Yes. "Rurality" is for many Americans just a costume they put on! bsky.app/profile/mike...
August 24, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Yes. "Rurality" is for many Americans just a costume they put on! bsky.app/profile/mike...
Add ‘red diesel’ to their lexicon of picturesque elements of English rurality.
Yuge day for American Bluesky, as many are getting their first experience of the quaint and traditional British rural pursuits, "dogging" and "flytipping"
September 28, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Add ‘red diesel’ to their lexicon of picturesque elements of English rurality.
New video is going to be late (meaning probably tomorrow)…but worth it
December 11, 2024 at 1:47 PM
New video is going to be late (meaning probably tomorrow)…but worth it
Saw the term performative rurality used recently and it's so good
October 25, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Saw the term performative rurality used recently and it's so good
September 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM
his basic ignorance of the subject is evident in that he equates country music with white rurality. not only does he appear unaware of the diversity of rural america, but he doesn’t seem to get that the principle audience for this stuff is suburban and exurban
September 13, 2026 at 2:38 PM
his basic ignorance of the subject is evident in that he equates country music with white rurality. not only does he appear unaware of the diversity of rural america, but he doesn’t seem to get that the principle audience for this stuff is suburban and exurban
One note about this, because I was curious: remarkably, the state-level explanatory power of Google searches for testosterone and Trump vote survives controls for education, income, and rurality.
I really love this chart. I'm guess that the correlation here (.85) is about as big as you would find for any other variable. Also, a less serious scholar than @tesler.bsky.social (namely me) would have made a crude Freudian reference to the slope of the line.
September 28, 2026 at 4:04 PM
One note about this, because I was curious: remarkably, the state-level explanatory power of Google searches for testosterone and Trump vote survives controls for education, income, and rurality.
#ArtAdventCalendar - December 6
Rurality against Fascism
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#Art #Badger #Antifa #Rurality
Rurality against Fascism
Available as free/open price DL at ko-fi.com/s/c91df47dac
Available as prints, stickers and goodies at www.redbubble.com/fr/shop/ap/1...
#Art #Badger #Antifa #Rurality
December 6, 2025 at 7:09 AM
#ArtAdventCalendar - December 6
Rurality against Fascism
Available as free/open price DL at ko-fi.com/s/c91df47dac
Available as prints, stickers and goodies at www.redbubble.com/fr/shop/ap/1...
#Art #Badger #Antifa #Rurality
Rurality against Fascism
Available as free/open price DL at ko-fi.com/s/c91df47dac
Available as prints, stickers and goodies at www.redbubble.com/fr/shop/ap/1...
#Art #Badger #Antifa #Rurality
There’s this competitive discoursing that white men do whenever I write or opine about country music or rurality in general. It goes something like, “I bet you don’t even know REAL COUNTRY” and they mean like Merle Haggard or something and I laugh, deeply.
December 2, 2025 at 8:13 PM
There’s this competitive discoursing that white men do whenever I write or opine about country music or rurality in general. It goes something like, “I bet you don’t even know REAL COUNTRY” and they mean like Merle Haggard or something and I laugh, deeply.
A lot of people who "are country" are just fans of country western music and other symbols, with no real connection to rurality
The same people who are terrified of city streets and subway cars but also love tractors and rodeos haven’t actually been near any of those in 25 years
September 6, 2025 at 3:20 AM
A lot of people who "are country" are just fans of country western music and other symbols, with no real connection to rurality
"Self-identified rurality" - chapeau
December 12, 2024 at 10:26 PM
"Self-identified rurality" - chapeau
My most woke opinion is that rurality inherently lends itself to bigotry because people are isolated and rarely have to be wound people like themselves - and the rural life is uniquely romanticized by white people
November 16, 2025 at 10:48 PM
My most woke opinion is that rurality inherently lends itself to bigotry because people are isolated and rarely have to be wound people like themselves - and the rural life is uniquely romanticized by white people
There is no more renewable resource in the United States than wrongheaded takes by writers who confidently use country music as a simple symbol of rurality without having a clue about the music or seemingly anything else. If only we could harness such empty pontificating as a fuel source...
There is so much wrong with this argument that I wouldn’t know where to start.
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/o...
Opinion | Ella Langley. ‘Landman.’ The Rural Vibe Shift Is Real. (Gift Article)
Social marginalization means something different today.
www.nytimes.com
September 13, 2026 at 2:46 PM
There is no more renewable resource in the United States than wrongheaded takes by writers who confidently use country music as a simple symbol of rurality without having a clue about the music or seemingly anything else. If only we could harness such empty pontificating as a fuel source...
I have had times where I lived fairly rural but my rurality doesn't come within an acre of spitting distance to Keezy's. Rural on the east half can't comprehend the scope of rurality on the west, and I for one have no desire to, no thank you
for the record I have no interest in fighting anybody about how rural anybody is, it's just that wow people sure do seem to want to fight me about it! and it's hilarious because the ones who want to fight literally never win. there's lots of people who could. it's just that they (and I) don't care
May 29, 2026 at 12:53 AM
I have had times where I lived fairly rural but my rurality doesn't come within an acre of spitting distance to Keezy's. Rural on the east half can't comprehend the scope of rurality on the west, and I for one have no desire to, no thank you
If your workshop doesn’t give you a workshop tattoo, maybe join us at Law and Rurality instead.
