Shawn Means
@shawnmeans.bsky.social
Appalachian by Birth and by Choice. Boomer. Retired Non-Profit Executive turned Tourism Entrepreneur.
Covert Operations Director at the West Virginia Hot Dog Blog since 2006.
Covert Operations Director at the West Virginia Hot Dog Blog since 2006.
Just checked on my wife's ACA renewal and her premium will go from $389 to $1800 on January 1st.
Is America great again yet?
Is America great again yet?
November 4, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Just checked on my wife's ACA renewal and her premium will go from $389 to $1800 on January 1st.
Is America great again yet?
Is America great again yet?
You know what we don't need more of? Well, a lot of things but mostly I was talking about streaming services. We definitely do NOT need more streaming services.
October 14, 2025 at 12:02 AM
You know what we don't need more of? Well, a lot of things but mostly I was talking about streaming services. We definitely do NOT need more streaming services.
"I think it's worth it to have some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights." - Charlie Kirk, 2023
September 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
"I think it's worth it to have some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights." - Charlie Kirk, 2023
My wife and her "doll eyes" (aka "Baneberry") found yesterday in the New River Gorge National Park.
September 2, 2025 at 12:53 PM
My wife and her "doll eyes" (aka "Baneberry") found yesterday in the New River Gorge National Park.
Cutleaf Coneflower and an iridescent friend. Today in the New River Gorge National Park.
September 2, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Cutleaf Coneflower and an iridescent friend. Today in the New River Gorge National Park.
ICE is on the job in the Kanawha City neighborhood of Charleston WV. Four brownshirts asleep in the car parked at the corner of 53rd and Noyes, apparently drowsy from watching out for nonexistent illegals.
August 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
ICE is on the job in the Kanawha City neighborhood of Charleston WV. Four brownshirts asleep in the car parked at the corner of 53rd and Noyes, apparently drowsy from watching out for nonexistent illegals.
No fair! Jim Justice did worse and he got elected to the US Senate!
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Putnam County man sentenced for failure to pay employment taxes
A Putnam County man was sentenced on Monday to time in prison and a restitution of more than $430,000 after failing to pay over employment taxes on behalf of his business.
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August 19, 2025 at 2:44 PM
No fair! Jim Justice did worse and he got elected to the US Senate!
www.wowktv.com/news/west-vi...
www.wowktv.com/news/west-vi...
Saw this book in a coffee shop in West Virginia and immediately thought of @theauthorguy.bsky.social
August 4, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Saw this book in a coffee shop in West Virginia and immediately thought of @theauthorguy.bsky.social
Adobe Acrobat has become completely unusable with its constant effort to force the user to use AI, buy upgrades, and download daily updates. It also tries to OCR every photo and graphic for editable text every time it appears onscreen. No way to turn any of it off.
Please, Adobe, enough already.
Please, Adobe, enough already.
July 9, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Adobe Acrobat has become completely unusable with its constant effort to force the user to use AI, buy upgrades, and download daily updates. It also tries to OCR every photo and graphic for editable text every time it appears onscreen. No way to turn any of it off.
Please, Adobe, enough already.
Please, Adobe, enough already.
In 2013, my wife and I bought an historic building in Fayetteville, West Virginia, renovated it and became tourism entrepreneurs. Last year, for our 10th anniversary in business, we published a book that tells the story of the renovation and it's free to download on Kindle this week.
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Creating Lafayette Flats
Creating Lafayette Flats - Kindle edition by Means, Shawn, McLaughlin, Amy. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Creating Lafayette Flats.
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June 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
In 2013, my wife and I bought an historic building in Fayetteville, West Virginia, renovated it and became tourism entrepreneurs. Last year, for our 10th anniversary in business, we published a book that tells the story of the renovation and it's free to download on Kindle this week.
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a.co/d/ct0Mp13
What a huge hole this will leave in our community for people who shop the Healthy Life Market products. There is simply nowhere else within 50 miles to buy these kinds of products.
West Virginia Drug Emporium, Healthy Life Markets to close this summer
Drug Emporium's front end department and Health Life Markets are closing in West Virginia, according to ownership.A going-out-of-business sale is planned in th
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May 7, 2025 at 6:48 PM
What a huge hole this will leave in our community for people who shop the Healthy Life Market products. There is simply nowhere else within 50 miles to buy these kinds of products.
