Profile avatar
jparshall.bsky.social
Bike dad, nonprofit professional, and former historian in Columbia, MO.
145 posts 165 followers 303 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
Posts 23 Comments 25

Turns out love is finite.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

submitted 28 days ago • 631 comments

Never forget that Darren Beattie is a Nazi. This administration’s commitment to fighting antisemitism begins and ends with critics of Israel’s death march through Gaza. But white supremacists will always have a home in this administration.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Bike check: picking up kid from play practice at the mall.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

If these abductions do not push every single one of you to question the existence of immigrant "detention" centers and the conditions of ALL prisons and jails, then you are really doing life wrong. Conditions in detention, jails, and prisons in the U.S. ARE TERRIBLE. They are awful every single day.

submitted 44 days ago • 59 comments

I knew that guy in high school.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

12% of driving-age adults do not have driver’s licenses. People not licensed are more likely to be people of color and young people. In 2021, 25% of 16-year-olds had driver’s licenses, compared to 46% in 1983.

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

If you’re in Kansas City today I’m giving a talk about McMansions 5:30pm at the KC Central Library. More info and tickets (which must be purchase in advance) here www.kcdesignweek.org/events/why-a...

submitted 44 days ago • 8 comments

Actually just one large Spworm, according to @paulrobalino.bsky.social . www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtPx...

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

One cool thing about me is that I get real annoyed when people use "modern" to mean "contemporary" or "up-to-date."

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Buy some clearance Easter chocolate and do this. youtu.be/UZXD4oigOZA?...

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

My understanding is that people with suspended licenses still drive at high rates, and some advocates are trying to require speed limiters for drivers who habitually speed.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

the only real answer to “what is a woman?” is “it’s complicated! but it’s the kind of complicated that the human brain is particularly good at handling with broad rulesets, noted exceptions, and allowances for overrides like self-identification”

submitted 50 days ago • 3 comments

Excited to hear a keynote by @nondriver.bsky.social (Anna Zivarts) at the Moving Missouri Forward Summit! #MovingMOForward2025

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

When one of the best things about a place is a highway interchange:

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

The world is all fucked up, but the Game Changer season 7 premier—a weird, hilarious piece of art—is this week’s reminder that people can do great and beautiful things.

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Hey, it’s Columbia!

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

This is the beginning of a thread about movies that feature characters discovering important information via microfiche

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

About 40,000 Americans die in car crashes every year.

submitted 62 days ago • 5 comments

My @nehgov.bsky.social grant “In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union” was canceled by “DOGE.” The project doesn’t support "the furtherance of the President's agenda.” Jews surviving genocide: out of step w/ the agenda of using Jews to destroy higher ed.

submitted 64 days ago • 55 comments

I just got confirmation that National History Day, a program that does more to ignite K-12 students' love of history, learning, and yes, even the United States than anything else I've ever seen, had all its funding cut yesterday by the DOGE-axe at the NEH - including for this year's ongoing contest.

submitted 64 days ago • 11 comments

55% CANADA 55% FRANCE 55% MEXICO 55% PERU 55% GERMANY 55% SPAIN

submitted 65 days ago • 62 comments

American individualism and "frontier spirit" obviously pre-date the automobile, but is it any wonder our society is angry, lonely, and selfish in many ways? Hard to envision a less humane way of structuring our entire society.

submitted 66 days ago • 11 comments