some good news for non-east Nashville: Calypso Cafe on Charlotte is open again (take out only)
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some good news for non-east Nashville: Calypso Cafe on Charlotte is open again (take out only)
rare W for my side of the river, nice!
sure, but - and this isn't a rhetorical question - why does it matter what any lower court rules? this admin acts lawlessly until the supreme court tells them to do something explicitly, and even then they exhibit malicious compliance
the betting platforms can't open markets on Trump's death for obvious reasons, but Kalshi just so happened to open up a "Trump out as President" market on Saturday
We've always been this dumb, our elites and influencers have just gotten better at weaponizing our idiocy against each other
I love Chicago but it's so hard to find a parking spot
I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org
I tracked down source of a TikTok i saw about horrific car pick up lane in a Tennessee school district. And it is true. Parents arriving by noon to wait in line for hours, doordashing food as they wait, etc. www.wbir.com/article/traf...
Did you know Nashville has a long running local Shakespeare company? This is the last (?) year they're doing Summer Shakespeare at OneC1TY before moving back to the park. They've got a show tonight - it's free, but consider donating! (Take the 50 bus!) www.nashvilleshakes.org/summer-shake...
Don't even need a bike lane or road closure to find safe streets here thanks to the grid of side streets with traffic calming
It's even featured in at least one music video! youtu.be/gWnYusg6CTc?...
Life After Cars begins...
I walked down Milwaukee from Damen to Ashland and back and ran into 15 people I know. I don't even live in this neighborhood!!! Chicagoans YEARN for open streets.
Definitely don't look at today's Chicago weather đ
Yeah! They close it down so you can ride it every year before labor day
Don't usually post pictures of the pink one, but it's pretty sick
It's so quiet
We rode bike the drive Thirty miles with no cars Nashville should try this
OMG that would be amazing
The first time I heard a random fog horn sound at my house I was confused as hell
Where is everybody? Physicist Enrico Fermi asked this in 1950, and it became one of scienceâs biggest puzzles đ§”âŹïž (1/5)
I can
If everybody could ride a bike around their neighborhood, the world would be a much happier place
On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution. But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable
Back in Chicago with the Bromptons for Bike the Drive đ
I honestly think she sometimes gets too much flak personally due to being in such a difficult political position with a lot outside of her control, but shit like this makes me look like a fool for ever defending her
What the fuck man, have you even read the Constitution? If only there was some remedy for this available to Congress...
Landed the 1st #alabamashakes #brittanyhoward interview on the bandâs 1st new song in a decade #anotherlife for @npr.org www.npr.org/2025/08/29/n...
content that is relevant to my interests but lol @ a density flex for 56000 in a 3km circle you can do a little better (still less than say Raleigh) bsky.app/profile/jere...
way less hedging than usual from the NYT on what's going on here, I wonder if they're capable of learning
going to such efforts to damage the health of Americans is how you know they're not simply greedy, or opportunistic, or even nihilistic - there's not even a grift here, there is no upside for anybody it's just... evil for the sake of evil
pairs well with the recent "TN has the worst quality of life" study www.tennessean.com/story/news/2...
We were talking about this the other day and how little people seem to care, either about how it was irresponsible for it to happen at all or that the dates kept slipping now I can't help but feel like in some cities this would have been a political disaster but here everybody just seems to shrug
ah yes, vital that we have housing for cars and not people
According to federal data, 13 of the top 20 cities in homicide rates have Republican governors. None of those cities are Chicago. 8 of the top 10 states in homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states are Illinois. And yet Trump is sending troops here.
fellow authors, itâs our duty to financially ruin the AI industry
comrade it's so much better this time, we can poast our way through it
A recent poll shows @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social leading comfortably even if his opponents drop out to coalesce. In the same poll, voters list their top issues as cost of living, public safety, and housing affordability. Voters are starting to see socialism as the answer to their concerns.
I read that poster as posing as a question of tactics (not saying I necessarily agree, just summarizing what I think they are suggesting) 1) Newsom sucks, but 2) criticizing shitty people doesn't work (see the President of the US), so 3) post positive things about other candidates instead
If you go to East you definitely have more options, go up and across the ped bridge, take Davidson to Holly Lynn (detour), Riverside (aka the big hill). I come back on Porter but Riverside is nice to ride on because of the good bike lanes. Percy Warner is goated for hills but not easy to get to
No great answers in that part of the city without lots of stoplights. Charlotte East from Capitol View is OK, you can usually run the lights there, can make it a loop with Rosa Parks. Charlotte West from Capitol View up to 440 is a long climb but lights and traffic kind of make it a pain.
Talking with legendary Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa about his new film âCloud,â opening this week at the @belcourttheatre.bsky.social.
An @afm-union.bsky.social and @sagaftra.org gal. An NFLPA guy. We love a union love story. Congrats Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce!
Come on man, you're better than this (good faith reading: your intent is to score hypocrisy points against "free market" conservatives) Nationalizing things on its own isn't somehow "socialist." Words matter: when done in service of a fascist agenda, nationalizing things is, guess what: fascism.
I'm having wicked dreams of leaving TN before she takes office
Jealous www.reuters.com/world/india/...
I am sounding the alarm on the real crisis we face today. Donald Trumpâs overreach is what our founders warned against â it is unprecedented, unwarranted, and un-American. Thereâs no emergency here that calls for military intervention.