November 15, 2024 at 10:46 PM
If your workshop doesn’t give you a workshop tattoo, maybe join us at Law and Rurality instead.
Nobody abandoned rurality
Those hypothetical neighbors became that way after being abandoned by every party but Fox fascists spotting an easy pickup. Urban attitudes / policies of open antipathy for rurals by dems led once-unionized rural pops to embrace maga grifters - via predominantly urban-bred programs btw
August 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Nobody abandoned rurality
The fact that you think US liberalism is concentrated in big cities and rurality is the domain of Trump voters is a GIGANTIC tell here. One which I’m qwhite sure you’re colorblind too.
November 1, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The fact that you think US liberalism is concentrated in big cities and rurality is the domain of Trump voters is a GIGANTIC tell here. One which I’m qwhite sure you’re colorblind too.
This shows up in my “self-identified rurality” video, where the peer-reviewed research finds that people who identify and behave as “rural” (regardless of where they actually live) experience higher rates of all kinds of sedentary-related disease
I think this is my underrated pet issue, that american transportation and roads and city planning is making us sick and unhealthy with aggregate more expensive healthcare outcomes
This happened to me when I went in for a routine checkup in Vegas. I told them I didn’t have a car and I just walk and bike everywhere, and they (1) looked at me like I was crazy and (2) told me I’m in the 99th percentile of non-sedentary behavior
December 21, 2024 at 5:37 PM
This shows up in my “self-identified rurality” video, where the peer-reviewed research finds that people who identify and behave as “rural” (regardless of where they actually live) experience higher rates of all kinds of sedentary-related disease
"It was the first day of June...Every green was young, every pore was open...the landscape being all health and colour. God was palpably present in the country, and the devil had gone with the world to town."
📗 Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
🎨 John Constable
#BookWormSat #rurality
📗 Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
🎨 John Constable
#BookWormSat #rurality
October 3, 2026 at 9:49 AM
"It was the first day of June...Every green was young, every pore was open...the landscape being all health and colour. God was palpably present in the country, and the devil had gone with the world to town."
📗 Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
🎨 John Constable
#BookWormSat #rurality
📗 Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
🎨 John Constable
#BookWormSat #rurality
"The team found that the greater the proportion of enslaved people in a county in 1860, the bigger the mortality gap between Black & white people in the 2010s, even after controlling for common factors tied to health inequalities, such as rurality or pop. density"
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Slavery linked to mortality gap between Black and white Americans today
New study is among the first to quantify and explain slavery’s influence in contemporary U.S. health disparities
www.science.org
August 18, 2026 at 12:47 AM
"The team found that the greater the proportion of enslaved people in a county in 1860, the bigger the mortality gap between Black & white people in the 2010s, even after controlling for common factors tied to health inequalities, such as rurality or pop. density"
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Leonard Campbell Tayor is an obscure name in the art market, but in the 1930s, he explored the gentle rurality of inter-war England with great sensitivity. His 'Restaurant Car,' (1936) recalls the days of silver service meals on British railways.
April 16, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Leonard Campbell Tayor is an obscure name in the art market, but in the 1930s, he explored the gentle rurality of inter-war England with great sensitivity. His 'Restaurant Car,' (1936) recalls the days of silver service meals on British railways.
My phone just "corrected" the word "rurality" to "tiramisu," which is honestly pretty amazing.
November 12, 2024 at 6:28 AM
My phone just "corrected" the word "rurality" to "tiramisu," which is honestly pretty amazing.
“Aspirational rurality.” “Cowboy mythology.” Once again Leah Sottile hits it out of the park, and I feel like some of the insomniac thoughts I have found words.
If you can believe it, January 1, 2026 marks ten years since the armed takeover of Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. For Portland Monthly, I wrote about how the ensuing decade was dominated by anxious men and a culture of lawlessness.
www.pdxmonthly.com/news-and-cit...
www.pdxmonthly.com/news-and-cit...
The Takeover of Malheur Kicked Off a Decade of Lawlessness
The wildlife refuge occupation set the stage for Trump, January 6, and so much more.
www.pdxmonthly.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:49 AM
“Aspirational rurality.” “Cowboy mythology.” Once again Leah Sottile hits it out of the park, and I feel like some of the insomniac thoughts I have found words.
oppose rurality in all its forms. a backward, tragic way of life. celebrate automation
NEW: Companies are already selling robots that pick fruit and vegetables and weed bots that can tell baby ragweed from baby carrots.
Corporations are trying to automate farming. Time for farming communities to come together to resist, writes journalist, organizer, and farmer @suzan63.bsky.social:
Corporations are trying to automate farming. Time for farming communities to come together to resist, writes journalist, organizer, and farmer @suzan63.bsky.social:
Rural America Needs to Band Together Against Corporate Greed - OtherWords
New schemes for fully robotic farming could push the last remaining farmers — and their communities — to fold.
otherwords.org
March 9, 2026 at 8:58 PM
oppose rurality in all its forms. a backward, tragic way of life. celebrate automation