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they were expecting ~1.5 inches, and that’s been lowered to 0.5 inches. Still a decent rain but hopefully won’t cause damage.

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Sean Parker @seanforfive.com · 12h

Time to replace some car ticklers with concrete

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Michael @mbelcher.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We could only be so lucky. I’m using the anarchy to install steel bollards where people have run over the flex posts.

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Michael @mbelcher.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I‘m not celebrating until the money is in the symphony’s account.

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Michael @mbelcher.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If the people in power who claim to be Christians were actually Christian, they would see a headline like “is still alive after the state twice tried and failed to execute her” and think that maybe they shouldn’t be trying to execute her. But they’re not Christians.

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Michael @mbelcher.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

cigarette lighters are DC, which is what the battery needs but the charger itself is AC to DC, so that won't directly work. It really does seem like some CYA gotcha clause they can point to if a battery catches fire.

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Michael @mbelcher.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That’s wild. Lectric is one of the major brands, too. I don’t even have a 10amp circuit in my panel. wtf.

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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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Tourism Support

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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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Michael @mbelcher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I often wonder if we just spam the hell out of hubnashville for traffic improvements on specific streets they would just do it without the NIMBY and anti-renter "traffic calming" BS.

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Chris Schweizer @ NYCC (H27) @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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Michael @mbelcher.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Same here. Tyler Childers had it right a decade ago when he said: “As a man who identifies as a country music singer, I feel Americana ain’t no part of nothin’. It is a distraction from the issues that we are facing on a bigger level as country music singers. It kind of feels like ‘Purgatory’.”

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Michael @mbelcher.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Nashville doesn’t let that be called country, though. Music Row insists that it’s all “Americana“.

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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 · 26/09/2026

Whether you tell them this is up to you, but the tower in Paris, Tx has a hat on top.

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Michael @mbelcher.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The idea of putting one random solid post somewhere along the line is really compelling.

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Michael @mbelcher.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

That dude (derogatory) declined to answer The Banner's short questionnaire on policy ideas saying ' the questions were “too hard” '

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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 · 15/09/2026

MHC should do the same to planning. Issue stop work orders on projects. Revoke permits. issue other permits for historically accurate streetcar systems.

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

If you do it “right” they would never know. But doing it right would require electrical know-how that I’m not comfortable with yet, so I‘m going to wait for the UL certified stuff and see if I can yolo it with that equipment.

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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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Michael @mbelcher.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Frame this whole article and hang it in every high school history class room.

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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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Michael @mbelcher.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Any stretch of road where a pedestrian gets hit should get a 25% lower speed limit for a year. If the pedestrian dies then it's lowered for 5 years. If another pedestrian gets hit then the speed limit drops again. minimum speed limit of 15mph.

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Michael @mbelcher.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

El Pueblo down in Smyrna has a Giant Burrito. I didn't bring a scale but it may be around the 2lbs mark.

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

Wow yeah fuck you dude

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

Oh it’s 100% going to be a data center now.

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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.

foxnews.com

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

sports teams shouldn’t have billionaire owners, they should have municipal owners. Cities pay for the stadiums and cities should get a cut of the revenue generated by the team.

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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...

nashvillescene.com

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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Michael @mbelcher.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Wait till the temp drops below 80. Tree canopy would help with that.

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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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Michael @mbelcher.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Those in power have shown themselves to be untrustworthy and unable to build a system that *doesn't* feed the torment nexus. They could have done any number of things, but they chose to build the torment nexus instead.

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Michael @mbelcher.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I pass a bus stop with shelter on 70S every day that's had a MNPD recruitment poster on the side of it for at least the past two years. I don't know if they're paying for it or WeGo just isn't trying to sell the space.

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Michael @mbelcher.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

from what witnesses are saying this was egregious even by MNPD standards.

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Michael @mbelcher.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

They have a staff to wait on them 24/7, they get to feel important, and like most politicians they get to hold power over others. It’s probably the last point the most.

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Michael @mbelcher.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Margaret Killjoy has a great two part episode on Robin Hood that covers the connections between the Robin Hood mythos, and piers plowman and the 1531 peasant uprising. bsky.app/profile/cool...

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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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