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water567891011.bsky.social @water567891011.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

On Thursday, the state's new joint capital tourism board will meet to "discuss how to allocate excess revenues" collected in the TDZ. They are authorized to provide "capital city economic assistance" to entertainment businesses in the TDZ. comptroller.tn.gov/boards/jctb/...

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Erik Noonan @eriknoonan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Bike/pedestrian networks don't take 30 years to build. Stop accepting those timelines in your community. The best practices have been proven & they already exist. Safety should already be the #1 priority. The ROI is unbeatable. The timeline is a moral document and it shouldn't be generational.

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Chris Schweizer @ NCAF & NYCC @schweizercomics.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I know it's dangerous to pedestal politicians, but our governor has time &again refused to take the bait on throwing any vulnerable group under the bus, and I'm mighty grateful for both the steadfast decency that he has shown to date, and the kind, invitational correctives he offers his errant peers

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Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

How do we incentivize people to paint wizards on their vans again I haven’t seen a wizard van in a decade and it feels like we lost something precious Can we offer up a tax credit? Little bags of shrooms? Start a wizard van painting program at vocational schools?

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Michael @mbelcher.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Office workers: if your company made you come back to the office you need to start talking to your coworkers about the price of gas and at what price point you all decide to start working from home again.

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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

GUYS a Nashville warbler just hopped up to me and decided to use my legs as shelter to fall asleep under 😭🪶🌿

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Michael @mbelcher.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I’d love to know how school districts are dealing with $6 diesel. Most pay their bus drivers under market rate as it is, and you know the transportation budget hasn’t kept up with inflation, let alone trump’s war.

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Pete @pete-nash.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

How fast can you bike through 5 gerrymandered congressional districts in Nashville? Apparently the answer is 43 minutes, if you are a middle-aged guy of mediocre fitness.🚲 This is less an athletic feat than an illustration of embrassingly corrupt politics. Shame on the Tennessee Legislature.

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Pete @pete-nash.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

How fast do you think I could bike through 5 gerrymandered congressional districts? Start near 100 Oaks in D4, go north into Berry Hill and D6, then towards Lipscomb across D7 and down along Hillsboro Pike into Brentwood, hitting D5 and D9. ~11 miles. I'm seriously thinking about doing this.

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

anyway, the American id understander himself, Hunter S. Thompson, the next week for goddamn ESPN of all places. the party's over, folks.

We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time."

Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history -- which is no doubt true -- but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a war-time economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed.

That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks. The time has come for loyal Americans to Sacrifice. ... Sacrifice. ... Sacrifice. That is the new buzz-word in Washington. But what it means is not entirely clear.

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Chris Bowe @cbowe34.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

🚨 🚨 EMERGENCY STREETS PILOT PROGRAM 🚨 🚨 Nashville’s Vision Zero Advisory Committee has been pushing for a similar approach for years, falling on deaf ears at NDOT. Maybe a positive example will give them the push to commit to rapid response like the City of Spokane!

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Wow yeah fuck you dude

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

DHS has shot and killed two U.S. citizens, killed several immigrants on U.S. streets, and led the occupations of multiple U.S. cities. They're at war, but it isn't with cartels or terrorists.

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DHS chief announces changes to its seal to reflect that department is 'at war every single day'

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin says DHS is changing its seal so the eagle faces arrows of war amid terrorism and cartel threats.

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Just went to buy @gilduran.com's "The Nerd Reich" on Google Books, and discovered that the enshittification is so thorough that it's not safe to do so - I was very close to buying one that's actually AI slop with an identical title and author name. This is utterly insane.

A screenshot of deceptively marketed books on Google books.

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Michael @mbelcher.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Congrats to the Tennessee bureau of investigation for not putting the amber alert behind a Facebook or twitter login this time.

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Julianne Akers @julianneakers.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A Vanderbilt University employee is suing the school for alleged discrimination after the university denied insurance coverage for gender-affirming procedures.⬇️ www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithint...

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Vanderbilt Employee Sues After Being Denied Gender-Affirming Care Coverage

A Vanderbilt University employee is suing the school for alleged discrimination after the university denied insurance coverage for gender-affirming procedures.

