Eric Sheridan Wyatt

“And so, when it comes time for us to choose between a cherished dream and a lousy current drudgery, we often choose to ignore the dream and blame our continued misery on God/Fate/the Universe.”

We've been in NC for three days, and found that restaurants, coffee shops, and retail stores are all much more customer-focused than we experienced in Cincinnati. Maybe it's the small sample, but this area feels much more like things were pre-Covid, when it comes to customer service and general civil/polite behavior.

We moved to Mooresville NC three days ago. Every restaurant, coffee shop, and retail place we've been in so far—and the guy who came out to fix our internet that wasn't right—all have been solid, pre-covid customer service. Friendly. Attentive. Responsive. Not over the top, but good.

It’s amazing how many businesses treat the customer like crap now. So in the interest of positivity, what’s a business you’ve recently had a great customer service experience with?

Three days of a whirlwind, but we are resettled in North Carolina, with most of our "stuff" and (maybe by later today) internet access. (I'm posting from my phone, while waiting on the fiber guy to show up...)

@TheFIREorg I've been assured by @Gladwell that Walter Cronkite was too white and not diverse enough to earn any respect or to believe in the kind of "trust" people had in the media then because activism...or whatever.

Approaching America’s 250th birthday, open debate and independent reporting help keep democracy strong. FIRE defends the freedoms that make both possible.

Honestly, would have loved to watch her toss to a few hitters, just to see how they reacted...it's like when you bring in the deep-bench, utility outfielder to eat up a couple innings in a blow-out and their eephus pitch strikes out the side...until someone squares up and launches it to the upper deck.

Never forget Sister Mary Jo’s legendary bicep bounce on the first pitch.

@BretWeinstein They don't actually equate the two. They are opportunistic and shit-stirring chaos agents. Likely either paid (directly or indirectly) to get people riled up, or sold their digital identity to a bot farm with the same end result of inflaming and provoking.

Oh my god. Why do so many people conflate lies with mistakes? Joe had no reason to lie about where he was when Charlie was shot, and it would have been insane for him to try given the circumstances. It was OBVIOUSLY an honest mistake. Jumping on him is absurd, and cruel. Sheesh.

@WarPigsChief But doesn't this feel a lot like a Bengals/Reds year? Start slow. Don't beat teams you should. Then, at some point, the season tips from "slow start and not able to get their stuff together" to, "Man, if we'd won a couple of those games we should have, we'd be in the playoffs..."

1.8 xGA isn’t optimal — but only two big chances created by NYRB v. 6 by the FC. They have shit to sort, but this wasn’t nearly as bad as most of the games this year have been.

Even when you make a solid attempt to communicate with people "online" it can be difficult. But most posts, comments, and replies on social media aren't genuine attempts to ACTUALLY COMMUNICATE. They leave out key details, skip over circumstances, are riddled with spelling and grammar errors, are devoid of punctuation, and fail miserably to communicate what the person posting is intending to say. And then, even when there is sufficient detail and near-standard use of the English language, the person reading is as likely as NOT to mis-read, skip and skim, or otherwise be so incapable of retaining and comprehending what is being said, that they respond to things that aren't there, or what they THINK is being said, or what they WANT to respond because it's a "hot take" or their desire is to intentionally escalating the "conversation." What does it say about someone when they "tl;dr" a post but feel they need to contribute their "hot take" anyway?

Reading the comments section of any neutral post on Facebook or Instagram is enough to make me doubt humanity, on a large scale.

It's a real shame. Cincinnati should be the crown jewel of the midwest...instead, it's full of "would be" and "should be" inconsistencies, many of which stem from incompetent, wrong-focused civic leadership, and the 31% of the city who vote them in, over and over. The way the city's administration is set up (with a city manager and a completely at-large council) further handicaps any attempt to change the course of ludicrous spending on stupid policies, neglect of the infrastructure, and the inability to form a cohesive plan to both conserve the positive and historical things that make this a great city, while cleaning up and updating other areas to be more modern and welcoming to middle income families. Add to that an ineffective opposition party that cannot do anything right to break through the bureaucratic malaise, and a corrupt legal system more interested in optics and advocacy than the rule of law, and you have...THIS.

You've heard the term "once great city"; is that Cincinnati under incompetent leadership? thecincinnatiexchange.com/cincinnati-cri…

One of the drawbacks of being sick for the last year is that a lot of the sorting and disposing of things I had planned to do after our previous move never got done. Now, I have to balance doing some of that sorting with the fact that I have three more days to pack up the entire house...

@denniscamp I think this was the theme of my senior prom... ;-)

Wise advice.

