult if you send your AI zoom listener to a zoom meeting in your stead. Microsoft and Google are forcing this stuff on me too much as it is, I don't need human beings joining in on it. 010
Charles R. Miller @charlesmiller.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Depending on the procedurally generated output of probability machines seems like the very definition of arbitrary and capricious. 010
Charles R. Miller @charlesmiller.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Fine here, The Bears scored a touchdown on this play 020
Charles R. Miller @charlesmiller.bsky.social · 19/01/2026one of those where you show a still of Caleb Williams facing backwards at the 35 and say "The Bears scored a touchdown on this play" 1201
Charles R. Miller @charlesmiller.bsky.social · 18/01/2026Perhaps more mind-blowing (or maybe not), the current SCOTUS had the opportunity to overrule these nakedly racist rulings and set Puerto Rico and the other so-called "unincorporated territories" on a more equal footing with the rest of the US, but refused. www.vox.com/2022/4/21/23...vox.comThe Supreme Court rules that cruel laws must still be enforcedThe Court’s decision is a tremendous, if not unexpected, blow to poor Puerto Ricans. 010
Charles R. Miller @charlesmiller.bsky.social · 18/01/2026I remember one of the most mind-blowing things I read about during law school was the Insular Cases. SCOTUS just took on whole cloth a bunch of racist arguments from HLR articles and invented a new form of territory. 141
Charles R. Miller @charlesmiller.bsky.social · 18/01/2026Semi-related, see you in Richmond in February! 110
Reposted by Charles R. MillerAlondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 15/01/2026🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...science.orgThe mirage of AI deregulationOne of the most interventionist approaches to technology governance in the United States in a generation has cloaked itself in the language of deregulation. In early December 2025, President Donald Tr... 10684359
Reposted by Charles R. MillerKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 13/01/2026New analysis out today from Rhodium Group showing data centres were one of the major drivers of the first rise in total economy-wide emissions in the US in years Uncontrolled growth of demand has helped boost coal growth, in conjunction with the LNG export boom -> rhg.com/research/us-... 411370
Charles R. Miller @charlesmiller.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Didn't hurt that image that the developers ran around calling everyone "liars" on the record, but couldn't answer the most basic questions asked by citizens, media, and the handful of skeptical city officials. 010
Charles R. Miller @charlesmiller.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Can't describe how absurd interacting with this city has been. Every time I thought we'd hit bottom, some other procedural matter would get screwed up. In some sense it was good though. Because it was just the typical Alabama run-around w/o the PR gloss, so at least it was obvious to the public. 110
Charles R. Miller @charlesmiller.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Y'all can read the official statement in the article, but just know that my first reaction isn't fit to print. Unbelievable levels of arrogance for a city council to give residents the run-around for a year, then come right back and subject them to it again. 🤬 1114