A few years ago I had a terse exchange with a particularly nasty state senator in which I said his hateful social politics were going to make people like me want to leave the state. He said "That means I am doing the right thing because we don't need people like you in West Virginia."
True story.
True story.
Shout-out to Del. Bill Flanigan (R-Ohio) who joined the Democratic minority to speak against this bill that’s short-sighted and harmful #wv #westvirginia
WV House Judiciary passes bill banning DEI which now heads to full House for consideration westvirginiawatch.com/2025/04/08/w...
WV House Judiciary passes bill banning DEI which now heads to full House for consideration westvirginiawatch.com/2025/04/08/w...
WV House Judiciary passes bill banning DEI which now heads to full House for consideration • West Virginia Watch
The West Virginia House Judiciary Committee advanced a bill to prohibit nearly all diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in the state.
westvirginiawatch.com
April 9, 2025 at 1:28 PM
A few years ago I had a terse exchange with a particularly nasty state senator in which I said his hateful social politics were going to make people like me want to leave the state. He said "That means I am doing the right thing because we don't need people like you in West Virginia."
True story.
True story.
How come I never see anyone on Facebook say the flooding in the KY and WV coalfields is God's punishment for voting for Trump?
April 4, 2025 at 1:49 PM
How come I never see anyone on Facebook say the flooding in the KY and WV coalfields is God's punishment for voting for Trump?
Looks like we picked the wrong year to cut taxes.
March 30, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Looks like we picked the wrong year to cut taxes.
West Virginia: Land of conformity, inequity and exclusion.
Suggested new state motto: Mountaineers Are Always The Same.
Suggested new state motto: Mountaineers Are Always The Same.
The bill passed 32-2
March 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
West Virginia: Land of conformity, inequity and exclusion.
Suggested new state motto: Mountaineers Are Always The Same.
Suggested new state motto: Mountaineers Are Always The Same.
Who'd have thought that #severance was just a sociological ploy to get us all thinking seriously about polyamory?
March 22, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Who'd have thought that #severance was just a sociological ploy to get us all thinking seriously about polyamory?
He does love the uneducated.
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Trump set to sign executive order shuttering the Education Department
Closing the department requires an act of Congress, but Trump could make it nearly impossible for remaining employees to carry out their work, much like at USAID.
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March 20, 2025 at 3:57 PM
He does love the uneducated.
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www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Remember when Republicans worshiped the free market and said government should have no place in picking winners and losers? I do. #corporatewelfare
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Legislation pushes economic development agency to promote coal in steelmaking - WV MetroNews
The bill directs the Department of Economic Development to identify and designate suitable sites for both coal electric generation and coke production facilities.
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March 18, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Remember when Republicans worshiped the free market and said government should have no place in picking winners and losers? I do. #corporatewelfare
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wvmetronews.com/2025/03/17/l...
Why are Republicans such crybabies?
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West Virginia governor says he’ll take legal action against NCAA over tournament snub
West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey (R) on Monday said he will take legal action against the NCAA over West Virginia University’s (WVU) snub from the March Madness tournament. “I’ve asked Att…
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March 17, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Why are Republicans such crybabies?
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thehill.com/homenews/sta...
View from a West Virginia tourism entrepreneur: Our repeat Canadian guests have all cancelled their reservations for the upcoming season.
So yeah, national politIcs does directly effect local business.
So yeah, national politIcs does directly effect local business.
March 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
View from a West Virginia tourism entrepreneur: Our repeat Canadian guests have all cancelled their reservations for the upcoming season.
So yeah, national politIcs does directly effect local business.
So yeah, national politIcs does directly effect local business.
If you didn't expect that they would defy the court order you haven't been paying attention.
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US deports hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador despite court order
Hundreds of alleged criminals have been deported from the US to El Salvador, hours after a federal judge said not to do so.
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March 16, 2025 at 8:14 PM
If you didn't expect that they would defy the court order you haven't been paying attention.
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I've heard of Lesotho.
March 5, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I've heard of Lesotho.