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toxicojendron radicans @toxicoradica.northsky.social · 03/09/2026

🌸 tennessee coneflower 🌿 Echinacea tennesseensis fifteen years ago today, tennessee coneflower was delisted from the usa's endangered species list after decades of effort to protect its habitat. only found in the limestone cedar glades of the nashville basin. #nativeplants #ecoregion71

looking face-on at a large composite flower with a dozen oblong, light pink ray florets with 2 points & a notch between at their tips, surrounding a cone of dozens of narrow, dark red disk florets. the disks at the periphery of the cone are done blooming, while those in the very center are still green & haven't started. between those extremes, some disks are capped with little 5-pointed tufts of pale yellow pollen; the floret's five stamens are fused into a tube around the style & as the anthers dry, they shrink, which first pushes pollen out the top of the stamen tube then eventually allows the style's two curly stigmas to hang free. some of the disks are at this stage, their stigmas coated in pollen looking like moth antennae.

a close-up look at the cone of a tennessee coneflower. the peripheral disk florets are the lowest, with each successive series of florets set slightly higher. the green buds in the center more or less share a level right now, but as they mature the height of the cone will increase towards the center. this photo reveals easily overlooked details about the disk florets. each one sits within a V-shaped, spike-like chaffy bract that stands taller than the floret itself. this is especially evident in some of the green buds on the right, adjacent to the innermost row of red, blooming disks. the chaffy bracts of the immature disks are green like the bud, but their tips are red; bract and bud alike redden as they mature. around have a dozen disks near the transition between bud and bloom show their pollen-tipped stamen tubes. further out, the stamens have diminished and the dark red bifurcated styles are the most prominent feature besides the shield-like chaffy bracts. the cone is surrounded by hot pink ray florets.

tennessee coneflower growing between gray fieldstones in a gravel-strewn limestone cedar glade. there are two flowerheads in bloom; the nearer has light pink rays, while the farther is a deeper pink. at the center of each flowerhead is a cone of dark red disk florets. rather than the cone facing the sky as with many other species of coneflower, the stems of these ones nod over partially so the flowerheads face more to the side. they have a rosette of hairy, green, elliptic leaves at their base and a handful of similar leaves on their hairy reddish green stems. for being an arid stony plain, this glade has a fair amount of green vegetation courtesy of recent rains. gumweed, agave, grass, and tennessee coneflower.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives.

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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Fuck man, she died on Battle of Blair Mountain Day, remember who you are Appalachian Boy

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 25/08/2026

There are so many donations happening right now that the site has crashed.

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

(1/3) With Dolly Parton's passing, I want to put good words on the wind for her. Feel free to quote reply with your own. Dolly became the single largest donor for the Moderna COVID vaccine because of a chance encounter and friendship with a Vanderbilt researcher Dr. Naji Abumrad years earlier. She

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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️

Dolly Parton reads to children in the Library’s Great Hall in 2018. Photo by Shawn Miller.

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Sara Nelson @flyingwithsara.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We should ALL have bread and roses. It’s not a dream. It’s a truth that we have to set free. No shame. No apologies. Just fact realized through solidarity.

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Michael @mbelcher.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Them not showing their math means we’re all going to be paying higher rates. Nashville Electric needs finalize plug-in solar guidelines pronto.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 19/08/2026

I find this incredibly moving; the London children's lung growth study post-ULEZ doesn't just show improvement in kids' lung capacity when the car emissions were cut, but RECOVERY. Our planet's biological capacities to sometimes <unfuck> damage is no panacea but my goodness it is inspiring.

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Michael @mbelcher.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

How about a little earthquake with your tornado, just for a treat?

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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Check out our episode on food, capitalism, and incontinence! I promise it’s more fun than I’ve made it sound

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

friends of the people they're murdering in the fucking streets what are we fucking doing here? Turn a thousand roads into bike paths and railroad tracks before you build the first camera Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

If you want to fucking reduce traffic deaths then actually fucking do shit to reduce traffic deaths by reducing our dependency on cars and doing mass build-outs of public transit don't help the Nazis build a fucking surveillance state so they can track down the Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

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aaronjolly.bsky.social @aaronjolly.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I crash out a little every time I find damaged flex posts along my commute and have to file it as “repair bike lane bollards” in Hub. Maybe if we actually used true bollards I wouldn’t have to put in a hub request for them on the same street 2x a month!

