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ScoterD

@ScoterD@alaskan.social

grateful to be in Tlingit Aaní I live in the cool wet forests of #SEAlaska. Often found with my nose in a book from the #PublicLibrary, so I may be imagining a different place or time. Moderately techie, unreasonably in favor of salmon runs, seriously studying #IndigenousLanguage, still playing fiddle.

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ScoterD, to Plants
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Sitka: April 26-27 Wrangell: May 1-2 Hoonah: May 11-12

Plant walk, harvesting, and processing class open to the community. SEALASKA HERITAGE STEAM WORKSHOP

Cost: Free Space is limited. Open to all ages. Students under 16 must be accompanied by an adult. Apply bit.ly/CommunityPlant2024 Contact: STEAM@sealaskaheritage.org or call 907-586-9112

Community Plant Workshop
with Vivian Yéilk Mork Sitka: April Wrangell: May Hoonah: May

seachanger, to random
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once an alaska economist on twitter unfollowed me because I disagreed that “construct more houses” was the only way out of this housing crisis and suggested we may have some regulatory leverage as well

https://www.businessinsider.com/nar-settlement-antitrust-lawsuits-agent-commissions-affect-home-prices-2024-3?amp

ScoterD,
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@seachanger I emphasize the corporate ownership of rental units as a driver of the mess (will a future econ text have a hula hoop, portable classroom, and big empty house as the markers of the Baby Boom?)

ScoterD, to history
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remote internship opportunity for graduate students with a demonstrated research interest in the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II https://densho.org/densho-encyclopedia-graduate-internship/

ScoterD, to Alaska
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How to Run for Local Office
If you think you might run or help someone else run, this free half-day workshop is for you. What it’s like to serve on the assembly and school board, the legal requirements of candidates, how to campaign, from current and past elected officials. Register at https://juneaulwv.org/run
Sponsored by the Juneau League of Women Voters, the City Clerk’s office, the Juneau Public Library, and the Juneau School District.

seachanger, to random
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"We're Still Here" from the indigenous Diyet & the Love Soldiers, a band from northern Yukon we're bringing on tour through Lingít Aani/Southeast Alaska via Petersburg Arts Council! We just signed a contract to get Diyet to Petersburg Wrangell, Skagway, Haines & Sitka this coming November : )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btYkYkb6t4M

ScoterD,
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@seachanger Gunalchéesh glad to hear Diyet & the Love Soldiers from Yukon will come on tour this fall

ScoterD, to california
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Kikacéki running free

https://youtu.be/WIJcOaSBsOg?si=PO5-m_b-Y_bfE9AQ

seachanger, to latvia
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planning a fall trip to , where my partner’s dad immigrated from. travel tips welcome!

ScoterD,
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@seachanger passports renewed recently? serial numbers for computers or cameras you are bringing with you? plans to learn to read signs in Latvian? scheme to try smoked fish with alder, birch, or maple wood? I think the trip sounds grand!

ScoterD, to Alaska
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I REALLY like this new thing in Juneau: Before every contra dance, an hour of Contra Music Jam, hosted across the street from the dance venue. Flyer says: "Bring an instrument, any tunebooks you have (Portland Collection, Fiddlerʼs Fakebook) All are welcome. "

ScoterD, to Alaska
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Shoveling during the storm Jan 15 The windows had been brushed clean Then we cleared the pavement around the car and saw the windows were getting plastered with snow again. Temp is about freezing and storm warning is effective until 9 pm.

seachanger, to random
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The authors suggest the best strategy to counter overshoot would be to use the tools of the marketing, media and entertainment industries in a campaign to redefine our material-intensive socially accepted norms.

“…the things that humans can attach status to are so fluid, we could be replacing all of it with things that essentially have no material footprint – or even better, have an ecologically positive one.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/13/human-behavioural-crisis-at-root-of-climate-breakdown-say-scientists

ScoterD,
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@seachanger norms can change: I have a Life magazine that breathlessly reports that astronauts were running a mile a day to get in shape. and now the @guardian has told me about parkruns where folks run about 3 miles socially every week or so.

seachanger, to random
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largest dam removal in the history of the world just dropped 🥳

https://www.npr.org/2024/01/12/1224494403/klamath-river-begins-to-flow-again-with-dam-removal-project

ScoterD,
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@seachanger Yes! one little dam is down (Copco 2) and progress is being made... photo from the people running last summer

ScoterD, to Help
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about ALT I put in a link, and the post showed the photo and headline
Whatʼs the best way to provide ALT description of the image?
I didnʼt see the option I see when I put my own image in a post.

pixplz, to longcovid
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Can someone help me with a question?

Are hospitals in the U.S. still required to test all admitted patients for covid, and are they still required to report covid testing data to the CDC?

I thought the requirement ended, but maybe I'm mistaken.

I'm looking for an answer from a credible source.

