Colin Williams
@colinbwilliams.com
Pittsburgh 🤘🏻 Nazis bad, metal good
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Tips [email protected] or Signal @wimbles.70
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Colin Williams
@colinbwilliams.com
· Aug 5
Gotten some good early feedback on TVAM! Snag a copy over at bottlecap.press if you haven't yet 😊
Watching a German debate between Mecklenburg-Vorpommern candidates, and they're fact-checking everything live with researchers at computers. That's how it's done.
September 16, 2026 at 9:06 PM
Watching a German debate between Mecklenburg-Vorpommern candidates, and they're fact-checking everything live with researchers at computers. That's how it's done.
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The person with the music written on their arse from Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights has pulled out of Ed Sheeran's tour
September 15, 2026 at 10:21 PM
The person with the music written on their arse from Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights has pulled out of Ed Sheeran's tour
Bundestag yourself
September 16, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Bundestag yourself
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Allegheny County has the most flock cameras in Pennsylvania, data shows
Allegheny County has the most flock cameras in Pennsylvania, data shows
There are 509 automated license plate readers, including Flock cameras, in Allegheny County — the most in Pennsylvania, according to a data company. Philadelphia is the second-highest county at 130 total cameras. An automated license plate reader, or ALPR, is a camera that photographs and logs every car that passes
triblive.com
September 15, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Allegheny County has the most flock cameras in Pennsylvania, data shows
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"the cuddle system"
September 15, 2026 at 7:02 PM
"the cuddle system"
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CEO of Taco Bell: we’re actually worried that some of our upcoming items could destroy humanity as well
September 13, 2026 at 11:48 PM
CEO of Taco Bell: we’re actually worried that some of our upcoming items could destroy humanity as well
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This story buries the lede, but if you pull out a calculator and do the math, AAA found that the average American spends $15,031 a year for a single car!
www.cnbc.com/2026/09/14/c...
www.cnbc.com/2026/09/14/c...
Car ownership costs an average of $5,851 a year on top of auto loan payments, analysis finds
The cost of insurance, gas, and maintenance or repairs can add thousands of dollars a year to the price of owning a car.
www.cnbc.com
September 14, 2026 at 3:15 PM
This story buries the lede, but if you pull out a calculator and do the math, AAA found that the average American spends $15,031 a year for a single car!
www.cnbc.com/2026/09/14/c...
www.cnbc.com/2026/09/14/c...
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They ride up & down Brighton Road all day long, disregarding 911 calls until everyone’s bored and all respond to one minor traffic infraction. At the office one guy uses Flock to stalk his ex-gf, a nurse at The Pitt (tie-in!). Downtown a cop shoots a sinkhole.
September 13, 2026 at 8:26 PM
They ride up & down Brighton Road all day long, disregarding 911 calls until everyone’s bored and all respond to one minor traffic infraction. At the office one guy uses Flock to stalk his ex-gf, a nurse at The Pitt (tie-in!). Downtown a cop shoots a sinkhole.
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Here's a non-paywalled version of the reporting on Canada becoming a possible "associate member" of the EU. It suggests Canada is willing to agree free movement of people, which (if true) would mean that the EU would be willing to agree more internal market access.
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
Carney pushes idea of making Canada 'associate member' of EU, WSJ reports
The EU is open to the idea, the Journal reported.
www.reuters.com
September 13, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Here's a non-paywalled version of the reporting on Canada becoming a possible "associate member" of the EU. It suggests Canada is willing to agree free movement of people, which (if true) would mean that the EU would be willing to agree more internal market access.
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
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Me when the writing is coming out really easily: This can't be good.
Me when the writing is coming out with great difficulty: This can't be good.
Me when the writing is coming out with great difficulty: This can't be good.
September 13, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Me when the writing is coming out really easily: This can't be good.
Me when the writing is coming out with great difficulty: This can't be good.
Me when the writing is coming out with great difficulty: This can't be good.
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Pittsburgh’s bridges are becoming political billboards.
Across Allegheny County, a growing network of weekly overpass protests is using huge banners to reach thousands of commuters, with messages about ICE, democracy, voting, and more.
Across Allegheny County, a growing network of weekly overpass protests is using huge banners to reach thousands of commuters, with messages about ICE, democracy, voting, and more.
City overpasses become a tool for a growing protest movement
From the Brinton Road Overpass, Lucinda Beattie has only a few seconds to reach each driver passing below. So the message has to be big. Once a week, Beattie and a small group stand above the traffic holding banners that turn an ordinary Pittsburgh overpass into a political billboard — one of a growing number of bridges in the area being used for weekly protests.
qburgh.com
September 12, 2026 at 12:19 PM
Pittsburgh’s bridges are becoming political billboards.
Across Allegheny County, a growing network of weekly overpass protests is using huge banners to reach thousands of commuters, with messages about ICE, democracy, voting, and more.
