Michael
@mbelcher.bsky.social
🧑💻 Full-Stack Web Developer
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🌳 Biannual Native Tree Giveaway Spring/Fall
Watershed: Harpeth River
Mastodon: @belcher@mastodon.xyz
💼 Hire Me
🚲 Metro Greenway Enjoyer
🌳 Biannual Native Tree Giveaway Spring/Fall
Watershed: Harpeth River
Mastodon: @belcher@mastodon.xyz
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finally some good news
October 23, 2025 at 10:52 PM
finally some good news
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Notice anything missing? OH! THE INCOME ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS. Imagine asking poor & homeless folks to somehow get here, middle of the day (taking time off work) without even knowing if they qualify for this. The level of disrespect & absolute disregard for poor people’s time is truly disgusting.
October 22, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Notice anything missing? OH! THE INCOME ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS. Imagine asking poor & homeless folks to somehow get here, middle of the day (taking time off work) without even knowing if they qualify for this. The level of disrespect & absolute disregard for poor people’s time is truly disgusting.
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I LOVE this at the end of the benches’ website: “We will continue to build benches and host bench parties until our demands are met.”
THE BENCH BUILDING WILL CONTINUE UNTIL NDOT IMPROVES
THE BENCH BUILDING WILL CONTINUE UNTIL NDOT IMPROVES
September 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I LOVE this at the end of the benches’ website: “We will continue to build benches and host bench parties until our demands are met.”
THE BENCH BUILDING WILL CONTINUE UNTIL NDOT IMPROVES
THE BENCH BUILDING WILL CONTINUE UNTIL NDOT IMPROVES
You love to see it.
Big ol’ pavilion, no benches
September 20, 2025 at 8:32 PM
You love to see it.
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#OtD 10 Sep 1676 pioneering English revolutionary Gerrard Winstanley died aged 66. He was a tailor and the primary theoretician of the Diggers during the English civil war who took over enclosed lands and farmed them stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8250...
September 10, 2025 at 10:41 AM
#OtD 10 Sep 1676 pioneering English revolutionary Gerrard Winstanley died aged 66. He was a tailor and the primary theoretician of the Diggers during the English civil war who took over enclosed lands and farmed them stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8250...
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New It Could Happen Here
@miawong.bsky.social talks about the new Abundance movement, its ideas and how it operates as a Trojan horse for its funders Peter Thiel and the Koch Brothers.
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
@miawong.bsky.social talks about the new Abundance movement, its ideas and how it operates as a Trojan horse for its funders Peter Thiel and the Koch Brothers.
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
September 9, 2025 at 7:24 PM
New It Could Happen Here
@miawong.bsky.social talks about the new Abundance movement, its ideas and how it operates as a Trojan horse for its funders Peter Thiel and the Koch Brothers.
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
@miawong.bsky.social talks about the new Abundance movement, its ideas and how it operates as a Trojan horse for its funders Peter Thiel and the Koch Brothers.
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
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Q: but what if a full Epstein investigation also takes down Bill Clinton?????
A:
A:
it’s not even a sacrifice, it’s like a Free Gift With Purchase
September 9, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Q: but what if a full Epstein investigation also takes down Bill Clinton?????
A:
A:
Anyone else in #nashville get a push poll that seemed to really want to get you to say that the cops need more money?
“Next, here are some ideas to reduce crime.”
“Increasing police pay and benefits”
“Install more security cameras and lighting across the city”
“Hiring more police officers”
Etc.
“Next, here are some ideas to reduce crime.”
“Increasing police pay and benefits”
“Install more security cameras and lighting across the city”
“Hiring more police officers”
Etc.
September 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Anyone else in #nashville get a push poll that seemed to really want to get you to say that the cops need more money?
“Next, here are some ideas to reduce crime.”
“Increasing police pay and benefits”
“Install more security cameras and lighting across the city”
“Hiring more police officers”
Etc.
“Next, here are some ideas to reduce crime.”
“Increasing police pay and benefits”
“Install more security cameras and lighting across the city”
“Hiring more police officers”
Etc.
