Miller

@millerwey

Just some dude (he/him) in Nashville. MidTN DSA 🌹

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Miller@millerwey· Jun 16

Why is the X on the top right when you look at an image on Bluesky? It should stay on the left along with “cancel” for your post or the back arrow.

A horrifying array of good products. Well, mostly a series of things that would go into an American casserole—butter, peas, canned tuna, shredded cheese, egg noddles, among other things—but also Gatorade.

The X to close the image is on the top right because everything is wrong with the universe.

Miller@millerwey· Apr 16

Was… was it something I said? 😅

Bluesky home screen with a red bar displaying an exclamation point and the word “Forbidden.”

Miller@millerwey· Mar 16

Every time I see something new from ol’ Matty Y I’m fairly certain I must have come across an old post.

Comic character Doctor Manhattan, a blue naked man with no facial or head hair and a symbol for a hydrogen atom on his forehead, sits alone on the barren surface of Mars.

The image is from a sequence in the comic where the character is experiencing times from over the course of his life. The meme can be found under “it is 1985.”

Miller@millerwey· Jan 29

Image of edit marks over a screenshot of the post to the NBC story, featuring an image of Rep. Ilhan Omar speaking. The marks change the post text to: “President Trump’s rhetoric toward Rep Ilhan Omar and the Somali community contributed to the attack on her at a town hall on Tuesday.”

“Rep. Ilhan Omar points finger at” removed from headline of linked article and an edit added, so it now simply reads, “Trump’s hateful rhetoric [led to] town hall attack.”

Miller@millerwey· Dec 30

AI ad creep keeps getting weirder.

Screencap from an AI ad featuring AI recreations of Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz in what appears to be some kind of lab. The dialogue captured reads “pancreas.”

Miller@millerwey· Nov 2

If most of what we’re seeing is TV shows, why is that a category? And is TV so bad that Greg Gutfeld really what we’re gonna go with?

A Roku content menu including the categories Horror, Comedy, Documentary, Shop, Anime, Kids and Family, and TV Shows. The category TV Shows is represented by Greg Gutfeld for some reason.

Miller@millerwey· Oct 29

Every so often, I open up Twitter to check something and I have a lineup of notifications that are basically “someone you follow tweeted.” Among those this last time, someone am not following:

Several Andrew Cuomo tweet notifications talking about how he has support, including among young voters.

Miller@millerwey· Jul 30

The Hill working with Onion-level material here.

A headline from the publication The Hill: “Far-left mayoral candidates will make it harder for Democrats to ‘win back voters’: Karl Rove” below a picture of Karl Rove.

Miller@millerwey· Jun 20

What appears to be a Tweet from Rep Randy Fine that reads: “Mrs. Krabappel and Principal Skinner were in the closet making babies and I saw one of the babies and the baby looked at me!”

Miller@millerwey· Apr 24

Wondering if we may need a moonshot just to make up for the damage.

“Terminating grants to match political priorities also creates a fundamental instability in the government’s approach to scientific funding. If researchers can’t count on grants to carry across administrations, their government-funded work will become a series of short-term sprints, making it harder for science to reliably progress. Biomedical breakthroughs—including, say, the generation and approval of new drugs, or clinical trials for chronically ill patients—typically take years, sometimes even decades. And for an administration that has premised itself on efficiency, a never-ending loop of funding bait and switch does not exactly make for minimizing waste.”

Miller@millerwey· Apr 15

Folks in Nashville warned Council about the raft of changes with those ordinances. Too broad of a brush and these are the potential consequences. Sounds like a decent metaphor for a certain police surveillance technology…. tennesseelookout.com/2025/04/15/b...

“The bill’s origins lie with action taken by the Metro Nashville Council last year in response to several anti-semitic and racist demonstrations by white supremacist and neo-Nazis in downtown Nashville.

“The largely Democratic council voted overwhelmingly in favor of passing four ordinances aimed at hate speech and those who promote it, including buffer zones around public buildings, a ban on highway banners and a provision banning the transport of individuals in the back of a box truck — the way some white supremacist protestors arrived in Nashville last summer.”

Miller@millerwey· Apr 9

Lots of details the author included about this lawyer. One of them was not that he’s worked for the FOP. Seems like an important omission, no?

“Nashville attorney David Raybin, who has been practicing law for 50 years as both a prosecutor and a defense attorney, said he has never seen anything like it, and that based on the information in the warrants, he believed there was ‘more than enough’ evidence to indict the alleged perpetrators in the murders.”

