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Robin Gibson

@robingib.bsky.social

Knoxville News Sentinel people and trends editor. Back in the South after decades of Midwestern winters.

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This is what I try to always tell people: food banks can do way more with your money than you can, due to bulk buying deals. And they can do way, way more with your money than with the canned goods you didn’t want to eat

11.11.2025 21:21 — 👍 1799    🔁 885    💬 16    📌 9

If you have it please donate cash to the food banks. $10 in their hands will feed more people than the $10 worth of canned goods you can buy for retail prices. Also check on your elders. Many of them will not admit they rely on these programs so grocery gift cards or a surprise bag of staples

26.10.2025 15:37 — 👍 4668    🔁 3455    💬 84    📌 87

Who needs talking heads on TV? This McDonald’s on a Tuesday night has the liveliest political debate going between 2 tables, ranging from COVID and Trump to declarations of “You’re insane,sir” to “It’s not easy being MAGA,” all in cheery but heartfelt tones. CNN, Fox and MSNBC could take notes.

07.05.2025 00:29 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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“Boom goes the dynamite.”

20-years ago today.

19 year old Ball State University journalism student Brian Collins filling in for the regular campus sportscaster — when the teleprompter suddenly stops working (2005)…

23.03.2025 00:58 — 👍 715    🔁 75    💬 34    📌 22

just totted up all the substacks I pay for and found myself thinking ‘wow wouldn’t it be better if all these writers were in one place and I could just pay a flat fee’ so anyway that’s how today I invented the concept of the ‘newspaper’

20.12.2024 14:13 — 👍 13999    🔁 1167    💬 281    📌 80
A fluffy gray and white cat curls sideways while lying on her back on a blue pillow.

A fluffy gray and white cat curls sideways while lying on her back on a blue pillow.

A cat wearing a green collar looks sternly at the camera.

A cat wearing a green collar looks sternly at the camera.

I’m not saying I’m mostly here for a steady supply of cat and dog content amid the political news, but I’m not NOT saying that. Here’s my share of the cat tax:

13.11.2024 03:40 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

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