From columnist and historian @betsyphillips.bsky.social: A photograph of a Civil War-era hospital raises more questions about sex workers of the time.

More on Rebecca Higgins and Nashville's Sex Workers of the 19th Century

A photograph of a Civil War-era hospital raises more questions about sex workers of the time

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Nashville, I present Rebecca Higgins! www.nashvillescene.com/news/coverst...

Rebecca Higgins: Nashville’s Queen of the Demimonde

Rebecca Higgins may have at one point been Nashville’s most infamous woman, though you’ve likely never heard of her. She left quite a trail, though no one’s bothered to follow it. She was nearly blown...

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This week’s cover story from @betsyphillips.bsky.social: Uncovering the story of Nashville’s Rebecca Higgins, a 19th-century madam who built a small empire. https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/coverstory/rebecca-higgins-nashville-history-famous-madam/article_126fe3a9-0c8f-4dc1-9e98-2c181a6bbd55.html

SCOOP: After the Census Bureau issued a highly unusual report tied to a President Trump-aligned think tank, the bureau’s parent agency, the Commerce Department, cut language banning political interference from its scientific integrity policy, @npr.org has learned www.npr.org/2026/08/31/n...

Trump officials cut political interference ban after unusual Census Bureau report

After the Census Bureau issued a report tied to a Trump-aligned think tank, the bureau's parent agency cut language banning political interference from its scientific integrity policy, NPR learned.

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FLORIDA

Electronic Frontier Foundation@eff.org · last wk.

There is growing national momentum against ALPR mass surveillance. In the past year, dozens of cities have ended their contracts with Flock and other vendors. In the past week, Florida has ordered the removal of ALPRs from some roads, and Texas has ended its funding of city ALPRs. (1/2)

Despite being branded as autonomous and self-sustaining, artificial intelligence relies heavily on human labor — an army of data workers all over the world, primarily in the Global South. These workers “are purposely hidden by the companies that produce AI,” says sociologist Antonio Casilli.

Exploited Data Workers in the Global South Are “the Secret Ingredient of AI Itself”

Despite being branded as autonomous and self-sustaining, artificial intelligence relies heavily on human labor — an army of data workers all over the world, primarily in the Global South. These worker...

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Hey East Nashville, our fur baby prudence got outside on Sunday night and has been missing since then. She is very shy and skittish. We live in the little Hollywood section of Lockeland Springs, off the fairway of hole 12 on the Shelby golf course. If you see her, please DM me! 🦞

it is so obvious that most everyone involved in our government at the national level so very very deeply love slavery

The best way to honor the two who have left us recently, imo, is to keep being as gay as possible

The US media cannot comprehend a southern belle country singer who was unapologetically "woke" because that goes against all the narratives they've been reinforcing. So Dolly has to become "neutral" despite her vocally, repeatedly taking the progressive side in the so-called "culture wars"

CNN@cnn.com · 2w ago

"At a time when no American celebrity seems immune from the country’s many divisions, Dolly Parton was a crossover icon who stayed neutral in the culture wars while still speaking her mind," writes Zachary B. Wolf. | Analysis

3 minutes of Tim Curry holding back laughter while filming scenes for Red Alert 3

Dismissed VP claims termination came after investigation related to BNA CEO Doug Kreulen, alleged hostile work environment https://www.nashvillepost.com/business/former-airport-authority-executive-sues-mnaa-for-retaliation/article_e407b7af-cae7-4efa-abb4-7c88eacf2ae0.html

Former airport executive sues MNAA, alleges retaliation

Dismissed VP claims termination came after investigation related to BNA CEO Doug Kreulen, alleged hostile work environment

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Dolly Parton is proof that rich people can just do stuff like that whenever they want but most of them are bad people

"DHS rolled into Minnesota...hoping to manufacture stories about vicious lefties assaulting DHS goons. Many, perhaps most, of those stories were...often fabricated to license or cover up DHS goon assaults...Richard Berger was the key scribe." @emptywheel.bsky.social emptywheel.net/2026/08/25/r...

