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"Instructions for living a life:
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it."
--Mary Oliver
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Brian Arner 🇨🇭🇺🇦
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Brian Arner 🇨🇭🇺🇦
@barner
I tweet about what interests me: often current events, cycling, health, personal development, sports, music, cats. RTs ≠ Endorsements. #ISTJ #SDA #RA #JD #VFL
Knoxville, TN Katılım Mayıs 2008
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@adiosillinois @cosmopterix You shouldn't care, unless you anticipate tweeting to @cosmopterix in a way that could potentially trigger her one-strike-you’re-out policy. In which case, you may or may not care if she blocks you.
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@cosmopterix @barner Explain to me why any of us should care
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@alyssaleann That's really something that he had the collection boxes.
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It’s been almost 12 years, but I still get a little teary when I remember it
What a gift to be loved so well, understood so fully. This marriage is the most precious thing I’ll ever have
Alyssa 🌻@alyssaleann
My husband rented a pavilion at the park where we took our high school dance photos, my family draped it in twinkly lights He put together a memory box for each year we’d dated: movie tickets, photo booth strips, messages we’d passed in class, prom tickets, dried corsages, letters we wrote in college We looked through them together, and at the end of the lineup was a box for the year that was about to begin. It was empty, save a wrapped ring box, on which he’d written, “this is fake. turn around” And when I did, he was down on one knee
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Literally just came off of the 275 exit on Clinton Highway and this is what happened when I hit a pothole. We have to fix the infrastructure in Knoxville.
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@itsmelaurin There's a bad 🤖channel of "you" on YouTube. @LaurinPonceVision" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@LaurinPonceVi…
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@scottlincicome Really honing in on a midterm campaign message.
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@KristabelDH If there is a skill to predicting the fluctuations of a volatile market, it has sadly eluded me.
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@emilyetaylor23 Getting more done outside in the evening thanks to DST. 🌞
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Year-round Daylight Saving Time is not some new idea. America already tried it in 1974. It was an unmitigated disaster.
It was sold as an energy-saving emergency measure during the oil crisis. Congress put the nation on permanent DST starting January 6, 1974. But within weeks, the dark winter mornings produced exactly the kind of problems critics warned about: children going to school and waiting for buses in predawn darkness. Congress reversed course that same year and restored standard time for the winter beginning October 27, 1974.
The contemporaneous coverage is striking.
On January 24, 1974, the Miami Herald ran: “3 Children Killed, Four Are Injured on Dark Mornings.”
On January 29, 1974, the Sentinel Star in Florida said the legislature was meeting in special session because of “seven children killed while walking to school in pre-dawn darkness.”
The Congressional Record was already referring to children waiting at bus stops in the cold dark, and even citing headlines about children killed in the early morning while waiting for the bus.
By February 14, 1974, one paper was calling it “Daylight Disaster Time.”
Public opinion collapsed. What began with broad support quickly turned into a backlash once people actually experienced winter mornings under permanent DST. One later account, citing contemporaneous reporting, notes support fell from 79% to 42% in roughly three months.
This is the lesson from 1974:
People like brighter evenings in theory.
They like dark winter mornings a lot less in real life.
And when children have to walk to school in darkness, the politics change very fast.
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@CRELeasingLawTX @Lincoln_Osis In case the last tweet wasn't clear, I'm a Tennessee fan. [enemy of my enemy principle]
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@barner @Lincoln_Osis 😂 always great to find other Alabama haters out in the wild!
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On the first date with my husband, I noticed he had a Louis Vuitton wallet. They’re not “that” expensive (probably $300 back then), but the last guy I’d dated was offensively cheap, so I thought “okay, this guy is willing to buy nice things sometimes.” A green flag after dating a guy who wouldn’t pay $8 for a margarita (in Dallas!) and split the bill on Valentine’s Day 😂
Turns out he found it on the ground walking home from work one day. He immediately tried to find the owner. Couldn’t get them to answer their phone. Even went so far as to mail the wallet back to the address on the driver’s license. A few weeks later it came back to him Return to Sender. Stuck it in a drawer for a few months in case the owner contacted him.
He consulted his dad throughout the process, and eventually, his dad said “You really tried. The wallet came back to you. I think it’s ok for it to be yours now.”
Ultimately that little wallet became a symbol of an even greener flag: a man who has integrity even in the small things.
Lady Lawya@Parkerlawyer
I received an email through my website’s contact form from a teenager that said: “I found your wallet.” Attached was a photo of my Prada wallet with my driver’s license, debit card, and credit cards inside. She wrote, “Please call me so I can get it back to you.” The crazy part? I didn’t even know it was lost. She had found it in the parking lot of a strip mall where I get my nails done. When I called her, she said she’d been worried for hours because she knew that when I realized it was gone I would be “frantic.” I then spoke to her mom, who sent me their address. I drove about 30 minutes to their house to get it. When I got there I was so overwhelmed by her kindness that I cried. Her mom was standing on the front porch beaming and said, “I’m doing my best to teach my kids that doing the right thing matters.” I handed her a $100 bill. She smiled huge and thanked me. I told her the only person who deserved thanks was her. I mentioned the wallet was designer because a lot of 16-year-olds would have kept it. It was expensive. She didn’t. A lot of people would have used the credit cards inside. She didn’t. Instead, she spent hours worried about how I would feel when I realized it was gone. Friends, please know that good and honest humans absolutely exist. And when you’re faced with a decision, ask yourself, “What would I hope a stranger would do if the situation were reversed?”
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@CRELeasingLawTX @Lincoln_Osis I'll take an offer, if you want to make one. Provided you intend to primarily use the account to go after Alabama fans. 🍊
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@barner @Lincoln_Osis Truly. Finding ways to be a hater for no reason lmao. Also I have to ask if you have had Auburn fans try to buy your Twitter handle because many Auburn people often call themselves Barners (reclaiming an insult Alabama fans used to use)
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@CRELeasingLawTX @Lincoln_Osis It's sometimes hard for me to believe real people are posting replies I see on this website.
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A man just walked up to me at the gym and started a conversation. He was charismatic, charming, and not awkward at all. We talked for 5 minutes. He walked up to me with a joke and I laughed (cause it was funny). He made some small talk about the weather before veering into some real conversation. He asked me personal questions without being invasive, gave me enough info to learn a little about him as well, and it was a fun, genuine, and energizing interaction. He even said something about me being a 20 something and I had to be like, no sir I am 36. He feigned disbelief to be nice. Overall, it was a 10/10 experience. 100% would recommend. Important note: he was also probably about 80 years old. But really guys, it is that easy to talk to a girl. Even just to talk.
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If you feel stuck single, your hobbies may be the problem.
GOOD HOBBIES FOR SINGLE MEN
• Coed rec spots leagues
• Salsa, two-step, swing dancing
• Volunteering (e.g. with church group)
BAD HOBBIES FOR SINGLE MEN
• Fantasy sports leagues
• Video games, Netflix
• Golf (wait until you're married lol ⛳)
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