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Nato (Nate Orshan)
@natosongs.bsky.social
🇺🇸 Nato/Nate Orshan. He/him. #FrankfortKY, #KY. All about: my spouse, progressive public policy, human rights, media, design, evolution, science, psychology, music writing & performance, Beatles-inspired pop.

My music:
https://natosongs.com
1/3: Rare gig alert! Join Dave Keller and me at Kentucky Coffeetree Cafe on Sunday, 11/23, 5:30 PM for a few sets of our original songs. You can't go wrong, and Dave's crossing the country promoting his BRAND-NEW album, "La Brea",...

#FrankfortKY #Kentucky
November 15, 2025 at 9:06 PM
2/3: #FrankfortKY: I'll be the featured musician, so I'll be rolling out my new singalong song, "Who's Got the Power" plus a lot of fun protest, pop, and even folk songs. And if you can't come, just remember that every citizen deserves the right to vote, now more than ever.
November 1, 2025 at 1:42 PM
1/3: #FrankfortKY! Come out today* to Thorn Hill Education Center** for the Kentuckians For The Commonwealth event "Voices Raised for Voting Rights".
(* Saturday, 11/1, 2-4 PM)
(** 700 Leslie Ave, Frankfort, KY 40601)
November 1, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Waning Harvest Moon, rushing clouds.
#FrankfortKY
2025-10-08-0624
October 8, 2025 at 10:49 AM
1/2:
Terrorizing innocent people. Another reason why you need to attend a No Kings rally on 10/18 ( NoKings.com ).

"Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
October 3, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Today's Letters from an American from @hcrichardson.bsky.social is another must-read. Re the latest desperate executive memo from our president, Timothy Snyder puts things in perspective.

open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
September 26, 2025 at 8:04 AM
1/4: Happy 26th Anniversary to the love of my life, Kit O'Connor!

"There once was a high school teacher
To their students they were a leader
Their lessons were based in kindness
I became a grateful believer..."
July 24, 2025 at 11:09 AM
#FrankfortKY UPDATE, 7/17, 4:25 PM: "Good Trouble" rally postponed due to bad weather. 🥺 New date TBD.
July 17, 2025 at 8:27 PM
One more from the 6/15/2025 #NoKings rally in #LexingtonKY: Sign: "STILL GOT MY BOOTS. NOT LICKING YOURS!"
2025-06-14-1354

#NoKingsDay #Kentucky
June 15, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Photos from the 6/15/2025 #NoKings rally in #LexingtonKY.
#NoKingsDay #Kentucky
June 15, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Funny-not-funny article sequencing in a recent Platformer post (via @caseynewton.bsky.social).
www.platformer.news/take-it-down...
May 26, 2025 at 3:13 PM
It took just under 23 years, but today I donated my 120th unit of blood for @americanredcross.bsky.social. Roughly 15 gallons.

Hat tip to my spouse, Kit O'Connor, who basically shamed me into my first blood donation, saying it was the easiest thing I could do to help my community.

#GiveBlood
May 10, 2025 at 1:29 AM
My Honey, The Kit, takes a stand in #LexingtonKY for #NoKings #50501 #50501KY.
April 20, 2025 at 12:19 AM
(Pad, pad, pad, pad...) "ATTIE-girl!"

#AtwoodTheDog
2025-04-16-0749
April 17, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Great turnout and energy in today's #HandsOff rally here in #FrankfortKY! (I heard over 1,000 folks attended.) We the People are righteously pissed.

#HandsOff2025
2025-04-05-1127
April 5, 2025 at 6:32 PM
When the going gets tough, Zola gets going.

#ZolaTheCat
2025-03-12
March 13, 2025 at 4:34 AM
🎶 Morning has broken
Like the first morning,
Blackcat has spoken
Like the first cat 🎶

#LangstonTheCat
2025-03-01-0811
March 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Kentucky
#FrankfortKY
#SouthFrankfort
RT 420 / Old Laurenceburg Rd leading into South Frankfort is indisputably flooded. Functionally unpassable from the East-West Connector and sensibly unpassable the other ways (though yahoos gonna yahoo). Please let your people know.
2025-02-17-0920
February 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
If you can make it to your state capitol safely today (2/17), please consider making your voice heard for democracy and against dictatorship.

www.newsweek.com/50501-moveme...

(Here's a sign I made at a Progress Kentucky sign-making event last night.)
February 17, 2025 at 12:59 PM
🎶 Just call me angel of the morning, angel / Just touch my cheek before you leave me, baby... 🎶

#AtwoodTheDog
2025-01-25-0855
February 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
1/3:
MAYBE START USING LOREN DEJONGE SCHULMAN'S LANGUAGE WHEN YOU CALL YOUR SENATORS AND CONGRESSPEOPLE? SEE BELOW.

'And so I agree with Loren DeJonge Schulman, a former Office of Management and Budget official, who wrote that the way to talk about [Elon Musk's people] is...'
February 5, 2025 at 12:24 PM
When your dog has great burrowing instincts but also great sitting still instincts, you end up with Attie the Living Statue.

#AtwoodTheDog
2025-01-30-1911
January 31, 2025 at 3:47 AM
An example from the post showing an LLM AI (version of ChatGPT?) to which he gives the prompt, "Do something to delight me. Make it not cheesy. This is important." Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go look for my jaw, which fell off my face and rolled off under the couch.
January 26, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Oh, those glorious vultures! Video taken from my home office's western window.

#SouthFrankfort
#FrankfortKY
2025-01-19-1645
January 20, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Week-old video: A flock of maybe migrating robins sit a spell on E. Campbell St. the day after a big (for us) snowstorm.

#SouthFrankfort
#FrankfortKY
#Kentucky
2025-01-06-1624
January 12, 2025 at 3:14 PM