Carter Newton

I'm looking up subscription services right now! It was great!

I had the subject of the essay, but wooboy did I miss the author.

Sure why not, I already tap danced into this minefield it’ll be an even better story when I have to go explain to the board of directors how I accidentally insulted TDOT. They love it when I do that.

So I’m here as the goofy train history guy because @betsyphillips.bsky.social tagged me, and you have arrived with what I suspect is the full might of civil engineering behind you. I’m not actually of any mind to challenge the knowledge you’re bringing. it’s not worth the (choo choo) smoke.

Rail and highways are both important elements of a healthy multi-modal transportation design for communities and regions!

And highways are why I can’t take a train in Nashville to anywhere, so, kind of a mixed bag of a reality.

Wait, are we supposed to be fighting?

Early morning writing session showed me a path to land the thing I'm working on with a coherent theme. 24 new words plus a note to myself, and suddenly I feel like I have a clue. Much gratitude to @bernietheflumph.bsky.social for the magic feather for my impostor syndrome.

Not to fed post, but does America need an infrastructure plan to have enough lampposts for the coming era?

Maybe at least a letterman’s jacket?

Yeah, no, I know. It's just that if it were accidentally misplaced from the headline the story would imply less trauma for the niece. It was more of a prayer for her sake than a lament for grammar.

Pat, I’ve got plenty of vowels, for everyone’s sake, can I buy a comma?

Yes, Zen like calm while we pitch a catfish onto the ice.

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Bluesky has certainly added to my TBR pile in unexpected and delightful ways, with more topics and more authors that I would never have discovered otherwise.

Also, I now have two TBR piles because of the significant expansion and risk of structural collapse.

a man wearing a top hat and a white shirt is saying `` no , stop , dont '' . ALT: a man wearing a top hat and a white shirt is saying `` no , stop , dont '' .

I am not, generally, on the side of entitlement giving what-for to the help, but in this case, I'm not going to protest too loud.

Imagine future archaeologists digging through meters of, ahem, accumulations, only to finally discover the tombstone was altered to include the inscription "This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed man is commemorated here... nothing valued is here... the line forms on the left"

“And this is our new child, Crutchfield Propter, or Crutch Prop for short. He will definitely grow up not needing extensive therapy.“

That never backfires.

Who's the audience, there? Everybody else, or just his wife?

I bought it on the ice with the hound a few hours ago, tell them both to learn the lesson and knock it off.

I appreciate that your mom has a decorative bishop's mitre for a (literal) nightcap.

You should definitely prepare lunch now, yes.

We have more layers of caffeine redundancies planning than we have for heat. Our thinking is with caffeine we can come up with additional plans for heat.

Woke up to the sound of limbs falling.

That does sound like crimes of financial mismanagement committed by a gentleman about whom we don’t want to speak too plainly, yeah.

What era are we talking here?

"Paul was too religious" is not precisely the first item on the list when I think of "potential flaws of the saints," but hey, what do I know.

How long?

Not Long.

Please read the whole thing, and know that the arc of the moral universe only bends towards justice because many people across many years have put their bodies against it and pushed so that it points to justice.

kinginstitute.stanford.edu/our-god-marc...

How long? Not long, because:

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord;
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He has loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword;
His truth is marching on.

How long? Not long, because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

How long? Not long:

Truth forever on the scaffold,
Wrong forever on the throne,
Yet that scaffold sways the future,
And, behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God within the shadow,
Keeping watch above his own.