Kerry Hayes
@kerrycoeo.bsky.social
Avid indoorsman and recovering English major. Former municipal government professional now helping great cities and the people who lead them tell their stories: coeomeansconnection.
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Put A Record On: Songs For Keeping Going
Things are dire, but the music is still good.
www.dontrocktheinbox.com
February 21, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Just became a paying subscriber to @natalieweiner.bsky.social and @marissarmoss.bsky.social's terrific DON'T ROCK THE INBOX newsletter so I could get my grubby paws on their playlist "Songs For Keeping Going." Join me if you need wisdom + community today: www.dontrocktheinbox.com/p/put-a-reco...
@wired.com seems to be the Teen Vogue of this administration. This is the first new news subscription I've purchased in quite a while. Grateful for their invaluable and well-sourced reporting.
February 15, 2025 at 11:42 PM
@wired.com seems to be the Teen Vogue of this administration. This is the first new news subscription I've purchased in quite a while. Grateful for their invaluable and well-sourced reporting.
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When people ask how those without access to systems of power might combat the rising fascist tide — think of graffiti. The radical orgs of the 70s knew this. It’s visible, it sticks in the mind, it establishes the presence of the speaker not as an individual but as a representative of the collective
I love this graffiti (in Minecraft)
February 15, 2025 at 11:56 AM
When people ask how those without access to systems of power might combat the rising fascist tide — think of graffiti. The radical orgs of the 70s knew this. It’s visible, it sticks in the mind, it establishes the presence of the speaker not as an individual but as a representative of the collective
AMC Theater employees, be for real: are your families being held hostage? Is that why you’re trying so aggressively to upsell me at the concession stand?
February 14, 2025 at 10:37 PM
AMC Theater employees, be for real: are your families being held hostage? Is that why you’re trying so aggressively to upsell me at the concession stand?
If you think about it, the richest man on earth stealing the personal data of private citizens and working to illegally dismantle systems that care for the world's poorest and most vulnerable people is also a kind of violence.
www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/fe...
www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/fe...
Elon Musk blasts Chattanooga pastor after sermon refers to violence | Chattanooga Times Free Press
www.timesfreepress.com
February 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM
If you think about it, the richest man on earth stealing the personal data of private citizens and working to illegally dismantle systems that care for the world's poorest and most vulnerable people is also a kind of violence.
www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/fe...
www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/fe...
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During Kendrick's halftime show a man unfurled a Palestinian flag and was chased off stage and eventually tackled and removed by security.
February 10, 2025 at 2:04 AM
During Kendrick's halftime show a man unfurled a Palestinian flag and was chased off stage and eventually tackled and removed by security.
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I think an American flag created entirely by black men at the Superbowl is one of the best pieces of art I've seen in my lifetime. I hope it actually killed some folks. And I hope it finally closes the fucking book on the argument that we shouldn't use the flag to fight the God damned fascists.
February 10, 2025 at 1:48 AM
I think an American flag created entirely by black men at the Superbowl is one of the best pieces of art I've seen in my lifetime. I hope it actually killed some folks. And I hope it finally closes the fucking book on the argument that we shouldn't use the flag to fight the God damned fascists.
I was a meeting today and someone made a reference to “mental health and poetry,” and I thought they said “mental health and poultry,” and now I’m wondering what that would include.
February 9, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I was a meeting today and someone made a reference to “mental health and poetry,” and I thought they said “mental health and poultry,” and now I’m wondering what that would include.
What’s the best audiobook app? 📚🎧🤷♂️
February 9, 2025 at 12:42 PM
What’s the best audiobook app? 📚🎧🤷♂️
[drunk uncle voice]
February 7, 2025 at 4:52 PM
[drunk uncle voice]
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Birthright citizenship remains the law of the land. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Birthright citizenship remains the law of the land. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
There are a lot of reasons to be distressed about the state of the world right now. Here are 13,500 reasons to be excited -- that's the number of children in Hamilton County Schools who will benefit this year from the Chattanooga Future Fund.
Watch this video!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyqG...
Watch this video!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyqG...
Chattanooga Future Fund Launch
YouTube video by Chattanooga 2.0
www.youtube.com
January 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
There are a lot of reasons to be distressed about the state of the world right now. Here are 13,500 reasons to be excited -- that's the number of children in Hamilton County Schools who will benefit this year from the Chattanooga Future Fund.
Watch this video!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyqG...
Watch this video!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyqG...
The Nazi salute during the inauguration of an American President was the last straw for me. I'm ashamed it took me this long.
January 22, 2025 at 2:28 PM
The Nazi salute during the inauguration of an American President was the last straw for me. I'm ashamed it took me this long.
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Hey it's me, Sonic the Hedgehog!
Today may be scary, but now it's up to us to be the heroes we need to see in our communities.
Our institutions and elected leaders have failed to prevent this moment, but if we work together to stand up for our friends and neighbors we can make a big difference.
Today may be scary, but now it's up to us to be the heroes we need to see in our communities.
Our institutions and elected leaders have failed to prevent this moment, but if we work together to stand up for our friends and neighbors we can make a big difference.
January 20, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Hey it's me, Sonic the Hedgehog!
Today may be scary, but now it's up to us to be the heroes we need to see in our communities.
Our institutions and elected leaders have failed to prevent this moment, but if we work together to stand up for our friends and neighbors we can make a big difference.
Today may be scary, but now it's up to us to be the heroes we need to see in our communities.
Our institutions and elected leaders have failed to prevent this moment, but if we work together to stand up for our friends and neighbors we can make a big difference.
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Special thanks to @themountaingoats.bsky.social for uploading a high quality version of the music video for this song today specifically. If you haven’t heard it before, you should listen to it. If you have heard it, chant it like a prayer.
