Caoimhín Páirc
@kparkplace.bsky.social
Housing and homesteading
Yancey County NC
is treasa tuath na tighearna
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Yancey County NC
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All views are my own.
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Caoimhín Páirc
@kparkplace.bsky.social
· Feb 26
It's only bunkum if it comes from the western region of North Carolina, otherwise it's just sparkling bullshit.
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Because yes, Thanksgiving as a national holiday has to do with the Civil War and not the Puritans or previously proclaimed days of Thanksgiving (of which there were hundreds) - so be sure, as you gather about the table, to give thanks for the victories brought by Union arms at Vicksburg & Gettysburg
November 26, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Because yes, Thanksgiving as a national holiday has to do with the Civil War and not the Puritans or previously proclaimed days of Thanksgiving (of which there were hundreds) - so be sure, as you gather about the table, to give thanks for the victories brought by Union arms at Vicksburg & Gettysburg
Great way to run our housing finance system fortune.com/2025/11/23/f...
November 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Great way to run our housing finance system fortune.com/2025/11/23/f...
We are Dark Sky certified and have one of the largest public telescopes in the southeastern US. www.mayland.edu/foundation/f... but there are LED illuminated crosses all over the place now, including on top of the mountain overlooking town.
November 25, 2025 at 12:44 AM
We are Dark Sky certified and have one of the largest public telescopes in the southeastern US. www.mayland.edu/foundation/f... but there are LED illuminated crosses all over the place now, including on top of the mountain overlooking town.
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Reporter: “Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist?”
Mamdani: “I've spoken about–”
Trump: “That's ok. You can just say yes. It's easier than explaining it. I don't mind.”
Mamdani: “I've spoken about–”
Trump: “That's ok. You can just say yes. It's easier than explaining it. I don't mind.”
November 21, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Reporter: “Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist?”
Mamdani: “I've spoken about–”
Trump: “That's ok. You can just say yes. It's easier than explaining it. I don't mind.”
Mamdani: “I've spoken about–”
Trump: “That's ok. You can just say yes. It's easier than explaining it. I don't mind.”
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The partisan divide has grown, too. The wealthiest 100 tended to give more to Republicans than to Democrats before last year. But giving to the GOP spiked in 2024, with *84%* of donations going to back Republicans or conservative PACs.
November 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The partisan divide has grown, too. The wealthiest 100 tended to give more to Republicans than to Democrats before last year. But giving to the GOP spiked in 2024, with *84%* of donations going to back Republicans or conservative PACs.
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Rural home prices are up 61% since the pandemic, outpacing urban areas. Why? Remote work is driving demand, but limited supply is pricing out locals. According to Redfin, you now need a $74k income to afford a rural home—double the pre-pandemic requirement.
November 21, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Rural home prices are up 61% since the pandemic, outpacing urban areas. Why? Remote work is driving demand, but limited supply is pricing out locals. According to Redfin, you now need a $74k income to afford a rural home—double the pre-pandemic requirement.
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SCOOP: A federal grand jury in Maryland is investigating whether FHFA director Bill Pulte and Justice Department prosecutor Ed Martin improperly appointed unauthorized people to help in mortgage fraud investigations of President Trump's critics. With @carolleonnig.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 5:21 PM
SCOOP: A federal grand jury in Maryland is investigating whether FHFA director Bill Pulte and Justice Department prosecutor Ed Martin improperly appointed unauthorized people to help in mortgage fraud investigations of President Trump's critics. With @carolleonnig.bsky.social
The next Dem admin does not need to abolish ICE, just raise physical and educational requirements until hardly anyone who wants the job would qualify.
ESQUIRE: “ICE is hiring literally anybody, and it’s terrifying… people who flunk the exam, criminal records… yet they’re allowed to tear children from their beds at night.”
www.esquire.com/news-politic...
www.esquire.com/news-politic...
November 20, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The next Dem admin does not need to abolish ICE, just raise physical and educational requirements until hardly anyone who wants the job would qualify.
November 20, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Most people think of a dichotomy between renting and owning, but its really a continuum with condos/HOAs on the renting-side-of-owning and e.g., chattel MH on the owning-side-of-renting etc.
I will never live in a home subject to an HOA. I am shocked that so many people choose to live in one and then fight them to the death. This @nytimes.com story on how HOAs encourage the most antisocial of antisocial behaviors is Exhibit A (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...
Don’t Tread on Frank: How One Man’s Yard Became a Battlefield
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Most people think of a dichotomy between renting and owning, but its really a continuum with condos/HOAs on the renting-side-of-owning and e.g., chattel MH on the owning-side-of-renting etc.
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enjoyable little video on how wool gets graded and sorted
IG community_clothing and campaignforwool
IG community_clothing and campaignforwool
November 18, 2025 at 8:11 PM
enjoyable little video on how wool gets graded and sorted
IG community_clothing and campaignforwool
IG community_clothing and campaignforwool
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Way back in 1947, Alan Turing had thoughts on how AI would influence the demand for skilled labor.
