high-tidethunder
high-tidethunder
running on hope and a tank of gas
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high-tidethunder · 1 day ago
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Composing a "It's okay to leave a cult. You don't need to be embarrassed" style post for crying Gaylor theorists
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high-tidethunder · 6 days ago
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high-tidethunder · 6 days ago
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Doggust 23: Harrier, and their little hat. Feat. angel's trumpets flower (brugmansia.)
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high-tidethunder · 10 days ago
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Just lost a few braincells reading an nyt article about gen z "treat culture" and I can't even fathom that this is a thing. We're living in a dystopian hellscape where someone spending $5 a week on a cookie is considered a wasteful brat because they should have just gone for a nice free walk instead and saved the $250 a year that roughly equals four days' rent. That's why these ungrateful kids can't buy a house, naturally.
I am ALL for free treats, like hiking or reading in the park. But at some point you can't budget your way out of poverty, and you will literally go mad if you deny yourself basic pleasures that are literally all around you. They even lamented that little treats could snowball into doing something absolutely unforgivable like learning how to play the guitar or buying concert tickets.
At what point do we just start saying out loud that living an enjoyable and fulfilling life is now only acceptable at a 100k+ salary, and if you're one of the millions of people unlucky enough not to be in that category you should just eat dirt and be grateful?
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high-tidethunder · 11 days ago
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high-tidethunder · 13 days ago
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The idea that rural communities wouldn't benefit from public transit of some form is so fucking stupid. There was a guy in my hometown who would hitch hike 15 miles to the grocery store because he was blind that everyone knew and knew to offer rides to if they saw him. You know what else would have fixed this, been more efficient, and helped other disabled people, seniors, and people whose cars got repoed?
A fucking bus.
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high-tidethunder · 13 days ago
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Barry Yeoman:
With federal support for public radio severed, where should you donate, and why? Some thoughts:
1. Not every station is suffering equally. Some are losing a small fraction of their income and have wealthy audiences that are making up the difference.
2. Some stations have been decimated. KSHI in Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico is losing 96% of its funding. KUHB in St. Paul, Alaska is losing 97%.
3. If, like me, you live in North Carolina, the hardest hit stations are at two Historically Black Colleges and Universities: WNCU (N.C. Central University, Durham, 50%) and WRVS (Elizabeth City State University, 71%).
4. There is a helpful website for finding how much money each station loses. It's https://adoptastation.org. Not only can you look up individual stations, but you can ask the site to randomly generate a hard-hit station to support. (That's how I found the stations in New Mexico and Alaska.)
5. This funding is essential to democracy. It produces important work. After the BP oil spill, for example, Richard Ziglar and I received a public-radio grant to produce 14 stories for a series called Gulf Watch. We visited Indigenous communities, a shrimper's boat, a marina where Black oystermen work, and the home of a Vietnamese-American oyster shucker. We interviewed scientists, a charter-boat captain, and a musician. Our reports (which you can hear at https://barryyeoman.com/radio/) brought listeners close to the people most impacted by the spill and by coastal land loss. The money for our paychecks flowed from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to Louisiana Public Broadcasting to KRVS Public Media to us. (Thanks to Dorothy Kendrick, Judith Meriwether, David Spizale, James Hebert, and Karl Fontenot.)
6. For me, it was a gig. For other mission-driven journalists, it's their full livelihood.
7. If you want more convincing, listen to this brilliant episode of Nate DiMeo's podcast, the memory palace: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../episode-234.../id299436963.... The StoryCorps report that Nate references, from which this photo is borrowed, is at https://storycorps.org/stories/ghetto-life-101/.
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high-tidethunder · 13 days ago
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Mozilla, in its finite wisdom, embedded LLM bots into recent versions of Firefox for the vitally-important purpose of… naming tab groups. Now, some users are noticing CPU and power usage spikes caused by a background process called Inference.
Ugh. Reminder again for Firefox users to visit your about:config page, search for the browser.ml.chat.enabled key, and set that to false:
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If yours says true then double-click it until it reads false.
Doing that turns off the AI chatbot features in Firefox, but also the stupid new LLM tab-naming feature that's rolling out.
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high-tidethunder · 13 days ago
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high-tidethunder · 14 days ago
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Minnesota's Largest Indian Reservation Celebrates First Home-Born Bison Calf https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/minnesotas-largest-indian-reservation-celebrates-first-home-born-bison-calf/
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The White Earth Nation was surprised and overjoyed as a bison calf was born out of season, a sign the band said demonstrates “resilience, healing, and hope.”
It’s the first bison calf born on the White Earth Reservation since it started a buffalo harvest and breeding program two years ago through the Inter-Tribal Buffalo Council.
Bison typically give birth in the spring, and the tribe’s bison foreman, Jack Heisler, said it’s an example of how wildlife “doesn’t follow a script.”
“This bison calf being born, it didn’t follow a script either, because the mama is so young,” Heisler told MPR News.
The White Earth Band is the largest of the six band which make up the Minnesota Chippewa, and their reservation is the largest in the state by land area. Its bison herd numbers 10, a number the nation hopes to grow to 44 by next year.
“This historic birth marks a new chapter in our ongoing efforts to restore the bison to Anishinaabe lands, reconnecting with a sacred relative that once roamed freely across our homelands,” the tribe posted on Facebook. “The calf’s arrival is more than just a moment of joy. It’s a sign of resilience, healing, and hope for future generations.”
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high-tidethunder · 14 days ago
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high-tidethunder · 17 days ago
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spotted by the river
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high-tidethunder · 18 days ago
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Spin the wheel. That's who's trying to kill you.
Spin the wheel again. That’s who’s trying to protect you.
(If you have zero idea about the name you got, spin until you see someone you recognize.)
(Six months ago, I did a version of this poll with about five hundred options on the spinner wheel. For this one, I more than doubled it.)
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high-tidethunder · 20 days ago
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high-tidethunder · 21 days ago
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this 'being really tired after work' thing is really getting in the way of this 'pursuing my artistic hopes and dreams' thing has anyone else noticed this
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high-tidethunder · 21 days ago
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A few years ago while trying to find ways to commit suicide as painlessly as possible, I came across a PDF of Dr. Paul Quinnett's The Forever Decision. Thinking it might go into actual methods of suicide (I read an article once that actually did that and was trying to find it again) I started to read it, and I think I only got about two pages in before I was crying too much to actually see the words.
I downloaded the PDF to my hard drive and I open it again whenever I'm feeling too suicidal to do much else, but not enough to start booking a ride to the hospital. And every time without fail I only go up to a few pages before backing off and choosing to live another day just because suicide suddenly seems even more unbearable than whatever the hell upset me in the first place.
All the book really does is [I'm pulling a summary from GoodReads here as, again, I've read no more than 5 pages] "discusses the social aspects of suicide, the right to die, anger, loneliness, depression, stress, hopelessness, drug and alcohol abuse, the consequences of a suicide attempt, and how to get help."
But it also starts with the author kindly asking the reader to complete the book before going through with anything, and for some reason I'm compelled to really just try to read it all before finalizing everything. Despite not yet completing it (hopefully never will) I think I can safely say it's saved my life at least a few times now.
It's intentionally legal to copy and redistribute this book to keep it as accessible as possible, and it's very easy to find, but here's a link for it anyways.
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high-tidethunder · 21 days ago
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“Go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”
— Kurt Vonnegut (via lazypacific)
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