Richard Berger: The False Affiant behind Minnesota's Fabricated Cases - emptywheel

A single Homeland Security Investigations Agent, Richard Berger, wrote the affidavit behind two dozen of the cases that have collapsed in Minnesota.

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POEM TO CHEER A FRIEND Remember that no one is okay all the time - even a pelican gets sad (worst line of this poem, but I’m leaving it in) and that we were put here to rise and fall and fall again like the tides. We are all brave. Every morning, we are brave.

Spikes@witchyspikes.bsky.social · 2w ago

Hey, can you write me a poem to cheer me up? Going through a hard mental health period right now, tbh.

CHICKEN IN A BISCUIT chicken slang for “being in a bad situation” like a person in a pickle

Mary Ann Dimand@maryanndimand.bsky.social · 2w ago

Chicken in a biscuit

You’re in her dms, I’m sitting on my race car bed making vroom vroom noises

POEM TO CHEER A FRIEND Remember that no one is okay all the time - even a pelican gets sad (worst line of this poem, but I’m leaving it in) and that we were put here to rise and fall and fall again like the tides. We are all brave. Every morning, we are brave.

Spikes@witchyspikes.bsky.social · 2w ago

Hey, can you write me a poem to cheer me up? Going through a hard mental health period right now, tbh.

Poetry window is open for 40 min!

The tick I find in the shower after a nature hike.

Solomon@solomonrmissouri.com · 3w ago

Kacey Musgraves performing …..You know, I honestly don’t know

evergreen

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 3w ago

So many of these folks are like “ooo we’re daring free-thinking mavericks” and it’s like nah man you’re just super racist

We’re in the news again (complimentary!)

Spencer Sharpe@jspencersharpe.bsky.social · 2w ago

A blog from New York wrote about the benches

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Nashville Scene@nashvillescene.com · 3w ago

"Even if you have the money to retire, it’s going to be 150 degrees, and there will be hurricanes three times a week." This week, Advice King @thecroftonshow.bsky.social on retirement.

"Even if you have the money to retire, it’s going to be 150 degrees, and there will be hurricanes three times a week." This week, Advice King @thecroftonshow.bsky.social on retirement.

Advice King: How Am I Supposed to Retire?

Even if you have the money to retire, you're not going to have a very fun retirement. It's going to be 150 degrees, and there will be hurricanes three times a week. Golf will be out of the question.

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Waymos are parking — and constantly recording audio and video — in front of churches, parks and in neighborhoods across Nashville. The company says it “retains data for a reasonably appropriate amount of time,” but won’t share a specific policy. ✍️ @sarahgracetaylor.bsky.social

Waymo vehicles' surveillance does not stop between rides - Nashville Banner

Waymo vehicles continue to record their surroundings when they are parked in Nashville neighborhoods and near businesses, sparking privacy concerns among some.

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so, this inebriated man that metro nashville PD actually had a hand to before he went missing? yeah, about that... downtown nashville's blotto culture has a tangible human toll. www.wkrn.com/news/local-n...

Missing Colorado man found dead in Nashville, Metro police say

According to the MNPD, Anderson was found dead in a wood line next to a parking lot along the 10 block of James Robertson Parkway.

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Nashville Scene@nashvillescene.com · 3w ago

"Even if you have the money to retire, it’s going to be 150 degrees, and there will be hurricanes three times a week." This week, Advice King @thecroftonshow.bsky.social on retirement.

"Police said the pedestrian died, but there’s no word on the semi-truck driver’s condition as of publication."

WKRN News 2@wkrnnews2.bsky.social · 3w ago

Semi-truck hits, kills pedestrian at gas station, Metro Nashville police say

I can tell you one way they could be more prepared for everything: STOP FOCUSING ON TOURISM

Nashville Scene@nashvillescene.com · 3w ago

An interim review from the mayor’s Winter Storm Response Commission notes ways Metro could have been prepared for the historic ice storm.