Andrew Donaldson
@four4thefire.bsky.social
Made by West Virginia. Writer, sometimes a talking head, frequent VA patient
Writer/M.E. https://ordinary-times.com/
Commentary for WV Watch https://westvirginiawatch.com/
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Food fun #blueskysupperclub
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No holiday for community college culinary school: Serving and front of house for Asian themed lunch service and 45ish covers, get little break, then back in kitchen for more cooking fun and kitchen lab tonight. This menu was amazing when we did the testing.
November 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
No holiday for community college culinary school: Serving and front of house for Asian themed lunch service and 45ish covers, get little break, then back in kitchen for more cooking fun and kitchen lab tonight. This menu was amazing when we did the testing.
Chicken parm, broccolini, and some garlic ciabatta for community college culinary school #blueskysupperclub
November 11, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Chicken parm, broccolini, and some garlic ciabatta for community college culinary school #blueskysupperclub
Chicken parm, broccolini, and some garlic ciabatta for community college culinary school #blueskysupperclub
November 11, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Chicken parm, broccolini, and some garlic ciabatta for community college culinary school #blueskysupperclub
Deer during the snow Up Yonder today. Via my father
November 11, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Deer during the snow Up Yonder today. Via my father
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November 10, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Russ Wilson adds to his bodycount...
The Giants are firing coach Brian Daboll, sources say. A promising and frustrating season leads NYG to have an opening.
After another lead evaporated yesterday, Brian Daboll is out.
OC Mike Kafka is interim coach, per me and Mike Garafolo.
After another lead evaporated yesterday, Brian Daboll is out.
OC Mike Kafka is interim coach, per me and Mike Garafolo.
November 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Russ Wilson adds to his bodycount...
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Review from Sarah Stook "The humble miniseries is one of my favourite story mediums. We’ve had hits like Chernobyl, John Adams and Dopesick among others. It’s also the best way to tell this story. A movie would have been too long and a regular series would have too much filler."
The Just-Right Storytelling of Death By Lightning - Ordinary Times
The humble miniseries is the best way to tell this story. A movie would have been too long, and a regular series would have too much filler.
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November 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Review from Sarah Stook "The humble miniseries is one of my favourite story mediums. We’ve had hits like Chernobyl, John Adams and Dopesick among others. It’s also the best way to tell this story. A movie would have been too long and a regular series would have too much filler."
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From @hal10000.bsky.social "Mamdani has been elected Mayor of a City, not Emperor. He will find, as a all Mayors do, that his power are limited. He will be constrained by federal, state and local law, constrained by Governor Hochul and constrained by simple fiscal reality"
Everyone Needs to Chill About Zohran Mamdani - Ordinary Times
NYC is its own thing. A number of mayors thought their tenure would be a springboard to national politics. It has never worked out for them.
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November 10, 2025 at 12:51 PM
From @hal10000.bsky.social "Mamdani has been elected Mayor of a City, not Emperor. He will find, as a all Mayors do, that his power are limited. He will be constrained by federal, state and local law, constrained by Governor Hochul and constrained by simple fiscal reality"
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Lament of @conservacatgal.bsky.social "It has been my great misfortune that I was raised in the Metro Atlanta area and therefore was thrust against my will into following the Atlanta Falcons my entire life. Oh sure, we also have the Braves. And the Georgia Bulldogs...But the Falcons?"
Do I Have to Keep Rooting for this Team? - Ordinary Times
This is not about football...If only those questions weren’t a whole lot more consequential than the future of the Atlanta Falcons.
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November 10, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Lament of @conservacatgal.bsky.social "It has been my great misfortune that I was raised in the Metro Atlanta area and therefore was thrust against my will into following the Atlanta Falcons my entire life. Oh sure, we also have the Braves. And the Georgia Bulldogs...But the Falcons?"
