I LOVE this at the end of the benches’ website: “We will continue to build benches and host bench parties until our demands are met.” THE BENCH BUILDING WILL CONTINUE UNTIL NDOT IMPROVES

You love to see it.

#OtD 10 Sep 1676 pioneering English revolutionary Gerrard Winstanley died aged 66. He was a tailor and the primary theoretician of the Diggers during the English civil war who took over enclosed lands and farmed them stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8250...

New It Could Happen Here @miawong.bsky.social talks about the new Abundance movement, its ideas and how it operates as a Trojan horse for its funders Peter Thiel and the Koch Brothers. www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

Q: but what if a full Epstein investigation also takes down Bill Clinton????? A:

Anyone else in #nashville get a push poll that seemed to really want to get you to say that the cops need more money? “Next, here are some ideas to reduce crime.” “Increasing police pay and benefits” “Install more security cameras and lighting across the city” “Hiring more police officers” Etc.

Dear NDOT, Thank you for the postcard about the virtual community meeting about the Bikeway along the road in front of my house. It would have been really helpful if it had come before yesterday, when the meeting happened. This is the 2nd time this has happened.

As a lot of folks note, "crime" means homeless folks in sight, and there's much more of that. Nobody wants to have to be directly confronted with the human face of the consequence of policies that they support.

Hey @nashvilledot.bsky.social

Losing your home and everything in it, then having to invest time and money to repair and replace everything, is extremely difficult; navigating insurance companies, government agencies, and legal issues is nerve-racking. To help you through it, @grist.org put together a guide to the process.

People save this to print out and wheat paste on the walls in every district when a council member says we need more surveillance on our streets. www.govtech.com/public-safet...

I keep seeing these signs for your friendly neighborhood tree captain. Where are the unfriendly ones? Bully you into planting a tree.

divide the city into 20 different council districts, each with its own subcouncil of 20 subcouncilmembers. each subcouncil sends a delegate to the supercouncil. supercouncil delegates each cast 20 votes but are bound to divide them according to their subcouncil's results

They move as fast as we do when we want to rip out a bike lane

Offer received and accepted, funemployment ends homies. I release my employment jelly to the wild now, thank you friend.

obsessed with this vague notice from the government of Nova Scotia. Like it’s definitely about the new fire restrictions, but it also looks like a poster you’d find yellowed and curled on the bulletin board of a diner in a town where locals won’t talk about their missing kids

absolutely wild to niemöller at a person from one of the groups in the poem to argue that it’s good actually to let them come for some people because it’s a tactical victory. “i read niemöller & solved the trolley problem the omelas way” is what a surprising number of people sound like right now.

Listening to final mix now. Y’all. If you want to know EVERYTHING about the Elon Musk Tesla Tunnel that they’re planning to build in Nashville, you need to listen to tomorrow’s @citycastnash.bsky.social. (We cannot tell you where it’s gonna start or go or end, though, bc I don’t think THEY know.)

Every square foot of pavement adds to a cities heat island effect. Narrow the roads, make people drive more slowly, and plant trees between roads and pedestrian and bike lanes.

Why DIY disaster prep matters more than ever www.motherjones.com/environment/...

If you only read one of my columns, make it this one. 🤬 An “ABUNDANCE” of BS: *Fascism vs Midterm Elections* www.nashvillescene.com/arts_culture...

This climate catastrophe coming on the US's independence day is a reminder that we were never independent of nature and never will be, and that there is a terrible cost to undermining its elegant systems...

Katelyn Burns very smartly pointing out the way mainstream media began by silencing all the mainstream trans writers, then moved on to claiming trans people stopped trying to persuade the public.

Solar + storage is now $104 per MWh in Las Vegas or similar regions for nearly 100% clean firm power. There is no way new nuclear can compete with this. Even new gas plants will struggle and that is assuming access to cheap gas over the life-cycle of the plant, which is kind of a crazy gamble TBH.

In Hurricane Katrina, mainstream media were more worried people might take stuff rom WalMart than that grandmothers were dying on rooftops of buildings surrounded by contaminated floodwater.

I’ve seen middle school marching bands march more in sync than this. bsky.app/profile/bubb...

Why does this MNPD letterhead look like absolute ass? Is this one of those “so bad it’s got to be official government paperwork” things? #nashville

You gotta admit, that's commitment to the bit. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

If you're a Marine or other service member being mobilized to Los Angeles and you'd like to apply for conscientious objector status, call the GI Rights Hotline to get some guidance on your options: 1-877-447-4487

These “abundance agenda” folks don’t have a single new thought in their heads. “Let private developers build build build and things will magically get cheaper!” They repeat the same con over and over. we should have loaded them on a rocket to mars after the first time.

Take stock of your gear, it’s probably been a few years.

Metro departments have got to stop closing out requests on hubNashville (1) without comment, and (2) before the request is ACTUALLY RESOLVED. I am not the first person to experience this. It is maddening & it erodes trust in government. cc @freddieoconnell.bsky.social @hubnashville.bsky.social

Thank you, @hubnashville.bsky.social, for giving me absolutely no helpful information when you closed my request. How did @nashvilledot.bsky.social address this issue? They didn't make any changes to the physical infrastructure. Could you have sent along their response in this ticket?

The main reason there will never be a Joe Rogan for Democrats is that all the dudes who are already hosting podcasts who are ripe for elevation are too liberal for Democratic sensibilities.

Birds are real and they're blocking the air flow of your dryer exhaust vent.

love to have people arrested by a private shadow police force in my functioning democracy

I expected more from the #Nashville Banner. Is @scavendish.bsky.social really out here saying 'we need to let the fascists send brown folks to concentration camps' because we need to [checks notes] "spend money on the Oracle campus"? JFC nashvillebanner.com/2025/05/30/c... #nashvilleBanner

if dems want messaging help, stop telling people you're "fighting back." it sounds like you're being mugged. call off the podcaster search, take your ridiculous money pile and try opening some food banks and free clinics. hurricanes are coming and the feds have no plan. looks like an opening to me.

Today: Drained and moved the rest of the rain barrels, and this grey tree frog is back, with a smug "you try to move me and I will always return" look on their face. #gardening #amphibians #frogs

Yesterday: Drained and moved some water barrels to a more permanent spot and found this Cope's gray tree frog (Hyla chrysocelis). I moved him over to the pond to get him out of the way. #ponds #garden #backyardAnimals #frogs

Gavin Newsom Sits Down For Podcast With Serial Killer Who Targets Homeless

Uline's owners are the 2nd biggest political donors to Trump, so found a non-MAGA alt rec'd on Reddi: EcoEnclose. For shipping boxes for original comic art, so I got EXACTLY the size I wanted. It's half the price once you add in shipping to my house from Uline. EcoEnc $120.32 vs Uline $238.38.

Oh, wow, a mayor that shows up at an ICE detention center and puts his neck on the line.

Amazing how mnpd can send someone to get chewed out by the council and then just keep on doing what they were doing without any repercussions. #nashville nashvillebanner.com/2025/05/08/t...

It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—