@AustinElrodRay

Restaurateur. Dad. Clean energy and EV enthusiast. No online community can touch my actual community ❤️🤝

 Nashville, TN
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Joined June 2015
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The front page of tomorrow's @dailytarheel – I shed many tears while typing up these heart-wrenching text messages sent and received by UNC students yesterday. Our campus was on lockdown for more than three hours. Beyond proud of this cover and the team behind it.
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ICYMI — video of Coach Pop‘s message to Marsha Blackburn, Governor Lee, and others
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Tonight as Tennessee House Republicans push forward to schedule vote on our expulsion, Speaker Sexton orders the gallery cleared as crowd chants “fascists.” Media forced out at as well. Then, Rep. Lafferty (R-Knox) pushes me and grabs my phone. This is a sad day for Tennessee.
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What idea changed how you view the world? Here's mine: High Agency. The 12 best examples:
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A brief message on the latest horrific school shooting, this one back home in Nashville.
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If electric cars were first to mass market, and someone made an ICE car, we would all be laughing about the unnecessarily complex engine, the constant maintenance required to keep it running, the laughably slow acceleration, and the need to drive somewhere to refuel.
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A cheat code I wish I could teach my 18-year-old self... The 4 Types of Luck:
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In 2022, we - reversed organ death in pigs - made the first embryo from stem cells - made a pan-influenza vaccine - saw the beginning of time - got best-ever results from cancer & obesity therapy trials - maybe cracked the case of multiple sclerosis theatlantic.com/newsletters/…

Breakthroughs of the Year

Pictures of the beginning of the universe, medicine that can (kind of) reverse death, and other leaps of human ingenuity

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In pursuit of our mission, today we are opening up our EV connector design → tesla.com/blog/opening-north…
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Nothing like a tornado siren test during some gusty-ass winds in Germantown to get the ole PTSD juices flowing. #Nashville
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@NPR25 Oct 2022
You probably think plastic you throw into recycling bins will be… recycled. The reality, however, is the vast majority heads to the landfill — only around 5% of plastic is actually being repurposed, according to a Greenpeace report. Here’s why🧵n.pr/3Dxgbii

Recycling plastic is practically impossible — and the problem is getting worse

A new report from Greenpeace found that people may be putting plastic into recycling bins — but almost none of it is actually being recycled. Meanwhile, plastic production is ramping up.

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👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Proud of you!!!
Paul Young@mayorpaulyoung1 Sep 2022
It’s 9:01am on 9/01 and it’s officially #901Day. What better way to celebrate this day than to announce my candidacy for the next Mayor of Memphis? I have a vision for this city that includes us all. Together, we can continue to move this city forward. It’s go time!
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@esquire7 Jul 2022
As I write this, it dawns on me that I engage in a lot of sword-related activities, writes @IsaacFitzgerald esqr.co/BLVnmCk

The World Needs Uncles, Too

I'll never be a father. But when my friends and family members had children, I learned a new way of showing up for others.

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2 of the 3 separate, fatal shootings in Nashville last night were less than a mile from our home in Sylvan Park. google.com/amp/s/www.wsmv.co…
Small businesses that depend on tourism are hoping for a booming summer. But higher costs, a worker shortage and the lingering threat of COVID may put a damper on those hopes. apne.ws/oSzf7Fy

Small businesses are facing ‘summer of uncertainty’

Small businesses that depend on outdoor crowds and free-spending tourists aren’t sure what to expect this summer.

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McClaren Hospital where Oxford community is gathered to support the family of Justin Shillings, one of the four teens killed this week. Justin is an organ donor and the crowd is here so that when his body is moved for surgery his family can look down and see the love and support
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A spectacular wide shot of Saturn taken by the Cassini spacecraft.
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Shots by @PartipiloJ from Saturday’s dedication of “March to Freedom” in Franklin: sculptor Joe Frank Howard crafted a statue representing a member of the U.S. Colored Troops.
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If every social media company offered an ad-free version the cost would be about $20 per user per month. That seems like a small price to pay for a more sane Internet. #forward
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