TIL Fastball's one hit wonder "The Way" in 1998 was inspired by an elderly Texas couple in declining health who got lost on a 15 minute drive to a nearby annual festival. They disappeared and were ultimately found deceased in Arkansas, hundreds of miles away
https://www.wusa9.com/article/article/news/local/the-way-how-a-salado-couples-tragic-story-inspired-a-chart-topping-song/269-459113059
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/14o9eaf/til_fastballs_one_hit_wonder_the_way_in_1998_was/
" 'Absolutely epic': Blackfeet release wild buffalo on tribal land
(...) Blackfeet Nation transferred 30 wild buffalo (iinnii in the Blackfoot language) to tribal lands near Chief Mountain, an area steeped in Blackfeet cultural significance in the northwest corner of the reservation bordering Glacier National Park. (...) the exploratory herd was loaded into trailers and hauled to a temporary paddock within sight of Chief Mountain. There, they grazed quietly until wranglers opened the gate.
Then every buffalo rushed through, formed a single-file line and rumbled toward a distant tree line. [Chief Mountain, Blackfeet Councilman Lauren Monroe Jr.] called the moment “absolutely epic.” "
#Blackfeet #BlackfeetNation #Buffalo #Wildlife #WildlifeConservation #Native #Indigenous #NativeMastodon #IndigenousMastodon
you've heard of #mosstodon, now get ready to enter the #fetaverse
this joke brought to you by @Njord at the dinner table (while eating a salad with feta)
Check out this article from USA TODAY:
USPS is making changes in July. Here's what it means for your mail
If you want to introduce less technically-inclined friends to the fediverse, don’t overload them with information about how the fediverse works.
Simply tell them to find a community they like, or better yet, if you know what they’re into find an appropriate instance for them, and also tell them not to worry about anything else. The way fediverse works is better shown rather than explained.
For example, I recommended squawk.social to a friend of mine with a birdsona, and he said he’ll consider signing up.
That was easy. Completed 28.5' ultra light #diyantenna #randomlengthwireantenna and 28.5' counterpoise with 26 AWG Stealth Wire. With my Bicycle #hamradio #amateurradio #pota #parksontheair activations, the lighter the better, the less space even better.
Morning-after pill vending machines gain popularity on college campuses post-Roe https://apnews.com/article/00ee797529a855b116a538575790098f
Okay, I'm gonna test this thing out to see if #QOTO is still throttling me at this hour.
First only people logged in can see anything, now this.
Musk says Twitter applies temporary limit to address data scraping, system manipulation http://reut.rs/3ptCoJS
#Twitter #Birdsite #Hellsite
https://press.coop/@Reuters/110640140762796092
The complex history of the Intel i960 RISC processor
L: http://www.righto.com/2023/07/the-complex-history-of-intel-i960-risc.html
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36552844
posted on 2023.07.01 at 13:49:52 (c=0, p=4)
G+ refugee and simply want my instance to work reliably.