The Mountain Goats - This Year (Official Video)
YouTube video by the Mountain Goats
youtu.be
January 20, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Special thanks to @themountaingoats.bsky.social for uploading a high quality version of the music video for this song today specifically. If you haven’t heard it before, you should listen to it. If you have heard it, chant it like a prayer.
If you feel like you're watching the culture disappear into something unrecognizably grotesque and cruel, you're not crazy, you're not alone, and now is not the time to lose your values or your voice.
The families who will be most brutalized by what's to come will need them.
The families who will be most brutalized by what's to come will need them.
For those feeling hopeless and too young to recall, this is exactly the kind of story that proliferated when Ronald Reagan swept into office and then in his second term too. It was exhausting and gross at the time, an orgy of celebration of the very rich: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
How MAGA Is Taking Back the Culture
In sports, entertainment and marketing, displays of conservatism are crowding out progressive postures.
www.wsj.com
January 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
If you feel like you're watching the culture disappear into something unrecognizably grotesque and cruel, you're not crazy, you're not alone, and now is not the time to lose your values or your voice.
The families who will be most brutalized by what's to come will need them.
The families who will be most brutalized by what's to come will need them.
We live in the dumbest timeline imaginable.
New Trump crypto meme coin up 350% in the last 24 hours ahead of inauguration. coinmarketcap.com
January 18, 2025 at 11:27 PM
We live in the dumbest timeline imaginable.
It is deeply frustrating and confusing that a city with so few truly pedestrian-friendly spaces would allow the ones they DO have to be degraded in this way. The wear and tear of those vehicles on those surfaces create additional cost burdens for taxpayers too!
Despite what you see in this photograph, this is a pedestrian passageway at Civic Center Plaza in Memphis. There is barely room to walk between the cars. Our city and county governments say they prioritize public spaces and walking, but then this - a government employee parking lot on the sidewalk.
January 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
It is deeply frustrating and confusing that a city with so few truly pedestrian-friendly spaces would allow the ones they DO have to be degraded in this way. The wear and tear of those vehicles on those surfaces create additional cost burdens for taxpayers too!
It’s giving March 12, 2020 vibes
BREAKING: A Louisiana patient who had been hospitalized with severe bird flu has died, the first such fatality in the United States, state health officials report.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/06/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/06/h...
First Bird Flu Death in U.S. Reported in Louisiana (Gift Article)
The deceased was over 65 and had other medical conditions, state officials said.
www.nytimes.com
January 6, 2025 at 11:49 PM
It’s giving March 12, 2020 vibes
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Thank you Eugene Goodman for saving our Democracy during the Capitol insurrection #January6th
January 6, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Thank you Eugene Goodman for saving our Democracy during the Capitol insurrection #January6th
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in 2020 I watched a documentary on the 1918 flu pandemic. I'll never forget this quote:
"as soon as the dying stopped, the forgetting began"
"it is in the individual memory... but not in our collective memory. that's the greatest mystery to me—how we could have forgotten anything so horrendous."
"as soon as the dying stopped, the forgetting began"
"it is in the individual memory... but not in our collective memory. that's the greatest mystery to me—how we could have forgotten anything so horrendous."
Also jarring to me that we've never had any real collective mourning in the USA.
More than a million Americans have died of Covid and, barring some very isolated moments, there's been no sense of coming together to mark the incalculable loss. No events. No monuments. Etc.
More than a million Americans have died of Covid and, barring some very isolated moments, there's been no sense of coming together to mark the incalculable loss. No events. No monuments. Etc.
It is truly wild that it is estimated that more than 20 million people died of Covid and the prevailing vibe is that the world overreacted. That is an astonishing toll! More people died of Covid in the US than in the Civil War. www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...
January 5, 2025 at 5:35 AM
in 2020 I watched a documentary on the 1918 flu pandemic. I'll never forget this quote:
"as soon as the dying stopped, the forgetting began"
"it is in the individual memory... but not in our collective memory. that's the greatest mystery to me—how we could have forgotten anything so horrendous."
"as soon as the dying stopped, the forgetting began"
"it is in the individual memory... but not in our collective memory. that's the greatest mystery to me—how we could have forgotten anything so horrendous."
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smashmouth was so right, the years really do start coming and they don’t stop coming
January 1, 2025 at 12:14 AM
smashmouth was so right, the years really do start coming and they don’t stop coming
Can confirm.
Thousands of flights around the U.S. were delayed or canceled on Saturday because of severe weather, disrupting travel for many returning home after the holidays.
Severe Storms Cause Travel Delays Across the U.S. as Tornadoes Threaten the South
More than 7,000 flights were delayed on Saturday amid threats of rain, snow and tornadoes across the country.
www.nytimes.com
December 28, 2024 at 11:18 PM
Can confirm.
One thing about USPS employees is you will NOT leave that counter without knowing EXACTLY where the link to the customer service survey is on your receipt.
December 27, 2024 at 8:39 PM
One thing about USPS employees is you will NOT leave that counter without knowing EXACTLY where the link to the customer service survey is on your receipt.
I’m looking to interview a few tribute artists and cover bands for a new thing I’m writing.
Who are your favorites in Middle/East Tennessee and North Georgia? @ me! 👇
Who are your favorites in Middle/East Tennessee and North Georgia? @ me! 👇
December 27, 2024 at 3:33 PM
I’m looking to interview a few tribute artists and cover bands for a new thing I’m writing.
Who are your favorites in Middle/East Tennessee and North Georgia? @ me! 👇
Who are your favorites in Middle/East Tennessee and North Georgia? @ me! 👇