Dear NDOT,
Thank you for the postcard about the virtual community meeting about the Bikeway along the road in front of my house.
It would have been really helpful if it had come before yesterday, when the meeting happened.
This is the 2nd time this has happened.
Thank you for the postcard about the virtual community meeting about the Bikeway along the road in front of my house.
It would have been really helpful if it had come before yesterday, when the meeting happened.
This is the 2nd time this has happened.
September 4, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Dear NDOT,
Thank you for the postcard about the virtual community meeting about the Bikeway along the road in front of my house.
It would have been really helpful if it had come before yesterday, when the meeting happened.
This is the 2nd time this has happened.
Thank you for the postcard about the virtual community meeting about the Bikeway along the road in front of my house.
It would have been really helpful if it had come before yesterday, when the meeting happened.
This is the 2nd time this has happened.
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As a lot of folks note, "crime" means homeless folks in sight, and there's much more of that. Nobody wants to have to be directly confronted with the human face of the consequence of policies that they support.
The thing that often blows by is not only is crime the lowest its been for any non-senior citizen's life, it has been roughly that safe for *fifteen years*. We have had fifteen years of steady, low crime while the irrational freakout over crime has relentlessly grown to a fevered, disordered pitch.
September 1, 2025 at 9:02 PM
As a lot of folks note, "crime" means homeless folks in sight, and there's much more of that. Nobody wants to have to be directly confronted with the human face of the consequence of policies that they support.
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August 29, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Losing your home and everything in it, then having to invest time and money to repair and replace everything, is extremely difficult; navigating insurance companies, government agencies, and legal issues is nerve-racking. To help you through it, @grist.org put together a guide to the process.
A disaster readiness and recovery guide for Nashville - Nashville Banner
Learn how to prepare for, deal with, and recover from natural disasters. Get valuable tips on protecting belongings and navigating aid.
nashvillebanner.com
August 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Losing your home and everything in it, then having to invest time and money to repair and replace everything, is extremely difficult; navigating insurance companies, government agencies, and legal issues is nerve-racking. To help you through it, @grist.org put together a guide to the process.
People save this to print out and wheat paste on the walls in every district when a council member says we need more surveillance on our streets.
www.govtech.com/public-safet...
www.govtech.com/public-safet...
D.C. Takeover Shows How Cities Can Lose Control of Surveillance
D.C.'s new Real-Time Crime Center is the front line in a quiet battle over who controls the police department's surveillance data. While the federal government and city fight for authority, whose surv...
www.govtech.com
August 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
People save this to print out and wheat paste on the walls in every district when a council member says we need more surveillance on our streets.
www.govtech.com/public-safet...
www.govtech.com/public-safet...
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I keep seeing these signs for your friendly neighborhood tree captain. Where are the unfriendly ones? Bully you into planting a tree.
August 20, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I keep seeing these signs for your friendly neighborhood tree captain. Where are the unfriendly ones? Bully you into planting a tree.
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divide the city into 20 different council districts, each with its own subcouncil of 20 subcouncilmembers. each subcouncil sends a delegate to the supercouncil. supercouncil delegates each cast 20 votes but are bound
to divide them according to their subcouncil's results
to divide them according to their subcouncil's results
August 16, 2025 at 2:51 AM
divide the city into 20 different council districts, each with its own subcouncil of 20 subcouncilmembers. each subcouncil sends a delegate to the supercouncil. supercouncil delegates each cast 20 votes but are bound
to divide them according to their subcouncil's results
to divide them according to their subcouncil's results
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They move as fast as we do when we want to rip out a bike lane
Drone shots from Lookout photojournalist John Partipilo show the site of the Boring Company's tunnel project beginning. According to the company and Gov. Bill Lee, a one-way tunnel for Tesla vehicles will run between the Capitol area and the airport.
August 12, 2025 at 10:37 PM
They move as fast as we do when we want to rip out a bike lane
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Offer received and accepted, funemployment ends homies.
I release my employment jelly to the wild now, thank you friend.
I release my employment jelly to the wild now, thank you friend.
