Nathan Alderman
@nathanalderman.com
Word arranger, story mechanic, question asker, door knocker, Oxford comma enthusiast. Senior News Reporter at @cvilleweekly.bsky.social. Freelance manuscript editor for hire. Opinions are my own. Signal: Nathan.778
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Nathan Alderman
@nathanalderman.com
· Nov 28
Look, it's simple.
Be kind.
Be curious.
Tell the truth.
Ask for help.
Help others if you can.
Don't hurt people.
If you do, say you're sorry, mean it, and prove it.
Think before you speak.
Say less.
Say please.
Say thank you.
Be kind.
Be curious.
Tell the truth.
Ask for help.
Help others if you can.
Don't hurt people.
If you do, say you're sorry, mean it, and prove it.
Think before you speak.
Say less.
Say please.
Say thank you.
This is pretty huge for Virginia. We just put a Constitutional amendment on the ballot to fix this!
Before, felony conviction meant losing your right to vote for life unless the governor restored it. (Jim Crow holdover.) Our previous governor declined to restore rights for anyone.
Before, felony conviction meant losing your right to vote for life unless the governor restored it. (Jim Crow holdover.) Our previous governor declined to restore rights for anyone.
January 24, 2026 at 3:58 AM
This is pretty huge for Virginia. We just put a Constitutional amendment on the ballot to fix this!
Before, felony conviction meant losing your right to vote for life unless the governor restored it. (Jim Crow holdover.) Our previous governor declined to restore rights for anyone.
Before, felony conviction meant losing your right to vote for life unless the governor restored it. (Jim Crow holdover.) Our previous governor declined to restore rights for anyone.
Ten seconds of Googling found this report on conditions in Equatorial Guinea, including documented accounts of torture, written by ... the State Department in 2024.
January 24, 2026 at 2:46 AM
Ten seconds of Googling found this report on conditions in Equatorial Guinea, including documented accounts of torture, written by ... the State Department in 2024.
This story has people flying around on tubas. TUBAS. I don't know how I could recommend it more highly.
If you want to start at the beginning, start here: www.patreon.com/collection/1... Chapter 1, free to read, 39 pages. It's cold and gloomy and a lot of us are maybe about to be snowed in. Grab a cup of something hot, and watch me redirect what once was a fondness for HARRY POTTER. #fuckJKR
SETTLERS Chapter 1 | Collection from Carla Speed McNeil | 13 posts
Get more from Carla Speed McNeil on Patreon
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January 23, 2026 at 9:43 PM
This story has people flying around on tubas. TUBAS. I don't know how I could recommend it more highly.
Man, I just don't know about SINNERS's Oscar chances. A film about white people trying to trick nonwhite people into opening the door for them, so that the former can come inside and prey on the latter, hardly seems relevant at the moment.
January 23, 2026 at 9:38 PM
Man, I just don't know about SINNERS's Oscar chances. A film about white people trying to trick nonwhite people into opening the door for them, so that the former can come inside and prey on the latter, hardly seems relevant at the moment.
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We are grateful for PACEM and the other organizations and individuals working to support people experiencing homelessness in our area as Charlottesville faces severe weather this week.
Today is a good day to make a financial contribution to PACEM if you’re able: pacemshelter.org/where-will-t...
Today is a good day to make a financial contribution to PACEM if you’re able: pacemshelter.org/where-will-t...
January 23, 2026 at 12:25 PM
We are grateful for PACEM and the other organizations and individuals working to support people experiencing homelessness in our area as Charlottesville faces severe weather this week.
Today is a good day to make a financial contribution to PACEM if you’re able: pacemshelter.org/where-will-t...
Today is a good day to make a financial contribution to PACEM if you’re able: pacemshelter.org/where-will-t...
One reason I find DHS's hue and cry over the church protest interesting: Last year, after a Trump executive order, they removed churches' sanctuary protections. ICE can enter your church with guns and no warrant. You can't go into someone else's church with words & signs.
Immigration Enforcement Guidance for Places of Worship | American Civil Liberties Union
www.aclu.org
January 23, 2026 at 1:54 PM
One reason I find DHS's hue and cry over the church protest interesting: Last year, after a Trump executive order, they removed churches' sanctuary protections. ICE can enter your church with guns and no warrant. You can't go into someone else's church with words & signs.
#Charlottesville folks, we have a sighting of an unmarked white SUV with flashing lights, spotted turning onto 250E at the McIntire Road / John Warner Parkway overpass, near the fire station. Trying to verify which agency it's with. Got info? DM me or email news at c dash ville dot com.
