John Watson 🇺🇸🇨🇦

John Watson 🇺🇸🇨🇦

@jpw67.bsky.social

Also @cranky_engineer@mastodon.social Asheville, NC #asheville

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New UNC System Faculty Chair Wants ‘Best Practices’ for Shared Governance UNC Asheville music professor Toby King enters his role as chair of the UNC System Faculty Assembly after a contentious year.

theassemblync.comNew UNC System Faculty Chair Wants ‘Best Practices’ for Shared GovernanceUNC Asheville music professor Toby King starts as chair of the UNC System Faculty Assembly after a contentious year. We asked him about his priorities.

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At my first Asheville Tourists game for the season - and it's "Doggies At The Diamond" night! They're the farm team for the Houston Astros - High Single A.

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Hello, I wrote this today and I think it's important context about data centers that people in Kentucky should know about, as utility companies and the legislature try to lure them here and justify spending billions on new power plants.

Kentucky Public Radio@kentuckypublicradio.org

LG&E and KU are seeking PSC permission to build out $3.7 billion of power plants, largely due to its forecasted rise in data center energy demand. But critics say that demand is speculative and ratepayers could end up holding the bag, citing the failed Oldham County project.

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Father's Day cuts differently on your first one without a dad. My father passed away in March at age 88, and I wrote then about how his life symbolized a golden U.S. age of faith in the power of knowledge, the very notion now under attack. Here's a gift link share.inquirer.com/qHigKX

share.inquirer.comBryan H. Bunch (1936-2025) and the vanishing American century of knowledge | Will BunchOn the passing of my father, and of the American era of knowledge he embodied.

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One quarter of Americans are now using buy-now, pay-later services for groceries. That’s unacceptable.

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These are @michaelstipe.bsky.social's drawings for the front and back covers of Dead Letter Office (along with the back of a DLO promotional postcard)— the “compendium of oddities collared and b-sides compiled” was released on this day 38 years ago.

Unfortunately, I have to start the process of unfollowing #news organizations who hide stories behind a paywall since it does me no good to follow and get the tease, and then not be able to read the story. This will limit my news intake to current subs, but oh well...

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No Cap Space’s ‘Legends of March’ series continues, looking at some of the most successful programs in the history of the NCAA Tournament. Today, we examine the first era of the Louisiana Tech Lady Techsters who ruled Ruston from the AIAW to the NCAA.

nocapspacewbb.comThe Legendarium: Reign in Ruston, Part 1No Cap Space WBB's 'Legends of March' historical series continues with Old Dominion's longtime foil and one of the 70's and 80's greatest programs, the Louisiana Tech Lady Techsters.

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We're coming back! Biltmore Village was possibly the hardest hit, from a financial standpoint, per sq ft. So many businesses destroyed. It's not all the way back yet, but things are looking up.

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This kicked off everything

R.E.M.@remhq.bsky.social

Today is the 44th anniversary of R.E.M.’s trip to Winston-Salem to record 3 songs with young producer Mitch Easter: Radio Free Europe, Sitting Still & Wh. Tornado at Drive-in Studio. It was released on Hib-Tone Records 3 months later & things were off & running! Read more: remhq.com/news/44th-an...

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45 years ago on April 5, 1980, the band played their first show at friend Kathleen O'Brien's birthday party. Sandra Lee Phipps took these photos that historic night in Athens at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church on Oconee Street.

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🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 HUGE red alert in North Carolina. The Appeals Court ruled that the 60,000+ voters whose ballots were challenged in the Supreme Court race have 15 BUSINESS DAYS to correct their registrations. This is gonna be all hands on deck, NC Dems. Stay tuned. www.carolinajournal.com/appeals-cour...

carolinajournal.comAppeals Court orders new vote calculations in NC Supreme Court election disputeA North Carolina Appeals Court panel has split, 2-1, in ordering state elections officials to recalculate vote totals in the disputed 2024 state Supreme Court election. The 103-page decision Friday re...

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It's not a bad idea to go to the local Walmart or big box retailer and buy lots of consumables now. From toothpaste to soap, anything you can find storage space for, buy before they have to replenish inventory. Even if it's made in the USA , they will jack up the price and blame it on tariffs.

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Accelerate, the band’s 14 studio album, was released this week in 2008 (March 31/April 1). The LP was produced by Jacknife Lee and included singles “Supernatural Superserious,” “Hollow Man,” “Man-Sized Wreath,” & “Until The Day Is Done.” Share your favorite track in the comments.

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Does anyone know the unemployment rate for Veterans ? If 30 percent of the federal workforce is Vets, the number could get ugly quickly. Any data out there ?

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🚨🚨Elon Musk, DOGE & Donald Trump CONTINUE to gaslight America about Social Security's INTEGRITY! Social Security's fraud rate of 0.00625%, far lower than private sector retirement programs. Musk & DOGE are INVITING fraudsters & Scammers are rushing in to take advantage of confusion created by DOGE.

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No, Elon. 40% of people who call Social Security's 1-800 number are not fraudsters, Social Security is not a Ponzi scheme & nobody who is 150 years old is getting a Social Security check. Stop the lies. Stop the disinformation. Get your billionaire hands off Social Security.

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Pete Hegseth is a f*cking liar. This is so clearly classified info he recklessly leaked that could’ve gotten our pilots killed. He needs to resign in disgrace immediately.