Going like with my friend Joe Cats on his SC radio morning show right now. Listen in here www.wrnn.net
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November 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Going like with my friend Joe Cats on his SC radio morning show right now. Listen in here www.wrnn.net
My father reports the first real snow of the season has come to Up Yonder, West Virginia, USA. 4-8 inches today, more tonight. Winter in the mountains doesn't care about your "official start of..." date
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 PM
My father reports the first real snow of the season has come to Up Yonder, West Virginia, USA. 4-8 inches today, more tonight. Winter in the mountains doesn't care about your "official start of..." date
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This isn't the cause, surely, but it is worth noting that when I was at @ordinarytimes.bsky.social there was a big consensus among the generation behind me that renting was the wiser fiscal move and only morons threw away money buying a home. So I'm unsure generational comparisons work that well.
November 9, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This isn't the cause, surely, but it is worth noting that when I was at @ordinarytimes.bsky.social there was a big consensus among the generation behind me that renting was the wiser fiscal move and only morons threw away money buying a home. So I'm unsure generational comparisons work that well.
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From @conservacatgal.bsky.social "I’ve actually enjoyed watching ISU figure skating grand prix this season. A friend is heavily into cricket. I could take that up instead. Or just stick with Bulldog Saturdays. Nobody is MAKING me punish myself week after week. So why do I do it? Habit? Masochism?"
Do I Have to Keep Rooting for this Team? - Ordinary Times
This is not about football...If only those questions weren’t a whole lot more consequential than the future of the Atlanta Falcons.
ordinary-times.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:34 AM
From @conservacatgal.bsky.social "I’ve actually enjoyed watching ISU figure skating grand prix this season. A friend is heavily into cricket. I could take that up instead. Or just stick with Bulldog Saturdays. Nobody is MAKING me punish myself week after week. So why do I do it? Habit? Masochism?"
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From @hal10000.bsky.social "As for his influence on national politics, I would caution my Democratic friends from reading to much into this. NYC is its own thing. A number of NYC mayors have thought their tenure would be a springboard to national politics. It has never worked out for them."
Everyone Needs to Chill About Zohran Mamdani - Ordinary Times
NYC is its own thing. A number of mayors thought their tenure would be a springboard to national politics. It has never worked out for them.
ordinary-times.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:41 AM
From @hal10000.bsky.social "As for his influence on national politics, I would caution my Democratic friends from reading to much into this. NYC is its own thing. A number of NYC mayors have thought their tenure would be a springboard to national politics. It has never worked out for them."
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From Ben Sears for POETS Day "An ignorant reading is sweet and sad; driven to debauchery and hedonism, hunting distraction, nothing can drive the love he must be true to from his mind. Knowing the actualities of his infatuation sours the poem." ordinary-times.com/2025/11/07/p...
POETS Day! Ernest Dowson - Ordinary Times
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November 10, 2025 at 1:43 AM
From Ben Sears for POETS Day "An ignorant reading is sweet and sad; driven to debauchery and hedonism, hunting distraction, nothing can drive the love he must be true to from his mind. Knowing the actualities of his infatuation sours the poem." ordinary-times.com/2025/11/07/p...
Its a special breed of badass to do mine rescue work. Pray or keep a good thought for those doing super human things in the dark for the faintest of hopes because there might be a chance.
Rescue efforts are underway after a miner got trapped following a sudden flooding at the Rolling Thunder Mines in Drennen on Saturday.
https://www.wowktv.com/news/west-virginia/nicholas-county-wv/miner-unaccounted-for-after-flood/
https://www.wowktv.com/news/west-virginia/nicholas-county-wv/miner-unaccounted-for-after-flood/
Miner unaccounted for after flood at Rolling Thunder Mines
Editor’s Note: Story updated with the latest information DRENNEN, W.Va. (WOWK) — Rescue efforts are underway after a miner got trapped following a sudden flooding about 3/4 of a mile un…
www.wowktv.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Its a special breed of badass to do mine rescue work. Pray or keep a good thought for those doing super human things in the dark for the faintest of hopes because there might be a chance.