Why... why aren't they all saying this... â„ïž Chicago
I donât like the Pete and Bobby challenge
Watching baseball @jonbois.bsky.social
Transportation
Coffee
This is an amazing send off, it's absolutely worth a read even if you're not a baseball fan and don't know the team
Montgomery County NC voted 68% for Donald Trump in 2024. That didn't protect its school system: The feds have clawed back a $21 million awardâequal to half the county's operating budgetâthat it planned to use to provide bonuses and training to lure and retain teachers. @benbrasch.bsky.social #ncpol
One of my favorite things from /r/nashville has been a collection of original short fiction called "The Inglewood Evening Dispatch" from /u/SlackersLaboratory You can now, apparently, buy this on Amazon www.amazon.com/Inglewood-Ev...
Spike loves New York so much He loves black folks SO MUCH
I found a bike rack within a block of my destination in Nashville Somebody pinch me
It is beautiful We all deserve to see the world the way he does all the time But at least we get these glimpses
Previous long lines coverage: bsky.app/profile/jere...
Hit up another middle TN icon on the ride this week Also, long lines tower!!!
Bus drivers themselves definitely benefit because they don't have to meditate fare conflicts
Other places have and continue to do it so it's not some radical experiment (Durham NC went fare free during the pandemic and remains so to this day)
(it should also go without saying that we should give people places to exist that have climate control so this isn't even an issue, but that's not happening any time soon)
The challenge is that people make decisions based on vibes, and we all know how powerful scare mongering is Fundamentally, whether people will use the service also depends on how comfortable they feel (None of this persuades me that it's not worth doing, just that I'm sympathetic to the argument)
The only argument against fare free transit that I consider valid is that some people are discouraged from using transit when a large percentage of riders are unhoused (or visibly distressed) This is a bigger problem in cities with low existing ridership (like Nashville)
This is something every city should work towards The latest war on cars episode is about this subject thewaroncars.org/2025/08/12/e...
It's collected on medium too: medium.com/@aaronrogge/... Reading them as they were released on the sub was a unique experience, and not at all something I'd seen in other local subreddits
One of my favorite things from /r/nashville has been a collection of original short fiction called "The Inglewood Evening Dispatch" from /u/SlackersLaboratory You can now, apparently, buy this on Amazon www.amazon.com/Inglewood-Ev...
An impressive honor. Of the 14 awards for small digital organizations, four went to @statnews.com, âȘproduced by Boston Globe Media. Two went to @themarshallproject.orgâȘ, a nonprofit that does stellar coverage of criminal justice (with an $18M budget). And two went to @theassemblync.bsky.social.
If you're local and like music you should be entering these WNXP contests, members of my family have won tickets to a few shows this way đ
(maybe WBN should be adding like 25% to the pass cost for members and earmark the funds for this program to avoid this sort of surprise in the future)
Yeah once I read through everything does make sense here really in isolation... But honestly that is a huge hit with little notice for WBN Outright doubling the rate is a big increase percentage wise even if it remains a good value - too bad they couldn't have phased it in more slowly
Really cool to see locals using these things... you can see a glimpse of what could be if the city was serious about making the streets safe for cyclists!
Chief Devon Parfait became a climate refugee in 2005 when his family lost their home to Hurricane Rita. Now, at 28, he leads the Grand Caillou/Dulac Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw and is working to protect and restore coastal Louisiana. My interview with him: apeaceofmymind.org/2025/08/21/c...
"...automobile travel has about ten times the death rate as public transit, and transit vehicles also impose less risk on non-occupants like cyclists, pedestrians and other road users. Cars should come with warnings: 'Driving causes painful injuries, disabilities and death.'"
it fucking kills me that libs bought into the idea that college is 1) just a job training program that 2) should basically be unaffordable for most people like if we gave all young people time to read the classics and learn about what it means to be human maybe we wouldn't be in this mess
Ah, is this what the national guard is here for?
Sandwich up
I'm 100% on team nuisance... I get the "cultural heritage" of racing on this site, but appropriate land use in 1904 is NOT the same as appropriate land use here in 2025 given all the real challenges this city face Tear it down, put up a plaque, and replace it with homes and parks
It's needlessly wasteful - a symptom of sprawl and bad transit and car culture For public magnet schools, kids are even given free unlimited wego passes. My daughter goes to MLK, which has its own route to wego central (I assume this is common) - she has ridden wego to school since middle school!
complexity cannot be avoided, only moved from one team to another
What a terrible use of this land đĄ
famous norm follower John Wick
hey is it OK to still really enjoy The Smiths, despite how crazy Morrissey turned out to be? (asking for a friend)
So when he said he was an off duty cop, he was impersonating an officer?
Definitely fighting a losing battle on Hwy 12 on the Outer Banks. Comparison this AM vs. yesterday AM from Hurricane #Erin overwash.
wtf, completely unacceptable are metro cops in any way accountable for their actions when they're off duty working for NDP like this??
High potential for some more oceanfront homes in the Outer Banks to collapse during Hurricane Erin. If youâre wondering why theyâre so close to the water and why nobody tears them down beforehand, here you go: www.ncrabbithole.com/p/rodanthe-n...
It's a shame no Republican lobbyists used these benches
Dude seriously? So one small remaining good part of an otherwise failed project should be removed to simply make it a total failure?
UmmmmmmmâŠ..
look I'm not myself a political scientist so I can't say what effects it would have for a spate of politicians to crop up saying "the enemy is the oligarchy" and "the enemy is billionaires" while swinging a kettlebell but I think we should try it for science and see what happens
this is a good interview this is a good point (I keep this in mind wrt zoning deregulation, which IMO most benefits developers / property owners, but has trickle down benefits - you have to work with the tools you're given and no policy can fix everything) www.thedriftmag.com/politics-is-...
gross, x the everything app is leaking
The whole confederacy is getting in on it.
Interesting, partnership with the TVA - they'll build it at oak ridge Biden famously failed to replace Trump 1's fossil fuel guys on the TVA board, but maybe Trump is more friendly to nuclear than other renewables because it sounds badass www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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