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Spongebob Squarepants Squidward Eye Twitch

ALT: Spongebob Squarepants Squidward Eye Twitch

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Call his bluff. Make him go to Nashville. He'll be back. He won't come to Atlanta because we're just a Democratic governor away from being East Coast LA.

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Katherine McDonell @kemcdonell.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The federal ATIIP grant to fund the Spokes project was for $9 million. CHYM has already generated $168 million in revenue, significantly more than projected. It's time to accept that the federal money isn't coming and do this ourselves.

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Michael @mbelcher.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Trees. We have to plant more trees. Replace every tree lost in the ice storm. Replace every tree cut up by NES. Plant that many and then plant that many again. Every square foot of park space that's not a ball field needs to be planted out with trees.

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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Bro. People are cool as fuck.

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 09/08/2026

My entire life - ever since I was like seven years old - I'd been told that I was childish and naive because my solution to homelessness was 'give people homes' and my solution to poverty was 'give people money' Decades later, dozens of studies international prove me right but it's still 'childish'

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Taylor Nichols, MD MS @tnicholsmd.com · 04/08/2026

I had to code and pronounce a time of death on a respiratory therapist colleague. There's a memorial plaque for her outside the emergency department to this day. I wrote and re-wrote my will. I will never forgive these ghouls trying to rewrite history and deny our experience.

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Ben Vaught @benvaught.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

July 2026 council member Kupin should talk to August 2026 council member Kupin about how every pedestrian death is preventable

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Pete @pete-nash.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Not just because of this, but for every day, Broadway should be closed to vehicle traffic from 5th Ave to 1st, with AM delivery hours. It is absurd to pretend that this is a functioning state highway. www.wkrn.com/news/local-n...

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1 dead, 3 hurt after being struck by vehicle on Broadway Saturday

At least one person has died after multiple people were struck at a downtown Nashville intersection, according to Metro police.

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Neil Kornutick @neilkornutick.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The retractable bollards should have already been installed. It should be fully pedestrianized Thursday to Sunday at a minimum. Spend the downtown money on the downtown we already have.

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Michael @mbelcher.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

We've got to find some way to block off traffic from Broadway during tourist hours in #nashville. We should already have retractable bollards installed for all the times (CMAfest, new years, etc) that it's already pedestrian-only.

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Michael @mbelcher.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Why did Wilmington (and #Nashville) lose their damn mind when folks put benches at bus stops? Because it shows that people; individuals, groups, neighborhoods; can make their world better without help from "the authorities". People working together scares the shit out of them. Keep it up.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

El Sayed: "When it comes to trans rights, this is the right to get the health care that you need...It’s the right not to be discriminated against by your government because of who you are. Because what tends to happen is they come for theirs, then they come for yours"

The idea that we can assent to the taking away of anybody’s rights, and think that somehow the government won’t come for all of our rights, is itself the problem. And, look, I don’t need people to understand how they use their rights. I just need people to agree that the government shouldn’t be able to take any of our rights. I put my face on the ground thirty-four times a day, David. Most people don’t understand why I do it. I don’t need them to understand. I just want to have the right to do it. And when people decide that they want to take away my right to do that, I’ve got a problem.

Now, I hope that everybody’s going to show up and say, No, no, no. You can’t stop that person or that community from reflecting and praying as they choose. Similarly, when it comes to trans rights, this is the right to get the health care that you need. That’s really what it comes down to. It’s the right to be who you are. It’s the right not to be discriminated against by your government because of who you are. Because what tends to happen is they come for theirs, then they come for yours, then they come for theirs. And at some point you live in a society where rights are negotiable, and that is not the America I was born in. It’s not the America I know and love. It’s not the America I’m going to allow somebody like Donald Trump to give us.

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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This is going to happen more and more until people in power and in the media stop lying about the basis for asylum. People don’t risk their lives to come here for nothing, they do it because it’s the only chance they have at safety.

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Michael @mbelcher.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

In TN it looks like plug-in solar is up to the local electric company. Nashville electric had a pilot program in August 2025 to study plug-in solar. Anyone know how the program went? Anyone know if they'll approve plug-in solar setups now?

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