Miller@millerwey· Apr 3

I feel like you need more gravitas if you want to glower in defeat on your cartoon villain throne.

Elon Musk tweeting: “I expected to lose, but there is value to losing a piece for a positional gain.”

Elon Musk awkwardly jumping in the air at a Trump rally.

Miller@millerwey· Feb 21

A “provocative gesture,” you say? A “controversial salute,” even? Heavens to Murgatroyd, I think there might be another commonly used name for that.

The Daily Beast posts: “Steve Bannon whipped up the CPAC crowd by talking about the possibility of Trump staying in office for a third term—and concluded his speech by giving a provocative gesture that resembled the controversial salute Elon Musk gave at a post-inauguration rally last month.” The picture shows Bannon looking disheveled and throwing his hand up in a gesture widely recognized as a Nazi solute.

Miller@millerwey· Feb 7

Important to remember that the “roided out” America of Reagan is a large part of the reason we’re where we are today. We’re frequently very fond of the strongmen of the world. Just not the ones who get in our way.

Skeet from Brad Duplessis:
“The America of my youth wouldn't be considering ceding Taiwan to China or granting Putin "land for peace." It would be making movies where a roided-out Stallone double fists Javelins and then pushes a recalcitrant Putin out of a high-rise window to the cheers of Muscovites and the free world.”

Miller@millerwey· Feb 6

Worried about how much progress we took for granted when the political and economic mechanisms we live under are largely designed to slow that type of change.

Diagrams of a ratchet wheel on a shaft controlled by a pawl. The ratchet wheel is a gear with angled teeth, like a saw blade, and allowed to move counter-clockwise. The pawl is an arm that catches in the teeth to prevent clockwise movement, but pushed out of the way of the teeth, allowing movement, when the ratchet wheel moves counter-clockwise.

Miller@millerwey· Jan 7

This looks less like a video game console and more like an extremely American baby toy from the 80s.

The Coleco Telstar Arcade. Which is a very 80s brown and wood grain triangle with a steering wheel, some knobs, and a pistol sticking out.

Miller@millerwey· Dec 18

Hancock voting something like an abstention? Gonna have to consult ‘ol Rob on this one. Eslick, Webb, Nash, Benton, and Rutherford only no votes. No actual abstentions. Others, yes.

Votes: 31 yes, 1 something like abstaining (but somehow different-Hancock), 5 no (Webb, Eslick, Nash, Benton, Rutherford)

Miller@millerwey· Dec 18

Discussion of RS2024-950. Very odd objections: • “Perp washing hasn’t happened in a long time.” • “This feels accusatory.” • “Using ‘paramilitary’ is offensive because it includes the word ‘military.’” • “Hurtful and unconstitutional” Worth watching the comments on this one.

Nashville Banner quote:

“RS2024-950: Councilmember Jeff Preptit is back with a resolution addressing hate group and paramilitary gang participation among the Metro workforce. An earlier effort, explicitly aimed at the Metro Nashville Police Department, faced pushback and was amended several times before Preptit withdrew it. This version specifically names MNPD but asks Metro personnel departments across city government to review policies about hate group and gang affiliation.”

Miller@millerwey· Dec 17

God, this is bleak. Imagine taking away the agency of people undergoing a genocide and those speaking out against it because all the strings on your conspiracy board go back to Putin.

Thread between two users:

Julie H. Howard, PhD: Sure looks like the purpose the leaders of the Palestine protestors had in mind, was to help Trump win.

The Last Bastion: Russia long used the Syrian conflict as a driver of refugees to destabilize Europe; given the Hamas leadership visits to the Kremlin in the months before Oct 7, Putin likely knew in advance and was poised to use US support for Israel following the attack as a wedge issue in the 2024 election.

The Last Bastion: A question in my mind is whether/to what extent US pro-Palestine agitators knew they were being utilized so callously by a primary instigator of the suffering in the Middle East. I'm certain not all were aware, but suspect a handful did...

Miller@millerwey· Dec 11

Most electoral commentary still mistakenly talks about who did vote instead of who didn’t. But after the party closed ranks against Bernie and pushed against healthcare reforms, this doesn’t feel like the correct analysis.

Aaron Rupar posts: “Our healthcare system can be fixed politically -- murdering people is not necessary. Yes, people voted against reform just last month, but people are far from unpersuadable on this issue.”