Across Allegheny County, a growing network of weekly overpass protests is using huge banners to reach thousands of commuters, with messages about ICE, democracy, voting, and more.
Organizing what free time I have around art, disc golf, and craft beer has been working out pretty well so far
September 12, 2026 at 12:20 PM
Organizing what free time I have around art, disc golf, and craft beer has been working out pretty well so far
Ahead of her time tbh
Vicky Leandros - Verlorenes Paradies (1982)
YouTube video by Schlagerfan 58
www.youtube.com
September 11, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Ahead of her time tbh
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Unfortunately, this article aged very well.
"The ultimate impact on the American psyche is going to be profound and will manifest itself in the political system and the way we live our lives. This is not a passing or small event."
Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot-News, Sept. 12, 2001:
"The ultimate impact on the American psyche is going to be profound and will manifest itself in the political system and the way we live our lives. This is not a passing or small event."
Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot-News, Sept. 12, 2001:
September 11, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Unfortunately, this article aged very well.
"The ultimate impact on the American psyche is going to be profound and will manifest itself in the political system and the way we live our lives. This is not a passing or small event."
Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot-News, Sept. 12, 2001:
"The ultimate impact on the American psyche is going to be profound and will manifest itself in the political system and the way we live our lives. This is not a passing or small event."
Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot-News, Sept. 12, 2001:
Berlin Art Week highlights
September 11, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Berlin Art Week highlights
I'm missing Gregor's golden birthday today because I'm in Berlin. Happy 11th to my little man!
September 11, 2026 at 3:28 PM
I'm missing Gregor's golden birthday today because I'm in Berlin. Happy 11th to my little man!
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"I have been covering Enjoy and the local wrestling scene in Pittsburgh for the last several years. I've seen some incredible performances and witnessed ... respect and mutual admiration between fans and wrestlers. To all those associated with Enjoy Wrestling, thank you, and sorry for your loss."
After his sudden death, local wrestling community pays tribute to Andy 'The Butcher' Williams
Andy "The Butcher" Williams collapsed after an Enjoy Wrestling tag team match and died shortly thereafter. Pittsburgh's wrestling community has banded together.
www.pghcitypaper.com
September 11, 2026 at 3:00 PM
"I have been covering Enjoy and the local wrestling scene in Pittsburgh for the last several years. I've seen some incredible performances and witnessed ... respect and mutual admiration between fans and wrestlers. To all those associated with Enjoy Wrestling, thank you, and sorry for your loss."
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if fetterman was going to switch, the moment to do that was Jan 2025 when Trump's approval was as high as it had ever been and business, universities, tech, and the D party were all preparing for a 1000 year reich. 1
September 4, 2026 at 2:53 AM
if fetterman was going to switch, the moment to do that was Jan 2025 when Trump's approval was as high as it had ever been and business, universities, tech, and the D party were all preparing for a 1000 year reich. 1
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This is seismic news for fisheries scientists. Northern cod is *the* iconic symbol of total fisheries collapse due to overfishing (and other factors) *and* the iconic symbol of a complete failure to recover for decades afterwards. This is like announcing the complete recovery of bison on land.
September 8, 2026 at 11:15 PM
This is seismic news for fisheries scientists. Northern cod is *the* iconic symbol of total fisheries collapse due to overfishing (and other factors) *and* the iconic symbol of a complete failure to recover for decades afterwards. This is like announcing the complete recovery of bison on land.
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Just to be clear, this is the German far-right party whose victory Trump and Musk are both celebrating:
September 9, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Just to be clear, this is the German far-right party whose victory Trump and Musk are both celebrating:
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This local organization helps women who are building careers but might not have the clothes they need:
Dress for Success mobile boutiques bring dignity to working women in Greater Pittsburgh
The organization helps women who are building careers but might not have the clothes they need.
www.pghcitypaper.com
September 9, 2026 at 4:30 PM
This local organization helps women who are building careers but might not have the clothes they need:
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"This is grotesque," The New Yorker's David Remnick says at today's @status.news summit about journalists and media outlets embracing Trump at this year's White House Correspondents Dinner.
September 9, 2026 at 2:38 PM
"This is grotesque," The New Yorker's David Remnick says at today's @status.news summit about journalists and media outlets embracing Trump at this year's White House Correspondents Dinner.
I personally do not feel rule by delusional hucksters has been going well for us
ANTHROPIC EXEC: “.. I personally think it is >10% within the next decade.”
September 9, 2026 at 1:56 PM
I personally do not feel rule by delusional hucksters has been going well for us
I've been tracking how many water bottles the Elkay EZH2O fountain outside my classroom is saving and it looks like about 450 a week. Adding to my delight here is the vast world of Elkay water fountain memes.
September 8, 2026 at 9:26 PM
I've been tracking how many water bottles the Elkay EZH2O fountain outside my classroom is saving and it looks like about 450 a week. Adding to my delight here is the vast world of Elkay water fountain memes.