Rich Parker in Alaska @cajun_cheechako@qoto.org

@Scatterseed
Weird, I just got the app to see what all the fuss was about. I've had a 'very boring' Instagram account for years - mostly to see very cool pictures my neighbors in Alaska (who are much better photographers than I am) post there.
It isn't as straightforward as one might think (at least to me - took 4 tries to figure out how to authenticate)

Plus, for @Mastadon folks - what does (or will) this mean?

@AlaskaWx @Climatologist49 @Ruth_Mottram
Looking ahead - at what point will it be practical to do more farming in Greenland?

A reminder that many pets, and many vets, can be upset by random, loud fireworks.
Make sure that you respect folks in your neighborhood and use pyrotechnics in authorized locations, placed that can be easily avoided.

@ravenandrain @seachanger
TBH, in the urgent political situation in Alaska, you might want to listen to 'Riders on the Storm' - which has rain, of course....

@anildash @Npars01 sorry, been away for a while. I think it really depends. Visiting my dad near North Miami Beach we got WEA alerts on our cell phones. Of course a lot of people don't have cell phones. Generally for emergency info, if people are mobile, for social media to work folks need a phone with a plan (and data). Radio is nearly ubiquitous and a small radio is inexpensive.
We live in Alaska and cell service is often unreliable - if there is even coverage.

This is a post from a friend north of us, in the small village of McGrath. They have an FM station and small FM translators further out in nearby villages.

"At the end of the day, the week… my only real hope is that I am maintaining the legacy of news, weather and community event info that people have depended on KSKO for in the last 42 years. … especially for those who have no smartphone or internet or tv or all of the above.

I hope along with that hope that people get a good mix of local info and entertainment along with national/international news/talk/info/entertainment. I don’t want KSKO to just be yak yak yak and blah blah blah talk or news… I want it to be FUN!

It’s alot of weight on one persons shoulders every week but I’m pretty sure I’m doing a good job in all of those respects.

Despite the mis-steps I may make or the on air gaffes that may happen, people understand I’m a team of one.

No, I’m not looking for a bunch of yes-Men, pitty, people to agree with me or pay me a compliment…. Because I wouldn’t still be where I am with no plans of leaving if I wasn’t doing a good job.

But… knowing our audience and often the lack of internet or tv in many households, that hope I mentioned at the beginning of this post is what drives me, keeps me going, what I am for and what I keep in mind when I make decisions here and what helps Me sleep at night"

@Npars01 @anildash So, I suppose broadcast radio and TV, and WEA isn't good enough?

@samlitzinger Good for them. It couldn't possibly be any more disruptive than car alarms and garbage trucks - and those happen at random, unpredictable times ;)

@jacobresneck not sure, but I know my wife and I walked out of Minority Report after a several minutes because it was the creepiest, scariest movie we'd ever seen.
Living it would be much, much worse.

@atomicpoet @mastodonmigration we'll, that could be good since they seem to have already set up a model to compensate posters - I suppose there is no sense in reinventing the wheel.
And they could really benefit since their base is small right now compared to the Fediverse.

@mastodonmigration @atomicpoet sorry, that wasn't clear - what I see on Post., where there appears to be a lot of journalists, is something like micro-payments - "read this for X points" and a way to purchase points. I have no idea how this translates into compensation for the reporters, journalists, or publishers, but it looks interesting.

@mastodonmigration @atomicpoet where do you put Post in this discussion?

@freemo spoken like a true engineer!
I've had to learn to at least keep a couple of bars handy, and a container of water - almost more important than food!
Please take care of yourself!

A friend reposted this on his Facebook page. I think it resonates well with the truth worth defending.
I (tongue in cheek) asked him if any Republicans knew this. He said, I don't know, I'm not a Republican. I replied, sorry, I meant to say Republican legislators (local, state, national) - but I very much doubt it. (He didn't reply)

Posted by Chad Bird - author of
Limping with God

The Nun and the Stripper

The most astonishing, countercultural truth in the kingdom of Jesus is that love and acceptance have zero basis in worth or accomplishment. A billionaire in New York City is no more worthy of love and acceptance than the schizophrenic homeless man sleeping in an alley.

Before any of us build a business or declare bankruptcy, before we earn a Ph.D. or drop out of high school, before we establish a soup kitchen or appear in a porn video, we are equally loved by the God who shows no favoritism.

Our personal success does not attract his love, nor does our failure expand or contract it.

The God who is love loves us indiscriminately, passionately, furiously.

That love was on cosmic display when, atop a Roman tree of crucifixion, Jesus became the millionaire and the addict, the nun and the stripper, the newborn baby and the wrinkled octogenarian.

All humanity—with its sores and wounds and twisted souls and barren lives and evil-infested pasts—he became that all humanity might become, in him, resplendent in the eyes of the Father.

@kingkaufman on my phone (Android) Google Earth works that way if you choose the 'card stack' (top left) a drop-down menu allows you to choose 'map style', and select 'clean'. It is a satellite view, but might be what you want.

@samlitzinger ugh, paywall

Great news from D.C. about a very important radio program!
https://www.nativeamericacalling.com/native-america-calling-awarded-national-humanities-medal/

@ferrous Am I the only one concerned that after submitting the form, we directed to a page touting some guy's 'Be Happier' program?
That doesn't seem like something a 'student doing research' would be behind.