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Steven Hale

@iamstevenhale.bsky.social

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Nashville Banner criminal justice / public safety reporter. “Death Row Welcomes You” author. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/676743/death-row-welcomes-you-by-steven-hale/

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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · Nov 11

Love to all new followers.

I work at the @nashvillebanner.bsky.social which you can subscribe to here: nashvillebanner.com/newsletters/

I wrote a book about life and death and community on TN’s death row: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/676743...

Death Row Welcomes You by Steven Hale: 9781612199283 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

"An eye-opening journey to a place that’s hard to access, rarely seen and shrouded by myths of monsters and abominations. ... Death Row Welcomes You demands that we not look away."- New York Times...

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C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 21h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social · 23h

and I feel fine

jamma10.bsky.social @jamma10.bsky.social · 2d

Toilet, Bristol UK circa 2015

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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 1d

I really just wish Auburn had a bad football team with Cadillac Williams as head coach instead of … this.

Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 1d

Arrest Kirby Smart

Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 1d

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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 22d

I am filing a $15 billion lawsuit against the referees who clearly hate Auburn and also me personally

Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 1d

I repeat

Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 1d

Guys love to have a beer and say “indisputable video evidence” repeatedly

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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 1d

Guys love to have a beer and say “indisputable video evidence” repeatedly

Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 1d

I see what you mean now, this other author is making the same choices in those areas you would make. I’m sure that is trippy. Thanks!

Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 1d

Very curious to hear more about the way this author / you do that if you don’t mind elaborating!

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 2d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 1d

Deep dive into the surge in US pedestrian deaths:

"It’s not that more pedestrians are getting hit by vehicles; it’s that the ones that are getting hit are more likely to die."

"[That] seems like fairly strong evidence for the theory that the rise in large SUVs is behind the uptick in ped deaths."

Why Are So Many Pedestrians Killed by Cars in the US?

It’s unfortunately not uncommon for pedestrians to be killed by cars in the US.

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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 2d

the phrase "AI Tinder for Jobs" is violence

Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 2d

Setting everything else about Bari Weiss and this memo aside, one thing I believe about journalists. If you are a source and a journalist tells you they will keep what you tell them secret, you can trust them. If you are a journalist and *another journalist* tells you that ... eh.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 2d

Here's the full memo.

Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 2d

🎶you don’t know the life of a poster, baaaabe / and you’re never gonna wanna🎶

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 3d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 2d

One of my favorite moments from Nobel Prize history:

The Nobel Committee couldn’t reach Stanford professor Paul Milgrom to let him know that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics, so his fellow winner, Robert Wilson, went over to his house in the middle of the night to wake him up!

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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 3d

IWI US is not the first gun company to see Tennessee as a more attractive home for the weapons industry. What makes it different is its direct ties to a military that a number of experts and a United Nations commission say is carrying out a genocide in Gaza. nashvillebanner.com/2025/10/09/i...

Tennessee Welcomes Israel Weapon Industries Headquarters - Nashville Banner

Israel Weapon Industries relocates its headquarters to Tennessee, investing $16 million and creating 72 jobs. The move is linked to the state's pro-gun stance.

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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 4d

“The only prison I fear is the prison of the mind … and I busted out of that years ago.”

Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 4d

I guess it stands out to me because there were all these right wing caricatures of “wokeness” or examples of white folks trying to portray themselves as heroic allies and Dolly was just like “well golly, why would we keep doing something hurtful?”

Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 4d

One Dolly moment I think of regularly is how she explained her decision to remove the word “Dixie” from a Dollywood attraction. In her perfectly Dolly way she presented it as the easy and obviously right thing to do.

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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 4d

“I ain’t dead yet!” — Dolly Parton

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 4d

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 4d

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Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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