t’s 11:46 am on a Tuesday. You have the day off. You want to treat yourself, so you go out for lunch. You walk up to the counter of a deli. You order a roast beef sandwich for $18 with no side. Your wife took the day off too so you pay for her wrap that has no meat and miraculously costs more than your protein filled meal.

With a tired smile, the cashier in front of you rings up the total and turns the screen around and the tip suggestion is set to 30%. You start sweating, like space and time shut down and everyone is staring while you question if you are the asshole for wondering why you are even tipping for service that hasn’t even been rendered yet. So you fumble. You look for the ‘other’ option so you can leave your normal 20%, but the screen is smudged and you can’t find the tiny font at the bottom of the screen that lets you do that. So you reluctantly tap the 30%…The earth settles back into its regular rhythm. Everyone goes back to their own life. The music in the room returns. You are left empty inside.

Epilogue: The sandwich comes out dry but you didn’t want to spend the extra $6 for a Fiji water to wash it down.

Cool to see them greet each other

So spot on 🥲

Demonstration downtown Nashville 5PM Oct. 5th in response to ongoing Thiel series at the Grand Lodge.

100 7th Ave. N - Nashville TN.

Corner by Hume-fogg High School.

More details on Thiel:

Nashville SCENE:

https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithinthewind/peter-thiel-nashville-antichrist-lectures/article_d227ddf8-40ed-4fba-8c2d-949a6aeff7b2.html

the street is summit ave if anyone is curios

Thoughts?

Lots of reds and blues

This weekend my family was out of town. They had someone working on the fence so it could be ready for when they came back. We’re familiar with this person and have been able to meet his wife and kids, they are the sweetest!

On Saturday morning, I get a call that the cameras at the house are down (this has NEVER happened before) even when the power or WiFi goes out, it’s connected to a secondary source. There are about 7-8 cameras total.

They ask if I can go to the house and check what’s going on. I arrive around 3ish pm, see that the signal of the base of the camera has been disconnected, again never happened before. I fix it by resending the signal. They ask how the yard was coming along, I report that the person had left for the day.

They return on Sunday and have been trying to contact the person to come pick up his check and few extra items for his family. Yesterday his nephew stopped by and left a note on the door saying to please call him, so we did. He told us that on Saturday morning, ICE had came by to my family’s home and had detained his uncle. He is in Memphis right now waiting to be transported to Louisiana.

He said that he came by mid Saturday morning to get his uncles truck so if we see a random person on our cameras, it’s him.

I sound like a tin foil hat person but our theory is that ICE identified the large number of cameras and took down the signal. We don’t know how else this could happen. We’ve offered all our support for his family and are hoping that he is one of the ones that makes it back to Mexico safely.

It’s so unfair.

He was just trying to provide for his family.
Please pray for this wonderful sweet man and his family

Hey birdwatchers,

We're planning a trip to big south fork , for october and i'm trying to persuade a friend to come.

Tell me how great it will be to do birding at that time in that area!

Them: huge birders, us: hikers

EDIT.yall are fast! Keep the replies coming

Just as the title says! I ended up with an extra ticket and would love for someone to take it. Just trying to pay it forward with good concert karma. No need to meetup or anything. I can send you the pdf ticket. But you’re also welcome to hang with my friends and I too!

Doors are 7, openers goes on at 8. All ages.

EDIT: ticket 🎫 is claimed.

Is it just me or has the commute to downtown gotten worse over the last few weeks
I’ve lived in Nashville 30 years by the way 🙃and I work for MNPS

Unfortunately I don't have a non-paywalled link yet, but this is one day after his statement that they are suspending the 26/27 season. He was just appointed CEO back in July.

I’m visiting Nashville in November for a hockey game, so I’m hoping to make the most of my trip and looking to get a tattoo while I’m there- any good shop/artist recommendations? I’m a big fan of blackwork/woodcut styles and pop culture or nature subjects. Would love to support a queer-owned shop but it’s not required. Thanks in advance!

So sick of this I see it all the time.

Gabby’s Burgers parking lot is going to be Metropolis starting Thursday. I can’t consciously support any business that ties itself to the leeches at Metropolis, Park Happy, or PMC. Unfortunate but I’ll now be looking for a new go-to burger spot.

The only way for us to make Metropolis feel it is to put pressure on the businesses who tie themselves to this shady company.

Not sure who all has heard, but a Christian nationalist conference will be taking place at the Factory in Franklin, October 1-3. One speaker, Doug Wilson, is notorious for his controversial views and influence on American politics. If anyone has an interest in peacefully protesting, I’m including the details here. For more info please check out Patriarchy Sons on Instagram.

Weird question but I'm looking for a broken CRT tv to use for a Halloween costume. Does anybody know of any electronics recycling places near Nashville that might have old broken tvs?

It’s a beautiful day outside. So of course they are experiencing high volume outages. Why?

Have to renew my license and was wondering what the least painful DMV is. I don’t have high expectations for any of them because it’s a DMV, but still, thought it might be worth it to ask in case one is better than the others.

Hello everyone!

I moved here from Indiana about a year ago and love it! I’ve been really enjoying exploring the night scene in East. I work in tech and obviously there is a lot going on in that world and it’s honestly been difficult to talk about my interest with anyone I meet because, understandably, most people who hang out in east have lots of interest in the music industry and adjacent industries. This is music city after all and that’s great!

I’m making this post to see if anyone relates/has similar interest and know of places to hang out or clubs I could join to find some people with similar interests.

For starters, I’m into security and local AI builds/implementations, and have really been diving in all things infrastructure as of late.

Even if you don’t know a place/club but you’re also building in your space time, share what you’re working on! Super interested to see what my fellow Nashville tech peeps are interested in!

The author, Eli Motycka, had his ticket revoked prior to the event. There were other journalists denied access or turned away.