July 16, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Offer received and accepted, funemployment ends homies.
I release my employment jelly to the wild now, thank you friend.
I release my employment jelly to the wild now, thank you friend.
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obsessed with this vague notice from the government of Nova Scotia. Like it’s definitely about the new fire restrictions, but it also looks like a poster you’d find yellowed and curled on the bulletin board of a diner in a town where locals won’t talk about their missing kids
August 5, 2025 at 8:16 PM
obsessed with this vague notice from the government of Nova Scotia. Like it’s definitely about the new fire restrictions, but it also looks like a poster you’d find yellowed and curled on the bulletin board of a diner in a town where locals won’t talk about their missing kids
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absolutely wild to niemöller at a person from one of the groups in the poem to argue that it’s good actually to let them come for some people because it’s a tactical victory.
“i read niemöller & solved the trolley problem the omelas way” is what a surprising number of people sound like right now.
“i read niemöller & solved the trolley problem the omelas way” is what a surprising number of people sound like right now.
August 3, 2025 at 6:18 AM
absolutely wild to niemöller at a person from one of the groups in the poem to argue that it’s good actually to let them come for some people because it’s a tactical victory.
“i read niemöller & solved the trolley problem the omelas way” is what a surprising number of people sound like right now.
“i read niemöller & solved the trolley problem the omelas way” is what a surprising number of people sound like right now.
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Listening to final mix now. Y’all. If you want to know EVERYTHING about the Elon Musk Tesla Tunnel that they’re planning to build in Nashville, you need to listen to tomorrow’s @citycastnash.bsky.social.
(We cannot tell you where it’s gonna start or go or end, though, bc I don’t think THEY know.)
(We cannot tell you where it’s gonna start or go or end, though, bc I don’t think THEY know.)
Tomorrow’s @citycastnash.bsky.social / @oyvegas.bsky.social crossover episode is gonna be something special but good lord can we please never hold a press conference at 4pm again
Tesla Tunnel press conference becoming strikingly similar to public hearings about stadium and downtown partnership
July 29, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Listening to final mix now. Y’all. If you want to know EVERYTHING about the Elon Musk Tesla Tunnel that they’re planning to build in Nashville, you need to listen to tomorrow’s @citycastnash.bsky.social.
(We cannot tell you where it’s gonna start or go or end, though, bc I don’t think THEY know.)
(We cannot tell you where it’s gonna start or go or end, though, bc I don’t think THEY know.)
Every square foot of pavement adds to a cities heat island effect.
Narrow the roads, make people drive more slowly, and plant trees between roads and pedestrian and bike lanes.
Narrow the roads, make people drive more slowly, and plant trees between roads and pedestrian and bike lanes.
Conservation group works to make Nashville greener
Conservation group works to make Nashville greener
A conservation group in town says nearly a third of the land in Nashville is paved, but they’re working to lower that number.
www.wkrn.com
July 19, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Every square foot of pavement adds to a cities heat island effect.
Narrow the roads, make people drive more slowly, and plant trees between roads and pedestrian and bike lanes.
Narrow the roads, make people drive more slowly, and plant trees between roads and pedestrian and bike lanes.
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Why DIY disaster prep matters more than ever www.motherjones.com/environment/...
We may have to take climate risks into our own hands now
Why DIY disaster prep matters more than ever.
www.motherjones.com
July 13, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Why DIY disaster prep matters more than ever www.motherjones.com/environment/...
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If you only read one of my columns, make it this one.
🤬 An “ABUNDANCE” of BS:
*Fascism vs Midterm Elections*
www.nashvillescene.com/arts_culture...
🤬 An “ABUNDANCE” of BS:
*Fascism vs Midterm Elections*
www.nashvillescene.com/arts_culture...
July 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
If you only read one of my columns, make it this one.
🤬 An “ABUNDANCE” of BS:
*Fascism vs Midterm Elections*
www.nashvillescene.com/arts_culture...
🤬 An “ABUNDANCE” of BS:
*Fascism vs Midterm Elections*
www.nashvillescene.com/arts_culture...