Thanks :)

@longcovid @novid

ScoterD,
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@pixplz @longcovid @novid well, hhs government site says " reporting from the end of the current PHE through April 30, 2024" https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/covid-19-faqs-hospitals-hospital-laboratory-acute-care-facility-data-reporting.pdf

ScoterD, to Alaska
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Outer Coast is not your average college. We’re searching for a small group of students who are eager to immerse themselves in this unique model of living and learning as members of our inaugural two-year undergraduate cohort. Here’s the application to join us as a sgóonwaan next year: https://outercoast.org/admissions-overview/apply/?tab=third

SilverSalmonAK, to Alaska
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RIP Juneau, Skagway, Haines...you will be blanketed with lots of snow shortly.

Look at little ole' Sitka on Baranof Island. We seem to be emerging unscathed except for lots of rain...and wind. Lots of wind.

PS. I predicted this morning that the gale warning would change to a storm warning and...bingo! 50kt winds tomorrow on the outside with 29' seas. Follow me for more exceptionally precise forecasts. 🤣

ScoterD,
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@SilverSalmonAK Here on North Douglas the snow fell for the half hour I was out shifting firewood, then stopped (less than an inch) So not yet buried!

seachanger, to random
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a raven I saw flying today

ScoterD,
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@seachanger @SilverSalmonAK Loving my feed tonight, especially the balance of chʼáakʼ and yéil photographs

seachanger, to Alaska
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Happy Indigenous People's Day! Fitting that today we approved the proof to produce this historical marker to honor Ḵaax̱gal.aat a Tlingit civil rights hero who was born in my town and credited with helping to pass the US's first major civil rights legislation, 's Anti-Discrimination Act of 1945. The text is written by L'xeis Diane Benson and translated to Tlingit by X'unei Lance Twitchell. We'll be putting it up once it gets shipped here!

ScoterD,
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@seachanger Likoodzee! What a great installation of art and prompt to remember Elizabeth.

ScoterD, to Alaska
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Learn X̱aad Kíl (the language of Haida people) Dag júus Rob Yates, a Haida language scholar and cultural coordinator, is Alaskan Haida and lives and works in his ancestral village of K’áaws Tláay.

Sept 12 - Oct 26, 2023

Class Meets: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 12:00pm - 1:00pm AKDT
On : Zoom

The X̱aad Kíl MOOC is free and open to all skill levels. Families are especially welcome!

SIGN UP
https://outercoast.org/outer-coast-programs/alaska-native-languages/

#X̱aadKíl

mike, to random
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Unpopular take: Search on Mastodon should be opt out, not opt in.

ScoterD,
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@Hey_Beth @mike Sorry to seem obtuse here, but Iʼd like to know the wording for the option of search. On my instance, settings/preferences/other has a toggle for "Opt-out of search engine indexing Affects your public profile and post pages "
Is that what allow full text search?

seachanger, to random
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brainstorming ways to get myself and my business all the way off of Facebook without losing vital connections to people and networks that use Facebook as a primary means of communication

ScoterD,
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@seachanger maybe: news letters, friendly emails, substack, I donʼt have any easy answers and do find myself in similar situation

seachanger, (edited ) to random
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so I’m on a committee that is putting up a bronze historical plaque to commemorate Elizabeth Peratrovich, the great Alaska Native civil rights figure who helped pass the US’s first civil rights legislation in Alaska in 1945.

At the last minute we realized that this quote we were going to put on the plaque, while commonly attributed to EP, can’t be readily found in her writings or news. A great quote but where did it come from? So far, we have no idea

ScoterD,
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@Scatterseed @seachanger I agree that there was no official record of Elizabeth Peratrovichʼs testimony. (Alaska Senate minutes of meeting are scant) We do have consistent descriptions, from newspapers and story keepers and the then governorʼs biography.

ScoterD,
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@seachanger with "Fighter in Velvet Gloves" research, I still donʼt think there is a recording nor a contemporaneous written record of her testimony

ScoterD,
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@seachanger @Scatterseed @AK_OK @AlaskaWx. Good work - Iʼm glad the academic was so helpful I do think that there are statements widely accepted to be things Mrs Peratrovich said (years of civilization or can recognize evil) that can be traced to reliable sources.

JamesGleick, to random
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This AP story demonstrates how eager some political reporters are to say Trump’s crimes don’t matter. It says the electorate is divided. It says “about half” approve of the indictments. It quotes three of the people polled: all Republicans.

In fact, only a dwindling minority are still able to defend Trump. If you skip the prose and look at the ACTUAL POLL RESULTS, you learn that only 15% of those polled said Trump did “nothing wrong” in Georgia and 21% at the Capital.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-indictment-poll-georgia-elections-b6140eed88b3153e41dbf9e008d5a21b

ScoterD,
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@JamesGleick yes, the context is that in Alaska, the number of people who register NOT as R or D is greater than R+D (and has been for a long time)

ScoterD, to random
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That quick, sharp squall described in Sitka today has passed over Douglas Island. (with thunder?)

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