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The right wing's bad faith brigades saw a photo that they wanted to believe mocked Charlie Kirk's murder. It didn't, but they didn't care, and they've done enormous damage to countless people who have no recourse. Pure scumbaggery, and standard operating procedure.
One photo, a deluge of threats: Inside the Arizona high school turned upside down by right-wing activists
A group of math teachers — some of whom were fans of Charlie Kirk — had their lives turned upside down this week over false accusations about a Halloween photo.
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November 9, 2025 at 11:54 PM
The right wing's bad faith brigades saw a photo that they wanted to believe mocked Charlie Kirk's murder. It didn't, but they didn't care, and they've done enormous damage to countless people who have no recourse. Pure scumbaggery, and standard operating procedure.
WV has the best mine rescue in the world. All we can do is hope and pray at this point...
Rescue efforts are underway after a miner got trapped following a sudden flooding at the Rolling Thunder Mines in Drennen on Saturday.
https://www.wowktv.com/news/west-virginia/nicholas-county-wv/miner-unaccounted-for-after-flood/
https://www.wowktv.com/news/west-virginia/nicholas-county-wv/miner-unaccounted-for-after-flood/
Miner unaccounted for after flood at Rolling Thunder Mines
Editor’s Note: Story updated with the latest information DRENNEN, W.Va. (WOWK) — Rescue efforts are underway after a miner got trapped following a sudden flooding about 3/4 of a mile un…
www.wowktv.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:37 PM
WV has the best mine rescue in the world. All we can do is hope and pray at this point...
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Dumber, encompassing more things, and with a lot more opportunity to be disproven by personal experience.
Most people have no way of personally evaluating claims of voter fraud in a distant state. They can personally evaluate things like their own energy bill or getting stuck at an airport.
Most people have no way of personally evaluating claims of voter fraud in a distant state. They can personally evaluate things like their own energy bill or getting stuck at an airport.
November 9, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Dumber, encompassing more things, and with a lot more opportunity to be disproven by personal experience.
Most people have no way of personally evaluating claims of voter fraud in a distant state. They can personally evaluate things like their own energy bill or getting stuck at an airport.
Most people have no way of personally evaluating claims of voter fraud in a distant state. They can personally evaluate things like their own energy bill or getting stuck at an airport.
Good seeing the NFL back in Germany, playing in the house that Hitler built but Jesse Owens rolled in, showed out, and made his own. His names still on it in honor, unlike the evil who thought they were better than him.
Scoreboard. 'Merica🇺🇲
Scoreboard. 'Merica🇺🇲
November 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Good seeing the NFL back in Germany, playing in the house that Hitler built but Jesse Owens rolled in, showed out, and made his own. His names still on it in honor, unlike the evil who thought they were better than him.
Scoreboard. 'Merica🇺🇲
Scoreboard. 'Merica🇺🇲
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Substitute teacher lunch, Chicago Public Schools - made it to the end of the week. Last two slices of bread and one slice of prosciutto with two slices of cheese. Guess I’ll have to shop #blueskysupperclub
November 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Substitute teacher lunch, Chicago Public Schools - made it to the end of the week. Last two slices of bread and one slice of prosciutto with two slices of cheese. Guess I’ll have to shop #blueskysupperclub
If it was a ponzi scheme, what would be different...
ICYMI: Microsoft’s charge “implies a more than $12 billion quarterly loss at OpenAI, said Firoz Valliji, an analyst at Bernstein.”
That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.”
@jessefelder.bsky.social $MSFT
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That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.”
@jessefelder.bsky.social $MSFT
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
November 8, 2025 at 11:58 PM
If it was a ponzi scheme, what would be different...
Vegan kid got butternut squash and orzo with sage
#blueskysupperclub
#blueskysupperclub
November 8, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Vegan kid got butternut squash and orzo with sage
#blueskysupperclub
#blueskysupperclub