Ben Vaught
@benvaught.bsky.social
Carly Rae Jepsen nano-influencer. Plutophobic.
Nashville
Nashville
Deep in enemy territory for the first snow ride of the season
November 10, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Deep in enemy territory for the first snow ride of the season
Lovely evening for a little bike ride
November 10, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Lovely evening for a little bike ride
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Van Hollen Senate Minority Leader vote when
November 10, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Van Hollen Senate Minority Leader vote when
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Everyone in the entire world connect headphones to your devices when they are emitting sounds in public again challenge
November 9, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Everyone in the entire world connect headphones to your devices when they are emitting sounds in public again challenge
Old building, new building, changing leaves, train, greenway. Can’t beat that with a stick
November 9, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Old building, new building, changing leaves, train, greenway. Can’t beat that with a stick
I will not rest until we have an urban Costco
And the thing that breaks many a brains - a Costco underneath a building right in the neighbourhood (terrible picture but you can look it up)
November 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I will not rest until we have an urban Costco
We don’t actually care about context, but it’s endlessly fascinating *where* we claim to care about it, and what we use it to prevent
November 7, 2025 at 7:50 PM
We don’t actually care about context, but it’s endlessly fascinating *where* we claim to care about it, and what we use it to prevent
Myth: Exercise makes you healthier
Reality: I’m constantly hearing of professional athletes with some sort of injury
builttothink.substack.com/p/wall-stree...
Reality: I’m constantly hearing of professional athletes with some sort of injury
builttothink.substack.com/p/wall-stree...
November 7, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Myth: Exercise makes you healthier
Reality: I’m constantly hearing of professional athletes with some sort of injury
builttothink.substack.com/p/wall-stree...
Reality: I’m constantly hearing of professional athletes with some sort of injury
builttothink.substack.com/p/wall-stree...
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There is truly nothing new under the sun.
Brendan Gill doing the “ I don’t even think anyone lives in these new apartments“ song and dance, 38 years ago
November 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
There is truly nothing new under the sun.
While we fret over felling individual trees to build quadplexes (that would come down when a McMansion got built anyways), the exurbs are churning out projects like this with abandon
November 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
While we fret over felling individual trees to build quadplexes (that would come down when a McMansion got built anyways), the exurbs are churning out projects like this with abandon
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My local transgender coffee shop did this but it was a Henry George shrine
mood at the transgender coffee shop jubilant this morning as we *all* donned our burqas and left offerings at the shrine to Marx
November 6, 2025 at 7:24 AM
My local transgender coffee shop did this but it was a Henry George shrine
I have a feeling all those NIMBYs bemoaning the lack of “truly affordable” housing last night were not being entirely honest 🧐
November 5, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I have a feeling all those NIMBYs bemoaning the lack of “truly affordable” housing last night were not being entirely honest 🧐
“The fire marshal told us to park here” lol k
November 5, 2025 at 8:57 PM
“The fire marshal told us to park here” lol k
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If you want more democracy, you need fewer cars.
The transit riders vs drivers election.
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
If you want more democracy, you need fewer cars.
. @sandrafornash.bsky.social explicitly speaking for the renters/young people/multigenerational households that couldn’t come support a bill that would help them by legalizing more DADUs
November 5, 2025 at 4:32 AM
. @sandrafornash.bsky.social explicitly speaking for the renters/young people/multigenerational households that couldn’t come support a bill that would help them by legalizing more DADUs
Nashville’s loudest NIMBYs have apparently allied themselves with an opponent of the Civil Rights Act to make their case to the public. The choice at hand just could not be more clear.
I thought he did better when he characterized zoning reform as an example of the continued post-Civil Rights Acts efforts toward the dissolution of segregation.
November 5, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Nashville’s loudest NIMBYs have apparently allied themselves with an opponent of the Civil Rights Act to make their case to the public. The choice at hand just could not be more clear.
“I’m afraid this isn’t gonna be as easy as that time I got rid of the zoning commissioner for your father”
Screaming. Nashville 911 touching the third rail of local politics
Screaming. Nashville 911 touching the third rail of local politics
November 5, 2025 at 2:09 AM
“I’m afraid this isn’t gonna be as easy as that time I got rid of the zoning commissioner for your father”
Screaming. Nashville 911 touching the third rail of local politics
Screaming. Nashville 911 touching the third rail of local politics
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Bluesky rn
November 5, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Bluesky rn
We really need the council to understand that these people simply cannot be appeased and are not engaging in good faith. Do the right thing, stop nibbling around the edges, and move on.
She had to do something to appease her sylvan park neighborhood association overlords..
November 5, 2025 at 1:24 AM
We really need the council to understand that these people simply cannot be appeased and are not engaging in good faith. Do the right thing, stop nibbling around the edges, and move on.
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Reggie Williams was walking to a corner store when armed authorities aggressively asked him if he was from Ethiopia or Ghana, he said
He and other Black Memphis residents have been reporting harassment by Trump’s police task force: "I don't feel safe"
He and other Black Memphis residents have been reporting harassment by Trump’s police task force: "I don't feel safe"
“I Don’t Feel Safe”: Black Memphis Residents Report Harassment by Trump’s Police Task Force
A pastor was pulled over for looking lost. A 72-year-old was marched out in his bathrobe due to mistaken identity. Memphis’ mayor welcomed the federal law enforcement surge, but some residents say the...
www.propublica.org
November 3, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Reggie Williams was walking to a corner store when armed authorities aggressively asked him if he was from Ethiopia or Ghana, he said
He and other Black Memphis residents have been reporting harassment by Trump’s police task force: "I don't feel safe"
He and other Black Memphis residents have been reporting harassment by Trump’s police task force: "I don't feel safe"
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the cool thing about deeply thinking, planning, and studying … is we can keep doing it forever and never actually have to take any action on anything
see also: housing
see also: housing
Why does everything have to be a fight? Just let people who have a SNAP card on the bus.
November 3, 2025 at 10:05 PM
the cool thing about deeply thinking, planning, and studying … is we can keep doing it forever and never actually have to take any action on anything
see also: housing
see also: housing
I think we should be prepared for a NIMBY J6 if this doesn’t go their way
Residents of The Nations to file ethics complaint against Metro Council member for alleged intimidation, abuse of office
Residents of The Nations to file ethics complaint against Metro Council member for alleged intimidation, abuse of office
Some residents in The Nations are are filing an ethics complaint and requesting an investigation into Metro Councilman Rollin Horton.
www.wsmv.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I think we should be prepared for a NIMBY J6 if this doesn’t go their way
Broke: we don’t have a housing crisis
Woke: rezonings won’t solve the housing crisis
Bespoke: boomers dying off will solve the housing crisis
Woke: rezonings won’t solve the housing crisis
Bespoke: boomers dying off will solve the housing crisis
November 3, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Broke: we don’t have a housing crisis
Woke: rezonings won’t solve the housing crisis
Bespoke: boomers dying off will solve the housing crisis
Woke: rezonings won’t solve the housing crisis
Bespoke: boomers dying off will solve the housing crisis
Do yall ever see someone working at a restaurant in east Nashville and think “yes, correct, you should work in a restaurant in east Nashville”
November 2, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Do yall ever see someone working at a restaurant in east Nashville and think “yes, correct, you should work in a restaurant in east Nashville”