One of the hardest things to do when finishing a first completed draft for a client is to discern what is actually repetitive in the manuscript, and what FEELS repetitive because I've been living inside these interviews, notes, outlines, rough drafts, and permutations of the book for going on half a year...

On the one hand, the "we never walked on the moon" folks seem insane. On the other hand, the incredible engineering and computational expertise it takes to leave earth orbit, fly towards where the moon WILL be in a couple days, and then use its gravity to trow you back toward earth is kinda hard to fathom to the layperson...

@newstart_2024 Lately? Since at least 2020. To a lesser degree since 2016. I first started to feel it personally in 2012. That's more than a decade...

Truth is now considered a right-wing conspiracy. That’s the chilling line from Melanie Phillips that stopped me in my tracks. She explains how we’ve reached a point where simply stating observable reality — whether it’s basic biology defining a woman or pushing back against blanket accusations that all white people are inherently bad — gets you branded as evil. Not wrong. Evil. Therefore you must be silenced, cancelled, or erased. No debate. No evidence allowed. She calls it cultural totalitarianism: a Manichean worldview where one ideology claims a monopoly on goodness, progress, and reason itself. Dissent isn’t argued with — it’s treated as a moral threat that has to be removed. The deepest irony? In an era that smugly ditched religion in the name of superior rationality, we’ve ended up rejecting reason, evidence, and open inquiry altogether. We’re so “rational” we’ve dispensed with the very tools of rationality. It doesn’t add up. Her take has me wondering how we got here — and how quickly disagreement turned into moral excommunication. Anyone else seeing this pattern play out in conversations lately? Where have you felt truth itself become off-limits?

I flew into Miami one time, the plane went right down the coast, right over the cape...and I remember looking down, and thinking, "Wouldn't it be cool to be flying in a plane and watch a liftoff?" This video proves, yes, yes it would.

@LanceMcAlister When you claw your way back (after facing one of the toughest starters and falling behind) only to have the closer, who should theoretically be your wall against more runs, allow the game to be blown wide open with only one more half inning to bat...that has to be demoralizing.

@NewEricWyatt do you think that is one of the bigger takeaways from today?

Pirates 8 #Reds 3 O’Neil Cruz cracked a 3-R 1st inning bomb off Andrew Abbott. Connor Phillips walked in a 6th inning run that proved the difference. Removing all doubt, the Pirates tacked on four 9th inning runs vs Emilio Pagan. Paul Skenes tossed five innings, allowing one run, to move his career record vs the Reds to 5-0 0.52. The Pirates take series at GABP. Reds drop to 3-3. Flow: Trailed 3-0 1st, 3-1 4th, 4-1 6th, 4-3 6th, 8-3 9th. Abbott: 5.2 IN, 5 H, 4R, 3 BB, 5K, HR, 88 pitches. 1st: 2 out, 3-R HR Cruz. Five straight reached w/ 2 out. 28 pitches. Cruz: 3rd HR vs Reds less than 18 hours. Recovered nicely: 2nd-5th. Exited w/ 2 on 6th, one scored. O: 5 H, 3 BB, 9 K, 1 for 3 RISP, 5 LOB…2 PH H. Suarez: PH 2-R HR 6th. 191st HR w/ Reds. T-Brandon Phillips (12th) Lowe: RBI 2B (1st hit w/Reds) Friedl: 2 BB (Skenes 2 BB prev 5 starts Reds) Elly: H, R Stewart: BB, R Myers: PH 1B 6th Hayes: 0-3, 1-14 McLain: 3 K B-B games Steer: 0-4, 3 K, 1-17 Skenes: 5 IN, 3 H, 1 R, 2 BB, 5 K, 77 pitches. 4th inning run snapped 31 consecutive scoreless innings vs Reds. ERA 67.50 to 9.53. Career vs Reds: 5-0, 0.52 ERA, 6 starts. Bullpen: Phillips: 0.1. 8 balls, first 9 pitches, 2 BB. Forced inherited runner home. Monday: 7 balls, first 8 pitches, 2 BB. Ashcraft 1.0, Santillan 1.0, Pagan 1.0, 4 R. Defense: Heck of a leaping snag/tag by McLain 3-4-3 DP. 7th: Steer to RF (21 career innings), Friedl to LF, when Myers came into CF. Steer took bad route on double over his head. Next: Off day Thursday, 3 at Rangers

Forget "politics." Cultivating literacy --independent literacy, the ability to read and think and write and do it all in your own head and with your own two hands, so to speak -- is the great radical act now. Be a radical.

@adamhousley No one cares until it's too late to actually do anything. Which is unfortunate.

I've been yelling about this fraud for 5 years. Glad people are finally seeing this.