Miller@millerwey· Dec 4

False claims of antisemitism have been weaponized, yes. But antisemitism is still a significant threat. Ignoring that makes our Jewish friends less safe. Sharing this sentiment is just as harmful and ignorant as other claims that we’ve moved past various bigotries.

Skeet from Caitlin Johnston: “Antisemitism simply is not a significant threat in our society. It used to be, but it isn’t anymore, because our society has changed. There was a time fairly recently when I would’ve been discriminated against for being divorced from the father of my children. This never happens to me,”

Miller@millerwey· Nov 25

Resist libs have a bad habit of pulling techniques from the right when trying to go after the right. Transphobia, misogyny, and racism abound. You can make a joke about Musk being a obsequious toady being led around by Trump in so many other ways.

Panel from the comic “Dark Knight Returns”: Batman breaks a rifle over his knee, saying, “This is the weapon of the enemy. We do not need it. We will not use it.”

Miller@millerwey· Nov 23

Looks like it wasn’t public knowledge until recently. Don’t know that this adds much to our knowledge about the assassination outside of a curious wrinkle, though.

Vanity Fair article: “… Kennedy, however, was under no such illusion. In his imaginings, his murder was entirely plausible. And the largely untold story of a long-lost home-movie made by the president and first lady on the last weekend of the summer—a film in which JFK playacted his own assassination—is worth revisiting amid the recent disarray in the Secret Service and two attempts this year on the life of Donald Trump by would-be assassins, if only to see how far the country has come since those waning days of American innocence.”

Vanity Fair article: “Remarkable as this home movie is, what came after it ends takes one’s breath away—footage that has not seen the light of day until now. Chief photographer’s mate Robert L. Knudsen, a sailor assigned to the White House, had accompanied the first family to film the weekend’s activities on a 16-mm camera. He had also been asked by Jackie Kennedy to capture the presidential party on the Honey Fitz and then follow them back to Hammersmith Farm, along with the Secret Service, to document a spoof murder of JFK as part of a homemade spy thriller she and the president had devised.”

Vanity Fair article: “I first learned of the movie from Paul Landis, the first lady’s Secret Service agent, who recently released a memoir, ‘The Final Witness.’ In his book, as I described in Vanity Fair a year ago, Landis made the explosive disclosure that on the day of Kennedy’s assassination, he had discovered an intact bullet in the presidential limo.

“At one point Landis told me that in 1963, he had taken part in a prank movie about an assassination. I didn’t really absorb what he was describing, but I filed it away. He was unsure of the date. I wondered privately, though: Why would a Secret Service agent be asked to take part in a film satirizing such a horrific act?”

Miller@millerwey· Nov 12

I think someone has a bunk couch on Facebook Marketplace?

Facebook ad reading “Need Gone. New 2 piece sectionals. $899.”

Two off-white sofas with a sort of ribbed patter appear to be stacked on top of one another using a metal rack of some sort. The consistent brick behind it seems to suggest this is not two photos stuck together. This is in fact two sofas bound together in an arrangement that defies the laws of god and man.

Miller@millerwey· Nov 12

Easy way to remind yourself.

Image of Accessibility Settings. The setting “Require alt text before posting” is switched on.

Miller@millerwey· Nov 10

Imagine that you and nine friends are trying to decide on a movie to see. Five want to see “Wicked.” You and four others want to see “Here.” No decision can be made; you’re deadlocked at 5 to 5.
Then, two of your friends decide they aren’t going to go. Both wanted to see “Wicked,” so now there’s consensus. By a 5 to 3 margin, “Here” triumphs. Not because there was suddenly more support for “Here,” but because the pool of “Wicked” choosers got smaller. The effect is the same: the eight of you buy your tickets for “Here.”

Famous illustration of a World War II bomber and where returning planes had bullet holes. Commonly used to illustrate survivor bias.

Miller@millerwey· Dec 26

If we’re not exploiting workers in public services by taking away a portion of the value they produce, what’s the point of them providing a valuable service to the public?

George Forbis quote tweet: “This is a council member in charge of spending our tax dollars.. he thinks it’s okay to take our money and spend it on things that lose money and are not profitable to the taxpayer.. very telling”

Original Tweet from Sean Parker (SeanForFive): “Public services are not supposed to be profitable.”

Miller@millerwey· Dec 22

Hold on. Just searching the Internet for libertarians’ views on workers’ rights….

Nashville Scene cover of their Nashvillians of the year, featuring gun safety advocates.

Libertarian Party of TN’s response: “Nashvillians of the year: people who want others to be defenseless. Got it.”

Miller@millerwey· Dec 14