Well, this is a waste of my time. They ignored my question, answered lots asked after mine, and spent 95% of the discussion on transportation rather than science. People need the science info FIRST before forming an opinion. 🦞

Here MNPS goes being unserious about this school start time thing, sending this text an hour before the meeting. This is the first notification I have seen.

I was glad that *finally* @freddieoconnell.bsky.social and MNPS are considering later high school start times until I saw the biased, poorly constructed survey sent out. 1. The earliest time question gives 7:50 AM as the latest response even though 8:30 AM is the earliest recommeded by experts.

Not sure how resigning makes a person magically non-partisan. I hate how blue Nashville is forced to have a red election commission. I do hope he is fair. It's not impossible to be fair and have strong feelings, but in today's climate, it raises alarm bells.

As someone who grew up on a cattle ranch, Trump wouldn't last a day much less be a "fantastic farmer."😅 Unless we're using the traditional definition: "remote from reality"

I didn't appeal our property appraisal because at the time it was below comps. Now nearly identical homes are on the market and have dropped their prices below our appraised value with no offers. I've lost home equity AND pay more taxes. And still don't get as much from the city as other USD hoods.🦞

Another mutual aid ask from me… things are bleak folks. Needing to raise $2000 to keep a single mom & her 3 kids in their housing. My various accounts have been restricted & flagged for fraud 😩 so we’re collecting the funds on the mom’s behalf on a different Venmo account: @KarenPolston

There's no good reason for the death penalty.

The only time I helped my kids participate in the official walk to school day, I stepped on a roadkill carcus, slid a good foot on its entrails, and spun around to regain my balance so I wouldn't (thank God) faceplant on its blood and guts. Kids have it easy these days with clean sidewalks.

Re-watching Maude and it is really so good, Bea Arthur is stellar, Esther Rolle is under appreciated. But Maude is supposed to be 47 here (Arthur was actually ~50) and Rue McClanahan was in her 30s!!!!!

My death row pen pal keeps saying that it is safer in there than out here and I'm the stubborn cuss who is just right now wondering if he could be on to something.

Mourn with those who mourn; rejoice with those who rejoice. (The inversion of these phrases feels right at the moment.)

Here I am, posting so I can procrastinate finishing writing a paper for a class in a program I'm doubting I want to be in but felt I had to try because I somehow got a pretty much full scholarship.

Well, Metro Water shut off our entire neighborhood at midnight with no notice. I tried dry shampoo and baby wipes, still went out in public funky, and just want a damn shower. I have to travel for a funeral tomorrow and can't go another day without one. I hate it here. 😢 🦞

What? Proactive? My old neighborhood begged for a stop sign. "Not needed" then a neighbor died and we got one. Nashville ain't ever been proactive. Scary intersection to enter my new neighborhood and I KNOW someone will have to die there. Hope it isn't one of my kids who came damn close once.

Which begs the question, if Jesus could read (because some scholars argue he couldn't), would he have had access to a library? Would any Jew in that place/time? Would it have involved Roman baths or other such things?

Did you know that some of the Roman baths had libraries in them???? I know they tell you not to deep read in grad school, but "they" missing all the good stuff.

How is it that we got a Ross a few days ago and it is already pure chaotic mess that looks like weeks and eerks of understaffing and has lines to the back of the store?

I highly recommend assigning the chore of grocery shopping to your teenage son. It is going better than I ever could have predicted.

Several large tanks typically used to hold flammable gas were found in the aftermath of the June 10 fire in the Nashville Public Library's downtown garage.

Anyone know of any Nashville places hiring teens? My son has had no luck. South side would be ideal, but he can drive. 🦞 I've recently put him in charge of grocery shopping and it has been great. Such a time saver for us and he does a great job.

If your restuarant has a 45+ minute wait on a regular basis you should be required by law to take reservations.

