Matthew Bond
@mjb1959.bsky.social
Tutor, writer, crank--prefers pressing clothes to pressing issues.
I just sent another message to Governor Lee, via this network. Christa Pike deserves to have her sentence commuted, and we *really* need to end state-killing here and across the U.S.: actionnetwork.org/letters/gove...
Governor Lee, Reconsider Clemency for Christa Pike
Given the Christa Pike's stay of execution, now is the time to ask Governor Lee to reconsider clemency.
actionnetwork.org
September 30, 2026 at 5:27 PM
I just sent another message to Governor Lee, via this network. Christa Pike deserves to have her sentence commuted, and we *really* need to end state-killing here and across the U.S.: actionnetwork.org/letters/gove...
I can live with this. His baseball team is doing better than is mine, unfortunately:
June 26, 2026 at 7:52 PM
I can live with this. His baseball team is doing better than is mine, unfortunately:
My wife, a middle-aged, middle-class White woman, just took a bus to the Duff Transit Center and then, another bus to her destination, arrived on time, and did it all without posting photos of herself on social media! I am so proud of her! May we all (European- & Asian-Americans) follow her example!
June 10, 2026 at 2:15 PM
My wife, a middle-aged, middle-class White woman, just took a bus to the Duff Transit Center and then, another bus to her destination, arrived on time, and did it all without posting photos of herself on social media! I am so proud of her! May we all (European- & Asian-Americans) follow her example!
I agree with @katemanne.bsky.social about a hard NO toward sexual strangulation (katemanne.substack.com/p/how-sex-po...), especially considering its potential for brain damage. I hope that Manne also tells the Cornell admins. to end the football program. It, too, causes demonstrable brain damage.
How Sex-Positivity Lost its Way
We need to think about sex without shame but also without losing our critical faculties
katemanne.substack.com
May 17, 2026 at 5:32 PM
I agree with @katemanne.bsky.social about a hard NO toward sexual strangulation (katemanne.substack.com/p/how-sex-po...), especially considering its potential for brain damage. I hope that Manne also tells the Cornell admins. to end the football program. It, too, causes demonstrable brain damage.
Three (at minimum) elections in Nashville this year:
May 5th:
for Circuit Court Judge Division III: Bethany Peery Glandorf
for Criminal Court Judge Division III: Jim Todd
for General Sessions Judge Division VI: Jodie Ann Bell
for Circuit Court Clerk: Joseph P. Day
for County Clerk: Freda Player
May 5th:
for Circuit Court Judge Division III: Bethany Peery Glandorf
for Criminal Court Judge Division III: Jim Todd
for General Sessions Judge Division VI: Jodie Ann Bell
for Circuit Court Clerk: Joseph P. Day
for County Clerk: Freda Player
April 14, 2026 at 4:38 AM
Three (at minimum) elections in Nashville this year:
May 5th:
for Circuit Court Judge Division III: Bethany Peery Glandorf
for Criminal Court Judge Division III: Jim Todd
for General Sessions Judge Division VI: Jodie Ann Bell
for Circuit Court Clerk: Joseph P. Day
for County Clerk: Freda Player
May 5th:
for Circuit Court Judge Division III: Bethany Peery Glandorf
for Criminal Court Judge Division III: Jim Todd
for General Sessions Judge Division VI: Jodie Ann Bell
for Circuit Court Clerk: Joseph P. Day
for County Clerk: Freda Player
Stifling the news (when they are self-censoring enough already) is not a good look.
No one claimed that walking outside the crosswalk is illegal, simply that, here, it is what happened. The news should report every relevant fact in every news story, of which this is one.
No one claimed that walking outside the crosswalk is illegal, simply that, here, it is what happened. The news should report every relevant fact in every news story, of which this is one.
Really gonna need news organizations and police to stop saying people are "outside the crosswalk" when state law says that all intersections of public roads are legal crossings and there is no law against crossing outside of a crosswalk anyway...
Link: www.tn.gov/tdot/local-p...
Link: www.tn.gov/tdot/local-p...
March 3, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Stifling the news (when they are self-censoring enough already) is not a good look.
No one claimed that walking outside the crosswalk is illegal, simply that, here, it is what happened. The news should report every relevant fact in every news story, of which this is one.
No one claimed that walking outside the crosswalk is illegal, simply that, here, it is what happened. The news should report every relevant fact in every news story, of which this is one.
I think that I would rather ride with a driver who drives carefully & defensively rather than one who thinks that he is seeing everything perfectly at all times and drives perfectly, too.
I'm sorry that Chris Bowe wants to score cheap points rather than work toward a solution.
I'm sorry that Chris Bowe wants to score cheap points rather than work toward a solution.
People will just log on here and openly admit they shouldn’t be trusted behind the wheel. Incredible stuff!
Yes, but the pedestrian must be seen. More than once, mostly driving Trinity Lane, at night, I have barely seen black-clad men crossing far from a crosswalk.
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March 3, 2026 at 3:32 PM
I think that I would rather ride with a driver who drives carefully & defensively rather than one who thinks that he is seeing everything perfectly at all times and drives perfectly, too.
I'm sorry that Chris Bowe wants to score cheap points rather than work toward a solution.