January 22, 2026 at 7:45 PM
#Charlottesville folks, we have a sighting of an unmarked white SUV with flashing lights, spotted turning onto 250E at the McIntire Road / John Warner Parkway overpass, near the fire station. Trying to verify which agency it's with. Got info? DM me or email news at c dash ville dot com.
Edgar Rice Burroughs was an ... interesting writer, but the way his GODS OF MARS treats religion as a gradually revealed nesting doll of predation, with each layer of unveiled "gods" literally feeding on the layer below that prays to them, has always struck me as kinda genius.
I have long been oddly haunted by Ovid's observation that the homes of the gods have household shrines to other, unknown gods.
January 22, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Edgar Rice Burroughs was an ... interesting writer, but the way his GODS OF MARS treats religion as a gradually revealed nesting doll of predation, with each layer of unveiled "gods" literally feeding on the layer below that prays to them, has always struck me as kinda genius.
HERA: ... you must also clean the Augean stables
HERCULES: piece of cake
HERA: slay the Nemean Lion
HERC: he's donezo
HERA: defeat the dread hydra
HERC: lil' tough but no biggie
HERA: and remove all the bots from your Bluesky followers
HERC: whoa whoa WHOA lady hold on a sec
HERCULES: piece of cake
HERA: slay the Nemean Lion
HERC: he's donezo
HERA: defeat the dread hydra
HERC: lil' tough but no biggie
HERA: and remove all the bots from your Bluesky followers
HERC: whoa whoa WHOA lady hold on a sec
January 22, 2026 at 3:23 PM
HERA: ... you must also clean the Augean stables
HERCULES: piece of cake
HERA: slay the Nemean Lion
HERC: he's donezo
HERA: defeat the dread hydra
HERC: lil' tough but no biggie
HERA: and remove all the bots from your Bluesky followers
HERC: whoa whoa WHOA lady hold on a sec
HERCULES: piece of cake
HERA: slay the Nemean Lion
HERC: he's donezo
HERA: defeat the dread hydra
HERC: lil' tough but no biggie
HERA: and remove all the bots from your Bluesky followers
HERC: whoa whoa WHOA lady hold on a sec
An otherwise healthy relative who's a few years younger than Trump (and like a million times sharper, mentally) has thinning skin that leads to easy and dramatic-looking bruising like this. It seems like it's a pretty normal thing for some older people?
Trump's *left* hand -- not the one that is usually disfigured -- now has a large bruise and is discolored
These pictures are from today in Davos and are via Chip Somodevilla (Getty) and Fabrice Coffrini (AFP)
These pictures are from today in Davos and are via Chip Somodevilla (Getty) and Fabrice Coffrini (AFP)
January 22, 2026 at 3:21 PM
An otherwise healthy relative who's a few years younger than Trump (and like a million times sharper, mentally) has thinning skin that leads to easy and dramatic-looking bruising like this. It seems like it's a pretty normal thing for some older people?
Universe, if you're going to keep making available amazing things to read, at least give me the time to also read them.
(I know, I know, Burgess Meredith from that one Twilight Zone episode would like a word...)
(I know, I know, Burgess Meredith from that one Twilight Zone episode would like a word...)
I’ve added the script for Wake Up Dead Man to my site. This is the final shooting script, so it has stuff that was cut and moved around, which I always think is more interesting to see than a conformed cleaned up version. Enjoy! www.rian-johnson.com/screenplays
rcjohnso / scripts
Free screenplays for Brick, Brothers Bloom and Looper.
www.rian-johnson.com
January 22, 2026 at 2:49 AM
Universe, if you're going to keep making available amazing things to read, at least give me the time to also read them.
(I know, I know, Burgess Meredith from that one Twilight Zone episode would like a word...)
(I know, I know, Burgess Meredith from that one Twilight Zone episode would like a word...)
Why are we showing up at someone's garage with heavy weapons to arrest unarmed people? Why are we listening to their kids scream in terror and doing absolutely nothing differently? How does this make any of us safer?
January 22, 2026 at 2:07 AM
Why are we showing up at someone's garage with heavy weapons to arrest unarmed people? Why are we listening to their kids scream in terror and doing absolutely nothing differently? How does this make any of us safer?
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🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
January 21, 2026 at 10:00 PM
🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
"I personally will say that oppose this, but I won't try to persuade others to oppose this or use my influence to stop it" = "I stand for nothing and have no fixed principles."
January 21, 2026 at 8:38 PM
"I personally will say that oppose this, but I won't try to persuade others to oppose this or use my influence to stop it" = "I stand for nothing and have no fixed principles."