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Why were cars allowed to drive through 8th & Broadway around 9 AM Saturday but those of us on the bus were dumped at 2nd & Korean Vets & forced to walk an extra 17 minutes. 🦞 Nashville, this is why people avoid the bus!! @freddieoconnell.bsky.social

So dang muggy. I hate it so much. 😒

I have no interest in animals, but walking to the store feels like a pipe dream. I am stuck settling for an outfit I like (from the thrift store even though the thrift store is overpriced these days).

How can they make a charge of assaulting law enforcement officer if the ‘officer’ never identifies themselves, has no visible badge and just grabs you? Any sane person will push back if grabbed without warning.

Hey Nashville people 🦞 & others, Who's the best celeb you've accidentally run into in Nashville? Crystal Gayle at Play during a drag show was one of mine. Jennifer Knapp (dove award winning artist who I loved in undergrad) in a grad school class at Vandy was neat.

Holy moly. The main branch Nashville public library garage is on fire 🦞 www.reddit.com/r/nashville/...

Pretty soon 1,900 households near Nipper's Corner are going to lose their groceries. Where the heck is NES? 🦞

Still feels like aong trip from my part of thr South side, but I'll probably chrcknit out if I can.

We in Tennessee executed a man yesterday. Out here in what was a beautiful day, we waited as these killing fields took another life.

Sigh. How is this ok? Intentionally disrupting kids' schooling and all but forcing them to take long bus/walking routes to a school that ridiculously starts at 7 AM (anti-science) or leave all they know half way through high school. MNPS has a penchant for poor choices that aren't good for our kids.

Same people haven't even signed up for the organ donor list to give away their organs after they are DEAD. But a living woman needs to give hers on demand right now.

Umm... @freddieoconnell.bsky.social this is my dream job. Please let me know when I can apply.

28 is a very specific number. Now he has thousands of adults laughing at him too. 😆 🤣 😂

I've been discriminated against by immigrantion & so can't understand so many believing them to to tell the truth. When I sponsored my wife's green card, the officer discriminated against us. The only reason we got out of that office without harm was that I name dropped the mayor who married us.

I feel for their son. I've been to Stewart Detention Center & it's not a great place. And I've been to El Refugio. It's lovely & welcoming even to damn fools who turned their backs on their own son, grandkids, & thousands of others who live in fear of this administration www.ajc.com/news/they-vo...

Cassocks are red Conclaves are dope Wake up babe we got a

So over for you hoes

Elmo's LinkedIn says he is able to feel empathy which makes hime more qualified that certain people we know.

We've called police to report crime or pick up stolen merch dumped on our street. They only show up days and days later at 3 AM and wake the neighbors and their dogs and everyone but us and then don't even file it as a hate crime (or whatever it is). And ICE is too afraid to stand up for themselves?

My brown wife who isn't Latina but mistsken for one occasionally even by Latinas has been carrying her green card everywhere in case some shit like this goes down. To know our city knew this was coming and did nothing pisses me the hell off. 🦞 www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithint...

The Antioch shooter was suspended for only two days for threatening a girl with a box cutter!!!!!!!! WTF. MNPS supended my kid for two weeks for smoking in the bathroom. What the hell MNPS? 🦞 www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

Many years ago my landlord urged us to ask our councilperson to vote against a property tax rate increase or else she'd raise our rent. I *went off* in a reply, telling her that I'd NOT go against my own pay raise nor make my barely surviving coworkers suffer more & she could go ahead.... 🦞

As usual, I'm a decade behind watching Nashville (the show) when I hilariously see a "bible thumper" thumping an...Episcopal Book of Common Prayer. Lol. So ignorant. If you're filming and need a religion consultant so you don't look the fool, hit me up. www.christiancentury.org/blogs/archiv...

Just a day before his death, Pope Francis briefly appeared on the balcony overlooking St. Peter's Square on Easter Sunday to deliver a special blessing called 'Urbi et Orbi' (to the city and the world). He repeated calls for a ceasefire in Gaza reut.rs/4irRJ39

This sidewalk has been approved since my daughter was riding the city bus in middle school and walking this dangerous stretch. She's now graduating college in a couple of weeks, making it hilarious that NDOT is celebrating meeting the decade long deadline. Come on Nashville. 🦞