(via Matteo Pasquinelli 2023 _The Eye of the Master_)
(via Matteo Pasquinelli 2023 _The Eye of the Master_)
![Roughly speaking those who work in connection with the [automatic computing engine] will be divided into its masters and its servants. Its masters will plan out instruction tables for it, thinking up deeper and deeper ways of using it...The masters are liable to get replaced because as soon as any technique becomes at all stereotyped it becomes possible to devise a system of instruction tables which will enable the electronic computer to do it for itself. It may happen however that the masters will refuse to do this. They may be unwilling to let their jobs be stolen from them in this way. In that case they would surround the whole of their work with mystery and make excuses, couched in well chosen gibberish, whenever any dangerous suggestions were made.
— Alan Turing (1947) Lecture on the Automatic Computing Engine](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tbqqvyv6pjjww44glrmycaxl/bafkreiajgzfaixqslnz2oftyxfcz2htgwbfisxfeyoospb5o6f3arqwfgu@jpeg)
November 18, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Way back in 1947, Alan Turing had thoughts on how AI would influence the demand for skilled labor.
(via Matteo Pasquinelli 2023 _The Eye of the Master_)
(via Matteo Pasquinelli 2023 _The Eye of the Master_)
How FHA envisioned an ideal plot in 1936. 50ft x 100ft (~1/10 acre) with fruit trees and chickens.
November 17, 2025 at 7:50 PM
How FHA envisioned an ideal plot in 1936. 50ft x 100ft (~1/10 acre) with fruit trees and chickens.
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Happy #MapMonday! Net migration in rural areas surged during the pandemic—and remains high. In many of these communities, migration is offsetting steep natural loss. See where in the dark green on the map, and read more in my new @harvard-jchs.bsky.social blog: www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/post-pa....
November 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Happy #MapMonday! Net migration in rural areas surged during the pandemic—and remains high. In many of these communities, migration is offsetting steep natural loss. See where in the dark green on the map, and read more in my new @harvard-jchs.bsky.social blog: www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/post-pa....
I was on a panel with Bostic at my first ever APPAM circa 2013 or so.
Raphael Bostic at #appam2025 on his journey to becoming President of the Atlanta Federal Reserve - notes that he almost quit grad school multiple times, because “it is hard”: up to that point you are absorbing information as a student - in grad school you are a producer of information.
November 14, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I was on a panel with Bostic at my first ever APPAM circa 2013 or so.
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Rep. Mark Harris wants the National Guard to help fight crime in Charlotte. Data shows that the more rural parts of his district have a higher rate of violent crime. www.ncrabbithole.com/p/republican...
GOP congressmen want the National Guard in Charlotte. Here's where violent crime is a bigger problem.
Sure, the data can't always tell the entire story. But one representative who's asking for a deployment isn't suggesting the same solution for a more violent place in his own district.
www.ncrabbithole.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Rep. Mark Harris wants the National Guard to help fight crime in Charlotte. Data shows that the more rural parts of his district have a higher rate of violent crime. www.ncrabbithole.com/p/republican...
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The @gsd.harvard.edu seeks to appoint a distinguished scholar and/or practitioner with a deep understanding of housing markets, practice, and policy to serve as the Nicolas P. and Joan B. Retsinas Director of the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies.
www.jchs.harvard.edu/nicolas-p-an...
www.jchs.harvard.edu/nicolas-p-an...
November 13, 2025 at 6:50 PM
The @gsd.harvard.edu seeks to appoint a distinguished scholar and/or practitioner with a deep understanding of housing markets, practice, and policy to serve as the Nicolas P. and Joan B. Retsinas Director of the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies.
www.jchs.harvard.edu/nicolas-p-an...
www.jchs.harvard.edu/nicolas-p-an...
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The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.
November 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.
Reminds me of this
November 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Reminds me of this
How about Biblical commands?
November 12, 2025 at 6:54 PM
How about Biblical commands?
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If this is what they are doing with the AI, what do you think they are doing with the much simpler and easier to control algorithm that chooses which posts you see and which of your posts are seen by others?
November 12, 2025 at 4:56 AM
If this is what they are doing with the AI, what do you think they are doing with the much simpler and easier to control algorithm that chooses which posts you see and which of your posts are seen by others?
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UNC-Chapel Hill's chancellor says the university will not sign on to a higher education compact from the Trump administration.
www.wunc.org/education/20...
www.wunc.org/education/20...
After faculty raise concerns, UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor says university will not sign Trump's higher ed compact
Lee Roberts called the "preferential treatment" proposal a clear infringement on academic freedom.
www.wunc.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:28 PM
UNC-Chapel Hill's chancellor says the university will not sign on to a higher education compact from the Trump administration.
www.wunc.org/education/20...
www.wunc.org/education/20...