Happy birthday to @carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.social, IMHO one of the most talented creators working in comics today. If you haven't read their singular FINDER series, you are _missing out_.
Hey, guess what? Today's my birthday, and I'm feeling scribbly. Every copy of my 22-page signed-and-numbered comic that sells today will come with a wee little 3x3 sketch of the flying French bulldogs that feature in the first few pages of the book. www.patreon.com/posts/shop-i... Check it out!
Shop is open! | Carla Speed McNeil
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January 21, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Happy birthday to @carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.social, IMHO one of the most talented creators working in comics today. If you haven't read their singular FINDER series, you are _missing out_.
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Crozetians! (And really all Albemarle/cville neighbors). We'll be hosting another Livable meetup at Bar Botanical next week, assuming the snows haven't completely shut central virginia down. Come chat about affordability & transit, make grand plans, connect with neighbors - a guaranteed good time.
January 21, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Crozetians! (And really all Albemarle/cville neighbors). We'll be hosting another Livable meetup at Bar Botanical next week, assuming the snows haven't completely shut central virginia down. Come chat about affordability & transit, make grand plans, connect with neighbors - a guaranteed good time.
Honestly, with all respect to the Jim Henson Company, I'm amazed they actually got a show made. (Their track record of late is ... not great.) Better yet, THIS show, based on @rachelsmythe.bsky.social's absolutely dazzling, top-tier comic!
'Lore Olympus' Will Be Prime Video's Next Animated Show
Webtoon's hit Greek myth romance is getting animated courtesy of Prime Video and the Jim Henson Company.
gizmodo.com
January 21, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Honestly, with all respect to the Jim Henson Company, I'm amazed they actually got a show made. (Their track record of late is ... not great.) Better yet, THIS show, based on @rachelsmythe.bsky.social's absolutely dazzling, top-tier comic!
Not sure under what circumstances this great, zero-explanation running gag from @captempestcomic.bsky.social could become a meme, but it certainly deserves to.
January 21, 2026 at 1:53 PM
Not sure under what circumstances this great, zero-explanation running gag from @captempestcomic.bsky.social could become a meme, but it certainly deserves to.
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I think we’ve got better and more culturally-varied street food than I could have imagined, cool jackets galore, and drugs that make us think we’re really fast and strong before they kill us.
we're getting all the downsides of cyberpunk (social alienation, ruthless hyper capitalism, digital mass surveillance state) but none of the promised upsides (cheap street food, cool jackets, super drugs that make you really fast and strong before they kill you)
January 20, 2026 at 10:02 PM
I think we’ve got better and more culturally-varied street food than I could have imagined, cool jackets galore, and drugs that make us think we’re really fast and strong before they kill us.
... uh, is Apple having some kind of iCloud Drive outage?
No biggie, it's only where I store all the manuscripts for my novels, and the work I'm doing for other folks...
No biggie, it's only where I store all the manuscripts for my novels, and the work I'm doing for other folks...
January 21, 2026 at 2:55 AM
... uh, is Apple having some kind of iCloud Drive outage?
No biggie, it's only where I store all the manuscripts for my novels, and the work I'm doing for other folks...
No biggie, it's only where I store all the manuscripts for my novels, and the work I'm doing for other folks...
Protip from me, a reporter: If you call up a reporter, everything you say is on the record, until or unless you specifically say otherwise.
January 21, 2026 at 2:40 AM
Protip from me, a reporter: If you call up a reporter, everything you say is on the record, until or unless you specifically say otherwise.
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A constituent forward me a letter from their landlord. It said they expected they’d have to raise rents if democratic housing bills passed. Specifically they referenced my HB 281 which allows a tenant to use the defense of warranty of habitability for nonpayment of rent
January 20, 2026 at 10:07 PM
A constituent forward me a letter from their landlord. It said they expected they’d have to raise rents if democratic housing bills passed. Specifically they referenced my HB 281 which allows a tenant to use the defense of warranty of habitability for nonpayment of rent
Got a news release about how a company called Off the Hook Yachts -- which buys and sells used yachts and boats -- just went public on the NYSE, and I feel like that says a lot about our present economic moment?
January 20, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Got a news release about how a company called Off the Hook Yachts -- which buys and sells used yachts and boats -- just went public on the NYSE, and I feel like that says a lot about our present economic moment?
That sound you hear is me running up and down the street with a blaring airhorn in each hand. I was wondering about this.
Governor Spanberger just announced she is rejoining RGGI. 🎉🏞️
January 20, 2026 at 2:55 AM
That sound you hear is me running up and down the street with a blaring airhorn in each hand. I was wondering about this.