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Bill Colrus✍
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Bill Colrus✍
@billcolrus
Freelance writer and editor for hire. Baseball coach. Sorta musician. Husband. Father. Believer. RTs not necessarily endorsements. #CHS via #CHA via #CT
North Charleston, SC Katılım Nisan 2008
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Got a letter from the HOA yesterday
Actual letter
In an envelope
With a stamp
In 2026
The letter said my trash can was visible from the street for too long on collection day
The fine is $50
I checked my Ring camera
The truck came at 7:03am
I brought the can in at 7:14am
11 minutes
$50
That's $4.55 per minute of trash can visibility
My therapist charges $250 an hour
That's $4.17 per minute
My trash can sitting in a driveway is now more expensive per minute than therapy
I looked at the letter again
It was signed by the HOA president
Her name is Karen
Of course it is
I know this woman
She lives four houses down
She still has Christmas lights up
It's March
I know because I drive past them twice a day
And because that's what I do
I checked the HOA bylaws
All 47 pages
Section 4.2 says all exterior fixtures and lighting must be seasonal and removed within 30 days of the applicable holiday
Her lights have been up for 97 days
I went to the HOA meeting
Tuesday night
7pm
In a church basement
Folding chairs
Fruit platter that nobody touched
Seven people showed up
Four of them were on the board
The other three were there to complain
I was there to read
My wife came with me
She didn't want to
But she said "if I don't come you'll end up on the news"
I brought my legal pad
Karen called the meeting to order
She talked about community standards
She talked about property values
She talked about the importance of curb appeal
From a woman whose Christmas lights are still blinking in March
I raised my hand
She said "we'll take questions at the end"
I said "it's not a question. It's a point of order."
She looked at me
I opened my legal pad
I said "Section 4.2 requires seasonal decorations to be removed within 30 days. Your Christmas lights have been up for 97 days. You fined me $50 for 11 minutes of trash can visibility on collection day while you've been in violation for over three months."
The room was quiet
One of the other three complainers said "he's right"
The board members looked at each other
Karen said "that's a separate issue"
I said "it's the same bylaws"
She said "we'll review it"
I said "I already did. Page 12. Happy to share my highlights."
My wife looked at the ceiling
Some things never change
Karen said "I think we should move on"
I said "agreed. I'll move on when the Christmas lights do."
Nobody laughed
I wasn't joking
I paid the $50
Because it's $50 and I'm not going to die on that hill
But if the rules apply to me they apply to everyone
So I filed a formal complaint about the lights
With photos
Timestamped
Funny how surveillance works both ways
The fine for seasonal decoration violations is $75 per occurrence
She's been in violation for 67 days past the 30-day grace period
I'll let her do the math
Or I'll do it for her
Because that's what I do
Make common sense common again
Plz fix. Thx.
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People hate the person who informs them they were fooled far more than they ever hate the person who fooled them.
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Louder for those in the back:
Criticism does not equal censorship.
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Two years ago, almost 0 schools were interested in even considering going phone free.
Now, whole school systems are phone free. The rest are scrambling to get on board
We owe @JonHaidt a tremendous debt of gratitude.
What he achieved - this quickly - is almost unimaginable.
Jonathan Haidt@JonHaidt
The Anxious Generation was published two years ago today, in a very different world. Back then, the most common objection I got was resignation: "The train has left the station." "You can't put toothpaste back in the tube." "It's how the kids connect today." Today, the world looks very different. It turns out that if our kids were all on a train and we learned it was heading toward a collapsed bridge, we'd find a way to stop it and bring them safely back to the station. That’s what’s happening now. After the historic verdicts in Los Angeles and New Mexico, today is a great day to reflect on the capacity of people in democratic societies to take action, even when opposing some of the most powerful corporations in history. We're getting access to the courts. We're getting phone-free schools. We're seeing whole neighborhoods letting kids out to play, unsupervised, which is what we older folk all remember as the best part of childhood. So I want to recognize: --The mothers (and, right behind them, fathers) who rose up by the millions and powered the movement. --The farsighted governors and legislators in red states and blue states who have been innovating on policy solutions. --The leaders of a dozen of nations, who are raising the age to 16 for opening social media accounts (with a special shoutout to Australia, for going first). --The teachers and school administrators who had their classrooms disrupted for 15 years, and who are now eager to think through new solutions as screens have taken over and obstructed learning. --The grassroots organizations who have been dedicating their efforts to advocate for all of the above in their local communities. --The millions of members of Gen Z who have been rising up, demanding agency over how they spend their lives in the digital era, and finding better ways to connect in real life. And one final group: the survivor parents--the ones you saw in those pictures of people embracing on the front steps of the LA courthouse. I have met many over the years. I am in awe of their courage and tenacity, their willingness to tell their stories of loss, over and over again, to different audiences, in the hope that no other parent would have to endure what they have endured. At long last, juries and legislatures are hearing you, and are acting. Together, we are calling the train back to the station. Together, we are rolling back the phone based childhood and reclaiming life in the real world. The work continues. If you’re not already involved, join us: anxiousgeneration.com/join
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Sad day. I grew up listening to CBS Radio newscasts at the top of the hour on WCBS-AM in New York. It fed my desire to do radio news. That said, when I realized that ambition and made it to the "major leagues" as a producer for the NBC Radio Network, which by that time had be sold to Westwood One, we were almost literally talking to ourselves: only two of the top 50 affiliates aired the newscast we produced. They stripped the commercials and aired those so they could get their share of the revenue. And this was nearly 40 years ago, so it's unlikely the business model has gotten any better or more lucrative.
Variety@Variety
CBS News also is terminating its century-old CBS News Radio service, which serves approximately 700 stations variety.com/2026/tv/news/c…
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Chuck Norris could not be bound by life on this planet. Or an ordinary pair of action jeans. #RIP
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@simoncholland My car shows both. The actual mileage number is more helpful.
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I asked my teenager how much gas her car had and she said, “72 miles.” I guess phrases like, “ a quarter of a tank” are going extinct.
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What song do you think has one of the greatest opening seconds ever recorded?
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I remember a thread where a communist asked their followers what they would do once communism took over, and nearly every reply was some variant of artist or therapist. No one wanted to put in the years of training it takes to be an optometrist purely for the good of the collective.
Unsurprisingly, there also wasn't anyone who wanted to work in construction, farming, sewer line maintenance, or any of those other dirty and dangerous jobs that people generally only do because the pay's good. They all believed they wouldn't have to work to keep society going because someone else would do it, and that someone else would do it just because they felt like it.
𝓫𝓪𝓼𝓮𝓭𝓭𝓮𝓹𝓪𝓻𝓽𝓶𝓲𝓷𝓽@BasedDepartmint
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Don't you hate it when you and your buddy are trying to enjoy a beautiful day and, the next thing you know, you're getting busted for throwing homemade bombs at a protest?
It's literally the woooooooorst.
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So many of us live with analysis paralysis.
Meaning, we wait to get going because we want the perfect plan first. But clarity only comes once you get started. You must accept that mistakes cannot be avoided, are part of the process, and are often the very things that teach you how to proceed.
Or, as the great Napoleon Hill said, "Do not wait: the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along."
#MondayMotivation
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"Daylight savings time? Ha! I give it six months." — Norm Macdonald
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