I'm sorry that Chris Bowe wants to score cheap points rather than work toward a solution.
Today is the day. Thanks to the day that I was born (6/25/59), I am, today, February 25th 2026, 66 years and eight months old, meaning that, today, I am two-thirds of the way to 100 years old. This probably deserves a small cake. I'm thinking of having written on top, in frosting, "2/3 · 100."
February 25, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Today is the day. Thanks to the day that I was born (6/25/59), I am, today, February 25th 2026, 66 years and eight months old, meaning that, today, I am two-thirds of the way to 100 years old. This probably deserves a small cake. I'm thinking of having written on top, in frosting, "2/3 · 100."
At 8:52, @themanaen.bsky.social begins a paragraph for the second time. He stops, says, "Okay, I'm reading the same fucking thing I wrote" (www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDD3...).
Of course, I hope that he's reading what he wrote, but not what he just read. This all raises the question: How stoned is he?
Of course, I hope that he's reading what he wrote, but not what he just read. This all raises the question: How stoned is he?
12/15/25 Metropolitan Council Committee: Budget & Finance
YouTube video by Metro Nashville Network
www.youtube.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:43 PM
At 8:52, @themanaen.bsky.social begins a paragraph for the second time. He stops, says, "Okay, I'm reading the same fucking thing I wrote" (www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDD3...).
Of course, I hope that he's reading what he wrote, but not what he just read. This all raises the question: How stoned is he?
Of course, I hope that he's reading what he wrote, but not what he just read. This all raises the question: How stoned is he?
So, C.M. Parker: Please tell us about your text conversations during the August 5th Council Meeting, the ones to which C.M. Ellis referred, so you had to lean over her desk and curse at her?
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October 7, 2025 at 12:45 AM
So, C.M. Parker: Please tell us about your text conversations during the August 5th Council Meeting, the ones to which C.M. Ellis referred, so you had to lean over her desk and curse at her?
C.M. Welsch lives in a house quitclaimed to her husband from his mother back in '97. It's on 71% of an acre, zoned RS10. Welsch protected it from the massive re-zoning she attempted to impose onto her constituents earlier this year.
So: double ouch.
So: double ouch.
“The woman who filed the petition is immune to our housing issue because she—and good for her—lives in a home owned by her parents."
Ouch lol
www.wsmv.com/2025/10/06/r...
Ouch lol
www.wsmv.com/2025/10/06/r...
Residents of The Nations call for removal of Metro Council member over rezoning plan
“The woman who filed the petition is immune to our housing issue because she—and good for her—lives in a home owned by her parents."
www.wsmv.com
October 6, 2025 at 11:54 PM
C.M. Welsch lives in a house quitclaimed to her husband from his mother back in '97. It's on 71% of an acre, zoned RS10. Welsch protected it from the massive re-zoning she attempted to impose onto her constituents earlier this year.
So: double ouch.
So: double ouch.
Today, June 27th, is the 145th birthday of Helen Keller.
June 28, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Today, June 27th, is the 145th birthday of Helen Keller.
Today, June 26th, is the 80th birthday of the United Nations.
June 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Today, June 26th, is the 80th birthday of the United Nations.
Today, June 25th, is Sonia Sotomayor's 71st birthday.
June 26, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Today, June 25th, is Sonia Sotomayor's 71st birthday.
Today, June 23rd, is the 99th anniversary of the S.A.T.
June 24, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Today, June 23rd, is the 99th anniversary of the S.A.T.
Today, June 21st, is the 75th birthday of Anne Carson.
June 21, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Today, June 21st, is the 75th birthday of Anne Carson.
Without a last-minute reprieve, we Tennesseans will kill Oscar Smith tomorrow morning, around 10:00. There is a vigil outside Riverbend starting at 9:00. I hope that every Tennessean will come to the vigil to bear witness to the outrage of killing a helpless person.
May 21, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Without a last-minute reprieve, we Tennesseans will kill Oscar Smith tomorrow morning, around 10:00. There is a vigil outside Riverbend starting at 9:00. I hope that every Tennessean will come to the vigil to bear witness to the outrage of killing a helpless person.
Today, May 21st, is the 144th birthday of the American Red Cross.
May 21, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Today, May 21st, is the 144th birthday of the American Red Cross.
Today is the 100th birthday of Malcolm X.
May 19, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Today is the 100th birthday of Malcolm X.
Today, May 13th, is Stevie Wonder's 75th birthday. Stevie Wonder, the Mozart of R&B.
May 13, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Today, May 13th, is Stevie Wonder's 75th birthday. Stevie Wonder, the Mozart of R&B.
Today, May 12th, is the 89th birthday of Frank Stella.
May 12, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Today, May 12th, is the 89th birthday of Frank Stella.
Today, May 7th, is the 185th birthday of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
May 7, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Today, May 7th, is the 185th birthday of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
Today, May 6th, is the 110th birthday of Orson Welles.
May 6, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Today, May 6th, is the 110th birthday of Orson Welles.
Today, May 5th, would have been Tammy Wynette's 83rd birthday.
May 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Today, May 5th, would have been Tammy Wynette's 83rd birthday.